African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1096 Beibu Gulf Territory

After obtaining the sovereignty of the Pirate Coast, what did the East African government or Ernst want to do most? The answer is naturally to purge the local indigenous forces. As a typical colonial country, East Africa and the United States can be said to be no different in this regard.

"Now we must first ensure a smooth transfer of power on the Pirate Coast from the British, build a strong ruling foundation on the Pirate Coast, and then look for opportunities to assimilate the locals," Ernst told government members.

The expression here is very euphemistic. East African blacks feel deeply about the East African standard of "assimilation". There are only two possibilities: either get out or be enslaved to death.

The situation in the Persian Gulf region is far more complicated than that in East Africa, which means that the East African government cannot act rashly now. After all, blacks are not a dumb political force like the Arabs.

If it is not handled carefully, East Africa may be attacked by the political forces of the entire Arab world, so cruel means such as massacre must not be used.

Of course, there was no Pan-Arabism in this era, but based on Ernst's understanding of local religious forces, if East Africa did this, and the Arab countries later brought up old scores and really turned East Africa's colonies in the Persian Gulf into something like Israel, it would be a loss.

After all, the existence of Israel is a thorn in the side of the United States and the Soviet Union in order to disrupt the situation in the Middle East. Ernst, however, plans to build a stable oil and gas production base in the Persian Gulf colony. The two are fundamentally different in nature.

So Ernst said: "The name of the Pirate Coast is temporarily called the Beibu Gulf Territory, which is directly led by the central government. At this stage, military control is implemented and the governor is directly sent by the central government to manage it."

Pirate Coast certainly cannot be used as the name of the region. After all, the area has been incorporated into the territory of East Africa. Calling it the Pirate Coast is neither civilized nor auspicious. The reason why it is called the Beibu Gulf Territory is very simple. The Persian Gulf is in the northwest of East Africa, and its latitude is higher than the latitude of East Africa in the northern hemisphere.

However, Ernst did not want to use the name of the Persian Gulf Territory, mainly because he did not want to be involved with the surrounding Arab countries.

As for the fact that it has the same name as a bay in the Far East Empire in the previous life, it is not a big problem. At this time, the French colonial government in Vietnam called the previous life's Gulf of Tonkin "Tokyo Bay", which is indeed the same as Japan's Tokyo Bay. These are mainly translation issues.

Of course, given that many of the current translations of German place names in the Far Eastern Empire are dominated by East Africa, the Beibu Gulf of the former Far Eastern Empire may restore its ancient name of "Qiongzhou Sea" or "Qiongzhou Bay" in the future.

In short, Ernst renamed the Pirate Coast "Northern Gulf Territory" mainly for de-Arabization, or de-Persianization.

Ernst said: "At this stage, we should not take too many actions in the Beibu Gulf territory. After all, international public opinion and regional situation are not conducive to us doing so. Of course, some of the early expulsion policies can be carried out, provided that our country's military control is thoroughly implemented."

"There aren't many Arabs in the Beibu Gulf Territory. There are only a few larger tribes, large and small. We will first use the Al Ain Oasis as our base and gradually establish a military management framework for the entire Beibu Gulf Territory."

"Speaking of the Al-Ain Oasis, it will be renamed the New Al-Ain Oasis and serve as the military base and political center of the Beibu Gulf Territory at the current stage."

Al Ain Oasis, the name alone shows the connection between this land and East Africa. Of course, Al Ain is an Arabic place name after all, so Ernst still has to change the name of this oasis to German.

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It is obviously not an easy task for East Africa to completely transform the Beibu Gulf Territory (UAE) into its own territory.

Although a consensus was reached with the United Kingdom, this did not mean that East Africa and the local indigenous political forces reached an agreement. After the British government signed the agreement with East Africa, it no longer cared about this mess.

In other words, there was actually a power vacuum on the Pirate Coast, and after the British left, several local tribal forces took over the local power.

The East African government was obviously not as easy to talk to as the British government. After all, East Africa was essentially trying to annex the area and did not need these indigenous regimes. So within a short period of time, East Africa had military conflicts with several local tribes, which was also expected by the East African government.

In order to completely conquer the Beibu Gulf territory, East Africa not only sent a powerful naval force to escort it, but also dispatched the elite of the Northeast Military Region to directly fight against several local tribal forces.

The Northeast Military Region, which is the military region centered in the Somalia region of East Africa, has been active in arid areas such as the Somali Desert in northeastern East Africa all year round, so it has the most abundant desert combat experience in East Africa.

To support the invasion of the Pirate Coast, the Northwest Military Region sent more than 3,000 troops, including a main cavalry regiment composed of camels.

In fact, given the population size of the Pirate Coast, if the East African government simply wanted to conquer the local area and learn the British governance model, there was no need to send out such a "large-scale" combat force.

However, considering that East Africa needs to carry out refined governance here and the Pirate Coast is relatively large, the East African army is not familiar with the terrain, population, and water distribution here. Therefore, for the sake of prudence, East Africa directly draws troops from its main forces to invade the Pirate Coast.

Of course, the East African army is not completely in the dark. On the Pirate Coast, East Africa also has a lot of intelligence and the support of the guides.

That’s right, it was the Omanis, or the original Zanzibar people who had long-term interests in East Africa, who acted as guides in East Africa.

With the support of East Africa, the Zanzibar Consortium is considered a relatively large non-governmental force in the entire Arab region. It is mainly composed of former Zanzibar people. They are based in Oman, and their trade activities spread across the Middle East and Central Asia, and even Southeast Asia and North Africa.

Even with guides and a strong military force, the conquest of the entire pirate coast in East Africa lasted nearly half a year before it was completed.

After all, with an area of ​​more than 100,000 square kilometers, it is not easy to completely wipe out the local indigenous forces that are roaming around and committing crimes.

What's more, out of fear of this new player in East Africa, many surrounding Arab forces extended a helping hand to the natives of the Pirate Coast.

So in order to end the war, East Africa began to put pressure on the surrounding Arab countries, and at the same time carried out a complete expulsion of the natives of the Pirate Coast, which originally had a population of only tens of thousands.

After occupying the main oases, water sources, villages and towns in East Africa, these indigenous people were ungrateful and still secretly supported the guerrilla activities of the resistance organizations. Therefore, in order to completely cut off the living space of these guerrillas, and at the same time to achieve the "cleansing" activities of the East African government.

The East African government stopped playing tricks and simply exiled all the men, women, young and old on the Pirate Coast to the surrounding Arab countries. It was relatively easy for these Arab countries to accept tens of thousands of people. The majority of them fled to the Ottoman Empire, and a small number fled to Oman.

The British watched the whole show, and the East African government also saw the main reason why the British ceded the Pirate Coast to East Africa. Originally, Britain's rule here was only nominal, so Britain had long anticipated that East Africa's takeover of the Pirate Coast would not be smooth.

Moreover, the situation around the Pirate Coast is complicated, and any attempt to completely conquer the Pirate Coast will inevitably be interfered with by external forces.

The war, which lasted for half a year, can be said to be the most troublesome war incident that East Africa has encountered since the South African War.

The number of casualties alone reached as high as 300, mainly caused by guerrilla warfare and sneak attacks on the former Pirate Coast. However, with the end of the war and the evacuation of the indigenous people of the Pirate Coast from East Africa, the East African government also achieved its goal.

As for those political forces that secretly provided assistance to the Pirate Coast Resistance during the war, East Africa, with the exception of Britain, also gave corresponding responses, which also marked the beginning of East Africa's first military and political intervention in the Middle East.

(End of this chapter)