One of the northernmost towns in Turkana Province, the town of Berdale in Turkana Province is also a trading market in the Kingdom of East Africa.

Early in the morning, the market opens.

Abyssinian caravans, who came from all over southern Abyssinia, brought horses, cattle, sheep, camels, and some agricultural specialties raised by the Abyssinians to the town of Berdelai.

"Today there are a total of 150 muskets in the shop, and they are of excellent performance, and they are free to ask for the price, and the highest price will be awarded." With a specialty arms store reporting products.

Instantly, everyone started bidding.

"I'll give out thirty Abyssinian horses." Bubuyavis, a merchant from the Tigray region of northern Abyssinia, spoke.

The Abyssinian horse is an Abyssinian specialty, and it is also produced in the Turkana province of East Africa.

As soon as his bid was exported, many small caravans interested in buying Abyssinian were deterred, northern Abyssinian was the core area of the Abyssinian Empire, and the Tigray region was the birthplace of the Abyssinian Empire, and many Abyssinian Empire ruling families were rooted in the Tigray region, and Bubuyavis was a member of the Zagvi family in the Tigray region.

Just when Bubuyavis was thinking that he would take this batch of goods, a discordant voice suddenly came, "Hehehe, the Yankees also want to ride on our heads, and our Amway family will give out thirty Abyssinian horses and one camel." ”

This is a merchant named Audley Kevin in the southern region of Amhara of the Abyssinian Empire, and it is clear that Audley Kevin is also bound to get his hands on these guns.

Bubuyavis fixed his eyes, it turned out to be an "old rival", and he mocked unceremoniously: "It turned out to be Amhara's small family, what grade is comparable to our Zagwei family, our Zagwei family is one of the top three families in the empire, I add ten Amhara stupid donkeys, and this batch of guns will belong to me." ”

The East African merchant was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Mr. Buuyawes, you are talking about ten donkeys!" ”

Buuyawes: "It's ten donkeys, but it's ten donkeys from Amhara, or it's a stupid donkey with the same brain as Amway's family." ”

"You ......" Audley Kevin's blood pressure went up instantly, "Okay, okay, play like this, right?" I also add ten lame camels of the Tigray Zagvi family. ”

East African Merchant: "Ugh! Mr. Audley Kevin, disabled livestock are at a discount. ”

It's clear that Audley Kevin didn't really want to trade lame camels, just to humiliate the Zagvi family, and the East African businessman would have misunderstood what he meant, but Audley Kevin was very cool.

Audley Kevin: "You're right, lame camels are meant to be discounted, so I'll say Zagvi's lame camels aren't worth the price!" Hahaha......"

"You bastard......" The ironic Buuyawes is enraged, and goes up to start a free fight with Audley Kevin.

The quick-eyed East African staff hurriedly tried to hold the two sides, but the two sides obviously refused to give up, and a group of people fought together.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, the shopkeeper had no choice but to blow the warning whistle, followed by a sharp tail "hoo".

The East African Mounted Police in the town of Bodailai heard the news, and a dozen horses came from outside the market, armed with clubs to drive away the scuffling Abyssinian merchants.

Soon.

"Be quiet, this is a public place, not a place for fighting," Crews, the chief of police in Berdelett, said angrily.

At this time, the two sides of the fight were already squatting in a row, listening to Cruise's lecture, surrounded by Abyssinian melon-eating people, it was rare to see these big families deflated, it was really interesting.

"Bodailai is a fair trade market, everything depends on the money, not who is strong enough to see everything, you should feel glad that it is me who came, not the border guards, otherwise they will not get used to you, now return to the trade, do not do it again, otherwise I will let you know how powerful our East African police are, everyone else is scattered, continue to trade."

After stabilizing the normal order of the market, Cruise left, leaving only Buuyawes and Audley Kevin glaring at each other, but they no longer dared to do anything casually, and the baton of the East Africans really hurt when they hit their bodies.

