Chapter 255: Attack on the Black Shu Millet

After a three-day voyage, Li Ji and the others arrived at the seat of Xiaoxuanzhou, the city of Graphite Prefecture. This large port, which exports a large amount of raw materials such as graphite and mica as its pillar industry, is located in a small coastal bay in the southwest of Xiaoxuanzhou. After docking for a day and replenishing water, we sailed straight west.

After passing through the East Xuanzhou Strait (Mozambique Channel), Li Ji and others entered the best port in the whole Xuanzhou - Port Zude (in honor of the mayor and governor of the first port), Durban Port, which was also the largest port in Africa in the old time and space. This port can be said to be the crystallization of the greatest wealth and technology of the Chinese Empire along the entire Xuanzhou coast. It is not only the largest port, but also the largest Han Chinese settlement and the only sub-Saharan city with a population of more than 100,000. Zude Port has the most advanced urbanization level and various facilities in the entire Xuanzhou, as well as the highest human development index, and the various commodities and raw materials exported to the empire here every year account for more than one-third of all the colonies and territories of the entire empire in Xuanzhou, so its status is the most important and the essence of all the Xuanzhou colonies.

It is the core of the entire Xuanzhou colony, and the territory under its administration exceeds 2 million square kilometers, because the starting point here is too low and the level is too backward, so it is only at the level of the provincial capital of the empire itself, and it does not reach the level of the regional administration (the superior unit of four to six provinces) and the accompanying capital. After the luxury yacht enters the passenger terminal. Naturally, people watched. The traversers who got off the boat were completely different from the ordinary poor and rich people who came down from the neighboring passenger ships and yachts, and even the bodyguards with suitcases stood upright around the obviously aristocratic traversers, blocking all the passages and crevices that could directly hurt the core characters. Naturally, it is impossible for people with big sunglasses to be recognized. But the do-gooders have begun to speculate about who is using this luxurious, unsightly megayacht. The governor of Xuanzhou, the head snake, naturally knew the news of the arrival of his mentor for the first time, and hurriedly took a few classmates and capable generals to the Zude Hotel (the first hotel with the highest star in Xuanzhou opened by Wang Zude's son and his son to hire management and cooks) to meet these biggest princes.

When there were not enough noble suites (it was impossible for this hotel to receive so many top nobles in the future, so there were only three top noble suites and a dozen luxury suites), everyone casually chartered the venue. Fifteen-storey buildings are nothing in the eyes of the traversers, but they are no different from the wonders of heaven in the eyes of the locals. The view from the top floor is enough to look down on the whole of Hong Kong.

On the balcony, Li Ji and the Governor chatted about the customs and future plans of Xuanzhou while looking at the scenery. Li Ji, who has good eyesight, suddenly found that in the alley three blocks away, several black men with shackles came out, and more than a dozen black people walked dejectedly behind them.

"What's going on?" Li Ji asked, pointing to the column of black men.

After taking a look, the Governor became nervous, "Return to Your Highness." They were prisoners of war from the Khoisan tribe, and last month a group of thousands of tribal natives armed robbed a mine and attached farmstead in our interior. The captives were auctioned off at a nearby plantation. ”

"We're building everywhere here. Labor has always been insufficient, these sturdy men should be in demand? How can it be handled at a low price? ”

"The captives didn't know how to farm, they couldn't mine, and the native immigrants and naturalized people on the plantations had to spend a lot of time teaching them how to farm and weed. Aside from being a little valuable in grazing. No one wanted all the captives, so naturally they were of low value and could not be sold for a price. ”

"Are they numerous?"

"In the dry season, there are many tribes who lack food and always harass the border areas, and the treaties signed with the big tribes are useless, they have already tasted the sweetness of robbery, and given that the local armed forces are more than capable of protecting themselves, if we carry out a thorough sweep or lack of personnel, we will have to wait until the time is ripe to carry it out."

