Chapter 147 Azuli
Whether in this Marvel Universe or Josie’s previous life, before World War II, there were only three independent countries in Africa, and the rest were colonies of Britain, France and other countries.
These three countries are Egypt, Ethiopia, and Liberia.
Among them, Egypt is only a nominally independent country.
So really counting, only Ethiopia and Liberia.
Among them, Liberia was able to obtain independent status and still have room for expansion because it was a colony of the United States in the early days. It was relatively advanced in various aspects and had a good relationship with the United States.
So there is only one Ethiopia that really has the ancient inheritance—it is an ancient country with more than 3,000 years of civilization inheritance.
But that's not the point.
The key is why it can remain independent.
Throughout the course of historical development, this country has suffered countless invasions, especially in modern times, when Portugal, Ottomans, Sudan, Britain, and Italy all invaded Ethiopia.
But all of these countries failed for various reasons (actually 5 years of Italian occupation during WWII).
This is a situation that has never been encountered in any country in Africa, and it is very strange.
But in the Marvel universe, this won't seem too weird.
The reason lies in Wakanda, a small tribe on the southernmost border of Ethiopia and Sudan.
That's right, Wakanda in this era is actually not an independent country, but silently hides behind Ethiopia as a small tribe. Whenever Ethiopia encounters a crisis, it secretly takes action to repel the corresponding intruder.
Wait until Wakanda truly becomes an internationally recognized country, in fact, it should wait until after the birth of T’Chaka, the father of the Black Panther T’Challa in the Avengers plot.
And at this point in time, let alone T'Challa, even T'Chaka was not born yet.
Even the current ruler of Wakanda, T’Challa’s grandfather Azuri, is no more than a young man in his twenties.
It's not surprising that Josie traveled too early.
Even General Ross was only born last September, not to mention the protagonists of those turbulent times in the future.
For example, Alexander Pierce was born in 1936 and is only a 10-year-old elementary school student.
Nick Fury was born in 50 years.
The old black panther T'Chaka was born in 1952.
An important supporting role in Thor and Avengers, Dr. Selvig, a doctor of astrophysics, was born in 1953.
The younger brother of the old black panther who died at the beginning of the black panther, and the father of the golden leopard *** was born in 1954.
Xingjue's mother was born in 61.
Phil Coulson was born in 1964.
Iron Man 2 villain Ivan Vanke, War Machine Roddy, and Captain Marvel Carol Danvers were all born in 1968 (Josie’s daughter has nothing to do with this one, don’t guess).
Tony Stark was born in 70 years.
Hawkeye Button 71 years, Pepper 73 years, Falcon Sam 78 years.
Xingjue, the second-generation Waspwoman Hope, and Black Panther Techara for 80 years.
Maria Hill '82.
Leopard 83 years.
Widow sister, Gamora 84 years.
Wanda Pietro '89.
(The birth years of the above personnel are mainly from the MCU Wiki)
However, it is precisely because Wakanda has always been hidden behind the scenes in Ethiopia, so even though the Portuguese, British, and Italians have been active in the surrounding area for hundreds of years, they have not found any tricks in it. It will not be officially exposed until the future Avengers 2 era.
However, when the two pieces of intelligence, which were full of directional information, appeared on the desks of senior officials in Britain and France, the situation was different.
It was impossible to discover the tricks in it before. One is that Wakanda is really secretive, and the other is because the intruder authorities are fans.
But after checking some information from that year and careful scrutiny, it is actually possible to find something wrong.
Undoubtedly, apart from some old monsters who have lived for a long time, Josie is the only traveler who can know the details of Wakanda in this era and forge corresponding plausible information.
Of course, some dark intelligence threads left by the Red Skull also contributed a lot in this process.
So under the secret promotion of Josie, over time, the number of "tourists" from Britain and France pouring into Ethiopia inexplicably increased.
"Your Majesty, there have been a lot of British and French people in the border area recently. Although they concealed it well, our soldiers still found traces of training on their bodies, and they seemed to be looking for something very purposefully. I have reason to suspect that the British and French may know something!" In the Wakanda palace, the contemporary frontier tribe patriarch Tapani respectfully reported to King Azulihui.
"Your suspicion is correct, Tapani, the British and the French got a piece of intelligence from nowhere, and the intelligence actually shows that Austria's technological leap is related to us. Who are the extra people on the border? British and French agents." Azuri nodded, confirming Tapani's suspicions.
Although Wakanda has been pursuing an isolationist policy since the establishment of civilization, it is not completely isolated from the world.
Every generation of Black Panthers who are kings has an intelligence agency called PRIDE in their hands.
This intelligence agency can be said to be much older than various modern intelligence agencies in various countries during this period, and its nature is more similar to the existence of ancient Assassins and Jinyiwei.
The most powerful civilizations that have been lurking in various identities in various ages all the year round, while collecting information, they also collect the most advanced technology-Wakanda's advanced technology, in fact, does not rely entirely on vibration gold, and then develop it by itself.
Instead, it relies on vibration gold, a perfect material, and then conducts in-depth development and utilization upgrades on the basis of the technology of various civilizations.
So Wakanda's technology has always been ahead of the human countries outside. It is not wrong, but it is not like Josie thinks, it has always been a lot ahead of humans.
In addition, although Wakanda is advanced in technology, it still retains the oldest traditions and isolation policies in various cultural life, so the population of Wakanda has actually been small.
Although they are of the same race as tribes in other African countries, in fact, before T’Chaka came to power, various tribes in Wakanda actually prohibited intermarriage with tribes in other African countries.
Therefore, if Britain and France really discover the existence of Wakanda and try their best to attack Wakanda, Azuri really can't guarantee the final result.
Especially the United States, which has mastered nuclear weapons, made Azuri quite worried.
Let’s do this today, I’ll get a good night’s sleep and rest more tomorrow
(end of this chapter)