The Governor of Nanshan, which has a Mediterranean climate in the southern hemisphere, has entered summer early, but the average temperature is still only more than 20 degrees, and the sunshine is abundant, and the climate is warm and pleasant.

As the core transit hub of the Far East immigration route, Nanshan Port has a large number of Chinese naturalized people on the spot, and the proportion of Chinese Americans is as high as 70%, which is the highest among all Chinese American towns. The formal settlement population of Nanshan Port has exceeded 11,000, and there are no less than 3,000 "foreign laborers" distributed in the vast agricultural reclamation areas around Nanshan Port, including Indian prisoners of war transported from the mainland, South America, and the Caribbean, indentured slaves and exiles from Europe, and a number of black slaves imported from various "labor dispatch companies" in the European colonies in West and East Africa.

In addition to a small amount of coal, iron and lime resources, the local area of Nanshan Port is relatively scarce in mineral resources, coupled with the high degree of domestic development policies for overseas governors, the manufacturing scale of the entire Nanshan area is the weakest of all Huamei towns. With the exception of ship repairs, cement and building materials, glassware, foodstuffs, and a small amount of ironware, the vast majority of industrial products are largely dependent on local imports, and even hardware commodities such as nails must travel all the way from Butterfly Island.

As a result, the simplification of the economy made the export of agricultural and animal husbandry products the most important economic pillar of the Nanshan Governor's Command, accounting for more than 70% of the local economy. Historically, South Africa's most important agricultural production area has established a large number of farms in the mountains and fertile lands of the plains around Nanshan Harbour. Every year, 20,000 tons of primary agricultural and industrial products such as grain, livestock, textile raw materials, leather, iron, and coal are exported from Nanshan Port, and Nanshan wine has also begun to become famous in Huamei.

From here, the Atlantic route and the Far East route were clearly separated into two sections: the Atlantic route to the west, in which maritime transport and trade were freely involved by other domestic enterprises; The route to the Indian Ocean is exclusively owned by the Oriental Union Group, although there is no restriction on domestic trading companies on the surface, but all domestic goods exported to Asia and the overseas territory of the Pearl Island must be transported by the fleet of the Oriental Transportation Company, a subsidiary of the Oriental Union Group. Therefore, the Oriental Union Group, which has the exclusive right to operate the Far East route. It has become the largest private investment enterprise in Nanshan Port. In addition to the group's headquarters and board of directors in the local Manchester City, its three subsidiaries have built their headquarters in Nanshan Port. In Nanshan Port and its surroundings, the number of farms invested and founded by OUCC Group has gradually increased over the past few years.

Beginning in 1631, many domestic or European merchants heading to the Far East chose the Eastern Transport Company for their excellent seaworthiness and unfussy seafaring performance during the monsoon season, as well as their relatively low freight rates. The large five-masted schooners flying the flag of the Oriental Union Group have become a unique scenery in the Indian Ocean, and the transit trade has also become an important economic income for Nanshan Port.

The use of foreign labor on a larger scale, the abundance of cheap output, and the increase in implicit surcharges, as well as the high threshold for restricting the import of free trade other than domestic goods, constituted the basic economic operation model of the Nanshan Governorate. Although a higher percentage of economic gains are taken homegrown. But for now, prosperity is still the main tone of the Nanshan Governor's Domain, especially for European or Chinese immigrants who have lived a stable life for many years, as long as they do not compare with their homeland, it is still a happy place in their minds.

In order to protect China, the United States, a strategic point in the southernmost tip of Africa, unless there is an urgent transfer to war, the Foreign Legion has two battalions stationed here all year round, and the local National Guard also has a brigade size. Last year's expansion of the Foreign Legion in Tongguò, a battalion of the "Brown Bears", the second brigade-level unit of the Foreign Legion. It is also being trained in the formation here.

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Saturday, December 16, 1634.

The military port, which is more than 10 kilometers south of the city, is the home port of the South African fleet of the United States. In Hout Bay, the light cruiser Lapis Lazuli was out on patrol and did not return. The flagship light cruiser USS Bloodstone is cautiously heading into dry dock for a month-long overhaul, while the frigate USS Cornflower prepares to set sail.

The new town, which was administratively subordinate to the Governor of Nanshan, was named Jinsha Harbor. Symbolizes wealth and status. The location of Sands Harbour was set in Port Elizabeth, the southernmost point of South Africa. The small bay facing the Indian Ocean not only has better port conditions, but also has fertile inland land in the north and is richer in mineral resources than Nanshan Port.

