Chapter 152: Intrigue and Civilization

Around the village, there are dense jungles everywhere, but the green ones hide infinite killing opportunities, and the predators are infested, which used to be the biggest threat to the Cong Jiaren, who used to pick fruits as their main source of food.

When night fell, although the Cong Jiaren were now also equipped with firearms, coupled with the smelting technology brought by the Portuguese to make their weapons manufacturing level to a new level, how ferocious beasts were killed by them became easy, but the village of Cong Jiaren still retained the previous wooden fort-like defense, the archers looked into the distance from the arrow tower, compared to many indigenous tribes, Cong Jiaren's learning ability is very strong.

Sitting on the ground with Segnucha in a large thatched hut, eating fruits imported from China, the fruits cultivated in the special climate of South Africa seem to be very sweet.

As the supreme ruler and chief of the local area, Saiganucha's thatched hut is naturally the largest in the village, but compared to the rich families of the Central Plains, it looks extremely cold, with mud and grass walls, empty and no furniture, only a few tapestries from the East are hung, and the only thing that shows his status is the skulls and tusks of various beasts, which are hanging hideously in all corners.

When Ye Zhao's guard, Ma Li, set fire to the low-power generator he carried with him, and lit the electric light in the thatched hut, Saiganu was startled, looking at the dazzling light ball, holding the fruit and not biting it anymore.

Ye Zhao smiled: "This is the electric light, which is my gift to the chief." "In fact, it is to send a few kerosene lamps and a few boxes of candles to Saiganu is more practical than this small generator, but the African chieftain has always exaggerated, and he has a paranoid love for the products of civilized society, the more complex and magical things they prefer, so it doesn't matter whether it is practical or not, and when he heard Ye Zhao's words, Saignu's eyes lit up, obviously he is also one of this kind of chiefs.

"Commissioner, I'm willing to give everything I have to work for you." Saiganu was already determined to have a relationship with this nobleman, not to mention that now that people have sent such a generous gift, he feels that he has enough face inside.

Ye Zhao brought an interpreter, and Segnucha spoke South African Portuguese, and for Chinese, no matter what status, Segnucha called people commissioners, of course, the same commissioner, the identity is also different.

Ye Zhao came to South Africa, in addition to leaving the capital to give the first cabinet government a real . The governance space, I also want to come to this foreign place to take a look, many tribes in Africa are no different from primitive societies, which is really curious, not to mention that Ye Zhao also wants to take a walk and take a look, break the dead end of the Boers, and avoid war.

After chatting a few words, in fact, Ye Zhao naturally did not have much ideological resonance with him, and only inquired a few words about the local and Eswatini situation, and Ye Zhao immediately went back to the "guest room" to sleep.

And the two naked little black girls have been waiting in the hut for a long time, both of them look young, but their bodies are extremely well-developed and mature, their dark skin is shining under the oil lamp, they are not shy when they smile, but there is no strange temptation.

Ye Zhao naturally ordered the guards to send them away, but in this foreign country, he felt lonely inexplicably, lying on the soft couch, he couldn't help but think of the girls in Beijing, and also remembered the good Ruwa in Maputo, who came all the way south with him, but he didn't have much time to chat with her, but he couldn't help her.

On the second day , an envoy from King Dirimoni IV of Eswatini came to the Segnucha tribe to negotiate trade with the Chinese, but he was accompanied by a group of Englishmen, the English merchant Robert and his servants, and five or six sailors who were also musketeers.

Clearly, the British colonial province of Natal had also stepped up its control of Eswatini, and it was now the diplomatic approach used by the Eastern and Western powers to negotiate with the indigenous Africans using merchants as envoys or commissioners. …,

Ye Zhao participated in the negotiations with the Eswatini envoy behind the scenes, and the negotiations with the indigenous people were not very important to him, but Ye Zhao could not help but worry about the full involvement of the British in South African affairs, when the British achieved control of the encirclement of the indigenous tribes in the overseas province of Maputo in China, and then joined forces with the Boers, it was really possible to exclude China from South Africa.

And the British Commissioner Roberto is an extremely arrogant businessman, on the first morning Ye Zhao bumped into the scene of him whipping his entourage, watching the British gentleman go crazy, Ye Zhao was thoughtful.

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A month after Ye Zhao returned to Maputo, the "pearl of South Africa" and "Shanghai on the west coast of the Indian Ocean", this coastal city has been built with oriental charm.

