Fortunately, this paddle steamer was still powerful this time, and there were no problems in the short two-hour voyage, and a boatload of guests and goods was successfully delivered to the north city of Oriental Port.

After arriving at Dongfang Port, Guo Zili quickly went to the Admiralty to go through some handover procedures, and after the formalities were completed, he refused some entertainment to eat and drink, and then went straight to the military dock of the port, where the second batch of exploration fleet ships on the African route were waiting.

The formation consisted of four ships, namely Guo Zili's battleship "Free Trade", the transport ship "Galician Exocet" captained by Second Lieutenant Huang Yang, the merchant ship "Abbot", and the high-speed cruiser "Chaoyong" that had just entered service not long ago -- with Lieutenant Han Dezhi as the captain.

In the afternoon, after the replenishment was completed, the three warships of the exploration fleet left the military dock of Vostochny Port in a low-key manner. After more than a month of sailing, on February 25, 1639, they arrived at the pier of the Fort in the River in South Africa.

The Fort in the River stands on the bank of the river as always, and the blue and white national flag of the Republic of China on the east bank of China is flying on the top of the city. After a while, the walls of the river fortress were again built a long section, and it seemed that after a while, this large city, which was numbered even if it was placed on the mainland, would be completed.

More than 300 Guarani and Charlua migrants have arrived from the transport ship "Galician Exocet", and they will be the new group of residents of Fort River. As to why the Executive Committee is sending these hundreds of precious people to South Africa in the face of such a shortage of local labor, this is actually related to a plan of the Executive Committee that has never been declared - the "blood exchange plan".

The so-called blood exchange plan refers to the migration of a large number of indigenous people to overseas South African territories as much as possible, and the space they make is naturally occupied by European and Ming immigrants. As for what to do so. Mainly for the sake of later consideration. Plainly. These South American natives are the natural and primitive masters of the current East Coast region. The others, including the Travelers, were actually outsiders who had seized their homes.

Of course, they are now weak and have to accept that their homes are occupied. But doesn't this mean that they will always be like this, they will not make trouble for ten or twenty years, and they will not make trouble for fifty years and a hundred years? Especially after the East Coast has universal education and the opening of people's wisdom, they are likely to have fierce conflicts with the descendants of outsiders. As a race, even if they are assimilated by you, recognize your culture, and approve of your way of life, they will justifiably think that they are the natural masters of the land in front of them.

Even the interracial intermarriage that is currently being vigorously promoted by the state. They and the mixed descendants of other races will naturally think that they are more qualified to inherit this land than those pure Europeans and pure Ming people. At that point, conflict will be inevitable, and if the indigenous or mestizo descendants make up a large proportion of the population, the intensity of the conflict will be even stronger, and it is likely to lead to a serious loss of national vitality or even a split.

In order to avoid this situation, the Executive Committee came up with such a so-called blood exchange plan. The more than 300 indigenous South American immigrants are the first batch of immigrants in the plan, and there will be a second and third batches to follow. Don't you, the Charuya, the Guarani, rightly consider themselves the natural masters of the East Coast? Don't you think of the Europeans and Ming people who violently captured you as outsiders and robbers? Well, now I'm sending you all to South Africa!

In the wild land of Africa, you are also outsiders, and you are doing the same thing as robbers. At this time. Can you still be so reasonable? Do you still think of yourself as the natural owner of the land beneath your feet? Look at the indigenous reds and blacks of South Africa who look at you with vigilance and awe, what can you rely on in this unfamiliar land? That's right! All you can count on here is the government! Only the government can shelter you! From now on, I will honestly farm, work, and fight here. The government will do whatever you want you to do, put away your resistance, and stop thinking about the dangerous ideas that divide the country. Listen to the government, you can still eat fragrant and drink spicy food; If you are still hostile to the government and engaged in some dangerous activities, then you are not alone on the gallows erected outside the city.

Sheriff Avani, who has been transferred to the head of the police station in Hezhong Town, looked at the South American natives who came out of the cabin with a complicated expression, as the first group of indigenous Charuya people who took refuge in the East Coast people, Sheriff Avani climbed to the high position of the police station director step by step with his own efforts and a little luck, looking at it, this is also a middle-level cadre among so many officials in the East Coast Republic of China.

