Chapter 314 Trade and Conflict
The town of Badele in the Turkana Province of the East African Kingdom is one of the northernmost towns in the Turkana Province. It is also a trading market set up by the East African Kingdom.
Early in the morning, the market opens in Badelei.
Abyssinian caravans coming from all over southern Abyssinia brought horses, cattle, sheep, camels and some agricultural specialties raised by the Abyssinians to Badele town deal.
"A total of one hundred and fifty muskets arrived in the shop today, with excellent performance. You can bid freely, and the one with the highest price will get it." As a specialized arms store reported the products.
Instantly everyone started competing to bid.
“I will give you thirty Abyssinian horses.” Bubuya Weiss, a businessman from the Tigray region in northern Abyssinia, said.
Abyssinian horses are a specialty of Abyssinia and are also produced in Turkana Province in East Africa.
As soon as his bid was exported, it scared off many small caravans interested in buying Abyssinia. Northern Abyssinia is the core area of the Abyssinian Empire, and the Tigray region It is the birthplace of the Abyssinian Empire. Several ruling families of the Abyssinian Empire are rooted in the Tigray region, and Bubuyawes is a member of the Zagwe family in the Tigray region.
Just when Bubuyaweis thought he had won this batch of goods, a discordant voice suddenly came, "Hehehe, the Yankees also want to ride on us, our Amway Lai Family Thirty Abyssinian horses, plus one camel”
This is a businessman named Oudley Kevin from the southern Amhara region of the Abyssinian Empire. It is obvious that Oudley Kevin is also determined to obtain these firearms.
Bubuyaweis took a closer look and found out that he was an "old rival". He mocked unceremoniously: "It turns out they are a small family from Amhara. How can they be compared to our Zagwe family?" "Our Zagwe family is one of the top three families in the empire. If I add ten more Amhara donkeys, this batch of guns will be mine."
The East African businessman was stunned when he heard this. Stunned, he asked: "Mr. Bubuyawes, are you talking about ten donkeys?"
Bubuyawes: "It is ten donkeys, but they are from Amhara." Ten donkeys, they are still stupid donkeys with the same brains as Amway's Lai family."
"You..." Kevin Oudley's blood pressure immediately rose, "Okay, okay, let's play like this, right? Ten lame camels of the Zagwe family in Tigray ”
East African businessman: "Uh! Mr. Odley Kevin, disabled livestock have to be discounted."
Obviously, Oudley Kevin didn't really want to trade the lame camel, just to humiliate Zag The Wei family and the East African businessmen misunderstood what he meant, but Kevin Oudley was very happy.
Oudley Kevin: "You are right, lame camels have to be discounted. I just said that Zagwe's lame camels are not worth the price! Hahaha..."
< br>"You bastard..." Bubu Yaweisi was angered by the irony and went up to start a free fight with Oudley Kevin.
The East African staff with quick eyesight and quick hands hurriedly tried to restrain both parties, but both parties obviously refused to give up, and a group of people gathered around and fought.
Seeing that he couldn't stop the fight, the store owner had no choice but to blow his warning whistle, followed by a sharp trailing "oo" sound.
The East African Mounted Police from the town of Badele came after hearing the news. A dozen horses came from outside the market, holding sticks to drive away the Abyssinian businessmen who were fighting in a ball. soon.
"Please be quiet, this is a public place, not a place for fighting," said Bedelai Police Chief Cruz angrily.
At this time, the two parties fighting had already squatted in a row, listening to Cruz's lecture, surrounded by Abyssinian people eating melons. It was rare to see these big families being defeated. It was really interesting.
"Bodelai is a fair trade market. Everything depends on money, not on whoever is stronger in force can be arrogant. You should feel lucky that it is me who is here, not the border guards, otherwise they will not tolerate you. Now Return to trading and don’t do anything again, otherwise I will let you know what we are doing Unless the police are so powerful, everyone else should leave and continue trading.”
After stabilizing the normal order of the market, Cruise left, leaving only Bubuya Weiss and Odley Kevin. They looked at each other angrily, but they no longer dared to do anything casually. The East African's baton really hurt their bodies.
In the end, Oudley Kevin won this batch of firearms for the price of thirty horses and eleven "Zagwe Lame" camels.
