MTL - African Entrepreneurship Records-Chapter 178 Yeke Kingdom
Chapter 178 Yeke Kingdom
Karl told everyone about his experiences and the various scenery he had seen. Although Karl was about the same age as everyone, he had stayed in the Far East, Germany, and East Africa. He also went to school and worked in a factory. His experience is indeed Much richer than these young people in rural areas in Germany and Austria.
evening.
The crowd drove the cattle towards the village, and another ordinary day ended.
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Mbeya.
A meeting for the Central and South African region is underway, and the military chief of Mbeya City, Merke, is reporting the situation to the high-level city government and the commissioner sent by the central government.
Merkel stood in front of a map, pointed to the map and said: "This is Mbeya. As the most important city in the southwestern region of East Africa, Mbeya is not only rich in resources, but also an important military town, guarding the East African plateau leading to the South African highlands.
The eastern group is the East African Plateau, and the main body of our East African royal territory is on the East African Plateau.
From the East African plateau to the west, the large dotted area in the west is the Congo rainforest, and starting from the south of the Congo rainforest, this large area is the South African plateau.
The South African Plateau is different from the East African Plateau. The East African Plateau is a large piece, while the South African Plateau is composed of many small plateaus.
Including Katanga Plateau, Lunda Plateau, Kuango Plateau, Biye Plateau, etc.
Look here, everyone. This location is the Katanga Plateau, which is located in the northeast of the South African Plateau and is connected to our East Africa. This is the goal of this time.
Lake Solon (Tanganyika) and Lake Malawi separate East Africa from the South African plateau. There is a passage of more than 300 kilometers between the two lakes. Every day our team has to travel 300 kilometers on this road. patrolling the aisles.
Crossing this passage is the first step in our conquest of Central and South Africa. "
Merke explained the geography of Central and South Africa and the relationship between East Africa to the participants, and then returned to his seat.
"Very good! It seems that you have still done your work." The central commissioner, Wei Te, said, "I came this time with the instructions of His Royal Highness, and this time it is related to the future of our East African business strategy in Central and South Africa. strategy, and Mbeya is the outpost of this operation, Merkel, your Mbeya garrison should be familiar with the forces around East Africa, and I will briefly introduce it to you.”
Merke sat at the conference table and said to everyone: "Mr. Commissioner, and all of you present, the forces around our Mbeya are nothing more than two forces, one is the Kingdom of Malawi in the southern part of Lake Malawi.
Malawi is not our target this time, so I will focus on the forces on the Katanga Plateau.
To the west of us, that is, the Katanga Plateau, there is a Yeke Kingdom. This Yeke Kingdom is also called the Msiri Kingdom. The Yeke Kingdom is relatively young, and it is decades earlier than our East Africa.
Its founder was a slave trader, whose name was Msiri, and Msiri was once an aborigine in the Tanganyika region, and his father was the porter of an Arab businessman.
So this Msiri has a wide range of knowledge. He traded with the Arabs to obtain guns and the trust of the original local chiefs. He continued to wage wars and gradually became bigger, and finally established the Kingdom of Yeke. "
Merke's mouth was a little dry, he picked up the cup and drank some water, and then said: "The Yeke kingdom has always been relatively strong in the local area with the firearms provided by the Arab merchants.
At the beginning, we had just opened up the Malawi Lake District (capital Mbeya), and we fought against the Yeke Kingdom. Its strength is indeed better than that of the average aborigines.
However, the Yeke Kingdom has a fatal weakness, that is, their ammunition needs to be provided by the Arabs, and we have blocked the Arab forces, so the Yeke Kingdom has one round of ammunition and one less round.
However, we were not interested in the Yeke Kingdom at that time, and the number of people was relatively small, so we did not counterattack after repelling several attacks.
Later, the construction required a large number of slaves. Instead, we cooperated with the Yeke Kingdom. East Africa continued to provide ammunition for it, and the Yeke Kingdom provided us with slaves. "
The cooperation between the Kingdom of Yeke and East Africa is actually not willing, but desperate, and it is not that the East African colonies are targeting it.
At the beginning, Msiri established the Yeke Kingdom with the main force of firearms. He fought around with the advantages of equipment and bullied the surrounding aborigines all over the place.
However, after the establishment of the East African colony, especially after the establishment of the Upper Malawi Lake District, it directly cut off the trading route between the Yeke Kingdom and the Arab merchants.
The Kingdom of Yeke lost a lot of economic benefits as a result, and naturally refused to let it go, so it tried to use force to defeat the East African colonies at the beginning of the establishment of the Upper Malawi Lake District.
As a result, the East African colony is not easy to mess with, and the weapons are more advanced, and the Kingdom of Yeke has been stunned.
The most terrible thing is that the weapons and ammunition cannot be replenished, and the weapons in the hands of Yeke Kingdom have become fire sticks.
Originally, the advantage over the surrounding indigenous forces disappeared, and many enemies began to counterattack the Yeke Kingdom. In addition, the Yeke Kingdom itself was relatively brutal, and internal uprisings began to break out.
The rule of the Yeke Kingdom began to be turbulent. Fortunately, the East African colonies later discovered that slaves were still indispensable for the development of East Africa. However, the natives of East Africa were all captured by East Africa, so they needed to be obtained from other regions.
Looking around, the Yeke Kingdom is relatively easy to obtain. After all, the Yeke Kingdom itself has been engaged in the slave trade for many years, and originally relied on selling slaves for a living.
And the East African colonies didn't want to go to the interior of Central and South Africa to catch slaves in person, so they simply let the Yeke Kingdom act as an agent, and the cost was only a little ammunition.
But the Yeke Kingdom has no choice. With the ammunition, it can re-establish a powerful force, suppress the people and other indigenous forces around it, and the Yeke Kingdom can continue to exist.
Although they can’t make money, it’s tantamount to working for nothing in the East African colony, and it’s better than subjugated ones, so Yeke Kingdom accepted the cooperation request from the East African colonies.
"Well, I know about this. At the beginning, the military chief of Mbeya and the central government reported it, but what we need now is the entire Katanga Plateau. Slaves can be obtained from all sides, but the Katanga Plateau There is only one, the Yeke Kingdom, which hinders our development path." Sitte said.
As the head of the Mbeya military, Merke immediately said: "Sir, we also think so in the Southwest Military Region. We should strike hard at the Yeke Kingdom. After all, they have not settled their account for attacking us back then."
Of course, Merkel didn't hate Yeke Kingdom so much and wanted to put it to death. It was because the troops of the Southwest Military Region in the Northwest War didn't get anything. The Northwest Military Region and the Northern Military Region took all the credit. The Southwest Military Region could only Stay put and take charge of monitoring and guarding against native forces in Central South Africa.
The East African colonies fought beautifully in the Northwest War, and basically had a favorable situation. Merk was naturally jealous. Isn't it just fighting the indigenous people? I can do it too.
Just when Merkel was about to continue inciting the commissioner to start a war against Yeke Kingdom, a discordant voice came from the seat of the Mbeya government personnel.
"Mr. Commissioner, I actually have an idea. I don't know if I can try it. I can win the entire Katanga Plateau at the lowest cost."
(end of this chapter)
