African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1249: Notorious
For example, Pakistan’s Gwadar Port, Myanmar’s Kyaukpyu Port, Cambodia’s Funan Canal, etc., were all built to ensure energy security, national defense strategic security, smooth trade, etc.

This is actually a helpless choice. After all, if Singapore is in the hands of East Africa, then East Africa obviously does not have to choose Phuket as a second choice.

This time, General Colletts personally led the Fourth Fleet of the East African Indian Ocean Fleet to Phuket, which shows how much importance East Africa attaches to Phuket.

The Fourth Fleet is a main squadron under the East African and Indian Ocean Fleet. It is very powerful and equipped with four battleships. Its home port is Lamu Port, which is a military port in the north of the east coast of East Africa that was actively built in the last century.

However, with the planning of the Phuket Naval Base in East Africa, the home port of the Fourth Fleet will be moved to Phuket Port on Phuket Island in the future.

The Indian Ocean Fleet attaches great importance to Phuket. Among the three major fleets in East Africa, the Indian Ocean Fleet is the strongest, but it lacks overseas bases. In the past few decades, it has added the Beibu Gulf Naval Base, but the Beibu Gulf territory lacks good ports, so only some secondary main battleships can be docked.

The Persian Gulf is not without excellent ports, but they have long been occupied by the British, such as the British Bahrain Naval Base.

On the one hand, Phuket has an excellent seaport, and on the other hand, it is located in the eastern Indian Ocean region that the Indian Ocean Fleet has never set foot in. Naturally, it is highly valued by the Indian Ocean Fleet.

On the other hand, the Pacific Fleet, which is the weakest in East Africa, is the one with the least shortage of seaports and islands among the three fleets. It covers most of the Pacific region. East Africa has the most colonies in the Pacific, especially after inheriting the German colonies, a large number of archipelagos and islands were incorporated into East Africa.

The Pacific Fleet also got a share of the pie when the Isthmus of Kra was established. It has planned to build a base in Songkhla on the east coast of the Isthmus of Kra to monitor the entire Gulf of Siam.

However, the Pacific Fleet did not pay too much attention to Songkhla. After all, the Gulf of Siam was not far from the Port of Pontianak in the Lan Fang Overseas Province, where the Pacific Fleet's home port was located.

Songkhla Port was also one of the naval bases of the Royal Siamese Navy in the past. The main problem of the Pacific Fleet was not the lack of bases, but the lack of ships and funds, so it was understandable that the Pacific Fleet did not pay much attention to Songkhla.

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Pattani.

When the negotiations between the East African and Siamese governments were leaked, it caused an uproar in the Pattani area.

Every village and town in Pattani is discussing the current situation, and it can be said that everyone is in danger.

"Have you heard? Bangkok sold us to the East Africans. In the future, Pattani will become a colony of East Africa."

"Damn it, if that's the case, we have to be careful. After all, the cruelty and terror of East Africans are already well-known in the Nanyang region."

"I remember that after East Kalimantan fell into the hands of East Africa, East Africa carried out a bloodbath on the Arab religious forces there. If we are occupied by East Africans, I am afraid we may also follow in the footsteps of the East Kalimantan people."

"Not only that, when East Africa occupied Pontianak and other places, they also carried out large-scale massacres. Now there is not even a single indigenous person left in Pontianak."

"There is also Mindanao, where Arabs were also massacred. There is a clear prejudice against Arabs in East Africa."

The people in Pattani could not afford to panic. After all, Pattani was a typical Arab distribution area, and given East Africa's attitude towards Arabism, it was obviously not good news for the Siamese government to sell them to East Africa.

"Is Bangkok just abandoning us? They won't just give Pattani to East Africa so easily!" someone asked.

"You know what? Looking back at the history of the Siamese over the years, it is a history of humiliation. Whether the French or the British came, the Siamese government surrendered the fastest. The king even gave up the fertile land of Cambodia. It is completely reasonable for us to be betrayed in Pattani."

