At the Schivit Palace, Ernst was also planning how to improve the traffic problems in Hesse, which was not thought of by Ernst on his own initiative, but was mentioned during his communication with Prince Karl.

Sigmaringen had now established itself in Africa with the help of East Africa, so at the end of the year Ernst came to ask Prince Karl about the construction of Sigmaringen's colony in Africa.

Because of the relationship between the two families, the Ernst family and Prince Karl got along very harmoniously, even when it came to colonial affairs, they were as casual as a family.

Ernst: "Uncle Karl, how are you doing in the colony now?" ”

"So far, it's going very well, because thanks to your help, we have relocated more than 40,000 people in Chad, which was unthinkable to me before!" Prince Karl sighed.

Ernst smiled and didn't speak, the peak period of East African immigration, that is, from 1874 to 1875, East Africa immigrated nearly four million people in two years, and the immigrant population in normal years can reach about one million, and now the immigration is falling off a cliff, no less than 300,000 per year, so the number of Sigmaringen immigrants is only a sprinkling for East Africa.

After taking a sip of tea, Ernst asked, "Then is the territory we planned for you to be controlled now?" ”

Prince Karl said with some excitement: "That's nature, a whole two million square kilometers of land!" Who doesn't get excited? Anyway, we already control a lot of important areas, and other forces shouldn't be able to squeeze in now! ”

Ernst understood the pleasure of crazy enclosure in Africa, and he said: "When you gain a firm foothold in Chad in the future, you can continue to develop to the west, after all, the outlet to the sea is in the west, and then it will be the next India, and of course the area of India is only more than three million square kilometers." ”

Of course, Ernst is only referring to the area, the conditions in India are so good that there is almost no rotten land, that is, the arid land of Pakistan, which can support more than 100 million people in the future looking at the Indus River.

However, it seems understandable to think that in the past life, a place like Somalia could support more than 10 million people.

India has the advantage of almost twice as much precipitation as East Africa in the tropical monsoon climate, which receives 1,500 to 2,000 mm of precipitation per year. The savannah climate receives only 750 to 1000 mm of precipitation per year, a difference that is very significant; However, Ernst thinks that the rainfall in the savanna is at a just right threshold.

The main countries with the same type of climate distribution in East Africa are Brazil, Mexico and Australia, etc., except for Mexico, which mainly focused on drug cultivation, the other two agricultural development in the previous life was very good.

Needless to say, Brazil's urbanization rate is close to 90 percent, and only 10 percent of the people live in rural areas, which is less than the rural population in Europe and the United States.

Australia's agricultural conditions are not very good, and it can be said that it is the worst in several regions, because Australia's desert and semi-desert area accounts for nearly 40% of the country's area, and more than 70% of the entire continent is in arid or semi-arid areas.

Among them, Australia's most important wheat producing area, the Murray Darling Basin is a subtropical savannah climate with less precipitation, and most of its areas have an annual precipitation of only 200 to 500 mm, which is worse than most parts of East Africa, and most of Matabele Province (Zimbabwe), which claims to lack precipitation in East Africa, can also reach more than 700 mm of precipitation, and the driest west can also reach 400 mm.

In the desert areas of East Africa, the Kalahari Desert and the Namib Desert can sometimes reach more than two or three hundred millimeters of precipitation.

Of course, the savannah climate of East Africa is very different from that of Australia, with the savannah climate of East Africa due to the highland terrain and the savannah climate of Australia being distributed in the plains.

The main reasons for the low precipitation in the Australian savannah climate are the barrier of water vapor from the eastern Great Dividing Range and the influence of the subtropical high.

Most of East Africa is between the Tropic of Cancer, and half of Australia's savannah climate is south of the Tropic of Capricorn, while most of Australia's northern savannah climate is used for cattle and sheep.

Of course, Ernst believes that the reason for Australia's arid climate is the fact that the whole continent is not north and south, that is, it is heavily affected by the subtropical high.

The subtropical high is a zone of downdrafts that is not conducive to rainfall and is generally located around 30 degrees north and south latitudes, that is, between 20 and 40 degrees north latitude, covering most of Australia.

The territory of South Africa in East Africa is almost also in this region, like Botswana, Namibia are extremely arid areas, that is, the terrain of Africa is relatively narrow and distributed to the north and south, otherwise a super-large area of desert will be formed in the south, even so, the desert and semi-desert area of southwest Africa has reached nearly one million square kilometers.

A negative example is the Sahara Desert near 30 degrees north latitude, where Egypt is located, and most of East Africa bypasses the north-south subtropical high pressure zone.

Of course, the main reason for saying so much is to set off the superiority of the climate of East Africa, the savannah climate is also divided into three, six and nine, etc., not the same name, the conditions are the same, Brazil has a good climate, but its most livable tropical plateau climate is not even half of Africa, so East Africa is stronger than these countries in terms of climatic conditions and land area.

Prince Karl: "In this year's immigration, we have sent more than 30,000 people directly to East Africa, and we have worked hard in Europe to recruit more than 3,000 people. ”

This made Ernst snicker in his heart a little unkindly, but he still persuaded him: "Uncle Karl, you don't want to fight the idea of immigrants in Germany, you should think of a way from Romania and Austria-Hungary, Germany's current industrial development has reached a new stage, and the overflow population basically does not exist, but now the population from other regions is working in Germany, so it is more realistic to recruit immigrants to the backward areas of Central and Eastern Europe." ”

Of course, there is another reason that Ernst did not mention, that is, East Africa, where the largest number of German immigration agencies exist, and it is difficult for anyone to compete with East Africa.

Prince Karl: "Well, it is true that we would not have been so passive in the early years, especially in times of economic crisis, when there were many people who suddenly lost their jobs. ”

However, Ernst thinks that it may not be, the most important reason why Sigmaringen can immigrate to Africa on a large scale is the support of East Africa, and a few years ago, East Africa itself was not enough to share the soup with others.

Without the help of East Africa, Sigmaringen survived the death of thousands of immigrants in Africa, which was the status quo in most African colonies, with the exception of East Africa and Italy.

According to the investigation of the East African Defense and Security Agency, Italy has now emigrated more than 300,000 people in Ethiopia, and it has completed the results of Cape Town's hundreds of years of immigration in just a few years.

Therefore, the Italian African colonies are now the third most populous colonies (countries) except for the Arabs of North Africa, the first is naturally East Africa, the second is Cape Town, and most of the other colonies are not in the climate, and the number of colonies in some countries may only be a few dozen or a few hundred, and the number of more than 10,000 is considered a big country.

(End of chapter)