When the East African Administrative Region sent a telegram to the Madagascar Provincial Military District Command, the commanders of the command knew that they did not need to expect more troops from the East African Administrative Region. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info Wang Mingshan and Wei Kun represent those things that make the Madagascar Military Region unwilling to persecute too much. For a time, the military district command was filled with a feeling of depression in the air pressure.

It is not the tradition of the soldiers of the Liberation Army to sit in the city with big eyes and small eyes, but there is still a staff officer who said: "Chief of Staff Hu, if we can defeat the British in South Africa, our Republic of China will probably have no opponents." ”

Even when he was running around at sea, with the sun on his head and the water under his feet, among the middle and senior commanders who were in their 40s, Chief of Staff Hu, who was named by the staff officers, looked very young. Even if he is named, even if the eldest son of the founding hero Hu Chenghe is just 35 years old, he is still very calm. For the excitement of these old guys, Chief of Staff Hu of the Madagascar detachment has no intention of getting involved.

After Governor Wezedu established the policy of not accepting Africans as Chinese, no matter how strong the East African administrative region was, it was always a foreign land. The province of Madagascar was the western gate of the People's Republic of China. Two years ago, the Madagascar Military Region was content with its responsibilities as the western gateway to China. However, for more than a year, the news of the victory in the North American war came one after another, and the application of motorized infantry made young people sprout like mushrooms after a rain. The Madagascar Military District, which was once content with 'no war on the Western Front', could not sit still.

With the news provided by his father Hu Chenghe, Hu Chenghe's eldest son has no ingenious plans to influence Wei Zedu's strategy. Although Hu Chenghe didn't quite understand why Governor Wei Ze treated the British more preferentially, Hu Chenghe supported Wei Ze and said, 'There is no home at home, no foreign patients at home, and the country will perish!' ' words. As for Hu Chenghe's eldest son, he is also a guy who has received a full set of characteristic education in New China. More precisely, they received an education system designed to be the successors of the nation. After having so much experience, even if Hu Gongzi felt that Wei Zedudu's attitude was a little too bookish, he could understand Wei Ze's predicament caused by worrying that the Min Dynasty had no enemies.

So no matter how these old guys jumped up and down for credit, Hu Gongzi just sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and was unmoved by anything except the orders of the Military Commission. And Hu Gongzi knows very well that his father Hu Chenghe has retired. Although Hu Chenghe still has a lot of influence, influence is a very empty thing. For example, Hu Chenghe asked those old brothers or younger brothers who still held great power to personally repair the leaky roof for Hu Chenghe, probably no problem. But if Hu Chenghe wants these brothers to carry out both military and political actions according to Hu Chenghe's intentions, these brothers probably won't listen. Capable people never obey the arrangements of outsiders and so on. The people who can be looked down upon by Hu Chenghe are probably not incompetent.

Hu Gongzi was silent like this, and these people in the Madagascar Military Region couldn't say it clearly. The Liberation Army was highly disciplined, and it was forbidden by order to start an unplanned battle by the Military Commission, although no one had dared to try how severe the punishment could be. But the soldiers who are capable of launching such actions still cherish their hard-won status.

Of course, Hu Gongzi was silent, and he couldn't just be unresponsive, and finally the commander said: "I think we still follow the regulations and continue to wait and see." Everyone should be very careful to observe discipline. And be cautious about the war in southern Africa, and don't go too far. ”

Some felt that the commander's attitude showed that he had confessed and was ready to watch the war in southern Africa drag on in vain. Some people have some comprehension, for example, those who are in charge of logistics are more instinctual than many soldiers who are rectum.

In January 1891, the war in southern Africa entered its second year. Looking at the latest accounting statements, Wang Mingshan was in a very happy mood. After the purge of the old bureaucracy, the money that had fallen into the hands of the old bureaucracy went into the hands of the East African administrative region normally. Wang Mingshan really didn't know that the East African administrative region could make so much money, and the war had strengthened the profits of the East African administrative region, and the Europeans' demand for cheap and high-quality alfalfa seemed to be unlimited, no matter how much alfalfa Sudan produced, it could be sold.

"Secretary Wang, you want to strengthen our sales channels in Europe, will this make the country unhappy?" There are also young people who do not support Wang Mingshan's attitude, and their attitude is very firm.

Wang Mingshan was not angry, the young man had just come from Asia, and he had an indescribable stubbornness about China. Wang Mingshan himself has experienced this stage, and it is precisely because he is not in China that he takes China as the first priority in any consideration. Since he can understand young people, Wang Mingshan gently explained: "East Africa is so big, there are more places that can produce alfalfa. We can grow alfalfa further south to supply the growing demand in the country. Sudan's proximity to Europe makes it easy for Europeans to visit Sudan's alfalfa production areas. I don't think alfalfa trading has to be based in Amsterdam, and it would be easier for us to control it if we could have set up an exchange closer to Sudan. ”

It is natural that it is not a layman to be able to discuss such economic issues with Wang Mingshan, and when they hear such a statement, young people also feel justified. Someone then asked, "Where do you think it's appropriate to have such a center?" Italy? ”

Many of these young people don't know the origin of Wang Mingshan and Italy, and of course some people do, so the expressions of the young people are very rich. Wang Mingshan didn't care about this at all, the only thing he cared about was the attitude of Governor Wei Ze, since Governor Wei Zedu supported Wang Mingshan's work, he didn't react to the attitude of others at all. Thinking of the beautiful Grace and the son he had never met, Wang Mingshan sighed slightly and said, "I think it is more appropriate to set up such a center in Cyprus. ”

"Cyprus?" Young people are blind, they don't remember such a European country, and it is not easy to distinguish all kinds of strange-sounding place names in Europe.

