After Crown William, on behalf of Prussia, agreed to provide military support to the Ottoman Empire, Li Junwei had already led the African Development Company to negotiate a colony purchase and sale agreement with Prussia.

The African Development Company agreed to sell part of West Africa's loss-making stronghold to Prussia. Although the diplomatic officials accompanied by Prince William prepared the map in advance and even obtained authorization, the African Development Company was willing to get rid of the negative assets, but the intervention of the Empire's Foreign Affairs Department made the negotiations protracted and it took two years to complete the negotiations, and during which the boundary was determined was completed.

In fact, this colonial transaction directly laid the boundaries of the empire's territory in South Africa.

After the empire opened up South Africa for more than 60 years, the South African region had already had a population of nearly five million, divided into four provinces: Cape Town, South Africa, Yingzhou and Inland. The territory of the four provinces not only includes South Africa and Madagascar in later generations, but also developed northward into Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique.

On the east coast of Africa, its boundary is determined, that is, the Limpopo River is bounded by the Limpopo River. To the north of this river is the colony of the African Development Company and the Portuguese Governor of East Africa. Of course, there are also a large number of African companies' industries on the southern bank of the river.

On the west coast, the boundaries have never been determined.

There were three main driving forces for the early empire to expand northward from South Africa, capturing slaves, looking for gold, and looking for diamonds. After completely banning slavery, only the latter two were left. Because the northwards were deserts and mountains, the power was completely insufficient, but the African Development Company was willing to open up the situation in the West African region decades ago and establish colonies.

However, in recent years, the empire's overseas expansion model has changed. In the early years, overseas colonial expansion chose areas, first looking at population and land. The population has a consumer market, and suitable land has a foundation for raw material production, but it has changed more and more in recent years.

The empire was increasingly aware that the populations of different civilizations and races were a burden to the country, and massacre and migration were inhumane, while laissez-faire was irresponsible to future generations. On the contrary, with the further deepening of the industrial revolution, the value of land had been displayed differently.

In the early years, only land that could carry out agricultural production was valuable. Crops such as cotton, sugarcane, tobacco, coffee and other crops were the mainstream of overseas trade. However, with the rise of heavy industry, the status of mineral resources was increasing. Mountains and deserts that were not valued in the past were also valued because no one could guarantee whether there would be copper or iron ore buried under these barren lands.

For example, the South American region of the empire had a conflict with the Lima Governor's District in northern Chile. It was not until the Spanish throne inherited the border and resolved the conflict.

Therefore, the empire has been exploring and developing northward in southern Africa in recent years. The Namibian Desert and Karahadi Desert in the north are barren lands and are also natural barriers for African aliens. Going north as far as possible and incorporating the uninhabited land into the empire territory is the main task of South Africa in the past decade.

This kind of work is mainly for adventure, because the local population is too small and no decent resources are found. Until I entered the Great Salt Marsh Basin (Kalahadi Basin), the Empire Expedition team discovered that further ahead were tropical rainforest areas and tropical savanna areas. These are densely populated areas, and the territory was opened up to prevent them.

The border line has been established, who will defend this border line? In order to defend the border, the empire supported the African Development Company's colony of West Africa. However, decades of practice have proved that similar support was obviously a failure. They simply supported Portugal's colonization of the Angola region, but it was not very successful, because Portugal was a small country and lacked the ability to colonize the inland Africa, so they were more willing to place their resources in rich Brazil.

Now that Prussia is willing to intervene, it is of course good, but the Empire hopes that it will form a barrier between the Angolan colony in Portugal and the Inland Province of the Imperial Province, and there is a second barrier after the barrier, African Development Company, that is, the Empire supports African Development Company to sell some of the colonies to Prussia, but does not want African companies to withdraw from West Africa.

This means that the imperial government needs not only to help African companies gain more benefits from Prussia, but also to provide some compensation for it.

