Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 288 Archway

The resumption of negotiations was requested by the Portuguese. The Yao people had taken a step back and proposed conditions that were more favorable to the Portuguese, but the Portuguese still insisted on unrealistic illusions.

Chigubo was under attack, and within ten hours of the attack, the Ngoni and Zhaona captured a third of Chigubo's urban area, although the Portuguese killed thousands of Ngoni People and recruiters, but the Ngoni people and recruiters continued to flow, and the attacks were fierce, and the Portuguese had no chance to breathe.

In this case, the Portuguese actually accused Roque of not helping. Roque was really surprised by Joao Franco's brain circuit.

As a mediator, Rock is of course inconvenient to speak.

So Zha Zha stood up and left without saying a word.

Joao Franco hadn't let go of his fingers yet, and was immediately at a loss.

"Oh, hehehe, is the talk over? Sorry, I'm old and lack energy, I need to rest early—" The former president finally woke up, standing up tremblingly with his hands on the table.

"Slow down, slow down—" Rock stepped forward to help.

"Thank you, Lord, I hope to have the opportunity to drink coffee together—" the former president extended an olive branch.

"Then I'll visit you later." Rock reciprocated.

"Wait—" Joao Franco finally realized what happened.

Rock and the former president did not speak, and looked at Joao Franco with eyes like a fool, and the scumbag figure had disappeared in the corridor.

The negotiation meeting room is on the second floor of Jinshan Hotel. Zha Zha lives on the left side of the stairs on the second floor, and Joao Franco lives on the right side of the stairs on the second floor. This arrangement is actually very beneficial to the Portuguese.

"Wait, the negotiation is not over yet!" João Franco's forehead was already sweating. Yesterday Zhazha said that he was going to hunt, and he might leave at dawn. It would take three to five days if Zhazha disappeared.

Don't say it's impossible. It's probably impossible for this kind of thing to happen to Germans. It's too normal for Africans to happen.

In fact, the Germans are sometimes unreliable. No, the Chief of the General Staff is "unwell" today.

"Mr. Franco, if you continue with this attitude, then the negotiation is actually over." The former president still looked dazed, and the words he said were very sensible.

"No, the negotiations are not over. Chigubo is under attack, my compatriots are dying, and the war must stop immediately." João Franco's body was shaking.

"So what do you mean?" Rock finally spoke.

"I'm sorry Lord Nyasaran, please bring back the Yao people, let's continue the negotiation." Joao Franco finally realized the reality.

Rock didn't talk nonsense, he helped the former president to sit down, let the former president continue to doze off, turned around and found not only the scum, but also the Chief of Staff.

"Sorry, I'm not in good health." The apology from the Chief of Staff was very insincere.

"Then let's continue." Roque doesn't care about the chief of staff and the former president, the key is Joao Franco.

"In any case, the war must stop first, and then we can continue to negotiate." João Franco returned to the starting point.

"My lord, I really don't know what else to talk about. This guy is wasting all of our time." Zha Zha ignored Joao Franco and complained directly to Rock, and the honest translator next to him directly translated " This guy" was translated from the original.

This guy!

It was such an impolite title that João Franco's eyes blazed.

Neither Roque nor the Chief of Staff spoke. Waiting for Joao Franco to explode, the former president had already started snoring.

Joao Franco took several deep breaths before calming down, and then calmed down: "The war can't continue—"

"As long as the negotiations are not over, the war will continue—" Zha Zha interrupted Joao Franco, thanking Portugal for its 500 years of colonization of Portuguese East Africa. Both Zha Zha and Joao Franco used Portugal Yu said: "—Anyway, it was you Portuguese who died, not our Yao people. Maybe you don't know that it is the Ngoni and Zhaonao people who fought with you Portuguese."

Zha Zha's lips are a bit thick, and they are a little turned out. They look similar to Green of the Warriors. When he speaks, he has a strong sense of ridicule, especially when Zha Zha smiles on purpose, the corners of his mouth are still a little crooked, let alone Joao Franco, Roque wanted to beat him.

So Rock didn't look at Zhazha's face when Zhazha was talking, and lowered his head to fiddle with the signature pen in his hand.

