The war in East Africa against the remnants of Angola, or against the plantation owners and mine owners, was one-sided, after all, even the kingdom's army had been defeated, and these plantation owners who enslaved the "black slaves" to survive could not make the black slaves sincerely work hard.

Something is really up! No, something runs faster than anyone else, but this is a good thing for East Africa, after all, no matter how you run, as long as you are still on East African soil, the fate of these blacks has long been arranged by East Africa.

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November 12, 1888.

First Town City.

"At present, all the wars against Angola are basically over, basically most of the Portuguese including soldiers and civilians, after we count, there are about more than 130,000 people, there are not many Portuguese in the interior of Angola, and many Portuguese in the coastal areas have fled back to their homeland by boat." Witt reports to Ernst on the current situation in Angola.

Ernst: "Only about 130,000 people?" ”

After all, Portuguese rule in Angola has been going on for hundreds of years, and having such a small population does not meet Ernst's psychological expectations, and there are many Portuguese troops in it.

These native Portuguese troops were not technically counted as the native Portuguese population of Angola, as they only came to Angola to stay in the region temporarily because of the need for war.

"There are a lot of people of mixed Portuguese and indigenous descent, but we don't count them as Portuguese, and I don't think the Portuguese will be interested in these blacks," Witt explained. ”

According to the American principle of a drop of blood, the mixed-race descendants of Portugal must also belong to blacks, and they are not like white Portuguese people who are related to their homeland, so their value is not high, so the Portuguese government will most likely not take over these "hot potatoes". ”

Ernst said: "Very well, first these Portuguese are gathered and imprisoned, these are the capital for us to negotiate with the Portuguese government in the future." ”

Although it is impossible for East Africa to return Angola to Portugal, the defeat of the war does not mean that the Portuguese government has the courage to compensate "Angola" to East Africa.

Therefore, if Portugal wants to sign the treaty honestly after the war, East Africa needs these prisoners as hostages, and if it is to redeem its own citizens, then the Portuguese government can account for it even if it cedes land and pays reparations.

130,000 purebred Portuguese, that is not a small number, especially for Portugal with a population of only a few million, that can basically present the scene of "wearing linen and filial piety".

And this is only Angola, there is still a Mozambique East Africa has not yet been won, and after the war, it is optimistically expected that the Portuguese in the hands of East Africa will reach at least 300,000.

These 300,000 Portuguese are an important bargaining chip in East Africa to blackmail the Portuguese, of course, East Africa can also use very crude means to directly "illegally" occupy two colonies.

However, a de jure treaty of humiliation would be more reassuring, since Portugal would not have a good international image for East Africa if it did not sign the treaty.

Although the signing of humiliating treaties after the defeat was the norm in Europe, like Prussia, France, Austria-Hungary...... They have all signed similar treaties, but after all, Portugal is in Europe, not Africa, and if the Portuguese government is determined not to sign the treaty of loss of power and humiliation, there is really no good way to do it in East Africa.

Just like in the previous life, Japan demanded war reparations after defeating Tsarist Russia, why Tsarist Russia could refuse stubbornly, it was because the land in the Far East was not too important to Tsarist Russia, and Japan defeated Tsarist Russia in the Far East, not to St. Petersburg, and even if Japan really had this strength, Tsarist Russia's national character is estimated to not be completely surrendered.

Now Portugal is almost in a similar situation to East Africa, and Ernst has not thought about how much war reparations he can get from Portugal, first of all, the Portuguese government is already poor as pants, and secondly, East Africa cannot afford to go to Portugal itself to collect the debts.

So the best outcome would be for Portugal to honestly accept the price of losing two colonies, which is painful and not unacceptable.

At least Portugal did not have nothing, such as the current colonial hotspots - West Africa, the East Indies, and even in India and the Far East Empire, the Portuguese still have colonies, as well as some more important islands.

It's just that the value of these colonies, except for the Gold Coast, cannot be compared with Angola and Mozambique.

Of course, if Portugal really loses Angola and Mozambique, according to Ernst's predictions, the only entrepreneurial direction in Portugal in the future is estimated to be the Gold Coast, which is now Portuguese Vida, and the Kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa is likely to become the expansion direction of the Portuguese.

As for other regions, Portugal is facing too strong opponents, such as India, Portugal has several Indian colonies, but the area is very small, and next to the territory of the British Empire, the Portuguese and Macao colonies of the Far Eastern Empire do not need to think about it, and the current government of the Far Eastern Empire is an extrajudicial favor to maintain the status quo.

Finally, it is the Portuguese Timor colony, and the Dutch next to it are not something that the Portuguese can provoke now, and after losing Angola and Mozambique, Portugal is completely inferior to the Dutch.

Only the Portuguese in West Africa still have a little chance, although Portugal has a small territory in West Africa, but West Africa is a mixed bag, which is very suitable for fishing in troubled waters.

Of course, Ernst did not care about the future fate of the Kingdom of Portugal, and now Ernst only wanted to put Angola and Mozambique in his pocket.

So he said: "Treat our Portuguese prisoners well, these are important bargaining chips in the post-war negotiations, as for those mixed blood descendants for the time being, if the Portuguese are interested in them in the future, maybe there is a little bit of use." ”

Of course, Ernst was very unoptimistic about the attitude of the Portuguese towards the mixed race, after all, the Portuguese, who had fallen into intermarriage with the natives or were simply irresponsible, should themselves be the lowest level of Portuguese society.

The Portuguese, who have a little strength, would not have anything to do with the natives at all, otherwise according to the Portuguese colonial history in Africa, the number of mixed-race descendants in Angola would have exceeded one million now.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Portugal was not concerned about the development of Africa before, and the expansion of Portuguese Angola and Mozambique was actually forced out by East Africa and the international colonial wave.

For most of the centuries of Portuguese colonization of Africa, Portuguese colonies were confined to the coastal strip.

Because the Portuguese had few competitors in Africa before, and the emergence of East Africa was an important reason why Angola and Mozambique were valued by Portugal.

It can be said that the more than ten years in East Africa that threatened the security of the Portuguese colonies were also the period of the fastest development in Angola and Mozambique, both in terms of population and construction, which were higher than the previous eras combined.

It's just that Portugal is one step behind East Africa after all, just like Ernst, if the Far Eastern Empire had not been introduced in the early days, the population of East Africa would not have reached this size now.

And Portugal is sparsely populated and sparsely populated (compared to the rest of Europe), and if it can go to Brazil to develop, why go to Angola and Mozambique!

The openness of East Africa is also an important reason for East Africa's victory in the African colonial war, without the millions of Far East immigrants laying a good foundation for East Africa in advance, there would be no development of East Africa, population and land are the foundation of East Africa's development.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that immigrants from the Far East are easy to fool, Europeans more or less know what a good place is in Africa, but the Far Eastern Empire is not open to the people, and most people may not have heard of the so-called Africa, and the spread of Africa may not be as famous as Dongsheng Shenzhou in "Journey to the West".

Of course, this is also the old calendar, and now Africa's popularity in the Far Eastern Empire has been promoted a lot by East Africa, after all, immigration and commercial activities are too frequent.

(End of chapter)