More than ten days later

At the northernmost tip of Lake Malawi is Fort Wion, a new settlement of more than 400 settlers and a company of soldiers, as well as about 1,600 black Aboriginal laborers, who are responsible for building roads, logging and building wooden fences and houses around Fort Wilvan.

These black indigenous laborers were all indigenous tribes scattered around Lake Malawi and were taken in by soldiers along the way, and there were similar black laborers in other new tunpu, forcing them to take on the most onerous infrastructure work, which could greatly speed up the construction of settlements.

When the delegation arrived, Weiyuan Fort has built a circle of more than 230 meters long, more than 60 meters wide annular wooden fence wall, which can accommodate more than 1,500 people, and it is no problem to squeeze 2,000 people, these wooden fence walls are built by more than 4 meters high trees, remove the branches, sharpen the top, and bury more than one meter in the soil at the bottom, and arrange them in turn.

There are triangular pillars at the end of the wooden wall, and there is a patrol trail along the upper end of the wooden wall, on which soldiers can stand and fight.

On weekdays, there is this ring of wooden fence wall arch guards, there is no need to worry about the invasion of ferocious beasts, there are too many beasts in Africa that can hurt people, not to mention lions and hyenas, rhinoceros, giraffes and elephants These wild animals are also temperamental, and none of them are good to get along.

"It's a good location, in a narrow valley at the end of the mountains, with the open Tanzanian plain in front of it, and it's really nice to use the terrain to hold the valley pass."

Li Fushou stood on the patrol trail and looked into the distance, and beyond the mountain pass blocked by the towering mountains is a vast plain, which belongs to German East Africa in the territory of Tanzania.

According to the objectives of the demarcation negotiations, the area within 10 kilometres north of Fort Wilyuan should belong to the Queensland Overseas Territory.

Of course, a little more or less is fine.

There was no clear boundary between this thing before, everything had to be negotiated, as long as the German East Africa Company and Queensland were willing, then the border between the two sides could be determined.

Lieutenant Colonel Li Xuanzhu, who was the commander in charge of the security of the inspection team, accompanied Li Fushou step by step and replied; "According to the report of the company commander stationed there, after repeated consideration, it is more appropriate to set up a stronghold on the main road of the valley than to set up a stronghold in the Great Plains of Tanzania before, and it can rely on the mountainous terrain to build a continuous defense line and form a situation that is favorable to me."

"Well, it's a very discerning choice."

"Thank you Lord Earl for your compliment, I have led people to inspect the nearby terrain, there are still a few valley passages that can go straight to the rear of Weiyuan Fort, our immigrants are still too few, if we occupy these valley passages, then we can form a solid defensive line."

"Hehehe...... Don't rush, take your time. ”

Li Fushou squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, next to the river that flowed out of the valley, about 3 kilometers away from here, there were several gray tents, and more than 20 horses were tied to the tents, and there were people from the German East African company who had heard the news.

Among them were a dozen cavalrymen, the rest were employees of the German East African Company, and Mr. Fischer, who was in charge of the negotiations, a rather arrogant German.

As soon as the Germans noticed the movement of the Queensland side, they immediately sent this team to negotiate, and they had been stationed not far from the opposite side for more than a month, as if to show their presence.

It is not for nothing that the Germans are shrewdly using the rules to their own advantage, while testing the Queenslanders' bottom line.

"Send two small teams of class size, go 20~30 kilometers to the north, camp on the edge of rivers and lakes, and test the reaction of the Germans."

"Yes, Lord Count."

"In addition, this wooden walled city was built smaller, and people were arranged to build a horizontal wooden fence to connect the valleys on both sides one thousand meters south of the wooden walled city, so as to serve as an activity area for civilian towns, and the original walled city was completely military, and the two were clearly distinguished."

"Yes, Lord Earl, I will arrange for someone to do it at once."

"Well, go ahead."

Li Fushou ordered casually, and after watching Li Xuanzhu salute, he quickly turned around and left, acting in a resolute manner, without the slightest bit of mud and water, and nodded with satisfaction.

If memory serves, the young lieutenant colonel officer was 25 years old, loyal, reliable, and strong-willed, and was the best among the young officers.

The young officers who were born in the Young Eagle School are now generally at the level of lieutenant and captain, and there are very few who can enter the threshold of colonel-level officers.

Colonel Koch's suspension for review will inevitably affect the operation of the African Expeditionary Force and the next step in the separation plan, and it is imperative to promote several senior officers.

Li Xuanzhu is at the top of the promotion list, and he has the heart to put pressure on him again.

Taking some time to inspect the territory, Li Fushou felt that it was necessary, compared to sitting in the office listening to reports, reading maps, and personally experiencing the vastness of overseas territories, Li Fushou was particularly impressed, where the rich and beautiful plains and mountains, and the pleasant climate made him feel about Africa greatly.

Unlike the sandy Somali region, Sambique is more than 60% forested, with towering peaks covered with dense forests and dense vegetation.

The overall environment and climate are more similar to those of Australia, but there are more rivers and mountains, and the water energy reserves are extremely abundant, and the area suitable for rice cultivation is very large, and the lower Zambezi River was originally one of the traditional rice production areas.

