"Africa?!" Hou Dasheng was stunned for a moment. Benoit nodded and said, "Yes, Africa. Some things need special personnel to do there. Of course, you can bring the jackals. But what I ask is that you will lead the team and you will be responsible."

Hou Dasheng couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this. He looked at Benoit and said, "Our leader is a giant wolf. You should talk to our leader about this matter. It's not appropriate to talk to me."

"No! It's very suitable." Benoit looked at Hou Dasheng and whispered: "I trust you more than the giant wolf. You can know some situations that he doesn't know. As the executor of the mission, you must also know. Before talking to him, I will tell you first. As for how you communicate with him, that's your problem."

But when Benoit drank the wine in the glass, he slowly poured some into his glass again. Then he threw a piece of ice into his glass. He slowly stood up and walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling glass window on the side of the desk, looked at the dark manor and whispered: "Hou, do you know the relationship between Africa and France?!"

Africa and France have an indescribable relationship. This is not just a relationship between the colonies, but also a relationship with the suzerain state. There are too many love, hate and affection involved. If you really want to write it out, it is enough to write a few large-scale professional history books.

In the recorded war alone, more than one million soldiers were forced to Europe in Africa. Other porters and logistics workers were recruited, as many as two million! In the war, more than one hundred and seventy thousand soldiers were recruited in Algeria who went to France to participate in the war. Senegal paid more than one hundred and fourteen thousand soldiers.

By the end of the war, there were as many as 470,000 African soldiers recruited from African colonies in the entire French army. At the same time, there were also a large number of recruited laborers. There were only records that there were more than 130,000 African workers working in French factories at that time.

Not to mention the distant future, the importance of Africa on the battlefield in modern World War II and the efforts made by Africa in the war have been deliberately erased. Although relying on the efforts of African colonies, France has finally not missed the last bus and entered the position of the Five Constables of the United Nations.

At the beginning of World War II, France chose surrenderism. At that time, Charles de Gaulle fled with the support of the Cialis family and other forces opposed to surrenderism, and he fled to London. However, he sadly discovered that without the support of the army, he could not develop his free French concept.

But at the same time, he noticed a place that many people ignored - Africa. In 1940, De Gaulle took a great risk from England to Chad. The plane crashed, but De Gaulle miraculously survived. After surviving, he immediately moved his headquarters in Free France from London to Algiers.

Charles de Gaulle's Free France movement also achieved great success with his efforts. By 1943, French colonies such as Chad, Cameroon, Congo, etc. had successively announced the order of leaving the French Vichy government and joining the Free France.

At the same time, the main army of Free France also became an African native army. At that time, the French army that Charles de Gaulle could organize was less than 10,000. It was impossible to form combat forces at all. The African colonial army stationed near the equator, after the establishment of Free France, had more than 20,000 people directly joined the ranks of Free France.

This army, which was almost entirely composed of Africans, became the main force of Charles de Gaulle's war against Germany from 1942 to 1943. By the end of 1942, up to 120,000 African soldiers turned against Free France. Since then, hundreds of thousands of African soldiers have gradually joined the ranks of Free France.

By 1944, when Charles de Gaulle formed troops into armies of the Free French troops, he found that African-American soldiers had firmly occupied more than half of the number. A fact that many history did not mention or were unwilling to mention was that of the 400,000 troops fighting the German army in France at that time, nearly 300,000 were African-American soldiers!

"This is a fact that we have not mentioned, or deliberately ignored..." But Benoit smiled bitterly and said, "Because if it is mentioned, France will be extremely embarrassed. We actually need to rely on the strong support of the colonies to prevent our country from falling."

Hou Dasheng chose to remain silent about Benoit's words. He was not easy to evaluate this matter, but France did have a very poor performance in this matter. This is probably one of the reasons why France's international status was not very high after the war. Although it was also one of the Five Constant Persons.

