Chapter 723 Strategic Goals in East Africa
The East African government and the Hechingen Consortium are two different systems after all. Ernst's construction of the "Pheasant" University was not easy to publicize, so the uninformed East African government was deceived.
Of course, Ernst was so realistic in his university fraud, and all "formal" procedures were complete, so much so that a flood washed away the Dragon King Temple.
After thinking about it, Ernst said: "Later, I will have people from Europe screen the list of schools. You will send people over to check it out to prevent our students from being 'scammed'."
East African students are happy because the East African government has paved the way for them. This is also related to the connections of the Hechingen royal family. The only one who can deceive East Africa is the Hechingen consortium.
Of course, although the Hechingen Consortium has built dozens of pheasant universities, it has also done some "business". For example, the Heizingen School in the East African talent training base is managed by the Hechingen Consortium.
That is, the bunch of schools left by Ernst in the Principality of Hechingen, Hohenzollern Province, Prussia, including the former site of the Hechingen Military Academy, have now become important bases for international students in East Africa.
The biggest difference from those pheasant schools is that the land of the school here is actually owned by the royal family of Hechingen, and the teachers are all hired from Europe. More than 500 international students study here every year.
Of course, in addition to international students, there are also schools in the form of "orphanages" left by Ernst. Every year, orphans are directly brought from Germany to study. This is also the top immigrant group in East Africa. After completing their studies in Germany, they will go directly to East African Development.
Like most teachers in language schools, this is how they came originally, but now East Africa can provide them with a stable learning environment, and they no longer need so-called "crash" learning.
The question of the whereabouts of language school teachers has also been decided. The main task is to reshape them and then return to East African society.
"His Royal Highness, the next step is about our southern strategic issues. So far, our troops in the central, southern and eastern regions of East Africa have been deployed, and the basic construction of the defense lines has been completed. They are the Zambezi River Defense Line (Zambia in Mozambique). The lower reaches of the West River), the Eastern Defense Line (Matabele Province, the eastern border of Hechingen Province), and the Southern Defense Line (also known as the Orange River Defense Line), a total of three major sections, with a total length of more than 3,000 kilometers. "
The military defense line in East Africa mainly consists of three sections, which also shows the huge defense pressure in East Africa. The existence of the colony of Mozambique alone would require more than 1,800 kilometers of national borders in East Africa. Without Mozambique, East Africa's land border defense Security spending can be reduced by one-eighth.
For the Orange Free State (called the Boer Republic by the British and Transvaal), East Africa also wanted to drive them completely to the south bank of the Orange River, which was the Eastern Cape area of the former Republic of South Africa.
Here we have to mention the regional division of the Republic of South Africa. In addition to the city of Cape Town, there are three large provinces named Cape Town in the southernmost part of South Africa, namely Northern Cape Town, Eastern Cape Town and Western Cape. Dun.
The capital of the Western Cape is now the Cape of Good Hope, while the capital of the Northern Cape is Kimberley. The Eastern Cape is just south of the Boer influence, on the south bank of the Orange River.
Except for these Cape Towns, other areas in the administrative territory of the former Republic of South Africa were the spheres of influence of the original Boers and Zulu people.
In other words, East Africa is to "rule across the river" with the British, bringing the original spheres of influence of the Boers and Zulu into the territory, and at the same time using the Orange River as a natural geographical limit.
As for taking over the Cape Town area, East Africa has no such plan. Even if the British lose the battle on the front line, they will not be able to give up the Cape Town area.
And East Africa has no intention of completely breaking up with the United Kingdom. This situation will only allow countries such as Germany, France, Russia, Austria, and the United States to sit back and enjoy the gains, and is not in the interests of East Africa and the United Kingdom.
So although East Africa and the United Kingdom have irreconcilable conflicts with each other, neither will choose to fight to the death for the South African region. This point actually illustrates the current helplessness of East Africa. The British military presence in South Africa alone is enough for East Africa to go all out. Even if East Africa wins, it will only cause Britain to lose its strategic tentacles in the south that threaten East Africa.
Hence, choosing to accept the situation as soon as possible is the best choice for East Africa's interests. Otherwise, with the current strength of the Royal Navy, if it only deals with East Africa, East Africa's international trade will be completely finished.
Although East Africa can be more assertive and choose to fight to the end, it is only the African chiefs who have fun on the African continent. At the same time, it is possible for Germany or the United States to pick the peaches in advance.
This involves East Africa's post-war "big industry" blueprint. Currently, East Africa has only built the most rudimentary industries, and is still far away from the goal of industrialization.
If East Africa has already achieved industrialization before the war begins, it can try to challenge Britain's world hegemony in advance, and even gain hegemony in the Indian Ocean.
However, the problem is that East Africa has not completed industrialization, which is similar to the situation that Tsarist Russia currently faces.
If Tsarist Russia had achieved industrialization, Eurasian hegemony would have ended early, so East Africa needs the British ship not to suddenly disintegrate.
This entangled mentality is the same as the attitude of European and American countries towards the Soviet Union in previous generations. Of course, they hope that the Soviet Union will die, but not too quickly.
Just like the European Union was established just two years after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the previous century, although the European Union is an economic union, European integration is definitely not what Americans want to see.
Of course, this is considered from the perspective of victory in East Africa. If the war ends in defeat, East Africa will definitely be very uncomfortable. A better situation is that East Africa continues to resist and falls into a protracted war with the United Kingdom and other countries, and the United Kingdom pulls other countries into the water and divides it up together. East Africa.
The worst case scenario is that East Africa directly loses its central and southern regions, nearly half of its industrial investment, and one-third of its agriculture directly cheaper than other countries.
This is the imbalance in the outcome of the war caused by the huge gap between the current national strength of East Africa and the United Kingdom.
Of course, if either side wins this war, the gains for the victorious side will be extremely huge. For example, the United Kingdom. If it can seize Matabele Province in East Africa, British hegemony will be greatly consolidated in the future. Matabele The population of Lai Province alone exceeds one million, and it is the closest to realizing industry. With the various resources of Hechingen Province, I am afraid that the British can smile from ear to ear. The gold income of Hechingen Province alone can Let the British get their money back.
A victory in East Africa will bring decades of peaceful development opportunities to East Africa in the future. At the same time, it will completely establish its status as a world power. It will also gain access to two important areas, Mozambique and Angola, make up for East Africa's shortcomings in oil and energy, and become the world's two oceans. country, open up the land channel between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, and form two ocean economic belts with the central region and the central railway as the core.
Looks like a replica of the Boer War, but it is actually an enhanced version, but in terms of international impact, it may not be as big a blow to Britain's international image as the Boers in the previous life.
Because East Africa itself is a member of the (pseudo) great powers, of course, if Britain loses the war, they will definitely assign the title of great power to East Africa immediately, confirming East Africa's status as the largest country in Africa.
After all, losing to the world powers and losing to the "peasants" in a small land like the Boers are two different concepts.
So once this war broke out, it was a war that changed the world structure. The winner took all. Of course, the most important thing for East Africa was not the British, but the Portuguese. They annexed the two Portuguese colonies in Central and South Africa. East Africa It's a **** profit, and being able to win the Transvaal Republic is an unexpected surprise.
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