"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, how will the benefits of labor cooperation be distributed?" Von der Leyen asked.

Ernst said: "You calculate a reasonable range as the company's operating expenses, and how much of the rest is up to them." ”

As the organizer, East Africa also said that it used to collect money to provide services, after all, shipping fees, work arrangements, and related rights and interests protection all need funds as guarantees.

"Everyone should be registered, one in the homeland, one in Austria-Hungary, especially to record family and address information, after all, this is to work abroad, and it is not very convenient to contact, and it is easy to solve their worries." Ernst continued.

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In September, Ernst was already preparing for a promise to Karina to visit her grandmother in Europe, and the family began packing up their belongings for a trip to Europe, although plans were changed.

"Ernst, can little Friedrich go to Austria with Jena this time? The grandmother also wanted to see her little grandson, whom she hadn't seen since Friedrich was born! Knowing that little Friedrich could not go to Austria, Karina asked her husband.

Jena is the second child of Ernst and Karina, a princess, just two months after birth, because of her young age, Ernst and Karina's trip to Europe can only be postponed for four months, that is, in February next year.

Babies are at least six months safe to age on the boat, so just four months to be sure.

"Karina, it's not that I don't want to take little Friedrich, but you also know the situation of our Heixingen royal family, in total, just me and my father, and little Friedrich, the three men, are really thin, and there is a certain risk in going to sea after all, so it is better to let little Friedrich stay in East Africa to stay with his father, and his father is old, and he will not be lonely when he has his own grandson with him." Ernst explained with some reluctance.

He may also want to take his family to Europe to visit relatives, but this era is not the previous life after all, and there are big problems with transportation and medical care, so it is better to be on the safe side.

Of course, the main thing is to consider politics, East Africa as a monarchy, of course, it is the royal family that maintains the existence of the country, so the royal family must not have problems, someone must sit in East Africa itself, even if it is symbolic.

As for the past, East Africa was small, and Ernst could be restrained in Europe through the Hexingen consortium, but now East Africa is no longer what it used to be, and it can be regarded as a "great power", so naturally it can no longer be casually pretended to be manpowered.

And as long as the royal blood stays in East Africa, then the country of East Africa can continue to run smoothly, this is Ernst's hard work, so eggs can't be put in one basket, just like the Egyptian air crash in the previous life, a plane directly lost a litter of generals.

The only drawback is that Friedrich is a little too young, but something is better than nothing, and besides, there is Konstantin to watch, in recent years, Ernst has been very concerned about his father's health, so he is not too busy with political affairs, at least in terms of complexion, Konstantin can live for a long time.

For this trip to Europe, at the end of 1881 Ernst did not plan to make any major moves in East Africa, but to proceed step by step, and everything would be discussed after his return.

"Alas, it would be nice if it was still in Europe, so that if you want to visit relatives, it is much more convenient to rely on railways and carriages." Karina said.

"Hehe, if that's here, we can't save such a big foundation, Europe is still too small, especially between several big countries, there is almost no buffer space, and there is no threat of war at any time, so East Africa is safer." Ernst said.

Now several European powers, except for Britain, all border, Spain next to France, France next to Germany, Germany next to Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia, Tsarist Russia is not the Russia of the previous life, there are small countries in Eastern Europe and Western Europe separated, the contradiction between Germany and France is very acute, Russia and Austria are not at peace, it is simply the existence of Britain to sow discord, although the whole of Europe can explode, that is, the current economic situation is good, there is also a lot of room for overseas colonization, and countries still have some strategic determination.

As for the division of East Africa into a small half of Africa, it is actually not important, because most of the land occupied by East Africa in the previous life belonged to the tripartite sphere of influence of Britain, Portugal and Belgium, plus two unimportant German African colonies.

German East Africa, also known as Tanganyika, has a slight value, while German South-West Africa is completely scraps.

Portugal and Belgium are no longer a level of existence in East Africa, and the fact that the two countries were able to retain such a large area of colonies in Africa in their previous lives relied more on luck and friendship than on strength.

The only one who is unhappy with East Africa and has the strength to provoke trouble is the Britain, but they have now missed the best opportunity to intervene in East Africa, otherwise it will not be so easy for East Africa to develop inland, such as Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Transvaal, Bechuana and other colonies can be said to have been stolen from Britain in East Africa.

Moreover, Britain was originally the world's largest colonial power, and East Africa could not change the fact that it could not change the fact that a large part of the colonies that should have belonged to Britain in history, so the impact of East Africa on the world pattern is not as great as imagined.

It can only be said that East Africa is on the table, but it has not changed the strength of several veterans at the table, and it is still developing in the general context of the previous life, and as for the big changes, it should not be reflected until at least a few decades later.

"Ernst, you're right, as long as peace and security are better than anything else, although the conditions in East Africa are worse than Europe, but here is also far from war." Karina agreed.

Ernst shook his head and said: "It is not enough to stay away from the war, our south is very unstable, but these will not affect the areas we have developed, especially the east and inland, there is a risk of war on the whole, but it is controllable."

And the powder keg in Europe only needs a small flame to explode, which is also the benefit of a unified country, and the fragmentation of Europe will inevitably cause this result, but with the update and iteration of weapons, the intensity of war is getting bigger and bigger, and future wars may become more and more terrifying. ”

Constrained by the times, Karina could not imagine what the future war would look like, according to her knowledge, it was nothing more than the caliber of artillery getting larger and more numerous, maybe the future would be the replacement of guns by artillery.

Of course, she just thinks about it, because the current military development is indeed the case, from land to sea, the armies of all countries are pursuing caliber justice.

"Okay, don't think about it so much, anyway, we in East Africa can probably stay out of it, unless we get involved, so it's not something we should be concerned about." Ernst reassured.

Even if it is a world war in the previous life, it will mainly affect the Eurasian continent, as for East Africa and North America, although it will be affected, but it is safe as a whole, and the only one that will not be affected too much may be South America, which is a real remote corner.

(End of chapter)