At the beginning, the Transvaal was forced to death by the expeditionary force because it was located inland, had no access to the sea, and could not get external support.

If Roque sticks to the old ways, then Nyasaland will eventually be controlled by people everywhere because of its inland location.

So no matter what the situation in Portuguese East Africa is, Roque will do everything he can to get an outlet to the Indian Ocean from Portuguese East Africa.

Cecil Rhodes is estimated to have the same idea as Roque, so he will support the Yao people to resist the rule of the Portuguese, but unfortunately Cecil Rhodes has done a lot of preliminary work, but he did not wait for the day when the melon is ripe, but it doesn't matter, Roque and Xiao Si will inherit Cecil Rhodes's legacy, continue to support the Yao people, fight against the colonization of the Portuguese, and work hard for the independence and freedom of the colonial people.

"What is the strength of the Yao people?" Roque wondered where Cecil Rhodes had gone.

"The Yao people - their strength is not bad, they are very strong-willed, they are also armed with some rifles, and some of them have received modern military training." Xiao Si blinked his innocent big eyes, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Roque is a meaningful "oh".

Xiao Ston felt a little fever on his face, and before Xiao Si could explain, Roque went further: "It's just that this level is definitely not enough, and we need to work harder - there are many retired Zulu scouts from the expeditionary force in Johannesburg, what do you say will happen if those Zulu scouts join the Yao clan?" ”

Xiao Si was dumbfounded, and after a long time, he couldn't help but sigh: "Hehe-Locke, no wonder my father values you so much." ”

Perhaps in a shameless way, Roque and Cecil Rhodes are more like the two of them.

Overcoming obstacles along the way——

This is not an exaggeration, it is really overcoming obstacles, many times there is no road at all, there are dense bushes and primeval forests everywhere, and it is all up to the guides and guards to open the way, and Roque and Xiao Si can continue to move forward.

There are many wild animals along the way, crocodiles, hippos, African elephants, giraffes, and extremely venomous cobras, and a guide was accidentally attacked by a venomous cobra, but to Roque's surprise, the guide was able to continue his work alive after quickly treating his wounds, which surprised Roque at the survival ability of the Yao people.

"Unexpected?" Xiao Si is used to it.

"I didn't expect that!" Roque is getting used to it, and it is estimated that it will not be long before Roque can be able to do it without being confused.

"So Roque, you have to get to know the Africans so you don't ostracize them." Xiao Si now knows Roque very well, so he knows Roque's rejection of Africans.

"No, no, Cecil, this advantage is not enough to offset the shortcomings of Africans, when Africans are in a weak position, they are indeed harmless to humans and animals, but if the number of Africans reaches a certain level-" Roque wanted to describe to Xiao Si what the future world would be like, and just halfway through the words, Roque suddenly realized that even if Roque described it in detail, Xiao Si would only think that Roque was alarmist.

People in 1902 would not have understood how absurd the world would be 100 years later.

"Go on, what happens when the number of people reaches a certain level?" Xiao Si is still waiting for Roque's high theory.

This is really not ironic, the words that Cecil Rhodes said to Xiao Si before his illness already have a bit of a meaning, so Xiao Si absolutely trusts Roque now.

"When there are enough people, they will eat all the food in the world." Roque is serious nonsense.

Xiao Si burst into laughter, staggering on horseback, and almost fell off the horse.

It took a long time for Xiao Si to calm down, and then he sincerely thanked Roque: "Thank you Locke, I feel much better now, you don't have to deliberately make me laugh." ”

Roque really didn't mean to.

There were more than 100 people including guards and guides, more than 300 horses, and more than 100 people in Portuguese East Africa for a whole day, and more than 100 people only advanced less than 100 kilometers in Portuguese East Africa.

Before the tender lamb was roasted, Victor, who had gone out to explore the way, hurried to report that Roque and their camp was on a mountainside, and on the other side of the mountain, a caravan of Portuguese was also resting.

Victor is Xiao Si's captain of the guard, and after listening to Victor's report, Xiao Si nodded slightly.

Victor didn't talk nonsense, hehe smiled and beckoned thirty or forty guards to get on their horses and leave the camp and head away.