That night, in the top suite on the top floor of the Bund Wangfujing Hotel, Ye Zhao hosted a banquet to entertain Segnucha, and the good Ruwa who had been waiting in Maputo was allowed to accompany him.

The beach is lit up like day, and when the lights are turned off in the room, you can watch the sea at night, and the deep sea and the night sky are blended together, which makes people feel the vastness of the world and the endless sky.

Ever since he was a child, Segnucha was not concerned about the scenery, and he was amazed by the high-rise buildings and bright lights of Maputo, and as for the summer ice and telephone calls, he could only say that he was amazed.

The impassioned singing in the jukebox is a song "Ode to Empire" by the Chinese Royal Choir, which is high-pitched and exciting, the sonorous sound of oriental ancient music, and the beauty of the majestic ancient Roman war song, which makes people smell the blood boiling.

The refreshments after the banquet are also a variety of oriental fine snacks, the walnut crisp with sheng and the outside is tender on the inside, and it melts in the mouth, and the tongue of the Saiganu is as if it has melted.

Hao Ruwa went to the provincial hospital to help these days, just came back from the hospital today, wearing a refreshing light blue nurse uniform as a companion, the silver Vermilion Bird logo on the nurse's hat is different and elegant under the Chinese lamp, Ye Zhao knows that in Hao Ruwa's heart, she also regards herself as a nurse who takes care of herself, the emperor and members of the royal family, and the role is more, seeing that she doesn't dare to look at her demeanor, Ye Zhao also sighed slightly in his heart, just like the Houmen is as deep as the sea, and has entered the big interior? Is it fortunate or unfortunate?

Saiganu did not know that this was the world-famous nurse uniform in the Central Plains, but felt that this Mrs. Ru was exceptionally refreshing and pleasant, with beautiful eyebrows and a faint tough style, and it was not the legendary Jasper of the Central Plains.

But when this noble man came to his land, he always wanted to think of a good marriage, what kind of gift should he give? Rolling his eyes, Seganu almost sighed for a while, shook his head for a while, it was really untenable.

While Ye Zhao was tasting wine, he smiled and persuaded Saiganu to drink a few more glasses, Tao Chaoqing walked in quickly, came to Ye Zhao's side, and whispered in Ye Zhao's ear: "Your Majesty, it's done." ”

Ye Zhao bowed slightly, and he couldn't say whether he was happy or not, but silently drank the wine in his glass.

The banquet lasted until the time of the child, Sai Ganu was already drunk when he said goodbye, holding Ye Zhao's hand and muttering something, the interpreter looked at Ye Zhao, and did not dare to translate it according to the original meaning, but said: "Sai Ganu Cha Xie Long Live Lord is very hospitable." "In fact, Segnucha said that he wanted to collect a big beauty to give to the nobles. Originally, gold and silver utensils, strange treasures, this noble man from the Central Plains is not rare, Seganu thought about it for a long time, and only exotic beauty may be able to make this proud Oriental nobleman in his bones a little resigned.

"It's like a baby, you stay." Ye Zhao beckoned to Hao Ruwa, who was about to say goodbye, and Hao Ruwa was stunned, obviously she didn't expect Ye Zhao to say this, and she didn't come back to her senses until everyone withdrew. …,

"Your Majesty, are you unwell?" Stunned out of the dining room, came to the living room window, in the golden living room, Ye Zhao was standing in front of the window and looking out of the window, like a baby looking at Ye Zhao's back, and asked cautiously, what she had always seen was only Ye Zhao's broad back, shrouding the back of the entire empire.

Ye Zhao's mood was already a little heavy, but he was amused by Hao Ruwa, and looked back and smiled: "Why, can't I talk to you if I'm not feeling well?" ”

It's good that the baby has only seen Ye Zhao and the queen and the yellow concubine talking and laughing from a distance, at this time, Ye Zhao's eyebrows are so clear, seeing him smile, revealing his white teeth, like a baby's heart like a deer, the pretty face is slightly heated somehow, and he lowered his head and said: "No, I, I ......" I didn't know what to say for a while.

Ye Zhao nodded slightly and said, "But what you said is right, I am really a little uncomfortable in my heart." Then I saw the girl looking up at herself nervously and asked, "Has the emperor taken his temperature?" "In the barbarian land of southern Africa, there are many epidemics, and most of the symptoms are caused by fever.

