In Africa, Zhou Lang didn't wash his hair.

Because South Africa has indeed become a slave empire.

Just as the improved Eight Banners system implemented by Jiaqing in Central Asia showed remarkable stability and vitality in nomadic civilization, the Manchu coating system was also a surprising success in South Africa.

In the past few years, Jiaqing has sent 100,000 people to South Africa to Delentai, so that Delentai can help open up the Kunlun Nu State and leave a way out for the Manchu Sheji.

However, as Jiaqing's strength in Central Asia recovered, he gradually became reluctant to send people to Africa, and Delentai, who lacked manpower, used a large number of blacks to develop.

This is the case of the coating system, which was carried forward, and as a result, after the formation of this system, it continued to grow like a snowball, and in just a dozen years, the whole of South Africa was swallowed up.

The coating has brought huge benefits, and the South African economy is dominated by farms and pastures, and these local blacks are very competent. Because they used to be an economic form of combining agriculture and animal husbandry, but it was very primitive, and the political form was just out of the clan society, and had not yet entered the slave society.

Clan society may not be followed by a direct entry into slavery society, but many countries have experienced this process, which shows that slavery is superior to the clan system, and after the adoption of the coating system, under the management of this group of slave owners converted from the Eight Banners and exiles, the work of blacks is actually more efficient than in the past.

In the past, they only produced to meet their own needs, which was a self-sufficient mode of production, but now a large number of their production results entered the commercial market, and a large number of fruits, vegetables and grains on the farms were exported to India nearby, and India's arable land was replanted with cash crops in large quantities, cotton, jute, and sugar cane, under the strong promotion of the British East India Company, the planting area was doubled, and the grain was not enough to eat, at this time, the cheap grain produced by slaves met the rations of the Indians.

This is a manifestation of a more westernized division of labor, with both sides greatly improving efficiency, with South Africa having more land and growing food, and India having more manpower and growing cash crops. It was also a manifestation of the simultaneous colonization of the two economies, with India supplying China and Britain with large quantities of industrial raw materials, and South Africa producing food for Indians.

At the same time, the large ranch system in South Africa was established, and the slave owners learned management methods from the Boer pastures, and built a large number of pastures in horse races, which were coated with blacks for grazing. Cattle and sheep hides and hides are exported to China in large quantities, and the largest export destination for wool is the United Kingdom.

Negroes are slaves, but blacks are not only slaves, blacks are slave owners.

A large number of blacks who had taken refuge in Delentai in the early days became slave owners as free individuals, and also joined the ranks of plundering coatings, and they also established their own farms and pastures to produce with black coatings. There were also some later tribal leaders who, after being defeated and surrendering to Delentai, were granted high status and became slave owners.

There were not a few such black slave owners, and even accounted for a third of them.

Today, the territory of the slave empire in South Africa has advanced from the east bank to the west bank, and the south reaches the territory of the Boers, which is separated from the Boers across the Orange River. To the north, it crossed the border of South Africa, and Africa at this time had no concept of national borders at all, and those countries in later generations had not yet been formed.

The slave owners followed in the footsteps of the black tribes, constantly expanding their sphere of influence, conquering new tribes, establishing new farms and pastures, and expanding to the Zambezi River valley to the north, and even clashing with the Portuguese forces at the mouth of the river, occupying Portuguese cities, and China intervened to mediate the matter, allowing them to gain the right to use Portuguese ports, and at the same time allowing the Portuguese to keep the colony.

These slave owners were also the largest slave traders, and through their hands, through the Portuguese colonies, large numbers of blacks continued to pour into the Americas, and because they were more powerful militarily, they were able to unite tens of thousands of horses to encircle and annihilate large African tribes, resulting in more slaves than ever before.

Also due to the Industrial Revolution in China, the demand for cotton in this era was several times higher than in history, the price of cotton has been high, and the Americans have made a fortune and are extremely hungry for labor, so the slave trade is the most profitable business in the United States.

The influx of black slaves into the United States is several times greater than in history, and now there are two million black slaves in the South, but the total population of the United States is only 10 million, and blacks account for one-fifth of the entire American population, and more than half of the blacks in the South.

The United States is also experiencing the division of labor and the colonization of the economy.

During the Napoleonic Wars, as many as 200,000 Chinese laborers poured into Brazil, and as many as 500,000 blacks poured in.

