The British government calculated the strength of East Africa, and the more it calculated, the more it found that there was no good way to take East Africa, although the volume was not large, but it was a giant in Africa.

After all, except for Cape Town and North Africa, Africa can no longer find a force that can compete with the white population of East Africa, and the country of East Africa is still composed of Germans, although it is not very pure, but the civilization identity is naturally biased towards Germany.

What does this mean for the UK? One Germany is enough for Britain to have a headache, then plus Austria-Hungary, the influence of the Germans is enough to change the whole world, if East Africa is used as a raw material supply base for these two industrial powers, then Britain's hegemony will be greatly threatened.

Benjamin thought of this, and said with a solemn face: "East Africa is not an ordinary country, for this kind of private colonial company that monopolizes millions of square kilometers of Africa, it has seriously undermined regional peace and stability, as the defender of world order, we cannot continue to let East Africa develop in disorder, we must strike hard!" ”

Benjamin clearly defined East Africa as a private colonial group like the British East India Company, the glory of the British East India Company was to occupy India, but the Indian colony was only 3 million square kilometers, and the East African Kingdom was indeed more than twice the area of India (the British government thinks so), the East African Kingdom may not have as superior land as India, and the population is not as rich as India, but such a large land area, sooner or later, the population will pile up and become a force enough to influence the world pattern, not to mention affect the world pattern, Now the pattern of the western Indian Ocean has changed.

Benjamin then said solemnly: "We can look for thugs in other regions of the world to deal with potential enemies that we will find difficult to overcome and achieve strategic equilibrium, but is there an opponent in Africa that can match East Africa?" ”

"Moreover, the ambitions of the East African kingdom are far more than that, they are still expanding, they have appeared on the east coast of the Atlantic, Southwest Africa is about to fall into the hands of East Africa, and Africa still has a vast inland area to do, now the territory of East Africa is 7 million square kilometers, tomorrow it may be tens of millions of square kilometers, is it going to dominate Africa in the future?"

At this point, Benjamin himself suddenly found himself feeling a little afraid of East Africa, but he tried to calm down.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer said: "Your Excellency, the situation may not be as serious as we think, although the land area of East Africa is large, but I think the potential of East Africa is at most the level of Canada and Australia, we also have colonies in Africa, and the conditions are definitely much better than Africa, a Gold Coast, a Cape Town are the most valuable land in Africa, but to be honest, the importance of these two colonies to the British Empire is obviously not prominent in the whole system, In particular, the economic value is not very high, so it is not enough for East Africa to develop with land alone, and it is definitely difficult to develop in Africa. ”

The main reason for the exchequer's confiscation of money from East Africa is that the government really has no money, and the funds of the navy, a gold-swallowing beast, are rising every year, and the government spending is already large under the economic crisis, and now Britain's spending in South Asia accounts for a lot of energy, and now the Russians are becoming more and more dishonest, and there are signs of wanting to break through the blockade, Russia is not the kind of country in East Africa that has to put a question mark on whether it can develop, but a country that really has the strength to break the threat of British hegemony. This threat was even higher than that of the Germans.

"Now that the reform of Tsarist Russia has been completed, Alexander II is also the hero, the threat of Tsarist Russia should obviously be put first, although Germany is developing rapidly, but there are French people watching from the side, and there are differences of interest between Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia, but Tsarist Russia is obviously the biggest threat in Central Asia and the Far East, and it is even directly related to India's security issues."

The strength of the East African Navy is good, but Britain is completely in its eyes, relying only on the Royal Navy of India, it has the ability to restrain East Africa, and Tsarist Russia is different, Tsarist Russia's strategic direction is land, and that happens to be Britain's soft underbelly.

The words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not make Benjamin feel relaxed, but even heavier, Tsarist Russia, the United States, Germany, the Far East is half counted, and East Africa is barely half counted, these countries have developed very well in recent years, and the corresponding voice of Britain and France, the two maintainers of the world order, has been challenged.

Benjamin sighed: "There are more and more competitors, and the cost of maintaining the status of the empire is getting higher and higher. ”

"However, the more this is the case, the more we cannot turn a blind eye to the existence of East Africa, and we cannot add new challengers to the empire, you all think about it, how can we strangle East Africa in the cradle?" ”

In Ernst's view, East Africa is indeed very fragile, but in recent years of secret development, East Africa also has a complete set of capabilities to deal with crises, barely a giant baby, if Britain wants to completely strangle East Africa, then low investment is not good, high investment must consider the risk of being stolen by other countries.

