I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

As a vassal state of Ming Dynasty, Southern Tang had no independent diplomatic power.

So whether to cooperate with the Boers is entirely in Zhu Fugui's mind.

Zhu Fugui also had to consider everything.

After all, the Netherlands is still neutral at the moment, but Zhu Fugui is very clear that Brother William included the Netherlands, a low-lying Germanic country, as his core territory on the map of dividing up the world.

Accepting the tribute from the Boers, his position will be more awkward when brother William takes action against the Netherlands.

Of course, it's just a little embarrassment.

The big deal is to lower your head when the time comes and act like nothing happened.

But soon another big news came that was enough to influence Zhu Fugui's decision-making.

The British actually formed an unbreakable alliance with the Zulus.

Even this alliance has the bonus of marriage!

After reading the details of the information, Zhu Fugui remained silent for a long time, and finally spit out seven words: "The most ruthless person in the southern hemisphere!"

Chapter 743

"There are beauties in Zulu, who are powerful enough to lift mountains and surpass the world.

——"Lao Can's Travels: Love from Devasland""

The source of the news was still the local snake Boers. They reported the news to Cape Town, and the Southern Tang side urgently reported it to Zhu Fugui.

It turned out that according to news from the Boers, the British warship Prince of Wales, which was sunk by Ming Dynasty in the Cape Town naval battle, actually had a new Governor of Cape Town on board.

He and about [-] British troops broke through the encirclement of Ming Dynasty, but lost contact with the fleet.

The British who lacked communication equipment could only go to the nearest military fortress, Durban Fortress, to meet up in accordance with the regulations in the military drills. (as pictured)

Durban is an important port that the British snatched from the Boers. It is also a military fortress second only to Cape Town. It is a key node for monitoring and containing the Boers.

It can be said that there was nothing wrong with John Churchill's order.

As long as he can reach Durban and join the remaining 4 British troops, he can regain his foothold there.

Whether it is to conquer the Boers in the northwest according to the original plan, or go south to recover Cape Town, it is a direction to choose.

However, John Churchill is worthy of being Ximen Qing and Miss Ansa in England, and this peach blossom cannot be stopped even if it is lucky.

The rainy season is coming, and the African savannah is coming to the annual mating season, and the Zulus are no exception.

Zulu King Cetshwayo brought his beloved daughter to Basutoland to find a suitable consort.

[The Kingdom of Basutoland is the Kingdom of Lesotho. Like the Kingdom of Swaziland, it is still an independent country until the 21st century, and its land is completely surrounded by South Africa.

Both Basutoland and Swaziland are Bantu-Zulu people and are vassal states of the Zulu king.

The Zulu are a branch of the Bantu people.

Bantu people are now the largest ethnic group in Africa, including Rwanda, Congo, Xhosa, and Zulu. ]

On the outskirts of Basutoland, the Zulu king's guards encountered the [-] remnants of the British army unexpectedly.

Originally, the relationship between the Zulus and the British is not bad now.

Although the British government has always claimed to be the protectorate of the Zulu Emirate, and has also held the moral stick of abolishing slavery and equal rights to beat the Boers, but the Zulu people do not recognize themselves as the protectorate of the British Empire at all. Instead, they think that they are South Africa. real master.

Although they arrived in South Africa not necessarily much earlier than the Boers.

Of course, it is understandable that the Zulu people did not recognize the protectorate of Great Britain.

After all, except for a big mouth, Daying has not given Zulu people any benefits.

Even the personal guards of the Zulu king were all equipped with shields and spears, and their equipment was not as good as that of the Romans 2000 years ago. (as pictured)

But in any case, the Boers, who are more hostile to the Zulus, still exercise restraint towards the British.

But the strange thing is that it was Zhu Fugui, who was born out of nowhere, who took the side of Daying.

Since the Second Ming-French War, European countries have begun to change their costumes one after another.

This British army from the British mainland did not wear the old-fashioned lobster suit like the British army in the Cape Town colony.

As a result, these British remnants in gray-green uniforms were mistaken by the Zulus for the Boer militia.

The Zulu king's guard immediately launched an attack.

Historically, the Zulu Spearmen have had amazing upper and lower limits.

