On June 18, 1861, the Austrian ocean-going fleet left Japan and sailed into the Pacific Ocean. Count Hummel stood on the splint and looked into the distance, and from time to time a sigh was heard.

Vice Admiral Arest, the commander of the ocean-going fleet, asked suspiciously: "Your Excellency, your interest doesn't seem to be high?" ”

Count Hummel sighed and said, "Your Excellency, I am afraid that things will not be so easy for us to gain a foothold in the Republic of Nicaragua, and we will have to use force if we do not do it. ”

Lieutenant General Arest asked suspiciously, "I'm sorry, Your Excellency, but I didn't find any trouble.

Nicaragua is only a small country, with a total population of only three or four hundred thousand, and the number of whites is less than 10 percent. There is almost no industry, which is also able to give us the complete threat? ”

It is a fact that there are no strong countries in the Central American region. Even if it's all tied together, Arest doesn't feel pressured.

Now the rulers here are not so much republics as a few mine owners and plantation owners.

It's okay for these people to bully the local natives, but if they are against the regular army, Lieutenant General Arest dares to guarantee the strength of a regiment, and they can be dealt with.

Count Hummel shook his head and said, "What about the pretext for war?" If there is not enough reason for us to attack Nicaragua, will we still have to carry out the state visit later? ”

This is the difference between the thinking of politicians and the military, who only see the ease of occupying Nicaragua, but do not consider the political implications.

Otherwise, the Vienna government would have given them the order not to find a place to stay, but to occupy Nicaragua, or to occupy the countries of Central America.

Lieutenant General Arest said unceremoniously: "This is not simple, a direct showdown with the Nicaraguan government." Tell them what we want. If we don't cooperate, we will destroy them, and there will always be people who will cooperate with us. ”

Count Hummel explained: "Your Excellency, we do not have enough immigrants to rule here, and it is not stable to rule by force. Once the army leaves, it will not be long before there will be a rebellion in the area.

It would be too expensive to send heavy troops to suppress it, and abandoning it could easily trigger a chain reaction that would have an impact on our colonial system. ”

Lack of immigration is an unsolvable problem. There is a shortage of immigrants in Africa, there is a shortage of immigrants in the South Seas, and there is still a shortage of immigrants in the Americas.

However, Austria's human resources are limited, and it is impossible to immigrate unlimitedly, even if it is not enough to add the Germanic cultural sphere.

The Colonial Ministry was able to mobilize a dozen or two hundred thousand immigrants from the European continent every year, and that was already exhausted.

Count Hummel not only heard about the plantation owners themselves working in the fields because of the lack of labor, but even bought serfs directly from Russia.

As for the use of local labor, it is mainly the mine owners. It's not that the plantation owners are highly ethical, it's that the management is too troublesome.

Slavery was forbidden in Austria, and naturally there were no slave training institutions. Untrained natives are prone to devouring their masters.

At this point, the mine owners are different, and almost every mine owner has a gang of thugs. On the one hand, it is to crack down on gold thieves and protect the safety of gold mines, and on the other hand, it is to suppress absenteeism riots.

After the murder of the unlucky eggs, the colonial government forbade farmers and plantation owners to use unsafe indigenous labor for the sake of everyone's personal safety.

Lieutenant General Arest thought for a moment and said, "If it's just that there are not enough immigrants, in fact, we can think of a way from the United States." It is said that the United States already has more than three million Germans.

Many people left the continent and immigrated to the United States to escape the war. Now that the north and the south have fought, these cowards may want to run away again.

We only need to fool 100,000 people, and the problem of insufficient immigration will be solved. It's a big deal to promise a little more benefits, anyway, Central America is vast and sparsely populated. ”

Immigrants are not brought in randomly, and the sequelae are very serious. The negative teaching material is Mexico, when the United States sent immigrants to Mexico, the Mexican government also introduced many preferential policies.

After the number of immigrants took over, the Americans immediately plotted for the locals to seek self-government and independence.

Naturally, the Mexican government can't bear it, and I kindly took you in, and gave you so many preferential conditions, and I still want to rebel.

The Mexican government is also a waste material, and it has not suppressed the rebellion. There is no second chance, and the Americans, who have been prepared for a long time, have already killed.

The Mexican government paid 2.3 million square kilometres of land for this purpose. With this negative example, from now on, all countries will have to consider receiving immigrants.

