By the winter of 1869, the war-torn world had suddenly become peaceful. The wars of aggression launched by the major colonial empires in order to divert the domestic economic crisis ended this season.

The disparity in strength between the warring parties is huge, and in the face of thermal weapons, the spirit of blood and bravery is not worth mentioning at all.

If it weren't for everyone pulling each other's backs, the war would have ended much earlier. The post-war pattern of the African continent has become more pronounced.

France occupied Egypt, settled Algeria, and carved up Tunisia with the British; Austria has also achieved its stated goals, occupying Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and other regions.

There is no doubt that the British are at the bottom of this round of competition. Although John Bull defeated Ethiopia and killed Aldo II, it still did not change their disadvantage in the African continent.

Killing an indigenous emperor did not mean that the British occupied Ethiopia and could not even rule in name.

Without a central government, Ethiopia became fragmented, and the British had a headache in the face of warlords.

There were fearless internationalists who secretly supported Ethiopia and fought them, and the British paid a heavy price in a two-year war.

A total of 136,000 troops were invested, and the loss of personnel alone exceeded 5,000, of which nearly 3,000 were permanently left on the African continent, and the military expenditure was an astronomical amount.

This casualty is only the loss of white soldiers, and the servant army is not valuable, so their casualties are naturally not included in the statistics.

In any case, the battle was finally won, and the face of the British Empire was not lost this time.

The absolute gap in strength is not so easy to bridge. No matter how much Fao helped, Ethiopia only caused a little trouble for the British.

Without the anti-British emperor Aldo II, the remaining warlords, Franz did not count on it. With the means of the British, it may not be long before they are afraid that a civil war will break out.

This is not too bad, at least in the short term, the British will not be able to plunder a lot of wealth from Ethiopia.

Strategically, the British increased their influence in the Gulf of Aden, but unfortunately the price paid was a little too great, and it is estimated that the anti-war forces of the London government have grown a little more.

According to the current pattern of the African continent, Austria has become an absolute dominant position. With a total area of more than 13 million square kilometers, the colony is already half a small African continent.

If it is only an area of land, it is easy to do, and everyone can find another opportunity to grab it. The problem is that there are still more than eight million white immigrants living on this land.

The colonies of all countries have a common characteristic, that is, everyone has a gun, and anyone who can resist it can become a warrior.

If this fights, it's really impossible to say who will rob whom in the end. Britain and France will not have a chance of winning unless they can commit millions of troops into the continent.

Obviously, this is impossible, the French simply did not dare to throw the main forces on the continent, otherwise the homeland would be in danger.

As for the British, not to mention a million army, even if it is an expansion of three or five hundred thousand, the army and navy will have to do it first.

The Royal Navy is not going to let the Army steal resources, and for them, this is a more terrible disaster than Fao combined.

Austria did not continue to expand on the African continent, mainly because it was holding on and needed to digest the fruits of the war.

There were many hidden dangers in this vast land, threatening Austrian rule, and clearing the area was a priority.

How can wealth be created if the colonial society cannot be stabilized? A colony that can't create wealth is a burden.

In this round of partitions, the French also performed very well, closely following Austria.

If the French can accomplish the set goal, their colony will also exceed 10 million square kilometers.

Obviously, the European strategy constrained a lot of the French and was somewhat unable to do so in the colonial expansion of Africa, otherwise Tunisia would not have been half of the British.

Now their actual control area is less than half of what was planned. Leaving the interior aside, there are also many areas in Austria that are not under actual control.

For example, Morocco has gathered the spheres of influence of Britain, France, and Spain, and how to expel Britain and Spain is a difficult problem.

In any case, nominally the French had a significant sphere of influence, including the Sultan, who was turned into a protectorate by Napoleon III.

Of course, this was only unilaterally announced by the Paris government and was not recognized by the international community. The British also claimed to have signed a treaty with the Sultan, and directly claimed to be the suzerain.

These documents were basically signed by the colonizers, and they may even be forged. Don't think about the discipline of the great powers, colonization has always relied on force, and it doesn't matter whether there is a treaty or not.

This kind of vanity and fancy trick is just to frame oneself and make one's food look better, and it has little legal effect in itself.

It is clear that the Sudanese region has become the focus of contention between Britain and France.

The French wanted to unite Sudan and Egypt, and preferably Ethiopia and Somalia, to gain dominance in colonizing East Africa.

The British were fighting for the Sudan region, and at the same time they were fighting the attention of Egypt, and the Suez Canal made them salivate.

In short, the Sudanese region was of great importance to Britain and France. Falling into the hands of the French, the British were likely to be pushed out of East Africa and trapped in South Africa.

Falling into the hands of the British, the British, who occupy the southeastern corners, will not only reverse their unfavorable strategy on the African continent, but may also go further to seize the Suez Canal and regain dominance in the Mediterranean.

This is a conspiracy, and as long as Austria does not stretch out its hand indiscriminately, it is only a matter of time before Britain and France clash over the Sudanese region.

