The governor of Sichuan returned to Han with the banner of righteousness!

Hanzhong returns to Han!

This is good news for Nanjing. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Although the city of Nanjing at this time is still the same as in the past, there are not many people, and it is still as deserted as in the past, but the arrival of this good news still fills this empty city with a bit of joy.

However, this kind of joy has nothing to do with many people, at least not with the hundreds of thousands of prisoners held in the outer city of Nanjing, and these prisoners are all "cult bandits" who were captured after the capture of Nanjing. As for the handling of "bandits", the rebels can also be said to have achieved "benevolence to the fullest" and did not kill a single person indiscriminately.

Although there is no indiscriminate killing, it does not mean that these "bandits" will be spared in vain. In fact, after the conquest of Nanjing, the screening of "bandits" began, and the so-called "screening" was very simple, that is, through mutual identification, to identify whether they had killed civilians, the rate of killing civilians could not be returned, and the rate of killing more than 10 people was executed.

As for the remaining ordinary soldiers, whether voluntarily or requisitioned, except for a very small number of natives who had not killed the common people, most of the others were imprisoned in prisoner of war camps, but they were not idle, in fact, they had to work in exchange for food.

The so-called labor is to demolish the broken walls in Nanjing, and of course, more importantly, to build new sewers, after all, the sewers in Nanjing have been blocked and unusable because they have not been repaired for more than 200 years. With so many laborers, and the fact that the city was almost empty, Nanjing Fu Yin naturally did not miss such an opportunity, and asked engineers to design new sewers, replan the roads in the city, and then have the prisoners of war construct them to save costs.

In this regard, those former "cult bandits" were extremely positive, after all, in the first few days, they had been lying in the barracks of the past, speculating about their fate. And now, the work has given them hope for life, especially after a lot of identification, after all, they all have blood on their hands.

If they let someone else work, they won't kill us!

Everybody thinks so, and of course there are those who see an officer -- now they can tell the difference between an officer and a soldier, and the officer's collar badge is gold-framed and red-backgrounded.

"Wronged frame, sir, I have never killed a person!"

Li Laoliu, who was digging a sewer, immediately ran over and shouted loudly when he saw an official wearing a straight tweed military uniform with a yellow frame and a red background coming over.

"You were wronged?"

The officer looked at the bandit who was shouting grievances and asked ruthlessly.

"Yes, yes, I was wronged, it was a few of them who framed me, I was originally a good farmer, and I was kidnapped by the bandits, then, where dare to kill people!"

Li Lao Liu shouted loudly, trying to defend himself.

"Oh, are you a bandit?"

"I was caught! Not voluntary! ”

"Since it's not voluntary, why don't you run away? Since he was captured, he must be a "bandit"

"Ah......h

Looking at the chief in a daze, Li Lao Liu simply couldn't believe his ears, this, what kind of truth is this, why, why don't you let me go home!

"Okay, you burned high incense, if it falls into the hands of the Qing army, maybe your head will not be able to be saved, you platoon will finish your work today and gather here!"

Ignoring the person who shouted injustice, the officer left, leaving Li Lao Liu standing there stunned, and in the sewer that was nearly two people deep, there was another burst of laughter, as if he was laughing at Li Lao Liu's wishful thinking.

"I said Li Lao Liu, kill or not, you are all like us, you are all bandits, come on, we can pick up our lives and come back, even if God blesses, I just look forward to working hard and letting us go home as soon as possible......"

"That is, if you annoy them and kill you when the time comes, who do you talk to!"

The people next to him enlightened him like this, but Li Lao Liu was still unwilling to say.

"I haven't killed anyone, I haven't killed anyone......"

Whether he liked it or not, for these people, in fact, their fate was already sealed from the first day of their captivity.

On the same day, after nightfall, the tired and panting prisoners lined up to return to the prisoner of war camp under the escort of the military police, and several hundred people lined up towards the dock outside the city, and then they were escorted to a small wooden boat, and then they were escorted to Baguazhou in the center of the river.

On the Bagua Continent in Jiangxin, where they took a hot bath, and then they were stripped naked and examined their bodies. Then they were driven to rest in a wooden barracks, as to why they were escorted here, Li Laoliu, like everyone else, although he was curious, but no one dared to talk nonsense, or even dare to ask questions.

In fact, the reason why they were sent here is very simple, the platoon they are in is not the first platoon in terms of workload, and as the appreciation of the first place, they get a "reward" - they can go to Africa in advance! Compared with the nearly 300,000 captives captured in Nanjing, the number of migrant ships is limited, after all, there are too many people, so they can only go to Africa in batches.

That night, lying in the wooden house, letting the cold wind blow through the cracks on his body, Li Lao Liu's mouth was still there.

"I didn't kill anyone, I didn't kill anyone!"

