All in all, Japan's national conditions are congenitally deficient, and if it only relies on local resources for development, the level that can be achieved is quite limited.

However, this is not absolute, the country's development has a lot to do with its own resource endowment, but the country's governance ultimately depends on the rule of man.

On the other hand, Japan has great potential in the area of rule by man, one is to be brave in the face of shame and then courageous, and good at learning from the strong, and the other is that Japan has a large enough population, and there is always the advantage of having more people, so it depends on how to transform the population from a burden into wealth.

For example, why Japan's raw silk industry is very competitive in the international community is because the labor cost is too low, and the Japanese can still endure hardships and work diligently, and the government does not lag behind and vigorously supports the development of industry and commerce, so Britain and the United States are naturally willing to invest in this kind of country, and by the way, they can also contain the Far Eastern Empire.

Similarly, a large number of Japanese people go abroad to work, bringing a large number of remittances to Japan.

Remittances are one of the important sources of national income for national development, especially in countries with extremely overpopulated populations, such as Egypt, the Philippines, Bangladesh and the like.

In addition to low-end industries, especially manpower-intensive industries, Japan has innate advantages, Japan also attaches importance to education and science, which is also extremely rare in this era, which provides a foundation for Japan's future industrial upgrading, so Japan has become the only Asian power in a few decades, which is also its own efforts.

"General Grees, I would like to ask, if Japan really goes to war with you, what are your chances of victory as the supreme commander of the East African side?" Luo Yijun asked curiously.

Although there are many Chinese in East Africa, which can only be regarded as half a foreign country, it is also a Western country, and now the West is powerful, and East Africa is not the top in Western countries, but it is not weak, so Luo Yijun wants to know what kind of sparks will collide between this "mediocre" Western country and Japan, the second most powerful country in the Far East.

Gleith is not arrogant, he still knows a lot about the Japanese navy, although the strength is not strong, but if the whole country is raised, he can still touch his own fleet.

So he said a little modestly, or conservatively: "About four or six!" Of course, our side is six, and the Japanese navy is four, but the navy is the most unpredictable branch of the military, and it is easy to have accidents that subvert common sense, after all, the sea is quite dangerous.

According to your Far Eastern Empire, fighting a war pays attention to the right time, the right place and the right people, and I am sure that the time and place are not on our side, and our East African Navy is new to the sea, so naturally it is not very familiar with the sea here.

Therefore, the East African Navy and the Japanese Navy can only be compared with the people, and we have some advantages in terms of people, and I don't know much about the Japanese side. ”

Hearing Grace, a German, talk about oriental culture, this made Luo Yijun quite proud, and it has always been easy to make people feel happy when their own culture is recognized by other countries.

He said: "I didn't expect the general to have a lot of research on the culture of the Far East, and what he said is right, our Oriental sages summed up the three aspects of time, place, and people, and summarized the three decisive factors of the war, that is, I don't know what advantages your navy has?" ”

Grace did not sell off, and said bluntly: "This is about to talk about three aspects, first of all, that is, it is recognized that the ships and equipment of our navy are one grade stronger than Japan.

Secondly, on the officer side, our advantage in East Africa is that the commander-in-chief is Archduke Ferdinand, who was the commander-in-chief of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, and the other officers are either from the Austro-Hungarian Navy or, like me, have studied at the Austrian Naval School.

In addition to the officers, we have to talk about the sailors, our sailors have a higher level of education than the Japanese, which is of great benefit to the mastery and command of ships, and after so many years of development, the navy now has a minimum primary school education. ”

In the previous life, the Japanese only fully popularized compulsory education in 1907, which is completely incomparable with today's East Africa, which also took advantage of Germany's universal compulsory education, and there are not many professional teachers, but it is still easy to popularize teachers who follow the textbook.

This is easy to understand, there are not a few pure Germans in East Africa, and the Germans have basically gone to school, and the East African immigrants are mainly young people, so most Germans have not returned their knowledge.

Speaking of this, Ernst is quite grateful to the great kindness of German countries, and it is self-evident how effective the implementation of compulsory education is for Germany, and the United States has eaten this part of Germany's dividends in history, so many knowledgeable immigrants have come to the United States to develop, and it is difficult for the United States not to develop.

And now with Ernst's truncation, these people have cheapened East Africa and contributed to the construction of East Africa.

Although most of them are only primary school students, there are five or six million pure German immigrants in East Africa, that is, millions of primary school students, plus the literacy campaign in East Africa and the popularization of education, as long as the development is carried out step by step, the future of East Africa will be limitless.

In this regard, the United States is a little worried, there are so many high-quality immigrants cut off by East Africa, and so many blacks are stuffed, Ernst shuddered in his heart as long as he thought about it, although there are many blacks in East Africa, but in the era when the average life expectancy is only thirty-five, waiting for thirty or forty years, this problem will not exist in East Africa.

In the past, Ernst had a bit of a conscience, thinking about finding a way for the blacks and sending them out in a few years, but now he is completely immune, and once the bottom line is broken, there will be no bottom line.

Blacks represent economic benefits, especially in East Africa, where half of the population of nearly 50 million is black, so at least half of East Africa's national economy is created by blacks.

In particular, many of East Africa's tropical cash crops, coffee, cotton, rubber, etc., need to be completed by blacks, saving a lot of labor costs in East Africa.

In the face of huge economic interests, the East African government even wanted to bring in more blacks, but this was vetoed by Ernst.

The huge number of primary school students in East Africa means that there is no shortage of high-quality soldiers in the navy and army, especially the high-tech arms of the navy.

The East African Navy even has a high school degree and a large number of university students, which is far from being comparable to that of East Africa.

After all, even if Japan popularizes compulsory education, it is inevitable that it will be difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and the knowledge of compulsory education needs to go to Europe to learn from experience, and a large amount of education funds are invested in international students, and studying abroad is more expensive, and there is no such problem in East Africa, because the Hexingen royal family has its own schools and fiefdoms in Europe, which can save a lot of costs, and the number of people with primary school education in East Africa itself is enough.

Moreover, as a militaristic country, Japan invests a large amount of money in the industrial and military fields, and its education expenditure is actually very limited compared with other countries, so it will not show results in the popularization of compulsory education in Japan without half a century.

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