Southern Africa, with its outstanding economy, is like a piece of mouth-watering fat meat. Everyone who thinks they are qualified wants to pounce on it and take a bite, including the colonial governments of East Africa.
A colony, not even a dominion. The mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and it is a place like East Africa where no one has shit. Behind closed doors, colonial officials really feel like kings, getting whatever they ask for, completely forgetting that the world around them is going on.
With rapid development, even though Bunian Gallup has seen that Pretoria is more prosperous than London, he still stubbornly believes that nobles from the UK should be superior in Pretoria.
You can’t blame Bunion Gallup for not seeing it. In a hundred years, even if southern Africa has replaced the United States as the world’s policeman, there will still be people who think so.
For most British people, Southern Africa, like the United States, is a nouveau riche, with a glamorous appearance and a rough heart, and has nothing to do with the noble and elegant British gentlemen.
But for most southern Africans, especially the new generation of southern Africans, the Old Continent, including London, is just a group of old stubborns who hold on to old ideas and refuse to open their eyes to the world, and they will be overthrown sooner or later.
When two different thoughts collided, the atmosphere in the room was particularly embarrassing.
"After all, you have killed our people, so you should be compensated to some extent." Bunian Gallup clung to this point and thought he had the moral high ground.
"I heard that those refugees have been gathering at the border for nearly a year. Why don't you pay any attention to them?" Neil was still very curious. Many of those refugees were young people. According to traditional thinking, they were a rare labor force. East African colonization
The government has no reason to ignore it.
"It's not your fault." Bunian waved his chubby hands angrily, dissatisfied with Neil's pretentiousness.
We cannot blame the Federal Government of Southern Africa, but it is also related to the Federal Government of Southern Africa.
After the economic crisis broke out, the federal government of Southern Africa gradually began to clear out foreign workers, including tens of thousands of East Africans, in order to leave more job opportunities to southern Africans.
What I want to point out here is that East Africa is quite rich in natural resources.
What this means is that there is no place in this magical continent of Africa that is not rich in natural resources!
The natural resources in East Africa mainly include soda ash, salt, fluorite, limestone, barite, gold, silver, copper, aluminum, zinc, niobium and thorium.
It seems quite rich, but except for soda ash and fluorite, most of it is in an undeveloped state. Therefore, in addition to exporting forest resources, the main economic pillar of East Africa is the export of labor to southern Africa.
East Africa's forest reserves are approximately 950 million tons.
Tens of thousands of East Africans are working in southern Africa, which has affected the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of East Africans. Now the federal government of Southern Africa is clearing out foreign workers. These East Africans are forced to return to East Africa. Their families have lost their only source of income. Coupled with the colonization of East Africa
The government wanted to impose a poll tax, so refugees gathered at the border.
"You can't provide enough jobs for East Africans. How can you blame the federal government of Southern Africa?" Neil was helpless. This was completely unreasonable. Looking at Bunian's performance, he thought the colonial government of East Africa had eaten it.
What a loss.
In fact, they are all nonsense.
"You're just going to clean up the Indians and the Congolese, why do you have to clean up the East Africans too? Don't forget that we are all members of the Commonwealth." Bunian is stubborn, and the problems in East Africa are all to be blamed on southern Africa.
"India is also a member of the Commonwealth, and Congo is still a member of the Southern African Union." Neil couldn't help it. This was the decision of the federal government, and it was not Neil's final say.
"This is your business and I don't care, but no matter what you do, it should not harm the interests of East Africa." Bunian said to himself, and the two of them were not on the same channel at all.
Neil said nothing and looked at Bunian as if he were a fool.
How stupid do you have to be to have the nerve to make such a request to Southern Africa?
When Neil and Bunian began negotiations, the number of border refugees not only did not decrease, but increased in number, and by the end of September it was estimated that there were more than 50,000 people.
Although the shacks built by the refugees are not large, the area where 50,000 people gather together is quite large, comparable in area to a medium-sized city.
The East African colonial government finally began to take the refugees seriously and sent troops to manage them.
At this time, the National Guard finally understood how the East African colonial government managed refugees.
Because refugees have been gathering for a long time, more and more National Guard officers and soldiers have been stationed near the border, now exceeding 200.
The camp with more than 200 people could no longer make do as before. Victoria sent an engineering team to build a camp for the National Guard. A series of dormitories rose from the ground. In order to prevent flooding during the rainy season, wooden piles and wooden piles were used.
The cement columns are heightened and reinforced to look like a stilted building.