Ye Zhao shook his head and said, "I'll show you something." He took out the message he had just received from his sleeve and handed it to Hao Ruwa.

Hao Ruwa took it and looked at it, and there was only a few lines on it, "British merchant Bacon killed and injured many Boers, and the conflict has started." The baby was stunned and didn't know what the message meant.

In fact, although the telegram is only one line, it is an extremely complex cause and effect, and it is the result of more than half a year's painstaking efforts of internal intelligence officers, and the guidance of the situation, and Tao Chaoqing's participation in it, which triggered the conflict, in which a British merchant killed a number of Boers, one of whom was an influential leader among the Boers.

Although Ye Zhao is not directly involved in the gray area of intelligence officers, I don't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me, and next, I don't know how many lives turned into smoke clouds. Think about how important life was thirty years ago, and now a war will break out at any time, and countless lives will be cruelly deprived, but my heart is like iron and stone, and I don't feel how unbearable, I can't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

The British and the Boers were not on good terms, but in recent years, the Boer settlements gradually discovered gold mines, and the Chinese occupied a lot of land here, which caused the Boers to be suspicious, but for a hundred years by the British, the Boers have long had a thorn in their hearts, just look at how to channel, through various channels to make a notorious British businessman dig out this thorn, the current Boers must have been excited, many years later, above the official history, who would have thought that there is the world's earliest secret service system from it? Who will be the winner of the stormy waves that are about to blow in southern Africa?

"Your Majesty, I don't understand anything, I just know that the emperor is a big hero and does the right thing." Hao Ruwa's bright eyes were extremely firm when she said this, the Great Emperor was the belief of most of the generals and soldiers of the Royal Legion, and the good Ruwa who was born in the military was naturally greatly affected, not to mention how lofty the status of the Great Emperor was in her mind before joining the army?

Ye Zhao smiled, being admired by hundreds of millions of subjects could not make him fluttering, and it was even a heavy pressure, but in front of this scheming little girl, he felt interesting.

"Let's go to bed." Ye Zhao gently pulled up the delicate little hand of the baby, and the baby was stunned, held by Ye Zhao's warm big hand, and immediately felt like a deer, and his pretty face was flushed.

Ye Zhao saw that she couldn't move, and felt more fun, smiled and bent down slightly to hug her leg and pick her up, when his arm touched the tender skin of her leg under her stockings, Ye Zhao's heart couldn't help but throb, and the delicate and lovely little nurse became a shy swallow at this time, gently and softly fluttering in Ye Zhao's arms, which aroused Ye Zhao's pity even more, he smiled, hugged the fluttering little swallow and walked to the bedroom......... That night, Ye Zhao, who had been abstinent for a long time, tossed the little swallow lightly, and the beautiful girl turned into a new wife, tactfully and happily......

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In the next few days, Ye Zhao and Segnucha walked around Maputo, similar to the Prussian ruling model in "German East Africa", except for a few densely populated cities such as Maputo, in the vast overseas provinces, mainly ruled by the "county magistrates" appointed by the Chinese government of the overseas provinces, the locals called the "county magistrates" appointed by the Chinese "Akida", these "Akida" are mostly Arabs or mixed races who migrated in the early days, and "Akida" is equipped with many "Qiongbei", The official name "village chief" registered in the overseas provincial government paperwork is held by local indigenous people, and many small tribal chiefs are also appointed to this position.

Akida and Jombe's main duty was to collect taxes from the natives, but the tribes of the Maputo Overseas Province were not treated harshly compared to the repressive military rule of "German East Africa".

The Germans had declared all lands in German East Africa to belong to the Kaiser, and that the overseas colonial authorities had the right to sell, lease or distribute them. Of course, both the British and the Chinese are general, and according to the law, the ultimate owner of the country's land is its own monarch, but both countries slowly acquire land through merchants dealing with local chiefs, and do not use naked force to occupy it.

Ye Zhao was waiting for news from the Transvaal, waiting for the long-standing fragile relationship between the British and the Boers to rupture.

As news of the Transvaal arrived, tensions between Britain and Brazier grew, many Boer hardliners had reopened the idea of establishing a republic, British merchants in Boer-controlled territory were attacked from time to time in gold panning, and the British authorities in Cape Town, South Africa, had begun to study the possibility of using force to ensure the safety of their citizens.

