Chapter 1118: Someone Pulls the Hind Legs of the British
Suddenly, the Kingdom of Prussia was under tremendous pressure from Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands and other countries, and it didn't matter if it unified other states, Britain really needed a strong Prussia to contain the influence of the French Empire, but if the Kingdom of Prussia wanted to annex Austria or even Hungary, it would never be allowed!
If Prussia had succeeded in annexing the other German states and annexing Austria, it would have been more than twice the size of the French Empire itself! The population is far more than the French Empire, and even more than the British Empire itself, such strength, such potential is really too great!
It cannot be tolerated, absolutely cannot be tolerated, neither the British Empire nor the French Empire wants Prussia to grow step by step and finally become an existence that threatens the hegemony of the British and French world!
The two countries united with the rest of Europe and began to put pressure on the Kingdom of Prussia, even if they were arrogant like William I, they couldn't help but get angry, and this time the matter was a bit big!
Now, however, Wilhelm I did not want to concede and see if he could hold out, and what if a few countries only rose up and scared Prussia? Maybe that's right?
It's just that now Bismarck and Moltke have gone to Vienna, and there is no one in Berlin who can get an idea with him, and Wilhelm I is also a little restless. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
William I stiffened up for a few days, but what he didn't expect was that things had really changed, although France was still clamoring violently, but England suddenly became silent, and I don't know what happened, so that the British Empire did not care about the affairs of the European continent!
In fact, it is not an uncommon thing, because now in addition to the situation in Africa, the British have special interests in South Africa, since a few decades ago, the British bought the Cape of Good Hope area from the Dutch, they have always wanted to put the whole of South Africa under their rule, and over the years, the situation has been developing in the direction of the British, the British in southern Africa are becoming more and more influential, and they can already compete with the French in North Africa, even if the Dutch descendants of the Boers in South Africa, Now they have to move all the way to the north, and their strength is getting weaker day by day.
What I didn't expect was that in the past few months, there was a sudden upheaval in South Africa, and the Transvaal Republic somehow suddenly connected with the Chinese Empire, and received a large amount of aid from the Chinese Empire, not only material aid, but also direct financial assistance, which made the strength of the Transvaal Republic suddenly reach a new level in a short period of time!
The Transvaal and the Orange Free State were originally almost the same in strength, and it was the balance of strength that kept the two countries divided over the years, and now they are different, the Transvaal has found a big backer, and its political, economic, and even military strength has risen sharply, and it has surpassed the Orange Free State in all fields. The fact that the presidents of the two countries are still held by the leader Martinas alone, which undoubtedly provides a unified basis for the two countries.
After these months of preparation, coupled with the secret promotion of the Chinese Empire, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State really came together, Martinas officially announced that the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State will complete the merger of the two countries within two months, and after the merger, a new Boer United Republic will be formed, as the first matter of the merger, that is, the Transvaal army and the Orange Free State army will take the lead in completing the merger, and the armies of the two countries will be prepared by Martinas and Kruger, Merge into the Boer Wehrmacht!
As soon as the news came out, the whole country was shaken, and the two countries of the Boers were about to merge!
Once these two countries merge, the influence in Africa will undoubtedly be greatly enhanced, and if the Chinese Empire takes this opportunity to continue to support the Boers, there is simply nothing to question about the formation of a strong state in Africa!
The British are really a little panicked, they must not let South Africa out of the control of the British, the merger of these two countries must be stopped, even if it is to start a war, they must not be allowed to continue, the rise of Prussia threatens the French Empire at most, and it is far from threatening the interests of the British Empire, at least for decades, Germany will not have the ability to compete with the British Empire, and will never even have this opportunity, you must know that nearly half of the world's colonies are in the hands of the British Empire, Prussia was too far behind.
But if the Transvaal and Orange were to merge with the support of the Chinese Empire, it would really threaten the interests of the British Empire in Africa!
The British had to stop the actual action against Prussia in Europe, and instead began to devote all their attention to South Africa, and at the same time began to mobilize the Imperial fleet and land forces from the mainland, preparing to go to the Cape of Good Hope, even if not to start a war, then to deter the situation there, so that some anti-British forces would not be ready to move!
However, the British moved too late, and Martinas gave less than two months to come out, but what he didn't expect was that they had already prepared all the affairs! Just after Martinas was announced, only half a month later, the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State officially announced the completion of the merger of the two countries!
In order to be able to advance this cause of integration, the Transvaal Republic paid a great price by giving great benefits to the Boers of the Orange Free State, not only to the Boers of Orange, but also to stipulate that blacks who had resided in the new Boer Republic for three years and applied for membership in the Boer Republic would be given the same status as Bourget, and even political rights, and that in future elections the blacks would have the right to vote. Although blacks only have one-third of the voting power of whites, this is a very big improvement, in other Western countries, which country has a status for blacks? Even blacks in the United States of America are discriminated against!
As soon as the Boer Republic was proclaimed, tens of thousands of blacks began to migrate to the Boer Republic.
At this moment, the British were completely shocked, and the British army had not yet had time to send it to the Cape of Good Hope! The Transvaal gave the British a combination punch that completely stunned the British! (To be continued.) )