Hei Zhongzhong led his slaves, escorted Ivanov and his party, and slowly marched southwest.

After three days, the team came to the corner of a river.

The name of the river is historically called the Kamel River, the Oak River downstream, and the Shari River downstream, which eventually joins Lake Chad.

Ivanov saw the river and looked at the empty fields on both sides of the river's corner, and felt chagrin.

If, last year, or during the rainy season, immigrants had been allowed to settle down the river, the land west of here would have belonged to Lucia from now on.

But now it's time to keep going downstream.

The black loyal party descended the river, and after walking for another eight days, they came to a place where the river forked.

The main channel was originally northeast and southwest, and a tributary turned south.

This year's rainy season has just passed, and the fork is surrounded by swampy mudflats.

In the southeastern part of the Fork Marsh, a relatively flat piece of land is dotted with a dozen simple houses.

On the periphery of the house were a dozen Tessians, driving more than a hundred Moxi slaves to clear farmland on the edge of the swamp.

When they noticed a large number of ink people approaching, they immediately became nervous.

The Tessie immediately picked up his rifle.

And command his own ink slaves, take up crude weapons, and stand in front of him.

Ivanov, who was in a mixed mood, reported to the Black Loyalty:

"This is our settlement, and the tentative name is Riverbeach."

Originally, there was a small town called Merle here.

It is already more than 380 kilometers away from the 91st parallel line of west longitude drawn by Zhu Jingyuan.

Black Loyal took the binoculars and looked at the situation by the river:

"With such a small population, we can move this settlement directly as we captured and relocated you......"

Ivanov almost collapsed:

"You can't do that! They have settled here, and your seizure of settlements is no different from war! ”

Black Loyal said with a smile:

"Yes, we can't do that.

"But it is better for your people to move to the west of the tributaries and swamps.

"In this way, the two sides of this tributary will build on the east and west sides of the tributary, which will not affect each other and will not easily cause conflicts."

Ivanov breathed a sigh of relief, and then immediately asked:

"You mean, we use this river as our boundary?"

The tributaries of the river, the general direction of these mud swamps, are basically due south.

But after more than 20 kilometers of upward movement along the tributary, the river turns southeast.

The black loyalty in front of him should not know these situations.

If the course of this tributary is taken as the boundary, then the further south it goes, the more land belongs to Lucia.

If such conditions can be obtained, it will not hurt to give those simple houses and land on the west bank of the existing tributary to the Ming Dynasty.

Hei Zhongzhong shook his head directly:

"No, we have not observed the situation in other areas of the river and cannot make decisions about other areas.

"So our temporary demarcation point is limited to the fork of the tributary of the river that we see.

"The west of the fork is for you to explore and explore, and the east of the fork is for us to explore and explore.

"This is only a temporary exploration of the border, and the real boundary is for the adults of the court of Daming and Lucia to talk about."

Ivanov saw that the black loyalty was completely not fooled, and immediately felt a little regretful, and then began to discuss the issue of settlements:

"The houses here, the farmland here, are now east of the fork, and this is the result of our pioneering construction.

"We can't give it to you unconditionally, if you ask for it, you should show the conditions."

Black Loyalty said noncommittally:

"We did not directly seize your settlements, and allowing you to develop and build here is our condition.

"Now that you're free, go and tell your companions to move to the other side of the swamp, and we'll be neighbors from now on."

Ivanov was suddenly helpless again.

The Ming people are tough in negotiations, and the slaves of the Ming are as tough as they are.

But the promise of black loyalty does work.

After all, the two sides have decided on the provisional demarcation line.

At the very least, the west of the fork of the river's tributaries belonged to Lucia.

Lucia has at least a million square kilometers of land in Mexican.

And this is not the rotten land of the Xianbei Wasteland, but the warmest and wettest savannah.

The fact that they have been able to be reclaimed into the best farmland is already a very good result.

The civilized countries of mankind are basically farming peoples, but in some places the farming conditions are not good, and they have to develop other sideline industries.

And then this side hustle might shine.

The Vikings were poor peasants who could not survive, and the highest goal of going out and robbing was actually to get a good piece of land.

The British had poor farming conditions at home, and the Stuart dynasty implemented mercantilism.

