African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 307 Birth of Germany

While taking over Mayotte, East Africa is also eyeing the four main islands of Grande Comore, Anjouan, Moheli and many small islands near Mayotte. Among them, the Sultan of Anjouan is the Comoros The nominal ruler of the archipelago, the Kingdom of East Africa, is going to have a heart-to-heart talk with the Sultan of Anjouan Island and send some of its citizens to the Sultanate of Zanzibar. In the future, the Comoros Islands will be the Comoros Islands in East Africa.

   It is definitely not possible now, the immigration has not yet arrived, so the East African Navy is responsible for stabilizing the Sultan of Anjouan Island first.

After the island of Mayotte stabilized, the East African Navy immediately headed towards Anjouan Island. Under the cordial visit of Archduke Ferdinand and the East African Navy, the Sultan of Anjouan Island signed a treaty with East Africa immediately, and the Comoros Islands Become an East African protectorate.

At this time, Anjouan Island has actually lost its rule over the other three islands, but East Africa just obtained righteousness and an excuse to control the remaining two islands, Grand Comore Island and Morocco Island, in the name of the Sultan of Anjouan Island. Repression by the natives of Ellie Island.

  The forces on the Comoros Islands are mixed. Except for Mayotte, which is completely controlled by East Africa, the other three islands are composed of African blacks, Arabs, and Malays. Among them, the Arabs are in the position of rulers, and the Arab culture prevails on the island.

   Fortunately, the Comoros Islands, which have a tropical rainforest climate, have a small population, and it is not difficult to control East Africa.

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   On January 18, 1871, William I announced his inauguration as Emperor of the German Empire in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles in Paris.

  At the end of last year, with the help of the Franco-Prussian War, the four states of South Germany officially joined the German Federation, and the German region has been unified.

The South German region has always been one of the most economically developed regions in Germany, so after the annexation of the South German region, the strength of Germany has achieved an effect of one plus one greater than three, and the Kingdom of Bavaria alone has a power that cannot be underestimated by most European countries. strength.

  As William I announced the establishment of the German Empire in Versailles, Germany as a whole also appeared for the first time in human history.

  The newly established German Empire has a population of more than 40 million (41 million in history) and a territory of 610,000 square kilometers. It surpassed France to become the most powerful country on the European continent.

  Germany has the most powerful army force and vast territory recognized in Europe at present, and its strength is far from what Prussia or Austria could match before.

Emperor Franz of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had mixed feelings when he heard the news of the establishment of the German Empire. This also meant that Austria had completely lost its influence on the German region, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire had to change careers. On the contrary, the Hungarian side was very happy. With the unification of Germany, Austria will not be able to use the German region to suppress Hungary.

  When the German Empire was established, the Kingdom of East Africa expressed congratulations, but it was limited to this. If Germany declared its establishment in Berlin, Ernst might join in the fun, but he should not go in Paris, and he cannot bring hatred to East Africa.

When Germany was unified, the population of East Africa also reached 4.7 million, of which the number of Germans (including newborns) who immigrated from Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire alone reached more than 1.8 million, plus the Germanized Slavs (Croatia, Slovenia) and ethnic intermarriage (Paraguay, Chinese, Germans, etc.), the pan-German population is 4.45 million, and the remaining more than 200,000 immigrants include newly introduced Italians, Russians, Chinese, etc.

  East Africa as a whole is undoubtedly a German country. It is second only to Germany and the third largest German country in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The remaining Luxembourg and Liechtenstein are not worth mentioning in terms of size.

  At the same time, the Kingdom of East Africa is the fifth largest country in the world after Britain (including colonies such as Canada and Australia), Tsarist Russia, the Far East, and the United States in terms of land area (including the Alaska royal territory).

East Africa has not announced the specific land area of ​​East Africa to the international community. Although it has been in contact with other colonists in many areas, the land and colonies cannot be equated in this era. Therefore, in the impression of most countries, East Africa is still in the The east coast of East Africa, the mainland part of the former Sultanate of Zanzibar, these countries and regions do not include Mozambique and some Austrians.

  Mozambique really feels the oppression of East Africa, and the Austrians at least know that East Africa has completed the conquest of Kenya and Tanganyika. Otherwise, how could East Africa let go of investment in Kenya.

  The Kingdom of East Africa, which has a huge territory and a population of millions, now needs low-key development the most. Only by completely controlling Zimbabwe can the Kingdom of East Africa in Zambia be able to make an international appearance.

  So starting in 1871, East Africa began to change its previous aggressive expansion path, and there was no expansion plan except for Mayotte.

  At the border, the Kingdom of East Africa also began to behave in a low-key manner, vigorously developing trade relations with the Boers and the Portuguese, and avoiding armed conflicts.

At the same time, Ernst began to prepare for the transfer of some industries of the Hexingen Consortium to East Africa. Today, the Hexingen Consortium is one of the top consortiums in the world. It owns the entire East African Kingdom as its backyard, and at the same time has a presence in Germany and Austria-Hungary. The empire has the right to speak, and it also has industrial distribution in other parts of Europe, so the Hexingen consortium has grown to the extent that it is incomparably rich, and it will take a long time for East Africa to digest any soup.

The core of the Hexingen Consortium is the Hexingen Bank. In addition to the companies under the Hexingen Consortium, the Hexingen Bank, under the command of Ernst, controlled many emerging companies in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In electric power, military industry, food, machinery and other fields.

A typical example is the Skoda factory (1869) founded by Austrian Earl Skoda in the Czech Republic. Hechingen Bank held 17% of the shares. The Count Skoda can't figure it out.

Most of the rookie companies in the European power field have investment from Hechingen Bank, and the food industry is completed through monopoly. The tropical cash crops that are abundant in East Africa are mainly sold to Central and Eastern Europe, so many new food factories in Central and Eastern Europe are behind black With the presence of the Xinggen Consortium, there is no way. Africa has a huge advantage in terms of distance compared with its counterparts in Southeast Asia and the Americas. When the East African coffee, tea, rubber and other industries mature, the original market will be further squeezed.

  At the same time, Hechingen Bank invested in the oil industry in the eastern part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Romania, especially in Romania. Carol I gave the green light, which almost made Hechingen Bank the leader in Romania's oil field.

  East Africa and the Hexingen Consortium, as the royal family of Hexingen, have developed very rapidly, while the export strategy implemented by East Africa as a country is a typical small profit but quick turnover, focusing on the agricultural field.

  The Hexingen consortium is concentrated in the fields of finance, light industry and high technology, with high profit margins and relatively large scale.

At present, what East Africa lacks the most is heavy industry. On the contrary, neither of them has much experience in this area. They need to explore further. Without heavy industry, they cannot provide basic industrial production materials. It is impossible to form a combined super political and economic entity, so the development of heavy industry is the primary goal of the current East African Kingdom.

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