Cape Town is "Capetown" in English, which means "headland town". This fits Cape Town's location as it sits right on the Cape of Good Hope. When it was first founded, it was just a small town built on a headland, and the name is very much in line with its characteristics.

In addition, Marin didn't bother to think of another name, and felt that this already classic name was very appropriate, so he simply used the original name.

In addition, giving this important place a name like "headland town" is even more low-key. In fact, in the strategic location of the Cape of Good Hope, it is more appropriate to build a town, called a fortress. However, that would be too high-profile and could easily be taken back by the Portuguese. So, with a name like "headland town", it is easier for the Portuguese to ignore it.

Anyway, the Portuguese are already very shallow-eyed. Generally speaking, the Portuguese colonizers who operated along the coast of Africa favored only those areas where golden sand and ivory were produced. Or, he likes to deal with some of the more violent black natives and buy black slaves from them. However, the purchase of black slaves was generally accompanied by the trade of golden sands and ivory as an add-on, so the Portuguese only set their sights on the West African coast. Because, not only can there be golden sand and ivory resources, but also black slaves can be bought.

In the Cape of Good Hope area of South Africa, because they can't change to Golden Sands, the local black aborigines are also very poor, and the Portuguese are not interested. Because, even ivory and rhinoceros horn, the Portuguese colonists did not like to hunt them themselves, but preferred to deal with powerful black tribes, exchanging worthless glass with local black natives.

At this time, the San and Khoi people in the southwest coast of South Africa were not very combative, and their ability to hunt ivory and rhinoceros horn was not as good as that of the black people in West Africa. After all, black West Africans have entered the age of slavery, and civilizations such as the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire have emerged, which are more civilized than the San and Khoi, and are more valuable for trade and use.

Therefore, the Portuguese left such an important place as the Cape of Good Hope alone, and did not establish a stronghold and fortress here. Then, it was not until the rise of the Dutch that the town was founded here in 1652 in the 17th century, which became Cape Town. For more than 100 years before that, the Portuguese had not even thought of establishing a town in this important place as the Cape of Good Hope......

Of course, it's not that the Portuguese completely ignored the place before. In fact, the Portuguese also had activities on the coast of South Africa. As Marin's ships reported, Portuguese merchant ships had already operated in the Cape of Good Hope. However, they are not resident here, but temporarily docked. They then landed to trade with the local San and Khoi for ivory and rhino horn. And immediately after the exchange, they left, without the idea of establishing a stronghold again.

It is no wonder that ivory and rhinoceros horn produced near the Cape of Good Hope can be exchanged on most African coasts, while the West African coast is closer to the Portuguese mainland, and can also be exchanged for golden sands, which is much more cost-effective than coming to the coast of South Africa. Therefore, the short-sighted Portuguese did not establish a permanent base here until the Dutch established Cape Town here......

In fact, the Dutch founded Cape Town at the Cape of Good Hope, not for trade, but simply to build a transit supply depot. At the same time, it also shoulders the task of intercepting the merchant ships of hostile countries.

After all, before the opening of the Suez Canal, the Cape of Good Hope was the only route for European merchant ships to Southeast Asia. As long as the Dutch deployed warships here, they were able to intercept and loot the merchant ships of the hostile countries. Even the original colonial chiefs of Cape Town were not called Governor-General, but Commander-in-Chief, until 1672, when they were renamed Governor-General.

In fact, in the beginning, the Dutch did not find a profit point in the Cape colony either, but only used Cape Town as a supply depot. For this reason, the Dutch have set up a number of farms here to produce fresh vegetables. Because, in the 17th century, Europeans also realized that eating more vegetables could reduce the chance of scurvy.

It was on the basis of a few humble farms established in Cape Town that the Dutch colonists took root in Cape Town and continued to expand their territory, eventually forming a colony rather than a colonial stronghold.

