By the end of July, the war had ended, and so had East Africa's immigration boom. In just over half a year, with Ernst poaching recruits, Southern Germany had been hollowed out in an instant.
To seize the newly acquired land from the war, the Hohenzollern Conglomerate intensified immigration efforts. Aside from putting all its own ships into immigrant transport, it also hired large numbers of vessels from Northern Europe.
Now that the war was over, the number of immigrants was sufficient. Moreover, Ernst had exhausted Southern Germany's immigration potential in a short time. They could only wait for a while before another wave could accumulate.
Not only had the number of German immigrants fallen back to a low level, but because they had been developed earlier, immigration from the Far East and the Austro-Hungarian Empire had also reached a low point.
The Far East was currently in a period of great political stability, especially after the Nian Army had been suppressed and order in the north had been reestablished.
The large-scale wars that had ravaged the Central Plains and North China for years had basically come to an end. From the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the Nian Army uprising, many regions from south to north had been battered until nine out of ten homes stood empty. Qing China's rulers now had to begin restoring local production and needed a great deal of population.
Furthermore, East Africa's immigration requirements had always been high. Health alone screened out large numbers of village opium smokers and sickly people.
Those with bodies too frail would barely have a one-in-ten chance of surviving the voyage across the sea, and the conditions for Far Eastern immigrants were certainly worse than those for European immigrants.
After all, European immigrants might return home to visit relatives in