Some officers of the Xi'an garrison have made a fortune in the smuggling trade in recent months, and they have jointly ordered seagoing vessels with a displacement of 1,500 tons from the Australian mainland, and are ready to carry out a large-scale construction project in Xi'an Town.

The officers of these expeditionary task forces had a particularly keen sense of smell and were sensitive to the immediate need for a new round of major development when they learned that the Berlin Conference had included the Somali region in Queensland.

The biggest advantage of Xi'an town lies in its geographical location, it does not have the conditions for industrial development at all, and the room for agricultural development is also very limited.

Djibouti has a dry and rainy climate with a hot climate, and most of the goods in transit need to be stored in warehouses instead of being exposed to the sun.

In light of this

Investing in the development of private warehousing is almost a safe profit, and the ocean-going freighters passing through Djibouti often have tens of thousands of tons, and they need a large number of warehouses to store the goods casually, which is a hard-core demand.

It is this business opportunity that is seen

The officers of each company of the expeditionary task force are raising funds and investing in the construction of warehouses, preparing to take the lead in this round of great development.

Several particularly large stone buildings are under construction, and it is said that they are all storehouses, and you can see black slave ants toiling under the scorching sun, and there are fierce black overseers next to them, staring at them without blinking.

Over here

The main force of construction was black slave laborers, relying on primitive tools such as hammers and drills, to open mountains and quarry stones to build houses and roads.

After the red rock is mined, it is hammered and shaped little by little by hammer and iron drill, and the finished stone is used to build houses, stone powder thickens glutinous rice pulp and shell powder for caulking, and gravel is used to build roads and pave courtyards, all of which rely entirely on primitive manual labor.

The work of these constructions was contracted by local African chiefs and Arab merchants, and they were paid a variety of salaries, ranging from rice, sweet potatoes, poultry and livestock from farms, to cotton cloth and spirits, canned food and even toffee, to machine-made knives, farm implements, iron pots, and so on.

The town will do everything they can to get strong men to do the work, most of them are prisoners of war captured by other tribes, so it is not a good use, but it is a torture.

The black slave laborers ate worse than pigs, worked more tiring than oxen, and did not last long before their bodies collapsed.

The construction site has to carry out a few corpses every three or five times, and when there are fewer people, they will go out to catch them, and if they have money, the tribal chieftain can equip the tribal warriors with sharp iron knives and spears, and it is a big deal to run farther!

The town didn't ask about these things, they were all between the local African tribes.

The prosperity of Xi'an is based on this layer of exploitation, which is the reality of Africa today, and all colonizers have done it, including Queensland.

I don't have blood on my hands, I don't commit violence, I just exchange money and property for services, and as for whether the exchange is reciprocal or what the local indigenous African chiefs do, it is a matter of opinion.

Xi'an Town has been built so far

Thousands of black slave laborers died at the hands of local African chiefs and overseers, and more small and medium-sized tribal warriors died in the rebellion against capture.

In the town of Xi'an

There are these African tribal chiefs who love fine wine, beautiful soft clothes, Arab women, delicious toffee and canned food, and so much more than enough work to do, which requires more and more manpower.

For more than half a year, the small and medium-sized tribes in the surrounding areas of Somalia have been almost wiped out, and the rest have been far away, and there are almost no black indigenous tribes in a radius of more than 100 kilometers.

The trick was so good that the Queenslanders saved a lot of money on military expenses and turned it to town building, luring more African chiefs and Arab traders to work for them.

They are familiar with the local situation and the local tribal language, and they can exterminate the small and medium-sized indigenous tribes like a sieve, even if there are two or three big fish and small fish left, it is difficult to survive in the harsh Gobi Desert environment like Africa.

It doesn't matter if you run away, as long as you pay a little money or promise to build a few rooms, the town can send a steamer to send the slave catcher of the African chieftain to the designated shore to land, and then pick it up at an appointed time.

The cooperation between the two sides is very happy.

From a Queensland perspective

The cost of transporting migrants to the African continent is very high, and the death rate of long-distance sea transportation is 1~2 percent, and the cost of each healthy migrant arriving in Somalia is more than 37 pounds, including various expenses.

Due to the distance, specialized migrant ships can only make three voyages a year.

Coupled with the limited medical conditions, the outbreak of diseases in the tropics is very dangerous, cholera, malaria, rodent labor, and dengue fever can kill people at any time, and the loss of population is not small.

Therefore, Xi'an Town is very cautious about the use of every Chinese immigrant, and of course will not let it be consumed needlessly.

Usually the new immigrants are organized to study the policies and regulations, the militia armed training, visit the farms and plantations of the early pioneers, and have discussions with the immigrants who opened shops, and after fully understanding the situation, the immigrants themselves decide whether to work or farm.

If you are willing to work in agriculture, Shangri-La Bank will support loans in kind, including grain seeds, cattle, farming tools, tents, etc., to reclaim wasteland in a designated area, and the reclaimed wasteland will be your own.

After the harvest, after paying the land tax, they can use it freely to repay loans or buy black slave laborers, continue to reclaim wasteland, and expand production like a snowball.

