African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1369 Italian Beer Hall
After thinking for a moment, Prime Minister Conrad said: "Your Highness's plan may be bolder. Not only Dalmatia, we may be able to further expand the source of immigration."

"After all, the German population in Dalmatia is less than one million. It is very difficult to fill Venice alone. It is very difficult to rely on the population of this place to promote the Germanization of the whole country."

Under Rudolf's persuasion, Conrad no longer cared about the so-called "bloodline" debate. Compared with the current problem of insufficient main ethnic group, mixed-race Germans were simply a trivial problem, or even not a problem at all.

Throw in the work... Throw away the old ruts and the world will open up to you. This is what Prime Minister Conrad feels in his heart now.

Conrad went a step further on Rudolf's plan and said, "Your Highness's plan reminds me of something, which was the problem of Germans in the United States a few months ago."

"The United States has the third largest German population in the world. We may be able to use this opportunity to attract some Germans who are dissatisfied with the US government to return to Germany."

Rudolf said: "However, your suggestion also has high risks. After all, the Germans in the United States have been brainwashed by American ideas for a long time, which may increase instability."

The so-called American ideology is nothing more than democracy and freedom. Rudolph was once a supporter of this ideology, but now he is defending the monarchy. This also shows the change in Rudolph's ideology.

Prime Minister Conrad smiled bitterly and said, "Your Highness, I am naturally aware of this, but in today's world, it is difficult for us to find a suitable source of population in the major countries where Germans have settled."

"Germany. When the German economy was bad, many Germans came to settle in the Empire. But now the outflow of population from Germany has completely ended."

"Besides, the economic levels of other German countries in Europe are not worse than the Empire, and they are too small. Not only are we unattractive to them, but even if they do have an overflow of population, they cannot meet our needs."

"Apart from these countries, the most important places where Germans gather are South America and East Africa. South America is vast and sparsely populated, and it is estimated that those who immigrate there will not return."

"Finally, there is East Africa. Although East Africa has a large population, it is a vast land with abundant resources and a rapidly developing economy. It is almost impossible for us to siphon population from East Africa."

In the last century, there were actually quite a few East Africans who immigrated to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, many of them were East Africans who took the initiative to get involved in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After all, in the last century, East Africa was a country that implemented a policy of complete isolation. If the East African government did not agree, there would be no possibility of population outflow.

The Kingdom of Dalmatia is one of the most proud masterpieces of the East African government and has become a model region for reverse export of immigration in East Africa.

However, it is difficult to say that these immigrants are East Africans. Instead, they are more likely to be from the Far East. This is indeed the case. East Africa has channels for immigration from the Far East, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire can give as many as it wants.

But it is obvious that the Austro-Hungarian Empire would not have been able to accept Far Eastern immigrants without Germanization, and the reason why the Kingdom of Dalmatia was able to be "replaced" by East Africa was due to East Africa's simplified version of "German education" and population smuggling.

Most of the immigrants originally exported from East Africa to Dalmatia were illegal immigrants, and they were provided with a simplified German education.

This kind of education is very different from that in East Africa. Specifically, the quality of education is poor. Apart from having to pass the German language test, there are almost no requirements in other aspects.

This is not the case with compulsory education in East Africa. Although early compulsory education in East Africa was limited by conditions and the quality was not very high, in addition to German, basic subjects such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry were also promoted. At the same time, the compulsory education stage in East Africa lasted for ten years, which is incomparable to the education implemented in the Kingdom of Dalmatia.

Before World War I, the average level of knowledge of the mixed-race Germans in Dalmatia was limited to being able to speak German and read and write simply. Their other knowledge might not even be up to the level of an elementary school graduate.

However, no matter what, the spoken language of these immigrants had completely changed to German, making them half-Germans. Coupled with the mixed blood, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had no choice but to accept it.

Before World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire actually disliked the mixed-race Germans of the Kingdom of Dalmatia. In addition to the mixed blood, they were also dissatisfied with the East African government's secretive behavior. To put it bluntly, this was interference in the internal affairs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Of course, after experiencing World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire said that these mixed-race Germans were really good. Although they still felt uncomfortable in their hearts, they were indeed useful and obedient.

