The restart of negotiations was requested by the Portuguese. The Yao people have taken a step back and proposed conditions more favorable to the Portuguese, but the Portuguese still persist in their unrealistic illusions.
Chigubo was under attack. Within ten hours of the attack, the Ngoni and the recruiters captured one-third of the city of Chigubo, although the Portuguese killed thousands of Ngoni.
However, the Ngoni and recruiters kept coming, and the attacks came one after another. The Portuguese had no chance to breathe.
In this case, the Portuguese actually accused Roque of not helping. Roque was really surprised by Joao Franco's brain circuit.
As a mediator, of course it is not convenient for Rock to speak.
So Zhazha stood up and left without saying a word.
João Franco hadn't even put down his fingers yet, and he immediately felt a little at a loss.
"Oh, hehehe, are we done talking? Sorry, I'm old and don't have enough energy. I need to go to bed early -" The former president finally woke up and stood up shakily with his hands on the table.
"Slow down, slow down -" Rock stepped forward to help.
"Thank you, Lord, and I hope to have the opportunity to have coffee with you -" the former president extended an olive branch.
"Then I'll visit you later." Luo Ke returned the favor.
"Wait-" Joao Franco finally realized what happened.
Roque and the former president didn't speak. They looked at João Franco as if he were a fool. The scumbag's figure had disappeared into the corridor.
The negotiation conference room is on the second floor of Jinshan Hotel. Zhazha lives on the left side of the stairs on the second floor, and João Franco lives on the right side of the stairs on the second floor. This arrangement is actually very beneficial to the Portuguese.
"Wait a minute, the negotiation is not over yet!" Joao Franco had sweat on his forehead. Yesterday, Zhazha said he was going hunting and might leave at dawn, just in case Zhazha disappeared for three or five days.<
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Don't say it's impossible. It's probably impossible for this kind of thing to happen to Germans. It's so normal for it to happen to Africans.
In fact, the Germans are sometimes unreliable. No, the Chief of General Staff is "in ill health" today.
"Mr. Franco, if you continue with this attitude, then the negotiation is actually over." The former president still looked dim, but what he said was very sensible.
"No, the negotiations are not over. Chigubo is under attack, my compatriots are dying, and the war must stop immediately." Joao Franco's body was shaky.
"So what do you mean?" Rock finally spoke.
"I'm sorry Lord Nyasaland, please bring back the Yao people and we will continue to negotiate." Joao Franco finally recognized the reality.
Roque didn't talk nonsense, helped the former president sit down, and let the former president continue to doze. He turned around and found not only Zhazha, but also the Chief of General Staff.
"I'm sorry, I'm not in good health." His Excellency the Chief of General Staff apologized very insincerely.
"Then let's get started." Roque doesn't care about the chief of staff and the former president, the key is Joao Franco.
"No matter what, the war must stop first, and then we can continue negotiations." Joao Franco returned to the starting point.
"Sir, I really don't know what else to talk about. This guy is just wasting all of our time." Zhazha ignored Joao Franco and complained directly to Roque. The upright translator next to him directly said, "
This guy" is translated authentically.
This guy!
This title was so impolite that Joao Franco's eyes were on fire.
Neither Roque nor the Chief of General Staff spoke. Waiting for João Franco to explode, the former president had already begun to snore.
João Franco took several deep breaths to suppress the breath, and then calmed down: "The war can't continue-"
"As long as the negotiations are not over, the war will continue -" Zhazha interrupted Joao Franco and thanked Portugal for its five hundred years of colonization of Portuguese East Africa. Both Zhazha and Joao Franco used
Portuguese: "——Anyway, it was you Portuguese who died, not us Yao people. Maybe you don’t know yet, but it was the Ngoni and the Zhao people who fought against you Portuguese."
Zhazha’s lips are a bit thick and a little outturned. He looks similar to Green from the Warriors. When he speaks, he is very sarcastic, especially when Zhazha smiles deliberately, the corners of his mouth are a bit crooked, let alone João.
·Franco and Rock both want to beat him.
So when Zhazha was talking, Rock didn't look at Zhazha's face and lowered his head while fiddling with the pen in his hand.
