Chapter 397： Prussia is playing a big game

Chapter 397 Prussia is playing a big game

The speed of human migration is quite fast, and East Africa only accelerates this process, provided that there is sufficient population for East Africa to deploy, which happened to be something Henry Buckley could not imagine, so Henry Buckley proposed the north-south river Assumption.

Without knowing the population of the East African Kingdom, he referred to the immigration rate of the Cape Town Colony, so he concluded that the population of the East African Kingdom would not be too large. After all, the East African Kingdom was established less than two years ago. Even if it were pushed forward, the population would not be too large. The colonial period only lasted a few years. In such a short period of time, East Africa had a population of several hundred thousand at most, which was pretty good.

In this regard, Henry Buckley could not imagine or understand the huge help that the national system had for immigrants. East African immigrants had been operating at a loss for so many years, importing populations from Europe and the Far East to East Africa regardless of cost.

This kind of immigration strategy that is completely led by the government is also unique in the history of the Western world. Of course, the East African Great Immigration cannot be said to be unique. For example, the Far East has this tradition from ancient times to the present. A typical example is the Hongwu Great Immigration in the early Ming Dynasty. , Huguang filled Sichuan in the early Qing Dynasty...The difference is that East Africa is a sea-based immigrant, and the Far East is a land-based immigrant.

The immigration rate in the United States is also terrifying, but it is based on the unique and superior conditions of the United States. Moreover, the United States is currently a typical small government, and things like immigration are entirely driven by private capital.

As for whether East Africa can muster tens of thousands of troops with a population of hundreds of thousands, it is entirely possible. Most of the immigrants are single adult males, who are naturally excellent soldiers. Coupled with the consistent recruiting ability of the countries in the German region, this is not a problem for the East African Kingdom. Difficult matter.

Henry Buckley: "In any case, the presence of the Germans in South Africa is a bad thing for us. If they are in the north, they will hinder our future expansion to the north."

“Your Majesty the Governor, shall we stop the East African Kingdom?” the subordinate suggested.

Henry Buckley: "Stop it? How to stop it? Fight a war with the East African Kingdom?"

“It’s not impossible.”

"Humph, how stupid!" Henry Buckley scolded: "What do you think the Germans relied on to quickly establish a foothold in Africa and expand to South Africa? It was force. Let me ask you, if we Cape Town Can the colonies destroy the Transvaal Republic as easily and comfortably as the Germans did?"

This question stopped the subordinates.

Henry Buckley continued: "The Germans in the East African Kingdom must have many professional soldiers who retired from Prussia, otherwise they would not be able to form a regular army similar to Prussia. If we talk about the navy, our UK is invincible in the world, then Prussia is now It is the best in the world in terms of army, and the East African Kingdom must have many retired soldiers from various German states. Their army should be completely imitated by the German regional army and rebuilt in Africa."

Even Henry Buckley suspected that all this was secretly led by Prussia. Prussia had unified Germany and became a member of the world's top powers club. How could Germany, as a world power, not be tempted to own large colonies.

Henry Buckley continued to think about when the Germans in the East African Kingdom probably started colonizing Africa. Wasn't it after William I and Bismarck became the new leaders of the country!

“The Kingdom of East Africa did not appear out of thin air, and its emergence as a colony coincided with the time when William I and Bismarck came to power..."

"Your Majesty the Governor! Do you mean to say that the East African Kingdom is a chess piece laid by William I and Bismarck in Africa a few years ago?" "It is not impossible! Think about it, a genius politician like Bismarck is the best at It was planning in advance. Looking back now, every step of Prussia's unification of Germany was inseparable from Bismarck's advice, and Germany did not have colonies. This is incompatible with Germany's current identity and status, and the East African Kingdom is Hohenzoll The establishment of the Lun family, are these all coincidences? If the East African Kingdom is really a chess piece that Bismarck laid in Africa a few years ago, it would be terrible."

Henry Buckley's guess was recognized by his subordinates: "Your Majesty the Governor, I think so too. The cost of colonization is very high, especially for colonies like East Africa that have established large-scale armies, and they want to maintain this military scale. , except for the existence of gold mines, we can only rely on big countries to support us. Currently, we have not heard of any large gold mines in Africa, so the establishment of the East African Kingdom should be inseparable from Prussia."

Henry Buckley: "It seems that William I and Bismarck were playing a big game. From the beginning of their coming to power, they had set the development course of Prussia and realized it step by step. The East African Kingdom was an important step in this big game. , Just imagine, if the East African Kingdom is really Prussia's substitute in Africa, plus the Austro-Hungarian Empire, then the entire Germany can spread from Europe to the African continent, and it is even possible to cut off the east-west trade channel."

After thinking about it carefully, Henry Buckley became uneasy: "We must contact London and let them test Germany. If the facts are as we just suspected, it would be terrible."

Henry Buckley no longer cares about the East African Kingdom. He believes that the East African Kingdom is just a chess piece in Bismarck's hands. If he wants to punch, he should punch Prussia, the chess player.

While Henry Buckley and his men were discussing the relationship between the East African Kingdom and Prussia, Johnson also crossed the Orange River and headed all the way to Cape Town.

He wanted to bring the news of Grigualand's annexation to East Africa to the Governor as soon as possible. The annexation of Grigualand to Cape Town was one of Henry Buckley's major achievements since he served as Governor-General in South Africa.

Henry Buckley has always regarded the integration of South Africa and the integration of several Boer republics into the Cape Colony as an important goal of his tenure. The Grigualand Republic was the first step towards this goal. As a result, the Transvaal Republic is now gone. Grigualand, a country that had already been swallowed up by Cape Town, was blackmailed by the East African Kingdom.

Henry Buckley's mood can be imagined. Coupled with the ulterior relationship between the East African Kingdom and Prussia, Henry Buckley had reason to believe that this was a precursor to Germany's push to squeeze out the British Empire's influence on the African continent.

Ten days later, Johnson finally arrived in Cape Town. He described the situation in Griguaran to Henry Buckley, and Henry Buckley's face became even darker.

Henry Buckley: "This is definitely a provocation to our British Empire. I will report it to London immediately and ask Prussia to abandon this provocative behavior, withdraw from Grigualand and other places, and at the same time compensate for our losses."

Henry Buckley was really angry this time. Griguaran was one of his political achievements, but he was destroyed by the German barbarians. When had the British Empire officials ever suffered this kind of injustice?

No matter how you say it, the Republic of Grigualand is still part of the Cape Colony, which is the territory of the British. Territory loss has never happened before in British history.

Therefore, Henry Buckley will never allow this kind of thing to happen in his own hands. However, given that the East African Kingdom has German support and strong military strength, this is not something that the Cape Town Colony can solve, so Henry Buckley plans to directly Let London handle this.

(End of this chapter)