At this time, the armed rebellion of the Mozambicans in Portuguese East Africa against Portuguese rule gradually turned into an inter-tribal vendetta, and a sudden wave of refugees appeared in the northern border of the overseas province of Maputo.

According to Ye Zhao's understanding, Maputo was supposed to be the capital of Mozambique, now ruled by the Portuguese, and at the Vienna International Geographical Conference, with the support of the Chinese and Germans, Britain, China and Portugal signed an agreement to recognize the whole of Mozambique as part of Portugal. At the beginning of this year, Mozambique was officially demarcated as Portuguese East Africa.

The port of Maputo is adjacent to Portuguese East Africa, and 100 miles north of Maputo is the border between the overseas provinces and Portuguese East Africa.

The year before last, Gengenhana, the chief of the Ngoni people in Mozambique, united the surrounding ethnic groups to form the Gaza Federation to fight against the Portuguese colonial authorities, but later, some tribes in the Gaza Federation took the opportunity to carry out a bloody cleansing of the pro-Portuguese tribes that already had old grudges, which gradually evolved into inter-ethnic massacres, and now it is intensifying, as the Gaza Federation mercenaries enter the Zambezi River Henan, the Henan area has almost become a human purgatory, refugees flock south, and they have poured into the Chinese border for safety.

Perhaps it was also because the Mozambicans who were the first to visit their relatives and friends were not expelled by these occupiers from the east, but were instead housed in a wooden hut called a "refugee camp".

Ye Zhao went to the refugee camp to inspect the camp to accompany the visiting Boer leader Piette? In the name of Joubert, one of the three most respected leaders of the Boers, he visited Maputo to meet with the Chinese, and his intention was to imagine that in the event of a conflict with the British, he would gain the support of the Chinese behind him.

Maputo refugee camp in the northern border area, barbed wire fenced refugee camp, the yellow sand is full of simple tents and wooden houses, the air is turbid and dirty, this refugee camp has now accommodated more than 10,000 refugees, has long been close to saturation, but now there are still hundreds of refugees pouring in every day, new refugees are often bullied, there may be hidden violence everywhere, and the camp management office can not even guarantee that every refugee can have food every day, but compared to the bloody homeland, Life here is still a paradise for refugees. …,

Ye Zhao and Joubert walked side by side in the refugee camp, the military and police crowded on both sides, walking in the front, are two gendarmes with wolf dogs, in Africa in contact with foreign civilizations of the black people are afraid of wolf dogs, maybe it is really a dog to look down on people, Westerners like to raise fierce dogs in Africa, and their fierce dogs often only bite blacks, gradually, the indigenous people have a natural fear of dogs since childhood, passed down from generation to generation, this fear seems to have gradually become part of the gene.

In fact, there is no need for wolf dogs to open the way, when they see outsiders, the black refugees have long taken refuge in simple houses, and occasionally you can see the frightened and curious eyes of children through the cracks in the tent houses.

Miss Chen of the Refugee Management Office used a sweet voice to help Ye Zhao and Joubert introduce the situation of the refugee camp, Miss Chen is an intellectual young woman from Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the only female public official from the Central Plains in Maputo Overseas Province.

Miss Chen is fluent in Afrikaans with Dutch differences, and when Joubert listened to her introduction, he nodded repeatedly, and it was obvious that the Chinese surprised him everywhere during this visit.

"Noble behavior, China deserves to be a country of etiquette." When Joubert heard that Miss Chen introduced a special doctor to "inoculate pox", that is, various vaccinations for children in the camp, she couldn't help but be sincerely impressed, in the eyes of the Boers, the local black indigenous people are also extremely inferior life, and the Chinese are still like this to the black indigenous people, which cannot but make people feel good.

Ye Zhao shook his head and said: "It's just a matter of human rights, our country can only be a brick and a brick, but it is impossible to benefit the world, equality, freedom, charity, etc. must always be vigorously promoted in the east and west. ”

The current British Parliamentarian William Murphy of the British House of Commons. Randall. Kremer and Frederick, a member of the French National Assembly. Passy is preparing for the establishment of the Inter-Parliamentary Conference for International Arbitration, the precursor to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and of course a number of Chinese parliamentarians have been invited, making it possible for the IPU to become a quasi-international organization that coordinates relations between countries.

