African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 215 Negotiation

  Santos can be said to have misjudged this time. He never thought that the Germans would attack the Kazenbe Kingdom so soon, or that the Germans would dare to do it in the Kazenbe Kingdom.

  So much so that he mistakenly regarded the operation in East Africa as an operation in the Portuguese colony, and the younger brother's failure to find out the news deepened his judgment.

   However, he was not wrong in his analysis. The Portuguese in the Kingdom of Kazenbe did not regard him as their own. After all, Santos brought a group of "bereaved dogs" and wanted to occupy a third of the place here.

  East Africa sent envoys to Kazenbe to ask for "criminals" and land. The Portuguese Kazenbe Chamber of Commerce did get the news, so they didn't inform Santos and his party.

  In fact, the Portuguese Cazenbe Chamber of Commerce was also shocked by the efficiency of the East Africans. According to the Portuguese colonization routine, it generally tries to avoid conflicts with local forces.

  Portugals have always liked soft and hard ways, and they will use tough methods if they can't be deceived. This can be seen from the two colonies of Mozambique and Angola.

  The Kingdom of Portugal encourages intermarriage between Portuguese and indigenous high-level officials, because the Portuguese believe that Portuguese management of the colony can be strengthened through indigenous high-level officials with Portuguese blood.

  Portugal first engaged in colonial activities in Africa, in fact, it cooperated with the indigenous chiefs. At that time, the slave trade was still in vogue.

  The chiefs are equivalent to the "suppliers" of the Portuguese. Later, after the Portuguese became bigger in the local area, they turned these chief tribes and kingdoms into their own vassal states, and later the colonies of Mozambique and Angola existed.

  In fact, the Portuguese colonization is the most formal way of colonization, step by step, and will change with the times. In addition, the colonial history is early, and it is a living "textbook" of colonization.

Later, without talking about martial arts, the UK went straight to the point and snatched ready-made items from other colonists. Now the East Africans let the Portuguese experience a simpler and rougher colonial method. They started fighting when they disagreed. It is indeed the style of the Prussian barbarians. , the British will test the quality of the enemy first.

  East Africa has long been clear about the quality of the indigenous people, and beating the indigenous people is now just a play for East Africa.

  East Africa’s confidence comes from two million immigrants. If the international situation is not considered, these two million people can completely conquer half of Africa.

  Other colonists will consider the cost when they colonize, so some people search and search for the purpose of making money, not for charity. It is generally difficult to make long-term investment decisions. After all, they have been picked peaches, and there is no place to cry.

  The British did some construction in India, but India's population base is too large, and it is destined to become independent in the future.

  …

   "I am Yaris, the president of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in Kazenmbe. I don't know what your name is?"

  President of the Portuguese Kazenmbe Chamber of Commerce, Yaris, arrived late.

   "Andrew."

   "Mr. Andrew! Why did you launch this war directly against the Kazenbe Kingdom without saying hello?" President Yaris asked.

   "This is a matter between our East African government and the Kazenbe Kingdom, hum!"

   Yaris just wanted to attack, but Rawls stopped him.

   "Mr. Yaris, right? Hello, I am the staff officer of the 1st Cavalry Battalion in East Africa. You can call me Rawls.

  Battalion Commander Andrew is not good at communicating with people and has a withdrawn personality. If you have any questions, just tell me. "

  Yaris carefully looked at Rawls, a young man with an oriental face, and asked, "Can you represent the East African government?"

   Rawls shook his head and said, "I can't represent the East African government, but I can represent the army in front of you."

  Yaris did not ask about the war first, but instead said: "Mr. Rawls! Are you a German?"

"certainly!"

   "I don't know where in Germany you are from?"

   "The Principality of Hechingen, Prussia."

   "Your face is rare in Europe, I thought you were from Italy!"

   Rawls didn't talk, and Yaris turned his attention back to the war.

   "I don't know why you want to launch a war against the Kingdom of Kazenbe?"

   Regardless of whether this matter has anything to do with the Portuguese, Yaris must first express the attitude of the Portuguese. The East African government is too unscrupulous. Even if you want to annex the Kingdom of Kazenbe, you must inform us! Called directly to the capital of Kazengbei without saying a word, which made Yaris dare not go out in the morning.

"Mr. Yaris, we have a deal with King Msiri of the Yeke Kingdom in the north, and we have obtained the ownership of the Yeke Kingdom, but the Kazenbe Kingdom invaded our East African territory when we took over the Yeke Kingdom. A few days ago we There is no result in asking for it, so I made this decision.”

  Rawls seemed to explain, but actually informed that it was legal for East Africa to attack the Kingdom of Kazenbe, and the Kingdom of Kazenbe would naturally have to pay a price. It was as simple as that.

