Black Africa is not Yang Feng's main direction of expansion at present, in fact, the meaning of this wild land for him is the same as that of the Wa Kingdom, which is limited to serving as a slave breeding base for him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At present, there are 500,000 black slaves in the Ming Dynasty.

And in addition to the dead, in just a dozen years, there provided a million cheap labor for the Ming Dynasty, their sacrifice for the Ming capitalists to complete the bloodiest primitive accumulation, so as to avoid Yang Feng had to use his own people as a substitute, when the European women and child laborers used their lives to increase the wealth of the European capitalists little by little, the women of the Ming Dynasty can leisurely drink tea in the shade of the garden trees and read the latest published novels, and the children of the Ming Dynasty can sit in the bright classroom to learn all kinds of knowledge.

And it's free.

That's their great contribution.

Of course, they won't get the monument!

However, Yang Feng doesn't mind building a colony in South Africa, the resources of other places are of little use to him, at least he doesn't need them for the time being, no matter iron ore, copper ore and coal, he can say that there is no need to develop any African resources in other places. But gold, platinum, and diamonds are what he needs, and the middle one is indispensable for the nitric acid industry, and his next step is to play with synthetic ammonia to nitric acid, the current production of saltpeter acid is too low, and even the military is very nervous, let alone play the big fertilizer industry. That would have to build ammonia, but what could you do without platinum-rhodium alloy nets, and both platinum and rhodium are South Africa's flagship products.

So the colony makes a lot of sense.

In the same way, it can also be turned into a paradise for Ming slave traders.

The second paradise.

The first is the Wa Kingdom.

The Wa Kingdom, which had just entered the Three Kingdoms era, was now facing pirate attacks, and those well-armed and even had steam ships and cannons from the South Seas pirates, like ghosts, appeared on the coast of the Wa Kingdom from time to time, breaking through a certain village and town as quickly as possible, and then capturing the young and middle-aged people, half-grown children and young women, and then spewing black smoke and disappearing into the vast sea.

As for where these black ships came from......

This has long been a secret that has not been open to the public.

Just look at the prosperity of the slave trade in the ports of Busan and Naha, these two ports sent hundreds of thousands of Japanese slaves to the Ming every year, but no one cared about the origin of these Japanese slaves, and even the Japanese army in Niigata sank a black ship and captured a dozen pirates, all of whom were outlaws from Siam, and they were all punished as they deserved, and were beaten to death by the angry Japanese people, and the matter was forgiven by the Ming Empire, and the Ming envoys in Edo publicly stated that everyone was punished for this kind of frenzied lawlessness.

But it didn't work, and the black ship still roamed around the country like a ghost.

Of course, the king of Goryeo and the king of the Ryukyus resolutely refused to admit that the black ships were related to them, and the ships in these two ports were all legitimate merchant ships, and it was absolutely impossible for them to be pirates, and they were very puzzled about where the pirates came from, and they even asked the Ming fleet to patrol their coasts to prevent these pirates from robbing the coasts of these two countries.

That's what it looks like anyway.

And next......

Well, the people of Africa have been living like this for hundreds of years, and there is nothing that will not follow, so they will not care about another pack of hungry wolves.

"So where do you choose to target?"

Chief of General Staff Feng asked.

Duke Feng, who had just been engaged to his fifteen-year-old son and fourteen-year-old princess, had been proud of the spring breeze recently, and his face was obviously much more radiant, after all, he was the first family in the Ming Dynasty to marry His Majesty the Emperor, of course, more importantly, as we all know, the princess's dowry was also extremely rich, not to mention the jewels in the treasury of other palaces, it was enough to carry a basket casually.

"Here."

Yang Feng patted the map and said.

"It's the territory of King Shaka, and if you colonize there, you'll have to send at least one brigade of troops, and the Zulus are the bravest among the blacks."

Feng Zhen said.

"By the way, the new machine gun seems to have been built, right?"

Yang Feng asked the attendant beside him.

"It was just finalized half a month ago, but the military department was too expensive, especially the copper-shelled bullets had to be used, so the equipment department of the military department thought that there was no need for this weapon to be equipped in large quantities, what they meant was that each brigade set up a separate machine gun team, and it was enough to deploy and use it when it was necessary to fight against the enemy's cavalry."

The attendant said busily.

"What they said does have some truth, just follow what they said for the time being, depending on the situation in the future, we need to increase the number of them, and first equip the infantry brigade that went to South Africa to fight this time, just so that they can test the effect on the battlefield."

Yang Feng said.