About half an hour later, there was a sudden burst of gunfire from across the mountain, and Li De immediately stood beside Roque with his gun.

When Roque goes out now, he will definitely not be alone, and there are more than a dozen commandos by his side at any time.

"Don't be nervous, just operate normally." Xiao Si is still gulping down wine and eating meat in large chunks.

Thinking of the caravan reported by Victor just now, Roque sighed and signaled Li De not to worry.

"Won't it go wrong?" Roque was really surprised, this kind of thing, if not careful, is an international dispute.

"What's the problem?" Xiao Si sneered, not paying attention to the caravan at all: "Do you know how many people go missing every year in the pioneer team of our South African company?" ”

Missing?

What's going on?

Xiao Si didn't wait for Roque to answer, and took the initiative to raise two fingers: "200, at least 200 people are missing every year, in a place like Africa, missing means that there are no bones, do you see those eyes around our camp?" It's all wild animals, a big living person, and only a skeleton can be fed for you in half an hour, and in another three or five days, there will be no bones left-"

It seems that Xiao Si is definitely no stranger to this kind of black and black, whether it is a pioneer team or a caravan, they have to carry weapons when they leave the city, under normal circumstances, no matter how powerful the wild animals are, they can't confront the colonial pioneers equipped with modern weapons, so most of the missing colonial pioneers disappeared like this.

A quarter of an hour later, Victor and his party came back giggling, leaving one person and one horse, and when they came back, at least one person and two horses, and it is self-evident how the extra horses came from.

The caravan across the hill was not a good thing either, and Roque noticed that many of the goods they had brought back were blood-stained ivory, and it looked like they had just been taken down.

"If we don't attack them, then maybe they will attack us at night, this is Africa, not the civilized world—" Xiao Si took the initiative to explain to Roque.

"No need to explain, Cecil, I'm not a pedantic old man, and when we are threatened, we have to fight back." Roque is not pedantic, and when it is time to fight back, Roque is more ruthless than anyone else, but-

Judging from the horses they had brought back from Victor, there were at most twenty or thirty caravans on the other side of the mountain, and Roque did not think that they had the courage to attack this side.

After all, there are more than 100 guards on Roque's side, and all of them don't look easy to mess with.

After a night of silence, before setting off early the next morning, Roque went to the other side of the mountain to have a look.

Xiao Si is right, in Africa, there is really no need to destroy corpses, wild animals of all sizes will do this in a short time, Roque wandered for a long time between several fires that had burned to ashes, if it weren't for Victor's repeated confirmation, Roque would definitely not believe that there were dozens of corpses lying here a few hours ago.

After a few days of calm and calm, leaving the mountains and trailing through the endless savannah, the pace of progress increased sharply, and there were still no traces of human development along the way, and after three days, Roque and his party finally arrived at Lake Niassa in Nyasaland.

Lake Niasa is the third largest lake in Africa, 584 kilometers long from north to south, 16 to 80 kilometers wide from east to west, with a water area of nearly 30,000 square kilometers, there are more than 200 species of freshwater fish growing in the lake, except for the south, the mountains on three sides are stacked, the scenery is beautiful, the lake is fed by 14 rivers with water all year round, the only outlet of the lake is the Shire River, a tributary of the Champissy River, along the Shire River, you can directly reach the Indian Ocean.

"The ownership of Lake Nyasa is still disputed, the Portuguese claim that they own at least part of Lake Nyasa, and the funny thing is that I bet that most Portuguese people in Portuguese East Africa don't know where Lake Nyasa is, my father used to want to have all the ownership of Lake Nyasa, but unfortunately he couldn't, otherwise it would be all yours now." Xiao Si has a faint regret, standing on the south shore of Lake Niasa, Lake Niasa is sparkling, beautiful and quiet, and it is indeed a beautiful scenery.

"Don't rush, take your time." In the future, Roque will have time to slowly clean up the Portuguese, not to mention Lake Niasa, if it is not good, the Portuguese in the entire Portuguese East Africa will not be able to keep it.