What's more. After the establishment of the Sands Port, the safety of the route around the southern tip of Africa will continue to be improved. At the end of last year, a merchant ship returning from Wolshan Island was narrowly missed by a storm, prompting the launch of the Sands Port colonization plan. Wu Yuanyi, the governor of Nanshan, signed a governor's decree after the beginning of spring in 1634 to prepare for the colonization of Jinsha Port. After pardoning a group of European exiles, along with some of the recruited European indentured slaves and a small number of Chinese immigrants, the Sands Harbour colonization team was finally completed this month, and the first batch of 800 people reached 800.

The acting captain of the Cornflower, Lieutenant Ji Chaohai, was to escort this pioneering team and escort the first expansion and colonization after the establishment of the Nanshan Governor.

The colonization fleet located in Nanshan Port in the north has not yet sent out the news of sailing, and Ji Chaohai can only sit in the command cabin chart room and continue to write letters. The recipient is his wife Lin Xiaoyu, a beautiful woman who once had a very special identity.

After crumpling off several half-written pieces of letter paper in a row, Ji Chaohai finally finished writing a letter of several hundred words home. There is no outward talk in the letter, what is the best way to take care of your pregnancy, what should be the name of the child after birth, how many months do you have left in the South African fleet, and other low emotional intelligence fragments.

Putting away the letter and looking at the pocket watch again, the time had reached 10 o'clock in the morning, but the order to sail had not yet arrived, Ji Chaohai couldn't help but sigh softly.

As the first Chinese immigrant captain of the Chinese and US Navy, Ji Chaohai's tenure in the South African fleet can be described as "walking on thin ice". There is no other reason, except for Li Fan, the captain of the flagship Bloodstone and commander of the South African fleet, including Ji Chaohai himself, the acting captains of the remaining three warships are all a group of outstanding officers after the establishment of the Long Island Naval Academy.

Light cruiser USS Lapis Lazuli, with Captain Aven as acting captain; USS Tulip frigate, the acting captain is Captain Ruyter. These two are both high-achieving students who graduated from the regular class of the Long Island Naval Academy, while Ji Chaohai was just a temporary officer who came out of the crash course that year.

Although judging from the graduation year, he is considered to be the senior of Aven and Ruitel, and he also participated in the Battle of Bermuda 11 years ago on the sail frigate Delaware, but compared to those two juniors who shined in the Eastern Expeditionary Fleet many years ago. As a 30-year-old senior, he is too inferior.

The appearance of the wheel is large, Ai Wen's tall and handsome and Ruytel's short and powerful are both distinctive and unforgettable, while Ji Chaohai himself is neither tall nor short and has a mediocre appearance. If it weren't for the uniform of a naval officer, I am afraid it would be difficult to think that he is also a captain today.

But it is such a plain and ordinary self, but in these years he has gained a future that many people envy. Not only was he the first officer appointed by the Long Island Naval Academy after graduating from the captain's class, but even three years ago, Colonel Sun Yang, the commander of the home fleet, personally served as a matchmaker to marry Miss Lin Xiaoyu, the good sister of the "famous" Lieutenant Yan Xianping.

Although his wife used to be someone else's personal maid, she was in China and the United States. To be able to make senior naval officials a matchmaker is a great aura of honor. In order not to let people criticize his background behind his back, Ji Chaohai's enthusiasm for learning has more than doubled after marriage, and almost every time he goes on a voyage, he will carry a large number of college textbooks, read hard, and even some things that have nothing to do with military affairs are also willing to understand and master.

The Ji family was broken down more than ten years ago, and there was only one seedling left like Ji Chaohai to wander thousands of miles, and now he can have a new family in China and the United States to take root. Ji Chaohai felt that his pressure was unprecedentedly heavy.

"Sir, the convoy has left the port, and the fleet commander has ordered us to go and rendezvous." His old partner, Second Lieutenant Rubin, peeked out of the crack in the hatch and smiling. "The order also said that after completing this trip, we will go directly to Molsan Island to replenish supplies and wait for the merchant fleet of the OUCC Group from the Indian Ocean. I heard that the hot springs on Gassan Island are very good. You can also eat good things that you can't find anywhere else! ”

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Standing on the rooftop of the newly expanded governor's residence, watching a convoy of transport ships disappear into the sea, the gloomy expression on the face of Wu Yuan, the governor of Nanshan, has not changed since half an hour ago.

Then turn your head to the eastern suburbs of the city. In that inland military base of the army, a battalion of recruits from the "Brown Bear" Brigade of the Foreign Legion from Europe and the Pearl Island of the Far East were practicing neatly to the accompaniment of military music.

“…… Your Excellency the Governor, this is the direction of the country. The main force of the Foreign Legion's Bison Brigade will be transferred to the Azores next month, and in order to prevent accidents, the second phase of the expansion plan of the Governor of Nanshan will need to be suspended until the situation in England has not eased. A Governor-General led a European official standing cautiously beside Wu Yuanyi, still holding a telegram in his hand.

