Chapter 606 Regret
The news of the Orange Free State could not be concealed from East Africa. After all, East Africa has never been a law-abiding country, although Ernst has always emphasized keeping a low profile.
However, what East Africa has done in recent years is not considered low-key in the eyes of other countries. It’s just that East Africa has always been cautious in publicity, and it does not publicize its benefits. Therefore, it appears to be tepid in the international arena. It does not attract much attention at ordinary times, but it can show up when discussing the countries and situations in the world.
This is like a student in a class who usually doesn't show up and doesn't make any noise, but is involved in everything.
Ernst: "The fundamental reason for the civil war in the Orange Free State this time is the further intensification of the conflict between the Orangemen and the Transvaal people. Of course, the British were involved in this, but it also shows that even people of the same nationality may not necessarily get along harmoniously, especially the Orangemen and the Transvaal people who are too calculating."
Constantine: "That makes some sense, but the Orangemen and the Transvaal people are originally the same ethnic group, both Boers. If the British were not there, I'm afraid they wouldn't be divided into two new ethnic concepts. According to the normal development process, the Orange Free State should have absorbed the people of the Transvaal Republic. Now it has turned into a tragedy of fratricide. This is also a warning to us in East Africa."
"Our national conditions in East Africa are different. One of the most important national policies is intermarriage. When immigrants from various countries form new families, their national identities are weakened.
After all, when considering issues from the perspective of the common people, we usually think of our own family first and then the whole society. Compared with the family, concepts such as nation and country have to be put at the back.
So if you want to create an effect like the Orange Free State in East Africa, you have to split up countless small families, which is obviously impossible," Ernst said.
The function of national integration lies in the word "integration". East Africa has achieved this through intermarriage, which is also the simplest and most brutal method, and saves time and effort.
Of course, comparatively speaking, when a country is stable, families will have to give up many aspects, but this has little to do with the East African government. After all, in the 19th century, being able to start a family and build a career was enough to make most people satisfied.
"However, judging from this incident, the British are as treacherous as ever, and still like to maintain their rule by provoking confrontation." Constantine said with some emotion.
The way the British ruled the Orange Free State was no different from the way they ruled India. In India, they used the conflicts between Hindus and Arabs to prevent India from uniting, while in the Orange Free State, they used the conflicts between the Orangemen and the Transvaal peoples.
It can be said that this bomb had been planted by the British a long time ago. As for Ernst, he had similar ideas at the beginning, but he could not help the Orange people make a decision. As a result, the Orange people are now suffering a great loss.
However, Ernst was also happy to see this happen. It was definitely good news for East Africa. The Transvaal people had a bad relationship with East Africa, and the relationship between the entire Boer nation and East Africa had reached a freezing point. This put pressure on the national defense of southern East Africa.
Now that the Orangemen and the Transvaal have split, the Boers have also been divided. As long as East Africa is handled properly, the Boer flag will lose its effect.
Not only East Africa benefited, I'm afraid the Cape Colony also had this idea. There were many Boers in Cape Town. In the past, there were two independent countries, the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State, so the Boers in the Cape Colony were given united front value.
The British had to give the Boers great rights in the Cape Colony, and now that the Transvaal Republic had been destroyed by East Africa, the Orangemen had broken with the Transvaal people.
The Boers in the Cape Colony lost their support, after all, they could only choose between the Orangemen and the Transvaal people.
Of course, they could also choose to remain neutral, but as the number of British immigrants increased, it became increasingly difficult for the Boers in the Cape Colony to compete with the British government. Without the help of the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State, it became much easier for the British to deal with them.
Of course, the British may not have thought so much at first, they just did it according to their traditional way of thinking.
This is just like the crude level of Tsarist Russia's diplomacy, which liked to solve problems with force. This is the traditional Russian way of thinking at work.
To put it more simply, this is the influence of national character on national character. Obviously, Ernst likes to keep a low profile and hide his shortcomings, which is influenced by the character of the country in his previous life.
In fact, it is a value system. Not everyone may agree with it, but the vast majority of people do. Just like Western countries advocate freedom, the Soviet Union promotes democracy, and the Far Eastern Empire has social values.
Constantine was not interested in these things. As nobles of the old times, especially German nobles, they still preferred to focus on military affairs. European nobles naturally attached great importance to military affairs.
So he said: "Should we find an opportunity to intervene in the Orange Free State Civil War? This is a good opportunity to annex the Orange Free State. In this way, we can completely isolate the Cape Colony on the south bank of the Orange River, which will be of great help in alleviating the pressure on national defense."
Not to mention other aspects, if the Orange Free State is taken over, the border line between East Africa and the Cape Colony will be greatly shortened. With the reduction of the border line, the deployment of troops can be appropriately reduced. Although the Orange River is not a natural barrier, it also has certain defensive functions, so it can greatly save military expenses in East Africa.
Ernst comforted him, "We can't rush this. Although we have ideas about the Orange Free State, it is a British colony after all, so we must consider this matter carefully. What's more, once we get out, it will break the barrier between the Orange people and the Transvaal people. They will definitely have to unite again to deal with our threat first, which is not worth the loss for us."
The following words are the key point. In the eyes of the Orange people, the Transvaal people and the British are nothing, and the Germans in East Africa are not good people either.
After all, we all live in Africa, so we are quite familiar with East Africa. East Africa even enjoys the nickname of "Tsarist Russia" in Africa. The territory of more than 10 million square kilometers was not given by the natives for free.
But now the Orange people have no choice but to hope to cooperate with East Africa. The Orange Free State is surrounded by East Africa on three sides and the Cape Colony on one side. It is completely landlocked, so there is no other way to obtain external support.
Moreover, the reputation of East Africa is actually not bad, especially in the countries bordering it to the north, which have a good impression of East Africa. However, as victims, most of the southern countries naturally do not have a good impression of East Africa.
However, East Africa and the Orange Free State are exceptions. After several years of contact, the Orange people's impression of East Africa has changed greatly. As the Orange Free State's largest land neighbor and a powerful country, although East Africa has deployed troops on the border, it has never taken too many cross-border actions.
This is very rare, because the Orange people knew that East Africa had the ability to annex Orange, but the other party did not do so, which shows that East Africa attaches importance to international morality and credibility.
This also made the Orange people regret their original choice. If they had known that East Africa did not have the wolfish ambitions described by the Transvaal people, they would not have agreed to join the Cape Colony.
(End of this chapter)
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