Although Joubert was a Boer leader, he was not as sensitive to current affairs as Ye Zhao, and he had never even heard of the international parliamentarians' conference jointly promoted by British and French parliamentarians, but he was keenly aware that the Chinese magnate in front of him seemed to prefer to coordinate relations with Britain rather than confrontation, so did the Chinese government and the royal family also pursue the same policy?

Seeing that Joubert frowned slightly, Ye Zhao smiled and said, "If we can coordinate with Britain and give your country an independent status, it is better than raising swords and soldiers, and the living beings can be saved from being destroyed, wouldn't it be good?" ”

Rubert was amazed by Ye Zhao's insight, but he was also slightly relieved, and nodded: "That's naturally the best." ”

Ye Zhao said this, but there was a layer of gloom in his heart, looking at the south, in Africa, can a war really be avoided? I am afraid that it is impossible, and this world will have to be a world war sooner or later to finally establish the status and relations of various countries, which is the general trend of history, and I am afraid that it cannot be changed by itself.

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The four-color dim sum wrapped in yellow straw paper is tied and strung with hemp rope, plus canned candy and glass bottles, and it is more decent to walk around among friends nowadays, which is quite characteristic of the times, which makes Ye Zhao rise a nostalgic feeling.

There are more than 100 such dim sum gifts, which are gifts given by Ye Zhao when he visits the staff working in the refugee camp, one for each of the workers, security personnel, etc., most of these staff members are local aborigines who have gradually been neutralized, and they rarely can enjoy the "luxury" from the civilized world. …,

Joubert has left Maputo, and the Chinese pioneer model of refugee camps will leave an indelible shock on him.

A few days ago, a Chinese businessman in Maputo made a charitable donation and raised more than 50,000 yuan for the Refugee Management Office, of which Ye Zhao himself donated 10,000 yuan, which made the officials of the United Nations Refugee Administration very good.

Although Segnucha does not care much about foreign refugees, and may even feel that the Chinese are inexplicable, at the very least, feeling these strange behaviors of the Chinese bit by bit, compared with the practices of some aggressive European countries, the Chinese are really more likely to arouse people's favor.

And Hao Ruwa helped the clinic hired by the PCPD as a volunteer, and she knew Miss Chen, but Miss Chen didn't expect that Hao Ruwa would be the concubine of this rich man in China, because Hao Ruwa has a strong personality, decisiveness, beauty and aura, and she doesn't look like a concubine.

Refugees in the camps are not allowed to go out and look for work, but farmers and business owners in Maputo can come here to recruit cheap workers, although the problem of violence is serious, even Ye Zhao has seen several black security guards subdue a mad refugee with particularly violent means, but most refugees show an almost pious respect for the Chinese, because they know that it is the Chinese who protect them from endless suffering, although, I don't know if this protection can last forever, But at least for now, they are living a relatively stable life.

"I'm only now feeling that my work is meaningful." Accompanying Ye Zhao through the simple tents, Miss Chen's smile was very genuine, although she didn't understand what output values were, but ordinary people who can help people in need are often in a happy mood.

Ye Zhao nodded, no squeak, the interests of the empire do not need to rely on force to conquer from time to time, when your social system stands on the top of the world, the cultural penetration of soft power is more effective than the conquest by force, far back in the Tang Dynasty, the ancients probably did this ignorantly, but at that time, due to the backwardness of technical conditions such as transportation and communications, the influence could not be far.

When Ye Zhao was about to return to Maputo, Tao Chaoqing arrived in a hurry, and he brought a very urgent news, an armed group of hundreds of Boers had stormed the British business office in Pretoria, and these Boers who were influenced by nationalism were so angry that they even killed a British staff member of the office.

Tao Chaoqing's face was solemn, and finally said: "Your Majesty, please also ask the Emperor to return to Beijing as soon as possible." ”

Ye Zhao bowed slightly, he understood what Tao Chaoqing meant, if the Boers and the British started a war, he needed to preside over the overall situation in the capital; Second, the most important thing is that the trend of this dispute is unpredictable, once the empire is drawn into the war, in the vast blue waters of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, a blockade and anti-blockade war between China and Britain will inevitably break out, and if they want to return to Middle-earth, it will be dangerous.

"Let's talk about it back in Maputo." Ye Zhao lowered the silk curtain of the car window, leaned back on the seat, and slowly closed his eyes.

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