In fact, just as the officials in the Yicheng area had hoped, the first priority that Yang Jie and Colonel Li Ze*min jointly arrived at Duofan Port was to use the navy's transport ships to transport a batch of materials and personnel to Yicheng Port in the west.

The materials are pepper, coconut, palm oil, sisal, coffee and other scattered materials, in addition to a large number of dried and cut standard-size wooden boards, which are all materials needed for industrial and agricultural production in the Yicheng area, and have always relied on the supply of Xinhuaxia Island.

In addition to supplies, many of the island's Eight Banners soldiers and their families are also another large "cargo". These people dragged their families with their mouths, looking uneasy and a little longing, and carrying several oversized packages, which were their only possessions. However, after arriving in the Yicheng area, I heard that the government would also give them loans in kind, with very low interest rates, which was close to nothing, which undoubtedly helped them to put down roots in the first place.

The Eight Banners of the Islands, like the Black Eight Banners originally created in South Africa, are called "samurai" and still have a certain combat ability. These people had land, livestock, and housing, and they had to live a decent life, although they had to go to work with the people on the east coast regularly, but in the end they did not want to live unsustainably, so they did not want to emigrate. Helplessly, the arms can't twist the thighs, the people on the east coast can give them their current life, and they can naturally be deprived of it with a word, they really have no room to resist, let alone the courage to resist, so they can only obey their fate.

Of course, the East Coasters are the most "benevolent" colonists on the planet right now. For the island of Eight Banners, where immigrants settled on the mainland, they would redeem their homes, land, and livestock at a price that was not too excessive, and then distribute the cash to the Eight Banners warriors as severance pay.

According to the thinking of some of the surviving patriarchs of the East Coast Republic of China, the new Huaxia Island is an outlying island on the African continent — well, the world's fourth-largest island is actually quite large — and is naturally isolated from the mainland. And because of its long separation from the mainland (the Gugondwana period), this large island not only has its own unique biological system, but also has many pests and diseases that are not found on the mainland, which is of great significance for agricultural production.

Wouldn't it be a pity if such a good outlying island was occupied by blacks? That's what many of the first patriarchs thought. They come from the afterlife, and naturally know the dangers involved, so they have been accompanied by ways to avoid them from the beginning. Later, this idea developed to the extreme, and even the descendants of the Malays on the island did not want to stay, and wanted to change the overseas colony, leaving it all to the descendants of the east coast, and the plan is now being implemented in an orderly manner.

And if you want to change the species, then what to do with the more than one million aborigines on New Huaxia Island has become a very serious issue. At first, the people on the east coast thought more simply, thinking of slaughtering it directly, but later found that it was difficult, there were not so many troops, not so much time, so they retreated to the next thing, planning to consume the entire island as slaves to death. However, it was later found that this was also unrealistic, because of the huge size of the island and the complexity of the environment, in the process of conquest, a large number of Tucheng natives were absorbed to form the Eight Banners of the island, and in the end this force had developed into a force that could not be ignored by the people on the east coast, so the option of over-exploitation was also eliminated.

Faced with such a situation, the successive central bigwigs used their brains, and finally returned to the old way, that is, to give them a big migration - anyway, now the people on the east coast are famous for their love for the great migration of nationalities, and this time is not bad - to slowly move these islands and eight banners to the mainland, so that they can compete with the barbaric Bantu blacks for living space, which is also a way to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf.

The local Joint Staff Headquarters once made a deduction, that is, if the personnel are complete and the materials are sufficient, these native soldiers of the Eight Banners of the island, who have mixed equipment of hot and cold weapons and participate in various wars all year round, can firmly suppress those unorganized black tribes. Even if they are well organized and don't encounter any black kingdoms and empires, they can push back and continue to expel the blacks north, all depending on how much price and sacrifice they are willing to pay, and it is not too difficult from a technical point of view.

Of course, the people on the east coast must also be vigilant against the fact that after the Eight Banners tribes on these islands take root in the local area, they will wantonly absorb the surrendered black tribes and enslave the black slaves, which will make the problem more difficult. Therefore, the officers, advisers, and intelligence officers stationed in the various ministries on the east coast must closely monitor the situation of the Eight Banners tribe on the island, and report it immediately if they find any signs and nip it in the bud.

On the dock of Duofan Harbor today, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the island, who were waiting for departure, gathered for the last time, and then listened to the lecture of the instructor on the east coast. The content of the precept is as mentioned before, telling these people that after they arrive in Mozambique, they must not keep slaves privately, and they must not privately adopt and surrender black tribes, in short, there are a lot of rules and regulations, and there are many things that are restricted, and what they can and cannot do, and so on.

The East Coast officer who lectured spoke a little fast, and these people's Chinese may not be very good, so many people were confused. But it doesn't matter, when they get to the ground, someone will teach them how to do it, and they will have plenty of time to understand it all.

On June 18, 1684, after a simple voyage carrying cargo and the Eight Flags of the island, the ships arrived at the port of Yicheng, a beautiful city that has become the largest port in East Africa. The Navy's transport ships would be here to load large quantities of coal, furs, and some black slaves "ordered" from state-run plantations, and then head north back to Xinhua Harbor. Under the arrangement of officials sent by the Yicheng District Administration, 20% of the population remained in Yicheng County and waited for the arrangement of local officials, while most of the rest marched west along the Yicheng Railway under construction to the northern border of Chenggao County, and then camped and settled.

The arrival of more than 2,000 people will further enrich their strength and make them more confident in resisting the invasion of black tribes. According to the usual practice, the central government on the east bank will provide weapons, ammunition and necessary military supplies, and the local government will provide food and other services, and make every effort to make the eight banners of these islands gain a foothold, and then try to move northward - the island eight banners on the northern border of Yicheng County have performed very well, and after gaining a foothold, they have begun to gradually move northward, either killing or driving many black tribes of Tonga, and pushing the border on the east bank far to the north, so that the Portuguese have come to protest.

