Chapter 944 Heading to Morocco
The poachers were lucky: it did rain a little while later, but it wasn't heavy. Even so, they were soaked, and the curses on the life raft continued for several hours.
They really wanted to cut the rope, but if they did that they might lose their lives, so they could only vent their anger by cursing!
If they knew that the people on Xiao Peng’s boat said they were lucky, they would definitely curse: They were caught by someone meddling in other people’s business and they still say they are lucky?
They are all things that can’t give birth to babies without anus!
At around two o'clock in the morning, the Moroccan coast guard ship finally arrived, and its attitude towards Xiao Peng was unusually nice.
This isn't surprising. Although Morocco isn't part of the European Union, it enjoys a very good relationship with France. Speaking French is practically a breeze, and some restaurants even offer menus in French. Coupled with the abundance of European-style architecture on the streets, it's easy to mistakenly believe you're in Europe, not Africa.
So why now?
Although Britain was unrivaled in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean was largely French territory. Their dream was to transform the Mediterranean into a French lake, gradually encroaching on surrounding countries. North Africa, their closest neighbor, became their first target. The Maghreb region (the stretch of North African coastline from Mauritania to Libya) was essentially a French colony.
Morocco fared much better than its neighbors, maintaining its independence. However, by the late 19th century, it was on the verge of collapse. The gap in comprehensive national power was widening, and by 1904, France, Britain, and Spain reached a secret agreement to partition Morocco. Germany, unwilling to see France gain power, disrupted this agreement, indirectly saving Morocco. In 1905, then-German Emperor Wilhelm II visited Morocco, triggering the First Moroccan Crisis and nearly bringing World War I to a head. After all sides made concessions, Morocco retained its independence, but the crisis also worsened relations between the Allies and the Central Powers.
Although Morocco maintained its independence at that time, many ports, including Casablanca, became French concessions, leading to numerous conflicts. France used this as an excuse to send troops to Morocco and eventually occupied it. From then on, Morocco became a French colony. However, France did not have exclusive control over the area, and divided Morocco with Spain. The southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar and the southernmost part of Western Sahara belonged to Spain, while the central part belonged to France. Today, Melilla and Ceuta on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco belong to Spain.
Since then, the two countries have been plundering land in Morocco. They have established an astonishing 6,000 farms of various sizes in Morocco. By 1955, the best land in Morocco had basically been taken away by these two countries, and Morocco could not even achieve basic food self-sufficiency.
Of course, the Moroccans were no pushovers. How could they easily give up their thousand-year-old history of independence? So they began to resist. The northernmost Spanish Moroccan territories were the first to encounter resistance. Rebels in the Rif region established the Rif Republic, virtually liberating the entire northern region of Spanish Morocco.
Now France and Spain became anxious and assembled an army of 400,000 to counterattack and suppress the rebellion frantically. However, even so, it took them nearly ten years to suppress the rebellion!
However, this also consumed a lot of resources of the two countries. They could not make much money from the colonies. Coincidentally, World War II ended, so in 1956, France recognized Morocco's independence.
It is interesting to note that Morocco mainly opposed the Spanish colonists, but had a very good relationship with France, its colonial master. This is probably related to the Western Sahara issue.
Western Sahara, which the Chinese writer Sanmao called the "dream lover" in her essay collection "Stories of the Sahara", actually belonged to Morocco. When France and Spain divided Morocco, it became a Spanish colony.
French Morocco became independent in 1956, but Spanish Morocco remained a colony of Spain until the fall of the Spanish fascist regime in 1975. The reason for the withdrawal was that the local resistance struggle was too stimulating! They were no longer able to control the area.
Spain occupied the northernmost and southernmost parts of Morocco. The northern part was successfully returned to Morocco, but the southern part could not be returned! They became the independent Republic of Western Sahara.
But after driving away the tiger, the wolf came. Spain left, but Morocco and Mauritania came and tried to divide Western Sahara. According to them, the 160,000 square kilometers in the north belonged to Morocco, and the 90,000 square kilometers in the south belonged to Mauritania.
At this time, Algeria, which had a "lifelong feud" with Morocco, was unhappy and simply supported the armed organization in Western Sahara that was then armed against Spain to establish a country, which is now the Republic of Western Sahara.
They established their country in 1976 and fought a war with Morocco until 1991. To this day, Morocco still controls three-quarters of Western Sahara. To this day, the two sides continue to fight and negotiate, and the conflict continues. Currently, only 47 countries in the world recognize the Republic of Western Sahara as an independent country and have established diplomatic relations with it.
Perhaps because they resent the Spanish for leaving them with such complex problems, including the fact that Spain still occupies their territory, Morocco and Spain are not on good terms. However, their attitude towards France is different: while France has drained much of Morocco's wealth, it has also left a rich legacy. Morocco's current industrial foundation, urban planning, and enlightened, secular social ethos are all French. Consequently, Morocco maintains close economic, trade, and military cooperation with France. The current Moroccan military's weapons and equipment are largely French.
When they received Xiao Peng's notification, their first reaction was: "Is this crazy?!" A Chinese ship claimed to be an EU illegal fishing observation vessel. But after their personnel contacted France, they were told: "This is true! The boss has spoken, how could they not listen?" So they quickly dispatched a coast guard vessel to assist Xiao Peng in the arrest.
It was because of a series of investigation procedures that some time was wasted. According to Xiao Peng's calculations, they should have reunited with them two hours ago.
What made Xiao Peng angry was that when the Moroccan coast guard ship arrived, the illegal fishing boats were the first to "file a complaint" and accuse Xiao Peng of "piracy". Xiao Peng didn't know if these people were crazy: "Don't you see that we even have heavy machine guns on our ship?"
What does this mean? I have someone above me!
Besides, do you really think that sinking your fishing boat will get you away with it? Don't you know that our drones have captured your entire crime?
Your ship sank in vain!
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