The news of the Orange Free State cannot be concealed from East Africa, which has never been a peaceful country, although Ernst has always stressed the need to keep a low profile.

However, what East Africa has done in recent years is not low-key in the eyes of other countries, but East Africa has always been more cautious in terms of propaganda, and it does not go around publicizing its benefits, so it seems tepid in the international community, and there is not much heat in ordinary times, but when discussing the countries and patterns in the world, it can leak out.

It's like a student in a class who doesn't usually show anything, but he is involved in something.

Ernst: "The root cause of the civil war in the Orange Free State was the further intensification of the contradictions between the Oranges and the Transvaals, of course, the British were indispensable for sowing discord, but this also shows that even the same people may not be able to get along well, especially between the Oranges and the Transvaals. ”

Constantine: "There is some truth in this, but the Orange and the Transvaal are originally the same people, both are Boers, and if there were no British, I am afraid they would not have been divided into two new national concepts, and according to the normal process of development, it should be the Orange Free State that digested the people of the Transvaal Republic, but now it has evolved into the misery of being in the same room, which is also a warning to us in East Africa." ”

"Our East African situation is different, one of the most important national policies is to intermarry with each other, and the national identity of immigrants from various countries has been weakened after forming new families.

After all, from the perspective of the small people, it is generally the small family first and then the everyone, and compared with the family, the concepts of what nationality and country must be ranked behind.

So if you want to create such an effect in the Orange Free State in East Africa, you have to break up countless small families, and this is obviously impossible. Ernst said.

National integration, the function is in the word integration, East Africa has achieved the word integration through intermarriage, which is also the simplest and most crude method, and it saves worry and effort.

Of course, when the country is stable, many aspects of the family will be sacrificed, but this has little to do with the East African government, after all, in the 19th century, it was enough to make the majority of people happy to start a family.

"However, from this incident, it seems that the British are indeed as treacherous as ever, and they still like to maintain the rule of the system by provoking confrontation." Konstantin said with some emotion.

The British ruled the Orange Free State in no different way than they ruled India, in India through the contradictions between Hinduism and Arabism, which made it impossible to unite India, and in the Orange Free State it was replaced by Orange and Transvaal.

This thunder can be said to have been buried by the British a long time ago, as for Ernst who had a similar idea, but he could not help the Orange people make decisions, and now the Orange people have suffered a big loss.

However, Ernst was also happy to see it, which was definitely good news for East Africa, the Transvaals did not have a good relationship with East Africa, and by the way, the entire Boer people's relations with East Africa fell to a freezing point, which put pressure on the defense of the East African South.

Now that the Oranges and the Transvaals have broken up, the Boers have been divided, and as long as East Africa is properly operated, the banner of the Boers will be useless.

Not only East Africa has benefited, but I am afraid that the colony of Cape Town has also this idea, there are many Boers in Cape Town, and there were two independent states in the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State, so the Boers in the Cape Town colony are endowed with united front value.

The British had to give the Boers a great deal of power to colonize Cape Town, and now that the Transvaal Republic had been wiped out by East Africa, the Oranges had broken with the Transvaals.

The Boers in the Cape Colony were left to their advantage, as the Oranges and the Transvaals had to choose between them.

Of course, neutrality was also an option, but as the number of British immigrants rose, it became increasingly difficult for the Boers in the Cape Town colony to compete with the British government, and without the support of the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State, it became much easier for the British to deal with them.

Of course, the British may not have thought about it as much at first, they just did it according to their own traditional mode of thinking.

This is just as crude as the diplomatic level of Tsarist Russia, which likes to solve problems by force, and this is the traditional Russian mode of thinking at work.

To put it more simply, this is the influence of the national character on the national character, and it is obvious that Ernst likes to be obscure, and this is influenced by the national character of his previous life.

In fact, it is a value, not necessarily everyone agrees, but the vast majority of people agree, just like the Western countries advocated freedom, the Soviet Union advocated democracy, and the social values of the Far Eastern Empire.

Konstantin was very indifferent to these, as the aristocracy of the old era, especially the German aristocracy, still preferred to exert force in the military, and the European aristocracy naturally attached importance to the military.

So he said: "This civil war in the Orange Free State, whether we should find an opportunity to intervene, this is a good opportunity to annex the Orange Free State, so that we can also completely isolate the Cape Town colony on the south bank of the Orange River, which will go a long way in reducing the pressure on national defense." ”

Not to mention other aspects, if the Orange Free State is captured, the border between the colonies of East Africa and Cape Town will be greatly reduced, and if the border line is reduced, the deployment of troops can be appropriately reduced, and although the Orange River is not considered a natural danger, it also has a certain defensive function, so it can greatly save the military expenditure of East Africa.

Ernst reassured: "This matter is urgent, although we have thoughts about the Orange Free State, but now the Orange Free State is a British colony after all, so this matter must be carefully considered, and the most important thing is that once we are gone, it will break the barrier between the Orange and the Transvaal, and they will definitely join forces again to deal with us first, which is more than worth the loss for us." ”

The latter words are the point, in the eyes of the Orange people, the Transvaals and the British are not things, and the Germans of East Africa are not a good thing.

After all, they are all mixed in Africa, and everyone knows a lot about East Africa, which is nicknamed "Tsarist Russia" in Africa, and more than 10 million square kilometers of land are not given away by the natives for free.

It's just that now the people of Orange have no choice, so they can only hope to cooperate with East Africa, and the Orange Free State is East Africa on three sides, and the Cape Town colony on the other, which is completely landlocked, so there is no other way to get external support.

Moreover, the reputation of East Africa is actually not bad, especially in the countries bordering the north of East Africa, they have a good impression of East Africa, and most of these countries in the south as victims naturally have no good impression of East Africa.

However, East Africa and the Orange Free State are exceptions, and after contact in recent years, the impression of Orange people on East Africa has changed greatly, as the largest land neighbor and power of the Orange Free State, although East Africa has deployed troops on the border, but there has never been much transgression.

This is very rare, because the people of Orange know that East Africa has the strength to annex Orange, but the other side does not do so, which shows that East Africa is about international morality and credibility.

This made the Oranges regret their choice, and if they had known that East Africa did not have the wolf ambitions described by the Transvaals, they would not have agreed to annex the colony of Cape Town.

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