African Entrepreneurship Record

January 11, 1870.

Hohenzollern Castle, in the garden.

"One hundred and eleven, one hundred and twelve, one hundred and thirteen..."

Ernst gritted his teeth and counted the number of push-ups with difficulty, his white cotton vest soaked with sweat.

"three hundred!"

"Huh... This challenge is still too difficult for me!" Ernst said to the coach, panting heavily.

He held his thighs with both hands, and sweat was pouring down his forehead. Tom handed over the towel at the right time, and Ernst took the towel and wiped the sweat from his face.

"Your Highness, it's great that you can persevere all the time. I'm afraid it's difficult for ordinary people to achieve this kind of perseverance!" the coach commented on the side.

"Coach Rowett, you praise me too much. If there is no one to supervise me, I won't be able to persist. Only a person with a little money like me would do such a boring thing."

Some time ago, Ernst looked in the mirror and discovered that he had gained a lot of weight. This was a bolt from the blue for Ernst.

In my previous life, I had always had a normal figure, but after time travel, I gained a lot of fat because of the good food and lack of exercise.

At the end of this year, Ernst will be 20 years old. He is currently 178 centimeters tall and will probably not grow any longer. Ernst himself cannot control this.

Prince Constantine's appearance cannot be said to be ugly, it can also be said to be ordinary. Ernst has made a slight breakthrough in Prince Constantine's appearance.

In addition, he was relatively young, so he was in the upper middle range in appearance among people of this era. It can be said that Ernst had temperament and spirit, but he was not handsome.

On this basis, the impact of weight on Ernst is too great. If he is a little fatter, he will look unsightly. Ernst is self-aware and knows that he does not have the perseverance, so he hired a professional to tailor a suit for himself. Set of weight loss plan.

"Your Highness, your figure is actually not bad among the nobles. There is no need to do any so-called 'weight loss'." Tom said.

"You don't understand. My aesthetic taste is different from that of ordinary people. It only looks good to me. As for other people's standards, it doesn't work for me. My life is to be satisfied with myself, not to follow the crowd."

After hearing what Ernst said, Tom stopped trying to persuade him. In Tom's opinion, Ernst was completely asking for trouble. Before losing weight, Ernst's figure looked like that of Prince Constantine. That would make him look good, at least. It's very stable when you get up.

If Ernst knew Tom's inner thoughts, he would probably be depressed for a while. Prince Constantine was not steady, but indeed a little heavy, and his face almost turned into a cake.

…

"Jingle Bell……"

"Your Majesty, His Majesty the Prince's call!" A servant came to the garden and reported to Ernst.

Ernst sent Tom and the coach away, went to the phone room and took the phone from the operator.

"You wait outside the door first, and then come in if I call you."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

The telephone operator closed the door with ease.

"Hey, father, what do you want from me?"

"Ernst, I have something to ask you about. It's about the population of East Africa."

Hearing this, Ernst concentrated his attention. The population of East Africa has always been a major issue that Ernst paid close attention to.

"Father, you said?"

"It's like this. In 1869, the total number of newborn children in East Africa was more than 200,000. I think you know this number. But this year, I am afraid that the number of newborns in East Africa will break a new high. According to reports from governments at all levels, we can now roughly determine this year's number. The number of newborns is likely to exceed 500,000!”

"Isn't this a good thing? Father!" Ernst asked in confusion.

"It seems that you still don't understand the seriousness of the matter. Five hundred thousand is just a conservative math. This number may also be 600,000, 700,000, or even more. The number of households in East Africa is more than 1.11 million, excluding Excluding the families that just gave birth to a child last year, there are still more than 900,000 households. These more than 900,000 households are likely to give birth to a child this year, and some families may even have a second or even third child. If you follow this trend and think about the next two How many children will be in East Africa in ten years?"

"This is indeed a bit much!" After saying this, Ernst fell silent.

"Not only is there a lot, we assume that each of these families will have at least five children in the next twenty years. If new immigrants are added, the population of East Africa will definitely exceed 10 million by 1890. It will not even take twenty or ten years. Time is enough."

"Then father, what do you think of this problem?"

"What I mean is, should we conduct administrative intervention on the population of East Africa so that they have fewer children?"

"That's absolutely not possible!" Ernst firmly objected. "It's easy to correct people's ideas about fertility, but it will be troublesome if they try to correct themselves in the future. Therefore, we must not use administrative means to intervene in the population of East Africa."

Ernst is a staunch anti-family planning sect, which is related to his own life experience in his previous life. If family planning was enforced, Ernst would not have been born in his previous life. Even so, the Ernst family was fined a large sum of money. Money, people were generally very poor at that time, so all the valuable belongings in Ernst’s family were emptied out. And later, when the country became rich, no one wanted to have children anymore. Ernst himself even Never been married.

"Uh... didn't you ask me to express my opinion? I just said it casually." Constantine did not expect that Ernst would object so fiercely.

"Father, since the people of East Africa are very interested in having children, let them have children. As long as the children grow up in these twenty years, they will be the future of East Africa. By then, the population of East Africa will not be a problem. It will happen that mixed-race families The highest proportion, this is the prototype of the German nation in East Africa," Ernst said.

"I know that you have always emphasized that population is the cornerstone of a country, and more people are the cornerstone of a strong country. But the education and support of so many children is a heavy burden for East Africa!"

Ernst thought about it carefully and said to Prince Constantine: "Father, our childcare costs in East Africa are based on rural areas around the world, not Europe. I don't think East Africa has to worry about this population growth. Educational issues, we East Africa has poor education to begin with. The fundamental reason at the beginning was to liberate the labor force in East Africa and allow women to participate in more labor tasks. However, the industrial scale in East Africa is very small and does not require so many educated people. Therefore, we should address the issue of compulsory education. It can definitely be more flexible. Nowadays, schools in East Africa are all in small classes. These newborns will start school in about four or five years. At that time, it will be suitable to change to large classes. At that time, the students of the previous batches have also graduated, which is just right for them. To solve the teacher shortage in East Africa, as long as they can read according to the textbooks, the requirements do not need to be too high.

In fact, the most important problem facing East Africa now is how to raise so many newborns. My personal opinion is that women should completely become housewives and no longer participate in agricultural production activities. It is not difficult for a mother to raise five or six babies. , also responsible for food and clothing issues. As for the lack of agricultural population, just use black people to supplement it! "

After all, the key to solving the problem in the end is "labor". The black slaves in East Africa only have adult males, and we are not afraid of them multiplying indefinitely. They can only exist in East Africa for one generation. Sharing agricultural work equally among them is equivalent to letting them They use their own generation to raise the generation of East African newborns. When these East African newborns grow up, that is when the "farm tools" retire from East Africa.

This matter is cruel, but if the level of mechanization cannot be improved, we can only suffer for Nige first. Ernst promised to help these people in advance after finding new tools to replace Nige and make important contributions to the construction of East Africa. Kind-hearted people sent him back to his "hometown".