After dinner, Joey led Professor Lishehofen to the crown prince's study early.

After Professor Lishehofen's students spread the huge map on their desks, they were asked to wait outside the door to receive the necessary summons. Joey lay on the map, carefully watching the signs and instructions of the relevant minerals on the two geological zones on the map.

When Li Xixoffen came in the afternoon, he basically didn't see Joey's wonderful performance at the salon, so he looked at Joey in surprise while thinking about something in a notebook.

"Dear Professor Lishehofen." Joey asked suddenly, breaking his silence, "Do you know that those places belong to the sphere of influence of those countries in the two geological belts?"

"Well, I know Joey." Professor Lischhofen replied, "I can point it out for you now."

"Dear Professor Li Xihofen, please wait for me. I will prepare something and please mark it for me." Joey said as he ran out of the crown prince's study.

When Joey knocked on the door of the Crown Prince's study again, Professor Lischhofen was discussing the topic of transformation of German patent protection with the Crown Prince.

Joey posted several notes of different colors with words written on the blank space of Professor Lixihofen's map, and then held a handful of colorful notes in his hand, standing next to the map, quietly listening to his father's communication with Professor Lixihofen.

After a while, Professor Li Xihofen noticed Joey next to the map. The professor raised his hands gently and shook his head, "Look at me, I just chatted with His Royal Highness and forgot the most important thing tonight." After that, he led the Royal Highness to the map.

"Dear Professor Lishehofen, you forgot what spheres of influence in Africa are now? Do you need to point it out for me first?" Joey asked with a smile.

"I almost forgot, come on Joey, I'll point it out for you." Then Professor Lishehofen pointed out whose power belonged to those places.

Based on Professor Richhoven's guidance, Joey also inserted the paper strips of different colors one by one with pins in the corresponding position, each color represents a country. An intuitive distribution map of African mineral resources and power is presented to Crown Frederick and everyone.

Professor Li Xihofen looked at his map and dressed up by Joey's colored paper strips, which made him look more intuitive and vivid. He couldn't help but look at Joey more and said, "Joey, you have a good method, and using color to display is indeed more intuitive."

Joey smiled and didn't speak, but thought of his past life in his mind. "The simplest and most intuitive thing about the color block segmentation graphics are the color blocks, which is really nothing."

On this map of 1879, it was already a bit like the influence of European countries in Africa when the Berlin Conference was held in September 1884.

North African winners represent France in blue, which occupies Algeria; gray Ottoman Turkey occupy Libya; red British occupy Sudan and Somalia. This is also mixed with the Spanish strongholds Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa. Egypt in 1879 was still in the red and blue conglomerate of Britain and France, while the Yar Islands and Madeira Islands were in the hands of the green Portuguese.

The situation in East Africa is better than that in North Africa. The coastal Eritrea, Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda are still blank. Only Somalia belongs to the red UK and the Seychelles belongs to the blue France.

Although Central Africa is still a large number of unopened virgin lands, such as Chad, Central Africa, Cameroon, Gabon, and Congo, have not yet entered the sight of Europeans, the Spaniards and the Portuguese still rely on their lead in the Age of Discovery to seize two strongholds in Central Africa. Equatorial Guinea was occupied by Spain, and Sao Tome Principe was in the hands of the Portuguese.

West Africa should be the most thoroughly divided area by European countries (even distant Americans) in 1879. The yellow Spaniards occupied the Western Sahara and the Garina Islands; the green Portuguese owned Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands; the blue French obtained Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Mauritania; the red British had the most territory, including Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Nigeria; and the Americans also secretly obtained Liberia after the Civil War more than a decade ago.

At present, except for the six inner regions of West Africa, Burkina Faso and Niger have not been obtained by the long-handed Frenchmen, which means that the Germans finally left them to catch 6 o'clock in the coastal areas of West Africa: Togo and Benin.

As for the southern African states, the British were basically dominant, and there was South Africa, the British crown gem that was later crowned by the British. Of course, South Africa controlled by the British in 1879 was not the same as South Africa today. At that time, the British South Africa was composed of the Royal Dominion of Cape Town, the Transvaal Republic and Basutoran (Lesotho).

In addition to the British's future crown gems, South Africa, the British also controlled Zambia and Mauritius, and Swaziland was also protected by it; the green Portuguese controlled Angola and Mozambique; the blue French controlled Madagascar, Comoros, Reunion and Saint Helena. The entire southern Africa is also left with only the blank areas of Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia.

Of course, there is also a 6-unit colony of Nyasalam (Malawi), a German colony, which belongs to the Germans, which is a small colony close to the Boers. Without the small highlights of this African colony, Germany before 1879 would be blank in Africa.

Looking at the distribution map of African forces marked under the guidance of Professor Lishehoven, Joey couldn't help but feel silent. Many so-called German Empire researchers later criticized Bismarck for not being enterprising in the African colonies and not opening up colonies.

Joey looked at this map and wanted to say, "You have a good look at the map of Africa in 1879. How much territory will the Germans be left on the coast of Africa? In the era of Discovery, the Spanish and Portuguese relied on the lead in the golden triangle trade to make the best land in Africa; then the British and French relied on the rise after the First Industrial Revolution to make the second fertile land in Africa again. In the coastal areas of Africa, there were not many pieces of land left for the Germans.

What's more, after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Germans obtained the first real national unity. A German that was beaten by the French decades ago was asked to become more and more old colonial powers than ten years after its founding, Britain and France, and have a large colony in Africa... Are you experts or bricks?!

Although the French shouted that colonies were everything after the Franco-Prussian War, they actually started to grab African territory after the greedy Belgian King Leopold II explored the Congo River in 1879.

So in 1878, the British Disraelly claimed that the African colonies were millstones around the neck of the empire, because before gold and diamonds were found in South Africa in 1884, South Africa was just a barely self-sufficient animal husbandry colony. For the British Empire, India was the crown of the empire.

So in 1872, Prime Minister Bismarck shouted that for the Germans, the African colonies were more like a Polish nobleman who did not wear shirts, and the soft black mink coat draped on his vest was beautiful, but in addition to being beautiful, they were stuffy and heavy.

Before 188o, countries did not pay attention to Africa's feelings. Africa was the place of black slaves in the traditional thinking of Europeans. As the first Europe to propose abolitionist idea, it long ago did not need the economic income brought by the slave trade. Before a large amount of minerals and raw materials were found, the poor African indigenous people had no economic ability to consume European industrial products. An Africa that could not bring any benefits was of course disliked by all the famous European politicians of that era.

Otherwise, according to the Russians' greed for land and their desire for warm sea water, they rushed to Africa during the reign of Peter the Great, and there would be a few hundred years later, in the Red Empire period, and they would compete for the sphere of influence in Africa.

There is also the weakness of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but it is always stronger than Belgium, a third-rate country. If Africa was really so good before 188o, since the Austro-Hungarian Empire was instigated by the French to take the throne of Mexico in 1864, there is no reason not to build an African colony before 187o. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is not like Austria in later generations, but it has a dignified seaport.
Chapter completed!