African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1403: A Vicious Plan
This also means that any intelligence network originally established by any country in Russia will be directly abolished. After all, when a party like the Russian Labor Party comes to power, it will not reuse the old bureaucrats like traditional dynasty changes. Instead, it will indiscriminately suppress all beneficiaries of the former Tsarist system, that is, the aristocracy, bureaucrats, and capitalists.

Therefore, the establishment of the Labour Party regime is different from the bourgeoisie overthrowing the feudal regime or the normal replacement of the feudal regime. In the process of establishing the Labour Party regime, all the old orders and old classes will be broken, and in this case, the opportunities for ordinary people will be greater.

On the other hand, in the case of the replacement of feudal dynasties, ordinary people also had opportunities to rise, but the original aristocratic families and local dignitaries had greater opportunities.

Therefore, East African spy chief Morin said: "In Russia, the original personal connections and relationship networks are directly scrapped, and they will not accept the aristocratic bureaucrats under the former Tsarist government or bourgeois government to re-employ."

"The only exception may be the army. However, the Russian Red Army also experienced a small-scale purge, and this does not mean that the Russian Labor Party is completely confident in the army. The special situation of the army does not rule out Russia's compromise with the difficult situation it is facing."

The so-called difficult situation naturally refers to the comprehensive military threat posed by imperialism to Russia. Under such circumstances, the army must not move lightly.

Morin went on to say, "However, the military has always been the most closed state violence organization, and is naturally difficult to infiltrate. Even in the Tsarist era, it was difficult to bribe Russian officers."

This is normal. Even if you want to collude with people inside the military, you need channels to do it. The military is the bottom line that the state regime attaches the most importance to. They have narrow contacts with society and are subject to strict supervision.

If a country's military is completely infiltrated, the country's regime will not be far from collapse.

In fact, the Tsarist government collapsed largely because of this, and the reason why the Russian Labor Party was able to infiltrate the Tsarist army was because of its pervasive ideological weapons and grassroots lines.

Of course, another premise is the corruption within the Russian army and the negative impact caused by military defeats. These experiences are also instructive for imperialist countries such as East Africa.

After all, Labour, as a world party, was not unique to Russia, and Ernst had no hesitation in suspecting that there must have been Labour elements in East Africa as well.

So, he instructed Morin: "With the advancement of the empire's industrialization and the rise of the private economy, as the scale of the workforce continues to grow, conflicts between workers and entrepreneurs are bound to occur more frequently."

"Since we in East Africa ended our isolation, there is a high possibility that European Labour Party members will flow into East Africa, or even spontaneously generate Labour Party members in East Africa. So you need to do an investigation and report on the domestic situation."

"To prevent the government from being caught off guard by Labour Party elements in the future, it is particularly important to pay attention to some strikes or unusual activities in factories."

Since East Africa entered the market economy era, private enterprises have emerged, and labor-capital conflicts have also increased frequently. In the past planned economy era, there was no need to worry about this problem because the wage differences were not large.

After all, under the planned economy, the vast majority of the lower-class people are either collectively rich or collectively poor. There is no doubt that East Africa belongs to the latter. When everyone is not rich, it is actually the most worry-free time.

This so-called wealth and poverty is naturally not a vertical comparison within East Africa, but a horizontal comparison with other countries of the same period.

The national income level in East Africa has actually been in a state of being neither high nor low. However, the further back in time one goes, the poorer it will become. After all, it takes time to accumulate wealth.

In the planned economy era, the people of East Africa could just barely get enough food and clothing. Of course, achieving this was already a great achievement in that era.

After all, there is a phrase called "hunger and cold", which shows that having enough food and clothing was a difficult task both in ancient and modern times.

It is not surprising that people in East Africa can get enough food and clothing. In terms of agriculture, East Africa's agricultural output has been increasing. Even if the distribution is uneven, the lower limit is much higher than that of some traditional countries. The so-called "warmth" is even simpler. As a tropical country, basically no one in East Africa will freeze to death due to lack of clothing.

The main natural problem that East Africa faced in the early days was disease. Diseases were more prevalent in tropical regions. However, this drawback was far less threatening than the previous two. After all, the main terrain of East Africa is plateau, and tropical plateau areas are basically more suitable for living.

Typical examples include the Mexican Plateau, the Brazilian Plateau, the most brilliant civilizations in ancient South America, the Mayan civilization and the Inca civilization, etc., which basically developed based on tropical plateaus or mountains.

