African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1224 Closing the Net

Chapter 1224 Closing the Net
Johnson and his party came with high hopes but left disappointed. After all, the 7th Infantry Regiment would not provide them with food. Even if the East Africans dared to take them in, Johnson would not dare to stay in the city of El Fasher.

"Sir Fasher, are we just going back to Khartoum in disgrace?" an Egyptian officer asked at an inopportune moment.

Johnson scolded, "What do you mean by humiliating? I just made the most rational choice. Do you want to compete with East Africa? I don't mind you leading your troops to do so, but you will bear the consequences yourself."

Since that was said, the Egyptian officer naturally did not dare to say much. Although Egypt and East Africa had not had much dealings, they knew that East Africa was not something to be trifled with.

Of course, for Egypt, there are few 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 right next 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, and the upper level must negotiate with East Africa."

Everyone knows their own business. Even the British troops or auxiliary troops in Sudan combined are not enough to defeat East Africa with one hand. In this case, even London can only negotiate with the East African government for the sake of face.

However, when Johnson thought about the current situation in Europe, he also had a headache. At this time, the British Empire's face overseas may not be of much use unless it withdraws from the European war.

This is obviously impossible. If Germany withdraws from the European war at this time, France and Russia will probably be defeated, and the entire European continent will become a one-man show of Germany.

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Rhine City.

"Your Majesty, this is a document sent by Britain and France. The British and French governments have asked the Empire to respond to its recent actions in North Africa and West Africa. The two countries have expressed their dissatisfaction."

"Well, they are together?"

"No, the French reaction was not strong. They just asked us to explain the refugee issue in West Africa."

"Isn't that right? The French should be happy that we are sending people to West Africa. After all, this can provide a large number of cheap laborers for Upper Volta in France. I guess the French government is just taking this opportunity to complain. We just need to explain it to them."

In terms of shamelessness, East Africa has no bottom line just like many other powers. Although East Africa has a tradition of sending black people to West Africa in the past, this is the first time that such a large scale of exile has been carried out to other colonizers' territories.

Although the scale of westward migration of black people from the Great Lakes region was huge, even exceeding one million, the European colonists' colonial activities in West Africa at that time were not in-depth, so they did not feel this impact.

It is different now. European countries have also established administrative agencies in the inland areas of West Africa, and the sudden influx of tens of thousands of blacks will obviously have an impact on the colonial system they have established.

If it were normal times, this situation would be understandable, and many colonists would even hope that East Africa would send more black slaves to West Africa.

But things are different now. With European countries deeply involved in the European war, their respective colonies also make maintaining stability their primary goal.

Ernst went on to say, "No matter what, we have to send all 800,000 blacks out in the next two years. We can try not only Togoland, but also other places where we can land and where conditions permit. Anyway, no one will bother us at this time."

It was indeed a bit bullying to exile all 800,000 black slaves from Togoland. After all, with so many additional people suddenly, food alone was a big problem.

Even if Britain and France adopted a massacre, they would not be able to kill enough people. The citizens of the two countries near the Togoland area probably only numbered around 10,000.

The black slaves were not lambs to be slaughtered, especially those who had been enslaved in East Africa for so many years. Their desire for freedom was unparalleled.

Therefore, the black slaves who escaped from the control of East Africa would inevitably roam throughout the entire West African region and disrupt the local situation. Not to mention 800,000 black slaves, it would be very difficult to find all of them even if 100,000 pigs were released onto the grassland.

Moreover, although most of the 800,000 black slaves are old, weak, sick and disabled, there are also many young and strong people, and there are always hundreds of thousands of young and strong people with healthy limbs. These people have not only been imprisoned in East Africa for a long time and exploited ruthlessly, but also been suppressed for a long time. To put it bluntly, there are no female black slaves in East Africa.

What is more important is that East Africa has long been implementing militarized management of this group of black slaves. As long as a leader emerges among these black slaves, it will cause unimaginable damage to the local social ecology in West Africa.

"What was the British response like in Darfur?" Ernst asked.

"The British reacted strongly to Darfur, which is also the most important point of Britain's protest against our country. The West African region is not considered a big deal." The subordinate replied.

This is easy to understand. The 800,000 black slaves were terrifying, but they did not have the courage to target the white colonists. At most, they would raise their butcher knives against their own compatriots.

Although they were exiled to East Africa without weapons, they still had the ability to get some wooden sticks or rob some small tribes. Finally, they grew stronger based on this, thus breaking the political ecology of the indigenous regimes in West Africa.

Although they worked in East Africa for more than ten years, we should 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 only engaged in the construction industry.

However, the most urgent need of these 800,000 exiled black slaves was obviously not to engage in civil engineering, build roads, or dig canals, but to solve the problem of food first.

The bad thing is that West Africa's food output is low. Under the encouragement of the colonists, plantations flourish, but the real food crops can only maintain the basic survival of the locals.

If East Africa sold these black slaves to the United States, Brazil, the Ottoman Empire and other regions as it did in the past, things would be different. They would be able to quickly find jobs thanks to the industrial structure of these regions.

Obviously, there is no place for these black people in West Africa. After decades of exploitation, they have lost basic survival skills such as hunting. Therefore, the only way of life left for them is to steal from the native West Africans.

Therefore, the exiled blacks from East Africa mainly affected the blacks in West Africa, while the whites in West Africa naturally continued to live in peace and prosperity. Therefore, the refugees and social conflicts in West Africa were not big problems for the colonizers who held the "truth".

The situation in Darfur is quite different. Darfur is a genuine British colony. Even if it is 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 give in easily on this issue.

Of course, the East African government has also taken this into consideration. Ernst said: "Let's take our previous plan and explain to the British that Darfur has become our new vassal state. We are not aware of the previous relationship between Darfur and the British Sudanese jurisdiction."

Naturally, there is no need to inform East Africa about the relationship between Britain and Darfur, so it is barely acceptable for East Africa to use this as an excuse.

"In short, they are just turning a blind eye to the Darfur issue. The British can't keep holding on to this issue. Once the Germans put some pressure on them, they will naturally give in."

"Of course, we can also give the British government a guarantee that East Africa will not take any action in other parts of Sudan in the future, and we respect the sovereignty of the British over other areas of Sudan."

Ernst’s words were quite rigorous, he only promised that he would not have ambitions in other regions of Sudan, but beyond Sudan, it would depend on the future strategic choices of East Africa.

The main reason is that East Africa does not think highly of Sudan's current value. There is only some agricultural value along the Nile River, but East Africa does not lack such a small amount of land. To be honest, through East Africa's transformation over the years, the agricultural conditions in Gezira City are much better than those in Khartoum, the political center of Sudan.

You have to know that Khartoum has much more usable land than the city of Gezira. It occupies the most fertile area of ​​the Gezira Plain and has the Blue Nile as a water source.

The city of Gezira in East Africa only occupies the southwest corner of the Gezira Plain. Its only water source is the White Nile. The reason why it can surpass Khartoum in agriculture is the perfect irrigation system built on both sides of the White Nile in East Africa over the past few decades.

(End of this chapter)

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