However, their protest does not seem to have much effect at present, at least Xiao Jingzong, the commissioner of the Yicheng District Administration, did not bird them much, and continued to do what they should do. He even told the Portuguese directly that the area north of Yicheng County had not seen a single Portuguese official come over for many years to collect taxes or do anything else, but that it was a paradise for ignorant barbarians, and that the Portuguese said that this was their land, and the reason was not sufficient.

Xiao Jingzong's remarks are strictly politically incorrect, because the East Bank government had signed a demarcation agreement with Portugal, clearly marking this as the territory of the Kingdom of Portugal. However, the agreement is sometimes important, sometimes it is not important, it all depends on the international situation and the comparison of strength at that time - well, well, sometimes it depends on whether you are thick-skinned or not, obviously Xiao Jingzong's skin is relatively thick.

Besides, the Portuguese and the Spaniards live together in the Iberian Peninsula, and your neighbor Spain has been suffering from the cross-border colonization of the East Coast for many years.

Xiao Jingzong now hangs on a large map in his office, and he drew a large circle with a pencil, which included South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and south-central Mozambique. This large circle is vast, rich in resources, and has a suitable climate (which is particularly important), but the population is not very large, and outsiders may not understand what this means, but anyone who is familiar with Xiao Jingzong's colonial policy understands that this is the living space he carved out for the East Coast people, that is, the place where the East Coast people will settle and live in the future - here, there are no Bantu blacks!

As we all know, the southward migration of the Bantu blacks on the African continent began in the 10th century, and by the 13th and 15th centuries, it had formed a large scale and occupied many places in southern Africa, exterminating and slaughtering a large number of indigenous peoples who originally lived there. When the East Coast people first sailed to South Africa, a group of Bantu blacks had just arrived in eastern South Africa from Mozambique for more than 100 years, and had not completely wiped out the Khoisan reds, the indigenous people of South Africa, so in fact, the number of Bantu blacks in the whole of southern Africa was still not enough, and the further south they went, the fewer they were, because they had only been here for a short time.

Based on this fact, Xiao Jingzong consulted with some like-minded people in the local area for a long time, and finally drew this circle on the map. He felt that the land in the circle was suitable for farming, and the climate was not as hot as in the north - Zimbabwe is a highland, southern Mozambique is also a savannah climate, not to mention South Africa and other places, the latitude is higher, and it is cool in itself - the east coast has a large number of immigrants, and if the measures are effective, the investment is sufficient, and the determination is firm, it is possible to gain a foothold and multiply in large numbers.

Those blacks are just nomadic and nomadic farming tribes, and even more backward fishing and gathering tribes in the jungle, and the level of civilization is extremely low, that is, there is a stupid energy that is not afraid of death, and it is not irresistible. He believes that with the speed of development on the east coast, as long as there is a strong migration from Chinese mainland and migration into this circle, it is impossible to survive. The only question is whether it's worth the huge amount of money it is worth it, is open to debate. After all, not everyone thinks about things from an ethnic and cultural point of view, and economic considerations are also very important. Don't you see, now some people are already clamoring to reduce immigration from Chinese mainland, they want to save the country from the heavy immigration financial quagmire, and then invest in other aspects, this is a concrete embodiment, not to be ignored.

Fortunately, the upper echelons in power today still have an inertia, and continue to adhere to the great cause of immigration that has lasted for 40 years, which has made the population of Rabaul, Australia, New China, South Africa and other places along the way constantly replenish. Otherwise, if you want to emigrate to overseas colonies, it is really unrealistic. So, an interesting situation is that maybe in the future the local people may no longer be keen to emigrate from the Far East at great cost, but the overseas colonies have a strong impulse to emigrate, and to put it bluntly, they are just different butts, each with its own interests.

Over the years, the continuous deployment of the island's Eight Banners and the exile of native Indians have greatly improved the situation on the borders of the area under the actual control of the east coast, intercepted the southward movement of many black tribes, and prevented the black population of Bantu in the south from being replenished by new immigrants. At the same time, in South Africa, the Namib Desert, and southern Mozambique, the people on the east coast are also constantly attacking and capturing the Bantu black tribes, including the Xhosa, Tunga, Zulu, and Swazi, reducing their population and economic strength, while also collecting a certain amount of slave labor resources, which strongly supports the construction of various infrastructure facilities in the country.

But at the moment, it seems that the strength of this blow is not enough! Because the number of blacks in the circle is still very large, it is conservatively estimated that there are still millions of people. If you want to drive them out, the amount of effort and expense required is indeed enormous. Take what Colonel Guo Handong Guo, who had just been transferred back to China a while ago, did what he did in South Africa for several years, and he fought hard against blacks, but he still has not been able to expel all the blacks on the eastern coast of South Africa.

This time, the central government transferred Yang Liang, the original proposer of this plan, to serve as the commander of the South African garrison, and his first task was to move the headquarters to the area of Yiyang Bay on the east coast, and then focus on attacking the relatively densely populated black tribes in this place, and seize this land with abundant water and grass. For this reason, a large number of militia security regiments and Black Eight Banner servants from the western Hezhong region have also been transferred east to the Yiyang Bay area, preparing to participate in the long-term war against the local Xhosa and Zulu people.

This kind of war for living space is related to the rise and fall of national fortunes, and everyone is familiar with it for a long time, so it is not difficult to implement. At least, Grand Master Yang Liang Yang is still very confident, provided that the higher authorities give him full autonomy and sufficient supplies of materials and soldiers, and there is nothing else to ask for.