Chapter 811 Farewell
New Hamburg Port.
Most areas of the New Hamburg Port City that were damaged by the war have now been repaired. Some of the black slave soldiers organized by Portugal were captured as labor force. East Africa has completed quite a good job in repairing the New Hamburg Port City and Maputo. .
Today's New Hamburg Port City is even busier than before the war. Dozens of British and Portuguese ships dock here every day to pick up prisoners of war stranded in East Africa.
"General Roberts, I hope to come to East Africa as a guest next time. Friends are welcome in East Africa." Merkel joked to the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces who was about to return to the UK.
Earl Roberts smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid it's not going to be good for me when I return to China this time. I probably won't be working in the army for a long time. If I have the chance, I will definitely come here to see this land that allows me to try the taste of failure."
As the supreme commander of the coalition forces in the South African War, Earl Roberts will definitely face difficulties after returning home, but he will not completely take the blame.
After all, I have previous achievements and rich connections in the UK, so the outcome will not be too bad, but it will be difficult to be in a high position.
Although East Britain and Britain have "reconciled", this is not the result the British government wants to see. In fact, Britain has failed in the South African War, and its suppression of East Africa has completely failed.
However, the integrity of the Cape Colony was preserved through negotiations, which can be regarded as some comfort.
Looking at the groups of cheerful British soldiers, Earl Roberts felt only bitterness in his heart. Human joys and sorrows are not the same.
Now that the British prisoners of war know that they can finally leave this hellish place in South Africa and go home, their memories in South Africa are not good for them.
In fact, they were not dissatisfied with the war, but more dissatisfied with the environment in South Africa. The biggest dilemma many people encountered during the South African War was the painful memory of suffering from malaria, and they even felt that they were going to die in South Africa. In this barbaric land.
This situation did not improve until East Africa intervened. As a long-term victim of malaria, East Africa has become a medical doctor. In addition to developing specific drugs such as quinine, it has also developed a variety of auxiliary treatment drugs. Of course, the main ones are Mainly Chinese medicine.
After all, East Africa is relatively backward in the modern medical and chemical fields and lacks drug research and development capabilities, so it can only be treated conservatively through traditional Chinese medicine and other methods, but the effect is still good.
The British soldier will definitely never forget the experience of being fed Chinese herbal medicine in the prisoner of war camp. The main reason is that it was so bitter, and he drank a big bowl at a time. Every time he was fed the strange East African medicine, he felt like he had lost his soul.
At first, the prisoners of war even thought that some kind of special "poison" was brewed in East Africa. After all, the taste of traditional Chinese medicine was so unpleasant that it was even more uncomfortable to drink it in the mouth. It was even difficult to drink it by pinching the nose. .
However, the effect is also very significant. I feel refreshed after I have relieved myself. Therefore, the peculiar East African potion became a "refreshing potion" in the mouths of the prisoners of war.
Of course, the British government paid the money in the end, and East Africa will not engage in loss-making business.
And the fundamental reason for saving lives and healing the wounded is that East Africa is afraid that these British guys will implicate itself. Every war is bound to have a major epidemic, so as soon as the war ended, East Africa carried out a large-scale disinfecting of the occupied areas.
However, in view of the large area occupied this time, fire attacks were mainly used. Many battlefields were burned directly by East Africa. In towns and villages, the ruins were cleared, water sources were checked, etc.
Count Roberts was one of the witnesses. Looking at the brand-new Port of Hamburg, he sighed: "It is not unfair to lose this war to you. Your strong mobilization ability and efficient organizational ability , not lagging behind most countries in Europe."
Merck naturally knows this. After all, East Africa is fighting on its doorstep this time, and the UK cannot move faster even if it wants to. He said: "You're not bad either. If it weren't for the distance restriction, the South African War would be hard to predict, but this assumption is meaningless." While the two were talking, the ships arranged by the British government were already filled to the brim.
"Earl, our ship will leave soon." Earl Roberts' subordinates came over and said.
Earl Roberts looked at the bustling docks of the New Hamburg Port City, with loneliness and regret in his eyes. He patted Merk on the shoulder and said: "Goodbye, young man!"
Then, this The old man, who had fought for Britain for most of his life, walked step by step towards the deck. The British ship was filled with the afterglow of the setting sun.
Merke smiled and then went back without turning his head.
This time the British and Portuguese governments were busy. Apart from the British army, the British government still had a conscience. They did not leave more than 200,000 Indian soldiers alone, while Portugal seemed very unkind. Basically all black people, including those of mixed Portuguese descent, were left behind.
Even the Portuguese civilians in some colonies did not want to be cared about by the Portuguese government. However, under the strong request of East Africa, the Portuguese government still had to arrange ships to bring these Portuguese residents back to the mainland.
Even because there were so many people, the Portuguese government simply turned to the Brazilian government. Brazil lacked a population, so it was better for the colonial residents to directly defect to Brazil.
So in the Luanda area, many Brazilian ships appeared. In addition to the army, there are hundreds of thousands of Portuguese in Angola. The Brazilian government still welcomes these Portuguese.
Now, Portugal owes a lot of debt, and it is simply impossible to bring back nearly 300,000 Portuguese civilians in Angola and Mozambique for resettlement.
So I asked Brazil, my former little brother, for help. Even though I had lost all my face, I could only do this. East Africa had no feelings for these Portuguese, just like the Boers.
There are hundreds of thousands of Boers in East Africa, but they have been dispersed by East Africa and distributed throughout East Africa. If the Boers had not been able to have some relationship with Germany, East Africa would have repatriated them to the Cape long ago. Damn, in fact, the British have no interest in these Boers, so even if East Africa wants to send them to Cape Town, the British Cape Town colonial government will probably not accept them.
The majority of the Boers are mainly Dutch, French and Germans, so they can barely have anything to do with East Africa. This is also the basis for East Africa to accept the Boers.
Of course, in order for these Boers to be completely integrated into East Africa, they can no longer be concentrated in one place, and they can no longer stay in the provinces of Orange and Hechingen. They will mainly be used to fill Angola and Mozambique. Follow-up Coupled with the immigration from East Africa to the two places, these Boers will eventually disappear in the long river of history.
As for the Boers in Cape Town, the future is really hard to say. There are too many Boers in Cape Town, and it is very likely that the situation in South Africa will repeat itself, that is, the Boers returned to power after independence.
And this time there is no basis for the so-called dispute between blacks and whites in the Cape Colony. South Africa is originally an area where blacks are less distributed, and the most important black group, the Zulus, has been wiped out by East Africa. In the future, Even if Cape Town becomes independent, there will be no more Mandela-like figures.
However, it is impossible for Cape Town to regain the glory of the Republic of South Africa in its previous life. All mining areas are basically occupied by East Africa, and at best it will become an agricultural and pastoral country.
The only thing worth mentioning is the value of shipping. In the future, shipping on the east and west coasts of East Africa will have to avoid Cape Town. This is inevitable. However, after the construction of the East African Two-Ocean Railway is completed, dependence on it will be greatly reduced.
(End of this chapter)