"If your Excellency only wants to buy some old-fashioned munitions, then there is no need to discuss them with me at all, and your subordinates can communicate with my subordinates about these things. Things like these are not on the table at all, and our prices will be very reasonable. It will be about 2% lower than Krupp's lowest offer. Things that can be explained clearly in a few minutes, there is no need to waste your precious time and mine. The traverser talked.

"Then may I ask you a question, why do you want to side with us instead of the British, knowing that the potential enemy we face is the most powerful country in the world?" The passionate and sincere conversation of the traverser does not convince the other party. Kruger must know what caused the prince to choose to work with them. This is very important, and he has to figure it out.

"The reason is simple, the British almost monopolized the minerals of the colonies, and they simply did not give us a chance to cooperate! The cheap minerals of all kinds gave the British a firm grip on the price of raw materials, and we, who were forced to follow, were at a disadvantage. Their easy wave of the hand will cost us a lot. ”

"But the good thing is that the high import and export taxes you have levied have weakened the competitiveness of the British, and in a sense, this is the basis of our cooperation!" Prince Ruprecht had very good reasons. Historically, there were not many Boers who were directly engaged in mineral mining, and almost all of the mines in the two Boer republics were mined by the British, and the Boers imposed heavy taxes on all mining-related products, and the annual import duties alone were as high as 1 million pounds! In 1894, the Kruger government had a revenue of £3.54 million. Because of this, the high taxes have made the mining industry of the British very uncompetitive.

"Second, we have a vast area of land in Namibia, we need a lot of skilled people and labor, Namibia has a limited number of native natives, even if we recruit them all, it will be difficult to meet our needs, and the native Germans don't want to go to Africa right now, so I need the help of the Boer Republic to provide us with labor and technical personnel."

"Thirdly, it is the traditional friendship between Germany and your country, we have a lot of investment in the Republic of Bur, and we have established good relations between the two sides, and we have no direct contact with the British colonial government, Bavaria is only a kingdom, diplomacy is the business of the central government, and cooperation with the British may cause dissatisfaction with the central government, and in order to exclude British capital from our land, it is decided that we had better not be involved with the British."

"As for the last point? What the Kingdom can provide is a perfect match for your country's needs! The Boers are scarce, and even if they are all soldiers, you need high-performance weapons, and our new weapons are more expensive because they are produced in smaller quantities, but I know that for the wealthy Boer government, if things are good enough, you will not be spared money. ”

"The fundamental reason why you chose to buy weapons from us is because we have almost the same inventory of artillery and new goods. You pay more attention to performance, price is just a subordinate factor, I think, we have the situation of the products in stock, you should have collected through various channels, right? ”

"By the way, there's one more thing I forgot, you need horses! There are many countries with horse politics, but very few can provide horses to the Boer Republic, the British can't, and the Russians don't fit into the African environment. Italy itself has a limited number of horses. Naturally, the French could not provide many pure military horses in order to maintain their vast colonies. So, your choice can only be Germany! ”

"And in Germany, among the kingdoms except Prussia, the Bavarian military horses are good both in terms of quantity and quality, and the Bavarian standing cavalry has 18 regiments, accounting for one of the total number of German cavalry, and the horse politics is good, and its own needs are limited, and it is the most suitable seller to provide horses to the Boers, I am quite reliable when I say these reasons!" The traverser said with a smile.

"If it weren't for my temporary request for the Doctor to introduce me, I would not even suspect that this prince has been preparing for this summons for a long time!" Kruger had to praise the other party's very tight rhetoric! Well-reasoned and well aware of the situation in South Africa, and made a very attractive proposal to assemble a fast cavalry force to solve the problem of insufficient troops.

"These reasons are very strong, and I am convinced by you. In return for your sincerity and kindness, we will order a large quantity of supplies and weapons from you. Later, I will make a list and give it to your subjective attendants. After a moment of silence, Kruger said with a smile.

"No, no, no. You still don't understand what I'm saying, the Boer Republic needs to be prepared on two fronts, on the one hand, to build an army, and on the other hand, to find allies. Let's put aside the idea of simply buying weapons. Let's discuss what the Boers need to do to prepare for emergencies! ”

As a traverser trained as a senior officer of the system. The military knowledge learned in this plane and the military knowledge obtained in his previous life is definitely not comparable to that of a Boer, and the personal qualities of the Boers can indeed be called good at warfare, but in terms of organization, strategy and tactics, they are still far from a regular army! If nothing else, when the Boer War moved from the outer fighting to the inner front, a large number of Boers broke away from the ranks and ran back home to defend their farms.

"As two countries with a population of only about 200,000, as a landlocked country surrounded by British colonies, don't you feel too alone? Not even a person who can sign up for a group to keep warm? "Well, the traverser originally wanted to say, even if the Boers were covered in iron, how many iron nails could they hit?

"There are only British people around us, and there is no way around it. We have no friends other than the tens of thousands of African-Africans in Cape Town, who are of the same language and of the same race, and can be our friends. Kruger smiled bitterly and spread his hands. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the Boers are fierce and belligerent. Those who can't fight will die early! This is the social version of Darwin's theory of evolution!

"No, you are wrong, both the British and the Boers, they are in the minority! Of South Africa's 1.22 million square kilometers, black people are the vast majority! There are 4 million blacks there! If you want to fight the British, you have to have good relations with the blacks! ”

"Don't look down on the blacks, at least they can help you make up for the lack of manpower, they can take on logistics and transportation tasks, build fortifications, help you ventilate, and even directly participate in the battle! And all you need to pay is a little bit of means of subsistence and a little kindness! There's no shame in working with blacks! Our Afrika Korps is about to take a deceptively simple step! Although Kruger was very resistant to black people, some of the words of the time-traveler still touched him.

Do Boers have a good relationship with blacks? Of course not! Although the Boers did not go as far as the British, they did not do less than the abduction and stealing, so that after the outbreak of the Boer War, 56% of the Boer army was used to fight the British, and the other 44% was used to defend against the blacks! In this state, it's a ghost to be able to win!

"Another problem is the transfer of the old and the weak, the women and children, when the war breaks out, the Boer Republic, which is only a few tens of thousands of square kilometers, will have no rear, and based on the historical behavior of the British, you will not believe that they will follow humanitarian standards, right?"

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