Chapter 1391 International Conference
Congo is the biggest intersection between East Africa and Belgium, so it is operational to use the Congo as a springboard to influence Belgium.
From the era of Leopold II, Belgium and East Africa have always been good. At that time, the bond between the two countries was Leopold II and her sister Princess Charlotte. It's Ernst's mother-in-law.
Leopold II has passed away, but Ernst's father-in-law and mother-in-law are still healthy, without government interference, live a relaxed and comfortable life every day, have a good mental state, and pay attention to recuperation, so you can't live long Disaster.
The family members of his father-in-law Ferdinand (Massimirino I) live longer. For example, his elder brother, Emperor Franz, who was still living in Vienna. If nothing unexpected happens, the old emperor may be afraid that How many years can I wait.
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May 17, 1922.
Rhine City.
A international conference led by East Africa is underway at the Rhine International Conference Center in the northeast corner of Rhine.
Rhine International Conference Center, standing on the shore of the artificial lake in Rhine, next to the royal gardens, has beautiful natural scenery and complete facilities.
This majestic building, planned to be built by the East African government in 1910 and completed in 1915, also represents the attitude of the East African government to actively integrate into the international community at that time.
However, so far, the Rhine International Convention Center has hosted an important international political and economic conference for the first time.
In front of the conference center building, red carpets were spread out, with colorful flower baskets on both sides. In the square in front of the conference center, Crown Prince Friedrich personally received guests from all over the world.
In Rhine in May, the weather is turning from hot to cool. The comfortable breeze blows on the face of Prince Friedrich, and he waits for the arrival of important political leaders of other countries with a solemn expression.
Soon after, a black East African domestic crown car drove in from outside and finally slowly stopped in front of the red carpet. Then, with the help of security personnel, the heavy bulletproof door was opened.
A middle-aged man, who looked about the same age as Friedrich, walked out of the car, wearing a traditional military uniform from the South German region, similar to the leaders of some countries of this era.
"Cousin Ludwig, welcome you to East Africa." Friedrich stepped forward and held the middle-aged man's hand and said.
Ludwig I, now the king of the Kingdom of Southern Germany, is also one of the members of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
Now Sigmaringen can be divided into three branches, including one in Germany, one in Romania, and one in Southern Germany. Therefore, although Sigmaringen is not as dazzling as the Prussian royal family and the Rhine royal family, it is in the international community. It also has a huge influence.
The end of the 19th century to the early 20th century was also the time when the Hohenzollern family was at its peak. The Hohenzollern family had two empires and two kingdoms.
Moreover, whether it is Germany or the Rhine Empire, they are world-famous powerful empires. As for Romania and the Southern German Kingdoms, they should be considered important countries in their respective regions.
Ludwig I said to Crown Prince Friedrich, "Cousin, why are you responsible for the reception work today? Where is the Emperor?"
Crown Prince Friedrich said: "My father said that we young people should exercise more, but in fact we just wanted to be lazy, so I stood here, but this is indeed a physical job, no wonder my father didn't come here in person."
Lu Dwig I reached out to pat Fry Derrich said on his shoulder: "Haha, you guy, I don't know how many you want to do this job, and if I were the heir to the most powerful empire in the world, it would be no problem to let me stand here for a day."
For people like Friedrich who were born in Rome, Ludwig I was only envious of being a king of a country. In addition to his name, the Kingdom of South Germany was relatively stylish and similar to East Africa. It's completely remote.
Crown Prince Friedrich did not get too entangled with Ludwig I on this topic, but asked, "What have my cousins been busy with recently?"
Ludwig I sighed and said : "What else can be done? At this stage, the only goal of the kingdom is to expand the estuary and thus open up the passage to the Atlantic Ocean."
The Kingdom of Southern Germany has been working hard for the estuary, but like Russia , the Kingdom of Southern Germany is not without external ports, but the coastline is too narrow and long and lacks relatively excellent ports.
The current estuary of the Southern German Kingdom was opened to the border of the former German colony, which is now the Cameroon Province in East Africa, through several wars.
Along the north, it is the Nigeria region under the British sphere of influence. Therefore, sandwiched between East Africa and the United Kingdom, the sea access of the Kingdom of South Germany is not very ideal, but like tentacles, from two The cracks of a great country extend out with difficulty.
