Empire Rising: Spain

Although the vast area and long coastline are good news, managing such a large indigenous population is also a significant challenge for Spain.

It is certainly impossible to kill them all; attempting to slaughter all the indigenous people in this region would mean killing over ten million people.

Such a massacre would be too insane, and the public pressure it would create is something the Spanish Government could not bear. If they really did this, let alone the Spanish Government, even Carlo would earn a reputation as a tyrant.

At that point, the international influence, status, and reputation of both the Spanish Government and Carlo himself would be severely impacted.

Even if Europeans seem indifferent to African lives, news of Spain massacring millions of indigenous people would lead almost all Europeans to condemn the Spanish Government’s cruelty.

At that time, Spain’s diplomatic situation would become extremely poor, and all European countries could use this as an excuse to heavily criticize Spain.

For this reason, Spain long ago shifted from massacre to transfer concerning the management of the African black population.

Currently, the transfer of the black population is quite effective; over millions of indigenous people have been relocated by Spain over several years.

Among these over a million African people, more than half traveled by ship to America. And among these, more than half went to the United States.

After all, the United States is the country with the greatest appeal to immigrants at this time. Since its founding just over a hundred years ago, its population has surpassed many European Powers.

In the future, during the period of World War I, the U.S. population even outstripped numerous European Powers, ranking among the world’s top.

The rapid increase in the U.S. population relied on its own immigration appeal. Since the U.S. is so attractive to immigrants, Carlo doesn’t mind helping Americans a bit, allowing the U.S. population to grow even faster.

In the future, regarding the transfer of black populations, Spain’s investment in this effort will only increase. Carlo even discussed the matter with the Minister of Colonial Affairs, William, who informed Carlo that within the next five years, the colonial affairs department plans to export at least 3 million black people abroad.

Three million black people may seem like a lot, but in reality, achieving this goal is quite easy.

Just from within Africa, the population transfer can achieve most of this target, and adding the population sent to the U.S. and other countries, three million is easily attainable.

With this level of population transfer, by around 1890, the African population in the Guinea Colony could decrease by about an eighth, and the population in the Congo Territory could decrease by about a tenth.

Someday in the future, perhaps one of Spain’s African colonies could achieve the milestone of having zero black people.

Of course, Southern Morocco, being the most unique colony, is not included in this. Morocco is naturally a unique African country with hardly any black population, and thus, it is not counted.

Currently, among the remaining three major African colonies, the West Africa Colony is the most promising in achieving a zero black population.

The main reason is simple: it has the least African population. Moreover, being the primary region for Spanish agricultural development, it receives the most support from the Spanish Government.

Perhaps before the outbreak of World War II, the West Africa Colony truly has hope of becoming a colony with zero black population, marking the time when it becomes integrated with the mainland.