Compared with Huang Li and Zheng Jing, who have ghosts in their hearts, Magnum's mind is much simpler. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Magnum just wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to earn more money and then return to France to retire, as for the future of Madagascar, this is not on Magnum's radar, it is Pierre's job.

Pierre was not ignorant of Manantenina's situation, but with Qin Zhiyuan's promise, Pierre didn't care.

Qin Zhiyuan did give Pierre a promise that during Pierre's tenure as Governor of Madagascar, Qin Zhiyuan would spare no effort to support Pierre's work.

This "support" is time-limited and limited to Pierre's tenure as Governor of Madagascar, and who cares about Madagascar after Pierre's departure?

The only person Pierre could rely on in Madagascar was the Afrika Korps sent by Qin Zhiyuan, two foreign legion divisions led by Cheng Xing'an, composed of half Annamite, half German, and a small number of Lanfang.

Compared with the situation faced by Huang Li, Cheng Xing'an is much more complicated.

Huang Li The Malagasy people they face are basically enemies, as long as they see the Malagasy people, they can grab them and give them to Renault Bauxite. And Cheng Xing'an faced more Malagasy people in Antananarivo, which made Cheng Xing'an really a bit of a rat trap.

The French and the Malagasy have been entangled for a long time, once the French conquered the Malagasy, but within a few years, the Malagasy people drove the French out of Madagascar, so the French changed their strategy and used more of the soft policy, wanting to turn the Malagasy into French obedient people in this way.

The problem is that the Malagasy people do not want to surrender at all, but at the same time they have strong ships and cannons that cannot resist the French, so it becomes the norm in Antananarivo, and the Malagasy people living in Antananarivo are ostensibly subordinate to the French, but whenever there is an opportunity, these Malagasy people will unite again at any time and drive the French out of Madagascar.

This is not easy, after all, this time Pierre is not surrounded by the rabble of the colonial legion, but the well-trained foreign legion from Lanfang, which is really against the sword, and the foreign legion is really not afraid of others.

So in Madagascar, there is a cooperative relationship between Pierre and Cheng Xing'an, and there is no disagreement, Cheng Xing'an is also very honest, and has no intention of large-scale immigration to Antananarivo, which somewhat makes Pierre relaxed.

What happened in Manantenina has spread throughout Madagascar in recent times, although Pierre is aware, he did not warn the old Renault, Pierre does not know very well how many people the old Renault hired from Southeast Asia, Antananarivo is still too far away from Manantenina, the distance of more than 600 kilometers is enough to make people desperate, there is no train here, there is no airport, if you want to go from Antananarivo to Manantenina, you can only take a passenger ferry, and the current Manantenina is certainly not worth Pierre's inspection.

During his three months in Madagascar, Pierre had been busy reconciling the conflicting interests of the bankers in Paris, and although he had already reconciled his interests before coming to Madagascar, there was still more work to be done after arriving in Madagascar and entering the actual operation.

The first thing to solve was the problem of workers, and these bankers came to Madagascar, and they basically all had a common purpose, which was to develop Madagascar's mineral resources.

But when they arrived in Madagascar, the people who followed Pierre found that there were many more problems than expected, especially with Pierre's connivance, the "slave trade" in Madagascar was rampant, and there were not enough workers in those mines, so all the ideas came to naught.

The solution to the problem was not impossible, on the one hand, by recruiting workers from mainland France or on the African continent, and on the other hand, by asking Pierre to control the increasingly rampant "slave hunting".

However, controlling the "slave hunting" will hurt the interests of some vested interests, which is tantamount to cutting off their financial channels and will cause a strong backlash from those people, so it is difficult for Pierre to find a balance on this issue.

The second problem is the antagonism between the Malagasy and the French, many of whom are opposed to French colonial rule, and even if they are not openly hostile to the French, it will be difficult for them to cooperate with the French.

Within the first month of Pierre's arrival in Madagascar, security in Antananarivo deteriorated dramatically, and within a month, 11 French families were violently attacked, men were tortured and killed, women were insulted and killed, and even two women disappeared and their whereabouts were unknown, which was a huge headache for Pierre.

