African Entrepreneurship Record

Karl talked about his experiences and the various scenery he had seen in front of everyone. Although Karl was about the same age as everyone else, he had lived in three places in the Far East, Germany, and East Africa. He had gone to school and worked in a factory at the same time. His experience was indeed Much richer than these young people in rural Germany and Austria.

evening.

Everyone drove the cattle towards the village, ending another ordinary day.

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Mbeya.

A meeting for the Central and South Africa region is ongoing. Mbeya City Military Chief Merk is reporting the situation to the top officials of the city government and the commissioners sent by the central government.

Merkel stood in front of a map, pointed at the map and said: "This is Mbeya. As the most important city in the southwest of East Africa, Mbeya is not only rich in resources, but also an important military town, guarding the road leading to the East African Plateau. South African highlands.

The eastern group is the East African Plateau, and the main body of our East African royal territory is on the East African Plateau.

Going west from the East African Plateau, the large dotted area due west is the Congo Rainforest, and starting from the southern part of the Congo Rainforest, this large area is the South African Plateau.

The South African Plateau is different from the East African Plateau. The East African Plateau is one large piece, while the South African Plateau is made up of many small plateaus.

Including Katanga Plateau, Lunda Plateau, Kuango Plateau, Biye Plateau, etc.

Look here, everyone, this location is the Katanga Plateau, located in the northeast of the South African Plateau, connected to our East Africa, which is the goal this time.

Lake Solon (Tanganyika) and Lake Malawi separate East Africa from the South African plateau. There is a passage of more than 300 kilometers long between the two lakes. Every day our team has to walk along this 300-kilometer long passage. Patrolling the passage.

Crossing this passage is our first step in conquering Central and South Africa. "

Merkel briefed the attendees on the geography of Central and South Africa and the relationship between East Africa, and then returned to his seat.

"Very good! It seems that you have done your job." Central Commissioner Sweet said, "I came here with His Highness the Prince's instructions. This time is related to the future of our East African strategy in the Central and Southern Africa regions. strategy, and Mbeya is the outpost of this operation. Merk, your Mbeya garrison should be familiar with the forces around East Africa. Let me briefly introduce it to you."

Merkel sat at the conference table and said to everyone: "Mr. Commissioner, and everyone here, there are currently only two forces around Mbeya. One is the Kingdom of Malawi in the southern part of Lake Malawi.

Malawi is not our target this time, so I will focus on the forces on the Katanga Plateau.

There is a Yeke Kingdom to the west of us, that is, on the Katanga Plateau. This Yeke Kingdom is also called the Msili Kingdom. The Yeke Kingdom is relatively young, and is several decades earlier than ours in East Africa.

Its founder was a slave trader, his name was Msili, and Msili was once a native of the Tanganyika region, and his father was the porter of Arab merchants.

Therefore, this Musili had broad knowledge. He obtained guns through trading with Arabs and gained the trust of the original local chiefs. He continued to launch wars, gradually expanded, and finally established the Yeke Kingdom. "

Merk's mouth was a little dry as he spoke. He picked up the cup and took a sip of water before continuing: "The Yek Kingdom has always been relatively strong in the local area with the firearms provided by Arab merchants.

At the beginning, when we first opened up the Malawi Lake District (the capital of Mbeya), we fought against the Yeke Kingdom. Its strength was indeed good compared to the average natives.

However, the Yek Kingdom has a fatal weakness, that is, their ammunition needs to be provided by the Arabs, and we have blocked the Arab forces, so the Yek Kingdom has one round of ammunition and one less round.

However, we were not interested in the Yeke Kingdom at that time, and the number of people was relatively small, so we did not counterattack after repelling several of its attacks.

Later, construction required a large number of slaves, so we had some cooperation with the Yek Kingdom. East Africa continued to provide ammunition for it, and the Yek Kingdom provided us with slaves. "

The cooperation between the Yeke Kingdom and East Africa was actually not a willing one, but a desperate one, not that the East African colonies were targeting it.

When Msiri established the Yeke Kingdom, the main force he relied on was firearms. He used his equipment advantages to fight everywhere and bullied the surrounding natives.

However, after the establishment of the East African colonies, especially the establishment of the Upper Malawi Lake District, it directly cut off the Yeke Kingdom's original trading route with Arab merchants.

As a result, the Yeke Kingdom lost a lot of economic benefits and naturally refused to give up. So when the Upper Malawi Lake District was first established, it tried to use force to defeat the East African colonies.

As a result, the East African colonies were not easy to mess with, and their weapons were more advanced. The Yeke Kingdom was in trouble.

The most terrible thing is that the weapons and ammunition cannot be replenished, and the weapons in the hands of Yeke Kingdom become fire sticks.

The original advantage over the surrounding indigenous forces was gone, and many enemies began to counterattack against the Yeke Kingdom. In addition, the rule of the Yeke Kingdom itself was relatively brutal, and internal uprisings began to break out.

The rule of the Yeke Kingdom began to be unstable. Fortunately, the East African colonies later discovered that slaves were still indispensable for the development of East Africa. However, all the native East African natives were captured by East Africa, so they needed to be obtained from other regions.

Looking around, the Yeke Kingdom is relatively easy to obtain. After all, the Yeke Kingdom itself has been engaged in the slave trade for many years and originally relied on selling slaves to make a living.

The East African colonies did not want to go to Central and South Africa to capture slaves themselves, so they simply let the Yeke Kingdom act as an agent, and the price was only a little ammunition.

But the Yeke Kingdom has no choice. By obtaining ammunition, it can re-establish a strong force and suppress its citizens and other surrounding indigenous forces. The Yeke Kingdom can continue to exist.

Although it would not make any money, it would be equivalent to working for nothing in the East African colonies, which was better than losing the country, so the Yeke Kingdom accepted the cooperation requirements of the East African colonies.

"Well, I know about this. The military chief of Mbeya reported it to the central government at the beginning, but now what we need more is the entire Katanga Plateau. Slaves can be obtained from all directions, but only the Katanga Plateau There is only one, this Kingdom of Yek, that blocks our development path," said Sweet.

As the head of the Mbeya military, Merker immediately said: "Sir, our Southwest Military Region thinks the same way. We should attack the Yeke Kingdom hard. After all, they have not yet settled their accounts for attacking us."

Of course, it was not that Merk hated the Kingdom of Yeke so much that he insisted on putting it to death, but that the troops of the Southwest Military Region in the Northwest War did not gain anything, and all the credit went to the Northwest Military Region and the Northern Military Region. The Southwest Military Region could only Stay in place and be responsible for monitoring and guarding against the indigenous forces in Central and South Africa.

In the Northwest War, the East African colonies fought very well, basically going with the wind. Merk was naturally jealous, wasn't he just beating the natives? I can do it too.

Just when Merk was about to continue to encourage the commissioner to go to war against the Yeke Kingdom, a discordant voice came from the seats of Mbeya government personnel.

"Mr. Commissioner, I actually have an idea. I wonder if I can try it. We can capture the entire Katanga Plateau at the minimum cost."