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The defeated Jansen attack became a political scandal that caused sensation in Europe. Before learning how the last scene of the ridiculous and tragic drama he directed ended, Cecil Rhodes proposed to resign as prime minister in the Cape colony, while the sly Chamberlain insisted that he had no idea in advance.

Seeing that Britain's adventure in South Africa ended in a farce, German Emperor William II gloated and sent a telegram to President Kruger at the instigation of the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, he congratulated him on his "... Without seeking help from friendly countries, he fought against the aggression with his own strength, defeated the armed groups that invaded your country, rebuilt peace, and safeguarded national independence."

The Germans used this incident to make a big fuss, wooing France and Russia, trying to form a continental alliance to put pressure on Britain, allowing Britain to make concessions in the division of overseas colonies. A German cruiser cruising in the Indian Ocean also tried to send a team to land in Portuguese Mozambique and use the route to Pretoria to "support" Kruger, but these people were politely blocked by Portuguese officials in Mozambique.

Queen Victoria wrote a letter to criticize this arrogant and arrogant German grandson out of resentment from William's behavior. The German Emperor's telegram caused a sharp deterioration of British and German relations, and also made the British, who became more warlike after the Fasauda incident, decided to have a general liquidation with the Boers, to crush the Transvaal Republic and its vassal, the Orange Free State, and solve the South African issue once and for all.

With the support of these war-crazy warriors, the warlike Salisbury became the prime minister of the British Empire. Rosbury, who advocated a peaceful settlement of the dispute, failed to run for prime minister and had to leave Downing Street sadly. The British Empire became a country full of gunpowder, and the Transvaal Republic was the first to be brunt.

After Salisbury came to power, he immediately instructed the colonial minister Chamberlain to "change Britain's inaction on the African continent" and Chamberlain understood it. Soon after, Sir Robinson, the British High Commissioner to South Africa, "retired", a fanatical imperialist, born in Bonn, Germany and of German descent, Sir Alfred Milner, went to Cape Town to take over the "one of the most difficult positions of the empire" and promote his policy of aggression.

Cecil Rhodes, who had a keen sense of smell, immediately realized that Lord Milner was the one he wanted. In Cape Town, Jan Hofmer, president of the Afrika Congress, commented that "his arrival means a war will break out." The three troika Chamberlain Rhodes Milner who conquered South Africa have been:

On the other hand, the Transvaals stepped up their combat readiness and purchased a large amount of arms from the Krupp, Skoda Arsenal and the French company Schneid-Crusoe, including the first artillery, Mauser rifle, and machine guns. They were not only equipped to the Republic's police forces (equivalent to regular troops), but also distributed to militias in the towns of Transvaal and Orange. The "reliable" Boers living in the Cape and Natal colonies also received weapons and ammunition provided by the Secret Intelligence Agency of South Africa.

In addition, the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State also established a federal meeting in 1896 to coordinate anti-British operations. The British and Boers continued to implement their respective South African policies through economic and diplomatic means, but neither of them worked. In order to clear the obstacles and achieve their goals, both sides were determined to resort to war. By the time Lord Milner took office, there was already tension between the British and the Boers.

After Milner took office, Chamberlain immediately sent him a document listing the unfair treatment received by British expatriates in Transvaal, and mentioned the foreshadowing of "socile sovereignty" in the London Treaty in 1884, that is, telling him that Britain was not prepared to recognize Transvaal as an independent and sovereign country, but a vassal state of Britain. In this way, the opportunity for equal status negotiations between the two countries through diplomatic means was eliminated by Chamberlain.

In 3rd in 1896, Rhodes rushed to Berlin and reached a secret deal with the German Emperor. During negotiations with the German Foreign Minister, Rhodes revealed to Germany that Britain was determined to annex the Boer Republic and build a plan to run across the African railway from Cape Town to Cairo. As a transaction condition, Britain supported Germany's "Berlin-Baghdad Railway" operation and encouraged Germany to purchase the Carolina and Mariana Islands in the Pacific from the Spanish who had just been defeated by the United States. In this way, Britain was able to turn Germany's attention away from South Africa and let go of Transvaal and Orange. France was seeking cooperation with Russia at this time and had no time to take care of the British's actions. The Netherlands and other countries had limited national strength, and the routes to Africa were all under the control of the British, so they could not help.

