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Portuguese East Africa covers an area of 800,000 square kilometres, Belgian Congo covers an area of 2,450,000 square kilometres, and Djibouti covers an area of 23,000 square kilometres, for a total area of 3,273,000 square kilometres.

British India had an area of 4.01 million square kilometers, the Xia Empire occupied 2.05 million square kilometers, and the remaining area was 1.96 million square kilometers.

If Britain wanted to exchange the three colonies in Africa with the Xia Empire, it would have to give all the colonies such as Aden to the Xia Empire, which still lacked more than 1.2 million square kilometers.

There are still many territories on the Arabian Peninsula that are not British territory, and the Xia Empire only pursues nominal possession of the Gulf region and the Arabian Peninsula, and does not bother with the British.

Britain did not want to supply the Xia Empire with any more land, and wanted to count the Ottoman Empire's Basra, Baghdad, and Mosul regions as British territory, and did not want to transfer the territory along the Red Sea coast to the Xia Empire.

The British also saw that if the Belgian Congo were to be replaced by the British, Britain would connect Egypt, Sudan, Belgian Congo, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa in northern Africa into a north-south passage and build a railway from Cairo in the north to Cape Town in the south.

If the Portuguese colonies in East Africa were replaced by those of the British, Portugal would lose the right to build the East-West Railway in Northern and Southern Rhodesia, so as to facilitate the implementation of the British "Cairo-Cape Town Plan".

Moreover, in the exchange of land, the British colonies in Africa are connected, which can gradually encroach on the colonies of other countries in Africa.

Therefore, Britain put pressure on the Xia Empire, wanting to exchange it to 3 colonies on the basis of not paying more land, which could not only allow Britain to obtain the greatest benefits, but also block the Xia Empire's power from Africa.

In this regard, Hua Guoqiang, the foreign minister of the Xia Empire, was very angry, so he refused the British request and decided to draw Germany into his camp according to the suggestion of Lu Weimin, the chief of the general staff.

Hua Guoqiang urgently summoned the German ambassador to Beijing, Streesmann.

In order to break the British plan and deepen the contradictions between Germany and Britain, Hua Guoqiang decided to exchange the land on the north bank of the Congo River in Belgium with the German colonies in the Pacific.

The land on the north bank of the Congo River is not only fertile, rich in minerals, and convenient for water transportation, but also happens to be connected to German East Africa, which is very suitable for German management.

If the exchange with the Germans was successful, it would be a fitting interruption of the British's "Cairo-Cape Town plan".

Hua Guoqiang and Ambassador Streesmann talked about the terms of land exchange, and promised him that if the exchange was successful, he could use the Jiaoao lease land of the Chinese Empire to conduct technical transactions with the Xia Empire.

Streesmann was very happy to accept the land exchange plan proposed by Hua Guoqiang, so that the German colonies not only did not decrease, but could also increase a part, and they were connected with the existing German colonies, which was convenient to manage, and more importantly, could destroy the British plan, if the British "Cairo-Cape Town Plan" was implemented, it would certainly pose a great threat to the German colonies, and in this way, the British threat would be eliminated in the bud.

Ambassador Streesmann reported the land exchange plan to China, and Kaiser Wilhelm II strongly agreed with Streesmann's decision, which would not only bring more colonial benefits to Germany, but also frustrate Britain's wishful thinking.

In order to make the land exchange go smoothly, Germany also contacted the Portuguese to resist the selfish actions of the British.

Portugal was granted the right to build railways, highways, and telegraph lines between Northern and Southern Rhodesia to maintain limited links, but was not allowed special rights on the north bank of the Zambezi River; The agreement of 11 June 1891 severely damaged the international prestige of the Kingdom of Portugal, which was considered "the most shameless and notorious act of Great Britain against its old allies", which was cited as a national disgrace by the Portuguese Republicans and led to the collapse of the government.

The "Cairo-Cape Town Plan", which was now able to stop the British, would not only avenge the hatred of the year, but also reduce the British threat to Portuguese West Africa, so the Portuguese and the Germans hit it off, and the Portuguese supported the German land exchange with the Xia Empire.

The Portuguese, instigated by the Germans, contacted the French and could not allow Britain to dominate in Africa, and wanted to sabotage the British's "Cairo-Cape Town Plan".

The French agreed with the Portuguese that if the British implemented the "Cairo-Cape Town Plan", it would pose a threat to the French colonies in Africa and make the French colonies lose the possibility of further expansion, so they were not willing to let the British get Djibouti; More importantly, Djibouti is under the control of the Xia Empire, and in the future, the European coalition will be able to recover Djibouti after defeating the Xia Empire.

Moreover, the French also hoped that Britain would use British Somalia to make up for the lack of land in the Xia Empire, and not let France, Belgium and other allied allies suffer, while Britain would make a profit for itself, and France's inner thinking was that only if Britain continued to suffer losses at the hands of the Xia Empire, it would be able to fight fiercely with the Xia Empire in the future, and France would be able to make a profit.

Under the persuasion of the Germans, Belgium also hoped to give more colonies to several countries that they had ceded to the Xia Empire, and only by intensifying the contradictions between countries competing for colonies in Africa and causing a chaotic war in Africa would they be able to recover the colonies in the future, and Britain could not be allowed to dominate in Africa.

In this regard, Belgium supports the transfer of the Belgian Congo to France, Germany, and Britain, so that the contradictions will become more violent.

Italy, an ally of Germany, was now very conflicted, fearing both that his colonies would be surrounded by Britain and that they would be connected to the colonies of the Xia Empire, and that Djibouti would pose a threat to his colonies regardless of whether it was to Britain or the Xia Empire.

More importantly, the diplomatic efforts of the Germans created a large gap between the Russian Empire and the British, who posed a great threat to Russia by handing over southern Iran, Afghanistan, and northern British India to the Xia Empire; In fact, this is also a secret move by Britain to use Russia's military to contain the Xia Empire's military power in Asia, and with the Russian Empire's containment, the Xia Empire's peep into India can be reduced.

I just didn't expect that Britain's various plans would be fully utilized by Germany to drive a wedge between Britain and France and Russia.

In this diplomatic war, German diplomacy gained the support of many countries, and Britain was clearly isolated and fell behind, and even its allies Belgium, France, and Portugal opposed his land exchange plan.

The Xia Empire reaped the benefits and became the biggest winner, not only diverting the contradictions with Britain through diplomatic efforts in time, but also gaining more colonies, in addition to the entire Persian Gulf coast, the Arabian Peninsula, southern Iran and Afghanistan, as well as French Somalia and Portuguese East African colonies, gaining a foothold in Africa, and more importantly, opening up a passage to Central Asia and connecting with the Western Xinjiang Special Administrative Region. (To be continued.) )