Chapter 1224 Closing the Net
Johnson and his entourage came here in good spirits but returned in dismay. After all, the 7th Infantry Regiment would not take care of their food. Even if the East Africans dared to take them in, Johnson would not dare to stay in Fasher City. Stay.
"Your Excellency Fasher, are we going to go back to Khartoum in such despair?" an Egyptian officer asked inappropriately.
Johnson scolded: "What do you mean by being pessimistic? I just made the most rational choice. Do you want to compete with East Africa? I don't mind if you lead your troops to do this. As for You bear the consequences yourself.”
Having said that, the Egyptian officer naturally did not dare to say anything. Although Egypt had not had much dealings with East Africa, he also knew that East Africa was not something to be trifled with.
Of course, for Egypt, there are not many people from Europe that Egypt can afford to offend, even small European countries like Portugal and Greece.
Johnson said: "East Africans have a geographical advantage. Darfur is close to East African territory. Even if we defeat this East African army, it will not help. Therefore, the solution to the Darfur issue must be discussed with London. The higher-ups are negotiating with East Africa. "
My family knows their own affairs, and the British army or allied forces in Sudan are not enough to beat East Africa with one hand. In this case, even London may have to save face. Talk to East African governments.
But when he thinks about the current situation in Europe, Johnson also has a headache. At this time, the British Empire may not have much face overseas unless it withdraws from the European War.
This is obviously impossible. If we withdraw from the European War at this time, I am afraid that France and Russia will kneel down directly, and the entire European continent will become Germany's voice.
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Rhine City.
"Your Majesty, this is a document sent by the United Kingdom and France. The British and French governments requested the empire to respond to recent actions in North and West Africa. Each of the two countries expressed their dissatisfaction."
“Well, they are together?”
“No, France did not react strongly. They just asked our country to explain the refugee problem in West Africa.”
"Is this right! The French should be happy when we transport people to West Africa. After all, this can transport a large amount of cheap labor to the Upper Volta in France. I guess the French government is just taking this opportunity to complain and make it clear to them. "
Regardless of shamelessness, East Africa, like many great powers, has no bottom line. Although East Africa has had a tradition of transporting black people to West Africa in the past, this is the first time that such a large-scale exile has been carried out in other colonial territories.
Although black people from the Great Lakes region migrated westward on a large scale, with more than one million people in total, the European colonists did not have in-depth colonial activities in West Africa at that time, so they did not feel this impact.
It is different now. European countries have also established administrative agencies in the interior of West Africa, and the sudden influx of tens of thousands of black people will obviously have an impact on the colonial system they established.
If it were normal times, this situation would be understandable, and many colonists would even wish for East Africa to send more black slaves to West Africa.
However, today is different from the past. As European countries are deeply involved in the European war, their respective colonies also regard maintaining stability as their primary goal.
Ernst continued: "No matter what, all 800,000 black people will be sent out in the next two years, not only Togoland, but other places where they can land, and wherever conditions permit, we can try it. Anyway, this No one bothered us at that time. "
It is indeed a bit bullying to deport all 800,000 black slaves from Togoland. After all, with so many more people suddenly, food rations alone are a big problem.
Even if Britain and France resorted to massacre, they could not kill them. The total number of citizens of the two countries in the area close to Togoland was only about 10,000.
And black slaves are not lambs to be slaughtered, especially black slaves who have been enslaved in East Africa for so many years. Their desire for freedom is unparalleled.
Therefore, the black slaves who escaped the control of East Africa were bound to flow throughout West Africa and disrupt the local situation. It would be very difficult to find them all, let alone 800,000 black slaves, even if they released 100,000 pigs on the grassland.
Although most of the 800,000 black slaves are old, weak, sick and disabled, there are also many young and strong people. There are always hundreds of thousands of young and strong people with sound limbs. Not only were these people imprisoned and exploited in East Africa for a long time, but they were also held back for a long time. To put it bluntly, there were no female black slaves in East Africa at all.
The more important point is that East Africa has long maintained militarized management of this group of black slaves. As long as a leader-like figure is born among these black slaves, it can have unimaginable consequences for the local social ecology of West Africa. of destruction.
"What was the reaction of the British in Darfur?" Ernst asked.
"The British have a relatively strong reaction to Darfur. This is also the most important point of the British protest against our country. West Africa is not a big deal." The subordinate replied.
This is easy to understand. Eight hundred thousand black slaves were terrifying, but they did not have the guts to target the white colonists. At most, they could only raise the butcher knife to their own compatriots.
Although East Africa exiled them to East Africa and did not distribute weapons, they still had the ability to get some wooden sticks or rob some small tribes. Finally, based on this, they developed and expanded, so that the West African people The political ecology of the indigenous regime is broken.
Although they have worked in East Africa for more than ten years, do not overestimate the construction capabilities of these black slaves. Just like the European colonists forced the indigenous people to engage in a single plantation economy, most of the black slaves in East Africa were engaged in But it's construction.
However, for these 800,000 exiled black slaves, their most urgent need is obviously not to do civil engineering, build roads, or dig canals, but to solve the problem of food first.
The bad thing is that West Africa has little food output. Under the encouragement of the colonists, plantations flourished, but real food crops can only maintain the basic survival of the local people.
If East Africa sells these black slaves to the United States, Brazil, Ottoman and other regions as before, it will be different. They can quickly find jobs by relying on the industrial structure of these regions.
There is obviously no place for these black people in West Africa, and after decades of exploitation, they have also lost their basic survival skills such as hunting, so the only way of life left for them is to get them from the native West Africans. Go grab it.
So the exiled black people in East Africa mainly affected the black people in West Africa, while the white people in West Africa naturally continued to sing and dance, so the refugees and social conflicts in West Africa did not matter to the colonists who mastered the "truth". Not a big problem.
The situation in Darfur is very different. Darfur is a real British colony. Even in name only, this move in East Africa is extremely risky.
This is equivalent to East Africa invading British territory, so the British will naturally not let up on this issue easily.
Of course, the East African government has naturally taken this into consideration. Ernst said: "Just use our previous plan to explain to the British that Darfur has become a new satellite state of our country. We did not know that Darfur and the British The relationship between the jurisdiction of Sudan.”
The relationship between Britain and Darfur naturally does not need to be informed to East Africa, so East Africa can barely use this as an excuse.
“In short, they are just pretending to be deaf and mute about the Darfur issue. The British cannot keep clinging to this issue. When the Germans put some more pressure on them, they will naturally relent.”
“Of course, we can also give the British government a guarantee, East Africa will not take any subsequent actions in other areas of Sudan. We respect the British sovereignty over other areas of Sudan.”
Ernst’s words were quite strict and he only promised not to attack other areas of Sudan. Ambition, and beyond Sudan, it depends on the future strategic choices of East Africa.
The main reason is that East Africa looks down upon the current value of Sudan. There is some agricultural value along the Nile River, but East Africa does not lack such a small amount of land. To be honest, after years of transformation in East Africa, the agricultural situation of Gezira City is better than that of Sudan's political center, Kabul. Tumu is much stronger.
You must know that Khartoum has much more usable land than Gezira City. It occupies the most fertile area of the Gezira Plain and has the Blue Nile as a guaranteed water source.
The city of Gezira in East Africa only occupies the southwest corner of the Gezira Plain, and its only water source is the White Nile River. The reason why it can surpass Khartoum in agriculture is that East Africa has grown in the past few decades. A complete irrigation system was built on both sides of the White Nile.
(End of this chapter)