African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1332 Military Peninsula
Most imperialist countries are like this, and are good at using barbarians to control barbarians, that is, using foreign races to suppress foreign races. Of course, alternative countries such as the United States and East Africa that directly engage in "genocide" are not among them.

The total number of Qataris, including men, women, young and old, is no more than 10,000, and the number of young and strong people is even smaller, so the Governor of Batavia can safely and boldly employ Qataris without worrying about backlash.

Even the Qataris in the East Indian colonies can be said to be a minority group that is even rarer than the Dutch, and the Arabs have always had good fighting capabilities, or in other words, the more backward and poorer the economy, the cheaper life seems.

And the most interesting thing is that the beliefs of the Qataris are consistent with those of most ethnic groups in the East Indies. The Dutch are happy to see this drama of pagans fighting and consuming each other.

"Governor Van der Beek, you can arrange these Qatari immigrants as you wish, whether in Batavia or anywhere else in the Dutch East Indies, as long as their basic living conditions can be guaranteed."

The person Van der Beek was talking to was Mersch, the director of the East African diplomatic office in Batavia.

Although the Dutch East Indies was only a colony of the Dutch, because Batavia could be considered an important regional center, a Batavia Diplomatic Office was established to resolve some unimportant diplomatic issues, such as commercial disputes involving East Africa, or some minor issues between East Africa and the Dutch East Indies.

The Qatar immigration itself was not an important matter for East Africa, so it was handed over to the Batavia Diplomatic Office by the higher authorities.

Governor Van der Beek said: "Of course, Mr. Mersch, I plan to arrange their residence directly in the suburbs of Batavia. I just hope that these Qatari immigrants will not be dissatisfied with this."

Mersch said: "This is obviously impossible. On the one hand, there are not many Qatari immigrants. On the other hand, the environment in Batavia is much better than that in Qatar. From this perspective, Qataris should be grateful to your country for hosting them."

While Van der Beck and Mersch were talking, the Qataris were also looking at the land excitedly. As Mersch said, going from Qatar to Batavia was like going from hell to heaven for the Qataris.

The Qatari leader, Jassim, said to his people: "This is our new home. It turns out that leaving Qatar is a very correct decision. Compared with the bitter cold of our hometown, this place is simply a paradise on earth."

"In the future, if we can integrate into Batavia, our lives will only be better than in the past, and we will also be away from the war in the Persian Gulf."

As the spokesperson of the Qataris, Jassim must ensure his authority among the Qataris. Therefore, as the leader in pushing the Qataris to leave their homeland, Jassim can only exaggerate the benefits of this migration in order to unite the majority.

And ordinary Qataris are also whispering about this unfamiliar land.

"I can't believe there is a place like this in the world, full of life, instead of endless sand."

"There is no shortage of water here. As long as there is water, everything will be fine. Whether it is growing crops or nomadic life, the situation cannot be worse than staying in Qatar."

"The level of development here is very low. Even with so much greenery, I don't know how many livestock can be raised here. But I haven't seen any locals grazing on a large scale, which is a real waste of natural resources."

The tropical rainforest environment, known as the "green desert", is indeed a paradise that was completely unimaginable before for ordinary people who have lived in Qatar for generations.

After all, the living conditions of Qataris in the past were too difficult. A small-scale tribal conflict might be triggered over a source of water, and two pastoral families might fight each other over a piece of grassland. In Qatar, any piece of grassland that can grow green plants is an extremely precious resource.

But when you come to Batavia, everything seems to have depreciated. The land here seems to be able to squeeze out water, and the whole city is wrapped in green. The biggest survival obstacles that once plagued Qatar, water and green land, have all been solved.

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The Qataris migrated to the "dreamland of dreams", and East Africa could only enjoy the "bitter cold land" of the Qatar Peninsula. The first is the 37th Brigade, which will be stationed in Qatar. After clearing the population of Qatar, in order to prevent forces such as Britain or Bahrain from returning to Qatar, the army must be used as a basic guarantee.

Next is the navy. The Third Fleet initially plans to build a large military port in Doha.

Doha is very close to the former Sani family’s city of Beida. In the previous life, with the expansion of Doha’s urban construction, the two places were directly merged together.

Although Beida has a ready-made port and was previously Qatar's only foreign commercial trade port, it cannot meet the needs of the East African Navy. The main reason is that the depth of Beida's port is only about three to four meters, making it impossible for large ships to pass through.

Therefore, after investigation, the East African Third Fleet selected Doha, which is closest to Bayda, as a major port of call for the Third Fleet.

The only drawback here is that there is no drinking water resource, but water can be brought in from Beida by laying pipelines.

According to the Third Fleet's idea, when the construction of Doha Port is completed, East Africa's control over the Persian Gulf, especially the waters around the Beibu Gulf territory, will be greatly enhanced.

Because the Qatar Peninsula extends deep into the Persian Gulf, it naturally becomes the Beibu Gulf Territory, which is the natural barrier of the UAE in the past. In particular, it can separate the British Bahrain military base and the main territorial waters of the Beibu Gulf Territory in East Africa.

The Third Fleet's arrangements for Qatar are not limited to this. They also want to build two military ports on the north and east coasts of Qatar respectively, so that the East African Navy can monitor the entire Persian Gulf region from three directions with the Qatar Peninsula as the center.

However, constrained by Qatar's current economic situation and natural conditions, it is extremely difficult to achieve this goal. Qatar is in fact "deserted", and there are no ready-made workers to recruit locally, so engineering personnel can only be sent from East Africa to participate in the construction and transformation of Qatar.

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Qatar has many ports, but a large part of them are silted up. If they are to be built into ports that can be used and developed, dredging work must be carried out.

Of course, even so, Qatar's port conditions are much better than those along the coast of the Beibu Gulf territory in East Africa.

According to the Third Fleet's arrangement, if the Doha Port is built, it will become the Third Fleet's first military port that can dock large ships such as battleships.

Unlike Qatar in the past, East Africa currently does not need to consider Doha’s economic development tasks, which also reduces the demand for water and materials.

Beida near Doha Port will become the headquarters of the 37th Brigade. After all, it was the former "capital" of Qatar. Although the infrastructure is poor, it is currently the only place where the 37th Brigade can move in with just a bag.

As for Qatar, which borders the Beibu Gulf Territory, Ernst does not intend to incorporate it into the Beibu Gulf Territory, except that these two regions were originally two countries in history, namely the UAE and Qatar.

Ernst believes that the existence of Qatar's independent Beibu Gulf territory can share the risk of independence. In this way, even if the Beibu Gulf territory or Qatar is lost, East Africa can still guarantee a stable oil production base in the Persian Gulf region.

Moreover, Ernst took a fancy to Qatar's military role and planned to build it into East Africa's military core area in the Persian Gulf in the future, deploying land, sea and air forces to make it a complete military peninsula of East Africa inserted into the Persian Gulf.

On land, it can directly threaten the entire coast of the Arabian Peninsula. From the air, with Qatar as the center, it can bring the entire Persian Gulf coastal countries into the strike range. At the same time, through the navy, it can monitor the entire Persian Gulf for possible threats to the interests of East African countries.

(End of this chapter)