Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 585 Bad Debt

Erich von Falkenhayn had not yet received a reply from Roque, but Roque had received a telegram from London.

The lingering Earl of Selborne implied that Roark could properly consider accepting Erich von Falkenhayn's suggestion to end the chaos in Tanganyika as soon as possible.

This telegram confused Roque. Roque still remembered that the task given to Roque by the Earl of Selborne was to make Tanganyika fall into chaos as much as possible and continue to consume Germany's national power. Roque didn't know why. Now Earl Selborne's attitude took a 180-degree turn.

It was Sidney Milner who understood the twists and turns. After reading the telegram, Sidney Milner expressed contempt: "Damn nobles, they are simply moths of the country."

This map is a bit big, Rock and Ade are also nobles, Sidney Milner immediately reacted, and then corrected his attitude: "Earl Selborne means that the chaos in Tanganyika, It is better not to affect the arms race in Europe, so that the power of the Ministry of War will continue to increase, and the whole country will be kidnapped by a few careerists of the Ministry of War-"

In the end, Sidney Milner couldn't help complaining. Some people in the War Department were indeed too much. After the arms race began, Britain's defense expenditures continued to rise, and the whole society was serving the War Department. At this time If Germany takes the initiative to reduce its investment in the arms race because of the consumption of Tanganyika, then Britain's investment in the arms race will also be reduced accordingly, which will definitely make many people dissatisfied.

The arms race is a symbol of comprehensive national strength, just like the manufacture of large aircraft in the future, many enterprises in the whole society will be highly involved.

Therefore, for the country, the arms race is a great consumption of national power, but for the British local enterprises and some individuals, the arms race is a carnival with rich rewards, so not everyone is on the sidelines. From the standpoint of the people's livelihood, they hope to stop the arms race, and some people are willing to see the arms race continue.

As for whether the arms race will lead to people's livelihood, this is the relationship between the government. If the economy fails, the government should bear the main responsibility, and it has nothing to do with individual companies.

"Understood—" Roque finally understood Earl Selborne's intentions, and of course Roque would cooperate unconditionally at this time.

From the standpoint of southern Africa, Roark does not want any accidents in the arms race. It is best to be like another time and space. The arms race ends in World War I, so that the national power of the United Kingdom will be consumed by you to the greatest extent. Southern Africa More autonomy will be gained, and Rock will be able to launch attacks on Southwest Africa and Tanganyika justifiably at that time.

If it is still the same as in another time and space, after the end of the First World War, Southwest Africa and Tanganyika were entrusted by the League of Nations to join Southern Africa, then the territory of Southern Africa at that time——

I really feel refreshed just thinking about it.

So next, the progress of peace negotiations in Tanganyika is progressing rapidly.

On June 28th, Erich von Falkenhayn and Mu Mu held a new round of negotiations in Honor Hold, witnessed by Rock and Sidney Milner.

The atmosphere of the meeting was not bad. With Rock's timely communication, Mumu and Erich von Falkenhain both clearly knew each other's bottom line, and then the negotiation conditions revolved around Lake Rukwa in the southwest of Tanganyika. Expand.

On behalf of Zanzibar, Mumu asked for an autonomous status similar to that of southern Africa. Germany would not interfere in the internal affairs of Zanzibar, would not send officials to Zanzibar, and would not station troops in Zanzibar. In addition to retaining some diplomatic rights, Germany It is tantamount to losing actual control over Zanzibar.

In principle, Erich von Falkenhayn agreed to Zanzibar's request, but serious disputes arose between Erich von Falkenhayn and Mumu regarding the delineation of the territory of Zanzibar. disagreement.

Erich von Falkenhayn believes that Zanzibar is limited to the southwestern area of ​​Tanganyika, including Fort Honor and Lake Rukwa, with an area of ​​about [-] square kilometers.

Mu Mu confirmed that the range of Zanzibar should be the actual control area of ​​the Fort Honor troops. This area includes not only the coasts of Lake Rukwa and Lake Tanganyika in the southwest, but also the coast of Lake Niassa in the south. Is regardless of the eastern seaboard.

For Mumu's request, the territorial area is nearly 60 square kilometers, and the total area of ​​Tanganyika is only more than 100 million square kilometers, which is definitely unacceptable to Erich von Falkenhayn.

Tanganyika during this period also included Burundi and Rwanda, so the area was larger than the future Tanzania.

