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On March 20, 1878, in the Matadi estuary area of Congo, Huang Naishang commanded more than 200 Chinese soldiers and more than 1,000 blacks to level the land near the riverbank.

In the hot climate of Africa, drops of sweat oozed from the faces and bodies of Chinese soldiers in dark green tropical uniforms, and beads of sweat were thrown on the damp ground and mixed with the soft soil as they dragged the felled trees.

A soldier soaked in sweat took advantage of the gap between the rest to take off the military hat on his head, and held it in his hand as a fan to keep away the heat, bringing a hot breeze.

"The area is open and fertile, and it is close to the Congo River basin to the west, which is very suitable for cultivation."

In the busy crowd, Huang Naishang pointed to the surrounding land, his eyes were full of hope and caution, and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Xue, His Royal Highness has allowed some refugees stranded in Annam to be transferred to Congo for reclamation activities, the first batch of 700 refugees from Minqing, Gutian, Yongtai and other Fujian provinces will arrive in Congo in the next week, we must build a new camp before the refugees arrive, and we can't let them get here and die of tropical diseases." ”

"According to the advice of the domestic dispatcher, my soldiers and more than 1,000 slaves bought from the nearby indigenous chiefs will level out the surrounding half a mile of land, and the edge of the camp will be cut off from the woods with wormwood, so that the new refugees will not be infected with dysentery."

Xue Yizhong replied.

"Lieutenant Colonel Xue is very thoughtful." Huang Naishang nodded and agreed, "Everything is difficult at the beginning, the first batch of refugees who came to the Congo are all low-level people who have nothing, they believe in the Han Kingdom, and work tirelessly to rush to the wild land where the disease is raging. ”

In February last year, under and his brothers reclaimed more than 100 acres of wasteland, and planted a little sweet potato and vegetable casually, in March this year, the wasteland was already overgrown with sweet potato vines, and the big one under the vine weighed several pounds, and the brothers spent more than half a month digging more than 100,000 pounds of sweet potatoes, except for the supply to the troops and black slaves for miscellaneous grains, and a small half of the sweet potatoes were not eaten. It was used by the brothers who managed the logistics to feed the livestock.

Lord Huang, as long as the food is planted in this place, there is no need to worry about the harvest, and those refugees who come to the Congo definitely do not have to worry about not having enough to eat. ”

"This land is indeed very fertile, and when the refugees arrive in the Congo, they can be organized to grow some rice and vegetables as a base food supply, and then after they have adapted to the weather here, they can be arranged to supervise and guide the black slaves in the mining fields."

"The communication ship transmitted a telegram from China yesterday, and His Highness ordered us to delay the progress of the exploitation of the Congolese copper mines, and the copper mines that have been planned for construction will be temporarily mothballed, and the copper mines will be mined after the relations with the European powers are coordinated in the country."

"Is Lieutenant Colonel Xue's news reliable?"

Huang Naishang said with a frown.

"It should be reliable, and the official notification will be delivered when the receiving fleet stays in the Congo."

"The explorers have discovered a large copper mine in Kinshasa, and since the domestic order temporarily delays the mining of the minerals, then I will send someone to inform the exploration team to stop the exploration of the copper mine in Kinshasa, so that the location of the copper mine will not be leaked out and cause unnecessary trouble."

Huang Naishang pondered for a moment and said seriously, "The Congo region is rich in copper, coal, gold, diamonds and other resources, and the two copper mines and one iron mine on the east bank of the Ubangi River border the French colonies. ”

"A company of soldiers under Lieutenant Colonel Frank left this morning for the area on the east bank of the Ubangi River, and the area near the mine should have been well defended."

Xue Yizhong said.

"After all, the Foreign Legion is an outsider, will there be a hidden danger in stationing them near the mines?"

Hearing that the troops stationed by Xue Yizhong were Foreign Legions, Huang Naishang was a little worried.

"There will be no problem, the foreign soldiers stationed on the east bank of the Ubangi River are more than 20 kilometres away from the mining area, they do not know the situation in the mining area, and there are more than 100 IDF soldiers within a three-kilometer radius of the mining area, and no one, including foreign soldiers, will be allowed to enter the mining area without a permit issued by the troops."

"Lieutenant Colonel Xue thought carefully and did a good job of defending the mine in advance, so he can rest assured."

Huang Naishang nodded, and the cautious expression on his face gradually relaxed.

