Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 611

According to official statistics in southern Africa, there are already [-] Chinese in the Zambezi River Basin.

Corresponding to these [-] Chinese, there are also hundreds of thousands of Africans hired by Nyasaland officials from southern Africa, the Kingdom of Mozambique, and the Congo Free State.

Rock once believed that even without the participation of Africans, the Chinese could build Nyasaland into a paradise on earth.

This is true, but it turns out that with the participation of Africans, Rock's development of Nyasaland will be greatly accelerated.

Moreover, Africans in this era really don’t have as many problems as in another time and space. Of course, Africans also have such problems as being lazy, idle, and talking nonsense, but under the strict laws of the colonies, Africans really dare not be lazy. , don’t dare to idle around, the guy with these problems, basically the weeds on the grave are already three feet high——

No one sees this as mistreatment of Africans.

And the key point is that African human resources in this era are really cheap. If an adult African is hired, his daily salary only needs a few pennies.

Even if you buy an adult labor force, the cost will not exceed five pounds, and Africans will not even think it is an insult to them, because white colonists have been treating Africans in this way for hundreds of years. For Africans, this is their fate.

Nyasaland is also different from other regions in the use of Africans.

In all colonies in Africa, including southern Africa, the existence of Africans is equivalent to free labor. Many colonists will even take the initiative to marry Africans in order to obtain more free labor in the future, so although Africans do not have any political rights, but in Africa, there is still a lot of room for Africans to live.

This is not the case in Nyasaland. Nyasaland has never taken the initiative to buy African labor, let alone accept Africans to settle in Nyasaland, including those prisoners of war in the Natal rebellion. Nyasaland is using They will also be paid their salaries when they are employed, treating the affiliation as an employment relationship.

The biggest advantage of this is that there are no hidden dangers. Hundreds of thousands of Africans in Nyasaland have formed more than a dozen different construction companies, which have played a huge role in the development of the Zambezi River Basin in Nyasaland.

Every time these construction companies go to a new area, they will first level the land and build a simple camp, then build roads, repair water conservancy, reclaim wasteland, and clean up wild animals that threaten humans. When this area gradually becomes suitable When humans settled, these construction workers drove out of this area and went to the next undeveloped area.

What is left to the new immigrants is a camp that can shelter from wind and rain, a standard road that can communicate with the outside world, and thousands of acres, or even tens of thousands of acres of undeveloped farms.

In the Zambezi River Basin, basically every settlement has about a thousand people. The camps they live in have certain defensive functions. All adults will receive regular weapon training, and those who perform well in the training will join the militia. Those who stand out can participate in the selection of the army and have the opportunity to become a glorious professional soldier.

Once someone in a family becomes a professional soldier, all taxes for this family will be exempted, and the Nyasaland government will also distribute benefits every year, including free seeds, livestock, fertilizers, and living supplies. Therefore, in Nyasaland, joining the army It is a very honorable thing. This is not a verbal slogan, but a good reputation established with real benefits.

Rock's investment without hesitation has brought about earth-shaking changes to the Zambezi River Basin.

During the Portuguese colonial period, the farms of Dylan Karami and Sidney Richards were both in Tete, the largest city in the Zambezi River Basin, so they had a good understanding of the situation in the Zambezi River Basin at that time.

Now Tete is still the largest city in the middle reaches of the Zambezi River Basin. As for the entire Zambezi River Basin, the largest city has become Port Edward, and Tete has a new name called Hejian.

No, according to the habits of white people, it should be called "Xinhejian".

Compared with the Portuguese colonial period, the change of the city of Xinhejian is not only the name, but more importantly, in Xinhejian, whites, Chinese, and Africans can live in harmony and work together to build a new Hejian. effort.

Although the city of Xinhejian definitely does not belong to those Africans in the end, those Africans also showed great enthusiasm when building Xinhejian, which made Dylan Karami and Sidney Richard This is the reason why I am yearning for Nyasaland.

Compared with Lorenzo Marquez, who is full of contradictions and sharply opposed between various ethnic groups, Nyasaland's stability is what Dylan Karami and Sidney Richards most envy, although Nyasaland has Saran showed strong aggressiveness, and there were constant conflicts in the border area with the Congo Free State and Tanganyika, but the construction in Nyasaland did not stop, which obviously benefited Dylan Karami and Sidney • Emerging bourgeoisie headed by Richards.

After temporarily placing Dylan Karami and Sidney Richards at the Cape Hotel in Little Rock, Rock immediately called Christian and Louis Broad over.

After the establishment of the federal government, Christian's position became the Minister of the Interior of Nyasala, and Louis Broad had already left Yaya's jurisdiction and became Brad's head in the Zambezi River Basin.

Rock's support for Lorenzo Marquez is through Christian and Louis Broad.

"Lorenzo Marquis is of course very good. There are well-developed farms, the best seaport on the east coast of Africa, and the colonial base carefully built by the Portuguese for hundreds of years. In all fairness, the natural conditions of Port Edward are not as good as those of Lorenzo. Marquez, we should have driven the Portuguese away long ago, otherwise southern Africa would not be a complete southern Africa." Christian has long been coveting Lorenzo Marquez, which is also understandable, precisely because Lorenzo Marquez Renco Marques is endowed with unique natural conditions, so the Portuguese chose to regard Lorenzo Marques as the center of African colonization instead of other ports.

"It is very simple to support Lorenzo Marquez. The Portuguese are not German after all. When Tanganyika fell into chaos, Germany could still send troops from the mainland to support. Portugal is now overwhelmed, and the king is on the verge of being deposed. There is no way to calm down the chaos of Lorenzo Marques——" Louis Broad was relaxed. Before that, Louis Broad had been active in the North Sea Basin, facing Tanganyika, which was engaged in an arms race with the United Kingdom. Now switching to Portugal, Louis Brod really feels that it is not difficult. The Portuguese and the Germans are not opponents at the same level at all.

"Well, I admit that this matter is not difficult, but don't be paralyzed by it. Remember, don't let the Portuguese get hold of it." Rock was not worried that Christian and Louis Broad would not be able to complete the task, and specifically told them , the main concern is that the Portuguese will bite back before they die.

As long as Nyasaran got involved in Lorenzo Marques' rebellion, it was certain that the Portuguese would not be able to escape unscathed.

This is the tragedy of a small country with few people. You don’t need to compare it with the United Kingdom. Even if you compare it with southern Africa, or even list Nyasaland alone, Portugal is not very powerful. Lorenzo Marquez has only [-] left A square kilometer can be described as a small area, so the Portuguese will lose. The only suspense is whether the Portuguese will use a weak image to create momentum internationally, against the United Kingdom and the South. Africa's reputation is affected.

After all, in name, Britain and Portugal are still allies. If the Portuguese seize Nyasaland's handle, it will really have some impact on Britain's international reputation. After all, the current colonial system is run by the British And French dominance determined.

In terms of "export to the outside world", Christian and Louis Broad are also experts. Even the Germans can't do anything about Christian and Louis Broad, let alone the Portuguese.

So Christian and Louis Broad agreed with a smile, and then turned back to a series of heavy punches.

The most effective weapon for external export is of course mercenaries.

Don't forget that Louis Broad himself was a mercenary, and Christian has several construction companies. Some construction companies these days are not just construction workers. They have to effectively manage tens of thousands of workers. Armed forces are also essential, so Louis Brod and Christian easily arranged hundreds of mercenaries to go to Lorenzo Marquez to join the Labor Party and participate in the battle against the Royalists.

A few hundred sounds a bit small, but it is enough for Lorenzo Marques, the whites of Lorenzo Marques add up to only 10,000+, the royalists even want to form an African army to deal with the Strong pressure from the Labor Party.

This reflects the contradictions of the Portuguese themselves. On the one hand, they squeeze Africans to extract benefits to meet Portugal's domestic needs. On the other hand, they need to rely on the power of Africans to protect their interests in the colonies.

In this case, when the Africans are incapable, they can only be squeezed by the Portuguese, but once external forces intervene, the resistance of the Africans can be imagined.

Therefore, the situation in Lorenzo Marques quickly collapsed. In mid-January 1909, the Labor Party's armed forces completely defeated the troops formed by the royalists in Manisa, about 1 kilometers away from Lorenzo Marques, and won the battle against Lorenzo Marques. Control of Marquez, Dylan Karami and Sidney Richards at this point hadn't even left Nyasaland.

(End of this chapter)