Chapter 1028: The Scramble for Africa

After some consideration, Dorgon decided to equip six Indian flints, two Persian flints, and the Ottoman flags. Net? The Qing had just annexed the Ottoman Empire, and Dolgon was not so relieved about the Ottomans.

If it weren't for the pressure brought by the Ming Dynasty, the Persian Dorgon would not be at ease.

The Indians, although with a population of no less than 37 million, were the most reassuring because of the servility of the Indians, and since the fall of the Mughal Empire in India, the Manchus have replaced the Mongols as the highest caste in India.

Almost all Indians are praying and working hard for the next life to be reincarnated as Manchus, and in the current vast territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Indians are definitely the best existence to rule. They don't seem to know what rebellion is.

However, it was precisely because of the servility of the Indians that they had the greatest trust of Dolgon, and had the largest army of flint guns and firearms.

This is just the beginning, in the future, the Qing Dynasty will produce more rifles, continue to select from all ethnic groups, and form a more powerful rifle army, because of Dorgon's trust, the Indians will definitely be able to occupy the lion's share of it.

The Manchus vigorously expanded their military power, even at the expense of allowing the clans under their rule to wield powerful firearms.

In Europe, although the European Big 6 is relatively calm and there are no major fights, countries are still competing fiercely in other places, and most of these competitions are concentrated in the Big 6 in central and southern Africa.

Europe rose nearly 200 years ago, with Spain and Portugal as the pioneers of the first echelon, and began to colonize the world. Subsequently, Britain, France, and the Netherlands followed closely behind, and the five countries were called the five major sea powers in Europe, all of which had vast colonies in the world, plundering a large number of resources and wealth from the colonies to Europe every year, and the five sea powers were also the five most powerful countries in Europe.

However, since 30 years ago, the Ming Dynasty has re-emerged from internal and external troubles, first moving south to conquer the Indonesian archipelago in the Netherlands.

Immediately afterwards, Luzon, Australia, New Zealand, etc., also fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Seven years ago, the Great 6 of the Americas was also captured by the Ming army, and the forces of the five major sea powers such as Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal were driven out of the Great 6 of the Americas.

Today, there is only one piece of land left in the world that can be colonized by five countries, and that is Africa!

After so many years, Daming does not seem to have the slightest thought about Africa, a few years ago, when the five countries sent special envoys to Daming, they also tried to test whether Daming had ideas about Africa.

The envoy of the five countries was Li Yan, the assistant of the Ming Dynasty, who was directly tempted, and Li Yan saw the meaning of the five countries at that time, and responded to the five countries with a smile, the Ming Dynasty had absolutely no interest in Africa, and the Ming Dynasty would not occupy Africa again.

At this moment, the five countries were excited.

The strength of the Ming Dynasty made it impossible for them to recapture the 6th and other colonies in the Americas that were captured by the Ming Dynasty, they only had Africa left, and they were also afraid that the Ming Dynasty was also interested in Africa, once that situation occurred, the five countries did not know how to resist the attack of the Ming Dynasty.

Now that Da Ming has received such a clear reply, how can the five countries not be excited.

As a consequence of this, Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Portugal and other five major sea powers began to concentrate all their forces on the competition for the African Big 6.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Netherlands was heavily damaged by the Ming fleet and its national strength was greatly reduced, England snatched South Africa, which originally belonged to the Netherlands, as well as Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, etc.

France captured Tania, Mali, Benin, etc., originally with France's national strength, it was able to grab more territory, but unfortunately France offended the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army landed 6 France itself, and France was hit hard.

Spain conquered Congo, Gabon, Nekia and many more.

Portugal also took Angola, ********, Kenya and many more.

The Dutch held Madagascar, Mozambique, etc., which they had already occupied.

Under the fierce competition of the five countries, various parts of Africa changed hands from time to time, and one country raided that country's colonies, and tomorrow another country attacked its colonies, and for several years, the countries did not trust each other.

Fortunately, after a long struggle, all countries are relatively tired and have suffered great losses.

Moreover, because of a struggle, the strength of the national strength of various countries has also been tested, and if the national strength is strong, it will occupy more colonies, and if the national strength is slightly weaker, it can only occupy fewer colonies, which is understandable.

Among them, England finally replaced the declining Netherlands and became the strongest of the five sea powers, not only with the most powerful navy, but also because France was severely damaged by Damington 6, replacing France as the strongest 6th Army among the five countries.

Immediately afterward, Spain jumped from fourth to second.

Then France came in third, Portugal in fourth and the Netherlands in fifth.

Although France was hit by the Ming army and suffered unprecedented heavy losses, its territory and population were not comparable to Portugal, and it was naturally able to rank third.

On the other hand, the Netherlands suddenly fell from the first place among the five sea powers to the last.

In addition to North Africa, which is north of the desert, which was occupied by the Manchus, the whole of Africa has been distributed by Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France, and Portugal.

Now that the 'distribution' has been completed, and the countries are tired of fighting, they all want to quietly spread their colonies, so the continuation of the war in a short period of time is not what the five countries want to see.

Immediately, the five nations signed a peace treaty in London, England, and the five countries stopped continuing to attack the colonies of the other four countries, and those who violated them would suffer a common crusade from all countries.

The signing of the peace treaty between the five countries has brought an end to the fierce competition between the five countries for the big six in Africa and entered a relatively 'calm' period.

And this so-called calm is only relative to the five countries of Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal, but it is not peaceful at all for the black natives living in the big 6 Africa.

It is worth mentioning that after the Ming Dynasty sent back to Africa from the Americas, more than 300,000 black slaves, landed in Africa, although Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Portugal and other five countries did not dare to directly arrest these blacks as slaves in front of the Ming warships, but after the Ming warships left, the five countries were not polite, and the 300,000 blacks who were sent back to Africa were free for less than ten days, and they were all arrested as slaves by Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Portugal and other five countries, and continued to enslave them in single pants.

And these, although Da Ming knows, but Da Ming doesn't care about these.

Every race has its own destiny, and all the Ming can do is that if they do not infringe on the interests of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty does not raise a butcher's knife like them, nor does it enslave them, as for whether they are enslaved by other countries, it is not within the scope of the Ming Dynasty's consideration.

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