After the arrival of the Foreign Legion led by Cheng Xing'an in Antananarivo, hostilities between the French and Malagasy persisted, and even the Foreign Legion units were attacked, and a patrol squad suffered most of the casualties.

Cheng Xing'an would not allow the situation to continue to deteriorate, so he imposed a curfew in Antananarivo and began military control at the same time.

In troubled times, Cheng Xing'an implemented this sentence very thoroughly, once a Malagasy who was a traitor fell into the hands of the Foreign Legion, he would sell it to those mine owners to mine, or shoot him directly, which deterred the Malagasy people to a certain extent and improved the security situation in Antananarivo.

On the surface, it seems that the law and order of Antananarivo has indeed improved, but in fact, the confrontation between the French and the Malagasy is even more serious, and now the Lanfang people have to be added, which makes the situation even more complicated.

Pierre understood the crux of the situation, but was unable to do anything because of his duty.

After consulting with his staff, Pierre decided to introduce a hierarchy among Malagasy, the advantages of which were reflected in the priority of access to public facilities, as well as in habitable areas, tax incentives, etc.

In this registration system, the first class is naturally the French and the Lanfang, as well as other Europeans living in Madagascar, the second class is the Antesaka, who do not constitute the majority of the population, and the rest of the Malagasy belong to the third estate.

In addition to establishing the hierarchy, Pierre also provided for a promotion system, so that if a second-class Antesaca made enough contributions to Antananarivo, then the Antesaca could rise to the first rank, and the same rule was that a Malagasy man in the third class had the opportunity to rise to the second or even the first rank.

From the perspective of the 21st century, this "hierarchy" is appalling, but at the beginning of the 20th century, it was prevalent in the British and French colonies, and even in the 21st century, the caste system in India still exists.

After the implementation of the hierarchy, it did play a certain role, at least the Antesaka showed a certain enthusiasm, and the expansion of Magnum's troops was based on this premise. At the same time, the hierarchy has created divisions within the Malagasy people, with the exception of the Antesaka, who have become vested interests, the Malagasy people hate the hierarchy so much that they have transferred their hatred of the French and Lanfang to the Antesaka.

This is exactly what Pierre wants.

Pierre has always been committed to provoking contradictions among the Malagasy people, as long as the Malagasy people themselves are in chaos first, Pierre has a chance, whether it is divided and disintegrated, or co-opted and attacked, even if Pierre is not familiar with these methods, Pierre's staff are also very familiar with these operating methods.

In the face of the surging Malagasy people, the French became the only reliance of the Antesaca people, and in order to maintain their position, the Antesaka people had to stand beside the French and wave their flags and shout, even for Pierre.

Within two months of the publication of the hierarchy, tens of thousands of non-Antésaca Malagasy nationals were sent to various mines run by the French, and the arrival of these people not only alleviated the labor shortage of the mine owners, but also successfully promoted hundreds of Antésaca to the first rank, which played a sufficient role in exemplifying.

It is not enough to simply promote people, but also to have enough material stimulation to stimulate the enthusiasm in people's hearts even more.

Pierre was indeed not stingy in terms of material, so these newly promoted Antesaka moved into a noble residential area inhabited entirely by French, and Pierre did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to allocate housing to these people, so that these people, including their families, could have a place to live, and then absorbed these people into government institutions, both in terms of material and social status, so that these people could get real benefits.

As a result, the social response was even stronger, and more Antesaka were inspired to do something for the colonial government and really blend in with the ruling class. At the same time, the non-Antae-Saca were even more agitated, hiding in every corner of Antananarivo, waiting for an opportunity to attack any Ante-Saca they came in sight, to avenge their doom.

So a new round of racial vendetta began again, and Cheng Xing'an and the others were busy again without touching the ground.

In any case, Pierre was able to take a break from the trivialities of Antananarivo and began to look at the whole of Madagascar.

In fact, all the cities of Madagascar have fallen into a situation similar to that of Antananarivo, so in this strife, the relatively quiet Manantenina is more and more conspicuous.

This is not a good thing for Huang Li and Zheng Jing.

(To be continued.) )