The Zambezi River basin in Portuguese East Africa covers an area of about 150,000 square kilometers, and it is unlikely that Roque wants to monopolize such a large area, so Roque wants to pull Xiao Si to mediate the war between the Yao and the Portuguese, and it is beneficial for everyone to grab it together.

Yes, it is a clear robbery, and the Portuguese ask for mediation, which is tantamount to taking the initiative to put themselves on the chopping block, and not cutting a piece of fat at this time is not in line with the setting of imperialism and colonialism.

"How do we divide it?" Born in the colonial era, this was the first time he had participated in the partition of the colony, and Rhodesia would continue to grow in his hands, and every time he thought about it, he felt as if someone was encouraging him.

"Bounded by Tambala, above Tambala, around Tete is yours and incorporated into Rhodesia, and Tambala is mine and annexed to Nyasaland." Roque already has a distribution plan in place that maximizes the protection of both Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

Xiao Si didn't speak after listening to Roque's plan, looked at the map with his head down, studied it for a long time, and proposed a completely different plan.

"Why not take the Zambezi River as a boundary, north of the Zambezi River is Nyasaland, and south of the Zambezi River is Rhodesia." Xiao Si is not stupid, Nyasaland needs an outlet to the sea, doesn't Rhodesia need it?

Rhodesia, like Nyasaland, is a landlocked country –

It is not appropriate to describe it as a country, now it is only a region.

Roque was desperately trying to find an outlet to the sea in Nyasaland, and Cecil Rhodes supported the Yao against the Portuguese.

Now, the access to the sea is at his fingertips, and Xiao Si would rather accept some losses and get the access to the sea

If Roque's distribution plan is followed, then out of the total 150,000 square kilometers, Rhodesia will receive about 100,000 square kilometers, and Nyasaland will only receive 50,000 square kilometers.

If the distribution plan of Xiaosi is followed, then the territory area of Rhodesia will drop to 50,000 square kilometers, and the land area of Nyasaland will rise to 100,000 square kilometers.

That's how important it is to have access to the sea.

"Yes, then it is bounded by the Zambezi River, south of the Zambezi River is Rhodesia, and north of the Zambezi River is Nyasaland." Luo Ke is indispensable, anyway, Luo Ke didn't plan to use the sea outlet to hold Rhodesia hostage, Xiao Si would rather give up 50,000 square kilometers of territory to get an outlet to the sea, then give it to him.

"Thank you, Locke—" Xiao Si looked at Roque in a daze, probably with a lot of emotion in his heart.

In the jungle society, every penny of profit is exchanged for life and blood, and in the past, Xiao Si may still have a grudge against Cecil Rhodes for giving Nyasaland to Roque, but now Xiao Si finally knows why Cecil Rhodes did this.

Before the outbreak of the Boer War, the disadvantages of not having access to the sea had not yet fully emerged, and after the outbreak of the Boer War, the embarrassment of the landlocked countries was undoubtedly revealed, if the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State could get external support, then the war would still be fought, and it might last for a while, in that case, it was really uncertain who would win or lose.

In the later stages of the Boer War, the Boers were of course exhausted, and the British government was also in a state of exhaustion, and if the war did not end as soon as possible, the continuous increase in military spending would sooner or later become the last straw that crushed the British government.

"Cecil, this is just the beginning." Roque patted Xiao Si on the shoulder, Portuguese East Africa is just Roque's first attempt, and next, Roque will continue to work hard, Congo Free State, Tanganyika, Portuguese West Africa, German South Africa, Roque's ambition is not just a small Portuguese East Africa.

The Congo Free State was the private property of Leopold II, Tanganyika and German South-West Africa were German colonies, and Portuguese East and West Africa were Portuguese colonies, and if all these areas were to be owned, all of southern Africa would become a colony of the British Empire.

Now it is a colony of the British Empire, and the future may not be, another time and space, after the Second World War, African countries only began to start the independence movement, this time and space maybe, with Roque, everything is possible.

