Chapter 1224 Closing the Net

Johnson and his party came with high hopes, but returned with disappointment. After all, the Seventh Infantry Regiment would not provide them with food. Even if the East Africans dared to take them in, Johnson would not dare to stay in Fasher.

"Sir Fasher, are we going back to Khartoum in disgrace?" an Egyptian officer asked inappropriately.

Johnson scolded: "What do you mean by disgrace? I just made the most rational choice. Do you want to compete with East Africa? I don't mind you leading your troops to do so, and you will bear the consequences yourself."

Since that was said, the Egyptian officer naturally did not dare to say much. Although Egypt and East Africa had not had much dealings, they knew that East Africa was not something to be trifled with.

Of course, for Egypt, there were few people from Europe that Egypt could afford to provoke, even small European countries like Portugal and Greece.

Johnson said: "East Africans have a geographical advantage. Darfur is right next to East African territory. Even if we defeat this East African army, it will not help. Therefore, the Darfur issue must be discussed with London, and the upper level will negotiate with East Africa."

Family members know their own affairs. The British army or auxiliary army in Sudan is not enough for East Africa to beat with one hand. In this case, even London can only negotiate with the East African government for the sake of face.

However, when Johnson thought of the current situation in Europe, he also had a headache. At this time, the British Empire may not have much use for face overseas, unless it withdraws from the European war.

This is obviously impossible. If it withdraws from the European war at this time, France and Russia will kneel directly, and the entire European continent will become a one-man show of Germany.

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Rhine City

"Your Majesty, this is a document sent by Britain and France. The British and French governments asked the Empire to respond to recent actions in North Africa and West Africa, and the two countries expressed their dissatisfaction."

"Well, they are together?"

"No, the French reaction is not strong. They just asked our country to explain the refugee problem in West Africa."

"Isn't that right! We are sending people to West Africa, and the French should be happy. After all, this can provide a large number of cheap labor for Upper Volta in France. I guess the French government is just taking the opportunity to complain. Just make it clear with them."

In terms of shamelessness, East Africa has no bottom line like many powers. Although East Africa has a tradition of sending blacks to West Africa in the past, it is the first time that such a large-scale exile has been sent to other colonists' territories.

Although the scale of the westward migration of blacks in the Great Lakes region was huge, and even the number exceeded one million, the European colonists' colonial activities in West Africa at that time were not in-depth, so they did not feel this impact.

It is different now. European countries have also established administrative agencies in the inland areas of West Africa, and the sudden influx of tens of thousands of blacks will obviously have an impact on the colonial system they have established.

If it were normal times, this situation would be understandable, and many colonists would even wish that East Africa would send more black slaves to West Africa.

But now is different from the past. With European countries deeply involved in the European war, their respective colonies also take maintaining stability as their primary goal.

Ernst continued, "No matter what, in the next two years, all 800,000 blacks must be sent out, not only Togoland, but also other places where they can land and where conditions permit. Anyway, no one will bother us at this time."

It is indeed a bit bullying to exile all 800,000 black slaves from Togoland. After all, with so many people suddenly added, food alone is a big problem.

Even if Britain and France adopt massacres, they cannot kill them all. The citizens of the two countries near Togoland are probably only about 10,000 people.

And black slaves are not lambs to be slaughtered, especially those who have been enslaved by East Africa for so many years. Their desire for freedom is unparalleled.

Therefore, the black slaves who have escaped the control of East Africa will inevitably roam throughout West Africa and disrupt the local situation. Let alone 800,000 black slaves, it is very difficult to find all 100,000 pigs on the grassland.

Moreover, although most of these 800,000 black slaves are old, weak, sick and disabled, there are also many young and strong people, and there are always hundreds of thousands of young and strong people with healthy limbs.     These people have not only been imprisoned in East Africa for a long time and exploited, but also been suppressed for a long time. To put it bluntly, there are no female black slaves in East Africa.

More importantly, East Africa has long been militarizing these black slaves. As long as a leader is born among these black slaves, it can cause unimaginable damage to the local social ecology in West Africa.

"How is the British reaction to Darfur?" Ernst asked.

"The British reacted strongly to Darfur, which is also the most important point of Britain's protest to our country. West Africa is not a big deal." The subordinate replied.

This is easy to understand. 800,000 black slaves are terrible, but they don't have the courage to target white colonists. At most, they raise the butcher knife to their compatriots.

Although East Africa exiled them to East Africa without weapons, they still had the ability to get some wooden sticks or rob some small tribes. Finally, they developed and grew on this basis, thus breaking the political ecology of the indigenous regimes in West Africa.

Although they have worked in East Africa for more than ten years, don't overestimate the construction ability of these black slaves. Just like the European colonists forced the indigenous people to engage in a single plantation economy, most black slaves in East Africa are only engaged in the construction industry.

However, the most urgent need of these 800,000 exiled black slaves is not to engage in civil engineering, build roads, and dig canals, but to solve the problem of food first.

The bad thing is that West Africa has little food output. Under the encouragement of the colonists, plantations flourished, but real food crops only maintained the basic survival of the local people.

If East Africa sells these black slaves to the United States, Brazil, Ottoman and other regions as before, it will be different. They can quickly find jobs by relying on the industrial structure of these regions.

There is obviously no place for these black people in West Africa, and after decades of exploitation, they have also lost basic survival skills such as hunting, so the only way of life left for them is to rob them from the native West African natives.

Therefore, the exiled black people in East Africa mainly affected the black people in West Africa, and the white people in West Africa naturally continued to live happily and peacefully. Therefore, the refugees and social conflicts in West Africa were not a big problem for the colonists who mastered the "truth".

The situation in Darfur is very different. Darfur is a real British colony. Even in name only, this move in East Africa is extremely risky.

This is equivalent to East Africa invading British territory, so the British will naturally not let up on this issue easily.

Of course, the East African government has naturally taken this into consideration. Ernst said: "Just use our previous plan to explain to the British that Darfur has become a new satellite state of our country. We did not know that Darfur and the British Relations with the Sudanese Jurisdiction.”

Naturally, the relationship between Britain and Darfur does not need to be informed to East Africa, so East Africa can barely use this as an excuse.

"In short, they are just pretending to be deaf and dumb when it comes to the Darfur issue. The British cannot hold on to this issue forever. When the Germans put some more pressure on them, they will naturally relax."

"Of course, we can also give the British government a guarantee that East Africa will not take any subsequent actions in other areas of Sudan. We respect the British sovereignty over other areas of Sudan."

Ernst was quite strict in what he said. He only promised not to have ambitions in other areas of Sudan. Outside of Sudan, it depends on the future strategic choices of East Africa.

The main reason is that East Africa looks down upon the current value of Sudan. There is some agricultural value along the Nile River, but East Africa does not lack such a small amount of land. To be honest, after years of transformation in East Africa, the agricultural situation of Gezira City is better than that of Sudan's political center, Kabul. Tumu is much stronger.

You must know that Khartoum has much more usable land than Gezira City. It occupies the most fertile area of ​​the Gezira Plain and has the Blue Nile as a guaranteed water source.

The city of Gezira in East Africa only occupies the southwest corner of the Gezira Plain, and its only water source is the White Nile River. The reason why it can surpass Khartoum in agriculture is due to the improvement of construction on both sides of the White Nile River in East Africa in the past few decades. Irrigation system.