Chapter 394: Attack and Defense in South Africa (1)
According to the regulations, the first thing government personnel at all levels do when they go to work is to clean up, and the second thing is to listen to the information transmission first. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In the conference room in Khartoum, the capital of the East African Administrative Region, Wang Mingshan, who was on duty in turn, spoke Anhui Mandarin and read the latest news.
"His Majesty the Emperor made a speech in North America that 'state ownership of land' was the fundamental system of the Republic of China and would never be allowed to be shaken......
"There has been a boom in immigration to North America in China, and a large number of young people choose to start a business in North America and open up their own higher future ......"
"The King of Portugal finally decided to accept the British demand to recognize the new Brazilian Republican Government......"
When it came to Portugal, the heads of the East African administrative regions couldn't help but look at the wall, where a new version of the map of the East African administrative regions was pasted, and the Portuguese colonies on it were already in the same colors as the East African administrative regions. The final article of the Berlin Conference of 1884 included a clause on "effective occupation", which was generally considered to be directed against Portugal.
If you follow the time of running in Africa, Portugal is undoubtedly one of the oldest countries in Europe. Portugal also has the largest number of African strongholds in Europe in terms of its coastal strongholds. Therefore, the British-led countries enacted the "effective occupation" clause, so that a small country like Portugal was simply unable to maintain its colonial rule in Africa.
Naturally, the British did this out of the needs of Britain's own interests, and China's choice to go along with Britain's proposal was also for China's interests. In Africa than fists, China is more confident than Britain.
"Will the Portuguese follow the English in denouncing us?" Wei Kun, deputy director of the East African Administrative Region Office, asked.
Unlike his own brother, Wei Kun has the halo of a child of the Wei family on his head. In such a ghost place in East Africa, the significance of Wei Kun's appearance is to make everyone look forward to the future of East Africa. The work of the deputy director of the office requires cadres at the division level. Wei Kun himself had been promoted to a department-level cadre when he was in Shanxi. So he was placed directly in this interesting position.
Since the deputy director of the office asked a question, someone replied: "What good is it for Portugal to follow the United Kingdom closely?" ”
"If they don't follow the UK closely, they will probably be beaten by the UK. Bringing up the hatred of the colonies taken away by China can effectively deflect domestic contradictions and allow the king of Portugal to find an opportunity to step down. Wei Kun answered the question slowly.
Regarding Wei Kun's answer, Wang Mingshan sighed in his heart. The children of Wei Zedu's family are smart enough, and Qi Rui naturally needs not talk about it, leading the vanguard of motorized infantry, which means that his future future is limitless. And Wei Kun's performance is also very impactful. The evaluation of foreign countries is nothing, and it has been more than two months since Wei Kun arrived in East Africa. In these two months, Wei Kun did one thing. He formed a council and made the black village chiefs and tribal leaders councillors. Each village and tribe pays tribute to five pairs of boys and girls every year, and these people are enrolled in Chinese schools.
Compared with China's previous operations in Africa, the previous operators listened to the wise advice of Governor Wei Zedu, and then reluctantly made a lot of money while working in Africa. Now Wei Kun's approach is clear: he wants to operate East Africa for a long time.
On the wall behind Wei Kun there is also a flag with a pure white background, on which there is a red and blue Tai Chi Pisces diagram that represents the origin, and the surrounding gossip has also been canceled The four trigrams have also been canceled, leaving only Qian, Kun, Kan, and Li. It represents "yin, yang, water, and fire". When the flag was sent to the East African administrative region, many Chinese felt that the message represented on the flag was too radical. However, everyone later combined theory with practice, and realized that the future of the East African administrative region is probably the fate of a subject country. Even with such a radical flag, there was no practical problem. Only then did I choose to accept this banner full of Chinese cultural factors.
While accepting the flag, everyone also thought that Wei Kun would probably work in East Africa for a long time.
Where there is power, there is struggle, and the chief of staff is in his forties this year, and it seems that he is not ready to hand over power to a hairy boy in his twenties, even if this hairy boy is the son of Wei Zedudu, the chief office director is not willing to give in easily. He questioned his subordinates, "The choice of the Portuguese will have little effect on the situation in Africa as a whole." ”
Wei Ze didn't mean to worry about his boss, he smiled: "Director Zhang, you probably misunderstood my opinion. I would have liked Portugal to follow the baton of the British, and if they hadn't shown hostility towards us, we probably wouldn't have had any reason to take Angola. ”
"Is there a reason to be serious?" Director Zhang of the office has a very opposite attitude.
"I think it's important whether there's a reason or not." Wang Mingshan had to come out and speak, "If Portugal now declares that it will attack and seize our ships with the factor of war, will we send people to attack Portugal, or will we watch Portugal go wild?" ”
"Portugal has the ability to seize our ship?" Director Wang of the office did not support this.