Schlifen looked at Zhazha with interest, probably assessing Zhazha's threat.
In fact, there was a lot of noise in the conference room at the moment. Zha Zha and Joao Franco spoke Portuguese, Roque spoke English, Schlieffen spoke German, and the former president spoke French. In fact, everyone around him
There were several translators in different languages standing there. As soon as Zhazha finished speaking, several translators started talking, which made the conference room a little noisy.
Even the former president's translator was busy working, and he didn't know if he could hear the snoring former president.
"Lord, should we adjourn the meeting temporarily?" Schlieffen suggested softly to Rock. It was really annoying that Schlieffen was speaking in German at this time even though he knew English.
"Then we will adjourn the meeting temporarily and continue in half an hour. Mr. Franco, think about it carefully. Persistence is a good quality, but persistence at an inappropriate time is stubbornness." Roque kindly reminded Joao Franco, and in exchange
João Franco snorted.
Then the meeting will be adjourned temporarily. Zha Zha, João Franco and all the translators will leave. Only Rock, Schlieffen, and the former president are left in the conference room.
"Finally clean." The former president said sleepily.
"How do we end this?" Schlieffen switched back to English.
"End? Are you kidding? We are just witnesses, so what right do we have to end it?" the former president also muttered in English, not loud enough for three people to hear.
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The French and Germans are also feuding, so it is inevitable to undermine each other, and Roque can only turn a blind eye.
"The Portuguese must first accept this condition, and then there is the possibility of continuing negotiations." Roque reiterated.
"That's all it seems," Schlieffen agreed.
"Haha——" The former president said nothing, his attitude was self-evident.
"So what should we do next?" Roark refused to make a decision and gave the initiative to Schlieffen and the former president.
"Let's end this as soon as possible. The weather in Johannesburg is terrible." Schlieffen just wanted to end it and go home.
"Let's go talk to Mr. Franco," the former president suggested.
Then let’s go find Joao Franco together.
Joao Franco was in the lounge. When he heard Roque's suggestion, Joao Franco's expression looked like he had seen a ghost.
"What, accept the conditions of the Yao people? Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Joao Franco was furious.
The three of them were silent and sat quietly on the sofa watching Joao Franco's performance.
"If we want the Yao people to surrender, then this will be a shame to civilized society. Since the Age of Discovery, the authority that civilized society has established in front of the barbarians will be wiped out, and the barbarians in other colonies will also be under the influence of the Yao people.
Isn't this result very dangerous?" Joao Franco tried his best to win the support of Roque and the others.
"Don't say it's so serious. Portugal lost Brazil in 1822." Roque didn't want to listen to Joao Franco's nonsense. Portugal's failure did not mean the failure of colonialism. If calculated that way, then Britain should be the worst failure in the world.
country, because Britain has lost Canada and Australia one after another in recent years.
"You——" João Franco didn't expect Roque to be so disrespectful, and he was about to shoot Roque directly.
"Mr. Franco, be pragmatic. If you do not accept the conditions of the Yao people, then the war will continue. If you have not decided before the fall of Xigubo, then no one can guarantee what conditions the Yao people will propose next.
."The former president will be in high spirits.
"Maybe the Yao people don't need to put forward conditions at all." Schlieffen added.
"You guys, shouldn't we all be on the same stand?" Joao Franco seemed to have just understood the situation.
"No, I only represent my personal position. I don't even represent London's position." Rock immediately clarified.
"Germany only stands with justice." Look at the memorial stone erected by the chief of staff.
"France has no position." The former president's words were concise and to the point.
Rock suddenly felt sad.
Roque understands how Joao Franco feels now, just like Gu Weijun at the Paris Peace Conference, and the Syrian representative in the rest area of the United Nations General Assembly. This is the tragedy of a small country with few people. The country is weak, and all the helpers it invites will rebel.
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"Mr. Franco, I know you are not willing to give in, but I must remind you that what is more important than persistence is to stop the loss in time. If you persist until the end, you may gain nothing. If you stop the loss in time, you can at least keep part of the principal." Rock stood up.