Spain and Portugal also engaged in plantations in Yinzhou, and the United States has been a large farm since the era of the Thirteen Colonies.

In the serious historiography of later generations, the Tessians themselves did not know what "maritime civilization" was.

When maritime civilization is used seriously, it usually refers to small island countries such as Tonga and Fiji.

The major civilizations of later generations gradually developed industry and commerce on the basis of the agrarian era.

Before the development of industry and commerce, or even after the development of industry and commerce, there was no civilized person who did not want to build a good piece of land.

Lucia, Germany, and France on the continent of Ctessi had better farming conditions and stronger farming traditions.

Lucia, in particular, is particularly fond of the land, especially the warm land.

The Mozhou colony that Zhu Jingyuan gave to Lucia was almost in line with all their beautiful imaginations about the land.

However, although Lucia loves land, she does not regard it as her life.

If the land had been taken as its fate, it would not have sold Alaska, and it would not have ceded land to Japan without paying compensation.

This shows that for Lucia, life is more important than money, and money is more important than land.

Lucia didn't dare to conflict with Da Ming now, so it was natural to accept it when she saw it.

After Ivanov's expedition regained its freedom, they quickly went to join up with their fellow people in the settlement of Riverbeach.

Ivanov explained the situation to the officials here, and the Lucian immigrants, although very indignant, eventually accepted the terms of black loyalty.

Abandonment of existing settlements east of the river and the small amount of farmland that has developed around it.

With their slaves and luggage, they retreated to the west of the river and found a suitable place to build and develop again.

No way, there are too many people on the other side.

As soon as the number of people exceeds 10,000, it is a sea of people, and there is no end in sight.

No matter how bad the war is, these Mo people can directly crush a dozen Taixi people and a hundred slaves on their side.

And the other party has his back to Daming, if there is really a conflict, he is likely to die in vain.

Lucia retreated to the other side of the river very acquaintedly, and Black Loyal was not too much to do so, arranging his own team to prepare for settlement.

The nomadic activities mentioned by Black Loyalty are not excuses, but they also have predetermined goals and plans.

The task given by the master of the Ming Dynasty is to be nomadic until he finds the Taixi people on the opposite side.

After finding the Tessie, they settled along the exploratory border between the two sides.

Nomadism is great for exploration, but it's not a long-term solution.

The history of human civilization should be that there was fishing and hunting first, then agriculture, and finally nomadism.

There was no fishing, hunting and farming life, and all kinds of domestic animals were domesticated, so there was no concept of animal husbandry.

Without animal husbandry, there would be no way for people to live on livestock, and nomadism would not have been possible.

The earliest true nomadic peoples, no earlier than the first millennium BC, were probably formed in the Spring and Autumn period.

Nomadism seems to be barbaric, but in fact he is a little brother, and fishing and hunting are the big brothers.

Farming is the accumulation and evolution of fishing and hunting civilization technology, just like the industry and commerce that were bred after the farming civilization.

But nomadism is the loser of competition in the circle of agrarian civilization.

The true origin of nomadism is probably that the original farms were occupied by other ethnic groups, and they had to rush to escape with the livestock they could take away.

Then they found out that as long as I had enough livestock, I could survive without stopping to farm.

However, with the continuous expansion of agricultural civilization, the space for nomadic groups to operate has been shrinking.

If they don't change their way of life and don't find a place to settle down, they will eventually "leave" all the land and disappear.

Black Loyalty ended his temporary nomadism and settled on the west side of the river fork.

Spread out your own army of slaves, with one hundred people per hundred households as a unit.

Starting from the riverbank town built by the Lucian people, it was explored and settled in both north and south directions.

Spread a distance of one kilometer between each unit, find a suitable location to build your own village, and cultivate the land.

At this time, there are more than 100 settlements, each of which is not necessarily smaller than the opposite Hetan Town.

The point is the direct formation of a border wall with a length of more than 100 kilometers.

Moreover, the Black Duke is not just a black loyalty.

In the next six months, other black nobles will arrive with slaves.

They will follow the same rules, at both ends of the "black wall" of black loyalty, and continue to extend to the north and south.

After the slaves of six or seven black dukes are spread out, a "black wall" of thousands of kilometers can be formed.

From the rainforests in the south to the deserts in the north.