"This kind of paramilitary operation of a militia nature does not have to be reported to the Ministry of Defence. It is also appropriate to deal with the local bandits. Lack of personnel with sufficient weapons and equipment is also very troublesome, have you ever thought about letting these Khoisans fight on their own. We can destroy these tribes just by buying prisoners? ”

"Your Highness, this method of exterminating the clan has not been heard of, please give me advice."

"The Bantu people are moving south, the living space of the Khoisan people is compressed, and we are also expanding inward, and the pressure on the Khoisan people is so great, of course they have to rob. If any nation were to face such an attack, it would have to change from a peaceful tribe to a violent tribe, let alone a nomadic tribe that spoke with its fists? However, this loose tribal structure based on blood ties is less reliable than the marriage relationship between countries in the Warring States Period, and we can disintegrate these robbing tribes by coercion and inducement, and our colonies can solve these annoying flies once and for all. You're going to make the black slave trade a lucrative business, and these robbers are finished. That kind of industry needs a lot of labor, you can support that industry, and in a few years, both the Khoisan and the Bantu will be greatly weakened by infighting and slave trade, and it will be easy for us to enter the interior. ”

Li Ji pointed to the plateau in the north, "You go down and improve the details with your subordinates yourself, make a report to the top, and naturally credit you." Although these primitive tribes of fishing, hunting and nomadism are not easy to mess with, our sons are not vegetarians. If you rob something, you will naturally have to pay a price, and if you don't have an equivalent commodity to exchange, you can pay it back with your life! We don't lack land, we lack labor, those tribes want to live a good life but don't want to contribute, how can there be such a good thing? I don't cherish so many opportunities for them to become naturalized people, and do you want to be like the Huns who think that we can't help them if they run away after grabbing a vote? If the traitors arrange well, let them be pinched to death, first destroy a few small and medium-sized tribes and let them stop for a few years, and then settle the ledger in a few years. ”

"Yes. Your Highness, the lower officials will do it immediately, I don't know what else to order? ”

"You send a couple of larger ships to Walvis Bay Harbor and wait. When we get there, we want to change ships, just use your group authority to deal with it, you prepare the handover paperwork, and we will change ships when we get there. This ship is too ostentatious, there is always trouble to find the door, the boat you are looking for is a little more ordinary, just a general large clippers. The second half of the journey was also easy to arrange. ”

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After visiting the newly built Mineral Museum in Zude Harbor, the travelers couldn't help but be shocked by the outrageously abundant minerals of Nanxuanzhou. In the past, when I used to use a pen to enclose the land on the map, I didn't feel anything, but after feeling the richness of this place up close, I was deeply conquered by the superior conditions here. South Africa in the old time and space did not have any special heritage and primitive accumulation. Hasn't it become a developed country by mining? It's not much different from the United States. Armed with bows and swords, frenzied gold miners went to the Khoisan settlements to launder the Khoisan settlement, and at first some tried to hire them to launder it, only to see that gold could be exchanged for all sorts of goodies. They took the mine themselves. Gold diggers were not allowed to enter, and the previously signed land sales contracts were not recognized. As a result, due to the lack of soldiers and the distance traveled, the coastal colonies were unable to recover land, and the smuggling of gold and other rare metals made it increasingly difficult for the Khoisan to deal with, and in recent months there have been vicious incidents of Khoisan attacks and looting of the colony's plantations and mines.

I don't know if this kind of tiger breeding was a strategy or negligence on the part of the Governor, but at least the Khoisan people did not kill the citizens of the Chinese Empire, and most of the unlucky ones who died were naturalized and freed. These conflicts are very much not taken seriously by the crossers. You must know that in the colonial history, the lazy African natives basically did not have any large-scale rebellions and wars that they could handle. Except for the funny story of Yiduli in Ethiopia, basically the powers that carved up the continent did not make much effort. These black people who refuse to accept reality honestly are indeed not handsome, and they do not know current affairs at all. As long as the tipping point is reached, it will not take much time to plant the entire continent with the flag of the Empire after a great war.