The root cause of these situations is largely caused by China, the expansion of the Eight Banners coating system in Africa, the efficient capture of slaves is only one aspect, the biggest reason is that China has entered the ranks of the industrial revolution, although the technology has always been introduced from the United Kingdom, and did not exceed the United Kingdom, but the scale is several times that of the United Kingdom. This impact is incomparable to the British Industrial Revolution.

The ripple effects in China's economic sphere were not directly related to China, but Zhou Lang's recognition of the South African slave empire made him notoriety for supporting slavery.

Zhou Lang began to recognize the Kingdom of South Africa three years ago, and the kings of the Kingdom of South Africa were all canonized by Zhou Lang, because this king recognized Zhou Lang's authority and hoped to be canonized.

The leader of the South African slave owners is no longer the pioneer Delentai, but his heir, his son Su Chonga, Delentai died eight years ago, when the South African slave owners controlled only one-third of the current territory, and did not form a unified regime, all forces went their own way, and several military leaders with more than 10,000 troops emerged, some were early pioneers from the Eight Banners magnates, and some were the leaders of the slave repair team composed of later outlaws, these people were divided into one side, South Africa is far from being a country.

Delentai also did not have enough strength to dominate the whole situation, but his son was better than him, and after Delentai's death, his son Su Chong'a was sent from Central Asia by Jiaqing and let him attack Delentai's title.

Su Chong'a was also a good fighter in countless battles under Jiaqing, and also brought a musket unit and a Russian-style cavalry unit, with Jiaqing's appointment, he quickly gained the approval of the local Eight Banners forces, and then after a series of small annexation wars, forced all the slave owners to obey him.

Su Chong'a then led a unified military group and began to wage a war of conquest against the black tribes that had begun to unite in the north, he no longer tried to turn all the black people into coats, but began to divide and disintegrate, co-opted a group of black tribes, conquered the remaining black tribes, and the slavery territory of South Africa expanded rapidly in his hands, and he also accumulated enough prestige.

and formed a brave cavalry unit of negroes, who had too much difficulty learning to wield a rifle, but who were issued a saber and made them charge against the wall, even more heroic than Napoleon's cuirassiers. With this black army constantly fighting in the north and south, until it expanded to the Zambezi River, Su Chonga's prestige in South Africa was unrivaled, and his military strength was no longer to be underestimated.

At this time, he had a different mind, he was not seeking Jiaqing's support, at this time Jiaqing was also dead, and it was Daoguang who succeeded him. After Jiaqing gained a foothold in Yili, those nobles of the Eight Banners could ignore Jiaqing's call, and as Jiaqing's heirs, Daoguang and others couldn't help but go. After Jiaqing's death, the huge empire he left behind did not fall apart immediately as in Afghanistan or Indian history, but under the auspices of Wenchen, it was smoothly completed.

After Daoguang succeeded to the throne, Su Chong'a sent people to worship, at this time he went with the etiquette of a vassal state, not the status of a courtier, with the death of Jiaqing, it is obvious that Su Chong'a no longer recognizes the relationship between Daoguang and his monarchy, although Su Chong'a's family is still under Daoguang's rule.

The following year, at the beginning of this year, Su Chong'a sent people to pay homage to Zhou Lang and asked for tribute to China.

In the past, China's management of Africa has been relatively extensive, but this does not mean that Zhou Lang has given up here. However, Su Chong'a surprised him and completed the internal integration of the South African slave owners in a short period of time, and then fought in the south and the north, rapidly expanding a huge territory.

No matter how Su Chong'a expanded, his trading ports were controlled by African companies, and the more the economy developed under his rule, the more profitable African companies became.

If there is no accident, Zhou Lang's plan to continue to control South Africa through the African company will continue forever, after all, the existence of this country makes him very difficult to deal with, just annex it, this is a slave country, it has a bad reputation, let it develop savagely, sooner or later it will get out of control.

Under this concern, Zhou Lang was unlikely to accept Su Chong'a's claim as a vassal, and he was valued in the Chinese cultural circle, and being canonized by the Chinese emperor meant that he had legal power.

Unless Su Chong'a can come up with benefits that Zhou Lang can't give up, and he takes out this thing.

That is the gold mine in South Africa, the same Rand gold mine that contains more than half of the world's total gold reserves. The gold belt has a total length of 480 kilometers, an ore bearing area of 20,700 square kilometers, a ore layer thickness of more than 100 meters, and a total reserve of more than 50,000 tons of gold.

This is why Zhou Lang risked a bad reputation to canonize Su Chong'a and crown him as the king of South Africa, and the British seized on this point and tried their best to smear China, because this gold mine not only made Zhou Lang red, but the British were even more red.