"No matter how big the North Atlantic and Europe are, it is impossible to bring turmoil to the Governor of Nanshan, and their attitude is a contempt for us. During my tenure, I had to complete the second phase of the outreach program! Wu Yuan, who has served as the governor of Nanshan for 7 consecutive years, is already 47 years old, and as soon as he turned around and fished the telegram from his subordinates, he glanced at the content a few times again, and crumpled it with a disdainful expression, "They don't know the actual situation here, I need the army to maintain the hard-won achievements over the years!" The Bussiman people in the south and the Khoi in the east have so much valuable land that our land expansion plans have been delayed for a year. In particular, the coal mine in the inland of the Nanshan Valley is the only open-pit mine area of scale value that we have found so far! ”

"In the past, we used to trade to get them to sell their land, but this time it seems that they are not willing to move elsewhere." The European bureaucracy knew that the governor was about to lose patience, and quickly lowered his voice, "I'm afraid we have no better way than to forcibly drive them out." But if the Foreign Legion is transferred, we have to be careful about possible unexpected ......"

"Mr. Harris, tell me, how much trouble can a group of short black men who know only wooden bows and spears, who are less than 150 centimeters tall and weigh less than 40 kilograms, do you so much? The fact that they haven't learned to be grateful after enjoying so many years of our generous dealings is a testament to how naïve our previous policy was! Wu Yuanyi, the governor who had been pampered for many years, gradually became hideous at this time, "I will explain it in China, but I hope that within half a year, including the coastal plain of Xiawan, the entire Nanshan Peninsula will not see a single Busiman and Stranlopa people; Within a year, the Khoi to the east must retreat 100 kilometers away! To this end, I authorize you to use any means. Before the Foreign Legion is transferred, they can still help us do some work, and I will continue to communicate with their commanders, and the local police and National Guard should also go all out! ”

"Yes, Your Excellency the Governor......" The European bureaucrat wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and quickly nodded.

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A few days later, a squadron of officers and soldiers of the National Guard drove into a valley a few kilometers south of the port of Nanshan and forcibly drove away a small Bussman village.

Hundreds of black men, women, and children silently carried or carried their household belongings, and with frightened and angry expressions, were escorted to the east by the soldiers of the Nanshan National Guard Garrison who were loaded with guns. Behind them, their once-friendly neighbors set fire to their houses, several bodies curled up in front of the ruins of their houses that had tried to resist, and many of the unprocessed furs that had been hunted down were also reduced to nothing in the fire.

To the east of Nanshan Harbor, two battalions of the Foreign Legion Bison Brigade carried out a large-scale drive on the outskirts, in addition to a new battalion of the Brown Bear Brigade remaining behind. The herdsmen of the Khoi moved slowly across the plain with their herds, flanked by groups of Foreign Legion officers and soldiers. In the distant suburban farm strongholds, some farm militia composed of gorgeous farmers probed their brains and applauded the scene, because these Khoi cattle often cross the line to eat the crops on the farm, and it is difficult to communicate with them, which is annoying.

Most of the units carried out the eviction in an orderly manner, but there were always minor frictions, such as when a Khoi village was forcibly evicted, while most of the village's cattle were forcibly detained by the Foreign Legion. Angry blacks almost grabbed stones and sticks to reclaim their cattle, but under the guns of the black hole, the village elders prevented this self-defeating resistance.

The "small bump" did not prevent the implementation of the governor's order, in fact, in the eyes of many Nanshan Port citizens, Governor Wu Yuanyi's approach was already very humane, these black tribes were only forced to migrate farther away, at most they might lose something "slightly", but otherwise still maintain their freedom. By contrast, the "foreign laborers" who work day and night on the farms are far more bleak.

As soon as the Khoi blacks had left on their front feet, the steam tractors brought from the homeland, accompanied by the police and the governor's officials, carried large shovels on the front of the vehicles, began to bulldoze the humble villages, and then the land was painted with stakes and white lime powder circles according to the planning drawings, which were then sold to businesses or individuals at very low prices.

According to Wu Yuanyi's plan, Nanshan Port will invest in the establishment of a number of new livestock breeding or planting farms, and make extensive use of foreign labor to meet domestic and foreign demand for livestock, wool, cotton and leather. In addition, in the mountains south of Nanshan Port, there will also be a large area to promote the planting of oriental ramie and fruit trees, and expand the breeding scale of Angola goats, high-grade mohair (Angola goat) is second only to alpaca wool fiber, has been early by domestic textile enterprises as a key purchase object.

Livestock, leather, fruit wine, and mohair will be sold to the mainland or the Caribbean, while ordinary wool, cotton, sisal, and ramie will be the raw materials for the first textile mill under the leadership of the Governor of Nanshan, and in the future, all kinds of textiles will be sold to South America, East Africa, West Africa and India through various channels to replace more valuable commodity raw materials. (To be continued......)