Until this time, he was still entangled in why some people could be sent back home, but honest people like him should stay here.

"Actually, the reason is very simple!"

Taking a piece of barbecue from the plate, Li Cheng said with a smile.

"We need people in our colonies in Africa, and if we can't take the initiative to emigrate, we need to migrate to Africa in this way, and when they open up new cities, we can send their families there!"

"Where else are you going to send your family?"

Wang Linfeng said in surprise that as an officer, although he knew that the whole world was colonizing now, he couldn't understand this colonial method.

"Yes, send these people there first, they will spend a few years exploring the colony, and when it is transformed to fit the people to live, their families can immigrate there, of course, the ferry ticket is borne by them personally!"

"What if they can't afford the ticket?"

"It's very simple, work and pay back!"

Although he was also an officer, as an officer who was about to serve in the colony, Li Cheng learned a lot about colonial rule from Western professors, and also learned about colonial management.

"In fact, in the United States, South America, and other places, except for the farmers, there are a large number of slaves, that is, people who sell their personal freedom for a certain number of years, and let their masters travel to immigrate here, and they work on the farms, and after a few years, when they are free, they will turn their only possessions into horses and wagons, and of course guns, and then, march into the hinterland, reclaim the land on the unclaimed land, settle down, and then towns and towns will appear in the lands of the Americas......"

This is a simple colonial operation, when Li Cheng said this, Wang Linfeng suddenly asked with a frown.

"So, what about the people who lived there? How could there be so many borderlands? ”

"Borderlands is land that doesn't belong to other white people!"

Xiang Wang Linfeng squeezed his eyebrows and smiled.

"As for the others, if they are not considered human beings, they should not own the land! This is true in the Americas, and it is also true in Africa, you know, those in Africa, no one thinks they are human! At best, it's just a talking animal! ”

When the very casual answer came out of Li Cheng's mouth, Wang Linfeng couldn't help but be stunned, he looked at Li Cheng in surprise, as if he didn't understand why he said that.

"In the eyes of Westerners, people, first of all, are regarded as people from civilized countries, as for those barbaric natives, in a sense, they are unsound people, and the land of Africa is limited after all, either belonging to the indigenous or us, who do you think should belong to? Is it a bunch of uncivilized barbarians, or does it belong to us? ”

It was a very simple question, and even if he could not understand why blacks were not people, he knew very well who the land should belong to—to the Chinese.

"Actually, they were really lucky,"

His gaze was cast out of the window, and Li Cheng's tone became a little low.

"Perhaps, they don't understand it now, but in ten years, they will be grateful to the lord, and each of them will get a few hundred acres of land in China...... Here, in the Old World, could they possibly have such wealth? ”

Obviously, there is nothing possible!

"But in the New World, there are countless possibilities! They will, and so will we! ”

"We? Does it have anything to do with us? ”

Wang Linfeng looked at Li Cheng in surprise, how could it have something to do with him.

"Of course it's about us, do you know how big Africa is? It is equivalent to two or three China's big, such a big place, it is completely a wilderness, naturally we need to colonize, and naturally we need to go there to serve as magistrates, there are colonies, and the magistrates there are soldiers, believe me......"

Drinking all the wine in the cup in one gulp, Li Cheng said in an extremely excited tone.

"If one day, if you had to choose, go to Africa! Go there, and then you will not only become a magistrate, but you will also get tens of thousands of acres, or even more land! ”

Yes, this is a reward for those military men who are willing to go to Africa to carry out their colonial causes, and they can get a lot of land in return. Li Cheng, who was already a little drunk at this time, looked out the window with drunken eyes and said.

"You see, in China, this place is already full of people, there are people everywhere, there are thousands of acres of land, you can be called a rich man, but in Africa, each of us can get tens of thousands of acres of land, and when the time comes, each of us will become a big rich man......"

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Africa...... It's not that Africa is silently emphasized, but because, at that time, the only territory that China could get at the lowest cost was Africa, and Southeast Asia had been touched by others, at this time, unless it was hit, it was impossible to open up colonies in Southeast Asia, and most of Southeast Asia was densely populated, so how to resettle immigrants? What was China's biggest problem at that time? It is a relatively limited land and an excessive population, if we do not march into Africa now, then more than ten years later, when the Europeans take Africa into their sight, when the time comes, if they want to seize the colonies, they can only use the mouths of the great powers to grab food.

As for the manpower and material resources expended, historically, the Germans controlled East Africa with more than 100 people, and West Africa with less than 200 people. Had it not been for the presence of the first one or two hundred men there, would it have been possible for Germany to get a colony that belonged to them? The European colonies were never a military attack by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops, and their starting point was often a harbor, a trading post, dozens of people, or even a few people. It's like the Kingdom of Sarawak founded by Brooke in 1848 - just a brig merchant ship with thirty sailors!