With a deep understanding of this fertile soil, Li Fushou strengthened his determination;

It should belong entirely to the industrious and simple sons and daughters of China, and the situation in South Africa cannot be repeated in history, and after the completion of large-scale infrastructure projects in Mozambique, all indigenous black people must give way to Chinese immigrants.

After the basic livelihood is guaranteed, the indigenous black people will explode with amazing fertility and gradually change the demographic structure of the region, Li Fushou will never allow this to happen, and it must be solved in a proper way.

He did not want to repeat the cruel policy of the Americans towards the Indian tribes, then there were two ways out;

The first is to continue the traditional indentured black labour policy of the Portuguese, which is a large-scale export of labor to neighboring areas, which of course refers to the black indigenous population.

Second, it is a long-term process to import young unmarried women from neighboring Madagascar on a large scale, and after marrying Chinese immigrants, to achieve extensive Chinese education for newborn children, to inculcate the Confucian culture of etiquette, righteousness, honesty and shame, to forcefully suppress indigenous languages in society, to cut off historical and cultural inheritance, to establish a solid concept that indigenous people are inferior, and to strive to complete the transformation of social cognition in the time of one to two generations.

The process of the first step will be completed within 10 years, and the transformation of the second step will be completed within 30~40 years.

meanwhile

The launch of a large-scale resettlement campaign and the implementation of the "cage for birds" program, which has been implemented in Shangri-La and Borneo, have achieved relatively perfect results.

Nowadays, the application of "cages for birds" to the African colonization program has a wealth of experience to learn from, and a more moderate approach has been adopted to solve the demographic problem.

The surrounding European colonizers were more than happy to accept a large number of black indentured laborers to solve the shortage of manpower, and the French island of Reunion, the British Mauritius, and the German Tanzania and the emirate of Zanzibar all had strong population needs.

In this era, after more than 200 years of exploitation by the slave trade in Europe, most of Africa was vast and sparsely populated, which made the indentured labor trade have a strong market demand.

The only thing that needs to be paid attention to is Queensland, after all, cheap black labor is more tempting, and it is difficult to implement it without strong policy implementation.

The ship transportation of migrants to Africa will be undertaken by a specialized transport company, which will not be profitable and will try to reduce the cost in order to achieve large-scale migration transportation.

Prior to this trip, Li Fushou had personally instructed to place an order for a batch of 6,000-ton migrant ships, bringing the total number to 12, which would cost nearly a million pounds (the price of migrant ships was higher than that of cargo ships), and this part of the purchase cost and the cost of recruiting and training crew members would be borne by Red Fort.

According to the calculation of 4,500 people transported by each ship, 12 migrant ships can transport up to 54,000 people at a time, and there are 6~7 cross-border voyages every year, about 350,000 immigrants.

Coupled with the replenishment of cargo ships and other migrant ships, the goal of 500,000 immigrants per year can basically be reached, and after decades of efforts, it is completely possible to build this place into a beautiful and happy home in China.

Calculate your age, you should be able to see that day, right?

Come to think of it

Li Fushou smiled proudly, everything he did today is left to future generations to comment, without fear of controversy and slander, just for peace of mind.

The cool breeze of the valley blew in his black hair.

At this moment, he has a deep sense of historical mission in his heart, and his heart is undulating, and to be able to relive this life, Li Fushou is to do a great cause.

For my nation, my compatriots, and for my Chinese cultural heritage to expand space, from Australia to the South Pacific, from the Horn of Africa to Mozambique in East Africa, everywhere has left the imprint of overseas Chinese, and the Chinese cultural symbols are deeply engraved in the vast world.

When you grow old, you can have no regrets.

Li Fushou's tall figure stood on the patrol trail, standing with his hands in his hands, looking into the distance, and Lieutenant Colonel Li Xuanzhu, who was standing below, looked up to the leader with reverence, imprinted this scene deeply in his mind, and then turned around and waved his hand and said; "I didn't receive the order to retreat, so you gave me a firm root in the stronghold like a nail, and I will deliver the necessary supplies to you every other week, and now I will set off......

"Yes, sir."

The wooden gate in front of the village opened, and the two teams of cavalry, with a total of more than 20 people, with more than ten big green mules carrying supplies, rushed out of the gate in turn and headed towards the great plain in front.

The Germans were clearly alarmed by the action about three kilometers away, and many rushed out of their tents to watch in disbelief, while a few Germans, apparently in the lead, mounted their horses to meet them, as if to find out.

But they were apparently disappointed that none of the soldiers on the central duty knew German, and they simply coped with it and went away, and the soldiers were quite stubborn and felt the need to explain their task to the Germans.

It won't be long

Mr. Fischer, an employee of the German East Africa Company in charge of the negotiations, and a lieutenant officer came on horseback, and at this time Li Fushou had already returned to the wooden house to rest, and Li Xuanzhu did not have the leisure to take care of them, and sent one of his lieutenant company commanders to deal with them, which was also in line with the etiquette of reciprocal diplomacy.

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