Cape Town.

"The Transvaals are asking too much! Is this a naked threat to us? "Governor Battle Freer is really angry with these brainless Boers.

Direct war with East Africa! Battle Freel felt that the Boers were not trying to go to war with East Africa, but against him, the immediate boss.

And Battle Freer still has a hard time saying it, because the Orange Free State is still a British colony.

If the Transvaals had waged war against East Africa at this time, what would Britain do? Put something to the side? That obviously can't be done.

This was essentially the same as a direct war between Britain and East Africa, as it was true that the Orange Free State had been incorporated into the Cape Town colony.

So Battle Freer could only accept the extortion of the Transvaals.

"Tell the Transvaals that they can provide them with military assistance, but only for half a year, and that the rest will be up to them, and suggest that when the Orange Free State regains its status as an independent state, they can have 'independent' financial rights, especially taxes, and don't mention anything else."

This was the limit of what Battle Freer could do as governor, after all, it was up to the Transvaals to do what offended people.

As for the mine owners of diamonds and other resources, there are also merchants who just pay an extra tax, which is enough for the Transvaals to sustain, and the diamond business is a lucrative industry, although East Africa has also been exporting in recent years, but East Africa is as restrained as the British, after all, they can be sold at a high price, who will sell these things as stones.

Moreover, there is no synthetic diamond technology in this era, and the value of diamond is still very "preserved".

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British Colony of Natal.

Pietermaritzburg was the capital of the colony of Natal, home to the port of Natal, and the suffix of the name suggests that it was once an important military fortress.

Of course, this glorious history goes back to the era of the prosperity of the Eastern Indian Ocean and African routes, which was later ended by the British.

At that time, Pietermaritzburg was an important stronghold on this route, echoing Cape Town, after all, the location of the port of Cape Town could only clamp the Cape of Good Hope, and could not radiate the Strait of Mozambique, an important international passage.

Although the Suez Canal was promoted by the French, but now the control is in the hands of the British, so the Suez Canal has lowered the strategic position of the Natal colony, but now because of East Africa, the former port city of Pietermaritzburg is prosperous again.

The first is that the new port of Hamburg has led to the development of the region's commodity trade, and the second is that the increase in the number of troops stationed here has led to the prosperity of the consumer market.

"Today another ship arrived at the port of Natal, and the number of Indians on the streets has increased significantly, and many of them are soldiers, which is the most common method used by the British, using Indians as lackeys, but now the number of Indian servants in Natal is somewhat higher than expected, and it is clear that they are not there to help the British manage the colony, after all, the colony does not need so many people to manage."

"Now that the Natal colony is about to become an Indian den, there is no doubt that there are more Indians here than natives, and the air is filled with curry and masala, and it seems that the British have hoarded a lot of troops and a large number of Indian cannon fodder here."

It's not that agents from the Defense and Security Agency maliciously framed and denigrated the colony of Natal, but that the restaurant business here is indeed very prosperous.

Most of the people who do business here are Indians, and the British can't cook, and there are so many troops, so the food problem is also solved by Indian cooks.

Indian restaurants and food stalls are ubiquitous, but Indian dining is also convenient for East African spies, as only Indian food is the only one that meets the appetite of East Africans.

After all, many cooks in the United States are black, and many dishes are created by blacks, and what good things can be made by these guys in primitive societies, which is similar to Indian cuisine in Britain, so there is no doubt that Anglo-Saxons are born unable to cook.

"The British garrison has increased very slowly, and if we hadn't counted the ships in the port every day, I'm afraid we wouldn't have found any clues, so the British must have wanted to be taken by surprise in the future, and this conclusion should also be sent home."

"They used merchant ships to transport soldiers from India to the Natal colony in batches, and I believe that similar measures should have been taken elsewhere in Cape Town, so we cannot find out the results of the number of British troops in South Africa and the number of Indian servants, and this can only be found by our colleagues in Cape Town."

Cape Town is the core of the British in South Africa, and Natal can only obey Cape Town's orders, so it is difficult for East Africa to gain anything other than to watch the growing number of Indians in Natal.

As for military intelligence and the like, that's the job of the East African Military Intelligence Agency, after all, the East African Defense and Security Agency is not yet mature, so it can only undertake some peripheral work.

This is not because the MIA is more powerful, the work of the MIA is honestly less technical than that of the Defense Security Agency, after all, they can only serve the war, while the Defense Security Agency has a broader scope of operations and is more proactive.

It is rare for East Africa to have spies on dangerous missions, because spies need a lot of experience to feed, and the short history of East Africa makes it impossible for East Africa to afford to lose this special talent.

In this case, the opportunities for the East African Defense and Security Agency to make meritorious contributions are greatly reduced, but it is better to be safe, after all, they are not without opponents, and the world has some intelligence organizations in the hands of some forces.

Some of them even go back hundreds of years, so there are many old foxes that have been cultivated, and these intelligence agents in East Africa have not yet reached the time to fight them.

"There must be our people in Cape Town, I just don't know how it develops, but I think it should be a little easier than us, Natal is too close to East Africa, and there are many troops here, so the British are much stronger at spies than in Cape Town."

After all, Cape Town is not at the forefront of the confrontation, on the other hand, opposite the Natal colony is the port of New Hamburg, one of the largest cities in East Africa, and there are East African garrisons, so East Africa will definitely collect information on the British army in Natal, which is the consensus of the British Army.

Europe lacks professional and independent intelligence agencies, but intelligence agencies subordinate to the military are indispensable, and the target is the East African Military Intelligence Agency, which is really lacking like the East African Defense and Security Agency.

However, Japan should have a relatively strong intelligence agency, which is most felt by the distribution of Japan's East African Defense and Security Agency, and the Japanese culture is also deeper than that of Europe, and it is familiar with the works of the Far Eastern Empire such as Sun Tzu's Art of War, and the traditional solutions such as intrigue and intrigue are nothing more than in this era.

Of course, the Japanese intelligence agencies mainly focused on dealing with the Far Eastern Empire, while the East African Defense and Security Agency took the opportunity to sneak attack the Japanese mainland, and the two intelligence agencies became parallel lines and rarely intersected, which can be regarded as a mistake.

(End of chapter)