Conrad went on to say: "So, looking around the world, there is currently no better source of Germans than the United States. The number of Germans in the United States is even greater than that in the Empire."

There were only more than 10 million Germans in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, while there were at least 15 million Germans in the United States, and possibly more than 20 million.

This is not an exaggeration. The German population in the United States accounts for at least 15%, while the U.S. population is close to 100 million. After all, in the past two or three hundred years, the United States has been one of the main destinations for population influx from the German region.

That is, East Africa emerged as a rising star in the mid-to-late last century and briefly became the first immigration destination for Germans. However, this situation lasted for less than four decades and ended with the rapid development of the German economy.

Moreover, the data on the later East African immigrant population was very inflated, as many Slavs were directly classified as German immigrants, and the main country that provided this type of population to East Africa was the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

At least 30% of the Germans who immigrated to East Africa were directly converted from Slavs. East Africa also helped the Austro-Hungarian Empire curb the growth of the Slavs. Otherwise, the situation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire would have been even more difficult.

Otherwise, it is difficult to explain why the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not disintegrate directly after the devastation of World War I. This is obviously related to East Africa, or Ernst's idle chess move in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Conrad went on to say, “For the German population in the United States, we only need to select those with a low level of knowledge, so that the risk can be minimized.”

What Conrad said reminded Rudolf of what happened in East Africa. Back then, East Africa recruited immigrants by basically picking honest people from the bottom of society as much as possible.

Although the overall quality of these people is low, it did not prevent East Africa from becoming a major power in the world at the beginning of this century.

After all, the quality of the population can be improved in various ways, just like the large-scale popularization of compulsory education in East Africa. East Africa has developed from a backward agricultural country to a country with one of the highest levels of education per capita. Although the process was difficult, it was stable.

Crown Prince Rudolf said: "This is also a solution. Because of the unfair treatment and discrimination that the German Americans have suffered in the past, it is indeed psychologically easier to win over. What's more, the Empire is also their former motherland."

German immigrants, once the largest immigrant group in the world, tend to identify themselves as a nation due to the division of the country. There is really no problem in saying that the Austro-Hungarian Empire is their motherland.

Even today, when people from Germany and Austria can communicate with each other, there are still many Germans in Austria who still hold the Greater Germany mentality, such as a failed art student who went to Germany to develop his career.

So much so that the annexation of Austria by the failed art students in the previous life could not be considered an invasion but rather a unification, and Austria basically did not resist.

Conrad went on to add: "Not only the United States, we can also think of a solution for East Africa. East Africa's population ranks third in the world, and it is the largest German country." Since they both eat both meat and vegetables, Conrad naturally tacitly acknowledged the "fact" that East Africa is a German country.

When Conrad thought of East Africa, he was very jealous and envious of the current development of East Africa. Perhaps the empire should not have been wallowing in the mud of Europe, but should have learned from the Rhine royal family to expand its territory in Africa.

After all, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was much more powerful than the nominal Principality of Hechingen. As a result, the Rhine royal family got a great advantage because other countries did not pay enough attention to Africa.

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While Rudolf and Conrad were planning the future of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on the other side of the Alps, in the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, hundreds of kilometers away from Vienna, a group of radical young people were also "imagining" the future of Italy.

Turin.

It was once the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia and is now the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Unfortunately, due to the failure of the unification war in the last century, the so-called Kingdom of Italy is in name only, and this name also represents the last stubbornness of the Italians.

Turin, the most developed city in Italy, is also one of the largest cities in Europe with a population of over one million. It is particularly famous for its light industry, but its heavy industry also ranks among the top in Italy.

Even though the Kingdom of Italy did not achieve unification, the country's population was still considerable. Before World War I, the population of the entire Kingdom of Italy had exceeded 20 million, and this happened even though many of its own people had left their homeland.

Its huge population size makes Italy the gatekeeper of Europe's most populous countries. In addition to its native population of more than 20 million, Italy's Red Sea colonies also have a population of over one million. This shows the difficulty of the development of the Italian Kingdom.

The reason why Italy is considered the goalkeeper of Europe's populous countries is that, apart from a few major countries, the only country in Europe with a population of over 20 million is the Kingdom of Italy.

