Chapter 224 King's Falls
April 13, 1870.
The weather is sunny and the temperature is moderate.
The surging waters of the Zambezi River rush along the cliffs like a galloping horse straight into the depths of the bottomless canyon. The huge water mist refracts the sunlight to form a beautiful rainbow bridge.
The sound of the waterfall is like thunder, and the huge sound of water impact can be heard for several kilometers on both sides of the river. Standing on the shore, you will be impressed by the wonders of nature.
I stood on a huge rock and overlooked the entire waterfall group. For the first time, I felt how insignificant I was. Even though I had spent more than 20 years in the military and had experienced countless life and death decisions, I had never felt this way.
All the war has brought to me is numbness, or rather my job, which is my only means of making a living.
This wonder of nature had a huge impact on my numb mind and cleansed my soul that had been stained by the smoke of gunpowder.
——Excerpt from "Diary of Felix, Commander-in-Chief of the East African Kingdom Army"
Felix's Diary is a rare and detailed written historical document of East Africa in later generations. It shows how East Africa expanded and ruled the African region from Felix's perspective.
It is also a rare written evidence of colonial crimes in East Africa. The official attitude of East African in later generations was not to deny it, Ernst just treated it coldly.
Once someone wants to understand the history of East Africa, they cannot avoid Felix's Diary. However, the copyright of Felix's Diary is in the hands of the royal family and the price is set very high. Ordinary people still learn more about this history through marketing accounts.
And there was really no better way than Felix's diary, as the East African governments were keen on destroying evidence since the establishment of the colonies.
A large number of Arab historical sites and cultural cities have been demolished in East Africa, so it is very difficult to find evidence of colonization in East Africa.
Given the overall cultural level in East Africa at that time, few people had the ability to keep a diary every day like Felix.
In addition to being able to write, you also have to solve the problem of paper and pen, which are usually only accessible to government officials. East African government officials even have difficulty writing official documents, let alone asking them to write a diary.
Therefore, Felix's diary becomes even more important. In addition, Felix holds a high position of power in East Africa and has the halo of a famous general, so this diary is very popular.
Ernst’s attitude towards colonial crimes was to confess and only rarely mention them, which led to East Africa being criticized by many so-called “progressive” hypocrites during the era of the Three Kingdoms.
However, the East African government continues to do its own thing. Once the descendants of the victims file a complaint, the East African government will reject it because it does not recognize their identity. There are indeed some Nigs who really want to fish in troubled waters. Their ancestors have lived in West Africa for generations, but they pretend to be descendants of the original East African indigenous people who fled to West Africa.
As a result, they got nothing. The East African government only admitted that it exported 200,000 indigenous peoples, and most of them were in the Sultanate of Zanzibar, which is a "brother" country in East Africa.
The Sultanate of Zanzibar had long been bred as a pig in East Africa. It lived a pretty good life and naturally had no intention of seeking death.
With the rapid development of the 21st century, the development of various countries has gradually reached a bottleneck, especially the various "black and white" movements launched by black people in the United States, attempting to morally blackmail the world, but instead making East Africa, the former colonial empire, gradually whitewash itself.
At least compared with the United States, the difference is obvious because there are no black people in East Africa and there is no so-called racial discrimination.
Ernst was only engaged in colonization and forced black people to work, but he did not formulate strange laws and regulations like those in the United States. Compared with his contemporary colonizers, East Africa was quite tolerant.
Because there is no targeted genocide, and even if there is, it is not East Africa itself, that is the African natives killing each other. Even in the 21st century, West Africa is still like this, with serious tribal conflicts.
Entering the 21st century, Ernst, a controversial historical figure, has also been recognized by more and more ordinary people in countries outside East Africa, especially the United States and France. Due to various social conditions caused by the blackening of the world, the people in the German region have gathered more under the banner of East Africa.
History is a cycle. Ernst, a typical king who has had a profound impact on the world, will still be praised. Under the heroic historical view, the monarch of any empire will be glorified by future generations no matter what sins he has committed.
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King Constantine Waterfall.
As the commander-in-chief of the East African Army, Felix was the proposer of the "Pocket" plan and also the executor of this plan.
At this moment, he was riding a black horse, watching several East African Army soldiers erecting an East African flag on a high ground on the north side of King Constantine Falls.
The East African army officially watered the north bank of the Zambezi River, and the "pocket" plan was completely completed. This "pocket" plan lasted for five and a half months and occupied the entire territory of what would later become Zambia and part of the Republic of Congo.
East Africa gained more than 800,000 square kilometers of new land, and most of the indigenous kingdoms and tribes became East African vassal states. They signed a large number of land transfer treaties that they did not understand, and under the threat of the East African Army with guns pointed at their heads, they unknowingly pressed their own black fingerprints on the treaties.
King Constantine Falls is the famous Victoria Falls in Africa in the past, which the indigenous people called Mosi-oa-Tunya Falls.
In fact, Victoria Falls was discovered by David Livingstone in 1855 and named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
But as with the Great Lakes, when things reach East Africa, they naturally have to use German names.
The origin of the name King Constantine Waterfall started an hour ago.
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After the "Pocket" plan was completed, Felix inspected from the north to the vicinity of the Zambia River, starting in the Yeke Kingdom and ending at what the indigenous people called the Mosi-oa-Tunya Falls.
"Commander-in-Chief!" the East African soldier saluted Felix.
Felix looked at the waterfalls in front of him and asked the people around him, "Well, what is the name of this waterfall?"
"Commander, we don't know either, but the local natives call this place Mosi-oa-Tunya."
"Mosi-oa-Tunya? No, this place will also be part of East Africa in the future. We should change it to a German name."
"Commander, what's a good name?"
"Since this is East African territory, I'll use your Majesty's name. From now on, this place will be called Prince Constantine Falls."
However, Felix thought for a moment and suddenly felt that something was wrong. A kingdom would be established in East Africa sooner or later, and it would not be appropriate to use the title of prince.
"No, let's call it King Constantine Falls. This way, the waterfall will be worthy of the status of our East African Kingdom."
"Yes, Commander-in-Chief!"
This is the origin of the name of King Constantine Falls, which was determined by Felix's few words and is also called King's Falls for convenience.
(End of this chapter)
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