Well, what he said is actually the Makqin machine gun, this weapon is indeed a bit redundant for the current Ming army, this is the Royal Army Weapons Factory, according to his machine gun in the meridian to block Ma Ge's imitation, that machine gun Yang Feng used up and threw it directly to the R & D department of the Royal Army Weapons Factory, with the current technical strength of the Ming Army, of course, it will not be impossible to imitate.

But this machine gun is simply too expensive in the current situation.

The rate of fire of up to 600 rounds per minute stunned everyone at the test site, but the number of bullets per minute that would normally be consumed by an infantry team in a battle also made the officers of the military department dumbfounded, especially since these bullets were still copper-cased bullets, especially since these bullets were filled with new smokeless drugs. The cost of this bullet is three times that of the paper shell bullets commonly used in the army at present, and if each infantry post is equipped with these three according to the previous plan, then the consumption of bullets alone will have to make the officials of the Ministry of Finance vomit blood, not to mention that even if there is no such machine gun, the Ming army will crush all the enemies on the battlefield.

So it became one machine-gun team per brigade.

A total of ten machine guns.

The location of Yang Feng's colony is Durban, and the commercial base of the Globe Company is actually Port Elizabeth, and the Dutch still occupy Cape Town, but they are also self-aware and know that it is not safe to rely on Yang Feng too closely, so they have little interest in colonizing South Africa. Now all the energy of the Dutch is focused on running South America, after all, it is far away from the Ming Dynasty, Yang Feng will not stretch his hand there anyway, and now the European colonists are all in the same mentality, and they all acquiesce to the Cape of Good Hope as the dividing line, and they will not get involved in the east no matter what, anyway, they have a vast Atlantic coast of America and Africa to colonize, and they can't afford to run to the east of the Cape of Good Hope to provoke Yang Feng.

Even the Portuguese have little interest in running Mozambique.

And the port of Durban is currently Yang Feng's best choice, as long as the Ming army beats the Zulu people down, he can build a railway from Durban to Johannesburg, and then develop all kinds of minerals there on a large scale, and at the same time use the railway as a tentacle to go deep into the hinterland of Africa and keep capturing slaves, there is such a huge slave breeding base, the Ming Dynasty is estimated to have no need to consider the lack of slaves in two hundred years, a Japanese country and an Africa, the capitalists of the Ming Dynasty can happily step on the bones of countless slaves and count the money to play.

It's called sustainable development.

"Your Majesty, the Ottomans and Europeans have begun to contact and try to make peace."

Just when Emperor Yang's mind was full of evil thoughts, Lu You sent him a very unexpected news.

"Peace talks, what is the reaction of the Europeans?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Charles VI has signs of consent, Charles XII also wants to see good and take it, only Louis XIV is not reconciled."

Lu You said.

"These guys are cunning!"

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

Well, he lit the fire, and then withdrew and left when the tide was high, this shameless behavior is a bit too blatant, Ahmet III and the Europeans are not stupid, after the news of the sudden restoration of friendship between him and Ahmet III reached Europe, the two Charles and Louis immediately understood that Yang Feng was ready to pit them, and Ahmet III also wanted them to understand this, and the army he armed with 40 million dragon dollars appeared on the battlefield, which was to remind Europeans not to forget that the snipe and the clam competed for the fisherman's profit, There's a dragon behind us.

Anyway, the two Charlies have already made a lot of money.

As for Louis XIV's unwillingness, it is because France has too little benefit in this war, he only got part of the land in Algeria, but his opponent is no longer the Ottoman Empire, Algeria has been established from the Ottoman Empire, so his war in North Africa has nothing to do with the Ottoman Empire, and it is only Jerusalem that is still at war between him and the Ottomans.

At the end of the day, they're tired too.

"Truce the truce!"

Yang Feng said indifferently.

"Did Ahmet propose peace talks to the Russians and the Persians?"

He then asked.

"Nope!"

Lu You replied.

"Ah, so it seems that Ahmet III wants to make up for what was lost in the west and then from the east, so we should look forward to peace in Europe."

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

In this case, it is not a pity that they will not stop the war, and then they can cooperate with the Ottomans to divide Persia first, he only needs the south of Persia, all the way to the Suleiman oil field of Masjid, as for the rest can be solved by Ahmet III, I believe he must be very much looking forward to making up for his loss from Persia, and then the Ming will continue to be an arms dealer in the future, and at the same time, as a condition, in exchange for Ahmet III's agreement to the Ming to build a railway from Basra to Ashgabat.

Of course, there are many privileges to build railways.

For example, the right to franchise the railway, such as the right to garrison troops along the railway, such as the right to explore and exploit minerals within how many kilometers on both sides, in short, how the European colonizers played in China in the original history is also played. (To be continued.) )