In the end, the deal was reached, and the two sides reached a consensus to pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, so that they only had to wait for the ships from East Africa to go ashore, and the Far East officials could pay after inspecting the goods in Jiaozhou Bay.

The Dreiser's weapon is very difficult to grasp, it is indeed the world's first widely used military breech-loading rifle, but the times are developing, and countries are developing or have been equipped with more advanced rifles.

The market for Dreiser's rifles is nothing more than backward regions, and Africa naturally belongs to this group, but Ernst will not sell his noose in Africa, so there are only two independent markets left in the Far East and South America.

Only the Far Eastern Empire in the Far East meets the requirements of East Africa, and the rest of the regions are either colonies of other countries, or they can't afford to pay for it, which is the helplessness of small countries, of course, Japan is an exception, if it is only an arms business, Ernst can consider getting involved, and the military industry will be forgotten.

……

Night enveloped the entire black African continent, and there was not a single light to be seen, except for the faint flares of light scattered in the two cities that never sleeped.

The same is true of Bulawayo, deep in the heart of the Kingdom of East Africa, where hundreds of bright eyes look around outside the indigenous village of Bacola, on the outskirts of Bulawayo.

"Clarus, are you all here?"

"Chief, I've been notified by my family, and everyone is here!"

"Didn't alarm the Germans?"

"Rest assured, the Germans never leave the castle at night, they only patrol the surroundings during the day, and every day as soon as it gets dark, they will retract into the castle on time."

"That's good, call everyone out today, everyone must know the reason! Just yesterday, the Germans came to ask for someone again. ”

"Damn the Germans, according to the past they should have come in a while, and now it's not time for them to come and arrest people again, we have lost too many people since last year, Barker, Momoyus, Karlugu......" Kralulu didn't know math, but he remembered the names of everyone in the village clearly.

It stands to reason that East Africa will of course draw lots at the end of the month, but now East Africa needs more labor, so the task was issued in advance, so Zimbabwe's indigenous people have completely exploded.

However, as the Ndebele people had learned, the Shona did not think they could deal with East Africa, and the large Shona tribes were divided into small regions by East Africa, so they could not be connected together.

As a result, small units like Bakola Village can only save themselves, and they can only choose to flee if they can't fight and fight.

"Chief, which way shall we flee?"

"The Germans have power in the north and south, so we have to run west!"

The natives did not have the ability to analyze logically, but they knew that the Germans came from the north and went all the way south, so there were people from the East African kingdom in both the north and the south.

As for why not choose the East, it is because the East also often has Germans to Bulawayo to replenish supplies, after all, it was the former capital of the Kingdom of Matabele, so East Africa will continue to use it as a transit point for supplies in Zimbabwe.

"But in the West, the environment is very harsh, and the warriors of the tribe have been to the West in pursuit of their prey, and they say that it is even drier than Bakola."

"Drought is a good thing, and drought shows that there are certainly not many Germans there, so we should do the opposite."

In this way, after determining the direction, the natives of the village of Bakola ran away overnight, and the road was smooth in the early stages, because, as they had predicted, it was impossible for East Africa to deploy many people in the Kalahari Basin.

When the Kingdom of East Africa was making great efforts to build railways, the most exploited region of East Africa, Zimbabwe, was the first to hold on.

Originally, Zimbabwe's population was not large, and the population of the entire region was less than one million (3.69 million in 1960), and as a result, East Africa had to grab about 100,000 strong men from Zimbabwe for a project.

Prior to this, East Africa had transferred people from Zimbabwe to various places to serve in East Africa on a monthly basis, which was called the "blood tax", and East Africa did not return the goods, and the export was transferred to export, which completely frightened the Shona people, and various rumors also arose within the Shona people.

The "blood tax" in East Africa directly frightened the Shona and became the fuse for the Shona escape, and they began to plan to flee from Zimbabwe to areas where there were no white people.

As a result, since March, there have been hundreds of "defections" of the Shona people, large and small, and almost ninety percent of the Shona people have participated in the defection operations.

Like rain, they slowly converged from a few villages into a river of 10,000 people, and they rampaged across the grassland, and the animal groups on the grassland provided them with food rations on the way to escape.

At its peak, more than 300,000 people were flowing in four directions, southeast, northwest, and so on, but they couldn't stop East Africa, because East Africa was really short of manpower in Zimbabwe.

So the whole of Zimbabwe is like a leaky pocket, with a large number of indigenous people circulating, and the largest in the east, near Mozambique and several indigenous kingdoms, is at least about 100,000.

In East Africa, about 100,000 or so were intercepted, and the workers needed for the construction of the railway were directly gathered, while the indigenous people who escaped either entered Mozambique or the Kalahari Basin, and the rest of the stupid ones went to other parts of East Africa, with only a few fleeing along the Okavango River into Namibia and Angola.

The "defection" of the indigenous people of Zimbabwe, the "blood tax" is only part of the reason, and on the whole, East Africa is relatively inhuman in other aspects, such as forcing the indigenous people to engage in fixed agriculture, which is very difficult for the Shona people who live by hunting and grazing, and the Shona people have no relevant technology and experience, so the food output is pitiful, and agriculture is extremely boring manual labor, although hunting is dangerous, but it is indeed more free.

This "defection" has awakened the East African kingdom to the fact that it seems that there will be a large-scale relocation of Zimbabwe's indigenous people, and they cannot be allowed to get close to Mozambique.

To say that East Africa does not have bad intentions towards Mozambique is not to be believed, but at present, East Africa is not ready to annex Mozambique.

Mozambique (including several indigenous kingdoms) itself has a lot of indigenous people, about two million, if it is said that East Africa will annex Mozambique in the future, it will definitely have to clean up the local indigenous people.

The flight of Zimbabwean natives into Mozambique also represents a loss of control, which will pile up the cost of future clean-up, and if the natives do flee to the west of Angola, then East Africa will be happy to see it, but they will not be able to enter Mozambique, the fat meat of East Africa.

As for the Angolan colony, why East Africa is not worried, it is because this group of natives can flee to Angola, and then they can also flee to West Africa, unlike Mozambique, which is completely surrounded by East Africa on three sides, only the east is connected to the sea, and the means of reducing the natives in East Africa are mainly driven away in the final analysis, and it is impossible to drive them directly into the sea.

(End of chapter)