Rebirth of England.

Chapter 757 Reason
Originally, the border between Kolo and Benin ran from north to south along the Mono River, with Benin belonging to the east and Kolo belonging to the west.

When we reached the seaside, we should have drawn a line along the mouth of the Mono River, but we didn’t. Instead, we suddenly cut into the interior of Colo for more than 20 kilometers, but the north-south length was less than 500 meters.

In other words, Kolo can see the sea 20 meters away from this 500-kilometer-long inner line, but is blocked by Benin.

If you want to see the sea, you have to go west and around the Benin line for more than 20 kilometers to see it.

You should know that the current coastline of Colo is only about 70 kilometers, which means that nearly one-third of the coastline originally belonged to Benin.

This is not just a question of coastline, but also involves the ownership of a wider range of territorial waters.

However, through negotiations between the two sides, and with Colo paying a certain price, they finally recovered the 20-kilometer coastline...

After all, Colo and Benin were both former French colonies and members of the West African Economic Community, so their relationship was good.

But the problem is that part of the offshore oil fields discovered by Kolo later was located within the territorial waters extending from the 20-kilometer coastline that originally belonged to Benin.

This gave Benin some ideas.

Of course, France was behind this, and eventually the armed forces from Benin began to frequently invade the Kolo offshore oil field area, affecting their oil production.

This is also something that is easy to understand. Originally, Colo was within the French sphere of influence. However, when they discovered the rich offshore oil resources, Colo had already left the West African Economic Union led by France and entered the Commonwealth...

From France's perspective, the oil-related interests that the British have acquired in Colo - such as the shares of United Energy Group in Colo Oil - originally belonged to the French oil company...

In particular, before Colo took back part of the coastline occupied by Benin, the oil and gas resources in the territorial waters extending from that area should have belonged to Benin.

At that time, no oil and gas resources were discovered. Based on the mentality that they were all former colonies, France actively mediated in the negotiations between the two sides on this part of the coastline...

However, now all of these have been reaped by the British. From the French point of view, how can they not be angry?

Although Benin's land area is larger than Kolo, it cannot compare with Kolo in terms of economy or military. Now they have actively allowed some armed personnel to harass Kolo's offshore oil fields. In addition to their resentment, the French must be behind it.

Information obtained from Colo's intelligence department also confirmed this fact - many of the armed personnel have financial support from French companies.

Just like that, after Kolo protested to Benin but failed, the "refugee resettlement project" that the two sides had originally cooperated on came to a standstill.

Before the two frigates purchased from Britain returned to Colo, their Colo Corps Coast Guard temporarily ensured the safety of the offshore oil fields by purchasing speedboats and near-shore patrol gunboats.

During the meeting with Sarkozy, Barron also mentioned this and hoped that France would avoid intervening in the dispute between the two sides...

Regarding this topic, Sarkozy was a bit like playing Tai Chi. He just said that France has been paying attention to the situation and hoped that both sides would exercise restraint and avoid escalation of conflicts.

In fact, this matter may not be Sarkozy's instruction, but at the same time, he does not want to be involved in it, just like although he is the President of France, there are some things that he cannot decide...

For example, in the case of Benin, the French energy giant Total Energy is involved.

Whether to offend the largest oil and energy company in France is something that Old Sa needs to consider. However, Barron only mentioned this matter in passing. Even if Old Sa will not stop France from supporting Benin, after the two frigates arrive in Colo, those sporadic harassment can be greatly curbed.

It is even said that if they still do not stop such behavior, then Clo would not mind launching a cross-border crackdown.

Even if doing so would cause strong protests from Benin or even lead to conflict between the two sides, it would not stop Kolo's determination.

After all, their oil extraction is now one of the main sources of income for Colo, which is very important to Colo.

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"My friend, Barron, I'm glad you can come here today..."

"When I came to Paris, I had to meet up with my old friends. And Madam, you are becoming more and more charming."

Afterwards, Barron visited Arnaud Lagardere's home.

Here, he met Arnault and his wife Jade who came to greet him.

It has to be said that the fortune left to Arnault by his father is really huge enough. Even in the years after taking over the family business, Arnault has been constantly selling properties. The current Lagardere Group is still one of the largest conglomerates in France.

Although Arnault's approach to business is difficult to describe, he is still very unique in other aspects.

Moreover, it is hard to say that his lifestyle of enjoying life is wrong... After all, the family business is so huge that if he continues to "squander" like this, the duration of their family wealth may be longer than that of the hard work of those untalented family heirs.

"Hello, Your Highness, my name is Cassandra. It is such an honor to meet you..."

Just as Barron was attending this party, a beautiful girl dressed fashionably walked up to Barron and said so.

The girl looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a model figure and angelic face, which really caught Barron's attention.

During the conversation, Barron learned that the girl was the sister of Arnault’s wife Jade…she had just been admitted to university and would be a freshman at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts in September.

Well, at this time, Barron suddenly realized that this girl named Cassandra was the girl who later got together with Arnault's son and finally created the bloody drama of the rich family.

Although he was the son of Arno and his first wife and had no blood relationship with Cassandra, it was still a bit... outrageous.

It can be seen that Cassandra is still a little shy at this time, and Barron can also clearly feel the girl's affection for him...

only……

Barron's eyes swept over the girl. With her mature figure, it was hard to tell that she was only eighteen or nineteen years old. She was indeed very eye-catching.

(End of this chapter)