The method is very simple. Prussian industrial development requires a large number of tropical cash crops, such as the use of cotton to develop the textile industry. The development of industry will also give birth to a lot of consumption. The new middle class will consume sugar and coffee, and these African development companies can provide them. At the same time, the African development company itself is a very powerful shipping company and can also provide ocean shipping services.

The colonies of African development companies produced a large number of goods that were homogeneous with the empire and formed competitiveness, and have been restricted. As long as these restrictions are slightly relaxed or corresponding privileges are given, African development companies can be exchanged for the empire to defend the borders.

Cyrenica region.

At the edge of the desert and the town, gunfire sounds one after another. Ali lay on the scorching sand, covering his body with a white robe, wrapping his head with linen, avoiding the fine sand blown by the wind. In the small village and town not far away, the battle was going on.

This was the first battle for the Egyptian army to arrive in Libya, and Ali prepared in advance. He first sent his officers to enter the town as an envoy of Amal Pasha, proclaiming that the people from all over the village and town would fight the invading Christians together, and publicly executed the officials sent by the Mediterranean Company here and the elders who surrendered to the local area, totaling twelve people.

This obviously caused a chain reaction of the local Mediterranean garrison. Soon a team came from Benghazi. Ali thought that there was only one or two hundred people, so he had already formulated a rescue plan and sent Bedouin to ambush in the desert. However, when the enemy approached, he discovered that more than 700 people and artillery were coming, and he was advancing in combat formations, and he was constantly dispatching teams to investigate the desert on the south side. The ambush would definitely not be possible.

Because Ali discovered that the Bedouin people were indeed hard-working, but they did not have a good grasp of firearms. Although they were equipped with rifled guns, they could not aim at them. What's the use?

Therefore, Ali allowed the enemy to enter the town, and took advantage of the sandstorm to let the Bedouin rush into the town, and the attacks from all directions disrupted the colonial army's positions.

Ali's elite guards and some of the Bedouin people were ambushed on the road leading to Benghazi on the west side of the town. All their guns were confiscated and distributed to the guards for use. As long as the enemy came out, they would catch him off guard.

"Who? Didn't I give orders, don't you be allowed to move rashly?" Ali saw a man wrapped in a headscarf coming over, and he cursed sternly.

"I!" the man blurted out in Chinese, and then said in Arabic: "It's me, Repukatijiang."

Ali pulled the man and hid behind Shaliang, and said without getting angry for a moment: "Brother Repukatijiang, why are you here? It's dangerous." As he said that, he touched Repukatijiang's abdomen: "Where is your baby, it won't be broken."

Repkatijiang lifted his robe and revealed a portable camera. He said, "No, I must take a picture of your heroic posture against the colonists."

"Good brother, you must also be careful." Ali reminded.

Although Repkatijiang looks like an Arab, he is not an Arab ethnic group, but a genuine Chinese. He is twenty-four years old. He is a journalist, but only a minority of the empire and a Tajik.

When Repkatijiang was born, his hometown of southern Xinjiang had been included in the empire. When he was a child, he had seen men in the tribe fighting with foreigners who spoke different words, and suffered heavy casualties. When he was in middle school, his father was deposed for beating a slave. When he graduated from high school, he caught up with the reform of the foreign vassal states, and all the slaves in his family were disbanded.

As a son of a foreign nobleman from the Empire, Repukatijiang had certain resentment towards the Empire. Because of his schooling, he was more knowledgeable than his hometown. He had seen the prosperity of the two cities of Yili and Luntai, and the skyscrapers in Xi'an. Compared with his poor hometown and ethnic group, his family's life was not good. Moreover, he repeatedly heard the resentment of his father and grandfather's generation towards the Religious Bureau, believing that the Religious Bureau had tampered with scriptures and defiled his faith.

Taking his grandfather without fulfilling his pilgrimage to Mecca, Repukatijiang embarked on a journey abroad. He wanted to go on a pilgrimage for his grandfather, to see what the real place of faith looked like, to see if the ruling class of the empire caused the living standards of the Tajiks to decline, and to see if the Religious Bureau is really a tool for some people to control the people of the Tianfang vassal state.