"Locke, this is impossible-" After listening to Roque's introduction, Xiao Si's three views collapsed again, but at the same time as "impossible", there was also a hope.

After the Berlin Conference in 1884, European countries used a ruler to divide Africa, and then the Berlin Conference became a colonial order consciously maintained by all European countries, and no matter which country tried to provoke a war, it was opposed by all European countries.

This is the fundamental reason why countries like Portugal and Belgium can also have large colonies in Africa.

In Xiao Si's concept, any country that wants to provoke a war against other countries will be besieged by all countries, just like the Napoleonic Emperor of France, no matter how majestic and strategic, he will eventually be besieged to death.

Roque took a different approach, and the colonial order established by the Berlin Conference constrained the wars between European nations, but it could not restrain the resistance of the colonial natives against the colonizers.

As in the case of Portuguese East Africa, if the Portuguese were unable to suppress the resistance of the Yao people, resulting in the complete collapse of Portuguese colonial rule in Portuguese East Africa, then other European countries would not interfere at all.

Just kidding, it's too late to pay attention to your colonies and prevent a situation like that in Portuguese East Africa, who cares if anyone supports the Yao?

What's more, the Portuguese don't have evidence yet.

What's more, the British Empire is eyeing it.

"So, we're now opening up territory for the British Empire, and if other countries were to intervene, what do you think London would do?" Roque had no fear, as long as he hugged the thigh of the British government, at least before World War I, or before World War II, Roque did not need to worry about international pressure.

"I'm afraid London will make you an earl." Xiao Si muttered to himself, as an Englishman, the virtue of the British government, Xiao Si couldn't be clearer.

"Hehe, work hard, Cecil, as long as your strength is big enough, you will get everything you want in the future." Roque poured chicken soup on Xiao Si, if there is anything unsatisfactory in Xiao Si's life now, then it is a knighthood.

The British government did not give Cecil Rhodes the title in preparation for the future revocation of the privileges of the South African company.

In a few years, when the Transvaal and Orange implement the democratic representative system, and even the Federation of South Africa is established and becomes a dominion within the British Commonwealth, or even further becomes an independent country, then the importance of the South African company will also decline, and then the title will lose its meaning, and the British government will take the initiative to send the title to Rhodesia and use the title to envelop Xiaosi.

In another time and space, after the establishment of the Federation of South Africa, there was controversy about the positioning of Rhodesia.

The final result was a vote of white people in Rhodesia to decide whether Rhodesia would join the Union of South Africa.

At that time, the white people of Rhodesia chose not to join, so Rhodesia was isolated from the Union of South Africa and became a separate region, and then during the Cold War, Rhodesia was abandoned by both blocs at the same time, and finally the African bakery was reduced to a poor country in need of relief.

If there is a South African Federation in this time and space, then Roque will not only let Nyasaland join the South African Federation, but also persuade Xiao Si to agree to Rhodesia to join the South African Federation, which has many benefits, and there is no way to say it now, but Roque will prove it to Xiao Si.

In mid-October, the Portuguese delegation to the negotiations finally arrived belatedly.

It was only then that Roque discovered that the Portuguese delegation had also invited the Germans and the French to participate in the negotiations.

On the German side, the chief of the German General Staff, Alfred von Schlieffen, was involved; On the French side, Jean-Casimir Perrier, former president of the French Third Republic, was involved in the negotiations.

Alfred von Schlieffen was the proposer of the famous "Schlieffen Plan", which was the prototype of the future blitzkrieg, and it was because of Alfred von Schlieffen's tactical thinking that Germany was able to quickly invade France in the early stage of World War I.

Jean-Casimir Perrière, on the other hand, was a failed politician who served as prime minister but fell due to his inability to deal with anarchist riots and thorny problems of church-state relations, and later Jean Casimir Perrière, who also served as president, but resigned due to conflicts with the prime minister and the impact of the Dreyfus affair.

Roque could understand why the Portuguese invited the Germans and the French.