Wang Mingshan stood up calmly, pointed to a small dot in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on the north side of the map of Africa, and said, "Cyprus is in this location. It is now the territory of the Ottoman Empire. ”

"The territory of the Ottoman Empire?" Young people know that the current Sudan is now less clear about who they belong to. If the Ottoman Empire had to assert ownership of the sultan, it was not without legal basis. However, no one thought that the Ottoman Empire would have the slightest power to enforce the law in the Sultan of East Africa. In fact, the Sultan was only an area of Egypt under the Ottoman Empire that had been there. Now that Egypt is under British jurisdiction, the Ottoman Empire handed over Sudan to China for the sole purpose of blocking Egypt and Britain. So young people instinctively think of Cyprus for probably the same reason

"What is there about Cyprus that deserves such a lot of attention?" Some of the young people continued to ask.

Wang Mingshan still patiently explained, "More than 9,000 square kilometers of land, I think it's big enough. On top of it, there can be enough armed forces to protect a financial center. And after the end of the North American War, we will enter a period of peace. At that time, Cybrus probably won't be too threatened. ”

These young cadres of the Republic of China have absolute confidence in the power of the Republic of China, and the geographical location of Cyprus is indeed very interesting from the map. It is 40 kilometers from Turkey to the north, 96.55 kilometers from Syria to the east, and 402.3 kilometers from the Nile Delta of Egypt to the south. If it hangs alone on the sea, it is naturally easy to be attacked, and such a distance is really in line with Wang Mingshan's position as a financial center for Europe. As long as there is a fleet and an army to protect it, Cyprus is very suitable for fortressification.

"When will this be determined?" Young people are really interested.

"The central side told us that it was going to be soon." Wang Mingshan replied.

Renting Cyprus was an idea that Wang Mingshan had not long after he arrived in East Africa, although Wang Mingshan had no intention of overthrowing Wei Wenrui at that time, but Wang Mingshan did not want a little girl to completely monopolize the trade between East Africa and Europe. The result of things so far is beyond Wang Mingshan's imagination. But Wang Mingshan didn't want to explain anything.

As Wang Mingshan said, the negotiation process was over, and the Ottoman Empire had agreed to China's demands three months earlier. The two sides even signed a formal treaty that was not made public, and the Ottoman Empire leased Cyprus to China for 99 years, beginning on January 1, 1891. At this time, the Chinese army was moving up to Cyprus to exchange guards with the Ottoman army stationed there.

Cyprus has a long history of civilization, about 9,000 years ago, the island has been inhabited by human beings, and legend has it that it was the home of Venus, the goddess of love. In the 16th ~ 12th century BC, due to the discovery of copper ore on the island, the Greeks began to migrate to the island and establish autonomous city-states, entering the Mycenaean civilization and the period of Greek city-states.

The island's population was predominantly Greek and Turkish, and in the agreement China provided Turkey with a lease fee of £7 million, and another £1 million to relocate the local population, so that the whole of Cyprus became a hunting ground. The Turkish population is okay and they don't think there's anything wrong with returning to Turkey. The Greeks were different, although the Turks had ruled the land for 300 years, and the Greeks on the island of Cyprus recognized the Turks, but they did not consider themselves Turks. Leaving their homeland where they had lived for generations and moving to the land of Ottoman Turkey, where they had never been, the Greeks expressed their rebellion with their actions.

The Ottoman Empire did not suppress the Greeks, and since the Greeks refused to leave, the Ottoman army retreated. Before retreating, they told the Chinese bluntly that the Ottomans had done their best. With such hard work, the million pounds spent at this time were clean, and the rest of the work could only be done by the Chinese themselves. If you have to let the Ottomans go out, you have to pay.

With such a toss, the British immediately knew the news. On January 12, the British asked the Ottoman Empire why it had a private treaty with China. The Ottomans immediately replied to the British, 'If we had a private treaty, how would you know?' ’

The British were outraged by the Ottoman Empire's misdemeanor, and the location of Cyprus was so critical that the British had long coveted it, but they had never been able to find an opportunity to get the island from the Ottoman Empire. Now that the Ottoman Empire, the sick man of Europe, has given this island to China, Britain can wait for the opportunity to acquire Cyprus from the Ottomans, but Britain does not dare to expect to acquire Cyprus from China in the next one or two decades.

Anger is anger, and Britain is just a few cruel words. The Ottoman Empire had no sense of this at all, and for more than 500 years, Europe had made countless cruel remarks about the Ottoman Empire. For the past 100 years, European countries have been harsh about the Ottoman Empire and rubbed it on the ground. The accumulation of these hundreds of years of experience made the Ottoman Empire feel that he was being harshly spoken of at all.