In fact, it was not only the Portuguese who had ideas about Lake Nyasa, but also the Germans who occupied Tanganyika (Tanzania), but in 1890 the Treaty of Heregorand was signed between the British Empire and Germany, which established in writing that all the surface of Lake Nyasa would be owned by Nyasaland, and the territory north of Lake Nyasa would be owned by Germany.

During World War I, Tanganyika became a British colony after Britain ordered South Africa to send troops to its German colonies in Africa, and then Tanganyika became independent in 1963, and the ownership of Lake Nyasa was once again disputed.

With Roque here, these controversies should not arise, Roque will not divide a good end of a lake into several parts, and the lake water cannot be encircled, such a large lake, of course, must all belong to Nyasaland.

When you get to Lake Nyasa, you don't need to camp anymore, there is an island called Licoma in Lake Nyasa, although the island is closer to Portuguese East Africa, less than five kilometers, but it belongs to Nyasaland, there are churches and barns on the island, and Roque and his party stay in the barn at night.

The area of Likoma Island is still quite large, about 18 square kilometers, the island has very little land, more fruit rocks, because the land is barren, there are only a few native Negro people on the island, they live on fishing and live on the southeast coast of the island.

"Don't you dislike the Zulus? Do you want me to clean it up for you? "Xiao Si is completely released when he arrives in Nyasaland, this is Xiao Si's kingdom, all the local natives in Nyasaland, Xiao Si can decide life and death with one word.

"Don't be so violent, just let them go to Tanganyika." Although Roque already knew the status of the Zulu people in these years, he still couldn't kill innocents indiscriminately.

Unlike the way the white people treated the Zulus, Roque did not require Zulu labor, so Roque would not allow the Zulus to settle in Nyasaland.

Of course, this does not mean that Roque is going to dispose of all the Zulus in Nyasaland, and the word "dispose" is too cruel for Roque to do.

Roque could send all these Zulus to Tanganyika, and the Germans, who were also short of labor, would certainly welcome them, or Roque could sell the Zulus in Nyasaland to Portuguese plantation owners in Portuguese East Africa, and the vineyard planters would be grateful to Roque.

If you want Roque to kill the Zulus, Roque really can't do it, the Zulus in the 21st century are really hateful, but the Zulus in the early 20th century are not, there are many Zulu police officers in the Johannesburg Police Department, they all behave well, although they are still not as good as the Chinese police, but they are much better than the Boer police, to be honest, Roque has no bad feelings towards the Zulus in this era, but he also has no good feelings, and it is better for everyone to be safe.

Of course, if the Zulu people want to find trouble with the Chinese in the future, Roque will definitely not be polite, most of the Zulu people are afraid of power and not virtuous, give them some color, they will most likely kick their noses in the face.

"To Tanganyika, it is better to sell to the Portuguese." Xiao Si's thoughts coincide with Roque's.

The Zulu people of this era were actually classified as "property" by white people, and since they were property, they could be transferred, so people like Hoover really did not have the slightest psychological barrier to human trafficking.

Xiao Si didn't either, in Xiao Si's opinion, the Zulu people in Nyasaland were also Roque's property, so when he heard that Roque was going to send the Zulu people to Tanganyika, Xiao Si couldn't help but feel sorry.

"If you want to sell you, sell it, and the money from the sale will be yours." Roque doesn't care, not to the point where Our Lady takes the initiative to defend the interests of the Zulus.

"Haha, easy to do, Victor, come here, I've got you a good business." Xiao Si doesn't like this money either, but Victor should like it.

Victor was fishing, and when he heard Xiao Si's call, Victor immediately ran over happily.

Hearing what Xiao Si said, Victor almost went crazy, called a few guards, took the rope and led the horse and hurried away.

Roque didn't want to see such a scene, so he simply went back to the merchant to sleep.

When Roque woke up, several plumes of smoke could be faintly visible to the southwest, and if he was right, it was Victor who was burning Negro's house.

Roque didn't ask about the fate of those Negro families, this era is like this, the Eight-Nation Coalition is also burning and looting in the Qing country, who will pity the Chinese in the Qing country?

It's better to take care of yourself.