In the face of the war of wooden poles and spears, the elite cavalry scimitars and firearms used by the elite cavalry scimitars and firearms of the colonists against the enemy were naturally easy armed marches. However, the accumulation of tribal vendetta and resentment from too many dead people is not easy to resolve. After telling the governor who accompanied him to visit the museum not to kill too much, and to try his best to focus on prisoners and post-war surrenders, Li Ji and others left with a large number of precious metal gifts presented by the governor and other officials who made cakes.

On the boat, until he couldn't see the outline of the mainland, Li Ji, who looked at the mainland, sighed: "I can't imagine that the slave trade movement is still unavoidable, and these wild and untamed tribes will not be able to integrate into the modern civilization until the information society after a thousand years, which shows that the disasters and difficulties here are completely providential." Barren land, arid climate, constant wars and tribal vendettas are all innate factors that cannot be changed. A natural disaster can wipe out decades of a tribe's savings, and a drought can starve tens of thousands of people to death. The current Xuanzhou is only more than 20 million black Ding Zhuang, if the slave trade is carried out according to the intensity of the old time and space, it is estimated that in a hundred years, the black people will become a minority. ”

"I don't think so, the blacks at this time did not have the conditions of later generations, and we are not a small European country that lacks manpower, and it is a little difficult to make it bigger! A large number of plantations have replaced manual machinery and high-yield seeds and fertilizers, unlike the old time and space as short of labor, all kinds of futures and commodity transportation will not make those plantations so profitable, you can rest assured, as long as the profit does not go up, the scale is not a big deal. Liu Xin patted his chest and said.

"Wouldn't it be enough to kill a few chiefs and raise a group of obedient chiefs? As long as they don't starve to death, their numbers are not a problem, and I don't want to see these particularly capable guys appear in the empire to steal the jobs of the countrymen in the future. Now the progress of our mechanization is still slow, if it reaches a certain level, what will these laborers who can only do manual work do? Can it be used as a sweatshop? We don't want to die like this and ask for money, let's let them fend for themselves in the forest, as long as they can stay in the grassland and the forest and don't come out, it's easy to set aside a protected area. Liu Jiao thought that his ex-girlfriend was snatched away by an exchange student from Zambia, so he was angry.

"Anyway, it is unlikely that they will land in large numbers on the American continent, and it is also a good reserve market for them to stay in their hometown honestly. As long as they are basically self-sufficient in food, we can't help them divert their population, and limit their numbers is certain, but it is impossible to exterminate them, after all, they are also humans, not dodos. I think family planning is good. By the time they have the strength and awareness to call for changes to the legislation, they will probably reach the level of endangered species that are about to be protected. Liu Xin, who likes to be desperate, hates hyperinflation the most, and is angry at the thought that the biggest inflation in history is Mugabe's masterpiece.

"They definitely can't do it, the organizational skills are too poor, but they are still qualified to be hard-working ordinary long-term workers, at least for a hundred years, Xuanzhou's agriculture and sweatshops will not be able to leave them, and we will not go to basic education and basic medical care that may be available in the future, but we will take the initiative to benefit these 'people' who have no contribution and are not even naturalized people, and no one is happy. At least there has to be a generation's contribution, right? That is to say, at least a generation after our territory covers the continent and the lives of most of them are involved in the social division of labor. It's only fair to be self-reliant! Bai Jia is also not used to the ruffian style of eating and drinking and waiting for assistance, but he will not be stingy with the benefits that should be given.

"This era has long been changed beyond recognition by us, we have predicted the pace of things in the future, what to do, now we can only take one step at a time, no one wants to take one step at a time to see ten steps like before. We don't need to worry about the fate of these aborigines, we can't worry about the hearts of our own people, how can we have the leisure to worry about their hearts? Save it! Don't be a saint in disguise, everyone is equal! They are not the people of our hearts! They don't even have a surname, so how can you use him as a dog? Zhao Shouzhong teased.

"Don't say it, it's really a lot more relaxed after letting go of these useless thoughts, I haven't played enough this time, let's play a few games of chess, right?" Lee Ki slapped his forehead and stepped off the deck of the ship. Chess pieces lined up on the coffee table under the parasol. Several stinky chess baskets threw aside their thoughts and gathered around. (To be continued......)