In Africa during this period, the German-Italian forces confronted the Anglo-American allies on the Egyptian border in North Africa; Free France, with the support of Britain and the United States, fought against Vichy France in West Africa, Senagar, Congo and other regions. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Somalia, Kenya and other East African regions that originally belonged to the Italian occupation zone were forcibly taken over by the East China Empire, which made the German army, which controlled the island of Madagascar and South Africa, realize its intention to move north to join forces with the Italian Afrika Korps, and was forced to switch from strategic offensive to strategic defense.

Although the strategic focus of Germany, Italy, Britain, France, the United States, and other European and American countries is not in Africa, they do not want to let go of Africa's interests. There were no large-scale battles in which millions of troops were involved, but small-scale battles involving hundreds or thousands of troops never stopped.

After establishing a solid line along the borders of Somalia, southern Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia, and between South Sudan and North Sudan, the East Chinese Army opened safe passages for refugees in the border areas of Uganda and Tanzania, and cooperated with the International Committee of the Red Cross to establish refugee camps to provide humanitarian assistance to refugees from West Africa and South Africa.

As a result of the large number of medical personnel and various antibiotics and drugs invested in Africa, the health and medical conditions in Somalia and Kenya were greatly improved, and the occurrence of epidemics was effectively controlled.

This, combined with the massive supply of food and clothing, made it feel like all the refugees had come from hell to heaven.

Every day, hundreds of refugees pour into Kenya from Uganda and Tanzania, where they are guided by Donghua medical workers and internationalists from the International Committee of the Red Cross into refugee camps made up of military tents.

The refugees quickly recovered after receiving food and medical assistance. The vast majority of them chose to join Eastern Somalia or Eastern Kenya, and solemnly swore to regard the Donghua Empire as its permanent suzerainty.

A large number of steel, coal, machinery, metallurgy, petrochemical, textile, printing and dyeing, daily chemicals, grain, oil and food processing, bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles and other factories invested and built by Donghua enterprises in Kenya and Somalia have made many people of insight in Africa see the hope of Africa's industrialization.

The domination of Africa by the Donghua Empire was obviously different from the predatory resource exploitation of Africa by European colonial rulers such as Britain and France.

The European colonizers brought catastrophic killing and plundering to Africa, while Donghua brought a bright path to the African people from struggling to survive to live a healthy life.

The radical difference in colonial philosophies has undoubtedly made Somalia and Kenya in East Africa a temple that the vast majority of Africans yearn for.

There has never been a shortage of labor in Africa, and the Donghua Empire is not guilty of training middle and high-level technicians in Africa. A large number of labor-intensive production enterprises need to train "migrant workers" who can work in just one month.

Such industrial relocation and transformation have liberated a large number of skilled workers in Donghua's local enterprises from heavy skilled work, and provided sufficient industrial and technical strength for the overall upgrading of Donghua's national industrial system.

A worker who can only obtain the title of junior technician in a local enterprise in Donghua can be transformed into an apprentice "master" with high wages and high allowances in the African branch of the factory.

Cheng Gong's technical standards for the African branch of Donghua State Factories and Mines are similar to the rough development route of the Soviet industry. This also avoids the hidden danger of Africa's industrialization in the future.

All in all, the industrial goods made in Africa in the future have nothing to do with precision machining.

Emperor Cheng could put Africa on the path of industrial development, but the possibility that Africa wanted to get rid of the fate of colonization through industrial development was almost zero.

Emperor Cheng will occasionally be a "living Lei Feng", but he will definitely not become a "good person".

Emperor Cheng is investing one Asian dollar in Africa now, and he will have to recover 1,000 Asian dollars in the future, or even 10,000 Asian dollars! And in addition to the economic benefits, it can also gain extremely high prestige at the political level.

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After the landing of the Donghua Empire's army in Africa, it undoubtedly ushered in a new round of spring for the development and expansion of the Rock Mercenaries.

Cheng Gong now admires himself very much for throwing the rock mercenary in Africa.

After nearly four years of development, the Rock Mercenaries have absorbed more than 10,000 strong black buddies from Africa.