The war in Portuguese East Africa stimulated all European countries with colonies in Europe, and it can be said that except for Britain, all colonial countries are now in danger, and they are worried that the situation in Portuguese East Africa will happen in their own colonies, so even if the Portuguese do not invite, Germany and France, two countries with huge interests in Africa, will take the initiative to stand up.

On October 10, the negotiations officially began.

The first day of negotiations yielded no results, and the Yao demanded that the Portuguese completely withdraw from Portuguese East Africa and compensate all the indigenous people in Portuguese East Africa for the losses caused by the colonization of Portuguese East Africa for 500 years.

The Portuguese demanded that the Yao return to the state they had before the outbreak of the war and continue to accept Portuguese colonization, and that the Portuguese would consider raising the social status of the Yao as appropriate, reducing taxes on the Yao, and that they would be given full political rights in the future, given the "great concessions" of the Yao.

The conditions of the Portuguese will definitely not be accepted by the Yao.

And the conditions of the Yao people were also unacceptable to the Portuguese.

So the first day of negotiations lasted only half an hour, basically the Yao and the Portuguese each made their own demands, and then Roque announced the end of the first day of negotiations.

It is said that at this time, Roque should contact the Yao and the Portuguese respectively to understand their bottom line, communicate information between the two sides in a timely manner, and prepare for the next negotiation.

But Roque didn't have time, Ade had already returned to the Transvaal from London, and the trial of Austin Pence and the two captains was about to begin, and London needed someone to take responsibility for it, and Austin Pence and the two captains might become scapegoats.

Roque certainly didn't want to see this happen, so Roque hired the best lawyers for Austin Pence and the two captains, and Roque took the initiative to go to Alfred von Schlieffen to try to relieve the pressure on the British government through Alfred von Schlieffen.

After more than a month of investigation, Kaiser Wilhelm II has now determined that three German Boers died in the clashes, which is why Kaiser Wilhelm II insisted that the perpetrators be punished.

As for whether these three German Boers existed, it didn't matter, it really didn't matter, for more than a month, Bloemfontein was taken over by the Johannesburg Police Department, and Roque never knew that anyone was investigating the matter, so Roque didn't know where Wilhelm II knew about it.

"—Conflict is not important, it really does not matter, Lord Nyasaland, let us now turn to the question of Portuguese East Africa." Schlieffen didn't care who would be judged, how many German Boers had died, but Tanganyika and German South-West Africa.

Tanganyika borders Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, the Congo Free State, and British East Africa, while German South-West Africa borders Portuguese West Africa, the Bechuana Protectorate, and the Cape Colony.

Therefore, the war that took place in Portuguese East Africa could also happen at any time in Tanganyika and German South-West Africa, and this was the focus of foreign minister Pilov.

No, the Herero rebellion had already broken out in German South-West Africa, so now Schlieffen was concerned about whether the Herero rebellion would intensify further, and whether the Africans in Tanganyika would follow the example of the Yao people in Portuguese East Africa and rise up against German colonial rule.

As Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, this was Schlieffen's job.

"No, it's important, we have to solve this problem first and then we can solve the next problem." Of course, Roque knows what Schlieffen is concerned about, so Roque is also fearless, if you don't give me a promise, I won't give you a promise, let's just consume it like this, see who can consume whom.

"Your Majesty, it's not your Majesty's turn to interfere." Schlieffen did not agree to put the two issues together, or that Schlieffen did not think the two issues were of equal importance.

"Your Excellency Chief of the General Staff, perhaps this issue is not important to you, but it is important to me, and it is also an internal matter between our Transvaal and Orange." Roque did not give an inch, regardless of whether or not Germans were killed in the conflict, and even if there were, this is also an internal contradiction in Britain, what does it matter to you Germany?

It seems that the Germans are very idle, so Wilhelm II is staring at the Transvaal and Orange, and if Wilhelm II continues to toss around like this, then Roque will have to find something to do for the Germans.

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