The continent was temporarily stabilized, and the Mexican Civil War was in a period of underestimation. After contracting the task of counterinsurgency, the French army quickly defeated the rebels.

A rabble is a rabble, and without the Mexican government army to add to the chaos, the French army broke out with its own true strength, which is simply not comparable to the rebels.

The French showed the world that the defeat in the last Mexican war was an exception, and that they still have the most powerful army in the world.

Naturally, the rebels were not wiped out, and Mexico was not a small place, as long as the rebels found a random place to hide, the French could not do anything.

Massimiliano I's reign was not stabilized by the rebellious army, but was crumbling by successive social reforms.

If it weren't for the reaction of France and Austria, I am afraid that the powerful faction in Mexico would have staged a coup d'état and replaced the little crown prince as a rubber stamp.

On the surface, it has stabilized, but the undercurrent has been surging. Now there is only one Mars left, and it can be detonated.

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One wave has just flattened, and another wave has risen.

In 1860, large quantities of gold were discovered in several black emirates east of the Transvaal Republic. In 1867, the first diamond was discovered in Hopetown-on-Orange.

For the British, who controlled South Africa, the two Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange were no longer poor dicks, but a piece of fat.

And this is not the most critical, the bigger reason is that the tentacles of the Austrians also reached out.

The Boers were originally a mixed race of the Dutch, Germans and some French, and naturally did not reject Austria, which was of the same origin and origin.

Small countries need to hug their thighs, and everyone quickly became good friends. The Zulus acted as a bridge of friendship between the two sides, and in the recent African melee, the two sides joined forces to take out the threat.

For the British, the fall of the Boers to Austria meant that a crisis was imminent. With Austria's superiority on the African continent, it seems that it will not be much difficult to assimilate the Boers of the same origin.

If it weren't for the fact that the New HRE Empire couldn't accommodate the Republic, maybe the two sides would have merged by now. Even so, there were many Boers who supported joining the HRE colonial system.

This made the British people full of a sense of crisis unbearable, they have not forgotten how they were driven out of the European continent, and naturally do not want to see what happened on the European continent repeat itself in South Africa.

Despite the opening of the Suez Canal, Cape Town's strategic value has declined, but it is still a battleground.

This is a great headache for the Governor of Delphi, since he took charge of South Africa, not to mention external expansion, his own sphere of influence has been constantly compressed.

In the face of the menacing Austrians, they were able to hold their current sphere of influence, which was covered by the brand of the British Empire.

As for expansion? The expeditions sent out, all of them were unheard, and occasionally a few people escaped back, all of them pointed to the black natives.

Which indigenous tribe is so powerful and capable of holding them back? This has been going on for many years, and a few years ago they organized an expedition of three thousand troops in an attempt to break this situation.

Then, shortly after the departure of this highly-anticipated force, it was blocked by a large number of natives.

They blocked and killed gods all the way, and demons blocked and killed demons, and the natives were crying fathers and mothers. I accidentally played too high, and when I walked a little farther, I was cut off from the back road.

There is no total annihilation, and it is not far from that. Over the next year, more than 1.5 million natives moved to their colonies.

It is true that there is strength in numbers, but people also have to eat. The first thing these black tribes who were driven over was to grab land.

In addition to the cities that are still controlled by the British, the countryside is in chaos. At one time, the British tax officers were afraid to leave the city, and a large number of immigrants fled South Africa with their families.

The deteriorating situation made the predecessor take responsibility and retire home early to retire for the elderly. The Governor of Delphi solved the problem of overpopulation by bringing in slave traders.

The main reason for these things is that the Boer Republic cooperated with Austria's actions and directly released these natives, otherwise Austria would not have been able to do this.

Delphi had repeatedly offered the government to interfere with Austrian expansion, but to no avail. It's not that the London government doesn't want to interfere, the problem is that they don't have the strength to interfere.

In recent years, the supremacy of the navy has been attacked by France and Austria. The number of ironclad ships in France was approaching three-quarters of theirs, and the number of capital ships in Austria was as high as sixty-five percent of the British.

The two strong standards have long been unknown to which corner to throw and eat ashes. Reality has told the British that if you don't have money, don't pretend to be forced.

Of course, in terms of total tonnage, the British still barely achieved the two-strong standard, after all, now there is no one to PK the number of sail warships with them.

Looking at the information gathered, the Governor of Delphi felt that he should do something about it, otherwise it would be difficult for the British Empire to rule South Africa in the future.

If anyone finds the above, they won't think Delphi is making a big fuss. It is impressive that in the last ten years, the two Boer republics have immigrant data.

Of particular importance are the 80,000 immigrants from the German region, more than 80 percent of the total.

How many people are there in the Boer Republic? At this rate, it is only a matter of time before it becomes a German-American country. It is not surprising that the two Boer republics fell to Austria, and the votes made it imperative for the government to be pro-Austrian.