African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 311 The Idea of ​​the Kingdom of Italy

Most of the official medical personnel that already existed in East Africa came from the East, and Constantine brought a team of private doctors from Germany. Among the other immigrants, there were some "doctors" from Europe, but most of these people were wild. The set of old western doctors in the middle ages came from rural areas after all, and most of them relied on the inheritance of their ancestors.

  Doctors are still the rarest profession in East Africa. Most patients rely on resignation to fate, and many people have their own homemade prescriptions. They don’t know if they will work or not. Just try it.

   There are a total of 108 official clinics in East Africa, no hospital, 285 registered doctors, and a snake venom research institute, which is regarded as the pinnacle of East African medical care.

  In general, medical resources in East Africa are extremely scarce. Fortunately, East Africa is very suitable for herbal medicine cultivation, and some of the indigenous people have inherited it, which is also mastered by East Africans.

  For example, after being bitten by a black mamba, the East African natives will find a strange-looking plant from around, pound him into a plaster, apply it to the wound, and then wait to die.

  Although this incident is a bit ridiculous, the aborigines firmly believe it. It can be seen that the aborigines also have their own medicine, which can at least play a role of psychological comfort.

Of course, this is a failure case, and there are many successful ones, most of which are prescriptions that can reduce inflammation, stop bleeding and relieve pain. After all, the indigenous people have been fighting wits and fierce battles with the beasts in East Africa for thousands of years, and it is inevitable that they will be slightly injured. Summarizing a set of systematic medical experience is still essentially a state of undivided witch doctors, but if you fight right, you can always get some results.

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  Austria got Venice, and then launched the final cleansing of the area. A large number of intellectuals, businessmen, and nobles fled to the Kingdom of Sardinia. Compared with Hungary in eastern Lombardy, the food in Austria is better.

As the richest region in Italy, Lombardy has given the Hungarian nobles a lot of sweetness. Although they know that the Austrians are using Hungary to block their guns, if the Italians want to regain their lost ground, they must first attack Lombardy, but Hungary doesn't care, you What grade is Italy! No matter how bad Hungary is, it is still a member of the great powers, and there is a strong motherland behind it.

Although Austria also expelled the Italians, but because East Africa took over, most people still have a stable whereabouts. Hungary is not so polite to Lombardy. It directly expels Italy in its territory according to the agreement, and then migrates a large number of Hungary from the mainland of the empire. Population, doves occupy the magpie's nest, this time the Hungarian government has done its best, after all, a Lombardy can house many of its own noble children.

  The behavior of Austria and Hungary directly led to many refugee groups in the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Pope, and Naples was also affected.

  At this time, the Kingdom of East Africa can appear as a good person. As a large agricultural country, East Africa has far excess food production capacity. Even if it exports a large amount every year, there is still a surplus.

  After all, in the European grain market, East Africa must not act recklessly. Cutting off people’s wealth is like killing parents. East Africa can only try to develop some differentiated products to expand grain sales. This is the case with the food processing industry under Heixingen.

  This time in Italy, there is no need to worry so much. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured in, and all Italian countries have been affected. If the ration problem of these people is not solved, people will die.

   Florence.

Since the defeat of the war, Emmanuel II has been sad all day long, and his whole body has aged a lot. This time, the Kingdom of Italy lost its wife and lost its soldiers. Nearly half of the country was lost, and the Kingdom of Italy was returned to its original state. At this time, the Kingdom of Italy is more and more inseparable from itself, so it must continue to support it.

  Emmanuel II asked the Minister of Agriculture with a sad face: "Is the food problem still unresolved?"

  The Minister of Agriculture said helplessly: "This time we lost a lot of land in the Po River Plain, and also lost the grain-producing areas in southern Italy. In addition, the kingdom's grain output is far lower than that of European countries, and it is even more unsustainable now."

  Emmanuel II: "Can the Ministry of Foreign Affairs find a way to ask other countries for help."

Minister of Foreign Affairs: "Your Majesty, the Spanish royal family is willing to give us some free aid, but that is only a drop in the bucket. The internal situation in Spain is not very good, and Prince Amadeo has nothing to do. Germany and France have reduced food production due to the war. Food prices have gone up in Europe."

  Emmanuel II: "Is there no solution? You must know that hundreds of thousands of refugees in Lombardy and Venice have no food to eat. Their last spearhead will definitely point to the government."

   Minister of Foreign Affairs: "Your Majesty, there is actually good news. The Kingdom of East Africa is willing to sell us a large amount of food at a low price, but mainly rice and corn."

  Emmanuel II: "The Kingdom of East Africa? Is it the country established last year?"

  Minister of Foreign Affairs: "Exactly, Your Majesty, the Kingdom of East Africa is a country founded in East Africa by Constantine, Prince of Hechingen of Prussia."

  Emmanuel II said: "This East African kingdom hasn't been around for long, has it? Are they able to afford such a large amount of food exports?"

  Minister of Foreign Affairs: "Your Majesty does not know. In fact, the grain trade volume between East Africa and us has been growing steadily in recent years. Before the establishment of the East African Kingdom, the East African colony has always been a grain export area."

  Emmanuel II: "The land of this East African kingdom is Africa, right? Is Africa so rich!"

Minister of Foreign Affairs: "Africa has poor climate conditions and rampant diseases, but there should be no shortage of land. After all, the African continent has a vast area, and there is not much shortage of labor force. That’s why it’s become a food exporter.”

  Emmanuel II: "You mean that the East African kingdom has achieved land development by squeezing the indigenous people in East Africa, planted a large amount of food, and created huge wealth for the East African kingdom?"

  Minister of Foreign Affairs: "I think it should be like this. Black people eat less, work more, are physically strong, and don't need money. It's hard for Prince Constantine not to get rich."

  Emmanuel II suddenly became interested: "How about you say that we also open up a colony in Africa to solve Italy's food problem?"

  The Minister of Foreign Affairs is not optimistic: "Developing overseas colonies is one way, but Italy lacks experience in this area, and now our finances are also a big problem."

When it comes to financial issues, Emmanuel II is also in trouble. The Italian government itself owes a large debt to the United Kingdom. If it were not for the fear that Italy would not be able to repay the debt, the United Kingdom would not care about the life and death of the Italians, mediate the war, and try to maintain The main body of Italy continued to exist, and even the newly restored Kingdom of Naples was forced to inherit part of the debts owed by the Kingdom of Sardinia and repay the debts to the British.

In addition, in this war, Italy also lost Venice and one-third of Lombardy, which are both tax-heavy places. In contrast, the Kingdom of Naples is not so important. Although Naples has a large area and a large population, its economy is not good. Although paying more taxes, the Kingdom of Italy has more financial expenditures here. It is not necessarily a bad thing to get rid of this burden now.

Emmanuel II: "In this case, let's spend our money wisely and import food from East Africa first. As long as the price is low enough, don't worry about rice and corn. It's important to appease the refugees first. As for opening up colonies, wait for us to slow down. Come here and do what he wants.”

The Kingdom of Italy doesn't want to colonize overseas. Anyway, Italy's conditions in this area are not bad, and it doesn't mean that it has no experience at all. The Mediterranean Sea is also a sea. Sardinia and Sicily are ruled by sea routes. Go farther, go to a farther place to colonize, it is impossible to support such a large population by relying on the mainland.

  (end of this chapter)