But when leaving the city, Bubuyaweis said viciously: "Asshole! When you get to Abyssinia, you'd better pray that nothing happens!"
Oudley Kevin said He said with a proud face: "I really thought this was Tigray! I'm waiting for your revenge."
Kevin Oudley's confidence came from the guns he had just obtained. With the weapons in hand and the caravans in hand, he was an expert who had been around Abyssinia all year round, so he would naturally not be afraid.
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North of the town of Badele is Negmot, the southernmost city of the Abyssinian Empire. The relationship between East Africa and the Abyssinian Empire is still good. There is almost no major conflict of interest, which is why Bodelai set up the trading market.
When East Africa expanded to the Ethiopian Plateau, it was wary of the forces within the Abyssinian Empire, but that was all.
East Africa has never really invaded Abyssinia from beginning to end. Naturally, there is no conflict or contradiction. At most, the southern neighbors have changed from black indigenous people to white people, which naturally caused Abyssinia. The rulers of southern Nia are vigilant. After all, Britain, France, Italy and Egypt are eyeing the Abyssinian Empire on the Red Sea coast, and there are lessons learned from the British invasion. It is impossible to want the Abyssinians to relax their vigilance.
Yes, the Italians also briefly owned a "colony" on the Red Sea coast, namely the Port of Assab in northern Djibouti. In 1869, Italian colonist Giuseppe Zapeto's private colonial company-Rubatino Company and The tribal chiefs of Assab on the Red Sea coast signed an agreement to purchase the port of Assab. However, Egypt opposed this and sent troops to occupy Assab. Italy's colonization of Assab was temporarily frustrated.
So now Italy has no colonies in Africa, but Rubatino Company has not completely withdrawn from Assab Port, and is still looking for opportunities to make a comeback. Now they have hit a good opportunity, and the Kingdom of Italy is deliberately Invading the Abyssinian Empire required a landing port, and on the Red Sea coast, only the Rubatino Company was considered Italian, so the Royal Government of Italy recruited the Rubatino Company, a full time earlier than in history. It will take ten years, but now Assab Port is still in Egyptian hands, and long-term planning is needed.
As can be seen from the Port of Assab plotted by the Kingdom of Italy, almost all forces compete fiercely near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, with Djibouti as the center in the previous life, the French Somaliland colony in the middle, and the British colony in the southeast The colony of Somaliland, Eritrea in the north is the Egyptian sphere of influence mixed with Italian civilian colonial groups in the Gulf of Assab, while in the west is the Abyssinian Empire, and in the southwest is the Dire Dawa military town of the East African Kingdom, plus the Ottoman The remaining forces of the empire, tens of thousands of square kilometers of land on the west coast of the small Bab el-Mandeb Strait are crowded with countries and tribes, and the source of all this is because of the opening of the Suez Canal.
The most aggrieved ones are undoubtedly the Abyssinian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. One was surrounded by a landlocked country, and although the other was the nominal master of the local area, in fact Egypt was descended from the Albanian tycoon——Ali , had already become independent from the Ottoman Empire and inherited most of its assets west of the Sinai Peninsula.
What’s interesting is that Eritrea was snatched from the Abyssinian Empire by the Ottoman Empire in its heyday in 1557. It is now the territory of Egypt. This is also the relationship between Egypt and the Abyssinian Empire. One of the bad reasons, coupled with the interest disputes between the two sides in the Sudan, simply made the hatred worse. When the British invaded the Abyssinian Empire, Egypt even took advantage of the fire to rob the Abyssinian Empire.
There is no territorial conflict between East Africa and the Abyssinian Empire. Although East Africa occupied the southern part of Ethiopia in the previous life, the Abyssinian Empire never ruled it. In the previous life, southern Ethiopia was merged into the Abyssinian Empire in 1872. By 1896, during the reign of Menelik II, Menelik Neelik II moved the capital south to Addis Ababa in the central Ethiopian Plateau in 1886. Now the most powerful forces in the Abyssinian Empire are Johannes IV and Menelik II supported by the British. Shi is now the king of the Kingdom of Shoa (equivalent to a conquered vassal state of the Abyssinian Empire).
(End of this chapter)