Within the Ottoman Empire, there have been those who have seen the Ottoman Empire in the past few years as too indulgent to China. But China has conquered North America and defeated the United States, the Ottoman Empire's arms supplier. Considering that the Ottoman Empire was only a stone's throw away from China's Asian mainland, the Ottoman Empire, which knew what the great powers were doing, chose to live amicably with China.

Seeing that the Ottoman Empire played the trick of shrinking the turtle, Britain had no choice but to do it for a while. Now the Ottomans want to be pro-China, and excessive persecution of the Ottomans can only allow the Ottomans to quickly go further on the pro-China road. And the combat power that China is now demonstrating proves that they are capable of fighting thousands of kilometers away.

Without waiting for Britain to react, other European countries that learned the news bombed the camp. 'The Ottomans lure the wolf into the house!' ''The Turks want to work hand in hand with the Chinese again! ''The Chinese entered Europe! These sensational headlines were widely publicized in European newspapers.

Over the past two decades, there have been many wars between the Chinese and Europe. In the last two years, news of China's invasion of the United States has become more common in newspapers. China's conquest of North America has terrified Europeans, and now China has entered the Mediterranean, into the backyard of Europe. An indescribable sense of fear plunged Europe into a state of extreme euphoria.

China doesn't care about this at all, and the European countries that really care are not the ones on the Mediterranean coast. Austria-Hungary, Italy, France, they all knew that the Chinese navy wanted to cross the Mediterranean, and it had to pass the Suez Canal first. The Suez Canal is guarded by the British, who have been a-stirring stick in Europe for hundreds of years, and now they are finally on the front line of defending Europe. The ruling classes of France, Austria-Hungary, and Italy actually wanted to see the excitement very much.

Of course, the British ruling class knows its place in the hearts of European countries, and they also know that the Suez Canal, which is guarded by the British, is an area that China wants to solve. At this time, Britain found that the last thing they could afford was to be a victim of a barbecue grill. Therefore, on the one hand, Britain asked the domestic newspapers to first quell the irresponsible propaganda against China, so as not to set off unnecessary contradictions. On the other hand, Britain has also begun to prepare to shrink its forces and prepare for unpredictable risks.

At this time, the British found themselves most in need of an expeditionary force in southern Africa. But they found that this order could not be effectively executed. The British expeditionary force of 300,000 did not win as easily as it had at first, and despite capturing the capitals of the two Boer republics, the Boer revolt did not end. The descendants of these recalcitrant Dutchmen were broken into pieces and harassed the British strongholds.

In addition to the Boers, Britain's other enemy was the Zulu Kingdom. The black regime's diplomatic efforts to gain European recognition ultimately failed with the intervention of the British, and none of the European countries established diplomatic relations with the Zulu Kingdom. Just as the countries of Europe did not recognize the so-called 'Indian'. In the mountainous regions of Africa, however, the Zulus relied on fortifications to hold back a massive British attack, and in the plains, the Zulus' numerical superiority caused them to suffer heavy losses in a dozen British attacks with hundreds. They could only maintain a sweep force of 1,000 men, and although an army of this size could guarantee that the British troops would not suffer losses caused by the disparity in strength, they greatly reduced the combat efficiency.

After some discussion, London sent a message to the Expeditionary Force Command in Cape Town, 'Can we negotiate peace with the Boers?' ’

The Cape Town Command replied on the same day, and there was no commentary or descriptive content in the reply, all explanatory text.

"In order to destroy the bases of guerrilla warfare of the Boers, we began to set up concentration camps. There were more than 50 concentration camps in South Africa, located on both sides of the railway lines in the Cape, the Transvaal, Orange and Natal, as well as in the suburbs of major cities such as Johannesburg, Bloemfontein and Durban......"

"A strict and harsh rationing system was imposed in the camps. 0.75 pounds of starch (about 340 grams, possibly cornmeal, flour, rice, or potatoes) per person per day, one ounce of coffee (about 28.35 grams), two ounces of granulated sugar, half an ounce of salt, and one pound of meat per week (not given meat to guerrilla relatives, women, and children). Babies and children under the age of six receive a quarter quart of milk per day......"

"The black camps were less frequent, but they could be assisted by black relatives and friends, and they could be released after pledging allegiance to the British. The camp was surrounded by barbed wire, and anyone who tried to escape was shot. The concentration camp was extremely densely populated......"

"The death rate in the camps was extremely high because of malnutrition, lack of tents, blankets, clothing and medicine, and the plague epidemic......

Row by line, paragraph by paragraph, of the forceful measures taken by the British against the Boers. When the British bigwigs of Downing Street saw this, they knew that it was already troublesome to try to completely ease relations with the Boers.

However, just as Downing Street was about to give the order to press ahead with the Boers, the news of the British 'torture' of Boer prisoners suddenly broke in the French newspapers. For a time, European public opinion was in an uproar, and the Chinese killed whites in North America, which caused great panic among white Europeans. Now that the British were abusing and killing whites in the colonies, the Europeans felt a great deal of anger.