Population reservoirs must not be built within the country. Generally speaking, population reservoirs are cities and villages.
For example, cities continue to absorb young and strong labor force from rural areas, thereby continuously acquiring low-end industrial population, promoting the city's sustainable development and prosperity, because under normal circumstances, the natural growth rate of the population of the city itself is low, and when it develops to a certain stage, there is a high probability of negative growth without the introduction of foreign populations.
The aging of the population and the degradation of low-end industries are fatal to urban development, and the same is true for the country. Of course, low-end industries develop dynamically. After all, technology will advance over time, and original industries will become low-end industries.
Of course, the solution is also easy, that is, to introduce foreign populations, or to truly realize the replacement of manpower by machines. However, Ernst, a person in the 21st century, knows that it is impossible for machines to replace manpower even in another century. If machines really replace manpower, it should also achieve world unity. And this utopian society, pessimistically estimates that it will not be realized in a few hundred years, and even humans will never be able to realize it.
Therefore, when Ernst formulates national policies for East Africa, it will often refer to human social problems in the 21st century and try to delay similar problems from happening in East Africa in the future.
Take the population issue as an example. If East Africa becomes a developed country in the future, there will naturally be a shortage of labor. At that time, there is a high probability that East Africa will introduce foreign populations, or it will continue to suffer like Russia, resulting in a declining population and stagnant economic development.
Either we can introduce refugees like Europe, but refugees are a double-edged sword that will have a huge impact on European culture, social order, and the lives of the people at the bottom.
As for the introduction of European immigrants, it is obvious that Eastern Europe is a high-quality population introduction place. On the one hand, Eastern Europe people naturally respect Western European civilization and are of high quality and can perfectly integrate into Western European society. However, Arabs and It is obviously difficult for Christianity's civilized population to integrate into European society, at least at the cultural level. Even black people are better than Arabs at this point, but everyone has mental mysophobia, and white people naturally look down on other people of color.
The same is true for Ernst as a layman. His two lifetime experiences have made him prejudiced against Germans and people other than Chinese.
Therefore, the countries that border East Africa in the future must be non-Arab white people or Yellow race countries. This will build the Great Wall of Population Security for East African countries in the future.
Like Abyssinian Empire just barely passes the test, barely acceptable in terms of skin color, and culturally it is a branch of Christianity. Otherwise, from a personal perspective, Ernst would definitely not allow such a country to exist.
Of course, if East Africa fails to impact developed countries, the probability of future population growth will not be too high, because East Africa has achieved relatively good results in popularizing basic education. As time goes by, a group of citizens who do not live according to the ideas of the ruling class will be "awakened" in the future.
These are unavoidable problems, so the Ernst plan is a compromise. Since the East Africans population problem cannot be avoided in the future, it is necessary to introduce an ideal immigrant group that conforms to the "values" of East Africa.
This is an important reason why Sigmaringen Royal Territory and other East African countries support colonial construction. These places are the "reservoirs" for future East Africans ports.
If these "reservoirs" are not built, then the East African rulers after Ernst will obviously not be able to prevent the population infiltration of North Africa and West Africa.
Of course, that's all Ernst could do. Later East African rulers couldn't solve the problem, so they couldn't control it. Anyway, they were buried by that time.
As for trusting the wisdom of future generations, Ernst doesn't believe a word of it. The problem is easier to solve in its infancy. As time goes by, it will only become more and more serious. In the end, it will be too big to be eliminated. In the end, the only option is to reinstall the system. If the system reinstallation fails, there will be no solution.
Of course, Ernst keeps these thoughts in his heart and will not express them. After all, his thoughts are not necessarily politically correct.
"Uncle Karl, in the future East Africa, if Sigmaringen Royal Territory and German Cameroon can be connected together, the problem of Sigmaringen Royal Territory's seaport will naturally be solved."
At this time, Bismarck has been kicked out of German politics by Wilhelm II, so Cameroon, as a German overseas colony, will definitely achieve "big" development.
Therefore, Ernst is also considering whether the Cameroon colonies can be included in the African "Germany" circle in the future.
Because Ernst is not optimistic that Germany can hold Cameroon, if a war breaks out in Europe, then Cameroon will most likely be handed over to Sigmaringen Royal Territory or East Africa.
Even if Germany does not give up Cameroon, there is a high probability that it will become independent in the future. After all, Cameroon will soon catch up with the current area of Germany.
Obviously, Europeans in the 19th century could not understand this. Even after World War II, Britain and France thought they could continue to dominate colonial countries until they were beaten by America and Soviet Union.
Prince Karl said, "Of course, Leopold has communicated with Wilhelm II on my behalf a long time ago. Wilhelm II supports us on the issue of public access to the sea."
Currently, Sigmaringen's spokesperson in Germany is Prince Leopold, Prince Karl's eldest son, who still holds an important position in the German Army, so Prince Leopold has also become the contact person for direct dialogue between Sigmaringen and Wilhelm II.
"But aren't you interested in Cameroon?" Prince Karl asked.
In fact, northwest East Africa is not far from the German Cameroon colony. If East Africa has the idea, it can directly open a channel to Atlantic Ocean through German Cameroon.
Of course, when Prince Karl asks this, the most important thing is to hope that East Africa can take the lead in building a railway or highway to the Cameroon coast.
Because among African countries with large infrastructure capabilities, except for some countries in North Africa and Cape Town, only East Africa can do it.
Currently, neither the German Cameroon colony nor the Sigmaringen Royal Territory have such capabilities, or enough population to complete such a project.
Ernst shook his head and said, "Now our main energy in East Africa is concentrated in the south, and we are completely unable to do other things. Even our population feels that it is not enough. The area of the newly occupied area is not small, and during the Portuguese and Boers periods, it was almost not effectively developed."
"Take Boer Republic as an example. The construction there is not even as good as that of Sigmaringen Royal Territory now. Only Bloemfontein can barely be considered a city. Kimberley is actually managed and invested in by British. There is no difference between other areas and large ranches."
Hearing Ernst's troubles, even though Prince Karl is older, he is a little "jealous". He also wants this kind of trouble!
He knew the population of East Africa, which was over 70 million (including black people). In terms of native population alone, East Africa was only behind the Far East Empire, Tsarist Russia and India.
This Ernst population is still too small. After the construction of southern East Africa is completed, how many people will there be? It used to be hundreds of millions. Maybe by the end of this century, East Africans population will directly exceed 100 million, Prince Karl thought so.
Of course, it is still difficult for Ernst. He is not as optimistic as Prince Karl. After all, East Africa will continue to eliminate black people, and if you remove black people, it will have a population of nearly 20 million, and ten years is not enough for population iteration, so it is still difficult for East Africa to exceed 100 million people in this century.