Hearing Backhausen say that, Vincent had no choice but to calm down. Now that he thought about it, this was truly a loss. He should have included the land across the river in his farm from the start. Back then, he had thought that there was no one to the west anyway, and that he could develop it once the farm had enough manpower. In the end, this so-called Kingdom of East Africa had exploited the loophole.
As for the Khoisan people and other natives living on the west bank of the Limpopo River, they did not count as "people" in the Republic of the Transvaal. The labor force on Boer farms consisted mostly of black slaves. East Africa also used slaves, but it had no explicit written provision to that effect. In East African official documents, natives were laborers of "undetermined nationality," and in truth, that was indeed the case. Most African natives had no concept of a nation; they only remembered which tribe they had once belonged to.
Both East Africa and the Republic of the Transvaal had slaves, but they used them differently. For the sake of rule, ordinary East Africans still had to work, but the Boers were different. Once they had slaves, who would still farm the land themselves? Vincent's farm was the same. The whites only needed to maintain control of the armed force and suppress the slaves whenever necessary.
"Mm, Backhausen, since they are Germans, could they have appeared here because they intend to make a move against our Republic of the Transvaal?" Having calmed down, Vincent instead began to worry.
"This, boss, is hard to say. But according to what they said, as long as we do not cross the boundary—so long as we do not cross the river—they will not trouble