"Prince Karl! Welcome to East Africa. Konstantin stepped forward and said.

"Long time no see, Your Majesty Constantine, you are still so energetic."

Prince Karl gave Konstantin a hug, and now Konstantin is called a step, and now Konstantin is king.

"Uncle Carl!"

"Haha, Ernst, I haven't seen you for a few years, and now you're more mature!"

For Sigmaringen, the Heixingen royal family still attaches great importance to it, and the so-called rich and noble, don't forget each other, and the relationship between Heixingen and Sigmaringen is also the same.

"Leopold, is he still in Germany?"

"Yes, he still holds a key position in the German army, and I, an old fellow, will find a way for him, so that Sigmaringen can guarantee the formation of three fulcrums in Romania, Germany and Africa."

The achievements of the Heixingen royal family in Africa have made Sigmaringen completely unable to sit still, so at the invitation of the Heixingen royal family, Prince Karl personally came to East Africa to discuss Sigmaringen's colonization of Africa.

Unlike the Heichengen royal family, because Prince Karl's sons are older, there is no need to stand for Ernst, who has no roots in Germany, like Konstantin at the beginning, so this time Prince Karl came directly to East Africa, and the heir Leopold guaranteed Sigmaringen's status and influence in Germany.

Germany is still a retreat from Sigmaringen, and can go back in case the African colonization plan fails, while Sigmaringen's confidence in colonizing Africa is Romania.

"Let's go back to the palace first, let you settle down, after all, the climate in East Africa is different from Germany, especially this season, so get used to it first." Konstantin said to Prince Karl.

At present, Germany is still in winter, and East Africa near the equator is relatively hot, so it is necessary to slow down when you first arrive in East Africa.

However, the climate in Africa is quite suitable for elderly people like Constantine and Prince Karl, because the elderly like warmth, and East Africa meets this condition.

Just like the elderly in the Far East like to retire in Panzhihua, or the elderly in the United States migrate from the Northeast to the south.

Prince Karl and Constantine, father and son, then took a carriage to the palace of Sweet, and Prince Karl finally got to see the political center of the vast country of East Africa.

"It is no exaggeration to say that the first town is no different from Berlin and Vienna when we were young, and there were not many cities in Germany with a population of more than 100,000 at that time, so I wonder how much the population of the first town has reached now?"

"The population of the first town is about 150,000, and if you calculate it according to the household registration, it should be in the early 100,000s." Ernst answered Prince Karl's question, which he was familiar with.

"When I came, I came ashore from Dar es Salaam, and I heard that Dar es Salaam is the largest city in East Africa, so I don't know if that's true?"

"Uncle Karl, if you count the new city, it must be, Dar es Salaam has two urban districts, and the total population of the urban area is about 300,000."

"It seems that the number of people who have migrated over the years must be very exaggerated, I haven't seen many blacks, and I thought it would be at least like the United States!"

Konstantin: "Old man, East Africa is now a big country in the world in terms of land area and population, so it is not an exaggeration to have a few big cities, and as for blacks, there are a lot of them in East Africa, but we have a different attitude towards blacks than the United States, so it is not easy to see blacks in the central provinces. ”

The construction of various projects in the central province has been completed long ago, so there are no major projects for the time being, and the central province was the first to implement the policy of replacing slaves with animals, so now the central province can only see a relatively large number of blacks in the slave market in Dar es Salaam.

The more than 100,000 black soldiers left over from the last Portuguese War have not yet been sold, among which the Ottoman Empire has the largest number of orders, which can be directly pulled to the front line for use, about 50,000 or 60,000, and 20,000 or 30,000 sent to the United States.

Constantine's words made Prince Karl understand that there must be a large number of non-black people in East Africa now, otherwise it would be impossible for East Africa not to use blacks.

Of course, black slaves were used in East Africa, but they were now concentrated in other parts of the country to contribute to East Africa's agriculture and infrastructure, but even if the central provinces were to complete the deslavery, it would be a significant step forward.

"Can you tell us about the population you've immigrated to East Africa over the years?"

Prince Karl still wanted to find out this, and he didn't feel happy to ask, but the population of East Africa had always been a state secret at the highest level, so Konstantin glanced at Ernst and asked him to answer the question.

Ernst comprehended: "Uncle Karl, we don't have detailed statistics on this aspect, but there should be a few million in size, maybe more than seven or eight million, after all, it has been more than ten years since East Africa immigrated, and we have only recently begun to count population data, so we don't know much about this aspect." ”

It will take two or three months for the census to be fully completed, but the total number of people has already been calculated, and now it is the statistical area and other population data, that is, the characteristics and details.

It's not that Ernst deliberately concealed this from Prince Karl, but the fewer people who know about this kind of thing, the better, if it spreads that the population of East Africa reaches more than 30 million, close to more than 35 million, I am afraid that many people will not be able to sleep, and if the data of blacks is added, it will directly break through to the 50 million mark.

Although Ernst provided Prince Karl with a heavily discounted fake data, the data still shocked Prince Karl.

Seven or eight million is considered a medium-sized population country in Europe, after all, a population of more than 10 million is considered a large country in Europe, and the population of seven or eight million has exceeded that of most European countries.

"You've surpassed Bavaria now? It's incredible! ”

The population of Bavaria should be between four hundred and six million, but it certainly does not exceed six million, so seven or eight million is indeed more than the population of Bavaria.

"The past few years have also been a good time, one is that the birth rate in Germany and Europe has increased significantly, and the previous years happened to coincide with the economic crisis, so we seized the opportunity to get a large number of people from Europe."

The actual data is certainly more than that, during the entire economic crisis, East Africa emigrated about six or seven million people from all over the world, it is worth mentioning that the economic crisis in 1873 is still not completely over, but the impact is not as big as it was at the beginning, and now the center of the economic crisis is Britain, according to the original transmission path is the outbreak of Austria, followed by the development of Germany, the United States suffered the most, and Britain ended.

Although the economic crisis in Europe is largely over, the economy is still in a state of depression compared to the previous one, and according to the experience of previous lives, this depression is likely to continue until the beginning of the 20th century, which is also known as a chronic economic depression.

The biggest beneficiary of this long-term depression is East Africa, which has prepared in advance, not only to introduce a large number of people, machinery and equipment, but also to build a basic defense and military industry, the East African railway network, shipbuilding, power industry, steel industry and a large number of infrastructure construction, as well as the purchase of a powerful East African navy.

It is worth mentioning that the introduction of a large number of talents in East Africa has also been completed through the economic crisis, and a large number of companies in Europe and the United States have gone bankrupt, which has provided an opportunity for the development of East Africa, which is also the reason why the power industry and other fields in East Africa can start.

The seventies of the nineteenth century were also the fastest growing decade in East Africa, almost pulling sub-Saharan Africa, a region with no industrial and agricultural base, directly into an agrarian society and a rudimentary industrial society.

This is not a leap from zero to one, but a direct leap from zero to 2.5, that is, from the primitive society directly across the transition stage from the feudal agricultural society to the primary industrial society, omitting the slave society and the feudal society in the middle.

Of course, there are also slavery and feudalism in East Africa, and primitive societies actually exist in the west.

(End of chapter)