Chapter 231: Congo IV
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Colonial development at the national level was never a warm action, and although the Chinese forces tried to avoid clashes with indigenous tribes, the IDF repeatedly penetrated deep into the interior of the Congo and established trade posts near the main channel and tributaries of the Congo River, and hundreds of battles broke out between the IDF and the local indigenous people.
Due to the superiority of equipment, there were few direct casualties in head-to-head combat, but due to the complexity of jungle engagement, many soldiers were attacked by natives or bitten by poisonous snakes, spiders and other poisons, and finally died without effective treatment.
It is difficult to effectively control the number of non-combat attrition, and many officers of the Defence Force have taken their anger out on the indigenous tribes who refuse to cooperate while complaining about the lack of medical skills of the accompanying soldiers.
On January 5, 1875, 600 young men of the Gaoder tribe were killed for attacking the Wehrmacht's pioneer detachment.
On 13 February, the Arataq tribe was wiped out, and on 8 May, the Wehrmacht cleared the area around Arketi of one of the largest indigenous forces, and 2,000 young blacks were taken prisoner and engaged in hard labor......
The IDF's strong crackdown on indigenous tribes not only led to greater hatred of the Chinese by some small black tribes that had escaped, but also strengthened the Han government's control over the Congolese region.
Matadi was the only large IDF stronghold in the Congolese region, where African colonial troops, foreign troops, and the first refugees to arrive in the Congo were all located around Matadi, and after the IDF took the initiative to eliminate hostile indigenous tribes, the Han government gradually established small trading posts along the Congo River that integrated trade and military control.
Small trade posts are usually set up behind the main channel of the Congo River, and each trade post is staffed by a F-FDTL detachment of five to twenty men and black servants of about twenty men, who use the weapons and supplies brought by the fleet to maintain the safety of the shipping lanes near the trade point and to implement a policy of deterrence against the indigenous people in the vicinity.
As support for the Congolese colony and development continued to grow, Huang and Xue had established 26 small trade points in the Congo, through which the IDF troops had built a tightly gridded chessboard in the vast interior of the Congo.
With trade points as the pillar and the main channel of the Congo River and many tributaries as chains, Li Mingyuan drew on the Japanese army's cage policy to play a good role in the Congo region, and the indigenous tribes blocked by the grid of trade points were wiped out, and more and more indigenous tribes gave up resistance under the threat of force from the Wehrmacht and chose to cooperate with the Wehrmacht.
The Umudu tribe was the more submissive of the tribes, and the Masamba as tribal chief was the most cooperative indigenous chief of the IDF operations.
Although there are more than 20 indigenous tribes who have defected to the IDF, there are not many who have taken refuge as Masamba sincerely.
In order to reward Chief Masamba for his exploits in mobilizing young tribes to assist the National Defense Forces in combat, Huang Naishang, after consulting Li Mingyuan, assigned 200 square kilometers of land around Umudu, where Masamba was located, to his tribe, and canonized him as the first king of the Congo, responsible for managing more than 10 indigenous tribes around Umudu.
The sub-feudal system of the Tuwang is an idea generated by Huang Naishang by drawing on the experience of British colonization of India.
In India, the British colonizers retained some of the rights of hundreds of Indian kings, through whom they indirectly managed a wide area that was inaccessible to colonial powers.
In the great uprising that swept India in 1859, many colonial strongholds controlled by the British colonists were breached by the Indians, and the British soldiers, old and weak in the colonial strongholds were brutally killed, while many Indian kings, who were local rulers and were from the same clan as the rebels, did not join the fight against the British colonists, on the contrary, they gathered their armed forces to rescue the British colonial troops besieged by the rebels in various isolated strongholds. He helped the British colonists hold out until reinforcements arrived, and then led the British army to defeat the rebellious Indian people.
After the suppression of the Indian uprising, the rebellious Indian people were brutally persecuted, and those who were bent on following the British white lord also received rich rewards, in view of the hard work of the Indian kings in the great uprising, the British not only recognized the management of the territories of the native kings, but also gave them more power.
India's native princes and nobles were relatively obedient to the British until the signing of the Partition of India and Pakistan, and the Indian princes, who learned that they had been betrayed, gave up their illusions about the British.
The British gave up the Indian land king who was supported by themselves, and instead co-opted Nehru and others to form opposition forces, which was undoubtedly a wrong move in the long run, and in the Congo region, Huang Naishang did not consider the outcome of the Congo region after nearly a hundred years, he only improved the Han ruling structure of the Congo based on the experience he gained from the British.
Huang Naishang had two plans for the colonial rule of the Congo, one was to establish direct rule over the strategically located and mineral-rich areas such as Matadi, Kinshasa, and Sankigani, and the other was to establish direct rule in the strategically located and mineral-rich areas of Matadi, Kinshasa, and Sankigani, and the other was to rule indirectly by appointing indigenous chieftains who had taken refuge as the kings of the country.
Ma Samba was Huang Naishang's first attempt to implement the system of dividing the king of the earth.
In October 1877, after learning that he had been canonized as the king of the earth by a nobleman from afar, and under the interpretation of the translator who knew a little about the meaning of Chinese in the tribe, Ma Samba knelt on the ground excitedly to accept Huang Naishang's canonization according to the four different etiquette he had learned.
The certificate of canonization of Masamba as the king of the land is a yellow cloth edict and a seal made of fine iron.
The Yellow Cloth Edict is easily damaged in the African rainforest, and Mabasang arranged for the tribe to place it in his big house, and although the black iron seal cannot be used as a weapon, it has always been carried by Masamba as a symbol of the status of the earth king.
Near the dock of the fleet, the black and chubby Masamba in his thirties first found Huang Naishang standing in front of the crowd, and then chattered and spoke some indigenous dialects while dancing and gesturing.
"Lord Huang, the King of Masamba has brought us good news, the tribe that attacked us last time was defeated by them, and the more than 100 black natives behind were gifts from King Masamba."
Xue Yizhong half relied on the translation, half looked at Ma Samba's gesture, and understood what the other party meant.
"King Masamba has made another contribution to the Wehrmacht." Huang Naishang looked at Ma Samba with appreciation, and said with a smile, "Lieutenant Colonel Xue, let the brothers accept the prisoners brought by the King of Ma Samba, and then take down ten muskets from the ship and give them to King Ma Samba." ”
In addition to the standard weapons equipped by the Wehrmacht, Wong also received more than 2,000 Wehrmacht Dreiser rifles from China, most of which were mothballed as spare weapons in emergency situations, and a small number were given as rewards to indigenous tribes who assisted the Wehrmacht in the war.
Xue Yizhong nodded, waved his hand and sent more than thirty soldiers forward to receive more than a hundred black natives, and then escorted them to the river to line up.
"Raise your gun, reload, prepare...... Put! ”
Bang bang
Xue Yizhong has always been inclined to directly exterminate the tribes that resist the Wehrmacht, and this time it is naturally not surprising that he simply executed the black captives, and handed over the rest of the handling work to the blacks under Masaamba, while the Wehrmacht soldiers and the two hundred Fujian refugees began to expand the Kisangani trade point with the cooperation of the Umula blacks.