East Africa has so experts in water managent, but they are few in number and not as specialized as those from Germany and Austria-Hungary. Therefore, with the support of these talents, the nationwide water managent project in East Africa can be completed more easily.
"Your Highness! Is your plan a bit too ambitious? East Africa is vast, and if you build the water infrastructure according to your requirents, especially within such a short tifra, can you really withstand the pressure?"
No wonder the German experts were skeptical; the circles Ernst casually drew on the map appeared larger than Germany and Austria-Hungary combined. These areas are the major agricultural zones of East Africa.
Ernst explained: "You don’t need to worry about that. We have abundant human resources to support such a long-term nationwide project."
"Hmm! Your Highness, may I ask if the citizens of East Africa really have such a high tolerance?"
Ernst replied: "You misunderstand; the cheapest labor in Africa is the Black people, who are also the main force in this project. So feel free to proceed."
After hearing Ernst’s words, the German water experts smirked to themselves: "So he’s a slave trader!"
Unaware of their silent criticism, Ernst didn’t care even if he knew; as long as East Africa could be better developed, why should he mind carrying this infamy?
Moreover, such endeavors as constructing water managent systems can easily have mixed outcos, just like the Sui-Tang Grand Canal. Everyone agrees Emperor Yang of Sui was a foolish ruler, and the Sui-Tang Grand Canal indeed burdened the people financially, yet the canal alone is enough to make Emperor Yang of Sui a historic monarch.
Ernst didn’t intend to build a super canal over two thousand kiloters long; he was purely focused on improving agricultural production.
However, the Germans weren’t wrong in labeling East Africa as slave traders; as countries with few overseas colonies, Germany and Austria-Hungary didn’t even have the opportunity to be slave traders.
After organizing these experts, Ernst, the world’s largest slave master, began addressing the Black Army cultivated during the previous East-Portuguese War.
Although the East-Portuguese War wasn’t long, it lasted for at least half a year, and by its end, East Africa had trained over ninety thousand Black soldiers.
Facing such instability, Ernst had intended to send them directly to Arica, but when it ca ti to execute the plan, he encountered a small problem.
"Your Highness, many of these Black people have learned a few words of German during our training. If the Aricans notice, that would be trouble."
"Do the Aricans care about such things? And surely knowing a few words of German wouldn’t get noticed, right?"
"Our main issue is with our client base, many of whom are German-speaking farm owners in the western United States. Previously, they complained about slaves from East Africa carrying a slight German accent, though fortunately, they turned a blind eye. However, this batch of Black people received military training and know so specialized military terms, which might be problematic..."
After listening, Ernst nodded: "This is indeed an issue; I guess I’ll have to carry out so cultural adaptation with these natives."
His subordinates were confused by Ernst’s words: "Your Highness, what are your ideas?"
"Let’s not disperse the Black Corps, find them an English teacher to teach them for a month before sending them to Arica; this thod can work for future slaves confird for Arican shipnt."
"Uh, Your Highness, isn’t your thod a bit cheeky?"
"Hehe, rember, the first phrase to teach them is ’MAKE ARICA GREAT AGAIN,’" Ernst said mischievously.
His subordinates listened with a perplexed expression; what is this about making Arica great again?
Thinking about how to make Arica great again with Black people from East Africa was puzzling. However, considering Arica’s rapid developnt, it’s indeed closely tied to Black people. Saying Black people contribute significantly to Arica isn’t wrong, and East Africa is no different. Without the efforts of Black people from East Africa, developnt wouldn’t happen so quickly.
Seeing his subordinates deep in thought, Ernst said: "Black people are excellent resources, but these resources should be in places where they belong. Placing valuable resources in mismatched locations makes them rubbish, so to maximize their impact, sending them to Arica is the only way."
His subordinates were unsure of what Ernst ant by this statent, but their attention lingered on the ntion of ’rubbish.’
Black people were indeed considered high-quality labor resources in this era, given their commodification and evident advantages over other races, prompting various colonial powers to keenly introduce them. Only countries like East Africa and Argentina frowned at their large numbers.
The French in West Africa needed abundant labor to develop plantations, so slave trade still existed in Africa. Within Africa, a slave trade route had ford, where East African Black people were traded through West African powers like Mwesili’s regi to be sold to French white plantation owners.
"We need to support Arica’s Westward Movent a little. I hear the population there is low, so we should send them more labor because it’s affordable and of good quality. In the future, Aricans should be grateful to ," Ernst said with ill intentions.
Of course, Arica alone couldn’t digest all of them, and South Arican countries were also major slave markets for East Africa. Ernst envisioned a world where racial integration progressed further.
In Ernst’s view, if Arican farm owners and entrepreneurs bought fewer modern production tools and more Black people, it would signify East Africa’s victory. Even if it ant losing money annually to export Black people to Arica, Ernst was willing to do so.
Let’s set a small goal first: increase the proportion of Black people in Arica to twenty percent. Compared to East Africa, this is indeed a small goal, as the proportion of Black people in East Africa is estimated at forty to fifty percent.
In 1879, the proportion of Black people in Arica was about fifteen percent. To raise it to twenty percent, at least three million more Black people would need to be sent to Arica.
Adding three million Black people would likely push Arica’s Black population past ten million. At that point, Arica’s total population should be between fifty and sixty million, causing East Africa’s Black population to decrease by one level, potentially balancing the total number of Black people in the two countries.
Ernst envisioned using Black people to stall Arica’s developnt, ideally reducing the number of immigrants from Europe to Arica. Currently, Arican Black people didn’t have educational rights, aning they could only work in low-level industries.
As long as Arica doesn’t treat Black people like Native Aricans, Ernst believed Arica would follow the developntal path he expected, though more intensely than previously.
With this in mind, Ernst instructed: "This year, reduce our Far East immigration vessels by twenty percent and allocate them to the Arican immigration transportation line; I want to speed up Arican developnt."
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