There are not many neighboring countries in East Africa, and Belgium Congo is a relatively friendly one, after all, Belgium can only be regarded as a small country in front of East Africa, and its strength in the colonies of Africa is very weak, and everyone is still a little related.

In fact, Portugal and the Heshingen royal family can also climb into relatives, but it has to be counted two generations ago, related to the grandfather's uncle, and then after the death of the former queen of Portugal, there is basically no contact, which is also the reason why East Africa beat Portugal without mercy.

If there is a conflict between East Africa and Belgium, it will definitely be negotiated first, after all, King Leopold II of Belgium is Karina's grandfather, and this relationship is much closer.

In 1885, Belgium was also a colonial "big" winner, taking advantage of the Berlin Conference, it completely established the "legitimacy" of its colonization of the Belgian Congo, which was recognized by other countries.

After the unification of various countries, especially France, East Africa and Portugal, the Belgian Congo is a natural buffer zone in the north of the Portuguese colony of Angola, west of the province of East Azande in East Africa, and south and east of the French colony of Gabon.

Of course, compared with the Belgian Congo in the previous life, the area has shrunk tenfold, after all, the area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reached more than 2 million square kilometers.

However, I don't know whether this is a loss or a gain for Belgium, and the economic situation of Congo in the previous life was more than a little better than that of the Congo.

The Belgian Congo buffer object is East Africa, Portugal, France, all three do not want to directly border together, East Africa and Portugal are good to say, it is already a bad debt, France is different, East Africa and Portugal have a certain vigilance against France, France has no idea about Portugal, but the local government has no idea, the colonial government is not necessarily.

Colonial governments generally have relatively large autonomy, after all, they are not subject to military orders, and they can cut them first and then play a prelude, and many great powers and countries have unconsciously and passively expanded their territories.

This does not include East Africa, after the establishment of East Africa, the administrative, military, and financial powers were all collected by the central government, and any actions needed to be reported to the central government, so the territorial expansion of East Africa was promoted by the central government in a planned manner.

The advantage of this is that East Africa can save costs, concentrate resources and forces, and achieve dimensionality reduction against indigenous countries.

Don't look at the natives who are very backward, rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry, let alone strong blacks.

One of the characteristics of colonies is that a small number of suzerains rule over the majority of the natives, and the number of troops in the suzerains is very small, and some colonies may have an armed force of several hundred people.

Blacks often have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions, which is 10,000 pigs, and it is more troublesome to rely on a few hundred people to control them.

Therefore, colonization is definitely not an easy task, and the number of colonial troops cannot be too large, after all, many colonies are not rich, and even the cost cannot be recovered if there are too many troops.

This is the case in the Belgian Congo colony, which currently has just over 2,000 soldiers.

In the past life, the territory of the Belgian Congo was in the territory of present-day East Africa (DRC), and there was even a part of the territory of the French Congo in the previous life, mainly on the left bank of the Ubangi River, along the Ubangi River and the lower Congo River.

The territory is smaller, and the population is much smaller, but the population density is much larger than in the previous life than in the Congo, after all, the population of the Congolese rainforest cannot be compared with the western coastal areas.

In essence, the current Belgian Congo is the former French Congo, and the later Republic of Congo Brazzaville (with Brazzaville as the capital).

Of course, the capital of the Belgian Congo is not in Brazzaville, but in the Atlantic city of Pointe-Noire.

Pointe-Noire is the "black cape", and in 1484 Portuguese navigators passed through the area, they saw the black stone of the headland, so it was named after the area.

At the same time, because of this distinctive feature, Pointe-Noire is an important nautical coordinate of the West African coastal route, and has the same obvious regional color as the Skeleton Coast.

As the only colony of Belgium, Cape Noire, the capital of Belgium, is also the most densely populated area, with more than 2,000 people, including more than 1,000 Chinese.

The reason for the existence of a large number of Chinese in Pointe-Noire is mainly due to the fact that the number of people who colonize Africa is too small for reasons in Belgium, after all, Belgium itself is relatively rich, and there are options such as the Netherlands and France around it, so it is really impossible to think of going to Africa with a harsh environment to make a living.

"The Congo is different from East Africa, whites are whites, yellows are yellows, blacks are blacks, forming a perfect hierarchical distinction, but because of East Africa, the yellow people here still have a little status, as for the blacks, it is much more miserable, according to our rough statistics, in the past few years of Belgian colonization, the number of blacks has dropped by at least hundreds of thousands, especially in Pointe-Noire, we can see a lot of blacks with incomplete limbs." Said Kairos, the consul of East Africa in Belgium in the Congo, and his subordinate Val.

East Africa naturally has direct contact with the Belgian Congolese government, and has a permanent staff who are mainly responsible for trade between East Azande Province and the Congolese rainforest region, and the Danube Province.

These three provinces and territories are very close to the Atlantic Ocean, and there is no railway connection to the east, so most of the freight needs to go through Belgium, and as for Portugal, the two sides naturally have nothing to talk about.

Belgium can't afford not to give the yellow race any status, because it is surrounded by East Africa, and East Africa is near the Belgian Congo, that is, with Bangui as the center, and a whole division of troops is deployed, and half of the East African army is Chinese.

Every day, the East African army cruises along the Ubangi River, so it has a great deterrent effect on the surrounding forces, and the Belgian Congo is one of them.

"Of course, the status of the yellow people in the Congo is not too high, and it is easy to understand them as British Indian servants outside India." Keros said.

Even so, Belgium's attitude towards Chinese immigrants was much better than in the previous life, when Belgium had imported Chinese from the Far Eastern Empire, and the treatment was basically the same as that of local blacks.

Of course, there is no instruction from the East African side, it can be regarded as a spontaneous act of the Belgian side, after all, East Africa is not a virgin, unless it is its own national, there will be no special feelings towards the Chinese in other regions.

The reason why the United States' anti-Chinese behavior aroused the dissatisfaction of East Africa was in essence because its bill extended its hand to the heads of East African Chinese, who have East African nationality, so East Africa naturally cannot sit idly by.

"Mr. Kairos, does this have anything to do with our usual work?" Val asked.

"It doesn't matter much, as I said before, there are only Germans in East Africa, there is no group of people divided according to skin color, we only talk about nationality, and protect the interests of East African citizens, that is, the interests of the citizens who have East African identity in the Belgian Congo, including overseas companies, employees of the Hexingen Foundation, and even East African Defense Force soldiers." Keros emphasized.

In fact, East Africans know that the country's attitude towards blacks is different, but in view of the fact that the number of blacks in East Africa is getting smaller and smaller, there will be no place for blacks in East Africa in the future, so it makes sense, but it will take twenty to thirty years to transition.

(End of chapter)