As a pure-blooded Charrua, Sheriff Avani doesn't have much resentment towards the East Coasters taking over their homeland. This may have something to do with the fact that he is currently a mid-level official in the system, but he genuinely feels that the arrival of the East Coasters is not a catastrophic event. Perhaps they were too brutal in their efforts to capture the Charuya tribe and forcibly relocate the Guarani villages, resulting in a lot of bloodshed, but that was the "price" that must be paid for the progress of civilization, even if that price was bloody.

Yes, that's what Sheriff Avani had in mind. He never forgot that seven years ago, on that winter day, a group of heavily armed soldiers from the East Bank suddenly surrounded their village, demanding that they surrender immediately and move to a place designated by the East Bank to settle down. The village elders refused the demands of the easterners and killed their messengers, their heads hanging high from the trunks of trees. The enraged Easterners washed their village with blood, and in that battle almost half of the men in the village were killed by the easterners' swords and guns. The well-trained East Coast soldiers were like a sophisticated killing machine, knocking anyone who dared to resist to the ground.

However, the officers on the east bank ordered the soldiers to spare all the surrendered Charruas and to give some of the wounded people a basic hemostatic bandage. United, strong, cold, and merciful, Avani, who was still a hairy boy, was completely shocked by the East Coast people that year.

After joining the East Coast, Avani rose through the ranks with talent and hard work, rising from the assistant police officer to the high position of police station chief. In his mind, the East Coast people were strong, well-organized, had a high standard of living, and a relatively fair distribution system, and it seemed not a bad thing for them to lead the future of the Charua and Guarani. As a middle-level cadre on the East Coast, and at the same time a native of the Charua, he has the obligation to help these people who have not yet been fully civilized to correct their mentality and integrate into the life of the East Coast.

At this moment, Avani must have never heard of the name Stockholm syndrome, otherwise he and many other Charuas who thought the same way as him would probably re-examine their past lives.

The 300-odd newcomers were not very comfortable in their homeland, refusing to marry people of other races, and accepting fines for doing so. Many people still can't speak Chinese well, and their way of life is stubbornly clinging to backward traditions. For this reason, the local discipline police have rectified them several times, but the effect is very limited.

At this moment, they crossed the ocean to this continent across the sea from their hometown. The psychological hesitation of stepping on a strange land, surrounded by blacks and reds who looked at them with strange eyes, was not to mention how strong the psychological feeling of helplessness was. Fortunately, there was a familiar flag fluttering on the castle in front of them, and a group of East Coast soldiers wearing familiar uniforms and loaded guns stood neatly outside the dock, which gave them a sense of familiarity and dependence.

Sheriff Avani led a group of civil affairs officials to take the new immigrants to their homes, and the more than 300 people were divided into various residential areas and villages inside and outside the city, so as to better control and assimilate them. The newcomers are quite obedient, and there are basically no cases of disobedience. Even if they were separated, it caused only a small uproar, but it was quickly eliminated by the militia's scabbards.

"The executive committee's trick is very good." Guo Zili stepped out of the cabin, shook Mo Ming's hand with a smile, and said.

"It's hard to deal with these natives without this trick." Mo Ming also responded with a smile, "Actually, this was originally suggested by me to the Executive Committee." Liu Ang and I studied the colonization of South America by the Spaniards in the next generation, especially the historical evolution of Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay and other countries with a majority of indigenous peoples, and found that once the consciousness of these indigenous people is awakened, especially when they still have a sizable population base, their xenophobic tendencies will be very serious. Even if they have lost their traditions and accepted your culture in its entirety, the aborigines are the aborigines, they are the natural owners of the land, so they are bound to hate outsiders. Once the political situation in the country is unstable, such xenophobic tendencies may even lead to riots, and then the matter will be serious. ”

"So you decided to let these South American natives come to Africa?" Guo Zili shook his head a little amusedly, and said, "This trick is a little damaged." Africa is not the Africa of the Charua, the east coast is the east coast of the Charua, and if you let the Charuya people on the east coast come to Africa, they lose their natural ownership of the land under their feet, and they also become outsiders and invaders, which has to be said to be a great irony. ”

Mo Ming smiled disapprovingly: "If we don't drive away or kill all the original owners of the land, how can we occupy it with peace of mind?" It is reluctant to kill them and it is not in line with our current mainstream values, so we have to let them move somewhere. We need living space, we need land under the sun, so they can only give up their homes for us. Of course, we also arranged a new home for them, and they didn't lose too much. Probably the only people who have suffered are the natives of South Africa, but who cares? (To be continued......)