Schlieffen looked at Zhaza with great interest, probably assessing Zhaza's threat.

In fact, the meeting room is very noisy at the moment. Zha Zha and Joao Franco speak Portuguese, Roque speaks English, Schlieffen speaks German, and the former president speaks French. There were several translators of different languages ​​standing there. As soon as the scumbag's voice fell, several translators began to chatter, and as a result, the meeting room was a bit noisy.

Even the translator of the former president is busy, and I don't know if the former president who is snoring can hear him.

"My lord, shouldn't the meeting be adjourned temporarily—" Schlieffen suggested softly to Rock. Obviously Schlieffen knew English, but at this time he was using German, which was really annoying.

"Then let's suspend the meeting temporarily and continue in half an hour. Mr. Franco, think about it carefully. Persistence is a good quality, but persistence at an inappropriate time is stubbornness." Rock reminded Joao Franco kindly, in exchange for Joao Franco snorted coldly.

Then the meeting will be adjourned temporarily, and Zha Zha, Joao Franco and all the translators will leave, leaving only Rock, Schlieffen, and the former president in the conference room.

"It's finally clean." The former president said sleepily.

"How do we end this?" Schlieffen switched back to English.

"End? Just kidding, we are just witnesses, what right do we have to end?" The former president also muttered in English, the voice was not loud enough that the three of them could hear it.

The French and the Germans are also feuds, so it is inevitable to tear each other down, Rock can only turn a blind eye.

"The Portuguese must first accept this condition, and then there is the possibility of continuing negotiations." Roque reiterated.

"That's the only way it seems," Schlieffen agreed.

"Hehe—" The former president didn't speak, his attitude was self-evident.

"So what should we do next?" Rock didn't make a decision, and gave the initiative to Schlieffen and the former president.

"Let's end this as soon as possible, the weather in Johannesburg is terrible." Schlieffen just wanted to hurry and go home.

"Let's talk to Mr. Franco," the former president suggested.

Then go find Joao Franco together.

Joao Franco was in the lounge. Hearing Roque's suggestion, Joao Franco's expression looked like he had seen a ghost.

"What, accept the conditions of the Yao people? Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Joao Franco was furious.

The three of Rock did not speak, and sat quietly on the sofa watching Joao Franco perform.

"If we want the Yao people to surrender, then it will be a disgrace to the civilized society. Since the Age of Discovery, the authority established by the civilized society in front of the barbarians will be swept away, and the barbarians in other colonies will also be ruled by the Yao people. Isn't this result very dangerous?" Joao Franco tried his best to win the support of Rock and the others.

"Don't say it's so serious, Portugal lost Brazil in 1822." Roque didn't want to listen to Joao Franco's nonsense. The failure of Portugal does not mean the failure of colonialism. If this is the case, then Britain should be the most failed in the world countries, because the United Kingdom has lost Canada and Australia one after another over the years.

"You—" Joao Franco didn't expect Roque to be so shameless, and he was about to shoot Roque directly.

"Mr. Franco, be pragmatic. If you don't accept the conditions of the Yao people, then the war will continue. If you have not decided before the fall of Chigubo, then no one can guarantee what conditions the Yao people will propose next. ’” The ex-president would be refreshed.

"Perhaps the Yao people don't need to put forward conditions at all." Schlieffen added a knife.

"You guys, shouldn't we be on the same side?" Joao Franco seemed to have just understood the situation.

"No, I only represent my personal position, not even London's position." Rock immediately dismissed it.

"Germany is only with justice." Look at the archway erected by the chief of staff.

"France has no position." The former president's words were succinct.

Rock suddenly felt a burst of sadness.

Rock understands how Joao Franco feels now, just like Gu Weijun at the Paris peace conference, and the Syrian representative in the rest area of ​​the UN General Assembly. This is the tragedy of a small country with few people. If the country is weak, the helpers invited will rebel .

"Mr. Franco, I know you are not reconciled, but I must remind you that the more important thing than persistence is to stop the loss in time. If you persist in the end, you may get nothing. If you stop the loss in time, you can at least keep part of the principal." Rock stood up I don't want to see Franco continue to struggle. In the past, the Chinese were full of grievances and had nowhere to cry. In the end, they could only fight by not signing.