Unlike ordinary Chinese who immigrated to the Han Kingdom, although Huang Naishang was poor at an early age, he had the opportunity to receive Western culture as an adult, which enabled him to get rid of the conservative ideas of ordinary Chinese and develop more radical ideas.

In 1866, in order to maintain his life, the eighteen-year-old Huang Naishang was baptized by an American priest and entered a church opened by the Americans in Fujian to work as a handyman.

At that time, Huang Naishang, who was only in his early twenties, was radical in his thinking, and no one recognized his ideas, until his later years, Huang Naishang, who made up his mind, took out all the accumulated family wealth, and borrowed from other places to save enough initial funds for immigration, and then bought 3,000 acres of land on Kalimantan Island, and recruited more than 1,000 Chinese from his hometown Fujian Province to Mantan Island in Kalimantan to carry out reclamation activities.

Huang Naishang is a native of Fuzhou, after the reclamation farm began to take shape, Huang Naishang named it the New Fuzhou Reclamation Farm, hoping to follow the British to develop Australia, Xinzilan and other colonies, and develop the reclamation farm on Kalimantan Island into a new breeding ground for Chinese.

In 1903, the first batch of purchased land had been fully reclaimed, Huang Naishang felt satisfied, while sending his son-in-law and the descendants of the clan to recruit new immigrants, while negotiating with the British colonists to expand the scope of the reclamation farm, however, after seeing the development of Chinese farms, the British colonists were worried that more and more Chinese would gather together to bring instability to the local area, so they not only rejected Huang Naishang's request, but also put pressure on the other party, or agree to the British conditions, British merchants were allowed to sell opium in the farms, or they were to dismantle the farms.

The British used opium to open the door of China, a large number of Chinese because of opium smoking the country ruined, and opium also brought a negative image of the sick man of East Asia to the Chinese, the young and poor Huang Naishang knew the harm of opium, in his management of the reclamation farm city all prohibited the farm Chinese to smoke opium, and the British once again put pressure on him with the opium problem, touched Huang Naisheng's bottom line, in anger and feeling powerless, Huang Naishang refused the British colonists' request, the reclamation farm was sold to the local Chinese and Chinese workers working in the farm, Alone he returned to his hometown and soon devoted himself to the revolutionary cause.

After immigrating to South America in 1873, Huang Naishang used the knowledge he learned in the church to be recruited as a section-level diplomatic official by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which urgently needed to understand Western culture and master Western languages, and then after three years of work, he was gradually promoted to deputy director-level official. (The rank of officials from low to high is section, department, bureau, department, department, cabinet, chief and deputy twelve.) ）

At the beginning of 1877, Huang Naishang suggested that some of the refugees stranded in the Nanyang region should be evacuated to the colonial bases opened up by the Han State in Africa, which would not only solve the problem of the resettlement of Chinese refugees, but also increase the proportion of Chinese strongholds in Africa and strengthen the control of the Han State over the African colonial strongholds.

In Africa, where the climate is hot and tropical diseases are rife, even though the Han state was able to provide a large amount of quinine, an anti-dysentery drug, there was still a great obstacle to the expansion of Chinese influence in the region.

Deep down, Li Mingyuan was not willing to let the Chinese immigrate to Africa, so he had the experience of later generations, after the collapse of the ruling power of the great powers in Africa, none of the outsiders left in the local area were able to maintain their power, South Africa, Rhodesia, Mozambique, one by one white-dominated African countries were overthrown by blacks, and the surviving whites were reduced from rulers to ruled and subject to the jurisdiction of black governments.

In later generations, blacks not only went out of Africa, but took root in various parts of the world, such as the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, the mainland, and Russia, not only those economically developed places are full of blacks, but also a large number of blacks in Russia, which is still in the ranks of developing countries.

Li Mingyuan had no intention of cleaning up the black people in the Han stronghold in Africa, but he also did not want to see the Chinese and whites left behind in Africa suffer the same fate, so when he first saw Huang Naishang's proposal, Li Mingyuan refused to do so, and after careful consideration, he still approved Huang Naishang's plan, and promoted his establishment level to a director-level official, responsible for the colonial affairs of the Han State in Africa.

From a long-term perspective, with the rapid development of science and technology, the unfavorable factors that restrict the expansion of Han colonial power in Africa will quickly disappear, and migrant ships can transport larger immigrants from the Far East to settle in African strongholds, and Han's expansion in South America will not stop, and when Argentina and Uruguay are completely annexed, Han can bring the Chinese who remain in the African stronghold to the country nearby, reducing the number of Chinese in Africa.