Immigration also needs connections. In the past, East Africa established two major immigration recruitment systems in Germany and Far East Empire.
However, with the economic development of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German region has now changed from a population outflow area to a population inflow area, so since 1890, this system has basically been paralyzed.
East Africa's immigration system in the Far East has always been maintained at a certain scale. Of course, the main purpose of East Africa absorbing immigrants in the Far East is to supplement the East African colony population, not the native population. Now East Africa suddenly has nearly one million square kilometers of extra land in its hands out of thin air, and the gap for immigrants has also increased accordingly.
Hermann: "This is not a small project. Nowadays, most of our ships need to transport war supplies to Europe, so it is not easy to immigrate millions in Togoland."
East African ships not only have to facilitate the export of local goods to Europe, but also take into account commodity trade in the Far East, South America, the Middle East and other regions. The pressure is very huge. It can be said that the supply of ships in today's shipping industry exceeds demand. This situation is not conducive to the development of the so-called immigration plan in East Africa.
Hermann's words reminded Ernst that now is indeed not a good time to immigrate, so we can only put it on hold for now.
However, Ernst said, "It is difficult to carry out the immigration plan, so we must first start with implementing and consolidating the local ruling order."
"Although these colonies already belong to the empire in name, the local ruling class is basically Germans. We still have a lot of preliminary work to do."
"The military and officials must make arrangements first, and they must also be responsible for some communication with the local Germans. After all, there are essential differences between East Africa and Germany."
After all, East Africa and Germany are two countries, so the methods of local governance and corresponding policies must be completely different. This will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among some German businessmen and colonial groups.
However, this matter can be easily solved. German colony originally had few troops, but now they have all withdrawn to the country for the First World War. Once East African Army is in place, they can successfully take over the local government. As for the local Germans, it is not a climate at all.
The main reason is that they are small in number. Take German Central Africa as an example. Before that, there were only a few thousand Germans in the entire German Central Africa. These thousands of people also included the German colony army. Now that the German colony army is about to return to China, there are even fewer Germans who can stay.
After talking about Germany's colonies in Africa, East African government finally began to shift the topic to Germany's bunch of islands in Pacific Ocean.
East African government is having a headache arranging these many islands, mainly because they are too far away.
Ernst said, "It is definitely not easy to rule these islands, but it is also a good opportunity for us to establish our influence in Pacific region. At the same time, we can use this opportunity to form a certain deterrent to Australia."
This is actually complete bullshit. How can we use deterrence to deal with colonial countries like Australia? To be honest, if it were not a British colony, East Africa would have been operated on by Australia.
Of course, no one can say that Australia is not important. Although the environment is a bit harsh, it is still a continent and is definitely rich in various resources.
Svit also nodded and said, "If we want to deal with Australia in the future, we really need some strongholds, and our mainland is indeed far away from Australia, so the location of these islands is good."
This is probably the only important value that East African government can find in the bunch of German Pacific Ocean colonies. As for resources, except for Nauru, most of them are better than nothing for East Africa at this stage.
The most important resource on the small island of Nauru is "guano". The guano accumulated over the years has formed rich phosphate resources and is very easy to mine.
When it comes to minerals such as phosphate, Ernst can't help but think that Germans is really picky about places. For example, in the Togoland colony, its most valuable mineral is also phosphate.
Out of concern for this pile of "guano" on Nauru, Ernst said, "Nauru should send more troops and be more prepared Australia. After all, Nauru's phosphate resources are quite valuable."
The reason why Ernst said this is mainly because in the previous life Nauru was snatched from Germany by Australia under the arrangement of the United Kingdom, so it is still necessary to send troops to station in Nauru, although there is a high probability that Australia will not have the guts to provoke East Africa.
Of course, the extra troops Ernst said would only amount to a hundred or ten people at most. The small island of Nauru would not be able to bear more. After all, the population of Nauru is only about a few thousand people.
In addition to Nauru, among the German Pacific Ocean colonies, the New Guinea island is worth paying attention to. This colony is relatively complicated.
In the south of German New Guinea is the British colony, while in the west it borders the Dutch colony of East Indies, forming a tripartite situation.
The area of German New Guinea is not small. Even if the United Kingdom and the Netherlands occupy the majority, Germany has more than 200,000 square kilometers, so some symbolic personnel must be stationed here.
Of course, don't count on East African government to develop these islands. Currently, East Africa has no energy and ability to develop and construct these Pacific islands.
Libreville.
"Dududu..."
During the performance of the symphony band, the German Second Empire flag slowly fell, and the Rhine Empire flag with the lion emblem on one side slowly rose to the top of the flagpole, fluttering in the sea breeze blowing from South Atlantic, announcing that Libreville had a new owner.
A few years ago, the flag of French was flying here, and then it was abandoned by France because of Moroccan crisis. However, its new owner, Germany, also handed over the ownership rights here to East Africa in less than a year.
Watching the German flag fall and finally be put away, all Germans present were very sad. After all, this farewell was not only the end of German rule in the local area, but also their last peaceful time before leaving for European battlefield.
Among them, Governor German Central Africa Xavier also had a very complicated mood. A year ago, he hoped to realize the great blueprint of German Central Africa development through the hands of East Africa. The result is now good, and the entire German overseas colonies have directly become East African.
Of course, Xavier also knows that this is very necessary for local resolutions. Now Germany has no time to manage these overseas colonies, so it is better to throw these burdens to East Africa.
But now, the war has begun in the mainland, and he will be on his way home, with only more than 1,600 armed forces rushing back to the mainland to participate in the war. No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Now Germany is facing the siege of three major powers. Therefore, although Germany has not many troops stationed in its overseas colonies, it can only choose to recall them all, which can at least alleviate some of the pressure on its troops.
In this war, the native populations of Britain, France, and Russia were nearly three times that of Germany. The mobilization potential of the three countries alone overwhelmed Germany.
"Your Excellency Ander, I hope you in East Africa can treat this land well. After all, this place left a deep impression on me. If I am still alive after the war, I will definitely come back to see the place where I lived and worked. I hope it can fulfill its potential in your hands."
I have deep feelings for German Central Africa and Xavier. After all, even if the entire area of German Central Africa is compared with the mainland of Germany, it is not much different.
Therefore, Xavier, who previously controlled such a large land, also experienced extraordinary happiness in German Central Africa. It is not an exaggeration to even say that he is the king of German Central Africa.
Ander, who was responsible for receiving German Central Africa, said, "Don't worry! Governor Xavier, since we in East Africa have taken over this place, we will make it our Germans's home. I also look forward to the day when you return safely from European battlefield and witness the new look of Libreville."
Regarding Ander's words, Xavier just smiled with a complex expression, and then said, "In that case, let's say goodbye here!"
He waved to the others, then boarded the ship with the troops from the original German Central Africa colony, and officially embarked on the journey back home.