If we only look at the data on paper, India in the 21 st century can still export grain to earn foreign exchange, and it is true that people should not starve to death.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017, about 190 million people in India are malnourished, which is about 14.5% of the total population of India, and 51.4% of women of childbearing age aged 15 to 49 in India are anaemic.

This means that the Indian government would rather sell its grain to Europe to raise cattle than sell it to the malnourished poor in the country at a low price.

It's no wonder, after all, the cow is a sacred cow in India, and it really should be offered.

There is basically no starvation in Africa, the products here are too abundant, and the current African population is so small that you can not starve to death if you just check the fruit and dig some cassava.

The situation in India is completely different from that of Africa, although the area of India is not small, but India has too many people, and most of the land is owned by princely princes, so it is normal for people to starve to death in India, and every few years there will be a large-scale famine in India, and the number of people who die of starvation does not know how many, and the British government has never counted in this regard.

From these Indian workers, we can also see the situation of Indians, the taste of these potatoes with salted fish is really not very good, many Africans are reluctant to eat, seeing the appearance of these Indians eating, the onlookers Africans are very curious, and some people throw salted fish to those Indians who squat on the ground to eat, and there are all kinds of strange screams in their mouths.

This behavior is very discriminatory, and white people often throw food at Africans in this way, and now Africans finally have a charity to give, and the giver and the recipient are happy.

Feng Xun in the office was not happy, Louisa brought Feng Xun some carefully baked waffles before dinner, and accepted Feng Xun's invitation to stay and have dinner together, Feng Xun specially opened a bottle of wine for this, and the atmosphere was still very good under the warm candlelight.

It's a pity that just now, the Nyasal government officially rejected Luisa's naturalization request, and when she learned the news, Luisa was obviously disappointed.

"There will be a chance in the future-" There are some things that Feng Xun can't say too clearly, and now the Nyasaland government really can't accept Luisa and them, but just like Feng Xun said, there may be a chance in a while.

The Rhodesia Northern Division occupied Bukavu under the banner of protecting refugees, and if Luisa and the others became Southern Africans, then the Rhodesia Northern Division would have no excuse, so Luisa would have to wait a little longer if she wanted to become a Southern African.

"It's okay, we're a forgotten bunch, at least you haven't abandoned us yet." Luisa quickly perked up, and it would be difficult for their small group to survive in Bukavu without the help of the army.

"This will become the station of the Northern Rhodesian Division in the future, so you don't have to worry about your safety here." Feng Xun still has a lot of confidence in the Northern Rhodesian Division.

"Are you leaving?" Luisa clenched the fork in her hand.

"No, not only will it not leave, but it may also be stationed in Bukavu in the future, and a police station will also be needed here." Feng Xun's words made Luisa smile.

With a garrison and a police station, Bukavu, while nominally part of the Congolese Free State, has de facto become an integral part of Nyasaland.

Feng Xun and Luisa understood this truth, as did Charles Senior, who had just assumed the post of Belgian consul in southern Africa.

Prior to this position, Charles Seniore was a businessman in Cape Town, and the reason why he accepted the appointment of the Belgian government was not to protect Belgian interests, but to promote his own business.

"What else can I do? The Congo Free State used to be the king's private domain, and although it was later taken over by the Belgian government, the Belgian government never gave me a penny, so what does the Congo Free State have to do with me, I am a poor man who pours some wood and stone to support my family. "Charles Senior is well aware of his position and the situation of the Congo Free State, but Charles Seniore is not worried about the Belgian government, and now Charles Senior, who has become a British citizen and is a standard southern African.

It's amazing that an Englishman can serve as Belgian consul in southern Africa, and the point is that everyone thinks it's normal, just because Charles Seniore is of Belgian descent.

"Charles, if you keep the way you are, you'll get rich!" Christian laughed, maybe Charles Senior wasn't patriotic enough, but there was no doubt that Charles Senior was a smart man.

Charles Seniore and Christian had a lot of business dealings, so the two became acquainted, Christian was the largest builder in Southern Africa and a big customer of Charles Senior, so Charles Senior made the wisest choice.

Who cares if this hurts Belgium's interests.