Transvaal's diplomatic efforts failed again, and they could only carry out secret cooperation with the Northeast Republic, the first batch of martial arts

Later, he expressed his hope to get the Northeast Republic. This time the request was rejected by Zhao Gang. "The Northeast Republic cannot provide any help to your country in the form of a state. All the help you get is the business of our merchants. But our country will not oppose some people going to your country to carry out the controversial liberation cause in the name of volunteers." Under Zhao Gang's suggestion, a huge support activity swept across Europe.

The support movement is the most powerful in the Netherlands and Belgium. In these two countries, out of national feelings for fellow Dutch people from South Africa, many civil groups have been formed, recruited funds, published articles, established foundations, and donated wartime mobile hospitals and medical equipment to Transvaal. Although the German Emperor reached a political deal with the United Kingdom, the German support movement among the Germans has also been higher and higher, with 950,000 people signed their support for the Transvaal Republic.

In the United States, because some American foreigners were treated unfairly in Transvaal, and the US chaebols had close business exchanges with British mining capitalists, the US government maintained a neutral position. However, the descendants of Dutch immigrants in the United States, most of the middle class and working class, supported the Boers. Thousands of volunteers from the Netherlands, Germany, France, the United States, Russia, Ireland, Italy and Scandinavian countries traveled across the ocean to Transvaal, preparing to fight side by side with the Boers.

Among these people, there were fifty volunteers from the Northeast Republic. Their leader was Major Zhao Shizhen. The fifty volunteers led by them were elites in the army. Their mission was to do their best to assist the Boers in fighting the British invaders, but their actual purpose desecrates such a sacred slogan. Major Zhao Shizhen also clearly remembers Zhao Gang's words: "To provoke a war between the British and the Boers by any means and remove the British attention from China, not only should the Boers learn to fight regular wars, but also to fight guerrilla warfare. In short, we must find ways to make the war long-term and cruel, and we can use scorched earth policy when not needed!"

For Major Zhao Shizhen, Zhao Gang is the god in his mind, and Zhao Gang's words should be implemented without any hesitation. The most important thing now is to gain the recognition of President Transvaal. At present, the president does not value his own group, and pays more attention to volunteers from European powers such as Germany and France. Major Zhao Shizhen remained silent and secretly planned an action, an action that triggered conflicts in advance.

In South Africa, the newly appointed Lord Milner made full use of the dissatisfaction of the foreigners and incited 21,000 British foreigners in Transvaal to write a tearful letter in 18964, presenting it to Queen Victoria. In May of that year, Milner and Kruger held the last negotiation on foreign issues in Bloemfontein. Kruger, who was determined to start the war, tried his best to delay the time. Because he knew that the Boer militia could not be without horses when fighting, and horses could not be without grass when fighting. Now South Africa is still in winter. There is nothing but stones, sand and dry shrubs on the grasslands, and Transvaal's hay reserves are about to be exhausted.

He had to wait until July, when the first spring rain began, grass grew in the wastelands of South Africa. On the other hand, Milner did not aim at negotiations. While the British were negotiating, they seized time to dispatch troops from overseas to South Africa. At this time, there were only 3,500 British troops stationed in the Cape colony, 5,800 in the Tal colony, and 24 cannons. The 30,000 militia in Transvaal and the 20,000 Orange people who took up weapons, as well as the many unreliable Afrikaans in Cape and Natal. The British's military strength was obviously not enough to prevent the Boers' attacks, let alone provoking wars.

Although the troops were insufficient, the British, who were the banner of power politics, had already acted as prepared to bully the weak. Faced with the aggressive Britain, almost the entire Western world launched sympathy and solidarity with the Bourne Republic in 1896. The number of countries that had offended were some of them, including the grievances between those countries themselves and Britain).

In 18964, Kruger told Milner that he could consider reducing the residence period for foreigners to obtain citizenship from 14 years to 5, but asked Britain to stop proposing the inexplicable "socile sovereignty" to the Republic of Transvaal in the future + Kruger's reply: "... Her Majesty's Government believes that the reply of the Government of the Republic of South Africa is negative or non-decisive... Her Majesty's Government reserves the right to reconsider the current situation and take corresponding last resort." In order to increase military pressure to Transvaal, Britain dispatched two thousand people from India and the Mediterranean to reinforce the Natal colony. However, this army was obviously insufficient to achieve Milner's dream of military conquest, and it was more than enough to arouse the Boers' doubts.
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