Chapter 811 Farewell
New Port of Hamburg.
Most of the areas of the New Hamburgo Port City destroyed by the war have now been repaired. With the use of some black captives from the Portuguese vassal army as labor, East Africa has completed quite a good job in repairing the New Hamburgo Port City and Maputo.
Today, the port city of New Hamburg is even busier than before the war, with dozens of British and Portuguese ships docking here every day to pick up prisoners of war stranded in East Africa.
"General Roberts, I hope you can visit East Africa again next time. We in East Africa welcome friends." Merkel joked to the Allied Commander-in-Chief who was about to return to Britain.
Earl Roberts smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid that this time when I return home, it's likely that I won't be able to stay in the army for long. If I have the chance, I will definitely come here to see this land that has allowed me to experience the taste of failure."
As the supreme commander of the Allied Forces in the South African War, Earl Roberts would certainly face difficulties when he returned home, but he would not be completely blamed.
After all, he has previous achievements to rely on, and he also has extensive connections in the UK, so the outcome won't be too bad, but it will be difficult for him to hold a high position.
Although East Africa and Britain have "reconciled", this is not the result that the British government wants to see. In fact, Britain has already failed in the South African War, and its suppression of East Africa has completely failed.
However, the integrity of the Cape Colony was preserved through negotiations, which was some comfort.
Looking at the teams of jubilant British soldiers, Earl Roberts felt only bitterness in his heart, because people's sorrows and joys are not the same.
Now the British prisoners of war knew that they could finally leave this hellhole of South Africa and go home. Their memories of South Africa were not good for them.
In fact, they were not dissatisfied with the war, but more with the environment in South Africa. The biggest difficulty many people encountered in the South African War was the painful memory of contracting malaria, and some even felt that they were going to die in this wild land of South Africa.
The situation did not improve until East Africa intervened. As a long-term victim of malaria, East Africa became a doctor through long-term illness. In addition to developing special medicines such as quinine, it also developed a variety of auxiliary treatment drugs, of course mainly traditional Chinese medicine.
After all, East Africa's modern medical and chemical fields are relatively backward and lack drug research and development capabilities, so it can only use conservative treatments such as traditional Chinese medicine, but the effect is still good.
The British soldiers will definitely not forget the experience of being forced to drink Chinese herbal medicine in the POW camps. The main reason was that it was so bitter, and they had to drink a big bowl of it at a time. Every time they drank the strange East African medicine, they felt like they had lost their souls.
At first, the prisoners even thought that East Africa had brewed some special "poison". After all, the taste of Chinese medicine was too bad, and it was even more uncomfortable to drink it. It was even difficult to drink it while pinching the nose.
However, the effect was very significant. After recovering, they felt refreshed, so the prisoners called this strange East African potion a "refreshing potion."
Of course, the British government paid the money in the end, and East Africa would not do business at a loss.
Moreover, the fundamental reason for saving the dying and the wounded is that East Africa is afraid that these British guys will implicate itself. Every major war will lead to a major epidemic, so as soon as the war ended, East Africa carried out a large-scale disinfection in the occupied areas.
However, given the large area occupied this time, the main attack method was fire. Many battlefields were directly burned down by East Africa, while towns and villages were cleared of ruins, water sources were checked, etc.
Earl Roberts was one of the witnesses. Looking at the brand new Hamburg Port City, he sighed: "It is not unfair that we lost this war to you. Your strong mobilization and efficient organizational capabilities are not behind most European countries at all."
Merkel was naturally aware of this. After all, this East Africa war was fought at home, and Britain couldn't move faster even if it wanted to. He said, "You are not bad. If it weren't for the distance limit, it would be hard to say what the outcome of the South African War would be. But this assumption is meaningless."
While the two were talking, the ship arranged by the British government was already packed.
"Earl, our ship is about to leave." Earl Roberts' subordinates came over and said.
Count Roberts looked at the bustling docks of New Hamburg Port City with a look of loneliness and regret. He patted Merk on the shoulder and said, "Goodbye, young man!"
Then, the old man, who had fought for Britain for most of his life, walked towards the deck step by step. The British ship was filled with the afterglow of the setting sun.
Merck smiled and went back without even turning his head.
This time, the British and Portuguese governments were busy. Except for the British army, the British government still had a conscience. They did not abandon more than 200,000 Indian soldiers. However, Portugal seemed very inhumane. Basically all blacks, including Portuguese mixed-race people, were left behind.
The Portuguese government didn't even want to care about the Portuguese civilians in some colonies. However, under the strong request from East Africa, the Portuguese government had to arrange ships to bring these Portuguese residents back to their homeland.
Because there were so many people, the Portuguese government even turned to the Brazilian government for help. Brazil is relatively short of population, so the colonial residents might as well just go and seek refuge in Brazil.
Therefore, many Brazilian ships appeared in the Luanda area. In addition to the army, there were more than 100,000 Portuguese in Angola. The Brazilian government still welcomed these Portuguese.
Now, Portugal is heavily in debt, and it is simply impossible to bring back nearly 300,000 Portuguese civilians from Angola and Mozambique for resettlement.
So they had to ask Brazil, their former little brother, for help, even though it was a complete loss of face. East Africa did not have any feelings towards these Portuguese, just like the Boers.
There are more than 100,000 Boers in East Africa, but they have been dispersed throughout East Africa. If it were not for this, the Boers would have been repatriated to Cape Town long ago. In fact, the British did not care about these Boers, so even if East Africa wanted to send them to Cape Town, the British Cape Town colonial government would probably not accept them.
The majority of the Boers were Dutch, French and German, so they could barely have a connection with East Africa, which was also the basis for East Africa to accept the Boers.
Of course, in order to allow these Boers to completely integrate into East Africa, they cannot be concentrated in one place, and they can no longer stay in Orange and Hechingen Province. They will be mainly used to fill Angola and Mozambique, and subsequently cooperate with immigration from East Africa to these two places. Finally, these Boers will disappear in the long river of history.
As for the Boers in Cape Town, it is hard to say what their future will be like. There are too many Boers in Cape Town, and it is very likely that the situation in South Africa will be repeated, that is, the Boers will return to power after independence.
Moreover, there was no basis for the so-called dispute between blacks and whites in the Cape Town Colony this time. South Africa was originally an area with a sparse distribution of blacks, and the most important black ethnic group, the Zulus, had been eliminated in East Africa. Even if Cape Town became independent in the future, there would be no Mandela-like figures.
However, it is impossible for Cape Town to reproduce the glory of the former Republic of South Africa. All mining areas are basically occupied by East Africa. At most, it has become an agricultural and pastoral country.
The only thing worth mentioning is the value of sea transportation. In the future, sea transportation between the east and west coasts of East Africa will inevitably go through Cape Town. This is inevitable. However, after the construction of the East African Trans-Oceanic Railway is completed, dependence on it will be greatly reduced.
(End of this chapter)
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