"Even if there is something wrong with the Kazenbe Kingdom, it is not necessary to use force directly! Moreover, what the Kazenbe Kingdom invaded should also be your country's border territory. You just need to take back the Kazenbe Kingdom's erosion of your country's territory. Why bother?" Directly go deep into this place and capture the palace of the Kazenbe Kingdom! This is too barbaric, and it is not an act of the civilized world!"

   "Mr. Yaris, this statement is wrong. Of course East Africa is part of the civilized world, but Kazenbe does not belong to the civilized world. Naturally, we in East Africa have an obligation to help the Kingdom of Kazenbe enter the civilized world."

   Yaris saw that Rawls would not enter, and he said such cheeky words when he was young, so he didn't intend to entangle with it, and simply asked: "How does your country plan to deal with the Kazenbe Kingdom?"

   "Of course, it's not up to me as a small soldier to decide. It depends on how the central government decides. If you want to know the answer, you can go to Dar es Salaam and ask government personnel."

  Rawls obviously knew the answer, but pretended not to know, and couldn’t figure out the real purpose of East Africa. Yaris changed the term.

   "Since your country hasn't made a decision yet, I won't ask these questions. I want to know when you plan to leave? You are one of the officers in this army. I think you always know the answer?"

   "We naturally have no right to mobilize the army to leave before we receive an order from our superior," Rawls said tactfully.

  At this moment, Rawls felt a chill in his heart, it was so disgusting! However, Rawls finally knew that East Africa had conspired against Kazenbe. It was false that he had no right to transfer, and it was true that he refused to leave.

  But the Portuguese Kazenmbe Chamber of Commerce is weak and naturally unable to interfere with the decision-making of the East African government, so Yaris turned to ask about East Africa's attitude towards the Portuguese Kazenmbe Chamber of Commerce.

   "Your Chamber of Commerce can rest assured, you can continue to stay here, and business transactions can continue as usual."

  Before East Africa completely takes control of this place, there is really nothing to do with them. You can't kill them, so let's keep the status quo.

   "By the way, is this person one of yours?" Rawls asked, pointing to Santos in the distance.

  Santos was lying on the ground, his eyes were distracted, and the corner of his mouth was still whispering something.

  Yaris hurried forward to confirm: "Santos! Santos?"

   Yaris looked at Santos, who was already insane, and repeatedly said something like a friend, and he also slapped Santos.

   "Crack, Santos, wake up!"

  Although Yaris usually dislikes Santos, he is "one of his own" after all, so he still wants to know what happened to make Santos, who was still alive and kicking a while ago, become like this.

   "What did you do to our people?" Yaris asked the East African soldiers seeing that Santos could not be woken up.

"Are you sure it's yours? Yesterday, this guy attacked us with a weapon, and he became like this after being captured alive! Can I understand that your chamber of commerce organized this sneak attack?" Rawls asked back .

Hearing the East African beating, Yaris hurriedly pushed Santos away and said: "Misunderstanding, I don't even know this person at all, but he looks a bit like an old friend of mine. After repeated confirmations, I'm sure it's just his appearance. It’s just a little bit of resemblance, it’s definitely not my former friend!”

"That's good. Yesterday, when we were cleaning the battlefield, this guy launched a surprise attack on us. There were 88 of them in total, and everyone was carrying a gun. Several of us were injured by them." Rawls said.

   "These guys must be bandits on the African grasslands, and have nothing to do with our Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Rawls." Yaris insisted.

   "Anyway, it's a human life. We don't intend to execute him. If you don't bother, take him away!" Rawls suggested.

   "Mr. Rawls, you really know how to joke. Let the gangster suffer on his own, let him fend for himself, but you are really a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and you will be lenient towards this kind of person."

  Looking at Santos who has no use value, Yaris said with a wry smile, but in his heart he scolded Santos as a waste, so many people, still sneak attack, it caused such a loss to the Germans!

   But this is also good, at least it shows that the group of Prussian barbarians in front of them are really capable. With this set of equipment, Yaris doubts whether it is a regular Prussian army.

   As for taking it back, Yaris has already determined that Santos is crazy, and he didn't respond to Santos' hint (referring to slapping) just now, and he was probably useless.

And these Germans probably have some kind of conspiracy in their hearts. Yaris maliciously speculated that, after all, the pretext for the war against the Kingdom of Kazenbe by these Prussian barbarians was to take in the rebels of the Yeke Kingdom and occupy the territory of East Africa. If Yaris really brought Santos back, wouldn’t it be It is confirmed that the actions of Santos yesterday were instigated by the Kazenbe Chamber of Commerce.

Thinking of this, Yaris greeted the Santos family again in his heart. Although Yaris did not like the Germans, the situation was stronger than others. This place was far away from the Portuguese colony, and the Kazenbe Chamber of Commerce was weak, so he could only express his anger. Take it out on Santos.

  (end of this chapter)