Chapter 2 Make the best use of people
Ernst said to Weimar: "Negroes are an important soldier, especially now that the demographics of our East Africa are too young, and there is an important feature that our territory in East Africa is more than six or seven times larger than before, and our core territory was only in the east, and now we have to add the central and southern regions, both of which are threatened by war. ”
East Africa's new population has actually shifted from immigrants to childbearing, so East Africa is also facing demographic pressure, which is a happy annoyance.
On the contrary, if a country is facing an aging population, I am afraid that it will not be able to laugh, in Ernst's cognition, such countries are going downhill, of course, this is also the only way for East Africa in the future, unless East Africa does not grow at all, and African countries in the previous life are mixed with the third country all the year round.
Before the new generation grows up, the cost of raising East Africa is quite high, but in the future, when the new generation who have received compulsory education grows up, East Africa's national strength will definitely explode in a certain period of time, probably in the next two or three decades.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, we have registered all workers and updated the data, so that we can ensure that we can draw people from them at any time if we respond to conflicts." Weimar said.
The frequency of updates for black people in East Africa is still relatively high, especially in the past few years of large infrastructure, which will cause hundreds of thousands of disabilities and deaths every year, so the data is updated quickly, which is a very distressing thing for the East African statistical department.
But something had to be done, and if one accidentally turned the black man around, Ernst would have no place to cry.
"For black people, we have to let them enter the military system as a last resort, and in addition to let them work as migrant workers, we can never stage a Mamluk counterattack script in East Africa." Ernst emphasized.
The Mamluks were slaves introduced by ancient Egypt from the Arab region, more precisely "slave soldiers", so these Mamluks turned into masters and became the dominant class of Egypt, which was the result of allowing slaves to enter the military system.
The army is a place to sharpen people, and it is not surprising that it is also the easiest place to "turn over", after all, the army attaches more importance to military merits, and the Mamluks have achieved counterattacks by mastering military strength.
The blacks in East Africa may not be unable to follow this path, after all, it is impossible for East Africa to completely issue "inferior weapons" to the black servants, and cannon fodder must also have "competent" weapons.
In fact, in the previous battles with African natives in East Africa, there were not many deeds of "overturning", even the indigenous tribes with stone spears and bows and arrows may also cause heavy losses to the armies of East Africa that they took lightly, but the continuous flow of immigrants in the rear of East Africa made this rare war situation impossible to become a common phenomenon.
For example, in the previous life, there were only a few thousand Germans in German East Africa, and some black tribes could fight back and forth with the Germans.
The most famous is that in 1905, under the leadership of Gingi Kittille Nguale, a large-scale revolt against colonial rule broke out in German East Africa, which quickly swept through the southern part of German East Africa.
Subsequently, in 1907, the German revolt was suppressed through brutal means such as famine, but the revolt dealt a severe blow to German colonial rule and forced Germany to adopt moderate measures to administer German East Africa.
Therefore, the strict defense of blacks is the political correctness of East Africa, and it is also an important policy of Ernst to govern the country.
Weimar said: "Yes, Your Royal Highness, we have never relaxed our surveillance activities on black people, after all, black riots are not uncommon in East Africa, there are dozens of them every year, but they are not a climate. ”
No matter how well East Africa treats blacks, it is also a slave, and even civilians have people who are dissatisfied with the government, not to mention that slaves are not even the lowest level of society, after all, there are cattle and horses in front of slaves, and cattle and horses are ranked in front of slaves, which is also a major feature of slave society.
"Very good, a small-scale riot is acceptable to us, but it is acceptable to just say that it is objectively accepted in fact, this kind of mistake cannot be avoided, but there is absolutely no mercy in the follow-up procedures, the accountability of the accountability, the punishment of the punishment, and the relevant personnel and departments should do a good job of review, and at the same time should be included in the file, as a reference standard for assessment." Ernsteigre emphasized.
This is the same as theoretically saying that all aircraft accidents are man-made accidents, and even the Far Eastern Empire in the 21st century cannot avoid it, let alone a backward country like East Africa, but in this era, the administrative efficiency of East Africa is already much higher than that of ordinary countries.
"Of course, the division of labor must be clear, and now we don't need blacks to enter the army, so we must let them continue to stick to their posts and stabilize the order of production, especially agriculture and engineering."
What Ernst has to do is to ensure the stability of national production during the war, after all, war is quite money-burning, many countries with poor financial conditions are facing war, and the future of the whole country is basically put into it, so it is very difficult for a country to rise from the ruins of war, especially those defeated countries.
This has to mention the heritage of Germany, which has experienced two world wars and finally became one of the people in Europe, so the unification and accumulation of wealth in Germany is unimaginable, and the most important thing is the accumulation of talents.
Ernst continued: "We want war, in addition to dealing with the changes in the world since the Berlin Conference in 1884, but also to solve the geographical disadvantages of East Africa, especially the coastlines of the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. ”
"Without a complete coastline, many railways and ports cannot be directly connected, just like the Austro-Hungarian Empire had to concentrate its resources in Trieste after losing the Venice region, and Southwest Africa obviously does not have such a population and industrial carrying capacity, which is not conducive to our trade with the Americas and West Africa."
"The Indian Ocean range, Mozambique has many excellent ports, and the southern coastal plain of Mozambique can be said to be one of the best lands in Africa for agricultural base, its fertility and topography are not below the Great Lakes region, and there are excellent ports as a basis, the advantages of developing export-oriented economic agriculture are more advantageous than Somalia, Somalia is only advantageous in distance, but in the future, with technological progress, the speed of ships will be faster and faster, so that Mozambique's agricultural advantages can be fully developed, and the southern territory of Mozambique, It already has a subtropical climate, which is the most important. ”
"Of course, these are all based on a premise, that is, to prepare for a large-scale war, once the war starts, then we face the risk of being surrounded on all sides, although East Africa is the most populous country in Africa, but our land area is the same, so our population density is not as good as many countries, this vast and sparsely populated national conditions, if the enemy and we engage in sports warfare, with the purpose of destroying the infrastructure and industrial production capacity of East Africa, then our accumulation over the years will be in vain."
"And our enemy is not weak, if they do their best to mobilize a million troops, it is also possible, so our army and front-line residents must be prepared for war posture and not be caught off guard."
Of course, there is another sentence that Ernst did not say, that is, East Africa has been engaged in large-scale infrastructure construction since the 70s, all in order to realize the "industrial development plan" in the future, so that East Africa, like the Soviet Union in the past, will seize the opportunity to become an industrial country in a short time.
Industrialization requires capital, so the war must not be allowed to interrupt the production order in East Africa, so the black people, as an important labor resource, maintain the industrial production order in East Africa and ensure the steady growth of the financial revenue of East African countries during the war, which is an important means for East Africa to accumulate raw capital.
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