XXXVII. Other Drawings (3)
Such a considerate Japanese eating habit is in stark contrast to Georgia's previous tough request for Mutes Saburo to drink whiskey, Musti Saburo's eyes flashed, and he bowed respectfully, "Thank you very much!" ”
At the meeting the next day, Zeng Jize confirmed this to the outside world, and he and the representatives of various countries said during the tea break on the sidelines of the meeting: "Yes, we are very surprised that there is such a place in Africa, which actually has a very close connection with our China, and when the businessmen sent the photos back, we found that there is such a friendship in Africa that has lasted for hundreds of years, in order to prove this fact, The domestic cultural and historical departments have indeed found in the vast materials that the Somali tribal chieftain was canonized as a local official of the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, which fully shows that since ancient times," he raised his finger and shook it, "there is no doubt that this part of Somalia belongs to China." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
As soon as the traditional Chinese "since ancient times" weapon was taken out, although all countries were scolding China for being shameless, they had to retreat one after another to avoid its sharpness, 500 years ago? At that time, Britain had just begun to fight for the orthodox Red and White Rose War, deep in civil war and could not extricate itself, let alone other countries, how long this time, although these people suspected that this photo was just a false story played by Chinese actors, but no one had the confidence to refute or prove anything.
But obviously, all countries have clearly found that the Chinese have accelerated their colonization and aggression against Africa, not only wanting to swallow the Congo River basin, but also wanting to get involved in East Africa, a local German newspaper published a cartoon that annoyed the Qing country, but made the countries secretly happy, a black man standing on the Congo River region on the map of Africa was entangled by a snake-like dragon, the head of the dragon is not a dragon's head, but the image of an elderly woman wearing a flag head, is opening the blood basin and biting the entangled black man, The dragon's tail also poked into the Somali region. Clearly, this cartoon is satirizing the greed and hegemony of Chinese imperialism in Africa.
But this is just a small droplet, in the tide of the international community, not a single wave is counted, Zeng Jize will not care about these small things, it is rude to protest these small things in other countries, if you protest around for the sake of political cartoons, then you don't have to do anything. While all countries were still in Berlin, Zeng Jize re-signed treaties with other countries, which officially designated the Somali region as a "subject state of His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Empire".
This is a move to kill two birds with one stone, so although on the surface, the truce in the Boer region has gained more benefits from the British encroaching on Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula, but in fact, in terms of territory, China has also benefited greatly. However, under pressure from the British, Zeng Jize did not talk about Sri Lanka, India, and the coast of West Asia, where Zheng He went to the West to canonize the king of the land, after all, these places are now the sphere of influence of the British.
This news was also transmitted back to China, and the Daqing Daily used the entire page of the second page to elaborate on the close contacts between the Somali region of Africa and the eastern coastal areas of Africa when Zheng He went to the West. The rhinoceros is just that, fat and fat and small eyes, it is really not good-looking, but everyone is very interested in the giraffe, this kind of body has distinct markings, horns on the head, and the character is said to be a very docile creature in the Ming Dynasty is called "unicorn", of course, compared with the unicorn in the auspicious painting, the giraffe's neck is a little longer, but it is indeed very beautiful, after reading the newspaper, everyone is looking forward to when you can see the unicorn in China, the ordinary people who were originally very indifferent to AfricaI heard that a zoo brought back from Africa will be built in the western suburbs and people will be allowed to watch it, so they have raised their interest in Africa, so that from Beihai to Kokand in the West Sea, from Sulu and Ryukyu to Vietnam, everyone has begun to have a lot of expectations for Africa.
Of course, compared with the Western countries, China's rule over Africa is more gentle, with a naked stick of attack and suppression, and if it requires a large-scale mobilization of troops at such a long distance, it is too much to gain and lose, and the African places governed by China are much more merciful and humane than the colonies of other countries, and after many years, something very surprising finally happened. This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.
The name of the Congo River Basin, finally determined by the Ministry of Rites, is rainy and has a lot of wood, so it is named "Linzhou", the state of the rainforest, very appropriate, and there is the meaning of the joy of the day 1 Dynasty, the Queen Mother is quite satisfied, so the Congo River Autonomous State declared to the outside world is not a word in the country, directly into the post of Linzhou, equivalent to the Golden State, Somalia here in the end there are the descendants of the native people of the year left, although there is only one side, the direct annexation of the appearance is too ugly, not to mention to set a new benchmark in Africa, Therefore, it is just to re-canonize the tribal leader here as the king of Somalia, and the hereditary "Mugu Dushu" Beizi, which is Zheng He's name for this place, and support a tribal leader as the king of Somalia, such a cheeky and infallible means to find fault with it are really eye-opening for Westerners. Originally, the most important purpose was to pass through here, the most important purpose was to have a port to dock for ships entering and leaving the Suez Canal, and the Chinese naval fleet also had a stable port that could be used as an overseas stronghold, if from the perspective of military and political interests, Somalia was far more important than Linzhou, and economic interests should be more important in Linzhou, but I didn't expect that only a few years later, pervasive businessmen found a large number of beryl deposits in Somalia, beryl is commonly known as emerald, The highest grade is "emerald", the Qing Dynasty up and down, from the queen mother to all levels of noble ladies and rich people have unimaginable attachment to gemstones, in the East, diamonds are not the most expensive, gems and jade are the most precious. Therefore, this part of Somalia will have a popular name in the future, "Gem Country". (To be continued.) )