African Nationhood

Chapter 159: Pulling the Dutch into the water (please subscribe!!!)
  After hearing what Shi Jintang said, the old white prime minister looked at him in surprise, with an incredible look on his face.

"what do you mean?"

"Oh, that's the case. My Nanhua Company occupies a large colony in the Matabeleland Kingdom in Africa, but the population of my colonial company is too small and cannot be managed.

I want to exchange that land for some resources, such as money and population. "

After listening to this, the old white Prime Minister showed a cautious look on his face, "Are you telling the truth?"

Shi Jintang chuckled, "I have a contract signed by the local chief to transfer territorial rights. Of course, you can also refuse, it doesn't matter.

If you want to agree, you must hurry up. After all, once the Berlin Conference is held, it will be equivalent to determining the sphere of influence of European countries in Africa. By then, you will have no chance to change it. "

After the old white prime minister heard what Shi Jintang said, he hesitated for a few seconds, "Where is the land you mentioned?"

"All along the east side of the Zambezi River is about 40,000 to 50,000 square kilometers of land."

The old white prime minister thought for a while and hesitated: "Isn't that the Portuguese sphere of influence?"

When Shi Jintang saw the white prime minister reacting like this, he knew that the other party was tempted.

"The Portuguese can only make noise along the coast of East Africa. They have no guts to go inland to declare sovereignty, because these places are still terra nullius.

As far as I know, the large area between the Zambezi River and Lake Malawi is completely blank, and no force has claimed sovereignty over these places at all.

Of course, you can also find a port on the coastline of the Zanzibar Sultanate to land at will, and then invade new territory.

But the meeting will be held in a few days, and the territory you can occupy is limited.

If you take over my territorial contract, you can easily squeeze into the African continent and share a share of the benefits. "

When the old white prime minister heard this, he felt slightly moved. The area of ​​land they had just lost was almost the same size.

If he could obtain this piece of land in Africa, wouldn't he not have to bear the infamy of losing his land?

The old white Prime Minister thought for a long time and suddenly said: "How much do you plan to offer?"

"One hundred million guilders."

"唏~~"

"How dare you think that!"

Shi Jintang smiled, "This timing is very critical. If your country does not accept it, it will no longer be able to squeeze into the African continent to share the benefits.

If your country accepts it, it will become one of the rule makers in Africa. Can you and His Majesty the King refuse such a temptation? "

The old white prime minister was hesitant. One hundred million Dutch guilders sounded like a lot, but it was less than 1000 million pounds in pounds.

When Britain snatched Cape Town from the Netherlands, it gave the Netherlands 600 million pounds as a purchase fee.

Do you want to buy a piece of land from this fake British man now?

He was a little undecided and had to consult His Majesty the King on this matter.

The old white prime minister whispered: "I have to ask His Majesty the King for instructions on this matter. How long can you wait?"

Shi Jintang shrugged, "The sooner the better. As you know, the Berlin Conference starts on November 11th, and today is already October 15th. I will wait for your country for up to three days."

The old white prime minister packed up his things quickly and quickly left the box on the second floor.

When Mueller and others entered the box, they found Boss Shi staring at the big breasts of the lady in the box opposite.

Mueller couldn't help but approached Shi Jintang, "Boss, your lover's breasts are not small. Why are you still staring at other women?"

"Go away, I'm just admiring the beautiful style. Who can be as vulgar as you? All you can think about is Naizi."

…    The Dutch acted quickly, and the old white prime minister came to see Shi Jintang the next day.

On November 1884, 11, the two parties signed a secret agreement on the "Contract for the Transfer of African Territory East of the Zambezi River and South of Lake Malawi by the South China Company".

The secret agreement stipulates:

1. The contents of this secret agreement are only known to relevant personnel of Nanhua Company and the Dutch government, and leakage is strictly prohibited.

2. The million Dutch guilders used to purchase African territory are secret funds and should be compensated in kind as much as possible.

3. In addition, the Dutch East India Company needs to provide the Nanhua Company with 3 Chinese immigrants or 5 Southeast Asian indigenous women to offset the indigenous population resources in the area of ​​this secret agreement.

4. The immigrants provided by the Dutch East India Company need to be transported by the Nanhua Company themselves.

5. Nanhua Company is obliged to assist the Dutch government in setting up territorial boundary markers within the specified time and provide physical evidence and witness.

6. The Nanhua Company was obliged to assist the Dutch government in controlling the indigenous tribes in the territory of the agreement and to help establish primary order.

……

After signing the secret contract, Shi Jintang immediately sent a telegram to Ding He, the deputy deputy of the regiment who was left behind.

Let him arrange for manpower to contact the arriving Dutch and help them set up boundary markers on the east bank of the Zambezi River.

After taking the telegram, Shi Jintang asked the old white prime minister to negotiate a supplementary agreement to the secret agreement, which was a physical list of aid for construction.

The contents agreed upon by both parties include:
  In the next two years, the Dutch government needs to assist Nanhua Company in building a steel plant and a copper plant, with an annual output of 2 to 5 tons of pig iron and pure copper.

At the same time, we also need to provide steel plants and supporting factories required by steel-making plants.

All equipment in these factories and all building materials required for the construction of the factories will also be provided.

The most critical one is to provide technical personnel training services;
  In addition, the Dutch government also needs to assist Nanhua Company's two shipyards, one to produce steam iron-hulled merchant ships and the other to produce steam-iron-hulled fishing ships.

Both shipyards are required to be able to independently build thousand-ton ships, including all equipment and corresponding building materials, as well as technical personnel training services.

After these two items, 100 million Dutch guilders are basically spent.

The remaining Shi Jintang directly asked the Dutch government to set aside a piece of land on Sumatra Island to serve as a plantation for Nanhua Company.

After listening to Shi Jintang's request, the old white prime minister secretly laughed at Shi Jintang's inability to count.

There are shipyards capable of building 1000-ton ships. Small-scale shipyards like this are basically everywhere.

As for the steel plant and copper smelting plant, it is even more childish. With a production capacity of 5 to 10 tons, it is considered a bad street-level factory.

(In any European country during this period, the annual pig iron production basically started at hundreds of thousands of tons.

Germany had exceeded 1873 million tons in 200, and France also exceeded this figure in 1880.

However, the annual output of Britain in 1876 had exceeded 655 million tons of pig iron. The world's largest country should not be underestimated. )
  The piece of plantation land to the east of Sumatra Island that Shi Jintang arbitrarily occupied was actually a rotten swamp that could not be cultivated at all and was worthless.

The old white Prime Minister did a little calculation and found that 100 million Dutch guilders was a net profit of less than half. It was so cool!
  But what he didn't know was that the plantation land on Sumatra that Shi Jintang occupied contained Asia's largest oil field, the Minas Oil Field.

Both parties had their own secrets, and then quickly signed a supplementary agreement to the secret contract.

After all this was settled, Shi Jintang went directly to the British ambassador to prepare for the African Colonial Conference.

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