In any case, a divided Portuguese East Africa is in the best interests of neighboring countries and regions.

The "neighboring countries" include the Cape, Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Tanganyika, and across the sea from Madagascar.

The Portuguese are also very good at choosing places, and the colonies are surrounded by British, French, and German colonies, as well as the freak of Rhodesia, and the rising star of Nyasaland.

After the spin-off, Portuguese East Africa, the Yao people are the largest, reaching 350,000 square kilometers; Nyasaland is second, with an area of 200,000 square kilometres; The Portuguese had only 150,000 square kilometers left in this part; Rhodesia got the least, only 100,000 square kilometers.

Roque finally got over the addiction of imperialism, and when it came time to determine the border, he really took a ruler and drew a straight border line on the map with a pencil.

Xiao Si also came to help, to personally determine the border between Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

Looking at Xiao Si's comparison on the map, Roque was very worried, this is a little south, or a little north, it is a difference of hundreds or thousands of square kilometers.

Fortunately, Xiao Si didn't notice that when he drew the line, he directly connected Bella and Ximoyu to draw a straight line, which was much more southward than Roque's psychological position, and it was roughly estimated that Xiao Si's line was at least 3,000 square kilometers more than Nyasaland's territory.

Therefore, if you are not a professional, it is really not suitable to make blind comparisons in areas that you are not familiar with, even if it seems simple.

"What are we going to do next, go to the Yao people and buy the land? How much do we have to pay the Yao people? "Xiao Si is wealthy, listening to this tone, even if the Yao people ask for eighteen million, Xiao Si can take it out.

Eighteen million Xiao Si can indeed afford it, De Beers Unified Mining Company has a profit of five or six million a year, plus Rhodesia, and the companies in which Xiao Si participates, Roque doesn't know how much Xiao Si can earn every year, the only certainty is that the combined income of the four regional governments in Cape may not be as much money as Xiao Si alone.

No matter how much money you have, you can't just make it, it's not a loser, it's a disaster.

"We can't buy it, we'll rent it first and buy it later." If Luo Kedong watched the fire, he would never dare to make wedding clothes for others.

"Later? What if the Yao people regret it in the future? "Xiao Si is very anxious, and in terms of the virtue of Africans, he regrets it almost 100 percent.

"The Yao people don't dare, we will find a way to stuff the Ngoni and the recruits to the Yao people, in case the Yao people regret it in the future, hehe-" Luo Ke smiled sinisterly, and Xiao Si shuddered.

Xiao Si now feels that Roque is a standard Englishman, and he is just a hillbilly in Rhodesia.

Roque's style of doing things is really in line with the British "-stirring stick" setting, stuffing Ngoni and recruiters to the Yao people, so in case the Yao people regret it in the future, Roque will support Ngoni and recruiters, and deal with the Yao people like the Portuguese.

So Xiao Si shook his head and smiled bitterly, if this is replaced by Xiao Si, he really can't play these old silver coins.

"If we take ownership of these lands now, then these lands will become the territory of the British Empire, so we will only rent them now, and we will buy them when we can buy them." Roque has a good hand in calculating, and what method is used depends on the situation, and cannot be generalized.

Rhodesia and Nyasaland are in fact fixed in terms of territorial area, Rhodesia is operated by South African companies on a lease basis, and Nyasaland is Roque's territory, and the area of these two places is determined and cannot be changed at will.

So, if Roque and Smalls get hold of these lands in the form of law now, then these lands will de facto become the territory of the British Empire, and it would be good if the British government did not interfere, but what if the British government wanted to interfere?

Don't forget that the 300,000 square kilometers that Roque and Xiao Si got are all high-quality farms near the sea, and there are several natural harbors by the sea, and Roque will not use his interests to test the bottom line of the British government.

In particular, the British government has no bottom line at all.

So Roque simply did not leave room for the British government to operate.

At this point, Xiao Si had already worshiped Roque like a god, of course, Roque was what he said, so the next morning Roque and Xiao Si went to find the scum and signed a lease contract in front of Ade, the former president, the chief of staff, and the future prime minister.

The lease contract is for the Yao people, and Party B is two newly established companies, one called the Nyasaland Agricultural Development Company and the other is called the Rhodesia Agricultural Development Company, which lease the land between the Rugera and Savei rivers in Portuguese East Africa, with a total area of about 300,000 square kilometers and an annual rent of 300,000 pounds.

This money was immediately transferred to the Portuguese by the Yao people as compensation from the Yao people to the Portuguese.

Ade and the former president and chief of the general staff had no objection to this agreement, and it was normal for enterprises to contract land for business in this era, as the Portuguese used to do in Portuguese East Africa, but now it is just that the "landlords" have been changed from the Portuguese to the Yao, and the "tenants" have been changed from the Mozambique and Niassa companies to the Nyasaland Agricultural Development Company and the Rhodesia Agricultural Development Company.

The future prime minister has no objection to this contract, and in fact, if it were not for the fact that there are still some contract details that have not been determined, the future prime minister would want to leave the sad place of Johannesburg now.

Carlos I simply compromised with England and suffered a serious crisis of confidence.

If the contents of this agreement are transmitted back to Portugal, the future prime minister does not know what kind of turmoil will be caused.

Perhaps, he, the future prime minister, will have a chance to become prime minister.

Of course, this is not what Roque has to care about, and Roque will no longer participate in the remaining trivial negotiations, and after the lease contract is signed, Roque and Ade will leave the Golden Mountain Hotel together.

Ade is still riding a horse.

Roquetor had a keen eye, and immediately said that he would donate a batch of cars to the Governor's Mansion for use by the Governor's Palace.

How could Ade care about the car, looking at Roque with particularly sharp eyes, and returning to the palace where Ade lived, Roque found that Frank was also there.

Not Father Frank, but Frank from the War Office.

It can't be helped, white names are too arbitrary.

The palace where Ade temporarily lives is also the property of the Rhodes family, no way, the Rhodes family is too rich, and now in addition to the mayor's residence and the city government, almost all the high-grade houses in Johannesburg are the property of the Rhodes family.

"I've just arrived in Johannesburg, and your negotiations are over, and the talks are fast enough." Frank was very sorry, he thought that the negotiations between the Yao and the Portuguese were as protracted as the negotiations between the British and the Boers, so when Frank learned of the negotiations, he arranged the work of Nyasaland and rushed to Johannesburg.

As a result, by the time Frank arrived in Johannesburg, the negotiations were over, which made Frank regret his mistake.

"The Yao people used war to force the Portuguese to make concessions, and while negotiating, the Yao people have been attacking Xigubo, and claimed that after capturing Xigubo, they will continue to attack Lorenzo Marques, and will no longer accept the Portuguese's request for negotiation, and the Portuguese can't hold Xigubo, so they can only accept the Yao's conditions before Xigubo is lost." Luo Ke does not take the credit for himself, and gives all the credit to the Yao people who are "able to fight well".

"The Portuguese are too weak!" Frank sighed.

"Then why didn't you find this before?" Ade also hates iron and steel.

The Portuguese are indeed very weak, the whole world knows this, but the War Office does not know how to use it, so it should be a dereliction of duty on the part of the War Office.

"Sir, we have no reason to trouble the Portuguese, even if we want to complete the 'Two Cs', our goal is Tanganyika, or the Congo Free State, and Portuguese East Africa is not within our target range, which will not help us to complete the 'Two Cs'." Frank adamantly refused to admit that it was a mistake by the War Office, and even if there were, it was a decision-making error.

Mistakes in decision-making are certainly not the blame of the War Office, because the War Office only has executive power, not decision-making power.

"Come on, it's always the job of your War Office to expand the territory of the Empire." Ade did not blame the War Office, before that, everyone knew that the Portuguese were weak, but no one knew that Portugal was so weak.

Or rather, so weak!

If the Portuguese are weak, it is also weak in the face of the British, and the Portuguese are not weak in the face of Africans, otherwise, Portugal would not be able to maintain its 500-year colonial rule in Portuguese East Africa.