At the Battle of Blood River, a commando force of 500 Boers wiped out 3000 Zulus with zero casualties.

In the battle of Jinjindrafu, the Zulu raided the British hollow square, killing 1200 people, and the British army killed 2 and injured 52.

This is already close to the level of "I Daqing".

In the Battle of Isandelwana, the Zulu army wiped out 1300 well-equipped British troops in their prime with pure cold weapons, even without bows and arrows and horses.

Even Nazan's son was speared and killed by the Zulus.

With such a record, Xianfeng would be silent when he heard it, and Cixi would cry when he heard it.

In short, in South Africa, the strength of the Zulus is by no means the average player in the impression of the excellent matching mechanism in the African region.

It belongs to the big catfish in the Fish Pond Bureau and is very combative.

But this time, John Churchill and 1800 British troops, with incomplete weapons and equipment, low morale, and exhaustion, were helpless in the face of the Zulu ambush.

Most of the British soldiers were killed by spears, and some were captured by captives.

And John Churchill was obviously not a short-lived ghost like Nasi, and he did not die under the spears of the Zulus.

Not only that, but when John Churchill was almost burned alive, his handsome looks enough to seduce the countess and elope with the crown prince's mistress saved his life again.

The daughter of Zulu King Cetshwayo, Amanda Denamine Numpmerelo Ntuli, the 160-kilogram Zulu princess took a fancy to the handsome Marquess of England.

They are talented and beautiful, a match made in heaven, and none of the monsters present objected.

So, holding almost the same script as Zhu Fugui's back then, except that the actress was a little different, John Churchill became the son-in-law of the Zulu Emirate, and wailed like a pig butcher under the starry night.

But on the bright side, according to Zulu tradition, John Churchill could have several wives.

It should be considered earned.

The most important thing is that, by mistake, John Churchill became the chief consort of the Zulu Emirate and one of the effective heirs to the Zulu throne!

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In the end, Zhu Fugui authorized the Southern Tang Dynasty to act on behalf of Tianxunshou and accept Devashilan as the tributary state of Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the conventional conditions, the diplomatic power, the right to declare war and other parts of the sovereignty should be handed over to the suzerain.

Because according to the identification of Duke Li Shaoquan, the father of Dr. Sha Jingfang, the vice president of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty, and an expert in the fields of history, cultural relics identification, ethnology, and genetics, the land south of the Waal River has been the land of Zheng He since ancient times. According to Chinese practice, the territory of descendants should be returned to its true owner.

To put it simply, it is to request the Republic of Dvaziland to completely abandon its claim to the sovereignty of the Orange Free State, and agree to the Southern Tang Principality to annex the latter's land.

Such conditions are not without harshness.

However, considering that it is almost impossible to recover Orange, and De Vasilan originally wanted Orange more than the land of Orange, the Southern Tang side was just the opposite, so in the end Germany The Vasilian president, Pretorius the Younger, signed his name on the treaty anyway.

After Duke Hunde of Seattle and the two marquises of America, he is the fourth European leader to become a vassal of Ming Dynasty.

But compared to the first three, to be honest, Zhu Fugui thinks his loyalty has not been tested.

Chapter 744 Northern Barrier

Originally, what Zhu Fugui meant was that there was no need for Daming to intervene in a place like Devasland with a lot of boogers, and it would be okay to throw it as a fence to Nantang.

Anyway, there is no such thing as "the vassals of my vassals are not my vassals" in the Chinese tributary system.

What is important is whether the whole world is the land of the king, and whether the shore of the land is the king's minister.

My vassal's vassal is, of course, my vassal.

So Nantang, as one of the Five Flowers, has no problem in accepting one or two puppies.

After all, Angsa's five eyes are not all the stinky fish and rotten shrimps like Australia, there are also bands who are Wuchang, and they also have a lot of younger brothers.

Even a country like Australia, within Oceania, is bossy to those South Pacific island countries except New Zealand, and is not regarded as a human being, with a self-contained face.

Therefore, as the closest vassal states of Ming Dynasty, Chu, Tang and other countries will become low-to-middle powers sooner or later.

Of course, the upper limit cannot exceed the non-nuclear belt.