"Then thank you for the care of your old friend, the Cape State government ordered a batch of goods from me half a year ago, and no money has been given until now, if I ask for money in the capacity of a consul, will the Cape State government give it to me?" Charles Senior's imagination is still very prominent.

"Hahahaha, you can try-" Christian laughed, his company had never encountered anything like this.

"I went to print a box of business cards today, the kind of gilding, I originally wanted to make it in gold, but the Belgian government didn't reimburse it-" Charles Seniore regretted that bronzing is certainly not as good as pure gold.

"Then are you still willing to send it?" Christian's tears are about to burst out laughing, and the golden business card Christian also has it, but the occasion for use is more special.

"Of course, I am willing to send it, and it is much better to send a golden business card than to send money directly, and I am now a consul." Charles Seniore is serious, and this is also the reason that existence is reasonable.

Charles Senior's purpose in approaching Christian was to get to know Roque through Christian's approach, and then try to take over the business of Nyasaland in Europe.

There is a certain degree of conflict between this business and Christian's business, and Nyasaland's products are partly represented by Christian and partly by Ida in Europe, and it is normal for Charles Seniore to want to get a piece of the pie, after all, Nyasaland products are notoriously profitable.

"You're a consul now, wouldn't it be better to go directly to the Lord?" Christian joked that this consular status is important for some, but for others it is just a stepping stone.

"What am I going to do with the Lord as a consul? Negotiate the issue of Bukavu? Think about Joseph Quiller in the past, who couldn't even get in the door of the Ministry of Defense, and I was afraid that the Lord would throw me out. Charles Senior is also helpless, and there is no Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Southern Africa, otherwise it would not be so easy for Charles Senior, the consul, to see Ade.

Compared with Ade, Roque is simple and rude, the Ministry of Defense is not responsible for diplomacy, so Roque does not care about Joseph Quiller at all, this kind of thing The Belgian government should go to London through normal channels, and then London and southern Africa will negotiate.

However, considering the distance between London and southern Africa, it is estimated that the negotiation process will take a bit long, at least the kind that starts in half a year, and it is normal to drag on for three or five years.

"The Lord won't throw you out, because you won't see the Lord at all—" Christian could only congratulate himself on the wise choice he had made.

Of course, Charles Senior's help from Christian is not in vain, and the golden business card comes in handy at this time, and real money is the most affordable.

Roque was also surprised when he learned the news, and he had to admit that there were a lot of smart people in these years.

"If we sign a contract with Charles Seniore to transfer the Congo Free State, I don't know if the Belgian government will recognize it." When the United States bought Alaska from Russia, the responsible officials of the Russian side are said to have made a lot of money.

"Don't even think about it, we don't have the right to sign a contract with Belgium at all." Roque really thought about it seriously, but he had no choice but to give up.

It sounds like Christian's brain is very strange, but in reality there are many strange things, when the three countries divided Poland, Russia, Prussia and Austria excluded the Polish representatives, which directly determined the fate of Poland.

After the end of World War I, the Republic of China, as the victorious country, not to mention participating in the distribution of the fruits of victory, did not even have the right to recover the lost territory, which is also strange.

"Otherwise, I'll just run it and pay for the Congo Free State directly." Christian has a lot of money, more than two million square kilometers, how much does it cost?

"Don't think about this uselessness, just do your job-" Roque knew that Chrytis was deliberately talking nonsense.

At the end of June, an organization called the Congo Party appeared in the Congo Free State, and most of the members of this organization were white people who fled to neighboring countries after the outbreak of the rebellion, and they were very disappointed with the inaction of the Belgian government after the rebellion, so they established the Congo Party and declared the independence of the Congo Free State.

The leader of the Congo party was not Isaiah Chamberlain, but a Belgian named Isaac Pansy.

In the face of the rebellion, the Belgian government was indeed slow to react.

But the Belgian government reacted quickly to the nascent Congolese party, and the day after the Congo party was announced, Leopold II decided to form an expeditionary force from his private property to go to the Congolese Free State to quell the rebellion.

In addition to Africans in the Congo Free State, the rebels here certainly include the newly formed Congolese Party.