Chapter 583 Three, Six, Nine, etc.
At the Schveth Palace, Ernst was also planning how to improve the transportation problem in Hesse. This time Ernst did not think of it on his own initiative, but was mentioned when communicating with Prince Carl.
With the help of East Africa, Sigmaringen has now established a foothold in Africa, so at the end of the year Ernst came to ask Prince Karl about the construction of Sigmaringen in the African colonies.
Due to the relationship between the two families, the Ernst family and Prince Carl got along very harmoniously. Even when it came to colonial affairs, they were as casual as a family.
Ernst: "Uncle Carl, how is the situation in your colony now?"
"So far, the progress is very smooth. Because of your help, we have immigrated more than 40,000 people in Chad, which was unimaginable to me before!" Prince Karl sighed.
Ernst smiled and said nothing. During the peak period of East African immigration, from 1874 to 1875, nearly four million people immigrated to East Africa in two years. In normal years, the number of immigrants could reach about one million. Now the immigration cliff is at an all-time high. has been declining steadily, with no less than 300,000 per year, so the number of immigrants from Sigmaringen is just a drop in the bucket for East Africa.
After taking a sip of tea, Ernst asked: "So, are you able to control the territory we planned for you now?"
Prince Carl said with some excitement: "That's natural, a whole two million square kilometers of land! Who wouldn't be tempted? Anyway, we have controlled many important areas, and other forces should not be able to squeeze in now!"
Ernst understood the joy of this crazy enclosure in Africa. He said: "When you have established a foothold in Chad in the future, you can continue to develop to the west. After all, the outlet to the sea is in the west, and then you will be the next one." India, of course, India's area is only over three million square kilometers."
Of course, Ernst is only referring to the area. The conditions in India are too good, there is almost no bad land, even the arid land of Pakistan, it will be possible to see the Indus River supporting more than 100 million people in the future.
But when you think about a place like Somalia in the previous life that could support a population of more than 10 million, it seems understandable.
The advantage of India compared with East Africa is that the precipitation in tropical monsoon climate is almost twice that in East Africa. The annual precipitation in tropical monsoon climate is 1500 to 2000mm; the annual precipitation in savanna climate is only 750 to 1000mm. This difference is very obvious; But Ernst believes that the rainfall in the savanna is at a just right threshold.
The main countries with the same type of climate distribution as East Africa are Brazil, Mexico and Australia. In the past, except for Mexico, which mainly focused on drug cultivation, the other two countries had very good agricultural development.
Needless to say, Brazil's urbanization rate is close to 90%, and only 10% of people live in rural areas, which is smaller than the rural population in Europe and the United States. This also illustrates the degree of development of Brazil's agriculture. As for the hunger problem in Brazil It's entirely due to distribution.
Australia's agricultural conditions are not very superior, and can be said to be the worst among several regions. That's because Australia's desert and semi-desert areas account for nearly 40% of the country's area, and more than 70% of the entire continent's land is in Arid or semi-arid zones.
Among them, Australia's most important wheat-producing area, the Murray-Darling Basin, has a subtropical grassland climate with low rainfall. Most of its areas have annual rainfall of only 200 to 500 millimeters. This level is lower than most areas in East Africa. East Africa Precipitation in most areas of Matabele Province (Zimbabwe), which claims to be relatively short of rainfall, can also reach more than 700 millimeters, and the driest western part can also reach 400 millimeters.
In the desert areas of East Africa, precipitation in the Kalahari Desert and Namib Desert can sometimes reach more than 200 to 300 mm.
Of course, the savanna climate in East Africa is very different from the savanna climate in Australia. The savanna climate in East Africa is caused by the plateau terrain, while the savanna climate in Australia is distributed in the plains. The main reasons for the low rainfall in the Australian savanna climate are the obstruction of water vapor in the east by the Eastern Great Dividing Range Mountains and the influence of the subtropical high.
Most of the land in East Africa is between the Tropic of Capricorn and the South, while half of Australia's savanna climate is south of the Tropic of Capricorn. As for the savanna climate in northern Australia, most of it is used for grazing cattle and sheep.
Of course, Ernst believes that the reason why Australia's climate is so dry is that the entire continent is neither south nor north, which means it is severely affected by the subtropical high pressure.
Subtropical high pressure is a downdraft zone that is not conducive to the production of rainfall. It is generally distributed near 30 degrees north and south latitude, that is, active between 20 degrees and 40 degrees north latitude, which just covers most of Australia.
The South African territory in East Africa is almost in this area. Botswana and Namibia are both extremely arid areas. That is to say, the African terrain is relatively narrow and extends to the north and south. Otherwise, there will definitely be a large area of desert in the south. Even so, Southwest Africa The area of desert and semi-desert has reached nearly one million square kilometers.
A negative example is the Sahara Desert near 30 degrees north latitude. Egypt is at this latitude, and most of East Africa just bypasses the north and south subtropical high pressure belts.
Of course, the main purpose of saying this is to highlight the superiority of East Africa's climate. Tropical grassland climates are also divided into three, six, and nine grades. The names are not the same, but the conditions are the same. Brazil has a good climate, but its most livable tropical plateau climate, even Africa Less than half of the total, East Africa is better than these countries in terms of climate conditions and land area.
Prince Carl: "Among the immigrants this year, East Africa sent us more than 30,000 people directly. We in Sigmaringen worked hard in Europe to recruit more than 3,000 people."
This made Ernst chuckle inwardly, but he still persuaded him: "Uncle Carl, you should stop thinking about immigrating to Germany. You should think of more ways to immigrate from Romania and Austria-Hungary. Germany is currently Industrial development has reached a new stage, and the spillover population basically does not exist. Instead, people from other regions now come to Germany to work, so it is more realistic to recruit immigrants to the backward areas of Central and Eastern Europe."
Of course, there is another reason that Ernst did not mention, that is, East Africa has the largest number of immigration agencies in Germany. With East Africa existing, it is difficult for anyone to compete with East Africa.
Prince Carl: "Oh, it's true. If we had been a few years earlier, we wouldn't have been so passive, especially during the economic crisis, when many people suddenly lost their jobs."
However, Ernst doesn't think so. The most important reason why Sigmaringen can immigrate to Africa on a large scale now is the support from East Africa. A few years ago, East Africa's own population was not enough, and it was impossible to share the soup with others.
Without the help of East Africa, Sigmaringen managed to immigrate thousands of people in Africa. This is the current situation of most African colonies, except for the two weird ones in East Africa and Italy.
East Africa is following the human wave tactic, using immigrants to develop Africa, while Italy was forced to colonize Africa to relieve domestic population pressure. According to a survey by the East African Defense and Security Agency, Italy has now had three immigrants in Ethiopia. More than 100,000 people completed hundreds of years of immigration in Cape Town in just a few years.
Therefore, the Italian African colonies are now the colonies (countries) with the third largest white population after North African Arabs. The first is naturally East Africa, and the second is Cape Town. Most of the other colonies are insignificant. In some countries' colonies, the number of whites may be There are only a few dozen or a few hundred people, and any country with more than 10,000 people is considered a big country.
(End of this chapter)