But when he arrived in Xijin and came to the Arab world by boat, he realized that the place with pure faith and religious origins was not as good as his own tribe. These people had to endure the double oppression of feudal aristocrats and religions, and were no different from slaves.

What he was most difficult to accept was the oppression of religion on personal freedom. He didn't want his two sisters to be covered in black robes every day and were not allowed to go out at home. He didn't want them to marry some rude and savage guys.

The plan that Repukatijiang, who originally wanted to learn religion in Mecca, quickly changed, became a journalist and traveler. He wanted to record what he saw and hear with his pen, and let his father in his hometown know that what you complain about is something that people who yearn for cannot get.

What Ali values ​​is the identity of Repukkatijiang. Ali, Bey, of Egypt, originally had little reputation in the Sinai province, or in other words, his reputation was similar to other Beys. However, with a report published by Repukkatijiang in the Sinai Daily, Ali was completely different from Beys.

Ali was no longer a person who was living a life of life and was exploiting one of the people. He became a hero who resisted the invasion of the colonists and the leader of the Holy War. Ali was unknown when he entered the province of Sinai. When he set out from Cairo, he was filled with flowers and applause, which made him realize the importance of newspapers and other media. When Repukatijiang applied to become a military reporter, Ali immediately agreed.

Prestige is the most indispensable thing for politicians, and prestige is like a beauty, with three points relying on appearance and seven points relying on dressing. In Ali's view, Repukatijiang's camera and a pen are more important than the more than a thousand people in his advance team.

"Are you sure you can take pictures of the colonists being beaten to death here?" asked Repukatijiang.

Ali said: "Is your camera still the kind that will light up as soon as you take a photo?"

"certainly."

Ali said: "Okay, then I will definitely let you take good photos."

"But I'm worried that the Bedouin people are too savage, not like army, but more like robbers. I don't think that the hundreds of Bedouin people can drive the colonists out of the town through fierce street fighting," said Repkatijiang.

Ali smiled: "I think so too."

"Then why do you...?" Repkatijiang was shocked. He thought Ali had any arrangements for the next step, or he had any misunderstandings about the Bedouin combat power. Who knew that what he was randomly guessing was the fact.

Ali pointed to the road under the dunes: "There are only two possible battles in the town. One is that the Bedouin cavalry killed the colonists and fled back to Benghazi, and the other is that the Bedouin cavalry is not the opponent of the colonists. The former, the colonists will take the initiative to deliver them to the door, while the latter, because this road is the escape route I chose for the Bedouin people, and the colonists will come."

Repkatijiang heard this and gave a thumbs up: "General Ali, you are such a cunning fox, please don't get me wrong. In our China, this is a word of praise. When I was in the province of Sinai, I called you brave Ali in the newspaper, but now, I think you should be called a desert fox. Brave and smart, and will definitely make the colonists unlucky.

Great, Desert Fox, this is such a good name, I want to add this title to the title!"

"Okay, my brother, if one day I go to Port Said or Istanbul, people call me desert foxes, and I will definitely tell them that this is the name you gave me." Ali laughed.

It was at this time that a mess of camel cavalry appeared in the west of the town, running along the road, followed by a large group of beaten Bedouin people, followed by the cavalry of the colonists, chasing them.

Ali immediately called the five people with the most accurate marksmanship to come to him. He glanced at him and asked Repukatijiang: "Brother, see which one to hit first. Whenever you say you will hit, we will hit you."

"It should be a British man who was dressed in gorgeously dressed cavalry, wearing red clothes!" said Repkatijiang, but he quickly repented: "No, no, no, it is still to fight the cavalry carrying the flag, which is even more symbolic."

Ali immediately ordered his men to shoot, and Repkatijiang lay on the sand dune and took the photo of the flag bearer being knocked down as he wished.
Chapter completed!