"We are German merchant ships and have paid all the fees as required by your country and completed all the procedures. You cannot prevent us from leaving the port." Captain Per yelled at the Portuguese official standing in front of him.

"I am not stopping your ship from leaving the port, but stopping illegal smuggling. The black people on your ship are not qualified to go out to work," said the Portuguese.

"How is it possible? For these people, we have paid the employment fees to your government, and some of the others are free people we hire!" Captain Pell argued.

"No, no, no, they are property of the Kingdom of Portugal. All migrant workers must go through the permission of the Portuguese government. There are only more than 700 people on your ship who have completed the relevant procedures, and the remaining 500 people are illegally leaving the country." Portuguese officials insisted.

In order to save human resources, the Germans directly contacted the indigenous chiefs of Angola and bypassed the Portuguese government. Such dismissal naturally caused the latter's dissatisfaction. At first, dozens or hundreds of people were still tolerated, but later, the labor dispatch of hundreds of people was often unbearable.

According to the Portuguese colonial authorities, at least 15,000 labor dispatches per year do not comply with the "relevant rules". The Germans have used commercial freedom to refuse labor dispatches led by the Portuguese government. The final result of the confrontation between the two sides is naturally that the Arrow merchant ship was detained in Portugal. Since ancient times, merchants have not fought with officials. How big can a merchant cause in other people's territory?

Then, the incident that was originally unexpected by Prince Ruprecht quickly fermented and expanded! After the Yaro was detained by Cape Morro, less than a week, four German merchant ships were detained in Angola for carrying "illegal" husbands.

Subsequently, the owners of these merchant ships were charged for carrying a total of 2,100 "illegal workers"! In the end, the Portuguese colonial authorities used this as an excuse to announce that the German ship owners needed to pay up to 150,000 marks of compensation for the charge. In the end, the copy of this subpoena came to the prince...

That’s right, it’s when I arrived at the prince, because the backstage bosses of these ship owners were the Bavarian royal family! Because Namibia has a shortage of population, the princes who are engaged in diamond mining need a large amount of labor. Half of the so-called “illegal labor” of the Portuguese government are the result of the operation of the Bavarian royal family!

"Is Portugal crazy?" The prince looked at the summons in his hand and his mouth twitched! "Okay, tell Xiao Moltke and the others that the self-destruction ship we prepared was useless. This is enough for us to solve Portugal." It took no time to get a broken iron shoe! The prince never expected that when he worked hard to find an excuse, someone would send the excuse directly......

"But this is not normal! How dare Portugal be unable to get along with Germany? There will be no conspiracy behind this, right?" the prince murmured in a low voice. A small country should be a human being with its tail. When it has the support of a big country, you can jump a few times. Without the support of a big country, what is the difference between this and committing suicide?

"So what should we do now?" asked Count Schelling, who was beside him.

"If they want to deal with it coldly, they will fasten it, but they must not surrender, so we will waste time with them!" the prince thought for a while and said.

"However, there are 500 laborers detained on the Yaro alone. The daily diet of these people is a problem. The most important thing is that the telegram sent two days ago said that the Portuguese had begun to refuse to sell food to the Yaro, and many people were forced to leave the ship." Earl Schelling said.

"Okay! Don't we have a boat in Namibia? Just transport food and water sources over? Hold on to me, don't be afraid! Also, contact me several media to hype this matter. The bigger the trouble, the better. I don't need to teach you this matter, right?" the prince ordered.

"This kind of action that dares to challenge the dignity of the German Empire will inevitably be subject to a strong counterattack from the empire!" The Count said with a slight owing his body.

"Puff..." The prince had just drank half a cup of black tea and vomited out all the time.

"You are stupid! You can't even find entry points? You can't take some high-end things?" The prince gave the Count a blank look: "Well, human freedom is a right granted by God. You can choose your work and lifestyle freely. The dirty slavery has been despised by civilized society. Today, in the distant Africa, there are still such a small group of people engaged in dirty industries! This is a regression in history! It is a challenge to the bottom line of civilization and human morality!"

Although the prince also has many contract workers who have signed a sales agreement, it does not prevent the prince from standing on the commanding heights of human morality to attack his opponents. Of course, the treatment of these contract workers is much better than their African counterparts. At least one meal a day can be guaranteed. There is still some extra money to buy some industrial products dumped from Germany to Africa...

"Damn, the leader is the leader..." Earl Schelling was also convinced, not because of this sentence, but because this sentence was finally said from the prince. As one of the prince's number one followers, he understood a little bit of what the prince did. At least one-third of the responsibility for the defeat of the Chinese and Russian fleets in the Spanish-American War is to be counted on the prince... A person's face can be so thick that he can humiliate the other party, and then drink and talk to him. This is also a skill!

"So what to do with military affairs?" asked Hindenburg, who had been silently speaking, just after Earl Schelling left.

"As we follow the steps, before the formal action, we must at least find out who the opponent is. I feel strange now. Even though we know that Germany is not easy to mess with, we also know that our two warships will go to Africa to patrol. Where did the Portuguese come from so bold?" The prince fell into deep thought.

"Has the intelligence department not gained anything?" the prince asked with some displeasure.

"Sorry, the Imperial Intelligence Department is now working to search for relevant information," Hindenburg said.

"It seems that it is not just the General Staff that should be reorganized!" The prince's words made Hindenburg on the opposite side tremble for a moment.

After a period of contact, Hindenburg realized the horror of the prince in front of him. He rarely expressed his opinions or made decisions. If he wanted to do something, the result would be 80% possible! Even the General Staff, composed of the Junker noble officers' group, could intervene.

It is hard to imagine that Hindenburg can’t imagine what he can’t do within Germany by relying on the status, ability and relationship of this prince! “He is another emperor of the empire!” How many years later, Hindenburg commented on Prince Ruprecht like this!
Chapter completed!