As we all know, the productivity level of ancient Indians is obviously impossible to compare with that of East Africa today, so it doesn't make sense that even if East Africa is doing badly, the lower limit should be much higher than theirs.

Modern Africa is actually like an egg. The narrow plains along the coastal areas are indeed not very suitable for living, just like the tropics in people’s impression. However, once you break through this eggshell and enter the interior of Africa, you have the conditions to develop agriculture and nurture the population by relying on the good natural conditions in the inland.

The reason why East Africa was able to rise on the African continent is that it was the first political force to break through the eggshell of the African coastal area. After all, before East Africa, most of the coastal areas of Africa had already been "owned".

However, the agricultural era has passed, and East Africa is now an industrial power with an increasingly strong ability to transform nature.

Now, what East Africa needs to consider is how to configure a suitable social system and order after the level of productivity enters the industrialization level.

If this problem is not solved, East Africa, as a monarchy, will not only have to face the struggle for power from the emerging bourgeoisie, but also have to face more aggressive Labour Party elements.

Although the threat from the former is generally weaker than that from the latter, we must still guard against it. After all, the French Revolution was no joke, and if the bourgeoisie becomes ruthless, they will be equally ruthless.

In order to cope with the social problems that must be improved due to the increase in productivity, Ernst also made many arrangements, trying to completely transform East Africa into a constitutional state before the end of this century. In this way, the royal family's rights and influence in East Africa will become weaker and weaker, but it will also strengthen the constitutional protection of the royal rights and status. After all, the constitution is used to restrict government power and guarantee citizens' rights, and in Ernst's understanding, the royal family is naturally part of the citizens.

In general, Ernst was not afraid of the bourgeoisie's soft approach, but he was afraid of the Labor Party, especially the Russian Labor Party that directly showed its knife. This is why imperialist countries like to say that the Russian Labor Party does not abide by the rules.

After all, the so-called rules and laws are made by beneficiaries of the old order like Ernst. If the Labour Party really abides by the rules, then their so-called promotion of social progress will be impossible to achieve. After all, rules are "unchanging" and progress is "changing" in a good direction.

Of course, “change” is not always in a good direction. For example, the “change” in the later period of the Soviet Union was, to some extent, worse than “unchanged”. However, they couldn’t even remain unchanged. The idea in Leonid’s era was “unchanged”, but in fact they took a big step “backward”.

Anyway, looking at the problem dialectically, there are only two possible outcomes for the development of things, and any national leader, including Ernst, can only try to make the trend develop in a good direction, but this does not include the completely inhumane tyrants in the previous life. For example, in the previous life, many "benevolent kings" in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America had no so-called concept of the country at all. They came to power just to "make a lot of money" and did not make any contribution to society.

In response to Ernst's caution and worries, Morin said, "Your Majesty, don't worry. It is not easy for the Labor Party to gain power. The Russian Labor Party was able to succeed because Russia had too many problems, and some operations of the Tsarist government made the Russian Labor Party's opportunities infinitely magnified."

"We in East Africa don't have such concerns for the time being. After all, our situation is much better than that of Tsarist Russia. In terms of development, only Germany, the United States, and Japan are at the same level as us."

Of course, Morin was referring to the national development in recent years. The common attribute of Germany, the United States, Japan and East Africa is that all four countries are emerging industrial countries.

However, Germany's current development has begun to reach its peak, which corresponds to the fact that Germany has the highest level of industrialization among the four countries. Therefore, the problem Germany faces is that if it continues to promote the increase of industrial capacity, the effect will become less and less significant, unless Germany can gain more markets.

But in this regard, Germany's conditions are even worse than Japan's. After all, Japan's geopolitical environment is that when there is no tiger in the mountain, the monkey becomes king. At the current stage of development in the region, it is far ahead of others. East Africa and the United States both have huge market sizes, and their tolerance rate is much higher than that of Germany and other countries.

Morin went on to say: “As long as there are no major economic problems that lead to large-scale unemployment and poverty, the Labour Party will naturally not be able to expand in East Africa. Moreover, even if the situation really develops to this point, the Labour Party is unlikely to succeed.”

"Whether the Labour Party can succeed is like a chemical experiment, which requires a variety of chemicals to work together to produce a chemical reaction."

Morin's metaphor is very vivid. It means that if the labor parties of other countries want to replicate the successful model of the Russian Labor Party, the conditions are essentially very harsh.

Of course, although Morin is confident, Ernst is not completely reassured. After all, the current situation in the world is that the first labor party regime has emerged, and the Russian Labor Party is like a catalyst that can accelerate chemical reactions.