Don't look at South Africa, which has a suitable latitude, rich resources, and looks like a king.

But that's compared with whom.

If compared with other countries, it is indeed a place with unlimited potential.

Compared with the Fourth Empire of Ming Dynasty in the Pacific Rim, it is just rice grain fluorescence.

So Zhu Fugui is not afraid of him taking dogs.

But the problem is, in Brother Li's current situation, he doesn't have enough dog food, so how can he have the ability to raise a dog.

Don't say that Brother Li can't raise them. Brother Zuo tried to raise dogs in Afghanistan before. As a result, those puppet soldiers were pushed to the ground by the local imam's guards and beat them. The mud couldn't support the wall.

After all, it's not so easy to find a good dog like Wo Chaoyue, and Da Ming's father has already got there first.

So this time, De Vaslan paid tribute directly to the Son of Heaven, and Nantang was just acting as a middleman to get some benefits.

For the Boers, it is undoubtedly unacceptable to pay tribute to a pagan empire.

After all, Daming's bayonets were not yet on their necks.

Just as the Mongol Khan's scimitar was not on the necks of the Ross people, each of them was a heroic fighting nation.

The decision of Pretorius Jr. to relinquish departmental sovereignty and join the Ming tributary circle met with many voices of opposition.

There was even a Boer MP who had been agitating to join the British colonial administration, and even compared "kowtowing to the Asian emperor" to "granting black citizenship" an insult.

As a result, when the MP was out to talk to friends the next day, a frightened Shire horse broke free and knocked him over.

Known as the "Gentle Behemoth," the heavy draft horse weighed a ton and had hooves the size of a dustpan.

Stepping on Mr. Congressman's belly exploded directly, the picture is very miserable.

Although there are various indications that the death of this congressman is full of conspiracy, President Pretorius Jr. still went through the obituary and memorial service within four hours on the grounds that the rainy season will soon enter and the body is perishable. , funeral, cremation, and burial.

The reason why Pretorius Jr. was so eager to join the Ming Dynasty’s tributary circle, even at the risk of being disrespectful, and under the background of the autonomous system of the slave-owners’ parliament, he blatantly carried out assassination operations, naturally had his last resort.

Because the British declaration of war has arrived.

Objectively speaking, I, Daying, still pay attention to gentleman etiquette.

Never engage in undeclared war such a tasteless thing.

So this time they declared war on the Boers, they were going to submit a declaration of war to the Boers 32 minutes earlier than the Ming Dynasty in the first Ming-French War.

Moreover, in order to show the legitimacy of his eldest son, the governor of India, sending troops to attack Dvaslan, the elder Churchill first telegraphed the declaration of war from London to Calcutta, and then sent people from Calcutta to Pretonia to submit it.

It takes about a month to go back and forth, and all the processes are pre-arranged.

The Calcutta envoy had no idea that his new boss had disappeared, and he left the Durban fort before the fleet arrived.

Therefore, even though objectively the emergence of Nantang made the British unable to attack the Boers, and even if the Boers turned against them, they might still provide assistance, but the declaration of war full of arrogant words and explicit exploitation of interests , still arrived at the desk of Pretorius Jr. as scheduled.

Young Pretorius was of course appalled by the unabashed ambition, greed, and shamelessness of the English.

After the shock, there was deep panic.

Historically, the Boers were able to inflict heavy losses on the British in the Boer War, which was caused by a variety of objective factors, including the continuous assistance of the "international community".

Including supplies and volunteers.

For today's Devasland, it is almost impossible to defeat the British Expeditionary Force. They must find allies, or protectorates.

Daming is naturally the only choice.

Moreover, becoming a tributary state of Ming Dynasty means that Ming Dynasty will not annex Devasland.

This is undoubtedly a very crucial guarantee for a small country sandwiched between the two top powers in the world.

Of course, Little Pretorius tried his best to find out about the past of the Ming Empire.

His Majesty Zhu Fugui's good credit record, which promises everything, also gave him a lot of confidence, and he even didn't hesitate to kill noisy guys with a huge horse.

If you don't change your mind, you can change your head. Even a Boer country bumpkin who has never seen the world can learn it without a teacher after a long time in politics.