Garfield, the senior manager of the Antwerp company, has been very angry recently, and the cause of the incident is very simple: two managers of the Antwerp company were fishing in Lake Tanganyika, and because the fishing operations of the two Chinese fishermen affected the fishing of the two people, the two men shot the two Chinese fishermen, and then went ashore and returned to the company like no one else, and did not report it at all.

Therefore, Garfield did not know anything when he received the telegram from the Nyasaland Agricultural Company, so naturally he did not respond in the first place.

What Garfield never expected was that the next day, another Chinese in the Kapta area was shot and killed, this time the Nyasaland Agricultural Company did not send a telegram, but Garfield raised his vigilance, after fully understanding the background of the Nyasaland Agricultural Company, Garfield suddenly realized that the Nyasaland Agricultural Company did not seem to be as harmless as her name, and at this time, Garfield received a telegram from Antwerp.

"Investigate the truth of the matter, give Lord Nyasaland a reasonable explanation, compensate Nyasaland for economic losses, meet all the demands of Lord Nyasaland within a reasonable range, make sure that the situation is kept under control, and if necessary, ask Viscount Alfred Milner to intervene - this will simply make us surrender to Nyasaland." Garfield still underestimated Antwerp's attention to Nyasaland, and a resentment arose, in the Congo Free State, the Antwerp company was like God to give what it wanted, and never suffered any setbacks, and now because of three civilians, Antwerp was going to bow to Nyasaland, which made Garfield resentful.

"Lord Nyasaland is very capable, this man is unscrupulous, like the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes, a British' The two Cs plan's loyal supporters, some time ago Portuguese East Africa upheaval, although there is no evidence that Lord Nyasaland was involved, but the Portuguese claim that it is because of Nyasaland's support for the Yao people that the Yao people were able to defeat the Portuguese, after the Yao and the Portuguese signed an agreement, Lord Nyasaland obtained the access to the sea in the Zambezi River basin from the Yao people, becoming the biggest beneficiary of Portuguese East Africa, we do not yet know the relationship between Lord Nyasaland and the Yao people, but we have reason to believe that there must be some kind of unknown transaction between Nyasaland and the Yao people。 Kenneth Bryan, an officer at the Antwerp Company, emphasized the ties between Nyasaland and the Yao people, and although Kenneth had no evidence, Kenneth's verbal tendencies were clear.

Because of the rebellion of the Yao people, Portugal lost most of the territory of Portuguese East Africa, and now Portugal is in chaos, and the royalists hope to gather forces to return to Portuguese East Africa and regain Portugal's interests in Portuguese East Africa; The opposition parties demanded that the king abdicate, the prime minister resign, and hold national elections to decide the fate of Portugal.

The crumbling kingdom of Portugal had no time to return to Portuguese East Africa, and with the rebuilding of the kingdom of Mwini Matapa by the Yao people, and the construction of Port Edward and the railway at the mouth of the Zambezi River in Nyasaland, Portugal's return to Portuguese East Africa became more and more elusive, and although the Portuguese government was trying to win international support through various means, as long as the British government did not intervene, there would be no one to support the Portuguese.

Rhodesia and Nyasaland were the beneficiaries of the drastic changes in Portuguese East Africa, and the territories obtained by Rhodesia and Nyasaland were also British territories, so the British government would not come forward to uphold justice for the Portuguese at all.

Kenneth now fears that Nyasaland will replicate what the Congo Free State did in Portuguese East Africa, which would be nothing less devastating for the Congo Free State.

"If Lord Nyasaland thinks that the Congo Free State is Portuguese East Africa, then Lord Nyasaland is wrong, the Congo Free State is not Portuguese East Africa, the Congolese and Negrilo are not Yao, and if the Congolese and Negrilo dare to rebel, then we will kill all the Congolese and Negrillo." Colonel Jim Theresa, a German who fought in the Franco-Prussian War and lost an eye in the Franco-Prussian War, retired from the German army and joined the colonial army of Leopold II in the Congo Free State.

"Colonel, even if we kill all the Congolese and Negrillo, it won't solve the problem, three years ago, there were no less than 100,000 people near Lake Tanganyika, now there are less than 20,000, and even if the Nyasaland people don't come, the Congolese and Negrilo will die—" Kenneth sighed faintly, and the Belgians were not much better than the Portuguese in terms of cruelty and cruelty.

In 1884, when Leopold II established the Congo Free State, the Congo Free State had about 25 million people, and in 1908, Belgium was affected by the international public opinion environment and nationalized the Congo Free State to become the Belgian Congo, when there were less than 10 million Belgian Congo left, and in just 24 years, the population of the Congo Free State decreased by 10 million to 15 million.

