African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1330 Selected Location
East Africa is notorious in the entire Indian Ocean coast. On the one hand, the colonial activities in East Africa are indeed bloodier than those of traditional colonial countries such as Britain and France. On the other hand, with the existence of Britain as a big loudspeaker, East Africa is really a white lotus and it is impossible for it to get a good reputation. Fortunately, East Africa is not really a white lotus.

The hegemony of a country is composed of comprehensive factors such as military, economy, public opinion, etc., just like the Middle East in the past, where Western countries really killed and burned people, stole oil, provoked conflicts, sold arms, and subverted legitimate governments in order to spread "democracy", protect "human rights", and combat "extremism" and "terrorists."

If a country is not under the Western order, even if it is doing fair business with Middle Eastern countries, Western countries will try their best to smear it, saying, "Everyone in that country is evil, this is economic colonization."

Of course, the Middle East is also a hopeless case. No matter how hegemony is promoted, they will really follow the baton of hegemony.

East Africa is obviously not the kind of country that can be easily "morally kidnapped". After all, there is no morality in the process of East Africa's rise.

Learning from foreigners to defeat them, East Africa will certainly not sit idly by and wait for its competitors to "slander" and expose its shortcomings. In recent years, East Africa has also controlled and built up its own voice in the Middle East to help its country whitewash and shift the blame.

The essence of the war of public opinion lies not in explanation and self-justification, but in dragging the opponent into the water. Although East Africa has committed unforgivable crimes, you British are also extremely bad, and the evil deeds committed by Britain itself over the past few hundred years are too numerous to list.

However, it is obviously difficult for East Africa's public opinion system in the Indian Ocean region to shake Britain's first-mover advantage.

Although Sevreul was an executioner trained by the East African government, Jassim's awareness of the times made Sevreul have a great impression of him.

"Mr. Jasim, I wonder where you will go if you leave on your own initiative?" Sevreul asked.

In response to Sevreul's question, Jassim replied: "We in the Sani family also have many friends throughout the Ottoman Empire and Oman. If that doesn't work, we can also turn to the Hashemite family or the Saudi family."

Jasim had his reasons for putting the Ottoman Empire and Oman at the top of the options.

This is determined by Qatar's culture, location and economy.

As an Arab country, Qatar is itself a link in Arab trade. The Ottoman Empire was once the overlord of the Middle East, and Qatar was once part of the Ottoman Empire's rule, so it is understandable that Jassim chose the Ottoman Empire as his first choice.

As for Oman, the three major powers in the Middle East, especially along the Persian Gulf, are the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Oman. Qataris will definitely not be able to pee in the same chamber pot with Persia, after all, the religious factions of the two are too different.

In addition, the Hashemite family establishing the Hejaz Kingdom is also a good option. However, the Hejaz Kingdom is too close to East Africa and its strength is very weak, so it was placed third by Jassim.

The last Saudi family will be Jassim's last choice if he has to, because apart from these four countries, there is only Bahrain left on the Arabian Peninsula, a small country with the worst relationship with Qatar. However, Bahrain itself has a poor relationship with Qatar and its area is small, so it probably does not have the ability to accommodate the Sani family.

After listening to Jassim's idea, Sevreul patted the Arab chief on the shoulder and said, "Your idea is good, but in my opinion, it is best for you and your tribe to choose Oman."

"Oman and the Empire are friendly countries, and there is no conflict of interest between us and them. As for the other places you mentioned, the Ottoman Empire is now at war with the British. I think that even if you want to go to the Ottoman Empire, they may not have the time or the leisure to look after you."

"As for Hejaz and Neji, these two countries are hostile to each other and unstable, so Oman is the best place for you."

"We in East Africa have a good relationship with Oman, so we can act as the middleman. This is the first point. The second point is that Oman's political environment is relatively stable. Once you arrive in Oman, you at least don't have to worry about being dragged into a war. The last point is that Oman's environment is better, and it still has the ability to accommodate you."

"Of course, in the end, I am just reporting your ideas. The final decision on whether your tribe stays or goes depends on the government's opinion."

Jasim hurriedly said: "We are not picky about the place, as long as we follow the general's wishes. I hope the general can say more good things for us. I swear in the name of Allah that as long as we can leave safely, we will definitely cooperate with your country to hand over all the land of Qatar to you intact." Hearing Sevler's last words, Jasim's heart was almost scared out of his wits. He now only wanted to save his entire family's life, and did not want to be dragged to the Persian Gulf to feed the fish by the East Africans.

The tragic scene that took place in the Beibu Gulf territory back then was still fresh in people’s minds, so the Qatari chief knew very well that the Sani family had no bargaining power.

Sevreul said to Jasim: "Leave this matter to me. No matter what the final result is, I can only promise to do my best to help you complete this matter. In other words, I like you as a person..."

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Three days later, Sevreul passed the buck to its homeland, but did say a few good words in an email for the Sani family, especially its patriarch Jassim.

After reading the email, Ernst sighed and said, "This Jasim is indeed a talent. Since he is so sensible, we can let him off the hook. However, we definitely cannot do that to the area around the Persian Gulf. Let's just send them to Batavia!"

Batavia was obviously not a territory in East Africa, but the political center of the Dutch East Indies colony, which was Jakarta, the former capital of Indonesia in the past.

Ernst was not willing to place the Qataris around the Persian Gulf. After all, doing so might lead to some territorial disputes in the future. If the descendants of the Qataris claimed territory, it would also be a hidden danger.

The reason why Batavia did not have such concerns was that, firstly, Batavia was far enough away, which could solve many problems. Secondly, Batavia was also dominated by Arab religion. The Sani family or all Qataris would only be assimilated in the future if they went to Batavia.

The assimilated Qataris naturally would find no reason to return to Qatar. After all, by that time, Qatar would have long become the dust of history.

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Finally, throwing Qatar to Batavia can be considered as compensation for them. Yes, it is compensation. Although the tropical rainforest climate area where Batavia is located is called the "green desert", it is definitely much better than the real desert.

Apart from anything else, the abundant water resources there alone are enough to make Qataris feel like a rat falling into a rice jar.

If we look at it from a God's perspective, the Qataris will definitely suffer a great loss if they leave Qatar, after all, Qatar's oil resources will no longer have anything to do with them.

However, at this time, Qatar's oil resources had not yet been developed, and the Qataris were not aware of how precious the "black gold" buried underground where they lived was.

In the past, the British were the first to discover and develop Qatar's oil resources, which opened the way for Qatar to become a rich country. However, this road has now been interrupted by East Africa.

Since Ernst made the decision, naturally others had no objection. The Qataris, with a population of only about 20,000, did not need East Africa to put in too much effort. After all, larger-scale immigration to East Africa had been organized.

end of 1918.

In Doha, the capital of Qatar in its previous life, more than 13,400 people from various Qatari tribes gathered from all over Qatar in East Africa boarded ships to Batavia in batches.

It was only at this time that East Africa finally understood the number of Qataris. After all, Qatar had no population statistics and even no unified political power, which led East Africa to overestimate Qatar's population.

(End of this chapter)