"What is the attitude of the German government towards us?" Krueger said anxiously to the diplomatic representative who had just returned from Germany.

As in history, in early 1895, Rhodes and a group of British miners teamed up with the Outsiders Reform Committee in Johannesburg to plot an attack on the Boers. After almost a year of preparation, the assault on the Boer Transvaal Republic was finally launched in December 1895, led by Jameson, the gold medal fighter of Rhodes, and a force of nearly 700 (more than in history, less than 500 in history) mercenaries and villains slaughtered the Boer homeland.

In the midst of poor domestic and foreign conditions, the colonial minister Neville Chamberlain cancelled the mission at the last minute before the plan was carried out, but sadly, this era was not universal. Far away on the other side of the world, Jameson had not even had time to receive Chamberlain's orders, and the battle was over.

Who is Kruger? History is also a strong man with tens of thousands of troops and the powerful British Empire in South Africa for 3 years, and the most terrible thing is that this guy finally ran away! Rhodes can be called a second-rate plan, and the third-rate quality troops are naturally meat buns and dogs in the face of the Boers who have long been guarded. In addition to the nearly 200 people who were killed, the remaining 500 people were taken prisoner.

The Outsiders Reform Committee, which was located in Johannesburg as an internal response, was also wiped out. The defeat in this battle immediately became the number one scandal in European politics! Rhodes, the mastermind behind the incident, also lost his position in the colonial government of South Africa. And Chamberlain immediately said that he did not know.

If we look at the historical context, Wilhelm II will publish the telegram to Kruger on January 4, 1896! Then the Kruger telegram incident eventually led to various latent and explicit contradictions between Britain and Germany, and eventually led to a series of diplomatic incidents. This marked the beginning of the hostility between Germany and England. All kinds of contradictions and hostility began to shift to the people.

But in this plane, Frederick III was still on the throne, and Wilhelm II was very hostile to the English and had a lot of thoughts about the Boers. But it didn't do much. Frederick III took care of the face of the British, expressing his concerns and concern for German interests in the region to the British through private channels. At the same time, Russian-German relations are already very close, and Salzpoli is also worried that too much persecution will lead to an alliance between Russia and Germany!

So after some weighing, the British decided to suspend the operation against the Boers. On the one hand, it was to alleviate the contradictions between Britain and Germany, and on the other hand, the action against the Boers was not yet mature, you know, since the Kruger telegram was sent, it led to the confrontation in the eyes of Anglo-German relations, and at the same time, it also made the British and the Boers realize that they could not solve the problem with negotiations, so everyone began to prepare, and the two sides prepared for three years from 96 to 99!

Although the wheel of history has been somewhat off, it is clear that the conditions of the Boers at this time were much better than they were in history. Although Kruger has realized that war is inevitable, his preparation time will be longer! It is also more sufficient. Of course, this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

"I didn't get to see His Majesty Frederick III, only Prime Minister Bismarck. The other side has limited support for us, more commercial and material support, but refuses to make a more obvious statement politically. Crown Prince William praised our actions, but because of our status. It doesn't help. Shi Mozi's words revealed a deep sense of disappointment and dissatisfaction.

"And what about the attitude of the Bavarian royal family?" Kruger asked.

"The support of the Bavarian royal family is more practical than that of the German government. They agreed to train the army for us as volunteers, and it was the Bavarian von Von Murphy who was sent here. Colonel Calyput. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War and served as a commander in the Qing-Japanese War in the Far East. He has a lot of combat experience, and he is not only alone, but also has a team. And the Bavarian arsenal will also be open to us, and they will sell us only 10% more weapons than they use for themselves. Enough goodwill has been demonstrated. In the future, we will not be short of weapons even if we arm the entire Boers. Shi Mozi said.

"But all the Boers combined, how many. We are dealing with an empire. Kruger sighed. The British are fierce, but they don't know how fierce, because the last time they were fierce was when the Black Sea and the French beat the Russians, the Crimean War was fierce. So many years have passed. The British Empire did not make a move, and the once great martial arts seem to have been forgotten.

It was not until the time of the Sino-Japanese War that the influence and control of the British were once again revealed. After the Germans successfully beat the Japanese on the battlefield, they had to choose to compromise under the threat of the British, although the two sides then fought openly and covertly, but except for the last three countries to intervene and return Liao, the British were firmly in control of the situation.

After this incident, Kruger clearly realized that once a war broke out between Britain and Brazzaville, the help provided by Germany and other European powers was very limited, and the so-called goodwill was more in words. It seems that there are no countries in this world that dare to directly challenge the British Empire. So Kruger was left on his own, and some of the suggestions made by Prince Ruprecht at one time began to revive in his mind.

"I heard that in Namibia, Germans and blacks get along very well?" Krueger asked a question that seemed a bit off-topic.

"Well, I have discussed these things with Dr. Itmer, and it is true that the blacks are not very demanding, and as long as they can eat enough and can provide for their families, they will stand by us. In terms of efficiency, it is more efficient to invest a limited amount of money to make black labor more enjoyable than to press it directly. It is also easier for us to get the support of blacks, who have more than 200,000 Boers in total and more than 4 million blacks around us. ”

"Even if we can only get one twentieth of them, we can make up for the shortage of human resources caused by the war, we have money, and it is very cost-effective to have the blacks help us transport supplies, take care of logistics, and do the work in the countryside, and if I can't stop the British, then everything we pay will be quickly recovered, and if I can't stop it, no amount of money will be for others." Shi Mozi didn't know why the president asked this question, but he was still very honest. There is no exaggeration and no gloss over what.

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