Professor Anton Perutz's ideas would be put to the test in East Africa over the coming years. Yet while continuing his own scientific research, he also had to shoulder the task of finding ways to increase agricultural yields and improve crops for East Africa.
This was the assignment Ernst had given Professor Anton Perutz's team. Otherwise, who knew how far astray these scientists' research directions might wander?
Scientific research was fine, but contributing to the East African colony was also mandatory. Ernst funded the agricultural research institute to serve his own colony, not because he truly wished to contribute to humanity's scientific cause.
November 7, 1868.
Europe, Prussia, Hechingen.
As time passed, Hechingen Military Academy continued to expand, while its facilities and teaching staff grew ever more complete.
The current student body had reached more than 3,700, with its main sources of enrollment coming from Europe, the Far East, and South America.
When Ernst had first established Hechingen Military Academy, his original intention had been to develop it into a specialized military institution.
But things went against his wishes. The development of the East African colony required large numbers of interpreters and personnel with military technical skills, turning Hechingen Military Academy into a crash-course German school.
Now that the East African colony had developed to this point, it no longer needed to provide immigrants with interpreters in order to carry out orders and policies.
As the number of European immigrants rose sharply and German education in East Africa began to bear fruit, many non-German-speaking immigrants had already learned to communicate in German, in turn forcing those who remained to take the initiative to learn it.
Moreover, over the past two years, Hechingen Cultural School had begun replacing Hechingen Military Academy in supplying East Africa with low-educated but specialized personnel.