Stakes

East Africa's war against Angola's remaining forces—or rather, against the plantation owners and mine owners—had been utterly one-sided. Even the Kingdom's army had already been defeated; these plantation owners, who survived by enslaving "black slaves," had no way of making the black slaves fight for them wholeheartedly.

When trouble came, they really charged forward! No—when trouble came, they ran faster than anyone. But that was a good thing for East Africa. No matter how they ran, so long as they remained on East African soil, the fate of these black people had long since been arranged by East Africa.

November 12, 1888.

First Town.

"Currently, all military operations against Angola have basically concluded. After conducting a count, we found that there are a little over 130,000 Portuguese in total, including soldiers and civilians. There are not many Portuguese in Angola's interior, and many of those along the coast have already fled back to the Portuguese homeland by ship." Svit reported Angola's current situation to Ernst.

Ernst asked, "Only a little over 130,000?"

After all, Portugal had ruled Angola for several centuries. Such a small population did not match Ernst's expectations, especially since quite a few among them were troops from the Portuguese homeland.

Strictly speaking, these troops from the Portuguese homeland could not be counted as Angola's local Portuguese population. They had only temporarily remained in Angola because of the war.

Svit explained, "There are also many mixed-race descendants of Portuguese and natives, but we did not count them as Portuguese. I imagine the Portuguese themselves are unlikely to be interested in these black people."

Under the United States' one-drop rule, Portugal's mixed-race descendants would certainly also count as black. Unlike Portuguese whites, they had no family ties in the homeland, so they were not worth much. The Portuguese