After the independence of the Kingdom of Mozambique, the area of Portuguese East Africa, which once totaled 800,000 square kilometers, belonged to the Portuguese only about 150,000 square kilometers.

Objectively speaking, these 150,000 square kilometers are actually the essence of Portuguese East Africa, if the Portuguese manage it carefully, it is still very good, after all, the area of Portugal is only 90,000 square kilometers, even if it is Portuguese East Africa after being divided, it is also a semi-Portuguese mainland.

Unfortunately, the Portuguese did not learn much from their previous failures and still imposed a high-pressure rule on Africans within their borders, which caused extreme tension between Lorenço Marques and Africans.

Now there is also infighting among the whites, and Roque is really powerless to complain.

The current Portuguese East Africa, like southern Africa in another time and space, is simply a trick to death.

On December 15, Roque welcomed two special guests to his official residence in Nyasaland: Dylan Calami and Sidney Richards, the leaders of the Labour Party of Lorenço Marquez.

The Labour Party is not a workers' party, but a new bourgeois party corresponding to the royalists, and in essence the Labour Party is also composed of capitalists, a party formed by the new bourgeoisie to fight for interests, and a trade union formed by workers is a different matter.

When Portuguese East Africa remained intact, plantations were the economic foundation of Portuguese East Africa.

The area of Portuguese East Africa is now only 150,000 square kilometers, which is greatly reduced compared with the previous one, and this situation has forced the white people of Portuguese East Africa to take the initiative to change, and the primary processing of agricultural products has gradually replaced the traditional plantations and become another economic pillar of Portuguese East Africa.

In Portuguese East Africa, where the traditional plantation industry was mainly run by the royalists, while the new bourgeoisie controlled the processing of agricultural products, the Labour Party and the royalists were naturally opposed to each other, and both argued for their own interests.

Dylan Karami and Sidney Richards have come to seek support from Nyasaland.

Although Nyasaland should bear a great deal of responsibility for the current situation in Portuguese East Africa, it is simply instinctive for the capitalists to seek advantage and avoid disadvantage, and Portugal itself is not a very difficult choice compared to Nyasaland, one is in the twilight and the other is thriving.

No, it doesn't even count as multiple-choice questions, and adults never make choices.

For business, the stability of the political environment is very important, and now Lorenzo Marques is surrounded by the sea on one side and the territory of southern Africa on three sides, like the Walvis Bay surrounded by the territory of German southwest Africa.

However, Walvis Bay is backed by powerful southern Africa, so it can maintain its independence, and German southwest Africa does not dare to fight the idea of Walvis Bay.

Unlike Lorenço Marques, Portugal's national strength is weak, and it can't even maintain the stability of the homeland, so Dylan Calami and Sidney Richards hope to get help from Nyasaland, and promise to hold a referendum in Lorenço Marques after taking control of Lorenço Marques, so that the Lorenço Marques people can decide the fate of Lorenço Marques.

In fact, this is a euphemism, and the normal way to say it should be that if Nyasaland is willing to help Lorenço Marquez's Labour Party, then Lorenço Marquez will become a protectorate of Nyasaland in the future, or join southern Africa directly.

It was only at this time that Roque realized the benefits of imperialism, and that it was not important what courtesy, righteousness, honesty, justice, and peace were all important, so that the interests of Hongguoguo could move people's hearts.

So Roque's attitude is very clear: "Of course, Southern Africa is willing to help all people who yearn for freedom and peace, as a superpower in southern Africa, Southern Africa should play a more important role in maintaining regional stability and creating a better life for the people of the whole of Africa, so let it go, Southern Africa will definitely not ignore the voice of Lorenzo Marques yearning for freedom——"

This attitude is also to make southern Africa a beacon of civilization for the whole of Africa.

Then Dylan Calami and Sidney Richards looked at each other, and both could see the joy in each other's eyes.

Now it seems that this step is the right one.

For Dylan Calamy and Sidney Richards, what they needed was not a saint or a tyrant, they needed a careerist who could provide them with practical help.

Of course, it would be better if this careerist could find a perfect footnote to his behavior without being bound by the world.

Roque's performance perfectly meets the requirements of Dylan Calamy and Sidney Richards, greedy enough, shameless enough, and high-sounding enough, although these adjectives are not good, but only such people can really protect those who need protection.

Compared to Roque, the current governor of Portuguese East Africa, Roger Hart, is not qualified.

