Ernst returned to First Town after only one day in Bagamoyo, but by water and by road, and the road from Bagamoyo to First Town was not more comfortable than water, but it was smooth.

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Orange Free State.

For the Boers of Orange, or for the Boers of the former Orange Free State, life is not going well.

On the one hand, all the promises made by the British were not fulfilled, and on the other hand, the Boers of the former Transvaal Republic were crowding out their own resources.

"That's not what the British said at the beginning, not only did they not solve Orange's financial problems, but they kept raising tax rates in Orange, we were all deceived, and now the British don't admit it!"

"The so-called investments and dividends have not materialized, and they are constantly recruiting people to work in their diamond mines, and the wages are still very low, and those land and minerals are ours in the first place, these damn robbers."

"And the damned Transvaals, who were kind enough to receive these poor ghosts, and now they turn around and go to the English as dogs to deal with us, and they are really blind to these white-eyed wolves."

With the migration of the former Transvaal Boers to the Orange Free State, the social structure of the local Boers was changed at once.

Although it is said that the two countries are close to each other, but now that they have been in contact for a long time, contradictions have arisen, and this is naturally indispensable to the British, who were originally wary of the Boers, and naturally did not want the Boers under their rule to unite.

At the beginning, the Boers in the Transvaal were the objects that Britain could co-opt, and the Boers in Orange were naturally the targets of suppression.

Because the Boers of the Transvaal were driven from East Africa from the territory of the former Transvaal Republic, and Britain was also an outsider to the Orange Free State, the Orange people had a sense of self that they were the masters of the land.

Obviously, the Transvaals and the British didn't think so, so the Transvaal Restoration came together with the British.

"These Transvaals are white-eyed wolves that they can't raise, and we used to vacate houses and lend them land to help them get through the most difficult days, and now they want to turn against them, which is really unbelievable."

"And if they obediently reintegrate into Orange, they have to shout every day to regain the lost territory, rebuild the Transvaal, demand materials and donations, and be insatiable."

"Are you saying that their so-called slogan of restoration is used to deceive us? They didn't go to East Africa at all, but against us? Someone boldly speculated.

"It should be unlikely, I think the training of the Restoration Army is still relatively presentable, obviously I want to compare with the East African Army, for us, we use a knife to kill chickens."

"That's not for sure! East Africa is not the East Africa of the past, before they attacked the Transvaal and could gather tens of thousands of troops, and then fought with Portugal and defeated the Portuguese, between the two sides, the mobilization of troops is at least more than 200,000, and you think about how many people were in the Transvaal in the past? There are only about 200,000 people, and it is probably enough for children and the elderly to go together in East Africa. ”

"That is, now the whole world knows that East Africa is the first power in Africa, and the navy alone has at least tens of thousands of people in service, and the number of land forces should be maintained at least at more than 100,000, that is, all the Boers combined, I am afraid that it is not enough for the East African army to unite the enemy, not to mention that the Restoration Army is only more than 3,000 people."

"As long as East Africa takes out one-tenth of the army, it can completely annihilate the Restoration Army, and the number and equipment of the Restoration Army have no chance of winning compared with the East African Army, so I say that the so-called Restoration Army is the Transvaal and British who jointly oppressed the citizens of the former Orange Free State."

It's nothing more than the people of Orange who think so, they will get tired of hearing too many slogans, and the Transvaals blow well, but you are acting! East Africa is there, and instead of seeking revenge in East Africa, they look for the Orange people every day, so the Orange people are very unaccustomed to the Transvaals.

Of course, the Transvaals originally wanted to fight with East Africa and regain their land, but neither the British nor the Oranges supported it before.

After all, the Orange people and East Africa have no grievances and do not want to offend East Africa, while Britain is worried that they will not die by fighting snakes, but will suffer from it, and East Africa is now hardened in its wings, and ordinary attacks will not cause harm at all, so Britain has been trying to save a large sum of money, but the Afghans have come to add to the chaos, so it has not been carried out for a long time.

The Transvaal Restoration Army, which Britain took the initiative to support before, now has found an excuse to apportion the funds to the head of the Orange Free State, after all, the British have no mind and trouble in East Africa, but they don't want to disband the Transvaal Recovery Army, so they can only let the Orange Free State raise it first.

This is also the reason why the Orange Free State has been raising taxes in recent years, after all, with an extra army to support, it is certainly not possible to count on the poor clanging Orange treasury, and Britain occupies the diamond mines, but it does not pull out a dime, which makes the original Orange people even more unbalanced.

"We in Orange have led the wolf into the house, and I have no problem with helping the Transvaals, but I don't want our help to be taken for granted, and even continued to be demanded in reverse, and in the name of brotherhood, but as the eagle dog of the former enemy."

Before the emergence of East Africa, the enemies of the Boers were naturally the British, in addition to the natives, and East Africa was certainly not a good thing, but the British that the Transvaal Restoration Army was loyal to were considered feuds.

And the people of Orange do not have much antipathy towards East Africa, after all, it is the Transvaal that is the scourge of East Africa, not Orange.

On the contrary, the Transvaals who migrated south did not know how to be grateful, and fought against the Orange people everywhere, crowding out a lot of social resources.

Of course, the tax hike alone has already caused a lot of resentment in Orange, and now with the end of the British war in Afghanistan, there are rumors that the Transvaal Restoration Army will be recruiting, which is naturally a good thing.

But the problem is that after a few years of getting along, the Orange people already know that Britain is an iron rooster that is not plucked, and the money for the recruitment of the Transvaal Restoration Army will definitely have to be taken from the Orange people at that time.

And it is more difficult to raise an army of more than 3,000 people, because these more than 3,000 troops are completely armed and trained according to the standards of the British native soldiers.

"Coffee" alone is not a small expense, and the British are very chicken thieves, they import cheap coffee from Zanzibar merchants and then eat kickbacks, so the consumption of the Transvaal Restoration Army is not as low as it wants.

(End of chapter)