To put it more vividly, the Kingdom of South Germany is like a thirsty person in the desert, and there is a glass of water not far away. This glass of water is the Atlantic Ocean, but it is not easy for the Kingdom of South Germany to reach this glass of water. , because he didn't have any strength, and he had just touched the outer edge of the cup with all his strength.
In fact, most of the territory of the South German Kingdom is indeed desert, and only the southwest direction of the territory is a little grassland and oasis.
Of course, the Kingdom of South Germany is a country with a land area of more than 2 million square kilometers. Even though the grassland area in the southwest is not high, the area is not small. Just from the situation in these areas in previous lives, it is not a small area. , it is still possible to place tens of millions of people.
"The Kingdom of South Germany is not like you, East Africa, and our country is vast, but most of it is deserts without value. Of course, the sadder thing is that the coastline of the Kingdom of South Germany is only available. A narrow and long area of more than one hundred kilometers. "
"In this era when there is no ocean and destined to be poor, we can only work hard to expand our coastline, but the difficulty of doing so is that our neighbors are British. Anyone who replaces his opponent with the Spaniards on the other side may not have this problem."
Bioco Island is an island with very no presence. Of course, this is only for other parts of the world. In fact, the forces around the Gulf of Guinea still attach importance to Bioco Island.
At present, Bioco Island belongs to the Guinea colony of Spain. This area is probably the strange African country of Equatorial Guinea in its previous life. Of course, Africa has never lacked strange countries. Most African governments are very anthropomorphic. change.
The same is true for Equatorial Guinea in its previous life. As for Equatorial Guinea's territory, there is no doubt that part of the African continent occupies the majority, but the capital of Equatorial Guinea is established on Bioco Island.
This is as unreasonable as unified Italy setting the capital in Sicily or Sardinia.
However, the reason for this situation is that the source of the colonists is absolutely impossible to get into. The fact is that Spain's construction of Guinea is basically on Bioco Island. In the mainland part of Western Guinea, the older generation of colonial countries like Spain have never paid attention to it and are not willing to develop it.
Most of Western Guinea has a tropical marine climate, extremely humid and hot, and development is difficult. This can be seen from the East Africa next door. Gabon and Cameroon are in the hands of East Africa, with their backs on East Africa, the industrial power of East Africa, backed by East Africa, a major industrial country. It is still the most backward region in East Africa today. If you want to transform the local area, you have to put in a lot of energy, manpower, material resources and financial resources.
But it is obvious that Spanish Guinea is not worth Spain's doing so, especially in the mainland, which is close to East Africa, the great country. The Spanish government is also worried that the investment in the local area will make wedding dresses for East Africa .
Not to mention East Africa, even when facing competition from France and Germany in the last century, Spain also focused on compromise and concessions, until later the surrounding land completely fell into the hands of East Africa.
So, the Spanish government, which lacks a sense of security, dares not invest in the mainland part of Spanish Guinea. On the other hand, Bioco Island, as an island, can attack and defend, but is more popular with the Spanish. Favor.
The coastline of the Kingdom of Southern Germany is directly opposite the island of Bioco in Spanish Guinea. Malabo, the capital of Spanish Guinea, and Bamusso, the only coastal city of the Kingdom of Southern Germany, are across the sea. The straight line distance between the seas between the two. Only more than seventy kilometers.
It can be said that Bioco Island is blocked in front of the doorstep of the Kingdom of South Germany. It only requires a navy to block the only sea access in the Kingdom of South Germany. However, the Spanish government will definitely not do this at this stage. , they have no real contradictions with the Kingdom of Southern Germany.
The Kingdom of Southern Germany was not very interested in Bioc Island, and the Kingdom of Southern Germany was even more interested in Nigeria's land.
In addition to expanding the length of the coastline and seizing excellent sea outlets, it also allows for a large amount of fertile land, both of which are urgently needed by the Kingdom of Southern Germany.
Nigeria's land can be said to be the top in the entire sub-Saharan Africa, feeding 200 million people in the past life. Of course, compared with arable land resources, Nigeria's oil resources are more famous.
A brief summary of the conditions for agricultural development in Nigeria is that the arable land area is vast, the terrain is flat, the precipitation is relatively abundant, and it is nourished and supplemented by the Niger River, the second largest flow in Africa.
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In the early 20th century, even its agricultural conditions were enough to allow the Kingdom of Southern Germany, a country with a population of only more than three million, to live a prosperous life like Argentina.