"Do you think my request is too much? In fact, it is far from it. If it is really divided according to the actual control area, Zanzibar should also include the northern area and Lake Victoria. The actual control area of ​​​​you Germans in Tanganyika , only Ping An Port and Usumbula.” Mumu doesn’t think his demands are too much, in Mumu’s view, the behavior of the Germans occupying the latrine and not shitting is the real excess.

Compared with neighboring Nyasaland, Tanganyika has indeed not undergone any significant changes during the years of German colonization.

Tanganyika has been a German colony since 1886, and it has been more than 20 years now.

In 20 years, the Germans only built a railway in Tanganyika, Usumbula was just a military port, and the safe port was built by Sultan Majid of Zanzibar, which had nothing to do with the Germans.

And the neighboring Nyasaland has only become Rock's territory for only a few years. Now Nyasaland has developed transportation, a large population, stable public security, and a thriving economy. Countless cities have sprung up, and Nyasaland Saran's comparison really highlights the incompetence of the Germans.

In fact, the Germans cannot be blamed for this problem. Germany was unified and the German Empire was established in 1871, and it has only been more than 30 years now.

Over the past 30 years, Germany has become the third economic power in the world, second only to the United States and the United Kingdom. Moreover, Germany defeated France militarily, won the Franco-Prussian War, and began to actively expand its overseas colonies, occupying Southwest Africa and Tanga in Africa. Nika, in fact, can also be called fruitful.

It's just that compared with Nyasaland, which is backed by a big tree, Tanganyika will be overshadowed.

The big tree behind Nyasaland is not only the Commonwealth, but also the Qing Dynasty in the far east. If there is no human resources from the Qing Dynasty, even if Rock has three heads and six arms, he will not be able to create the current situation.

In this regard, the resources obtained by Tanganyika are far inferior to Nyasaland. Although Germany is actively developing colonies, Germany does not have enough manpower to develop the colonies. In terms of competition for new immigrants, the attraction of Tanganyika It is also far inferior to the British and French colonies in Africa.

At least the British and French colonies in Africa can fully reimburse the immigration expenses of new immigrants, and provide certain living allowances to new immigrants, and even allow new immigrants to enclose farms at will, and enclose as many as they want. Not only do native Africans have no say in this issue, but they want to help new immigrants build farms.

Basically, the new immigrants who came to Africa lived like emperors in Africa, and they were still very attractive to the poor white people in Europe.

Tanganyika is much worse in this regard.

To put it bluntly, why Germany can get Tanganyika and Southwest Africa is because Tanganyika and Southwest Africa do not have the resources that Britain and France are interested in, so Germany will take advantage of it. If Tanganyika and Southwest Africa There are also gold mines similar to Johannesburg in Africa. Britain and France will never allow Germany to occupy Tanganyika and Southwest Africa.

In this way, it is indeed very difficult for Germany to develop Tanganyika and Southwest Africa. Even the German government is not able to provide much help to Tanganyika and Southwest Africa. It is used to develop the domestic economy, and Tanganyika and Southwest Africa are simply ignored.

Therefore, if white people immigrate to Tanganyika and Southwest Africa, not only will they not get financial help, but they even need to buy farms from the Tanganyika and Southwest African governments if they want to get them.

The governments of Tanganyika and Southwest Africa are still counting on selling land to subsidize their finances.

"All the land in Tanganyika belongs to the German government. Now the German government allows you to live in Fort Honor and Lake Rukwa. You should be grateful instead of being greedy like you are now." Erich von It was impossible for Falkenhayn to accept Mumu's request.

In fact, while negotiating with the Fort Honor troops, Erich von Falkenhayn was also actively contacting Rock, hoping to reach a memorandum of understanding with Rock on the Fort Honor troops, so that if Germany's strength allows in the future, Then the German government will tear up the agreement reached with the Fort Honor troops and relaunch the attack on the Fort Honor troops.

"Before you came to Tanganyika, we had lived in Tanganyika for thousands of years. Our ancestors have been in Tanganyika for generations. Everything in Tanganyika belongs to Tanganyika people, not You Germans, so who is greedy? Who is shameless? You should be ashamed!" Mumu refused to budge, but the colonists still had the face to accuse the natives of the colonies of being greedy.

"Don't keep talking about Tanganyika, you are Tatera people, from the Congo Free State, and you are not natives of Tanganyika, so if you want to go back to the land where your ancestors lived, it's best Go find the Belgians." Erich von Falkenhayn didn't realize how much he said, and he still hasn't forgotten the misfortune.

Regarding colonization, this is really a bad debt. Tanganyika is one of the birthplaces of ancient humans. Even the Persians who moved in later were not aboriginals, let alone the current Tatera people.

(End of this chapter)