Chapter 626 - 295: Population Issues (Part 3)

Speaking of the native issue in Africa, Carlo also raised a question he was more interested in, which is about the assimilation of Moroccans in the South Morocco Colony.

When the South Morocco Colony was first established, the entire colony had a population of nearly one million. All these people were Moroccans, which means they were white.

After eliminating the extreme resistance elements among the Moroccans, the remaining people became the targets for Spanish assimilation.

Now, after so many years have passed, Carlo was curious about the situation in the South Morocco Colony and where the remaining Moroccans have gone.

Upon hearing Carlo’s inquiry, the Minister of Colonial Affairs, William, was obviously prepared and answered without hesitation: "Your Majesty, currently our assimilation of Moroccans in the South Morocco Colony has been quite successful.

More than 500,000 Moroccans have left the South Morocco Colony. These people have joined our nationality in various ways, they generally have mastered Spanish and are believers of Catholicism.

Among them, nearly 100,000 have been transferred to the mainland and settled across various regions. The remaining 400,000 have been relocated to various colonies, with more than 200,000 Moroccans being sent to the Congo Territory.

According to our observations of these nationality-acquired Moroccans, they have not shown any stance or thought of resistance after entering a new life.

From this, it can be inferred that our assimilation of Moroccans has been quite successful. When these Moroccans give birth to the next generation, those children will be pure-blooded Spaniards."

Carlo nodded, quite satisfied with this data.

After removing those extreme resistance elements, the population of the South Morocco Colony was left with less than 800,000.

Among these 80,000, 50,000 have already been assimilated, which is quite an impressive achievement. According to this data, of the several million people remaining in the Kingdom of Morocco, Spain can at least assimilate half.

This is actually one of the reasons why Spain wanted to colonize Morocco. Besides acquiring large tracts of land in Morocco, they could also gain millions of Moroccans.

As long as they teach them Spanish and force them to believe in Catholicism, they would not be much different from real Spaniards.

Even if these converted Catholic Moroccans are scattered to Spain and its colonies, even if they maintain any resistance sentiment, they would not affect the Spanish situation in the slightest.

"How is our population introduction plan in the American Region being executed?" Carlo continued to ask.

At that time, due to a shortage of population, Spain formulated two major plans to increase its domestic population.

The first plan was to assimilate as many of the tens of thousands of Moroccans in the South Morocco Colony as possible. The second plan was to introduce a large number of Spanish descendants and mixed-blood immigrants from the American countries that Spain once colonized, to immigrate to Spain.

Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and other medium to large American countries were once Spanish colonies. Even some places in the United States once belonged to Spain, and these places have a large number of Spanish immigrants and mixed-blood people.

As long as attractive conditions are offered, some of these people are willing to return to the embrace of Spain. After all, after becoming independent from Spain, although some countries indeed embarked on a rapid development path, some countries’ economies were a complete mess, with political situations extremely chaotic, not necessarily better than during the Spanish colonial period.

The matter of population introduction was also under the charge of the Minister of Colonial Affairs, William, who continued to report: "Your Majesty, up until now, we have introduced about 200,000 immigrants from the American Region.

If we include the Cuba Region, the number of immigrants we have obtained from the American Region has exceeded 400,000. Judging from the willingness of people from various countries in the American Region to immigrate to Spain, we can continually obtain immigrants from America, and this will become an important source of our population growth."