"Trieste has changed a lot in recent years? I thought that the development of East Africa would be shocking enough, but I didn't expect the Austro-Hungarian Empire to do the same! Karina exclaimed.

Trieste has had new changes almost every year for more than ten years, and Karina and Ernst have been in East Africa for so long, so Trieste has a completely different impression from before.

In the 19th century, under the convergence of the two industrial revolutions, as long as the countries that seized the opportunity would undergo earth-shaking changes.

The most typical are Germany and the United States, and now just by looking at Trieste, you can know the great development of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Germany and the United States, which have better results, will be even more unexpected.

Even Ernst, who had seen the "infrastructure madness" in the Far Eastern Empire, felt a kind of spiritual shock in his heart about the current development of Europe.

"This is the change brought about by science and technology, and the two technological revolutions have promoted the entire world civilization very significantly, and it is understandable that Austria-Hungary has achieved such achievements under this wave." Ernst said to his wife.

"It has always been said that the economic crisis and the Great Depression of 1873 were severe, but this did not hinder the development of European society, on the contrary, after draining the water, the industrial structure became healthier, and the Austrian economy is much more dynamic now than it was before we went to East Africa."

In fact, Trieste's great development was fueled by trade between East Africa and Austria-Hungary, and the booming port trade tripled the population of Trieste in the last two decades.

Trieste's first population and industry boom came from the establishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Venetian area was recovered by Italy, and after the loss of Venice, Trieste became the only excellent port of Austro-Hungarian Empire, so Trieste's economy directly made a leap forward and quickly became a large city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The second is that the trade volume between East Africa and Germany has increased dramatically in recent years, thanks to the construction of the previous Austro-Hungarian railway, which is a transit port for commodity trade between East Africa and Austria-Hungary, and most of the import and export trade between East Africa and the entire German region is turned over here.

The complementarity between East Africa, a huge supplier of raw materials, and Germany, one of the most economically developed regions in the world, has led to the second major development of Trieste.

The overall area of the German region in Europe is more than one million square kilometers, and it is all developed and cooked, the railway network density is second only to the United Kingdom, connecting the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean, the land and water network is dense, the inland shipping is developed, and it is the east-west land passage of the European continent, with a population of nearly 100 million, rich coal and iron resources, and a very developed industry.

If you remove the rich mineral resources in the interior and south, you really can't get rid of the resources of East Africa (East Africa in the real geographical sense) in the previous life.

In this way, in the First World War, Germany and Austria actually had the ability to join forces against the whole world, and there was no energy shortcoming, so it was reasonable not to fall behind in the confrontation with the Entente.

If there is no United States, then Germany and Austria will not talk about victory, and the ability to draw with the exhausted Entente is still there, and the Entente is also an unstable factor in Tsarist Russia, but the contradictions within Tsarist Russia are irreconcilable, and Ernst does not think that the Tsarist Provisional Government can succeed.

"My dear, your ability is not bad, after all, East Africa is self-made, and the development to the point where it has reached is enough to make many countries ashamed." Karina said to Ernst, glancing at her father.

Ferdinand said angrily: "What do you want me to do?" At that time, the situation in Mexico was complicated, none of the forces from all sides took me seriously, and I also had a name, this kind of thing is not an old fox, don't want to be stable at all, and, are you my daughter, isn't this revealing my scars? ”

Karina put her arm around Archduke Ferdinand and said coquettishly: "How dare I reveal your scars, and I know that Ling was a remote-controlled puppet of Napoleon III at that time, and may not be supported." ”

When it comes to Napoleon III, it arouses the memories of Ernst and Ferdinand, saying that Napoleon III should not be stable under the Yellow Spring, and now the French must not have a good evaluation of Napoleon III, but in a few years it may be the other way around, and the later French government will always not disappoint the enemy country.

However, Ernst and Archduke Ferdinand do not recall this person because of Napoleon III's martial arts, but because of the death of Napoleon III, who was once extremely beautiful in Europe, but finally died in England, this contrast is always emotional.

Archduke Ferdinand once had some resentment towards Napoleon III, but he felt that he was much luckier than Napoleon III, after all, he was now the leader of the navy of a great power, and even the founder, and the future history should have more kind praise for his life.

It's right to think so, there are many monarchs who fled in European history, but few can be remembered, but the monarchs who were executed are much more famous, Louis XVI, Charles I, including the previous Archduke Ferdinand (Massimiliano I), the emperor of Mexico.

Moreover, Archduke Ferdinand is not an escape, and the future history record of him should be that he was rescued by his son-in-law Ernst from the Mexican anti-government forces, and the rescue is much better.

Ernst was thinking about Napoleon III's solution, and took this as a warning, before the Franco-Prussian War, no one was optimistic about Prussia, and as a result, Prussia counterattacked, and now although East Africa has been stabilized, it cannot be taken lightly, and it must not engage in the arrogant mentality of "the advantage is in me".

This is the result of the current situation in the Orange Free State, in the previous life, the British conquered the Boers and used 400,000 troops, and now the Transvaal and the British are together, Portugal will also support the British, and if the British target a country like East Africa, it will definitely not learn to deal with the Boers, because the size of East Africa is not comparable to that of the Boer countries.

If Britain really uses force, it can gather at least more than 600,000 troops, Britain itself is not less than 400,000, the Transvaals have the support of the British, it should be no problem to form tens of thousands, and there should be no problem with the Portuguese hundreds of thousands, and this also has to take into account the problem of the Indian servant army.

It's not that Ernst thinks too much, but he should try to consider the strength of the enemy as comprehensively, and the British must have this ability, after all, Britain has demonstrated it in the previous life.

Of course, there are hundreds of thousands of retired soldiers in East Africa, and the mobilization ability of the militia is very terrifying, but the combat effectiveness of the militia is to be questioned, so foreign wars are not decided by beating their brains, and in case of overturning, it will be laughable and generous.

As for making a joke about the British lobster soldiers, East Africa is not necessarily more certain than the Boers in the previous life, because the regular troops are very different from the wild way of the Boers' guerrilla tactics.

(End of chapter)