Devilish high-intensity training, advanced weapons and equipment, high-welfare casualty compensation mechanism, and repeated brainwashing ideological education make these African Rock Mercenaries loyal supporters of Rock Mercenaries.

They can drape the battle flag of any country in Africa anytime and anywhere, and carry out any kind of mission that the Donghua Empire needs them to perform.

The advantage of this is that as long as Emperor Cheng is willing, he can let the legions of the Donghua Empire in Africa take off their military uniforms and change into the robes of the rock mercenaries at any time to hit any target he wants to hit.

Long before Cheng Gong decided to send troops to land in Africa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Donghua Empire had repeatedly received requests from the exiled Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, imploring the Donghua Empire to send troops to drive out the Italian army and liberate Ethiopia. For this reason, Haile Selassie I was willing to recognize the Donghua Empire as the permanent suzerainty of Ethiopia.

In October 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. Haile Selassie I led the Ethiopian national war of resistance. After the defeat of the Anti-Italian War in May 1936, he was forced into exile.

Historically, Haile Selassie I led the patriotic armed forces to fight back to Ethiopia with the British army in early 1941, and with the support of the Ethiopian people and guerrillas, defeated the Italian occupation army, and in May of the same year, Ethiopia regained its independence.

But now, thanks to the fluttering of the wings of Emperor Cheng's super pterosaur, Italy was unstoppable in the North African theater, and the British army was defeated in successive battles. Even if 100,000 U.S. troops landed in Africa to reinforce the British army, with the coordinated operation of the German Afrika Korps, the British and American allies could only shrink their forces behind the El Alamein defense line, tightening Egypt, the only North African support point.

After the Italian occupation forces in Somalia and Kenya were driven out by the forces of the East China Empire, Somalia and Kenya ushered in a wave of industrial and economic construction on an unprecedented scale. This undoubtedly gave Haile Selassie I hope for Ethiopia's recovery.

Despite all these years of forced exile, Haile Selassie I never gave up the idea of returning home. As early as Cheng Gong's birth with the mysterious Plan Pacific Fleet, to the establishment of the Donghui Kingdom, and finally the expansion into the Donghua Empire, Haile Selassie I silently watched it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart.

Cheng Gong, the youngest emperor in the world, built a powerful empire from scratch that all the great powers of the world could only look up to, and was long regarded by Haile Selassie I as an example to follow.

In May 1938, Haile Selassie I left England and went to the former Dutch island of New Guinea, then the province of Zhennan, the Kingdom of Donghui. In September of the same year, Haile Selassie I came to Paradise Island as the Ethiopian Emperor-in-exile and began his lobbying campaign to suggest that the Donghua Empire go to Africa.

It can be said that it was precisely because of Haile Selassie's unremitting efforts in the government departments of the East China Empire that Cheng Gong had the ambition to march into Africa.

After the Seventh Fleet of the Royal Navy, together with the Royal Marines Expeditionary Corps of the Royal Navy, liberated Somalia and Kenya from the Italian occupation forces without much effort, Haile Selassie and his loyal men arrived in Somalia as soon as possible.

As an emperor, Haile Selassie I certainly knew that the East China Empire would not help him liberate Ethiopia for nothing, so he was also prepared to cede part of the territory to Eastern Somalia.

However, when Haile Selassie I saw that the colonial policies implemented by the Donghua Empire in Somalia and Kenya were completely different from the colonial rule of Britain, France, Italy, Germany and other European bandit countries that he had known before, Haile Selassie I suddenly had a new idea.

After Australia, New Zealand and other former Commonwealth countries were included in the territory of the Donghua Empire, the development of their industrial and agricultural economies has changed rapidly and dramatically compared with the past.

Obviously, the science and technology pursued by the Donghua Empire is the model of the primary productive force, but it is only dressed in the skin of colonialism, but it is the core of cooperation for common development.

If Ethiopia could be given the same opportunities for industrial and agricultural modernization as Somalia and Kenya, Haile Selassie I would not mind finding a strong suzerainty for his Ethiopian empire. (To be continued.) )