African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 106 "Non-aggression Treaty between East Africa and Mozambique"

   "Stop! Who is it?" The militiamen raised their guns and carefully aimed at the comer.

Turio Peni stood up, handed the gun to the team behind him, raised his hands high, and said in Portuguese to the Mitomoni village soldiers: "I am Turio Peni, an officer from the Mozambique Colony of the Kingdom of Portugal, I wish to speak to your officers."

  吱啦哦啦啦... After a burst of Portuguese, the Mitomoni village soldiers were even more confused, and the guns in their hands were gripped even tighter.

  At this time, Gilles Zioni, the village head of Mitomoni Village who heard the movement, walked to the village.

   Looking at the group of Tulio Penny in front of him, Gilles Zioni asked in German: "Who are you?"

  Looking at Turio Penny who didn’t know what to say, Gilles Zioni, whose hometown is on the French-Prussian border, asked again in French.

   At this time, someone in Tulio Penny's team finally understood. This person's mother is French, so he can understand French.

  He walked up to Tulio Penny and repeated Gilles Zioni's words to Tulio Penny.

  With the intermediary acting as an interpreter, people on both sides can finally start communicating.

  After understanding the intention of Tulio Penny and others, Gilles Zioni did not embarrass these Portuguese.

  At present, East Africa still adopts the strategy of not attacking the Portuguese and not attacking the Portuguese. East Africa is also more restrained in the south of the land. It stopped going south at the Ruvuma River.

  Different from the east, there is actually no clear boundary between the two colonies in the west, because there are no mountains and rivers as geographical boundaries, and there is a flat river on the east bank of Lake Malawi.

  Gille Zioni received the Portuguese, but only a few people were allowed to enter the village of Mitomoni without weapons, and the others could only stay outside the village.

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  One month after Gilles Zioni sent Tulio Peni away, the Portuguese high-level officials in Maputo, the capital of the Portuguese East African (Mozambique) government, also received a report from Turio Peni.

  The Portuguese were still surprised by the expansion speed of the German East African colony. You must know that the Mozambique colony has been developed for hundreds of years before it has the scale it is today, and how many years did the Germans come?

  Although they were surprised by the speed of the Germans, the Portuguese did not take any action. As long as the Germans don’t get distracted by Mozambique, the Portuguese are too lazy to take the initiative.

   After all, the strength of the Sultanate of Zanzibar can be easily defeated, and it is a force that cannot be underestimated on the entire west coast of the Indian Ocean. Moreover, the East African colonies currently do not have the resources that the Portuguese are more eager for.

  But the Portuguese did nothing. In order to avoid conflict between the two colonies, the Mozambique government still sent people to Dar es Salaam and the East African colonies to discuss, determine the boundaries of the two colonies, and divide the sphere of influence in East Africa.

  The East African colonial government accepted the Portuguese request. At present, the East African colony still focuses on the north and the west, and is not interested in Mozambique in the south for the time being.

Ernst’s plan to colonize East Africa also changed with the development of the East African colony. If Ernst’s earliest plan was to occupy the Tanganyika region, then the second stage was the entire Tanzania, and it is currently in the third stage. That is, the land of the later East African Community.

  The former East African Community had six member states, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan.

  Currently the East African colony strategy focuses on Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda, and northern Kenya.

  As for South Sudan, currently there is only Sudan, and it is under the sphere of influence of the Ottoman Empire, so South Sudan is not part of the current plan.

   Carrying out colonial activities in East Africa, Ernst has always advocated that safety should be the main priority, and do not conflict with relatively powerful local forces before gaining a firm foothold.

   Wait for a while, wait until the population reaches the scale, and then look for targets to expand. Of course, this is aimed at the Arabs and other European colonists. For the indigenous tribes, the East African colonies have always been arrogant.

  It seems simple, but it is actually very difficult in this era. With the development of the European industrial revolution, European and American countries are now unscrupulous in the oceans and other continents.

As long as you see precious resources and products, you can grab them if you can. A boat and a flag can be planted on a small island, and you can get an overseas territory. Of course, this kind of behavior is generally self-indulgent. It's useless. If precious minerals are found on the island, the big powers will come over if they smell it.

  The East African colony is an official colony. Although Hexingen has become a part of Prussia as a country in name only, it is easy to handle with the name still.

  As the territory of the royal family of Hechingen, the East African colony is distinguished from Prussia in terms of ownership, but everyone tacitly agrees that this is a Prussian colony.

   After all, your Hechingen has become a part of Prussia. Who knows if it is a vest made by Prussia, and Prussia does not pay much attention to overseas for the time being, and there is no need to explain it to other countries.

  So the East African colony is considered a fake tiger, otherwise the Portuguese in Mozambique would not be polite if they really figured out all the inside.

   December 3, 1867.

  The East African colony and the Mozambique colony signed an agreement - "Non-Aggression Treaty between East Africa and Mozambique".

  The treaty delineated the boundary between the two parties, starting from the mouth of the Ruvuma River and ending at Aidila Village on the east bank of the middle section of Lake Malawi, with a length of more than 700 kilometers.

  The north of the border is the sphere of influence of the East African colony, and the south of the border is the sphere of influence of the Mozambique colony.

  Both parties are not allowed to step into each other's sphere of influence without the other party's permission, respect each other's interests along the coast of the Western Indian Ocean, and jointly maintain the smooth flow of traditional commercial trade routes in the Western Indian Ocean.

  This treaty focuses on the intersection of the two forces, one is the land junction, and the other is the ocean trade channel.

  The limitation of the treaty is that the division of power on land only details the demarcation of the boundary where the two colonies currently meet, that is, the area between Lake Malawi and the Indian Ocean.

   Many places in East Africa and South Africa have not been divided and judged, which paved the way for future conflicts between the two colonies on the west bank of Lake Malawi.

  However, the current treaty is quite acceptable. East Africa currently has no plans to go west of Lake Malawi, and Mozambique has no plans to go inland.

  The two sides will not meet in the west for the time being, and both sides in the east need a stable situation to ensure their respective interests.

  As the end of the year draws near, East Africa's immigrant mission this year is about to be completed, and the immigrant population in the East African colonies will also reach a new level.

  The indigenous wars in the northwest region have long since ended. When the plague is over, the East African colonies will take over the northwest region in one go.

  With the addition of northern Kenya, which is being explored, the main body of the former East African Community was basically in the hands of the East African colonies.

  The signing of the "Non-Aggression Treaty between East Africa and Mozambique" added a layer of insurance to the expansion of the northern part of the East African colony, avoiding excessive energy to guard against the Portuguese.

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