The involvement of the Heshingen consortium in Bosnia has attracted little attention, and the military occupation does not mean that Austria-Hungary will bring the region under its rule, and it was already at the beginning of the 20th century that Austria-Hungary wanted to include Bosnia.

The main reason for this is that the interests are not in place, Bosnia is short of resources, although coal resources are still abundant, but the local transportation is very closed, and development is difficult.

Bosnia is almost the poorest region in the Balkans at any given time, so there is really no economic value, such as the impact of the agricultural crisis, and there are almost zero businessmen willing to go to Bosnia to engage in agricultural development.

Austria-Hungary attached great importance to Bosnia, but it had nothing to do with the economy, mainly because it was a former port of call for the Ottoman Empire to threaten Austria and Europe.

Salalvo was a military stronghold established by the Ottoman Empire in the north, which slowly developed into the most important city in Bosnia.

If Austria-Hungary wants to provide economic support to Bosnia, it is impossible, after all, who pays is a big question, Hungary will definitely not pull out a dime, even if the Heshingen consortium enters Bosnia, it is not for poverty alleviation, but for political purposes.

As for obtaining economic benefits from the local area, Ernst did not think about such a thing at all, the conditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina are so poor that it can achieve its goal if it can operate without losing money.

Ferdinand: "Then the main purpose of your investment in Bosnia is to change the local population, but this is not an easy task, after all, it is impossible for the Austro-Hungarian government to do this, let alone with an agricultural company. ”

Ernst: "We invested in Bosnia, not really for the sake of local development, the focus is to change the identity of the local people, faith and national identity, this kind of thing, is indeed a headache for all countries, but it is not worth mentioning in the face of economic interests, why the Ottoman Empire can transform the local Slavs, in the final analysis, it is still economic reasons, if you don't follow the Ottoman Empire, you are doomed to become poor, which is much more terrible than any faith." ”

Ferdinand: "And what are you going to do about it?" ”

Ernst: "Now we have 30 percent of Bosnia's arable land, Bosnia is a thoroughly agricultural region, and agriculture accounts for almost 100 percent of the economy, so we have the economic lifeblood of Bosnia, which means that now we can easily decide the fate of the Slavs in Bosnia." ”

"First of all, the Heshingen consortium wants to violently reduce the local Arab population, and this basis is to make the local Arabs unprofitable."

Ferdinand: "You mean to force the Arabs to convert through the distribution of land tenure?" ”

Ernst shook his head and said, "It's not like that, it's a reduction in the physical sense!" ”

"You're crazy!" Archduke Ferdinand said with some incredulity: "Aren't you afraid of the local rebellion?" ”

"Even if Bosnia rebels, it won't affect us in East Africa, it's just an attempt, and the physical reduction I'm talking about is not a massacre, but a forced exodus of the locals, anyway, Bosnia has a very good geographical location, it's convenient to go where to work, if you can't feed your family by agriculture, most locals can only go outside to try their luck."

Ferdinand: "What if the local people insist on resisting?" If you don't let Franz get off the stage, I'm sure he'll come to you directly. ”

Ernst: "So we have to pull one faction into two factions, turn the local Croats into our own people, both Serbian and Arab are the targets of our expulsion, Serbs can go to Serbia or East Africa, Arabs can go to any Arab area, but they can't stay there." ”

"However, if it is only a Croat, this is not good for Austria-Hungary to rule the region, I am afraid it will also increase the weight of the Croats in the future empire, one Hungary is enough for Austria to have a headache, and there will be a great Croatia?"

"You're mistaken, father-in-law." "By co-optation," Ernst said, "I mean people who have renounced their Croat identity, who are themselves Catholics, so we have to bind them financially to the Heshingen Foundation, and one of the preconditions is that they must join the German nation." ”

Ferdinand was still a little uneasy and said: "How can this kind of thing be so easy, and it is difficult to eliminate the national stigma." ”

"So we have to take the initiative to change the culture of the local people, who are actually the least of the Germans in their beliefs and habits, especially the Catholic Germans."

"Coupled with the fact that the local Croats have always been at the bottom of the hierarchy and have little literacy except for religious people, this provides us with the conditions to falsify the history of the local Croats."

This intrigued Ferdinand: "How are you going to falsify the history of the locals?" ”

"We can fully claim that the locals are Germans who entered Bosnia from South Germany in the Middle Ages, and they had to give up their ancestral identity under the coercion of the Ottoman Empire, and this history was cut off because of the Ottoman cover-up, and now that Bosnia has returned to Germany, it is natural to recognize their ancestors,"

Archduke Ferdinand: "Are you a liar?" ”

"As long as we can make the local people willing to be deceived, we will succeed." Ernst said cheekily.

