African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1294: Changes in Russia
The Age of Exploration began because Arab countries monopolized the trade between the East and the West. In addition, Middle Eastern regimes such as ancient Persia, the Arab Empire and the Ottoman Empire had a consistent history of conquering Europe, which forced Europeans to find new trade routes. Even after this route was opened, they would spare no effort to continue to reduce the expansion space of Arab forces. East Africa also inherited this.

Compared with Europe, East Africa is located on the coast of the Indian Ocean and naturally forms a competitive relationship with Arab religious forces. One important reason why East Africa can now run rampant in the Indian Ocean is that the decline of Arab religious forces has freed up space for East Africa to expand in the Indian Ocean.

Therefore, Freer's "Arab threat theory" is also determined by the interests of East African countries. There is a consensus in East Africa on this point.

Ernst affirmed: "In the future, there will be only one voice in the Indian Ocean, and that is our East Africa. Any existence that may pose a threat to the empire will be our target of suppression."

“In this case, we will temporarily take over the local governance of Kaligarh and Yanam, and use these three places as bases to export ideology and public opinion hegemony to the South Asian subcontinent, provoke regional conflicts, strictly prevent the resurgence of Arab religious forces in the South Asian subcontinent, and avoid the emergence of a powerful and unified Arab-style Indian empire.”

"In addition to supporting other religions in India to achieve the fastest results, we must also strengthen the spread of external sects such as Catholicism in South Asia."

“At the same time, in order to reduce the sensitivity of the British government, we should try to avoid conflicts with Britain in South Asia and only do ideological and propaganda work without aiming to target the British ruling order in India.”

As far as East Africa is concerned, what the British are doing in India is not enough to make India a threat to East Africa in the future, so there is no need to overthrow the current British rule in India.

Moreover, if Britain's rule in India suddenly collapsed at this time, India's development would not be influenced by East Africa.

The British relied on Arabic and Hinduism to rule India. If the British were driven out at this time, these two religions would have the potential to grow in India. Although East Africa did not have much hostility towards Hinduism, Hinduism had a strong popular base on the Indian Peninsula, and it would be easy to integrate into a unified country similar to India in the previous life, which would not be in the interests of East Africa.

The current social order in India should not be shaken until separatist forces such as Sikhism, Buddhism, Dravidian nationalism, and other forces that can compete with Arabism and Hinduism are cultivated in East Africa.

Ernst also took into consideration that the chaos in India was very likely to allow the Russian Labor Party to take advantage of the situation.

After all, India's corrupt social order and the difficult lives of the lower-class people are naturally suitable for the infiltration of the violent ideology of the Russian Labor Party. If a Labor Party regime is established on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the East African top leaders will not be able to laugh.

In Ernst's view, the Labor Party regime is one of the threats second only to the Arab religious forces. After all, it was with this set of forces that the Soviet Union established a huge red camp on the Eurasian continent.

If the situation in the previous life really happened again, the East African government would have a headache. Therefore, East Africa should maintain some backward and corrupt regimes around it to prevent them from being replaced by forces supported by the Russian Labor Party.

As the leader of a world-famous "reactionary" regime, Ernst did have this kind of "consciousness", otherwise it would have been impossible for him to bring Alexei and other core members of the Russian royal family to East Africa.

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At the end of 1917, while the war in Europe was still stalemate, turmoil broke out again in Russia. The Russian Workers' Party organized an armed force in St. Petersburg and formally overthrew Russia's capitalist provisional government.

In a lakeside manor in Rhine City.

Alexei and three core members of the Russian royal family received bad news again.

"We have completely lost contact with His Majesty and his situation. I heard that the Labor Party has secretly transferred your parents and two sisters. No one knows where they have been sent. Before, the interim government at least put His Majesty and his family under house arrest. Now we don't even know where they are!"

Shelia Yur, the captain of the guards who escorted Alexei and the other two, reported the sad news to them in tears.

Alexei, who was overwhelmed by the news, nervously grasped the collar of his third sister, Princess Maria, and asked in a trembling voice: "Sister, father and the emperor should be okay!" As the oldest of the three sisters, Princess Maria had no time to grieve. She grabbed the hands of her two younger brothers and sisters and said: "God will protect father and the emperor. The news in the country is still unclear and the outcome is uncertain, so we have to be strong, especially you, Alexei, you are the only legitimate heir to the empire. Now there is only a rebellion in St. Petersburg, and I think the rebellion will be suppressed soon."

"Instead of making wild assumptions, we should focus on the facts. Although we are far away in East Africa, we are not completely unable to get in touch with the country."

"Uncle Baranov should know something about the changes in the country. Let's get in touch with him first. He is a close confidant of our father and should be someone we can trust."

Baranov is the current ambassador of the Russian Empire to East Africa, so he is now in Rhine City. He is also the highest-ranking official of Russia in East Africa and can be considered a remnant of the former Russian dynasty.

As one of the most powerful countries in the world, Russia naturally attaches great importance to its diplomatic relations with East Africa. Especially after the outbreak of World War I, East Africa became Russia's largest maritime trading country.

In order to win the support of the East African governments for Russia, Nicholas II naturally conducted strict screening of diplomats sent to East Africa.

Baranov came from a large Russian aristocratic family and his abilities were recognized by Nicholas II, so he was sent to East Africa to handle diplomatic work between the two countries.

During the Russian Revolution at the beginning of the year, although Nicholas II announced his abdication and the capitalist provisional government came to power, the provisional government did not make major adjustments to Russia's diplomatic work because it had just gained initial power. Naturally, Russia's diplomats in East Africa were not greatly affected.

Therefore, Ambassador Baranov has been working in East Africa, and Alexei and his party received a lot of care when they visited East Africa before. From the end of last year to now, Baranov has also told Alexei and others a lot of domestic information.

Of course, in addition to this "official" channel, Alexei and his entourage also have a secret line of communication with the country, which is handled by the captain of the guards, Shelia Yur.

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This information channel was previously mainly maintained through connections with the Russian court. After the abdication of Nicholas II, it was continued through the Russian nobility.

However, now that the Labor Party has come to power, the Russian nobles have naturally been liquidated, and all systems in St. Petersburg have been basically disrupted, which has cut off Shelia Yur's information channels.

Alexei and others can only hope to get the latest news from the Russian Embassy in East Africa or the East African government.

Under the guidance of Princess Maria, the former Crown Prince Alexei and Princess Anastasia also had to calm down.

Alexei pretended to be calm on his childish face and said, "Sister Maria is right. We can't panic now. Even though East Africa is very far away from home, we can still play a big role."

"East Africa is a world power. As long as we go through Ambassador Baranov and the Rhine Royal Family, we should be able to obtain some useful intelligence and then make plans."

Seeing Alexei quickly regain his composure, Princess Maria felt a rare sense of relief. She said, "Uncle Shelia Yur, please prepare the vehicle. We will go to the embassy and ask Ambassador Baranov for help. I believe they should have some domestic intelligence that we don't know about."

Shelia Yur nodded and said, "Don't worry! Grand Duke and His Excellency the Crown Prince, I am also worried about the changes in the domestic situation. I believe that Your Majesty and the others will be safe."

The reason why Celia Yur called Maria Grand Duchess was mainly due to the tradition in Russia. They did not have the title of Princess. It was mainly to show that Russian princesses were superior to princesses in other European countries and had a more noble status.

(End of this chapter)