Unfortunately, most parts of Nigeria are under the control of the British, and the Kingdom of Southern Germany obviously does not have the ability to confront Britain.
However, with the support of East Africa and Germany, the South German Kingdom has opened up some new territories in recent years.
The reason why there is some German incident here is that Germany once colonized Cameroon. However, after Germany sold Cameroon to East Africa, the South German Kingdom basically returned to its dominance by East Africa.
So, Ludwig I said: "We have made some progress in Nigeria in recent years, but with the end of the European war, the British turned their attention back to Nigeria, which greatly hindered it. The expansion of the kingdom to the northwest. "
"This time I went to East Africa to attend the Southeast African Common Market Conference, I also hope to get some support from you and give us some convenience in weapons and material assistance. ”
When talking to Friedrich, Ludwig I was basically very straightforward. After all, let alone the relationship between the two countries, it is enough to belong to the Hohenzollern family. .
Strategically, the Kingdom of South Germany has supported countries as a population barrier from the beginning to be a country that is used to separate East Africa from Black Africa, and can also act as an agent to cause trouble for the British.
Today, the geographical concept of Black Africa is far from comparable to that of previous lives. Black Africa in previous lives was the entire sub-Saharan Africa. After the emergence of East Africa, the living space of Black Africa or black Africans was greatly compressed.
Unless than West Africa, Central Africa, North Africa, East Africa and South Africa in previous lives, white or mixed races occupied the absolute mainstream.
The mixed race can be divided into three types. The first is black and white race. The typical country is the Abyssinian Empire (Ethiopia). Secondly, it is also distributed in North Africa in a small number, such as Egypt and British Somalia. etc.
The second type is yellow-white mixed blood, typical of which are East Africa, the Kingdom of Southern Germany, Darfur, and Congo.
The third type is relatively rare, that is, the yellow-black mixed race, mainly distributed in the Imerina Kingdom in eastern Madagascar. However, the overall race of the Imerina Kingdom is still mainly yellow people, with bloodlines and indigenous Southeast Asians. It is closer, in addition to some island countries in the Indian Ocean, which are also distributed, especially French colonies, Mauritius and Reunion.
Under the influence of East Africa, the second type, yellow and white mixed race, not only occupies the majority of the mixed race, but is also the largest population on the entire African continent today, and German is the main language.
German is the mainstream regardless of East Africa, the Kingdom of Southern Germany, and even the Congolese colonies of Belgium.
The Kingdom of South Germany is the fourth largest German country in the world and the second largest German country in Africa. East Africa also supports the expansion of the Kingdom of South Germany to West Africa.
East Africa is not afraid that the South German Kingdom will escape from the control of East Africa. After all, East Africa alone occupies nearly half of Africa's area. Unless a country can unify North Africa and West Africa, there is no African continent that can confront East Africa at all. A country that poses a threat.
The South German Kingdom, not to mention integrating North Africa and West Africa, is now struggling to deal with Nigeria alone. Even if the South German Kingdom can annex Nigeria, its upper limit is only a regional power.
As for the current situation in Africa, the possibility of the French unifying North Africa and West Africa is much greater than that of the South German Kingdom, which is also in the absence of the interfering factor between countries such as East Africa and North Africa.
Crown Prince Friedrich said to Ludwig I: "Cousin, this time you were called to the city of Rhine mainly for economic meetings. For the support of the Kingdom of South Germany, we can first release the issue of support for the Kingdom of South Germany. Let's talk after the meeting."
"You don't need to be in a hurry. After all, our East Africa's attitude towards the South German Kingdom is consistent, that is, to support the expansion of the South German Kingdom to the northwest. At that time, you can My father communicated more about the issue of aid. "
Hearing Crown Prince Friedrich said this, Ludwig I had to give up, but he had made up his mind to actively cooperate with East Africa's plans this time to further deepen the relations between the two countries in exchange for further support from East Africa to the Kingdom of South Germany.
In fact, in recent years, the South German Kingdom has not actually been very ideal due to its national expansion policy of light military force, so it needs more support from East Africa.
The root cause of this is that the South German Kingdom missed the best opportunity period for expansion in Africa. Before the founding of the South German Kingdom, the entire Africa was already divided up, so the expansion of the South German Kingdom can only be adopted More extreme way.
In addition, the Southern German Kingdom is subject to population restrictions, especially the lack of immigrant population in the German region.
(This chapter ends)