The goalkeeper of the big countries and also the goalkeeper of the world powers is Spain, with a population of only more than 20 million. Judging from the population alone, the Kingdom of Italy is actually not much worse than Spain, but in other data, Italy is much worse than Spain.

In a beer hall in Turin.

A middle-aged man with gesticulating hands is describing his ambitious blueprint to everyone.

Compared with its neighboring Austro-Hungarian Empire and France, the Kingdom of Italy was much more lax in its management of the plague. On the one hand, Italians were inherently relaxed, and on the other hand, the Kingdom of Italy did not have a population crisis like France and Austro-Hungarian Empire. Instead, its population density was somewhat too prominent.

Therefore, even though the epidemic is very serious in Italy now, all kinds of business premises are still operating.

The same is true in Turin. In this beer hall on the corner, there gathers a large number of frustrated Italians. It is hard for anyone not to be frustrated in this era. After all, the overall social environment is not good, so a pessimistic mood spreads in society.

And in this kind of environment, it is easiest to be exploited by ambitious people.

"The failure of the unification war in the last century marked the beginning of Italy's current suffering. The damned Austro-Hungarian Empire and the stupid government have made our Italian dream of unification a laughing stock in Europe."

"During the World War, the government's timidity caused us to miss the great opportunity to recover the lost territory of Eastern Lombardy and Venice. The politicians should shoot themselves for their cowardice. They have ruined the future of the entire Italy."

"Our great Italy should have become a powerful country, with a population of more than 40 million and many excellent coasts, and become a great power in the entire Mediterranean."

"You know, last century, the Italian navy once surpassed the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but now it can only shrink in the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea. This is a shame for the Italians..."

Under normal circumstances, the middle-aged man’s words would hardly resonate with everyone, but now is obviously a special period. Under the influence of the European flu and the economic depression, everyone’s life is miserable.

So, when people from all walks of life in the Turin beer hall heard someone cursing the authorities, they would cheer.

The middle-aged man felt extremely satisfied when he saw the scene in front of him. Doesn't this mean that his theory is deeply rooted in people's hearts?
As a former member of the Italian Labour Party, he was very good at mobilizing the grassroots masses. Of course, he learned the Labour Party's methods of inciting people, but he was not satisfied with the various rules and regulations of the Labour Party, or many of its political ideas, so he withdrew from the organization.

For example, the Italian Labor Party did not support his proposal to expand Italy's territory.

This middle-aged man is named Benito. He was born into an Italian Labor Party family. His father was an active member of the Italian Labor Party, which was also the reason why Benito joined the Italian Labor Party in his early years.

It was because of this experience that he mastered the organizational and propaganda methods of the Labour Party. In 1919, he started to set up his own political group, the Italian Combat Team.

"Everyone, is there anyone willing to join us and work together for the great cause of Italy's unification?" Benito asked when he saw that the time was ripe.

Although Benito criticized the Kingdom of Italy, he cleverly positioned his political slogan as unification and making Italy a world power. In this way, although Benito is currently a member of the Italian government, he is considered by the authorities to be a non-threatening political activist.

After all, there were many Italians who supported unification, at least within the Kingdom of Italy, because even after decades, the Kingdom of Italy was still the country with the greatest hope of unifying the Italian peninsula.

As for the other two countries on the Italian peninsula, the Papal States had no ambition to make progress, and European society obviously did not allow them to have ambition to make progress. Naples was a puppet supported by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although it gained autonomy during World War I and got rid of the manipulation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it was very unpopular.

Benito's Italian Combat Team was actually a multinational organization with members spread across three countries: the Kingdom of Italy, the Papal States and the Kingdom of Naples. It also had infiltrations in Eastern Lombardy controlled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

"Mr. Benito, I want to do something with you!"

"I've long been annoyed with those insects in the Kingdom government."

Benito gained a group of followers in beer halls one after another.

At the same time, the Italian Labor Party was suffering from severe attacks from various countries in Italy, which gave Benito's team a great advantage and began to spread rapidly to the entire Italian peninsula. A huge political force with a scale of over 10,000 quietly rose on the Italian peninsula, and his appearance will have an uncertain impact on the future of Europe.

(End of this chapter)