Chapter 314 Trade and Conflict
The town of Badele in the Turkana Province of the East African Kingdom is one of the northernmost towns in the Turkana Province. It is also a trading market set up by the East African Kingdom.
In the early morning, the market opens in Badelei.
Abyssinian caravans from all over southern Abyssinia brought horses, cattle, sheep, camels and some agricultural specialties raised by the Abyssinians to the town of Badele for trading.
"A total of one hundred and fifty muskets arrived at the shop today. They are of excellent performance. You can bid freely. The one with the highest price will get it." As a specialized arms store reported its products.
Instantly everyone started competing to bid.
"I will give you thirty Abyssinian horses." Bubuya Weiss, a businessman from the Tigray region in northern Abyssinia, said.
Abyssinian horses are a specialty of Abyssinia and are also produced in Turkana Province in East Africa.
As soon as his bid was exported, it scared off many small caravans interested in buying Abyssinia. Northern Abyssinia is the core area of the Abyssinian Empire, and the Tigray region is the core area of Abyssinia. The birthplace of the empire, many ruling families of the Abyssinian Empire have roots in the Tigray region, and Bubuyawes is a member of the Zagwe family in the Tigray region.
Just when Bubuyaweis thought he had won this batch of goods, a discordant voice suddenly came, "Hehehe, the Yankees also want to ride on our heads. We are happy to come to the family to provide thirty Abis." Sinian horses, and a camel.”
This is a businessman named Oudley Kevin from the southern Amhara region of the Abyssinian Empire. It is obvious that Oudley Kevin is also determined to obtain these firearms.
Bubuyaweisi took a closer look and saw that he was an "old rival". He mocked unceremoniously: "It turns out they are a small family from Amhara. How can they be compared with our Zagwe family? Our Zagwe family But as one of the three top families in the empire, if I add ten Amhara donkeys, these guns will be mine."
The East African businessman was stunned for a moment, then asked: "Mr. Bubuyaweis, are you talking about ten donkeys?"
Bubuyawes: "It's ten donkeys, but they're just ten donkeys from Amhara. They're still stupid donkeys with the same brains as Amway's Lai family."
"You..." Kevin Oudley's blood pressure rose instantly, "Okay, okay, let's play like this, right? I'll also add ten lame camels from the Zagwe family of Tigray."
East African businessman: "Uh! Mr. Odley Kevin, disabled livestock have to be discounted."
Obviously, Oudley Kevin did not really want to trade with the lame camel, but just to humiliate the Zagwe family. The East African businessman misunderstood what he meant, but Oudley Kevin was very happy.
O'Deli Kevin: "You are right, lame camels have to be discounted. I just said that Zagwe's lame camels are not worth the price! Hahaha..."
"You bastard..." Bubu Yaweisi was angered by the sarcasm and went up to start a free fight with Oudley Kevin.
The East African staff with quick eyesight and quick hands hurriedly tried to restrain both parties, but both parties obviously refused to give up, and a group of people gathered around and fought.
Seeing that he couldn't stop the fight, the store owner had no choice but to blow his warning whistle, followed by a sharp trailing "oo" sound.
After hearing the news, the East African Mounted Police from the town of Bedelai came. A dozen horses came from outside the market, armed with sticks, to drive away the Abyssinian businessmen who were struggling together.
soon.
"Please be quiet, this is a public place, not a place for fighting," said Bedelai Police Chief Cruz angrily.
At this time, the two fighting parties had already squatted in a row, listening to Cruz's lecture, and were surrounded by Abyssinian people eating melons. It was rare to see these big families being defeated, and it was really interesting.
"Bodelai is a fair trade market. Everything depends on money, not on whoever is stronger in force can be arrogant. You should feel lucky that it is me who is here, not the border guards, otherwise they will not tolerate you. Now Return to trading and don’t do anything again, otherwise I will let you know how powerful our East African police are. Everyone else should leave and continue trading.”
After stabilizing the normal order in the market, Cruise left, leaving only Bubuya Weiss and Odley Kevin looking angrily at each other, but they no longer dared to do anything casually, and the East African's baton hit them. It really hurts.
In the end, Oudley Kevin won the batch of firearms for the price of thirty horses and eleven "Zagwe Lame" camels.
