The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 1364 Accomplice
Among the colonists of the Austrian Empire, the Italians were the most polite to the black natives. No matter what the country, the church and other ethnic groups said, they always had an indifferent attitude towards the blacks.

However, under Franz's deliberate guidance, the Italians also hated the black slaves who made them work harder.

The Germans, influenced by Greater Germanism and religion, had no good impression of black people at all, and they were the main force in waging war.

As for the other ethnic groups in the Austrian Empire, each of them has unique skills, but the Austrians are still too kind compared to the Irish.

Those Irish people, when they heard that blacks might compete with them for food and jobs, did not hesitate to join the army and do their best to kill every black person they could.

But when it comes to brutality, it's the Spanish who are the most brutal. They don't need any incitement or even any reason.

(The above words may seem a little inadequate, but due to the size problem, I can only write it like this.)
One of the most criticized shortcomings of black tribes is their short-sightedness. Except for some real black kingdoms, most black tribes do not know how to store food. What they call food are herds of animals and cattle.

Due to the limited technology at the time, it was difficult to transport those livestock to the Austrian Empire.

The first thing Franz thought of was a refrigerated ship. After all, the Austrian Empire had already had simple ice-making machines many years ago, and had even used them as air conditioners.

Over the years, many important churches and government officials' residences have also adopted this technology, but they have not frozen meat.

However, the reality is that lowering the temperature from thirty degrees to sixteen degrees and from thirty degrees to minus sixteen degrees are completely different concepts, but the Austrian Imperial Technical Department was a bit spoiled by Franz.

Franz personally attached great importance to scientific and technological research, the most important manifestation of which was his generosity in research funding.

Therefore, the most common practice of the Austrian Empire's scientific research departments is to increase investment, and the most prominent feature is the great power that can make bricks fly.

Isn't it just a lack of power? Wouldn't it be solved by adding a few more steam engines?
However, this approach is fine in the fields of national defense and exploration, but it is obviously inappropriate in the civilian field.

The result was that the Austrian Empire's refrigerated ships consumed coal worth almost as much as the price of transporting meat, which made the invention meaningless.

Fortunately, Franz had other plans, such as building a canning factory in the colony. Canned food is easy to store and transport, but the biggest problem is that it tastes bad.

But for people of this era, it doesn’t matter if the food tastes bad, as long as it can fill their stomachs.

As for how to defeat those African tribes, I can only say that this is a question that cannot be more stupid. In fact, due to the emergence of quinine and allicin, there is nothing in Africa that can prevent Europeans from going deep into the interior.

Of course, at this time, the only country that could provide these two drugs cheaply was the Austrian Empire. After all, Franz had been planning for many years, and the production of quinine was enough for the Austrian colonists.

In fact, any army or organization with some combat effectiveness would find it difficult to be defeated by the African native army, even if they used the same weapons. Moreover, Franz, who had already had such plans, had never thought of selling new weapons to the natives from the beginning.

The primitive tribes' army could not be compared with the European army at that time in terms of organization or training.

Moreover, Franz knew that a lion would use all its strength to fight a rabbit, so he sent out well-equipped colonial troops and appointed officers who were experts in dealing with natives. There was no so-called war at all, only one-sided slaughter on the battlefield.

The Austrian Empire was a mountainous country, so it never stopped pursuing lightweight infantry artillery. And due to the rise of shrapnel shells, the Austrian Empire had a considerable number of three-pound and four-pound guns.

If these guys were placed in any place other than the mountains on the European battlefield, they would be a joke, but if they were placed in Africa, they would be a great weapon for siege and capture cities.

What's more, most black tribes don't even have decent fences, often just a few wooden sticks sticking out there.

Even more terrifying than the three-pound and four-pound guns are the Austrian Empire's anti-infantry rockets, whose shrapnel has terrifying lethality to unarmored targets.

In addition to suffering a dimensionality reduction blow from the Austrian colonial army on the battlefield, the indigenous tribes also faced another problem, that is, slave rebellion and the anger of their fellow tribesmen.

It goes without saying that the defeated slaves from other tribes took the opportunity to rebel. The indigenous tribes were not united either. After all, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Franz had deliberately suppressed this kind of conflict before in order to let them kill each other at this time.

The Austrian Empire's colonies did not need slaves, and there were no Arabs in West Africa to buy slaves, but there was Dahomey.

The Kingdom of Dahomey had some friction with the Austrian Empire when it first arrived in Africa, but after being severely beaten by the Austrian Empire's army, the Dahomey King Gezo learned his lesson.

Not only did he give up half of his territory in the south, he even appointed Marquis Heinrich von Gross, the Governor-General of West Africa of the Austrian Empire, as "Yervogang" (similar to the Minister-General for White Affairs).

(There were some problems with the previous map, and the Austrian Empire did not completely annex Dahomey.)
King Gezo of Dahomey did not become depressed after losing the southern coast and nearly a quarter of the country's troops. Instead, he conquered Oyo through alliances and brutal wars and regained access to the sea.

King Gezo of Dahomey was considered a wise ruler in Africa at that time, but Franz did not take him seriously.

Cooperation with the Kingdom of Dahomey was beneficial to both parties. The Austrian Empire could clear out the blacks and prisoners of war in the colonies and exchange them for scarce materials and precious metals.

On the one hand, the Kingdom of Dahomey expanded its business, and on the other hand, it could use these cheap black slaves to exchange for more things they wanted from other countries.

King Gezo of Dahomey was actually very afraid of the Austrian Empire. He paid tribute to the Austrian Empire every year, and Franz never refused anyone except the blacks.

King Gezo of Dahomey was also one of the few African monarchs willing to learn agricultural technology from the Austrian Empire, and his country was spared because of its good performance.

The loss of black slaves did not have much impact on the colonies of the Austrian Empire. In fact, the colonies of the Austrian Empire were the areas with the highest level of agricultural mechanization except for the royal territories.

There was no way around it. The Austrian Empire’s colonies were too short of people, and black Africa left such a horrible impression on Europeans that some people would rather starve to death than come. Franz had no good way to deal with these people.

However, the problem of insufficient manpower is much easier to solve. The efficiency of a seed drill is thirty times that of manual labor, and the efficiency of a harvester is fifty times that of manual labor, not to mention those steam-driven machines.