After the disintegration of Portuguese East Africa, the choice of governors also rotated, and in just a few years, Portuguese East Africa had changed six governors, and none of them could stay in the position of governor for a full year.

The current governor of Portuguese East Africa, Roger Hart, arrived in June this year, and it has been less than half a year since then.

At the beginning of his tenure, in order to develop the economy of Portuguese East Africa, Roger Hart vigorously supported the Labor Party, formulated many policies in favor of the Labor Party, and indeed effectively safeguarded the interests of the Labor Party.

But after a few months, Roger Hart's attitude towards the Labour Party changed.

The main reason is because of taxes, like South African companies, Portuguese East African products exported to Europe, there is no need to pay taxes to the Portuguese East African Governor's Office, when Portuguese East Africa exports less products to Europe, when the profit is not much, it doesn't matter whether to pay taxes or not, but seeing that Portuguese East Africa exports more and more products to Europe, and the profits are becoming more and more lucrative, the Governor's Office and the royalists are more and more dissatisfied, so just last month, Roger Hart published a decree requiring enterprises in Portuguese East Africa to start from January next year, subject to a 15 percent commodity tax.

The increase in the commodity tax imposed in southern Africa from 5 percent to 8 percent was unanimously rejected by Congress.

Portuguese East Africa levied 15 per cent at once, and one can imagine the excitement of the Portuguese East African Labour Party.

What's more, the "new tax law" in southern Africa also has export tax rebate provisions to ensure the competitiveness of southern African products to the greatest extent.

So the poll tax imposed by the Portuguese government really doesn't matter, and the export tax is the root cause of the chaos that caused Lorenzo Marques to fall into chaos.

"Lord, we are not asking for support from Southern Africa, but from Nyasaland, otherwise we would not have come to Nyasaland, but would have gone directly to Pretoria-" Dylan Calami said bluntly, and Sidney Richards next to him nodded his head in a heartfelt manner.

"What's the difference? Nyasaland is also part of Southern Africa. Roque smiled as he watched Dylan Calamy and Sidney Richards look more and more pleasing to the eye.

"No, no, no, Lord, it's different, the difference between Nyasaland and Southern Africa is big, before that, we have a lot of cooperation with companies in Nyasaland, and we know the situation in Nyasaland very well, and now Southern Africa is actually an enlarged version of Portuguese East Africa, I don't mean to be disrespectful to Lord Hellwood, but now Southern Africa does not provide the best protection for Lorenço Marques, on the contrary, Lord You can effectively protect the interests of the territory, so even if we hold a referendum in the future, It is not southern Africa that we want to join, but Nyasaland. Dylan Calamy's words made Roque very comfortable.

Now Lorenço Marques is Rhodesia to the north, Eswatini to the south, and Natal to the west, so Dylan Karami and Sidney Richards know a lot about southern Africa.

Although Rhodesia, Natal and Eswatini are all part of southern Africa, in terms of development, Rhodesia and Natal and Eswatini are worlds apart, especially in terms of infrastructure, Rhodesia is simply a few streets away from Natal and Eswatini.

Dylan Karami and Sidney Richards were even more surprised by the infrastructure in Nyasaland, where there are now not only rail and waterways connecting Port Edward and Little Rock, but also a road between Port Edward and Little Rock last year.

Compared with railways and waterways, roads play a greater role in the economic development of the region, and when the roads are built in Nyasaland, many temporary camps will be built along the way, and then after the workers are evacuated, these temporary camps will become natural settlements for new immigrants, and the development of the Zambezi River basin in Nyasaland is carried out around these settlements.

It has only been six years since the Zambezi River basin became part of Nyasaland in 1902.

Prior to that, Portugal had colonized the Zambezi River basin for nearly five hundred years.

In the past six years, the Zambezi River Basin has changed more for Dylan Karami and Sidney Richards than it had for the previous five hundred years.

The Portuguese colonized the Zambezi River basin and left only plantations that were not well developed, and a colonial history written by Portuguese East Africans in blood and tears.

In just six years, Nyasaland brought railways, roads, and countless towns along the Zambezi River.

These towns don't seem to be big now, and some of them are even threatened by wildlife and are not even self-sufficient.

But over time, as time goes by, there will be more and more Chinese in the Zambezi River Valley, and the power will become stronger and stronger, and these problems will eventually be solved.

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