The whole prairie was divided by this black wall.

The highest-ranking Black Duke, the true elite of the Monu Legion, was barely able to complete this task.

When the other small-scale black nobles led the slave tribe arrived, they would open up the wasteland behind the black wall.

The Lucians couldn't see the changes in the future, but the current operation of Black Loyalty had already stunned them.

They could also imagine that if there were more black nobles, they would be able to divide the entire grassland in two.

In the future, it seems that it is impossible for the Lucians to go around and open up the wasteland.

Ivanov couldn't understand how the Ming people let these slaves manage themselves and manage themselves quite successfully?

Black Loyal and Ivanov, while both sides are wary of each other, they have not forgotten more important things.

After both sides settled down, they immediately arranged manpower to report the situation to the rear.

This is the depths of the savannah, and most of the area is still being explored.

There were no roads and railways, no telegraph lines, not even accurate maps.

Both sides could only arrange for small cavalry to go back to deliver the message.

Even in the rear of the exploration forces on both sides, other more and larger settlements may not have telegraph facilities.

Lucia's telegraph facility, which was closest to Riverbank Town, was in the headquarters of the Lucian and Prussian Inland Forces.

Historically, Lake Chad on the Continent of Mexico is now named Lake Baltic by Lucia and Prussia.

The lake is now part of the colonial border between the two countries, and the command is to the southwest of this lake.

The authorities of the Lucia and Prussian colonies are working together to encircle the Fulani and the Bornu kingdoms in this region.

The Bonnu Empire was a classical kingdom in the western part of the continent that had existed here for thousands of years.

The Fulani were an important ethnic group in the Kingdom of Bornu, and their religious leader, Osman Dan Fodio, was once appointed by the old king of the Kingdom of Bornu as the prince's teacher.

However, the crown prince did not like this teacher very much, and after succeeding to the throne, he drove his teacher away.

Fodio rallied his followers and launched a holy war, breaching the capital and driving the new king away.

The king, who belonged to the Daratawa people, was driven out of the capital and appealed to his own imam Ganniemi for help.

Ganniemi also gathered his people to conquer Fodeo for the king.

According to the original history, the two sides would have a major battle in 1808, that is, this year.

Ganiemi defeated Fodio and became a powerful vassal who "held the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes".

Then thirty-eight years later, Ganemi's son executed the king and established a new dynasty himself.

Ganiemi is a true Mo Zhou living Cao Cao.

In this world, when the Fulani and Dalatava were fighting, Lucia and Prussia became fishermen.

Lucia and Prussia, in order to completely control the inland plateau and completely destroy the Kingdom of Bornu, prepared for a long time in advance.

A military logistics base was created here, a telegraph line was laid from the coast to the lakeside command,

Ensure the smooth communication between the command and St. Petersburg in the Mozhou Bay.

And this headquarters of the coalition forces, located on the shores of Lake Baltic, is more than seven hundred kilometers away from the town of Hetan in a straight line.

There are no perfect post stations and roads on the way, only scattered residential areas, and there is no way to engage in "600 miles of expedited".

The cavalry who reported the news traveled lightly, replenished and changed horses at the settlement on the way, and ran for ten days in a row before arriving.

As a result, when the cavalry arrived at the headquarters, they found that the situation here was chaotic.

There were large numbers of ink people everywhere inside and outside the barracks.

Of course, it was not the coalition forces that were defeated, it was not the command that was broken by the Moxies, but the coalition forces that won a decisive victory.

The religious leaders and kings of the two ethnic groups surrendered, and Lucia and Prussia completely conquered the land.

A small number of Mo nobles accepted the canonization of the two countries and became the low-level nobles of the two countries.

But a large number of Mo soldiers became captives, and along with a large number of civilians, they became slaves.

They were escorted by Prussian and Lucian soldiers with their hands tied and left the land where they had lived for hundreds of years.

They would become slaves to Lucian and Prussian immigrants, cultivating land and building houses for them.

The messenger ran through the crowd for a long time before finally finding an opportunity to get the news into the telegraph room of the headquarters.

If it weren't specifically mentioned that Daming was involved, this telegram might not have been sent now.

The telegraph room was rushing to send and receive messages from the operational commander and the rear.

(End of chapter)