In the end, Audley Kevin won the guns for thirty horses and eleven "lame Zagwi" camels.

But when he got out of the city, Bubuyavies said viciously: "Bastard! When you get to Abyssinia, you'd better pray that you'll be okay! ”

Audley Kevin said with a smug face: "I really thought this was Tigray!" I await your revenge. ”

Audley Kevin's confidence comes from the guns he just got in his hands, and with the weapons in hand and the caravans are all good at mixing in Abyssinia all the year round, he will naturally not be afraid.

……

To the north of the town of Berdelai is Negmert, the southernmost city of the Abyssinian Empire, and East Africa has good relations with the Abyssinian Empire, and there is almost no major conflict of interest between the two sides, which is why Berdailai set up a trading market.

The expansion of East Africa into the Ethiopian plateau, although wary of the forces within the Abyssinian Empire, was at all.

East Africa has never really invaded Abyssinian from beginning to end, so naturally there is no conflict and contradiction, at most, the southern neighbor has changed from black natives to whites, which naturally aroused the vigilance of the rulers of southern Abyssinia, after all, Britain, France, Italy and Egypt are eyeing the Abyssinian Empire on the Red Sea coast, and there are lessons from the British invasion, so it is impossible to let the Abyssinians relax their vigilance.

In 1869, the Italian colonizer Giuseppe Sapeto's private colonial company, the Rubatino Company, signed an agreement with the tribal chiefs of Assab on the Red Sea coast to buy the port of Assab, but Egypt objected to this and sent troops to occupy Assab, which was temporarily frustrated by Italy's colonization.

So now Italy has no colonies in Africa, but the Rubatino company has not completely withdrawn from the port of Assab, and is still looking for an opportunity to make a comeback, and now they have a good time, the Kingdom of Italy is deliberately invading the Abyssinian Empire, so it needs a landing port, and on the Red Sea coast, only the Rubatino company is counted as Italy's own people, so the government of the Kingdom of Italy recruited the Rubatino company, a full decade earlier than in history, but now the port of Assab is still in the hands of Egypt, There is also a need to take a long-term view.

It can be seen from the port of Assab plotted by the Kingdom of Italy that almost all the forces are fiercely competing near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, with Djibouti as the center, the French Somaliland colony in the middle, the British Somaliland colony in the southeast, Eritrea in the north is the Italian civil colonial group with Egypt's sphere of influence mixed with the Gulf of Asab, while the Abyssinian Empire in the west, and the military town of Dere Dawa of the Kingdom of East Africa in the southwest, plus the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, Tens of thousands of square kilometers of land on the west bank of the tiny Bab el-Mandeb Strait are crowded with countries and tribes, and the source of all this is because of the opening of the Suez Canal.

The most aggrieved are undoubtedly the Abyssinian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, one is surrounded as a landlocked country, and although the other is the nominal owner of the land, in fact, Egypt has already become independent from the Ottoman Empire because of the Albanian macho man - Ali, and at the same time inherited most of its assets west of the Sinai Peninsula.

Interestingly, Eritrea was snatched from the Abyssinian Empire in 1557 by the Ottoman Empire at its peak, and now it is the territory of Egypt, which is also one of the reasons for the bad relationship between Egypt and the Abyssinian Empire.

There is no territorial conflict between East Africa and the Abyssinian Empire, although East Africa occupies the southern part of the former Ethiopia, but the Abyssinian Empire did not rule here, the previous southern Ethiopia was incorporated into the Abyssinian Empire from 1872 to 1896 during the reign of Menelik II, and Menelik II moved the capital south to Addis Ababa in the middle of the Ethiopian plateau in 1886, and now the most powerful power in the Abyssinian Empire is the British supported Johannes IV, Menelik II was now the king of the Kingdom of Shoa, the equivalent of a conquered vassal state of the Abyssinian Empire.

(End of chapter)