"Our southern part of Pattani was once sold to the British by Bangkok. Now it is obviously not a big problem for the East Africans to occupy the whole of Pattani." Part of the Pattani area was taken away by the British as early as before World War I, and that was only a few years ago in 1909. Only less than eight years have passed, so the people of Pattani in Siam naturally do not trust the Siamese government.

"We should go to the Governor's Office and ask. I hope the Siamese government can give us a satisfactory answer."

At this time, the Arab people of Pattani, who had once been the most opposed to Siamese rule, finally remembered the good things about the Siamese government. After all, Siam's rule has always been relatively peaceful. Of course, this is only compared with other countries.

For example, the anti-Chinese movement launched by the Siamese government before did not cause large-scale killings, but only some minor conflicts. And to be fair, there was nothing wrong with the Siamese government prohibiting the spread and infiltration of the Far Eastern Empire's culture from the perspective of its own nation.

In fact, any country, especially a country like Siam with a certain history and cultural heritage, naturally hopes to promote its own national culture.

Therefore, the Arab believers in the Pattani area are actually quite lucky. If they were facing Western religious elements who were extremely hostile to Arab believers, they would probably have been slaughtered long ago.

Unfortunately, East Africa is obviously also a member of Western "civilization". East Africa's attitude towards Arab believers in Southeast Asia is even worse than its attitude towards local black people. After all, East Africa rarely carries out large-scale and purposeful massacres of black natives in its own country.

However, this is not the real "truth". There are actually deeper reasons why East Africa treats Arab believers in Southeast Asia so cruelly.

After all, it is certainly true that East Africa is prejudiced against Arabs, but prejudice does not mean hatred.

At least the relations with the Ottoman Empire, Oman, Persia in East Africa and the Middle East, as well as some Arab religious forces in Central Asia are pretty good.

The real reason why East Africa ruthlessly raised the butcher knife against Southeast Asian Arabs was actually to "make room".

The concept of "Rhine people" has emerged in East Africa in recent years. After all, it would be a bit incongruous for East Africa to forcibly integrate into Germany or other civilizations, so cultivating its own people would obviously make East Africa feel more at ease.

The land in the Nanyang region is obviously not the "no man's land" claimed by the East Africans. Arabism has a wide influence here.

Therefore, in order to seize the land from the Arabs and eliminate the trouble forever, learning from the American attitude towards the Indians is naturally the best choice.

Of course, East Africa's actions against Arabs in the Southeast Asian region have a lot to do with the international environment. After all, as pagans, the Western world can be said to have a history of hatred with Arab countries that goes back thousands of years.

This means that East Africa can minimize negative public opinion by cracking down on these Arabs, which is quite similar to the Western world's indulgence towards the Jews in the past.

After all, during the Age of Discovery, many European navigators were funded by the church, and even many priests voluntarily went overseas to preach. In the process, it was easy to come into conflict with their old rival, the Arabs. For example, the Philippines has now become a Christian area, and no one would believe it if they said that the Spaniards did not act ruthlessly.

While the East African Navy was on its way to Siam to take over the Isthmus of Kra territory and Phuket.

The territory of the Isthmus of Kra was in complete chaos. The Siamese government and Siamese people moved to the north in large numbers, and Arabs who had the conditions also used their connections to flee to the British colonies in the south.

For example, many people in Pattani choose to live with their relatives in the Pattani area of ​​the UK in the south.

The fundamental reason for the large-scale exodus of people from the Kra Isthmus Territory was the massacres committed by East Africans in East Kalimantan in recent years.

After all, East Kalimantan borders British colonies, which caused many people to flee to British colonies such as Sarawak and Brunei. It was also the escape of these people that spread the notoriety of East Africa to the entire Nanyang region, and even to overseas Arab-distributed areas such as the Middle East and India.

(End of this chapter)