"Your Excellency Count, you flatter us. Submarine technology is still unstable and cannot compete with powerful battleships. Its position in the navy is at most auxiliary, and in this aspect, our East African Navy is far inferior to Germany," Clintman said with great humility.
Tirpitz was not surprised by Clintman's humble attitude. After all, before coming to East Africa, Tirpitz had learned that East Africans are not as flamboyant as Europeans, nor are they overly humble like the current Far East Empire people.
This is actually quite understandable. When the strength is inadequate, lowering one's head is not a bad thing. Think about the description of foreigners by the Far East Empire before the fifties; it was actually very dismissive.
Even in the Self-Strengthening Movement, its core idea was "Learn the strong points of foreigners to control them," while "foreigner" in the Far East Empire was by no means a good word.
