June 2, 1898.
Black Point, capital of the Belgian Congo.
Nares and his party, employees of the East-Belgian Trading Company, had completed this round of trade with the Belgians. As an East African employee who had conducted trade in the Belgian Congo year-round since 1886, Nares had discovered an astonishing fact during this trip.
After returning to Luanda, he gave the company a detailed report of what he had seen and heard in the Belgian Congo, which subsequently drew the East African government's attention.
To verify the accuracy of this information, East Africa once again organized personnel to secretly investigate the Belgian Congo in July.
Thus, in 1898, the East African government reached a startling conclusion: it had discovered that Chinese immigrants already made up an overwhelming majority of the Belgian Congo's population. Though there was no data to support it, once East Africans ventured deep into the Belgian Congo, no one could deny this fact.
That was, the local natives had most likely been completely wiped out. From 1897 to 1898, East African personnel in the Belgian colony had not found a single native.
This indicated that the local Black people had been completely exterminated by the Belgian colonizers. Naturally, this excluded the Black people East Africa had transported into the Belgian Congo, but they too were outsiders and did not count as natives.
In other words, the natives of the Belgian Congo might now have gone extinct, while its present population had all come from elsewhere, including Belgians, Chinese immigrants, and Black slaves from Angola.
After the East African government occupied Angola, it had transported more than a hundred thousand diehards loyal to Portugal during the South African War into the Belgian Congo. These diehards had become the main Black population of the Belgian Congo, yet in only