In fact, after the success of the Soviet Union, a series of labor party countries emerged in Eastern Europe and the Far East. Even a powerful country like the United States, which was separated from the Soviet Union by an ocean, was seriously infiltrated.

Therefore, Ernst must not take it lightly. He said to Morin: "Whether the enemy succeeds or not is not an excuse for us to relax. For real labor organizations, especially Russian-style labor organizations, it is better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let one go."

The reason why Ernst mentioned the word "real" is naturally because he believes that there are non-real Labour parties, such as the British Labour Party, and the extreme nationalist parties founded by Benito in Italy, Adolf in Germany, and Francisco in Spain in the past.

The latter three actually look quite similar to the Labour Party to a large extent, especially some of their policies and guidelines. In fact, if the East African governments are more extreme, there is no essential difference between them.

This can be seen from the background of their emergence, that is, in the 20th century, the economies of some capitalist countries with strong feudal remnants, imperfect democratic systems or strong influence of nationalist traditions were most likely to emerge during turbulent political situations.

East Africa perfectly meets most of the prerequisites for the emergence of such extreme political parties. The East African monarchy and aristocracy are products of the feudal era, the democratic system is only in the construction stage and is not yet sound. In addition, East Africa is promoting "Germanization", which is in line with the characteristics of a country where nationalism is prevalent. The only thing that does not meet the requirements is the political instability.

Ernst not only did not oppose the "pseudo-Labour Party", but also supported it. He even did not rule out personally cultivating a political group similar to the British Labour Party, that is, a parliamentary Labour Party.

The reason for this is that in the 20th century, the rise of the Labour Party throughout the world was essentially a historical trend that was inevitable. Since it was impossible to avoid and prevent this situation from happening, it would be better to use the "replacing the prince with a cat" approach to control the risks.

After all, for the lower-class people in the 20th century, they also needed an outlet to vent their emotions, and the "pseudo-Labor Party" was a very good way.

For example, if the British Labour Party came to power, they would create the illusion among a large number of British people that Britain has become a "Labour country".

As the saying goes, it is better to guard against the people's mouths than to guard against the river. This "pseudo-Labour Party" can also play a role in "demystifying" things. To a certain extent, it allows the people of East Africa to come into contact with the "real Labour Party" and make them realize that the Labour Party is not a panacea.

The more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed to Ernst. After all, to set up such a fake "Labor Party", he could simply find a group he trusted and reliable to carry it out. For example, he could let a group of aristocrats or bureaucrats become the leaders of the fake East African Labor Party to counteract the real Labor Party members who had infiltrated East Africa, thus dividing their "traffic".

Moreover, this fake Labour Party has another advantage. After all, they can obtain "official authorization" from East Africa, and it is much easier for them to carry out activities than real Labour Party members. In this case, even if it is fake, it can become "real" and a black cat can become a "white" cat.

Not only that, East Africa has also had a "planned economy" before, and many people have personally experienced the "planned economy" era. This, to a certain extent, makes it easy for people to disenchant with the "Labor Party."

Besides, East Africa has actually never completely abandoned the "planned" economy until now, and the five-year plan is implemented every year. As a result, some nobles and bureaucrats in East Africa have transformed themselves into so-called "Labor Party" members, and even the royal family can become "supporters" of the Labour Party.

It can be said that Ernst's method was extremely vicious. It was like Nicholas II suddenly becoming a Russian "labor party member". In fact, the two were completely unrelated.

Ernst temporarily suppressed these thoughts in his heart. He said to Morin: "In short, first investigate the specific development of the domestic labor party members, especially whether there are organized labor party groups in East Africa."

The Labour Party is not to be feared; what is to be feared is the organised and well-directed Labour Party group. Morin also understood this, so he assured Ernst.

"Your Majesty, rest assured. If there are any Labour Party members who dare to operate in East Africa, our National Defense Security Agency will ensure that they are stillborn."

Ernst waved his hand and said, "No, don't alert the enemy yet. We need to investigate the specific situation in detail. Don't show your hand and attract the enemy's attention. We need to formulate a suitable solution based on the current situation of the empire. So before that, we must know ourselves and the enemy, so that we can win every battle."

"Labor Party members are very cunning, as can be seen from the Russian Labor Party. They are particularly good at underground work. Once they discover our existence, they may become more vigilant and strict."

"Besides, how can you guarantee that there are no Russian Cheka members infiltrating the Labour Party in East Africa? They are also experts in espionage, so we should be more cautious."

(End of this chapter)