Moreover, the early Dutch did not only immigrate to Cape Town by Dutch, but also emigrated a large number of poor German peasants and even French peasants. After all, at that time, the Dutch had a strong business atmosphere, and the Dutch were either engaged in seafaring colonization or were serving seafaring colonization. Farming, which is not very profitable, is something that only German and French farmers do. Of course, there were also many poor Dutch people who were hired by the Dutch East India Company to come to Cape Town to earn a living and set up farms. Therefore, the white South Africans of later generations have a very mixed bloodline, not only the descendants of the Dutch, but also many Germans and French. Because of the mixed population, the local Dutch accent is crooked. Then, the Boer Afrikaans became less and less like Dutch and became the new language. This also led to the fact that when the blacks turned over and bullied the Boers, they would not choose to immigrate to the Netherlands. Because, the Afrikaans they speak, is no longer Dutch.

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These originally historical events have taught Marin enough lessons. As a result, Marin attached great importance to education in the colonies. Not only attaches great importance to text education, but also attaches great importance to accent education, and specially makes a standard phonetic transcription that does not allow mispronunciation.

Never underestimate the influence of accents on politics, even if they are of the same language and speak the same language, if there are differences in accents, there will be a gap.

Just like the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, there were obvious local factional disputes. For example, the Qi Party, the Chu Party or something. The biggest factional conflict is the confrontation between officials in the south and officials in the north.

As for why? As soon as you open your mouth, the difference comes out. So, many times, fellow villagers have to huddle together to keep warm. Because, others are not compatible with them.

However, this problem has obviously been solved to a large extent in China in the 21st century. Especially since the post-80s, everyone has spoken Mandarin so much, and it is difficult for people from all over the world to hear the difference in pronunciation, and regional discrimination or something has gradually decreased. In the post-90s and post-00s, children only speak Mandarin in school, and there is no difference in accent compared to the previous generation.

An obvious phenomenon is that before the post-80s, the post-70s and post-60s, because Mandarin is generally not good, there are still a large number of fellow villagers. But since the post-80s, because everyone speaks Mandarin fluently, the regional differences have begun to become smaller, and the estrangement between people is not as heavy as before.

Of course, the post-80s generation is the generation that Chinese Mandarin began to vigorously promote. Therefore, many post-80s people born in rural areas do not speak Mandarin very well. This is mainly due to the fact that in the eighties and nineties of the last century, there was a serious shortage of teachers in rural areas. At that time, there was a kind of person called "private teacher". Let's ignore the great contribution made by these private teachers to Chinese education, but objectively speaking, the level of these private teachers is really not good. Many Chinese teachers in rural private schools do not speak Mandarin themselves. The children they teach naturally can't speak Mandarin well. Later, the "small technical secondary school" teachers at that time trained a large number of professional teachers, and spread them to the rural areas, which gradually improved the situation. In the 21st century, the state has made it mandatory to teach in Mandarin. Then, the children of the post-00s and post-10s are usually full of Mandarin at home.

And speaking the same Mandarin, everyone will naturally ignore regional differences. People from different regions can also become very good friends, and there is no longer the behavior of fellow villagers. Because, everyone speaks Mandarin, there is no communication difficulty, and there is no need to group with fellow villagers. Dialects, on the other hand, are often used when talking to family members on the phone.

So, in order to strengthen the sense of national identity of the people (including the people of the colonies) and eliminate regional differences, so as to avoid the emergence of "Boers" as in the original history, Marin ordered that while building the Cape Town Castle, missionaries should be selected, "standard" textbooks should be carried, and local children should be taught German and English (Frisian) with "standard pronunciation". In the future, standard German and standard English pronunciation examinations would be introduced in the Cape Town colony, and those who failed the examination would not be allowed to hold public office. In this way, it can also force the locals not to change their accents, and avoid differences in culture, language and identity with the locals.

For this reason, Marin later wrote down the sentence "accent is important" on a piece of paper and wrote it three times in a row to indicate the degree of importance. Then, send someone to Caesar so that he can understand and understand......