, I don’t want to see Franco continue to struggle. In the past, the Chinese were full of grievances and had nowhere to cry, and in the end they could only make the final resistance by not signing.
I just don’t know if the Portuguese have such backbone.
It turns out that the Portuguese did not.
Just when Roque and Schlieffen, the former president, were about to leave, João Franco finally spoke: "Wait, even if we agree, who can guarantee that the Yao people will not tear up the agreement——"
Roque turned around and saw João Franco sitting on the sofa with his head lowered, his forehead covered with sweat drops, as if he had just been fished out of the water.
"Just now, there were only the last thousand people left in Higubo, and only the Governor's Palace was left in the city that had not yet fallen -" João Franco smiled bitterly and finally gave up resistance: "-It's possible that it has already been
Fell."
Rock and Schlieffen, the former president, looked at each other. There was relief, vigilance, and a little bit of sadness in their eyes.
"I promise, I promise that the Yao people will not tear up the agreement." Luo Ke's voice was sonorous and powerful.
So the negotiations immediately started again, and this time it was much simpler. At Roque's insistence, the Yao people gave up their demand for compensation and agreed to an immediate ceasefire and to withdraw all troops to the north of the Save River within three days.
The Portuguese agreed in principle to give up all territory north of the Save River, but the Yao people inflicted losses on the Portuguese south of the Save River.
This request is actually a fig leaf to save some face for the Portuguese.
That night, Stoudemire came to find Rock.
"The Portuguese agreed?" Stoudemire got the news quickly enough. When he came to find Roque, Roque had just returned to the police station.
"Agreed, it's better than we expected. Now we can talk about income distribution." Rock laughed. The current result is better than Rock and Stoudemire expected.
Before the negotiations began, Roque and Stoudemire's target was the Zambezi River Basin and did not involve the Save River Basin at all.
The current result is nearly 100,000 square kilometers more territory than Rock and Stoudemire expected.
Don’t underestimate these 100,000 square kilometers. The terrain of Africa is high in the middle and low around it. In principle, the land in Johannesburg and Nyasaland is not very suitable for farming. At least the terrain is not flat enough.
The territory of Portuguese East Africa, especially the Zambezi River Basin and the Save River Basin, are all plains with fertile land. As long as it is cultivated, it will be good farmland, so Roque is very happy with this result.<
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"Save River, now you have got the Save River -" Xiaosi's expression collapsed. In just one day, Roque forced the Portuguese to surrender and extracted so many benefits from the Portuguese. Xiaosi's expression was broken.
Si thought hard and couldn't figure out how Rock did it.
"How about it? Let's discuss it. I will give you Sofala and Beira, and you will give me the Zambezi River." Rock made the conditions.
"Okay!" Xiao Si has not yet recovered from the shock.
Beira was a natural port a long time ago, but after the rise of Sofala, Beira's port was basically abandoned.
These two cities are not far from the Save River, about 120 kilometers.
Since Stoudemire has agreed to this condition, it means that the area from the north of Beira to the Zambezi River belongs to Nyasaland.
The area of this region is about 200,000 square kilometers.
This is Luo Ke's reward for supporting the Yao people. I'm afraid Luo Ke didn't expect that this reward would be so generous.
It is true that when a cannon is fired, a thousand taels of gold are worth it.
"How do you get the Portuguese to agree to this plan?" Stoudemire finally thought of this question.
"These lands now belong to the Yao people, and they have nothing to do with the Portuguese -" Roque had already made a record, and even prepared a speech for the Portuguese: "What's more, the hatred between the Portuguese and the Yao people is not the same.
Dai Tian, even if the war ceases now, no one can guarantee that the Yao people will not tear up the agreement in the future, so Nyasaland and Rhodesia came forward to buy the land between the Yao people and the Portuguese, and physically separated the Portuguese and Yao people.
The tribes are divided, so that even if the Yao tribe breaks the agreement in the future, they will attack Nyasaland and Rhodesia first."
Roque's plan is very feasible. Although it is obviously to divide the territory of Portuguese East Africa, I am afraid that the Portuguese will still be grateful to Roque.