No, it's not just 10 million to 15 million, because it is impossible for the population of the Congo Free State not to increase in these 24 years, so the number here is also added to the natural increase in population over the years.

Given the rate of population growth at this time, this number is likely to double.

The cruelty of the Belgians can be seen.

"Are you accusing us of being too cruel? Crocodile tears, you don't think that when taxes are collected and rubber tapped! Jim retorted that Kenneth had been a lawyer before, and that Kenneth had a role to play when the Antwerp Company needed to sign a contract with a certain chief in the Congo Free State, and that without the threat of force from Jim and his soldiers, Kenneth and his lawyers would not have had room to operate.

"Well, let's talk about Nyasaland, what kind of explanation should we give to make Lord Nyasaland accept, or rather, how much compensation we have to pay to satisfy Lord Nyasaland." Garfield doesn't want to listen to meaningless quarrels, even if they dump each other on weekdays, the building will fall and not forget to fight for power and profit, that is, to kill himself.

"It's very simple, just find a reason, such as a gun misfire or something, just give Nyasaland some compensation, if Lord Nyasaland is endless, I will let him see the glory of the Prussian warriors." Jim swears that there is a king who adheres to the "Yellow Peril" theory, and it is indeed easy to bring out a group of confident warriors.

Although Roque is now a baron of Nyasaland and shows a tendency to be more and more valued, after all, Roque is a yellow man, the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China has just ended, and Germany is the main force of the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China, so it is really difficult for Jim to respect Roque, the Baron of Nyasaland.

"During the Boer War, legend has it that the commander-in-chief of the Boer coalition army, General Joubert, was killed by Lord Nyasaland, before the Boer War, Lord Nyasaland was just a patrol officer in the Cape Town Police Department, during the Boer War, Lord Nyasaland rose like a rocket, and after the war he was already a baron with a fief of 200,000 square kilometers, such a person was not intimidated." Kenneth wasn't in a hurry, if it weren't for the fact that Kenneth and Jim's interests were closely linked, then Kenneth really wanted to see how Jim proved the glory of the Prussian warrior to the Nyasalanders.

"Lord Nyasaland is a funny clown, only by virtue of good luck has a little bit of pitiful feats, look at the performance of the British Expeditionary Force in the Boer War, it really does not match the honor of the British Empire, you said, before the outbreak of the war that the clown was just a patrolman, even the expeditionary force was a mess, what can the patrolman do?" Jim laughed, the performance of the British Expeditionary Force in the Boer War has indeed become the talk of the talk and the laughing stock of Europeans.

In today's world, Britain is still the undisputed leader.

And the whole world is happy to see the jokes of the boss, think of the defeat of Somalia by the United States in the twentieth century, and the whole world is almost without beating gongs and drums.

"Jim, don't say that, how Lord Nyasaland got his title is beyond the scope of our discussion, what we are going to discuss now is how to deal with Nyasaland's questioning." Garfield is still calm, even if Nyasaland is a clown, it is a clown representing the British Empire, and it is not something that the Antwerp company can ignore.

"Blame? What right do the people of Nyasaland have to 'rebuke' us? We are not Lord Nyasaland's men. Jim didn't give up, what he couldn't accept was Roque's complexion.

It's just that dwelling on it at this time is not in the interest of the Antwerp company, so Garfield is disappointed in Jim and looks at Kenneth.

Kenneth smiled bitterly and said that he was also helpless, no matter how the Antwerp company explained to the Nyasalanders, the garrison must be required to exercise full restraint, and if another vicious incident occurred at this time, the consequences would be out of control.

"Jim, restrain your men, I don't want to see anything like this happening again, and if there is, you'll have to find a way to explain it to Lord Nyasaland yourself." Garfield said fiercely, if Jim still doesn't care about the overall situation, then Garfield will have to consider transferring Jim away, Jim's attitude can't make peace with the Nyasaland people at all, and it will only make things worse.

"Sir, there is no need to be afraid of the Nyasalands, I have placed two companies along the border, and they are enough to deal with the Nyasaland militias who are not even fully uniformed." Jim was confident, at least Jim's men were regulars.

"Gentlemen, we're in trouble—" The office door was suddenly pushed open, and Larry Lind, manager of the security department of the Antwerp company, hurried: "Our two companies on the border were attacked, and all 240 people were killed, and the problem now is that we don't know who the attackers are, nor how many people there are on the other side, and we don't even know if the other side will attack again, this time we are in big trouble-"

Jim was dumbfounded, he never expected that the slap in the face would come so quickly.

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