"Many people think General Charles de Gaulle is willing to be independent of those colonies, but in fact he does not want the colonies to be independent. He is helpless." Benoit spread his hands and smiled bitterly at Hou Dasheng: "Why did the colonies support 'free France' so much?! It's because General Charles de Gaulle promised to change France's colonial policy."

After pausing, Benoit looked at Hou Dasheng and whispered: "Do you think France is an ungrateful country? No, we are not. The biggest reason why General De Gaulle was not elected after World War II was that he did not want to have to fulfill his promise to the colony..."

Hou Dasheng was stunned when he heard this, but he immediately understood that Charles de Gaulle obtained strong support from the colony during World War II because he promised to change the colony policy. But at that time, World War II was over, and if he came to power, then whether to change the colony policy would become a problem that France and he had to face.

The method to avoid this problem is very simple, that is, not to be elected! Yes, this will perfectly avoid the problem of changing colonial policies. No one can talk about the problem of France or Charles de Gaulle because of this. How can he implement his own policy if he was not elected?!

"But those idiots are really wastes who can only make trouble but not work." Benoit looked at Hou Dasheng helplessly and sighed: "So, General Charles de Gaulle had to come out again in the end. Then he was responsible for building the current Fifth Republic of France."

Hou Dasheng knew about this history. France was in a mess during that period. In just a few years from 1947 to 1953 after World War II, France changed its 13th cabinet. During this period, even if Charles de Gaulle did not implement the colonial reform policy, the colony also experienced great chaos.

*******, Morocco, Algeria, etc., large-scale armed uprisings occurred in the former French colonies. At that time, France had already been full of war, and Vietnam also failed. Almost all of France's overseas territories had problems, and the continuous wars made the whole of France exhausted and the finances were also dragged down.

In desperation, Charles de Gaulle had to come out again. After he came out, he had to face the first question: how to deal with the problem between France and the colonies. But was France so willing to withdraw from Africa?! This was obviously impossible. The self-esteem of the old imperialist made them try every means to continue to control Africa.

"What a painful spiritual test for a person of my age and education like me... to hand over our power in those places and roll up our banner. Close this great history..." This is the original words of Charles de Gaulle. He did not want to lose Africa.

He still hoped to control the entire Africa as a sovereign. However, this seemed so ridiculous in the face of the wave of colonial independence that swept the world at that time. Of course, the unwilling De Gaulle would not give up directly. He chose a way. In 1958, he made a trip to Africa.

He brought his "Constitution of the Fifth French Republic" to Africa after several struggles. This thing seems to have given colonies a choice: either independence or stay within the community of the French Republic.

However, anyone can understand the subtext: those who stay will receive the assistance given by France. If you leave, you will get nothing!

This is France's last fragile dignity. De Gaulle tried to use this method to at least make African countries appear to be one with France. However, there are also countries that are unwilling to comply with his wishes. Guinea is such a country. Then when he is independent, the paralysis of the entire official organization begins.

The French took away everything they could take away, even office phones and stationery. At the beginning of their establishment, the whole of Guinea was facing almost everything that was deserted.

This kind of killing the chicken to warn the monkey seemed to have played a role. De Gaulle used this method to make most colonies choose the "France Community". Of course, there are also disobedient people among them, such as the rebellious Algeria. When De Gaulle's policy no longer works, he chose to try to use force to make the other party surrender.

However, the seven-year war increased to 800,000 troops, but Algeria still did not surrender. Faced with the collapsed fiscal economy, Charles de Gaulle had no choice but to stop. For this reason, he was even opposed by those who once supported him, such as Ma Xu, commander of the French Legion in Algeria.

"We can no longer enter Africa. You probably know the things that happened in the past few years..." Benoit said to Hou Dasheng with a discomfort, looking a little disgusting. How could Hou Dasheng not know that that incident made the whole of France lose all his face.

It can even be said that this matter will always be with France. This will become a stain that this country will never wash away. This matter is the Rwandan Massacre.

Within two months, more than 800,000 civilians were killed. As much as 10% of Rwanda's population disappeared. The world was shocked! And France was extremely embarrassed in this matter...
Chapter completed!