The ground in the camp was hardened in accordance with regulations. Various entertainment facilities and sports facilities were originally planned, but the rainy season came in a hurry before construction started. The construction team reported to the superiors and evacuated directly, leaving Grant and Ma behind.
Lin's eyes widened.
In fact, the materials for building entertainment facilities and sports facilities are already in place at this time. If the rainy season hadn't come, it would have been completed in ten days and a half at most.
The Victoria state government has no choice. Every rainy season is a huge test for the flood control project of Lake Victoria. Compared with the farms around Lake Victoria, the National Guard still has to suffer a little. We will wait until the rainy season is over.
after rainy season
That will all happen in March and April next year.
What are the hundreds of National Guard soldiers doing here for half a year?
Big eyes and small eyes?
I'm afraid something will happen within a few days of staring.
Now you understand why the army arranges so many training tasks every day. It is to consume the energy of the officers and soldiers. After completing the training tasks for a day, they are exhausted and have less time to think about things.
Marin is still very responsible. The construction team didn't have time, so Marin found a way to build it himself.
The National Guard is not a regular army, it is actually a militia. There are many talented people in it, and there are many who can build houses. However, the National Guard has only a small number of people. With a force of more than 200 people, it is responsible for patrolling several kilometers nearby every day.
To guard against the refugees on the other side of the barbed wire fence, we really couldn't spare any manpower to do the work.
So after discussing with Grant, Marin sent a few boxes of cans to the major on the other side of the barbed wire fence. The major on the other side of the barbed wire fence took the initiative to send over a hundred strong laborers for him to use as he pleased.
Of course, Marin is not in vain. They only have food and shelter, and each person is given a can as a reward every day. Southern Africa began to prepare strategic warehouses several years ago. Many of the food in the warehouses are about to expire and need to be replaced urgently, so the recent
There are so many cans.
So every morning, more than a hundred strong laborers came to the temporary camp and started working under the command of several National Guard soldiers. One of them, a sergeant named Lance, was said to have worked as an assistant engineer at the Christian Construction Company.
He was immediately appointed as the head of the construction team by Marin.
"These East Africans are quite obedient. Christian Construction Company used to employ many East African workers. For the price of one southern African, you can hire five East Africans." Lance does not miss his working experience at Christian Construction Company.
, high salary does not mean strong ability, at least it is impossible for one to work as hard as five.
Those who carry five are animals.
"Then why are we firing these East Africans?" Lance's deputy is Corporal Marvin. This question is a bit too big for Lance, who doesn't know how to explain the relationship between the economic crisis and jobs.
"Don't think they are obedient. In fact, they may be the most lazy people in the world. Ten East Africans need one person to supervise their work. They will be lazy as long as they can't see. Sometimes they will deliberately damage tools just to be lazy.
So the best assistant for an overseer is a wooden stick or a leather whip. If you don't obey, you'll be beaten." Lance had a baton in his hand, which was telescopic. He could swing it out and knock it back on the ground.
While Lance and Marvin were chatting, several workers were hoisting a piece of wood that formed the roof to the roof. One guy obviously failed to work hard by pulling the rope. As a result, the plank lost its balance while lifting it and fell.
At one point, he hit a worker on the head so badly that he bled, and the scene suddenly became a mess.
"See, that's it." Lance put the hood of his raincoat on his helmet and strode towards the construction site.
The person who reacted faster than Lance was the overseer from East Africa.
These overseers were actually soldiers of the East African colonial army. They supervised the work of workers and were paid one rand a week.
Don't underestimate this rand. In East Africa, one rand a week is already pretty good. After all, you don't do any work, you eat well, drink well and smoke cigarettes every day. For the soldiers of the East African colonial army, it was a magical life.
So they work very seriously and responsibly.
Two soldiers from the East African Colonial Forces arrived at the scene earlier than Lance. Their first reaction was not to care about the injured workers, but to see if the planks were broken.
In southern Africa, building a house is a very simple matter. All the materials used have been pre-treated, surface polished, and anti-corrosion treated. Just like the wooden floor, even the grooves have been pre-made. When building a house,
It's like building blocks, it's really fast.
Of course, prefabrication in advance has its advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that once it is damaged, it cannot be repaired. If it breaks, it will be scrapped directly.
After falling from a height of more than three meters, the board was indeed broken into two pieces.
So the two soldiers vented their anger on the injured worker, yelling and punching each other.
The worker huddled on the ground, holding his head in his hands and begging desperately. Blood overflowed from his fingers, and the rain overflowed all over the ground, which was shocking.
