The first batch of 3,000 banner immigrants landed on the shore, and as far as the eye could see, there was an endless open plain with green grass, like the Mongolian steppe.

One-third of these immigrants were herders from the Horqin Left Front Banner, the Qing dynasty that had always been the most loyal allies of the Manchus, and many of the Qing queens came from this tribe, such as the famous Empress Xiaozhuang. The Qing Dynasty princesses married more princes of Horqin, and the "Qing Historical Manuscript" recorded that from the Chongde period to the Jiaqing period, a total of 12 princesses of the Six Dynasties married to the Horqin Department. Members of the Manchu royal family married a total of 163 daughters of various Mongolian tribes, of which 57 were from the Korqin tribe, more than one-third.

Moreover, Horqin is the Mongolian alliance flag with the right to command the army, and the soldiers and horses of each banner are led by the princes of each banner, and they are the "own people" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Even if Jiaqing was defeated by Ili, the Horqin Department received a call and sent a large number of warriors to Ili to wait for the emperor's assignment. Of course, there are also some allies who have other thoughts, basically half of the Horqin Mongols took refuge in Jiaqing, and half took refuge in Dazhou.

Now these Horqin herdsmen have forgotten the turbulence of the sea when they see the scenery they have not seen for a long time, and they are the herdsmen who have experienced this part of the sea journey almost like rolling in hell.

A third of the people saw fertile soil in their eyes, and the banks of the calm flowing river were all good water in their eyes. These people are Xiangyong from Shaanxi and Gansu, who were recruited by Wang Jie that year, and later defeated and taken to Ili by Jiaqing, where they lived a long time in the life of reclamation, and these peasant men did not feel much bitter.

The other third are the soldiers of the Eight Banners, they are fully armed, and there is a Zhenghuang Banner under the leadership, obviously these are Jiaqing's henchmen, whether it is the herdsmen of Horqin, or these soldiers of Shaanxi, Gansu and Tuntian, they must rely on the children of the Eight Banners to prevent it.

The main job of the Eight Banners was to supervise the herdsmen to graze, and the Han people opened up the wasteland, so they themselves did not have to engage in production. In fact, opening up the wasteland is not an important thing, Da Zhou promised to provide three years of rations, they will not have hunger in three years, the most important thing is to stabilize the foundation, ensure that the Kunlun slave country is safe, and also ensure that Da Zhou did not lie to them. After confirming this, they had to give Jiaqing a recital before they could decide whether to move to Kunlun Nu or not.

The conditions they saw after landing made everyone quite satisfied.

Xie Qinggao asked the sailors to run the ship aground on the shore, anchored it with an iron anchor, and began to unload supplies and set up camp. He had done these things once in North America, and he was very familiar with them. He knew that the most important thing was not to go to the wasteland immediately, but to prepare for life, otherwise this strange land would become their grave.

When camping along the coast, you must try to choose a place with high terrain and be flooded on one side, which is learned from Zhu Li's pirates, who will not go to the river to camp, but they will build a nest of pirates, especially to guard against the tide, the principle of the river is the same. At the same time, the hydrological conditions of the river must be taken into account, and the speed and depth of the river will affect whether it is suitable for use as a port.

The place Xie Qinggao chose was already the most favorable terrain in the navigable river.

The African company followed the system of the American Company, and the land around the harbor was under the management of the company, so Xie Qinggao's camp was not the same as the camp of the Banner People, and the Banner People walked 30 miles upstream to set up camp. The cavalry of the Eight Banners rode horses to expand the search area, the Han people stayed behind to build camps, and the herdsmen guarded against possible dangers.

The Eight Banners came back soon after, and they brought not very good news, saying that there were Kunlun Nu tribes nearby, with a large number of cattle and sheep, and according to their observations, the Kunlun Nu here was much larger than the hunting tribes such as Suolon in Heilongjiang, and they found a Kunlun Nu camp, at least more than 2,000 people.

If the opponent is strong, there is a possibility of conflict, and it is very dangerous to fight rashly without knowing anything about Kunlunnu's combat effectiveness.

For the next ten days, they were very nervous, fearing that Kunlun Nu would behave unkindly, but it was not until the last few days that the black tribe found them, watched them across the river for a while, and then left. By this time their simple camp had been built, and a five-foot-high earthen wall had been erected around it, enough to protect their camp of 3,000 men.

According to their local traditions, the Shaanxi and Gansu soldiers called the camp Bao (Nian bu) Zi, because they were men from the northwest, they had never seen blacks, a few days ago a small group of blacks driving cattle stood on the other side of the river and startled them, it was still a man and horse, it was simply the black-faced god in the temple.

The foremost danger did not materialize, and a few days later another negro came, and was very curious about them, and a few daring swam across the river, and looked at them at close range, dancing and saying things they did not understand. The two sides slowly approached, and finally faced each other with chickens and ducks.