Now the Austrian colonies strictly control the proportion of ethnic groups. The main attraction is to attract immigrants from the German cultural circle, and a small number of immigrants from other countries are also mainly people from the bottom who do not have much culture.

After pondering for a moment, Count Hummel made a decision: "Your Excellency, your Excellency is a brilliant idea.

If enough immigrants can be recruited from the United States, Central America will be ours.

Someone was sent to inform the Hawaiian government that our visit was only for one day and asked them to wait at the port.

After the fleet is about to be rereplenished, I will visit the United States directly, and I will visit each state along the west coast. ”

No wonder Hummel is excited, this plan is already very operable.

Unlike later generations, Germans were excluded from mainstream American society. The upper class of the United States is dominated by the British, who occupy most of the wealth of society.

Huddles are applicable to any ethnic group, and the German elite, who cannot enter the upper class, has not succumbed and is still fighting.

German is still spoken in the German immigrant settlements, and German is still used in local schools, because they are dissatisfied with the British dominating the upper echelons of the United States.

It was only after the two world wars that Germans really integrated into American society. Taking advantage of the opportunity of counter-espionage in wartime, the Germans were torn apart.

This creates an opportunity for Austria to dig into the wall. If you become a vested interest, you can't dig it up. Immigrants who are still at the bottom of society are the easiest to fool.

Central America was the land, and the kindness of others had always been what Franz was best at, and inevitably it was also transmitted to the Viennese government officials.

As for whether the U.S. government will discourage immigrants from leaving, there is no need to worry at all. If the U.S. government does that, then they are no longer a threat.

What else can attract immigrants to a country that can only enter but not leave? If there are not enough immigrants, they will rely on the natural growth of the population of the United States, and when they do, they will have already entered the era of nuclear peace.

Dividing up the world also depends on the timing, once the opportunity is missed, and then pay ten times or a hundred times the price, you may not be able to reap the harvest.

What kind of country, what kind of status does it acquire diplomatically. There is no doubt that Hawaii, which is already a semi-colonial country, does not deserve Hummel's attention.

If he had enough time, he would not mind visiting in accordance with diplomatic protocol. Now in a hurry, there is nothing wrong with implementing the new plan to compress your visit in Hawaii.

It is estimated that the Kingdom of Hawaii will not welcome him, and the visit of the great powers in this era is not a good thing for many weak and small countries.

Hummel didn't just go through it once, most of the countries were like sending the plague god, and the bureaucrats tried to get him to leave with the fleet as soon as possible.

Specifically, he received hand cramps in his hands. Including the supply of the fleet are all sponsored by these countries, and the top of the fleet also has a souvenir gift.

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Port Newport, Oregon

The sun was scorching the earth, and the roar of warships could be heard not far away.

The docks were already full of people, big people in gorgeous clothes, and small people in coarse linen clothes, all waiting in the scorching sun.

Looking at the fleet that appeared in the distance, listening to the roar of the roaring steam engine, many people showed happy smiles.

Unlike most people's smiles, some people frowned, as if they were about to face a big trouble.

If you are not overseas, you will never know the importance of a strong motherland.

Don't look at the United States as a country of immigrants, in fact, there are also immigrants among them, and the top is undoubtedly British immigrants.

On the one hand, the British occupy the mainstream of society, and on the other hand, because the Royal Navy, which is the first in the world, provides the British with sufficient confidence.

The Germans are tragic in this regard, the German region is fragmented, and although the countries are not weak, there is no world power that can support them.

Under Franz's butterfly effect, Austria was reborn and became the third naval power in the world, and naturally became the pillar of the German nation abroad.

In fact, the Vienna government has done a lot of work in this regard. Embassies abroad, open to all German nations, can provide them with reasonable assistance.

Relying on practical actions, he won their recognition. That's why when the ocean-going fleet visited the United States, so many German immigrants gathered.

Many were counting on the intervention of the Vienna government to give them a higher political status. The arrival of the ocean-going fleet is an opportunity for many.

This world is based on fists, and if a country is strong, it will naturally be respected by everyone overseas, and if the country is weak, it will inevitably be bullied.

Looking at the dense crowd on the docks, Count Hummel smiled with satisfaction. He was a little more sure of this plan.