"Count Ehrenthal would like to thank the Austro-Hungarian Empire for the mediation of this meeting, which has made our work here much easier." Von der Leyen said to Count Ehrenthal.

After the peace talks, von der Leyen felt very good, and the basic goals of East Africa had been achieved, even better than East Africa's psychological expectations.

The psychological expectation of East Africa is that of Angola and Mozambique, and when Orange is completely integrated into the East African territory, von der Leyen and others will overfulfilled their tasks, not to mention the war reparations of six million pounds.

Of course, compared with the sky-high indemnity of more than 100 million pounds in East Africa, 6 million pounds is not even a fraction of it.

However, the East African government is already quite satisfied with the money, and it has been estimated in East Africa before that Britain will definitely not pull out a dime, after all, as the world's first power, land cession and reparations are also unacceptable.

As for the 6 million pounds, it was actually in the name of East Africa's British military expenses and medical expenses in East Africa, and it did not belong to war reparations, after all, it was impossible for East Africa to let these prisoners of war eat and drink in East Africa for nothing, wasting medical and other resources.

In fact, six million pounds, not to mention the British and the Portuguese army, can already cover the living expenses of the prisoners of war in the East African coalition army, and the two countries together are close to the level of 200,000.

After all, East Africa is a backward agricultural country, the real price level is very low, and the treatment of prisoners of war does not require much investment, and the bulk is basically medical expenses.

Moreover, the income of East Africa is not only as simple as the 6 million pounds, but also in Mozambique and Angola, East Africa has acquired a large number of industries, although it cannot be realized, but it saves a lot of costs for future development.

Moreover, the coalition forces also left behind a large number of military weapons in East Africa, including more than 630,000 rifles, thousands of artillery pieces and countless other weapons and equipment, most of which remained in Angola and Mozambique, and could be sold at a good price if they found a good home.

And the weapons in the coalition forces, especially the weapons of the Indian troops, are especially good, the wear rate is not high, and if you maintain it casually, even if it is second-hand, it can be sold for a good price.

Of course, the biggest gain in East Africa is the more than 6 million acres of developed land that the Portuguese have in Angola and Mozambique.

Portugal is indeed poor in this regard, 6 million acres of arable land is equivalent to the arable land area of the whole of Israel in the previous life, you must know that Angola and Mozambique are not the kind of small land, and the water and soil conditions are far better than Israel.

Moreover, Portugal has colonized Angola and Mozambique for more than 300 years, which is equivalent to the development of about 20,000 acres of land every year.

In particular, Mozambique has relatively good farming conditions in the world, and in Africa, only the Great Lakes region and Nigeria can be compared.

Of course, it is certainly not true that the Portuguese do not like to develop land, but they prefer high value-added cash crops.

The vast majority of the 6 million acres of arable land in Angola and Mozambique are plantations, with slave plantations as the majority.

This is the main reason why Angola and Mozambique are sparsely populated in Portugal, after all, blacks can work for free, and there is free labor, so plantation owners do not need to bring in large numbers from their own countries.

Typical is Brazil, as a former colony of Portugal, Brazil's population directly exceeds Portugal's, and the most important reason is that Brazil lacks labor population, so Brazil is also a country where the slave trade was once prevalent.

Of course, the slave trade is still going on in Brazil, because it was not until last May (May 13, 1888) that slavery was officially legally ended.

This is indeed a blow to East Africa, which has been one of the most important black export destinations in East Africa, and last year almost because of the war, the export of slaves to Brazil and other countries almost came to a standstill.

Now that East Africa has acquired Angola and Mozambique, both of which are still largely inhabited, the black population of East Africa is likely to increase by at least three million.

Before the war, the number of blacks in East Africa should have been around 18 million, and if you add the blacks in Mozambique and Angola, I am afraid that it will directly return to more than 20 million, and this is the data of blacks in East Africa in the seventies.

Of course, this matter will eventually be a headache for the immigration department, but according to the current level of capacity in East Africa, the ability to export to blacks has continued to rise, especially after the entry into the eighties, when the number of immigrants in East Africa has greatly decreased.

Of course, these things are "happy troubles" for East Africa, which has gained nearly a million new land areas, and are not enough to talk to outsiders.

Like von der Leyen and Hermann, they are now in a very happy mood, and Count Alenthal is quite envious of this.

"This time, you have added nearly a million square kilometers of land in East Africa, which is almost equal to the area of an Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the land in Africa is really easy to take!" Count Ehrenthal sighed.

Count Hermann said: "Old friend, you think too much, the value of land in Africa is too low, even if it is in the hands of our East Africa, it is not easy to develop it, and our East Africa can be said to have paid a 'miserable' price in order to win the war in South Africa, mobilizing millions of people across the country, and the number of dead is an astronomical number, the number of enemies is almost twice as many as ours, among which the British and Portuguese are not weak in combat, and it has also had an important impact on our country's economy for a year." ”

The number of military and civilian casualties in East Africa during the entire South African war was more than 40,000, and the death toll was about 8,000, with the city of New Hamburg suffering the most serious losses.

Of course, although the South African War was huge, the intensity of the war could not be compared with the war on the Eurasian continent at all, and except for the British army, East Africa basically did not encounter any decent opponents.

However, the South African War can already be recorded in the history of the African continent, and the Second Congo War, the largest in Africa in the previous life, was not worth mentioning in the face of the South African War.

There were nine countries participating in the Second Congo War, including more than 20 armed forces, but they were of little value.

The strength of a bunch of African countries, many of which may not be as strong as the current Boer Republic, of course, the second Congolese war was extremely destructive to the Congo, with at least five million civilians killed.

In comparison, the South African War can be called a "civilized" war, of course, an important reason for this result is that Africa is now sparsely populated, and the second Congo war was mainly fought in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at that time was probably much larger than the population of the entire southern Africa combined.

Another reason for the low number of civilian casualties in the South African war was the delay in the coalition efforts to penetrate the heart of East Africa.

In the 19th century, there was little discipline or morality in the military, and countries like Portugal and England were both unethical countries that had committed genocide.

The impact of the war is multifaceted, with few people dying directly from the war, but certainly not a few indirectly affected, especially black civilians in Angola and Mozambique.

During the war, large numbers of black soldiers armed with thermal weapons flowed to the civilian population in Angola and Mozambique, and they were far more destructive to the local black population than the East African Defence Forces and coalition forces.

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