Chapter 379: "Democratic" East Africa
East Africa can now arrange the "imperial examination" system more calmly, after all, there is a British civil service system in front, and it has been more than ten years, the water has been waded, East Africa only needs to check and fill in the gaps.
As far as East Africa is concerned, the time has long come for a change, especially since the army and navy have not fought major battles in recent years, and the army promotion model has also been greatly weakened.
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"At present, the Japanese are making a lot of noise about breaking away from Asia and joining Europe.
Japan's secession from Asia and its entry into Europe was formally proposed in March this year, and it quickly sparked a big discussion in Japan.
However, East Africa cannot get rid of its status as a "non-chieftain", and Japan's so-called separation from Asia and entry into Europe is even more ridiculous in the eyes of East Africa.
After all, although East Africa is hybrid, half of them really have European ancestry, and Japan is a complete licking dog, but the Japanese have always been crazy, especially on Mu Qiang, so later generations recognized the United States as their new father.
As for the sentiment of the people in East Africa, the majority is certainly similar to that of Japan, but Ernst does not think so, because Europe is now the biggest filter, and almost the whole world wants to be part of the "civilized world".
Of course, it is undeniable that now the whole world must learn from the industrialization of the West, otherwise it will be abandoned by the times.
At that time, industrialization was the trend of the times, and Europe was only the first to step into this stage, and Europe was still engaged in industrialization in the past, which was another stage, but on the whole, it was a choice for the country.
It is unlikely that East Africa will be as completely westernized as Japan has been, because from the very beginning East Africa has taken a different path, mixed with various systems.
However, on the whole, the main feature is centralization, and incidentally, the political, economic, and military work of the entire East Africa revolves around this, after all, East Africa, which has embarked on the road of semi-planned economy, is very much in line with the needs of the previous national conditions in East Africa, and this will be normalized.
Ernst likes to think about problems and connect them with reality, such as the national development model, and the attitude of people with different personalities towards life, some people like to be profligate, some people like to be at peace with what happens, and some people like to be self-disciplined and introspective.
In the future, the country will treat the economy with no more than two attitudes: market and planning, which is like a person's life, and Ernst must like the kind of life with his own life plan, of course, this plan must be his own decision, and being choked by others will naturally be very bad.
East Africa is currently in a state of its own decision, but it is limited to the Heixingen royal family, and the people of East Africa prefer to be at peace with what happens.
This is also the reason why the process of democratization in East Africa is relatively slow, democratization is the tide of the times, but how to democratize needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.
At least in Ernst's view, democracy has always been limited, just as the two representatives of "democracy" in the previous life, the United States and the Soviet Union, both claimed to be democracies.
However, who is the "people" must be carefully discussed, this point has not changed since the era of slave society, the people are very narrow-minded, at least tens of millions of homeless people in the United States will not be people, this is certain, and the master of the American state is self-evident.
The same is true of East Africa, where the "people" of East Africa have not yet been defined, but it is certain that the largest people are the royal family of Heshingen, so Ernst considers himself to be "democratic", after all, his decisions represent the basic demands of most East African people.
In fact, this is also true, because the people of East Africa are mostly submissive, and although East Africa is not progressive, it will really allow them to solve the basic problem of food and clothing in the 19th century, and this is the basis for East Africa to remain stable for the next two or three decades.
Unless a generation of immigrants from East Africa dies completely, there will always be people who will remember the "kindness" of the Hashingen royal family to them.
And East Africa is still immigrating, so this time will last for a long time, which means that there is no problem for East Africa to remain stable for forty or fifty years.
Of course, as a good young man who has been radiated by nine years of compulsory education, Ernst will not always hold the authority of East Africa, which is also a direction for deepening the reform of East Africa in the future.
This is irreversible, because industrialization will change the overall structure of society, and the top-level design must follow this trend, and the economies of East African countries are in line with each other, and the royal family that is reluctant to give up power will not end up very good-looking.
Throughout 1885, the international situation practically remained unchanged, and this stability would continue until the turn of the century.
However, the situation of East Africa will fall into a more dangerous situation, the main danger is the time bombs in the south of East Africa, and Ernst designed the bomb disposal time in the early nineties, completely solving the external threat in the south of East Africa.
Britain, Portugal, the Transvaals, East Africa, and the Quartet are all preparing for this, but compared to East Africa, it is not known which power will eventually cause the conflict first.
This can be compared to the First World War, the Balkans were a primer, after Serbia detonated the powder keg, countries went down one after another.
In the case of South Africa, whether it is the Portuguese, the Transvaal, or the British, neither of the two forces can afford to sit idly by.
Because the "truth" of East Africa is on their heads, and in the face of the common enemy of East Africa, if the other three forces do not unite, they can only be broken by each of East Africa, and finally eaten and wiped out.
And Ernst thought the same way, and Ernst's idea was to solve the problem directly once and for all.
"After 1885, we will have to face the national security problem of southern East Africa, the two economic centers of East Africa, both under the threat of external forces, if we allow the southern enemy to be connected in tandem, and with the industrialization of East Africa, this problem is not solved, then we should not imagine that the future can be single-mindedly developed."
The two centers are the eastern and central ones, the central part of which is also actually the border, but facing the Portuguese and the British in the Indian Ocean to the east.
The first thing Ernst had to solve was the security of the central part of the country, and he had a thorough grasp of the eastern seaboard, and the Portuguese colony of Mozambique was like a sharp knife, stuck in the center, dividing the eastern part of East Africa in two.
Of course, this must have wronged the Portuguese, because the Portuguese were passive, and East Africa did not expand southward, so there was no such situation, but the puppet was not guilty, and he was guilty.
After Mozambique is pulled out of the nail, East Africa can also start to consider the issue of "moving the capital", and there are two main factors that have been hindering the relocation of the capital in East Africa, one is the development of the central provinces, and the other is the security issue.
At present, the development of the central provinces has achieved remarkable results, but there is still a certain gap from the east, which is the first-mover advantage, and to erase this advantage, moving the capital is one of the best ways.
As for security, that is, in Mozambique, in the eastern part of Matabele province, the fighting capacity of the Portuguese is naturally questionable, but it is not necessarily the Portuguese who come ashore from Mozambique.
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