"Technology is multifaceted, involving various industries, not necessarily limited to the industrial field, such as the medical industry, handicrafts, East Africa has always attached importance to the development of medicine, but this is not the strength of our new country in East Africa, although we draw a lot of the essence of traditional medicine, but we also need the help of Austria-Hungary."

In fact, according to Ernst, the industrial development of Austria-Hungary has only begun to develop in recent years, and it may be stronger than Tsarist Russia among several top powers.

Of course, backwardness is only relative to Britain, France and Germany, and now it is also beyond the reach of East Africa.

While the main traditional foreign markets of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, the domestic market was a large market with internal circulation, as was the case with the relationship between Austria and Hungary.

However, the large domestic market of Austria-Hungary is not stable, the most important thing is that there are many contradictions between the economies of various nationalities, which affects the stability of this market, and the multi-ethnic nature intensifies the market stability of Austria-Hungary, which is an obstacle to the industrial development of Austria-Hungary.

The same problems, such as the allocation of resources in East Africa and the coal resources of the Southern Frontier Province, have helped the industrial development of the coastal cities of East Africa, and the people of the Southern Frontier Province will not think that there is anything wrong with it.

And if it were in the territory of Austria-Hungary, it would be easy to misunderstand: "The Austrians are plundering our resources." "This delusion.

Therefore, it is very difficult for Austria to integrate Austria-Hungary, and opportunists like Hungary can still negotiate, encounter Serbia's ultra-nationalism, and directly attack the old empire.

The experience of the past life proved that even without Austria-Hungary, Serbia would not have wanted to become the leader of Yugoslavia or the Balkans, and it would have become ultra-nationalist and defeated with ultra-nationalism.

On the other hand, this kind of ethnic policy in East Africa has better achieved harmonious coexistence among various ethnic groups or races in East Africa and has built a national consensus.

Of course, it is not obvious that it will have any effect now, because the first generation of German immigrants still had pride in their hearts, but when they intermarry with other nationalities and races, it naturally becomes a family relationship.

"We can only connect in this area, but if you really want to learn something valuable, you can only rely on yourself." Franz said.

The domestic resources of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, unless they were state-owned enterprises or royal enterprises, other Franz really could not be the masters, after all, "private property is sacrosanct".

In East Africa, on the other hand, the assets of East Africa are in the hands of the state, in other words, in the hands of the Heshingen royal family, so Ernst can mobilize the resources of the entire country, while Franz cannot.

However, with the support of the Austro-Hungarian government, East Africa can also save a lot of trouble, although they can't help, but if they really want to drag their feet, it is also very easy.

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In this deal with Franz, Ernst did not take advantage of it, and even lost some money, and the benefits obtained by the two sides were not equal, but this is the price that the backward countries must pay.

And Austria-Hungary did help East Africa enough, for example, the East African Navy could not be formed without the help of Austria-Hungary, and this alone is very rare.

There is also the Austro-Hungarian Empire's support for East Africa in education, which is also priceless, so Austria is dedicated enough to East Africa, an ally, and the relative help of Austria to digest some industrial products is also said to be a courtesy exchange.

Just like the Far Eastern Empire in the previous life became the world's factory, it was also exchanged for pretending to be a grandson for more than ten years, such a big country, and it is a big country with nuclear weapons, it is harmless to people and animals in disguise, and swallows its anger, this kung fu ordinary country can't play at all, if it were a northern neighbor, it would have broken the defense a long time ago.

In this comparison, the behavior of East Africa is nothing at all, and if Japan can encounter such a good thing at this time, I am afraid that it will be able to do everything to recognize the thief as its father.

Of course, this time there was no bargain in the hands of Franz, which also shows from the side that East Africa has learned or gained too much from Austria-Hungary before.

If you want it now, it is the Austro-Hungarian Empire's housekeeping skills, and normal countries will definitely not do such a thing as teaching apprentices to starve their masters, so Ernst is very satisfied if he can take out a little thing from the hands of Austria-Hungary.

In fact, Franz also had a headache, and Ernst also picked up the "food", which also shows from the side that East Africa, as a country, has developed rapidly, and many low-end industries have been disdainful, or have already owned, so they want to go further to the middle and high-end.

And the fundamental reason for this result is that East Africa is not a small country at all, and it can be sent away with a little money and aid.

If you count blacks in East Africa, the population is directly more than 50 million, which is directly more than the population of Austria-Hungary, and in this case, Austria-Hungary will not be able to bring it at all.

Therefore, the two countries can only cooperate more closely from a military and political point of view, which is mainly reflected in the naval aspect, although Africa is not far from Europe, but also across the Mediterranean.

Moreover, the number of East African land forces is about the same as that of Austria-Hungary, but the territory of East Africa is several times that of Austria-Hungary.

The countries of the South, the British and Portuguese colonies, were more hostile to East Africa, while the North countries were much less threatening, so East Africa adopted a détente and supported Belgium and Sigmaringen, which had friendly relations with East Africa, as a barrier.

When the country is large, it needs more troops to defend, and East Africa can't afford to raise too many troops, so maintaining it at two or three hundred thousand is a reasonable range, like the United States, which simply saves its army.

The cost of more than 300,000 European-level regular troops is not a small amount, and it can only be deployed by countries with deep pockets such as Germany.

Therefore, the military expenditure in East Africa has been maintained at a high level, and the Austro-Hungarian army has just been maintained at around 300,000, which has made the Austro-Hungarian Empire feel a certain pressure.

Moreover, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is under greater pressure on defense than East Africa, and neither of Germany, France, nor Russia is a master to be messed with, that is, it is now in an alliance with Germany and Russia, otherwise 300,000 troops will not be enough at all.

A Russia has a million conventional troops, although the level does not meet the standards of other countries, but it is more than enough to deal with Austria-Hungary, this is Ernst's idea, after all, after the reform of Alexander II, Tsarist Russia has been very close to Austria-Hungary in the industrial field, of course, Austria-Hungary wants to do the enemy outside the country, but it is still possible to maintain a weak military balance between European countries.

In the 19th century, there was one thing stronger than later generations, that is, as long as the country had autonomy and worked hard to develop industry, then there was the possibility of catching up, and without autonomy, it could only act as a colony, and strive to develop industry, as long as you had the courage to pay in this era, it would be easy to produce results, because the technical barriers were not as strict as later generations.

Take the equipment level of various countries as an example, there is almost no generation gap between the powers, and it is easy to imitate weapons, especially army equipment, and the real barrier is the high-tech military branch of the navy, which is also an important reason why Britain can maintain its naval lead.

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