Wang Mingshan sneered, "Hmph, the Portuguese can't do it, the British can do it." They were probably willing to hoist the Portuguese flag and do the privateering that their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. ”
In any case, Wang Mingshan is still the theoretical leader of the East African administrative region. As soon as he said that, everyone had to give face. Therefore, Wang Mingshan continued to read the circular, "The United States cut off grain exports to Europe last year, and European grain prices rose ......."
This news made the corners of some cadres' mouths smile, and most of the forage, cow bones, and horns produced in East Africa were supplied to China. Beef, on the other hand, is mostly supplied to Europe. Pasture production in East Africa has increased year after year, and a larger proportion of this increase has been provided to Europe. Lower food production means that if East Africa is willing to lower the price of meat, more meat will be exported to Europe. A large part of the profits from this part of the export goes into the pockets of the East African bureaucracy.
The next news is also very important, for example, the Liberation Army in North America has not been idle in winter, and they have begun to continue their offensive to the east, trying to prepare for a large-scale offensive next year.
In Europe, the resignation of German Chancellor Bismarck on February 1, 1890, was a major event that shook the whole of Europe. The German bigwig, who had been chancellor for 26 years and single-handedly promoted the reunification of Germany and established Little Germany, finally left the political scene. Of course, such things can only shake Europe, for the Republic of China, Bismarck is just a former German chancellor. China has very little to do with Germany, and there is no particular interest in the German prime minister.
After reading the content of the report, the government of the Republic of China began to discuss the work, and the face of Director Zhang of the office was even more unpleasant. Wang Mingshan originally wanted to merge the original fourteen counties into four counties, and this work naturally had to be done by the civil officials in the office. As a result, Wei Kun made a proposal to temporarily divide East Africa into 36 counties, each of which had a parliament, on the basis of annexing Portugal. This proposal would be tantamount to opening up countless civilian jobs and throwing them at them, and the bureaucracy would have no interest in them.
Director Zhang's counterattack was not without rules, he said: "Shouldn't the main point of our work at this time be to deal with the war in southern Africa? ”
Wei Kun replied without hesitation: "It is the province of Madagascar that is in charge of the war in Southern Africa, and it has nothing to do with our East Africa. For us, it's important to put East Africa to work first. Now Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, has been renamed Nanzhan City, and the capital of East Africa has been moved to Nanzhan City, where it is only right to build a railway. ”
Seeing that this young "prince" looked like he was about to seize power, everyone had all kinds of emotions. Generally speaking, no one likes Wei Kun's approach, and this prince has broken the rules that have been formed in East Africa over the years. When the governor of Wezedu sent troops to East Africa, these pioneers made a fortune from alfalfa. Now the group of people who come to East Africa is to make a fortune in East Africa and then return to their hometown in Asia to live a peaceful life. There are few people who want to follow this young and vigorous prince to carve out a permanent foundation in East Africa. Everyone's goal is here, and naturally more is better than less. Not to mention Wei Kun's approach of establishing 36 counties, even Wang Mingshan's idea of merging 14 counties into 4 counties was not welcomed by these bureaucrats.
If you have an idea in your heart, you will naturally have a practice. In the discussion at the meeting, these officials came up with various reasons. It's either a headache or an itch, in addition to not publicly saying that they don't cooperate, what these people do is not willing to cooperate.
As soon as the meeting ended, Wei Kun did not shy away from suspicion and went straight to Wang Mingshan's office. After the two sides sat down, Wei Kun said: "Secretary Wang, I am from Shanxi. Although the people in Shanxi were reluctant to leave Shanxi, they were very willing to be officials. I think that in the current situation in China, young people hope to change their fate, but they may not have the courage to change their fate. I don't know if Secretary Wang knows a school with a large number of graduates, and promote it for us in East Africa. ”
As soon as Wang Mingshan heard it, he knew the meaning of the "little ghost" in front of him, Wei Kun was preparing to take action against the bureaucratic system in East Africa, replacing these middle-aged bureaucrats who ate quite fat and wanted to eat fatter with more aggressive and ambitious young people. I have to say that after hearing this suggestion, Wang Mingshan greatly agreed in his heart. If it weren't for the lack of reasonable means and appeal, Wang Mingshan would have done it a long time ago.
However, Wang Mingshan's face did not have the slightest emotion at all, he had worked for so many years, he had seen very good people, and he had also seen very bad guys. If Wei Kun is just an arrogant and arrogant guy, Wang Mingshan will naturally not support him. So Wang Mingshan asked: "Even if you find someone now, it will take a long time for it to take effect." What does Director Wei want to do in the meantime? ”
"The current situation is to pick up the basket is the dish, I think the key is to use talents without sticking to one pattern, and at the same time strengthen party affairs, select talents through the party organization, and improve cohesion." Wei Kun replied calmly.
At this time, Wang Mingshan was a little confused, did Wei Kun really have the ability to put into practice what he had just said?