The corners of Franz's mouth twitched after hearing this, and he said: "It's really a toss!" ”

Britain has always had a-stirring stick style, and most European countries, especially Austria-Hungary, which is focused on "taking care" by Britain, are clear in their hearts.

"Now the Boers should be their own people, and they still have checks and balances, but this is also in line with the usual practice of the British."

Franz is very indifferent to Britain, but there is one thing that he really admires, that is, Britain's means are really superb, not to mention, Britain itself is composed of three parts, plus Ireland is four parts, but England's ability to easily handle the other three parts is very worthy of Franz's admiration.

After all, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria can't do it if it wants to control Hungary, and there are a bunch of states and regions behind it that want to be demons like Hungary.

If Austria had the ability of England, how could Hungary also taste the power of the Great Famine in Ireland, but Britain was an island country after all, and it was not easy to foreign interference, so the two countries were still very different.

"If you can't settle the UK, we can also provide some support, although we can't come forward directly, but we can help you solve some troubles." Franz said.

Now the status of East Africa is different, so it is valuable to be co-opted, if it is still the East African colony that has shrunk in "Tanganyika", I am afraid that it will only get "Who is East Africa?" I don't know. "This situation.

"Hehe, it's not necessary, the most important thing in East Africa now is to develop the economy, so Austria-Hungary can give us more water in the fields of education, technology, culture, etc." Ernst said.

It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, and Austria-Hungary will definitely not do the big injustice of hand-in-hand teaching like the Soviet Union, but there is no problem in East Africa to pay for its own tuition and come to study.

"Naturally, there is no problem, but will you help us share more of our industrial products?"

"I can't make decisions about this, although East Africa is a big place, it is really poor! But there are a lot of things that we can't produce in East Africa that we can help digest. ”

Commodities and industrial goods are still different, including agricultural products can also be used as commodities, Austria-Hungary itself is an agricultural power, and it is in the temperate zone, there are many crops, East Africa does not have them, so this aspect can be considered.

And industrial products need to be cautious in East Africa, Ernst thought about it for a moment and then said: "The main economic source of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is agriculture, and industry is not as strong as Germany and Britain and France, but we are now busy with infrastructure construction in East Africa, and my uncle also knows that the land in Africa has never been developed before, and everything has to be built by ourselves in East Africa, and we plan to build a railway with Romania this year to go directly to the Chad region in the hinterland of Africa, and this railway has many technical problems. If Austria-Hungary gets involved, we can cede some more benefits. ”

The difficulty of the central and western sections of the Northern Railway is not inferior to that of the Siberian Railway, and if East Africa alone does it and vigorously produces miracles, it can indeed be done, but it is not cost-effective.

In this regard, involving Austria-Hungary may have had unexpected results, after all, the terrain in Austria-Hungary is quite complex, and it has the most experience in Europe in the construction of mountain railways.

Although the main force in the construction of the railroad is the black people, but the lives of the black people are not! Therefore, with the participation of Austria-Hungary in reducing some human losses, there is no harm in East Africa, and it can also speed up the progress of the project, and the sooner the Northern Railway is opened, the sooner the population isolation zone in the north of East Africa can be built.

"Austria-Hungary's oil production is also the largest in Europe, and we can import more in East Africa." Ernst said.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire still has part of the territory of the former Romania, so it is relatively rich in oil resources, and its production ranks first in Europe.

In order to promote the development of the internal combustion engine industry and the automobile industry in East Africa, oil resources are indispensable, so it can only take the road of imports.

As for the local oil in East Africa, although Ernst knows the approximate location, the technology and theory of the current era may not be able to support inland oil exploration, and resource exploration is also a rather laborious task.

Geologists often have to sleep in the open air, go into the mountains to explore caves, and stay outside for ten days and half a month, so it is very time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the cognition of elements and minerals in this era is also very simple, and the technology is also backward, so prospecting is quite difficult technical work.

The advantage of domestic mineral exploration in East Africa is that the blacks have hardly exploited this land, and many minerals may be on the ground, which would have been exhausted by their predecessors if they had been placed in Eurasia.

In recent years, the development of transportation in East Africa has further promoted the development and progress of the mining industry, geological surveyors can not only go deep into more areas, machinery and equipment can also be developed with the help of railways and highways, and finally transported out by rail, and then East Africa itself uses or exports, fully verifying the truth that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads.

Railway investment is the trend of this era, just like what new energy in the 21st century, artificial intelligence and the like, in this era the railway is this kind of new thing, although European railways have been widely popularized, but that is only for the five major hooligans in Europe, Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Russia, other countries are much worse.

East Africa pulls the Austro-Hungarian Empire in, which can further digest the domestic steel production capacity of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and drive the development of related industries, which is already quite sincere, after all, the central and western sections of the Northern Railway are properly placed in the Austro-Hungarian Empire is a proper national project, because the Austro-Hungarian Empire is so large compared with East Africa.

And Ernst added an oil import, which made Franz more satisfied, although the oil production in this era was limited, but this also showed from the side that the price of oil is high, after all, scarce is expensive, oil is still very versatile in addition to fuel, otherwise Rockefeller would not have made a fortune with oil.

East Africa imports oil from Austria-Hungary, which is not a small income for Austria-Hungary, although Ernst did not say a specific amount, but it is certainly indispensable.

Ernst didn't care, because a large part of the oil industry in Austria-Hungary and Romania was invested by the Heixingen consortium, so importing oil from its own enterprises was nothing more than paying an extra tax to Austria-Hungary, and it was inevitable to pay taxes for doing business on other people's territory.

Franz, who received a satisfactory answer, also asked: "I didn't ask too much about education before you talked about it, but this point depends on the needs of various schools in the empire, after all, they also have to recruit students according to their own ability, and there are many East African students studying in Austria-Hungary every year, so we can discuss it in terms of technology and culture." ”

East Africa is the largest group of international students in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and basically every university has East African students, so there is no problem at all with what Franz said, but East Africans are also half Germans, so studying in Germany is not very abrupt, and the level and quality of universities in this era are also high, and there will be no discrimination and other problems.

Countless countries have come to study in Europe, and many shrewd speculators will run pheasant schools to cheat tuition fees, and the cost of studying abroad is high in this era. A way to study abroad in direct cooperation with governments like East Africa avoids many problems, so East Africa does take advantage of a lot of advantages.

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