African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 932 French and Western Ambassadors

Hansleton's idea was first reported to the Hanseatic provincial government of the new Hamburg port city, then reported to the central government, and finally to Ernst.

Siewert, who was already the director of the National Economic Planning Committee, reported the Maputo City Government's plan to Ernst and asked: "Your Highness, what attitude should we take towards the Maputo incident?"

Ernst: “This is indeed very controversial. Although Hans Layton’s idea does not conform to the perception of most people in the East African context, I think it is a good thing. It is meaningful to give full play to the initiative of local governments based on government plans.”

After thinking for a while, Ernst said, "We will not deal with this matter for the time being. Let's see the results first. When Hansleton's term is up, we will see the specific results. If the results are good, we will expand the scope and implement it throughout the Hansa Province."

Thinking Features nodded and said, "I understand. Your Highness means to use Maputo as a test field."

"Yes, we in East Africa have our own national conditions. East Africa is a complex country with an economic structure that is different from most countries in the world. So if we want stable and sustainable development, we must continue to make mistakes and then correct our institutional problems. In the current environment, no country's system is perfect. What we need is to strike a balance according to the times."

Ernst said these words not only to Siewert, but also to himself. As the actual rulers of East Africa, the Hechingen royal family could never give up the monarchy. However, it was impossible for East Africa to be governed entirely according to the monarchy system. If that were the case, the royal family would inevitably be liquidated in the future. Therefore, balancing the royal family and the East African system was also an important goal of Ernst.

The world is either black or white, but no one can tell the difference clearly. We can only say there is white in black and black in white. As long as the elite of "mud" are mastered, the East African royal family can survive on this basis.

In fact, what Ernst was considering was the ideological issue of East Africa's future. This ideology cannot be extreme. After all, in their view, monarchs are dispensable. In this case, it is better to muddy the waters so that everyone will be inseparable under the cover of night.

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1898 2 Month 17 Day.

While East Africa is busy with economic transformation, the world situation is not peaceful. The East African government, which had thought that it would no longer have major interactions with Spain after the purchase of Mindanao Island, was unexpectedly dragged into the vortex by France today.

"Glad, the French ambassador to East Africa, and William, the Spanish ambassador to East Africa, request to meet with Your Highness."

If it were just the French, Ernst wouldn't know what France's plan was for coming here this time, but with the Spanish and this delicate timing, Ernst already had a plan in mind.

"Let them wait in the reception room for a while!" Ernst ordered.

Before Ernst arrived, Glade and William were communicating.

"Ambassador William, the Americans are obviously deliberately creating a dispute this time. We are definitely on your side regarding your country's situation, but among the major powers in the world, only France cannot influence the attitude of the US government. The other countries are also quite ambiguous, so we must strive to gain allies as much as possible so that Spain will not fall into a passive situation."

William agreed with Glade's words. He complimented him, "France has always been our best partner in Spain. We support France in the European order, but the attitude of the East African government..."

Glad said: "Don't worry about that. As a monarchy, as long as we convince the Blackching royal family, there will be no problem." In fact, William also understood this truth. Although Spain is also a monarchy, the Spanish royal family obviously does not have the power of the Blackching royal family. What he is most worried about is not the relationship between Spain and East Africa, but that he believes that the French are unreliable as lobbyists.

After all, the relationship between France and East Africa is not that good, and the Hechingen royal family belongs to the Hohenzollern family branch. Given the relationship between the German royal family and the Hechingen royal family...

Of course, William would not say what he thought in his heart, because Spain was really desperate this time, and the only country that could help Spain overcome the difficulties was France.

This is actually very easy to understand. The current world situation is actually dominated by several powers. While Japan has not yet developed to maturity, the eight undoubted powers in the world at this stage are Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Austria, the United States, Spain and East Africa. These eight countries basically dominate the changes in the international situation. As for Italy and Portugal in the previous life, they have been completely eliminated.

As a big country, East Africa has become one of the great powers that can dominate the world situation. In fact, it was also affected by the South African War. After the South African War, East Africa's international status rose rapidly. In fact, with the support of the British, East Africa's current military strength is even above that of "Spain" and "Austria-Hungary".

There is no dispute about this for Spain, which has become the goalkeeper of the great powers. After all, they cannot play the kind of fierce performance that East Africa showed in the South African War. Not to mention Britain, even Portugal, a country that has been kicked out of the ranks of the great powers, is not easy to deal with. As a neighbor of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain knows Portugal better.

In fact, if East Africa had not appeared, Portugal would not have ended up in such a miserable way. East Africa stepped on Portugal to get to the top, and now Spain is facing the same situation, that is, the Americans also want to step on Spain to get to the top.

However, facing the aggressiveness of the United States, Spain lacks confidence. After years of development, the US Navy has surpassed the Spanish Navy.

Although the two are not much different in size, Spanish weapons are outdated and the performance of many warships is no longer sufficient to compete with up-and-coming powers like the U.S. Navy.

Of course, it is not impossible for the weak to defeat the strong, just like the Austro-Hungarian Navy was in this situation during the Battle of Lissa, but it managed to turn the tables by relying on the quality of its personnel.

Spain naturally did not have such ambitions. They only hoped that their country could achieve a tie with the British Royal Navy in the Battle of South Africa.

Of course, this does not represent the position of the majority of Spanish people, because Spain does not want to go to war with the United States now. In fact, the United States has been the aggressive party for decades, always provoking Spain and hoping to squeeze Spanish influence out of the Caribbean.

Or is it because of the location problem? Just like the South African War, why did East Africa have the confidence to go to war with two powers at the same time? The main reason is that the location of East Africa destined the two countries to be unable to deal with East Africa with all their strength.

The United States has the same calculation. It is impossible for the Spaniards to defeat themselves on America's doorstep. If a war breaks out between the two, the advantage will be on the United States' side from the very beginning.

The Spanish government is also aware of this, so they are afraid of war, which leads to the Spanish government placing more hope on the international community to mediate the conflict between the two countries.

Now the Spanish government has only one supporter, which is the French government. However, no matter how powerful the French government is, it is impossible for it to directly intervene in the conflict between the United States and Spain. After all, the United States does not seem to be easy to mess with.

Of course, it would be best if the United States and Spain could avoid going to war because of this, so the French government needs to increase its bargaining chips. However, after testing the attitudes of various countries in Europe, the situation is very delicate. In this case, France turned its attention to the major powers outside Europe, and the only major powers outside Europe are East Africa and the United States.

(End of this chapter)