African Entrepreneurship Records

Chapter 1328 "The Traitor" Said

North Bay Territory.

Originally, Qatar and the Beibu Gulf (United Arab Emirates) territories in East Africa were not bordering each other. However, with the "bandit suppression" activities in East Africa, the border area between Qatar and the Arabian Peninsula fell into the hands of East Africa.

This area is also quite controversial, located at the intersection of East Africa, Qatar, the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Hejaz and the Inner Kingdom.

The reason why East Africa was able to spread its influence here so smoothly is also due to the Arab Revolt that broke out in 1916.

The Kingdom of Hijaz was a kingdom established by the Hashemite family, which would later become the Jordanian royal family. With the decline of the power of the Ottoman Empire, the Hashemite family became independent with the help of the Arab Revolt.

The so-called Arab Uprising is actually a nationalist movement that broke out on the Arabian Peninsula. Although there are many Arab countries, the ethnic composition of Arab countries or regions is not equal to Arabs, such as Persia, Ottoman or North Africa and Central Asia. , Arab countries in Southeast Asia and other regions.

The Ottoman Empire was not an Arab country. Its ruling class belonged to the Turkic people. This was also the root cause of the nationalist movement in the Arabian Peninsula.

Unfortunately, the Arab Uprising encountered East Africa's expansion in the Persian Gulf. This allowed East Africa to successfully acquire a lot of areas after occupying the Beibu Gulf territory.

This kind of behavior in East Africa is very similar to that when the Syrian regime was in turmoil in previous generations, neighboring countries and forces such as Turkey and Israel took advantage of the situation to rob and occupy Syrian territory.

The only difference between the two is that the Arab uprising was not instigated by East Africa, but the civil strife in Syria was the result of the joint support of many countries.

Taking advantage of this chaos in the Arab region, Qatar has naturally become a neighbor in East Africa.

Qatar border.

The 34th East African Motorized Rifle Brigade has assembled and blocked this place. The entire 34th Motorized Rifle Brigade is a semi-mechanized infantry unit.

It is equipped with a certain number of cars, but at the same time there are still many cavalry units and a large number of camels to carry supplies.

In desert areas, especially in the Middle East where there is no perfect road system, cars are not a good means of transportation, so it is impossible for the 34th Motorized Rifle Brigade to completely use cars as a means of transportation.

The entire 37th Motorized Rifle Brigade has a total of more than 6,000 people. This force can easily cope with Qatar, which has a population of only more than 20,000.

Commander of the 37th Brigade, Sèvreur listened to detailed intelligence about the Qatar area.

The person who was doing the reporting was a Zanzibar businessman. Of course, he could also be called an Omani businessman. This Omani businessman was named Said, and he was active in Qatar all year round, dealing with local tribes.

Said held a simple map in his hand. This map was very simple, without many landmark buildings, only the rough outline of Qatar's coast.

Said said to the East African officers surrounding him: "Sir, the residents of the Qatar Peninsula are concentrated in the eastern part of the Qatar region, especially the coastal areas. There are almost no settlements in the interior, and there are no so-called cities. There are only Larger villages and towns have populations ranging from a few hundred to thousands.”

"Moreover, these villages and towns are not fixed settlements. Most of them are nomadic, or they change their residence according to the abundance of pearls or fishery resources. Therefore, most residents of Qatar are in a state of no fixed residence."

"Maybe they were living in one place yesterday, and the next day they drove their livestock to the next place because the grass was eaten up."

"The Qataris who rely on pearl diving or fishing for a living are relatively stable, but their activity areas will often change, but the cycle can be stable for at least one or two months or even longer." "Currently, the only way for the Qataris is to make a living. It can be clearly determined that the residence of the Sani family is located on the east coast. This is also the center of daily trade activities of the Qataris. Our business with the Qataris is carried out in the area of ​​the Sani family. "

The Sani family is actually the ruling family of Qatar today. Of course, according to Qatar's civilization, it can also be called the Sani tribe.

The only "city" clearly marked on the map is the residence of the Sani family. Of course, according to Said's description, Beda must not meet the city standards. The population here is only a few thousand people, most of whom are Sani. tribal people.

But this is already the largest tribe in Qatar. In the last century, before the Sani tribe became the actual ruler of Qatar, its population was only more than 200 people.

It can be seen from this that Qatar is poor. Even the largest tribe in Qatar has a population of a smaller village than in East Africa. Said's next words also confirmed this.

"The patriarch of the Sani family, or Chief Jassim, should be regarded as the ruler of Qatar, but the population of their tribe is not as large as the number of your troops. Not to mention the more than 6,000 imperial soldiers, your country actually only sent a few hundred people , can easily control the entire Qatar.”

"In fact, in the past, the royal family of Bahrain, the Ottoman Empire and the British were able to make most of the tribes in Qatar surrender by sending only a few hundred troops."

"The reason why the Sani family was able to grow bigger was actually by taking advantage of the contradiction between the Ottoman Empire and the British, becoming their agent, and then gradually controlling the entire Qatar and getting rid of the control of the original Bahrain royal family."

Although Bahrain is much smaller than Qatar in area, Bahrain is much stronger than Qatar. This is mainly because Bahrain has more oases than Qatar.

Although in the previous life of the 21st century, Qatar's population was almost twice that of Bahrain. Qatar's population was about three million, while Bahrain's was more than one million. However, this was due to the impact of the oil economy. Without oil, Qatar's population might not be as large as Bahrain's. .

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After all, there is too little land in Bahrain. Even if it is equally rich, urban construction cannot expand blindly. In the past, almost all of the Bahrain peninsula was developed into urban areas.

The two countries are both small places in East Africa, but even if they are both small places, the area gap is very different. Qatar covers an area of ​​about more than 10,000 square kilometers, while Bahrain only covers an area of ​​more than 700 square kilometers. Even Qatar’s Less than one tenth.

In this way, Bahrain's population can reach half of Qatar's, and we can see the difference in the living environment faced by the two places.

Moreover, a very interesting point is that in the previous life, most of the populations of Bahrain and Qatar immigrated to the two countries from South or Southeast Asia. For example, out of the three million people in Qatar, more than two million were from India and Pakistan. immigrants from other countries, while there are only a few hundred thousand real Qataris.

Therefore, Qatar, which is extremely rich and has a very high fertility rate, has developed into the 21st century. Not counting immigrants, the population is only a few hundred thousand. The population of Qatar in the early 20th century was naturally even more pitiful.

Said said: "Your army, if you want to conquer Qatar, you can easily conquer it. The only difficulty is how to find the small tribes in Qatar. Some small tribes in Qatar even have a population of only a dozen people. Fortunately, Qatar is not large and the terrain is not large." It’s not complicated, you just need to spend a little more time to understand the population of Qatar as a whole.”

After listening to Qatar's intelligence, Brigadier Sèvres said somewhat speechlessly: "I have underestimated the strength of the Qataris as much as possible before, but I didn't expect that I still overestimated it."

"Among the tribes in Qatar, I am afraid that only the Sani family can barely catch the eye, but to conquer this largest tribe, it is estimated that a company of troops can win."

"As for taking down the whole of Qatar, one battalion is more than enough. But now that we have to dispatch the entire brigade to deal with such a small thing, it seems too fussy. But since things have developed to this point, then Treat this war as a journey!”

(End of chapter)