I just don't know if the Portuguese have the backbone.

As it turns out, the Portuguese did not.

Just when Rock, Schlieffen, and the former president were about to leave, Joao Franco finally spoke: "Wait, even if we agree, who can guarantee that the Yao people will not tear up the agreement—"

Rock looked back and saw Joao Franco sitting on the sofa with his head down, his forehead was covered with drops of sweat, as if he had just been fished out of the water.

"Just now, there were only the last 1000 people left in Chigubo, and only the Governor's Palace remained in the city—" Joao Franco smiled wryly, and finally gave up resistance: "—maybe, it has fallen now gone."

Rock, Schlieffen, and the former president looked at each other, and there was relief, vigilance, and a little bit of sadness in everyone's eyes.

"I promise, I promise that the Yao people will not tear up the agreement." Rock's voice was sonorous and forceful.

So the negotiation started again immediately, this time it was much simpler. Under Roque's insistence, the Yao people gave up their demand for indemnity, and agreed to an immediate truce, withdrawing all troops to the north of the Save River within three days.

The Portuguese agreed in principle to give up all territory north of the Save River, but the Yaos inflicted losses on the Portuguese south of the Save River.

This request is actually a fig leaf, to save some face for the Portuguese.

That night, Stoudemire came to Rock.

"The Portuguese agreed?" Stoudemire's news was fast enough. When he came to find Rock, Rock had just returned to the police station.

"Agreed, it's better than we expected. We can talk about the distribution of income now." Rock laughed loudly. The current result is better than what Rock and Stoudemire expected.

Before the negotiations started, Roque and Stoudemire's goal was the Zambezi River Basin, not the Save River Basin at all.

The current result is nearly [-] square kilometers more than the expected territory of Rock and Stoudemire.

Don't underestimate the [-] square kilometers. Africa's terrain is high in the middle and low around. The land in Johannesburg and Nyasaland is actually not very suitable for farming in principle, at least the terrain is not flat enough.

The territory of Portuguese East Africa, especially the Zambezi River Basin and the Save River Basin are all plains with fertile land and flat plains. As long as they are reclaimed, they will be good farmland, so Rock is very happy with this result.

"Save River, you got the Save River again now—" Xiaosi's expression was broken. In just one day, Rock forced the Portuguese to surrender and took so many benefits from the Portuguese. Xiaosi Si wanted to break his head, and couldn't figure out how Rock did it.

"How about it? Discuss, I will give you both Sofala and Bella, and you will give me the Zambezi River." Rock made a condition.

"Okay!" Stoudemire hadn't recovered from the shock.

Beira was a natural port long ago, but after the rise of Sofala, Beira's port was largely abandoned.

These two cities are not far from the Save River, about 120 kilometers.

Since Stoudemire has agreed to this condition, it means that the area between the north of Beira and the Zambezi River belongs to Nyasaland.

The area of ​​this area is about 20 square kilometers.

This is the reward for Rock's support of the Yao people. I'm afraid Rock didn't expect that the reward was so generous.

It is indeed a cannon shot, golden ten thousand taels.

"How do you get the Portuguese to agree to this plan?" Stoudemire finally thought of this question.

"These lands now belong to the Yao people, and have nothing to do with the Portuguese—" Rock had already filed a record, and even prepared an excuse for the Portuguese: "What's more, the hatred between the Portuguese and the Yao people is not shared. Dai Tian, ​​even if the war is ceased now, no one can guarantee that the Yao people will not tear up the agreement in the future, so Nyasaland and Rhodesia came forward to buy the land between the Yao people and the Portuguese, and physically separate the Portuguese and Yao people. The tribes are divided, so that even if the Yao tribe breaks the agreement in the future, they will attack Nyasaland and Rhodesia first."

Roque's plan is very feasible. Although this is clearly dividing the territory of Portuguese East Africa, I am afraid that the Portuguese will still be grateful to Roque.

This archway is also standing well!

(End of this chapter)