Chapter 227: Congo

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Hu Yaji's mission to Germany was not as simple as what he said to Li Han. In fact, when shouldering the responsibility of strengthening normal economic exchanges between China and Germany, Hu Yaji also needed to contact the German folk colonial associations to persuade the colonies. The association cooperated with the Han government, and then reached a consensus on cooperation in African colonial affairs with the German government through the German Colonial Association.
The colonization of the Han country in Africa began in 1872. Kismayo was the first settlement for immigrants. It was the first colony opened by the Han country in Africa. It is located in Mtwara, Tanzania, Matadi, Congo and Cameroon. Ebola was a colonial stronghold that was subsequently established.
Of the four colonial strongholds, Kismayo and Mtwara were the first to receive the attention of the Han country, and an incident that occurred in 1875 changed Li Mingyuan's attitude towards the development of African colonies.
At the end of 1875, King Leopold II of Belgium established a conference of European nations to openly discuss the division of colonial forces in Africa by various countries.
The strength of the Belgian country is weak, and Leopold II's desire to use the power of other European countries to expand the colonial scope in Africa has raised Li Mingyuan's vigilance, because in history, it was after the Seven Nations Conference in 1876 that Leopold II fought In the name of helping the enlightenment of the African region, he sponsored the adventurer Morton Stanley to conduct a colonial expedition to the interior of the Congo. Finally, he was recognized by other European countries based on Morton Stanley's inspection and successfully occupied the vast Congo region as a colony. .
Belgian occupation of the Congo was supported by the United Kingdom. Li Mingyuan was worried that after the explorer supported by the Belgian king entered the Congo, he would expel the local colonial forces established in the country of Han. Therefore, after learning that Belgian King Leopold II Following his ambitions for the Congo, Li Mingyuan dispatched foreign mercenaries who had been stationed in the country to the African region to assist local Chinese officials in expanding the sphere of influence in the Congo.
The Han foreign legion was adapted from the early Southern Rio Grande Foreign Legion. After the Franco-Prussian War, the foreign legion recruited more than 1,000 retired soldiers from the newly established German Empire, bringing the total number of foreign legions to 1,500. people.
The foreign corps is organized as a regiment headed by Frank, the earliest mercenary leader who fled to the National Defense Forces, and the legion commander is a Chinese officer.
Under the command of Li Mingyuan, the foreign corps soldiers of the two battalions led by Frank to the Congo region. A company of troops came to Ebola, Cameroon. Except for a small number of foreign soldiers stationed in Mtwara, all were stationed in the mainland. Tropical survival training is used as a support force for African strongholds.
In the second half of the 19th century, quinine produced using cinchona as a raw material entered the practical stage. Due to its geographical advantage in South America, Han was able to obtain a large amount of raw materials to produce anti-dysentery drug quinine. Therefore, the Han based in Africa Compared with European countries, the national armed forces have a more adequate supply of drugs to prevent tropical diseases, and the proportion of soldier deaths caused by tropical diseases is also much lower than in European countries.
After entering the Congo, foreign soldiers under the National Defense Forces first swept the surrounding indigenous forces such as Matadi and occupied the area along the estuary of the Congo River. Then in 1876, the Han country negotiated with the Portuguese government. The Danba area was ceded to the Portuguese Angola colony, and was recognized by the Portuguese government for the occupation of the coastal areas of the Congo River, such as Cabinda and Matadi, by the Han government. The sphere of influence, as a result, Han's colonial action in the Congo was recognized in writing by the first European country.
The colonial delimitation agreement with Portugal's colony preserved the Cabinda area, allowing the Han country to obtain a moderate coastal port area in the Congo, avoiding the problem of later generations being narrower than the Congo coastal area and causing the colonial development to lag.
The Congo region is rich in natural resources. Congolese colonies have not been well developed due to factors such as the lack of Belgian national strength and the lack of sea ports in the Congo. In 1878, the vast area of ​​the Congo's inland due to the pristine natural environment and tropical diseases. Factors such as the prevalence have not yet received the attention of countries such as Britain and France. After the most important future competitor, Belgium, has been squeezed out of the Congo region, only France is likely to form a competitive relationship with Han.
France occupies the Gabon region in the west of the Congo River. Because the Congo River Basin has not been deeply colonized, the two parties have not yet directly conflicted. However, in order to avoid future disputes between the two parties in the Congo River, Li Mingyuan believes that it is necessary to pull Germany in advance. Into the race to colonize Africa.
In the early days of the German Empire, Prime Minister Spencer Mack advocated the concentration of national power to develop the domestic economy, and opposed the depletion of precious national power in the colonial expansion of Africa.
Spencer's claim is in the national interest in an objective perspective. During his tenure as prime minister, even if he obtained Cameroon, Namibia, Tanzania and other African colonies through the Berlin Conference of 1884, he did not increase Germany ’s economy in African colonies. Investment, but because of the management of the African colonies to make ends meet, and other reasons gave rise to the plans to sell the colonies to other countries.
The difficulty in opening up African colonies to bring valuable gains to Germany is the main factor that led to the failure of Spiezmark to support the expansion of African colonies. In order to change Spiezmark's attitude towards colonizing Africa, Li Mingyuan prepared a ceremony for the German government.
The gift prepared by Li Mingyuan for the German government is a map of Cameroon's mineral resources. The map above details several famous aluminum, gold, and copper mines of later Cameroon. It will be handed over to Huskey by Pisme.
Li Mingyuan worked as a mercenary in Africa in the past ~ EbookFREE.me ~ I have a better understanding of the mineral resources that have caused the turmoil in Africa. Therefore, with the impression in my mind, Li Mingyuan has labeled the possible mineral resources in Africa. From the book, then selected several mineral-producing areas distributed in Cameroon as gifts to the German government.
Li Mingyuan, a famous diamond producing area in Sierra Leone and a super-large gold mine in South Africa that has not yet been discovered, are very familiar, but these places are in the hands of British and French colonists. Even if Li Mingyuan has a country behind him, he is afraid to follow They robbed these large mineral origins, therefore, they have not fallen into the hands of the two European powers, Britain and France, and Cameroon, a German businessman with a large sphere of influence, has become a suitable gift to win the German government.
Several mining areas marked by Li Mingyuan on the drawing have been confirmed by the Chinese colonial expedition. Among them, an aluminum mine located in northern Cameroon has more than 500 million tons of reserves in later generations and is a rare giant aluminum mine.
Cameroon's aluminum reserves are too large. Forcibly occupying it with the national strength of the Han country will only cause trouble. Moreover, Britain and Germany have colonial strongholds in Cameroon. The reason why Germany can completely win the Cameroon colony is because of the exchange of interests with Britain. So in exchange for Cameroon, which has several large-scale mining areas, for German support, and to win the more abundant Congo, it is a very cost-effective deal for Li Mingyuan. Find this site Please search for "" or enter the URL: