Early 1878.

Central Province, Agricultural Cooperative of Kidatu Village.

Luo Weisi, the head of Kidatu Village, preached the new policy to the villagers: "Okay, calm down immediately, I bring you a piece of good news, the new policy issued by the government has been conveyed, according to the instructions of the kingdom, our country will solve the slave problem in the next 30 years, in order to adapt to the changes in the international community, we should now promote the replacement of slaves with large livestock such as cattle and horses, according to the township government documents, we in Kidatu Village allocated 236 cattle for cultivated land to replace farming slaves. ”

Lemmy: "Chief, what good news is this, isn't it just the exchange of slaves for livestock?" Moreover, slaves can do some rough work in addition to plowing the land, which is much better than cattle! ”

"Lemmy, what do you know? No matter how good this slave is, it will not last long, our East African national conditions are special, so we have to use slaves as a tool to improve the productivity of East Africa for the time being, but slaves are not allowed by the international community, and they will inevitably be eliminated, and no matter how capable the slave is, he is not as efficient as large livestock, and there is a possibility of riots. ”

Lemy muttered, "I think black people are very useful, and besides, we can't suppress little black people?" ”

"Hehe, the United States also thought so at the beginning, and now the problem is that the black slaves in the United States have been liberated, and the black people will definitely have a very important impact on American society in the future, and the good or bad is unknown, but we can't let the situation in the United States happen in East Africa, the Mamluks in Egypt are slaves turning over and making decisions, I don't want the future kingdom to encounter this kind of historical situation, so don't always think about exploiting others, good and bad work, real happiness is created by yourself in the final analysis, and it is not sustainable by exploitation."

The fact that Rovis can say this kind of thing is obviously very different from the ordinary people of East Africa, but in fact he is the group of people who have received the early Heixingen education, and the basic cultural literacy is very high, or he is the village chief!

The replacement of slaves did have a certain impact on the production of East Africa, after all, man is the highest form of productivity compared to livestock, and he can do many difficult tasks that animals cannot understand in their lifetime.

"Village chief, this ploughing ox seems to correspond to the labor force in our village, is it allocated to each person?"

"What do you want to do good? Do you raise cattle? In other words, have you ever been exposed to cattle before? What if I die? ”

Rovis's words are very objective, not many ordinary people in East Africa have really come into contact with farming cattle, and this is true of immigrants from both the East and the West.

Far Eastern immigrants who can go to East Africa, that is the real destitute class, if he really has a cow, he will not run to East Africa to beg for a living, let alone ploughing cattle, whether he can make a farm tool in his hand is a problem, and European immigrants do not have an obvious understanding of the role of cattle, because cattle farming was not popular in Europe before, and it is the United States that really applies ploughing cattle on a large scale in white countries, and the main task of cattle in Europe is to transport capacity and provide dairy products and beef.

Moreover, raising cattle is a skilled job, and the cost of raising cattle is currently not what the average person in East Africa can afford to pay for at the same time.

Rovis: "Cattle are raised by cooperatives and raised by specialized personnel, and like slaves before, they can only be used by application, and according to the rules of the kingdom, they are divided into separate pastures and fields. ”

The savannah climate is a natural pasture, but East Africa does not follow the path of Argentina, so a lot of land is used as arable land, in fact, the cost of animal husbandry is smaller, after all, there is no need to cultivate, there is no need to modify the soil, and there is no need to build large-scale intensive water conservancy facilities.

East African agriculture calls itself small-scale peasant agriculture, in fact, it is completely different from small-scale peasant agriculture, the division of labor is quite strong, it has the nature of capitalist agriculture, and it is actually more similar to the Soviet Union, but now there is no Soviet Union, there is no such communist country template in the world, so there is no reference to the East African agricultural model, so the most similar model to East Africa is serfdom in Europe, and the means of production are concentrated in the hands of serf owners, while the difference in East Africa is that there is only one serf owner, Ernst did not expect East African agriculture to create huge economic value, and the peasants were relatively free, but there were also serfs in the true sense of the word, that is, black farming slaves.

"The replacement of slaves by livestock is the general trend, and this trend is not only in our village, but in the next few years throughout East Africa, and now the central province is the pilot area." Rovis said to the villagers.

Of course, the current implementation of livestock in East Africa is not to be popularized immediately, but only to promote the cultivation industry, such as cash crop plantations, which will still retain a certain number of slaves.

The main driving force for the implementation of livestock in East Africa is that after more than ten years of development, the two major pastures in East Africa have cultivated a considerable scale of livestock, especially in the northern pastoral areas and highland pastoral areas, and now the scale of livestock in these two places has reached the level of 10 million heads, which provides a foundation for East Africa to transform the backward productive forces in rural areas.

The 10 million head level is actually not a lot for East Africa, because the United States Texas alone has more than 50 million cattle, which is only the number of cattle in a western state in the United States, and East Africa counts cattle and horses, so East Africa still has a long way to go compared with those animal husbandry powers.

"Village chief, since livestock is going to replace slaves, what are these slaves for? Is it sold? ”

"Who knows!" Anyway, the kingdom will naturally find a way to deal with it, so we don't have to worry about it! ”

It is impossible to sell, there is not such a large slave market at the moment that has the ability to swallow so many slaves in one bite, such as the Ottoman Empire, the previous purchase volume has declined, after all, it is busy fighting with Tsarist Russia, and the funds are not very abundant.

For this reason, East Africa specially lowered prices to carry out promotional activities, by subsidizing Zanzibar Arab ship merchants, sending a boatload of slaves out to give a subsidy, as for where to send East Africa does not matter, so that the Ottoman Empire has a large number of black cattle and Tsarist Russia in a short period of time to compete, and black cattle also have to eat, East Africa's grain sales have been revitalized again, after all, the Ottoman has stopped the grain procurement of Tsarist Russia, and the market is empty.

So in the 10th Russo-Turkish War, the Ottomans fought badly in the Balkans, and the losses in Asia were not as great as in history, among which the Caucasus was the most prominent, and the Ottomans even formed a black army to fight against Tsarist Russia.

This is also related to the human trafficking in the Ottoman Empire and East Africa, where white races, especially women, were bought by the Caucasus. These people were forcibly migrated to East Africa, naturally it was not smooth sailing, and the local people would resist, which was in the hands of the Ottoman Empire, so it attacked other local ethnic groups, and the vacant land naturally went to the hands of the Ottoman nobles, and the Ottoman nobles wanted to develop these lands and also needed population, and the black slaves became high-quality labor, and the Ottoman Empire had the means to control the black slaves, and they were not afraid of the black slaves occupying the dove's nest.

Therefore, in the Caucasus region for more than ten years, the number of black people in the Caucasus increased to more than 300,000, working for the Ottoman nobles, as soon as the war broke out, the Ottoman lords incorporated these black slaves into the army, and played the tactics of crowds with Tsarist Russia, so the tenth Russian-Turkish war may not end as easily as in history, as long as the blacks do not die, the Ottomans have the ability to continue to fight, of course, the filling speed of the blacks cannot be so fast, which also puts forward requirements for the logistics of the Ottoman Empire.

There is no need for Britain and other countries to intervene, the Ottoman Empire still has the desire to fight, as for the situation in the Balkan Peninsula is erosive, there is no way, the Balkan Peninsula is full of thieves, and it is impossible for the Ottomans to exert force in the local area, for example, Romania controlled by Sigmaringen can actually be regarded as an independent country for a long time, but it is still under the name of the Ottoman Empire, and the current Egypt is the same, with the help of the Tenth Russian-Turkish War, it will be completely independent from the Ottoman Empire.

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