After discovering that the other party had no malicious intent, the flag people did not want to have a conflict with the local natives, seeing that they were not wearing clothes, they also specially sent them a few pieces of cloth. As a result, when the black man returned, he brought three sheep the next day.

The Banner People gained a foothold on African soil, starting with these three sheep, and the fort they established later was called the Three Sheep Fort.

The two sides gradually became more and more interactive, and the blacks were interested in the war horses of the banner people and wanted to exchange their cattle and sheep for them. I didn't care much about the cattle banner people, because they brought some breeding animals, not only cattle, sheep but also chickens and ducks. But the leader of the Eight Banners felt that he should have a good relationship with Kunlunnu, so he tried to make the blacks understand that he was willing to give them a few horses, but there was no more.

After being completely reassured by the blacks, the Banner People decided that they could not always come to their fort with blacks, and that they had to go to the places of the blacks, know themselves and the enemy, and be prepared. So once the blacks came to exchange salt with them, they offered to go to the blacks' homes, and the blacks welcomed them. The banner people all took two henchmen on the road, and before leaving, they explained what was going on, and if he didn't come back, let the deputy capital take over him.

This is a small nomadic tribe in the neighborhood who live a half-farming, half-pastoral. Living in a domed grass house, the frame of the house is placed in a circle with small branches, bent inward and tied together, and the top is covered with thatch on the frame. The floor is made of a mixture of clay from ant mounds and cow dung. When it dried, people covered it with the fat of the livestock.

Dutong was fortunate enough to see a hut under construction, a novel structure they had never seen before, and when it was completed, it looked like a bulging steamed bun, and when he returned, he told the others that Kunlun Nu lived in a steamed bun hut. No matter how rudimentary the house may be, the materials are mainly twigs and thatch, but with a fixed floor, the overall production is intricate and cannot be dismantled and transported, which means that the blacks here live a sedentary rather than nomadic life.

The men were seen doing nothing, and the women were working in the fields, planting sorghum, soybeans, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, etc., mainly sorghum, not rice and wheat. Later, he found out that Kunlun Nu didn't really don't hunt, but the frequency was very slow. They don't know how to fertilize, and after a piece of land has been cultivated for a long time, the soil is gone, so they will change to a new piece of land to cultivate, and if the land is too far away from the village, they will relocate. Men are not really idle, and their tasks are to herd livestock, hunt, and make tools.

After visiting the black villages, they were completely relieved that these Kunlun slaves did not even have decent weapons, and the sharpest weapons were wooden sticks to help stone spears. All the Kunlun slaves who lived together were relatives, headed by one or more elders, and there were no people with foreign surnames in the village. The population of a village is very small, and the largest is only a few hundred people. Whether in terms of weapons and equipment or troops, it is impossible for these Kunlun slaves to confront the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

So before Xie Qinggao's fleet left, he wrote a note to Jiaqing with confidence, telling the emperor that the Kunlun Nu Kingdom was safe, and asking the emperor to send more people, preferably even female dependents.

The Negroes in the vicinity belonged to the Zulu tribe, but this is also inaccurate, because the Zulu was only the name of one of their tribes, and this tribe became strong and unified all the nearby tribes and established the Zulu Kingdom, and these Negroes should belong to the Bantu.

There are several tribes in South Africa, the Zulu, the Xhosa, the Basotho, the Patetti, the Wanda, the Tswana, the Conga, the Swazi, and the Ndebela, who came out of the end of the clan society and had not yet entered the tribal era.

After the Dutch established the Cape colony, they began to barter with the nearby Khoi, and finally simply began to rob, whenever a merchant ship docked in Cape Town, they organized men and horses to go to the Khoi tribe to loot cattle and sheep, one or two thousand at a time, resulting in the Khoi pastures were once without livestock.

Now these future Zulus are friendly to the Banner immigrants and don't know if they have a future.

With a messenger sent back by the Bannermen, Xie Qinggao's fleet set sail in March and will spend five months crossing the Indian and South China Seas, returning to China in August to bring the news back to Jiaqing.

By the time he passed through India, Henry Pitt's conquest of Punjab had come to an end, and he failed. The Sikhs in Punjab were not easy to mess with, Ranjit Singh was an emerging leader, vigorous, and also purchased a large number of muskets and cannons, although the tactical methods were backward, but the Sikhs armed with religious ideas were very brave, and inflicted heavy casualties on the Chinese East India Company's army, although the other side suffered heavier casualties, but Henry Pitt was not forced to negotiate with the other side.

Eventually, the two sides ended their military campaign after Ranjit promised not to attack the Sikh lords under the protection of the company and allowed Chinese companies to do business in the Indus and Sutlej river valleys.