"Then how could they possibly believe it? Relying on your propaganda alone? The locals are not stupid, and it is still clear how their family came to be! ”

Ernst: "As long as you have a lot of ideas, you don't have to worry about the locals not complying." ”

"What's your idea?"

Ernst: "Everything is about evidence, and we can fake evidence, for example, South Germany certainly didn't have a lot of people in Bosnia, but we can make it up ourselves." ”

This kind of thing is very easy to do, after all, the Heixingen Kingdom can provide evidence, many Heixingen people have gone to live in Bosnia because of war or famine, it is not difficult to forge some ancient books, and the cultural level of the local people is not what others say and believe, even if they don't believe it, in order to avoid being affected, they will choose to believe, as long as the lie is said too much, someone will always believe it, and after a few generations, it will become history, after all, the Bible can be used as a historical basis, So Ernst's approach was not excessive.

Ernst continued: "The second is to discredit the Ottomans and the entire Arab region, and after we control local public opinion, we can make the local people actively clear their relations with the Ottoman Empire by belittling the Ottomans." ”

This move is actually regional black, and the power of regional black is too great, as long as it is operated properly, it can become a good cultural weapon.

Moreover, the mutual slander between the Western world and the Arab region has been going on all along, and Ernst just did it naturally.

"Then we can reshape the national identity of a new generation of local people through education."

Archduke Ferdinand: "I don't understand this very well, do you want to introduce compulsory education in Bosnia?" ”

Ernst: "No, it's about corporate education, and if you want to live a life as an employee of the Bosnian Agricultural Development Company, then the employees of the Bosnian Agricultural Development Company have to send their children to a corporate school for a thorough German education." ”

The Bosnian Agricultural Development Corporation now owns 30 percent of Bosnia's arable land, so 30 percent of Bosnians have to depend on the Bosnian Agricultural Company for their survival, so conversion and German education are necessary.

In addition, the proportion of arable land in the Bosnian Agricultural Development Corporation will continue to rise, and in the Ernst plan, the local grain will be dumped for a long time, which will be used to force local farmers to go bankrupt, and finally more land will be collected into the hands of the Bosnian Agricultural Development Company.

"Your plan is really good, but the problem is that Catholic Croatia only accounts for two or three percent of the local population." Ferdinand said.

Ernst: "My plan certainly includes Serbian and Arab Christians, who can stay in Bosnia if they are willing to voluntarily renounce their Orthodox and Arab faith and their alien identity other than that of Germany, and the same is true for Catholic Croats, who are only the easiest to reform, but who must also renounce their Croat identity in order to integrate into our German family, otherwise their lives are no different from those of the pagans under Ottoman rule." ”

"The problem is that the local forces are fiercely resisting, what if they don't cooperate?"

"Isn't there the Austro-Hungarian army to help? We have established good relations with the local garrison, as long as they favor us in our actions with the local resistance. ”

"I'm afraid the army alone is not enough."

"So I have one last resort, which is to inject water into Bosnia, as in East Africa, and change the local demographics through immigration."

"Are you going to move Germans to Bosnia?"

"Not only the Germans, but also the Far Easterners, after all, the Germans are not enough for us in East Africa."

"Migration of Far Easterners to Bosnia? Are you sure you don't want to cause outrage? ”

"We also need thugs, these things must have a sufficient population, and it is inconvenient for the Austro-Hungarian army to do this, we can do it, so that the Bosnians who are not willing to give up their alien and pagan identities will have nothing to do with us!"

Of course, Ernst also has an idea, that is, to turn Bosnia into a natural East African region within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so sending them some Oriental intermarriage will help East Africa exert influence in the future in the region, after all, the population structure of East Africa will be mixed in the future, so the pure German region may not see East Africa as its own people, adding color to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and helping East African Germans to exert their influence in the future.

Ernst's idea was not limited to this, in the Republic of Lanfang Ernst intended to implement the opposite measures of Bosnia, by introducing whites to make it a predominantly German-cultural mixed country.

Just as the population of Bosnia can be filled into East Africa and the Republic of Lanfang, so that the mixed German race can form three fulcrums of Europe, Africa, and Asia, and in the future may even develop a new nation that spans three continents and has world influence.

(End of chapter)