Many of the immigrants who arrived in advance had already cultivated tens or hundreds of acres of barren land, exchanged the harvested grain for supplies, bought cattle, sheep, poultry and livestock to raise, moved out of adobe houses and lived in spacious and bright brick houses, and even bought one or several Arab women, and lived happily ever after.

The power of example is endless, and the vast majority of immigrants choose to work in agriculture in the hope of living an equally happy life.

A small number of skilled immigrants choose to work, and the most lucrative income is to board a smuggling ship, which is dangerous but has a high income.

In Xi'an, there is a shortage of manpower, and carpenters, blacksmiths and lacquerers are quite popular, and the wages are also higher, and there are many who are willing to continue their old trades.

The 7.7-kilometre road from the harbour wharf to the town of Xi'an has been paved with gravel, smooth and wide, with trees planted on both sides of the road to form an unobstructed boulevard.

The town of Xi'an has vigorously planted trees in the surrounding area, transplanting some flowers and plants suitable for tropical areas to beautify the environment, these green plants that are so abundant in the Earl's territory are so rare in the desert Gobi region.

A touch of green, symbolizing hope and life.

Only in an oasis where there is no shortage of water can you use fresh water to water the trees and flowers in such a luxurious way, and in a dozen years, it will surely become a beautiful town surrounded by greenery and lush vegetation.

Li Fushou and his entourage did not wait long in Xi'an Town, and Tian Shan sent personnel to the Suez Canal Authority to negotiate very smoothly, and the other party released the "Golden Years" from detention without saying a word, and the original restrictions on personnel who were not allowed to leave the cruise ship were also lifted, and said that the intelligence was wrong, and he was deeply sorry.

There are no other substantial penalties.

The Suez Canal Management Committee is an international organization composed of many countries, including the shareholders of Britain, France, Egypt and Europe and the United States, among which France holds the largest shares, followed by the United Kingdom, and the two countries have the final say in the Suez Canal Management Committee.

The perpetrator was a colonel of the British occupation forces, a baronial nobleman born in Oxfordshire, who secretly led someone to seize the cruise ship "Golden Years" and created this self-slapping incident.

It is pointless to delve into it, and the arrogant British War Department will not give anything to say about it, after all, the Earl of Queensland built 4 10,000-ton battleships for the Royal Navy, but did not give the army even a single cannon, and no one owes anyone, and this beam is settled.

After arriving in Xi'an, the "Golden Years" took a two-day rest, replenished fresh water, vegetables and fresh meat, and set sail again, arriving in Queensland, Australia at the end of 1884, ending this bumpy and uneventful European journey.

During his stay in Xi'an Town, Li Fushou did not express any opinions or instructions on the town's colonization work, but only met with a group of officers of the expeditionary task force headed by Lei Xiaopeng, expressed warm words of encouragement, and encouraged them to take root in Africa and create a new situation.

Then, there is no then.

Queensland has formed a set of efficient and practical work processes in the colonization work, and has a perfect examination and evaluation system, which has experienced the construction of hundreds of towns in Australia, Shangri-La, and Borneo, and has been proven to be effective and efficient, and there is no need to say anything.

As a superior

Li Fushou has no intention of interfering in the work of his subordinates, and he has no interest in judging the construction of a town.

Naturally, Queensland has a system of evaluation to evaluate the merits of schools, and to make pertinent evaluations of urban managers and builders, which will affect the future promotion and development of officials.

It may not be perfect, but it's the ultimate in what can be done right now.

Li Fushou saw the construction of the town in Xi'an, and through the secret report of the Political Intelligence Department (formerly the Black Guard), he knew that the officers of these expeditionary task forces were not good at stubble, and their ability to make money was not small.

But he did not say no, and only gave instructions on the secret report;

Having read it, consideration could be given to retaining the relevant members for long-term development in Africa.

This simple sentence will determine the fate of most of the officers of the expeditionary contingent, and I am afraid that in the future, I will develop on the land of Africa for a long time, and it is tantamount to a fool's dream to want to be transferred to other units.

Love to do business?

Then go ahead and put down roots in Africa to create a new one......

From here, you can see the artistry of the superior's speech, and the intelligence can understand a little bit thoroughly, and the one who can't understand is still confused.

The Queensland army is essentially a feudal lord army, or a lord's private army, Li Fushou has no ability to instill any doctrine for it, while making a lot of money and expanding the land on a large scale, he requires the soldiers to be honest and honest, not to take a stitch from the masses, to love the people like children, to treat the natives as warm as relatives, to put aside the mentality of the invaders, and to look at the problem with the mentality of the liberator, then it is all nonsense!

The Queensland army practiced a traditional feudal loyalty education, worked for whoever was paid, used the Chinese blood ties to maintain cohesion, and created a new military class with land and large rewards, similar to the German Junker military aristocracy.

Due to the limited specifications of the earl aristocracy, this new military class created by him can be called the Queensland civilian military aristocracy.

Under the big lord governs the small lord, and under the big capitalist there are many small capitalists, forming a stable ruling class, which is probably the current social situation in Queensland.