The point is that Portugal is too weak now, and the current king of the Kingdom of Portugal, Carlos I, is actually a very talented person, he is good at painting, he has studied oceanography, if he is a painter, or if he is an oceanographer, then he will definitely be quite successful.

Carlos I was a king, but the current Kingdom of Portugal was still troubled by internal and external troubles, Carlos I had just ascended the throne, and the British government drove the fleet directly to the door of the Portuguese in order to force the Portuguese government to abandon the "Pink Map Project".

So Carlos I coaxed.

However, the Republican Party, the frustrated royal party and the Masonic leaders in Portugal did not coax, so the excitement in Portugal finally led to the Porto Republican uprising in January 1891, with mass strikes and riots.

Although the republican rebellion in Porto was suppressed, the situation in Portugal has become more and more serious, and now Portugal has lost most of Portuguese East Africa, João Franco's worries are very reasonable, if the news is transmitted back to Portugal, the Kingdom of Portugal is estimated to be hehe.

"Lord Nyasaland is expanding the Empire!" Frank quietly shifted the fire to Roque.

Ade didn't actually care about the War Office either, and called Roque over, mainly for Portuguese East Africa.

"It's not yet a frontier, and we need an opportunity to turn the leased land into part of the British Empire." Everyone will say that he is obedient, and of course Roque must show loyalty at this time.

Ade nodded, it was good to be able to do this step now, if Rhodesia and Nyasaland showed too aggressiveness, then it would be the turn of the Germans and the French who couldn't sleep.

"Lord, how do you arrange the Yao people next?" Frank was curious about Roque's next plans, and he was ready to get involved in this stance.

The War Office came to Nyasaland to participate in the subversion of Portuguese East Africa by Nyasaland and Rhodesia.

It's a pity that Roque's actions were too fast, and the War Office was not ready, so Roque spun up Portuguese East Africa, and the current result does not seem to have the slightest credit from the War Office, which makes Frank how willing.

"Of course, it is to establish a country dominated by Yao people." Roque needed a gun that was invincible and fully autonomous.

"Mainly Yao people?" Frank was a little skeptical, and Ade also looked at Roque with questioning eyes, and in Frank and Ade's opinion, Roque's decision was not too smart.

"Yes, the Yao people are the main people, in this case, the Yao people have nothing to do with us, and they can decide for themselves whether they want to wage war against a certain place, isn't that good?" Roque knew what Ade and Frank were worried about, but Roque was not worried that the Yao people would turn against Nyasaland, and the Yao people did not have this ability.

Through the drastic changes in Portuguese East Africa, I am afraid that all colonial countries have heightened their vigilance against the aborigines in their colonies, and the Yao people in Portuguese East Africa have fully proved that as long as the strategy is appropriate, the tactics are right, and there is sufficient logistical support, the barbarians can also have a subversive impact on civilized society.

Roque has no worries about this, even if the Yao people want to subvert Nyasaland, they all have a chance to subvert Nyasaland, and after the workers of the Christian construction company are withdrawn, Nyasaland does not even have a single African, how can the Yao people subvert?

To put it mildly, the Yao people and the Chinese do not understand the language, they can't understand the words, there are problems in communication, and the level of incitement is too high, and it is estimated that the goal cannot be achieved only by comparing and analyzing.

What's more, the Yao people have no military production capacity, and as long as the logistics of the Yao people are stuck, Nyasaland can hold the Yao people in their hands, not to mention the Zulu scouts sent by Roque to the territory of the Yao people, and their families are all Zululan in the Cape.

After listening to Roque's explanation, Ade and Frank glanced at each other, both of them with relief in their eyes, as well as ambition.

This is the glory of expanding the territory, who doesn't want it?

"Sir, if there is any such action in the future, please inform the War Office, and the War Office will do everything in its power to cooperate." Frank also needs credit, Roque and Ade are already barons, Frank is not even a knight, not to mention, if this operation in Portuguese East Africa has the participation of the War Office, then London will give Frank a knight somehow.

"Director, this operation was originally carried out under the leadership of the War Office." Roctor will be a man, doesn't he want credit?

Okay, I'll give it to you.

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