Benjamin's words made everyone a little confused, what is the weakness of East Africa? Let Ernst say that it is trade, cut off the foreign trade of East Africa, and East Africa is really uncomfortable.

But the British fell into the ideological misunderstanding, is there foreign trade in East Africa? The answer is yes, the problem is that the trade system in East Africa is more like an extension of the German-Austrian trade, relying on the trade system of the two countries, disguised as German capital export, so the British can feel the competition between Germany and Austria, especially German goods, and really have no feeling for East Africa.

In essence, East Africa is a German and Austrian colony, but this colony has its own independent ideas, and economically East Africa has sacrificed huge profits to Germany and Austria, but these benefits are distributed through the Hexingen Consortium, which is transferred from East Africa to the Hexingen Consortium, and the Hexingen Consortium is indeed a part of German capital, and the wealth created by this part of the capital in the German region has indeed benefited the common people, the government and the business groups that have a close relationship with Heixingen Capital.

The Foreign Minister duly asked: "East Africa is a very closed country, it is completely a puppet of Germany and Austria, and it is not in line with the world market, and sometimes it is not even felt at all that the existence of East Africa is a country, and they have no diplomatic contacts with our country, this feeling is like the Far Eastern Empire before we forcibly opened the country?" But the rulers of East Africa were the Heshingen royal family, pure German aristocracy, so why did they do this? To run a colony, you have to consider the cost, does the Heshingen royal family really want to establish a medieval feudal monarchy only in Africa! ”

Of course, not everyone does not know about East Africa, a very small number of Austrian businessmen who invest in East Africa have a clear understanding of East Africa, but they do not publicize it everywhere, because the economic system of East Africa is too rebellious in their opinion, completely contrary to the capitalist economy, and they are also afraid that the Austrian government will follow the example and learn from East Africa.

The economic system of East Africa is quite complex, but the monarch is undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary of this economic system, followed by the nobility and bureaucracy of East Africa, and finally the commoners, but there is no place for capitalists, and this model seems to be applied well by East Africa, so they tacitly do not tell the national conditions of East Africa, in case the Habsburgs also do this, then who will suffer! And it is not impossible, such as the nationalization of railways in Austria-Hungary during the economic crisis.

Of course, on the other hand, East Africa can also be described as a medieval serfdom country, and the problem is that serfdom is not what Austrian merchants want to see, so East Africa still plays this game on its own! As long as you don't go out to Huohuo to others, besides, you can make money by cooperating with East Africa, and no one wants to give up this kind of benefit of eating alone.

Well, the composition of East Africa is really complex, feudal, monarchical, autocratic, serfdom, state-owned economy, collective economy, monopoly capital, everything. This is also a helpless choice, the absolutist monarch should be thrown into the historical garbage heap according to the course of history, but Ernst's ass cannot be crooked, then it can only be copied from other systems, and in the end East Africa will become a four-like.

Benjamin: "If East Africa is really the kind of closed country in the Far East that does not enter oil and salt, then the only way to solve East Africa is to solve it by force and force them to open up!" ”

There is really no way, no one knows what the ultimate demand of such a country as East Africa is, so it can only be compared to the Far East, which is the most similar to East Africa, Benjamin assumes that East Africa wants to engage in a self-sufficient economic model like the previous Far Eastern Empire, so that the two really have a lot in common, including racial commonalities.

"But are we declaring war in East Africa?"

"Of course not, we don't know the combat effectiveness of the East African army, so we can't act rashly, so isn't the Portuguese colony on both sides of East Africa? Let's let Portugal test the water first, if East Africa is just a spectacle! Then we'll dismember it. ”

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, but the fighting power of the Portuguese ...... I don't know if the East African army is a model or not, but the Portuguese must be a model product! ”

"It doesn't matter, Portugal can't do it, isn't there still us? Let's take the French together, give Portugal some support, and arm the two Portuguese colonies! I believe that the French are still capable of training the army, especially the last time they lost to the Germans, which made them wrestle with the Germans again in the colonies. ”

(End of chapter)