But when leaving the city, Bubuyaweis said viciously: "Asshole! When you get to Abyssinia, you'd better pray that nothing happens!"
Kevin Oudley said with a proud face: "I really thought this was Tigray! I'm waiting for your revenge."
Kevin Oudley's confidence came from the guns he had just obtained. With the weapons in hand and the caravans in hand, he was an expert who had been around Abyssinia all year round, so he would naturally not be afraid.
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North of the town of Badele is Negmot, the southernmost city of the Abyssinian Empire. The relationship between East Africa and the Abyssinian Empire is still good, and there is almost no major conflict of interest between the two parties. This is why the establishment of Badele trading market reasons.
Although East Africa was wary of the forces within the Abyssinian Empire when it expanded to the Ethiopian Plateau, that was all.
East Africa has never really invaded Abyssinia from beginning to end. Naturally, there is no conflict or contradiction. At most, the southern neighbors have changed from black indigenous people to white people. This naturally caused the rulers of southern Abyssinia to express their dissatisfaction. Be vigilant. After all, Britain, France, Italy, and Egypt are eyeing the Abyssinian Empire on the Red Sea coast, and there are lessons learned from the British invasion. It is impossible to want the Abyssinians to relax their vigilance.
Yes, the Italians also briefly owned a "colony" on the Red Sea coast, namely the Port of Assab in northern Djibouti. In 1869, Italian colonist Giuseppe Zapeto's private colonial company-Rubatino Company and The tribal chiefs of Assab on the Red Sea coast signed an agreement to purchase the port of Assab. However, Egypt opposed this and sent troops to occupy Assab. Italy's colonization of Assab was temporarily frustrated.
So now Italy has no colonies in Africa, but the Rubatino Company has not completely withdrawn from the Port of Assab and is still looking for opportunities to make a comeback. Now they have a good opportunity. The Kingdom of Italy is deliberately invading Abyssinia. The empire needs a landing port, and on the Red Sea coast, only Rubatino Company is considered Italian, so the Royal Government of Italy recruited Rubatino Company, a full ten years earlier than in history, but now Assab Port is still in Egyptian hands and needs long-term planning.
It can be seen from the Assab Port plotted by the Kingdom of Italy that almost all forces compete fiercely near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. In the previous life, Djibouti was the center, the French Somaliland Colony in the middle, the British Somaliland Colony in the southeast, and the British Somaliland Colony in the north. Eritrea is the Egyptian sphere of influence mixed with Italian civilian colonial groups in the Gulf of Assab, while the Abyssinian Empire is in the west, and the Dire Dawa military town of the East African Kingdom is in the southwest, plus the remaining forces of the Ottoman Empire. The tens of thousands of square kilometers of land on the west coast of the small Bab el-Mandeb Strait are crowded with countries and tribes, and the source of all this is because of the opening of the Suez Canal.
The most aggrieved ones are undoubtedly the Abyssinian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. One is surrounded by landlocked countries, and although the other is the nominal master of the local area, in fact Egypt has already been removed from the Ottoman Empire because of the Albanian macho Ali who descended from the sky. became independent while inheriting most of its assets west of the Sinai Peninsula.
Interestingly, Eritrea was snatched from the Abyssinian Empire by the Ottoman Empire in its heyday in 1557, and is now part of Egypt. This is one of the reasons for the bad relations between Egypt and the Abyssinian Empire. Coupled with the disputes over the interests of the two parties in the Sudan, the hatred is simply adding to the hatred. When the British invaded the Abyssinian Empire before, Egypt even took advantage of the fire to rob the Abyssinian Empire.
There is no territorial conflict between East Africa and the Abyssinian Empire. Although East Africa occupied the southern part of Ethiopia in the previous life, the Abyssinian Empire never ruled it. In the previous life, southern Ethiopia was merged into the Abyssinian Empire in 1872. By 1896, during the reign of Menelik II, Menelik II also moved the capital south to Addis Ababa in the central Ethiopian plateau in 1886, and now the Abyssinian Empire is the most powerful force. It was Johannes IV who was supported by the British, and Menelik II was now the king of the Kingdom of Shoa (equivalent to a conquered tributary of the Abyssinian Empire).