African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 287

Angola, Matala.

To the west of Matala is the Kingdom of Runda. The Kingdom of Runda was not completely wiped out by East Africa, because the Kingdom of Runda itself straddled the banks of the Kwango River, and East Africa only took the land on the east bank.

The main body of the Ruanda Kingdom was originally on the west bank of the Kuango River, so most of the Ruanda people fled directly to the west bank of the Kuango River after encountering the East African army. The Ruanda Kingdom suffered little loss this time.

On the west side of the Luanda Kingdom, Matala is one of the Portuguese colonies in Angola's deepest interior.

As a Portuguese colonial stronghold here, there are no special mineral resources. The main thing is that the land is flat and the rainfall is abundant. Therefore, the Portuguese built a large plantation in Matala, and the main crops are palm trees and coffee.

The plantation in Matala is mainly composed of two, one is the northern plantation, whose owner is Oliveira, and the other is the southern plantation, whose owner is named Yadros. At this moment, two people are riding horses, Tour the plantation together.

The aboriginal slaves in the plantation worked hard in the fields. They were branded and wore ankle chains. Every four or fifty people were monitored by a white supervisor.

Under the scorching sun, the white overseer took a long whip and whipped the hard-working native slaves at any time to refresh them. If someone steals and cheats, the end will be even worse.

On both sides of the road, there are crude wooden crosses, about two meters high, wrapped with hemp ropes on both sides of the cross, and the whole body of the cross is black in the wind and sun, as if stained with oil, but when you get closer, you can vaguely find that it is not pure. A black wooden cross, as can be guessed from the true color of the cross on the back of the cross, which was originally a yellow wooden stake.

The black oil pollution is actually the result of the blood of the aborigines being dyed red again and again, and then exposed to the wind and sun all year round.

The cross is the instrument of torture in the plantation. It is specially used to deal with lazy and disobedient slaves, and it is occasionally used to show power.

The people of the Matala plantation will tie the slaves to be punished to the cross, beat them with whips, and hang them for two or three days if the crime is serious.

Oliveira rode on a horse and asked Yadros: "Adros, have you felt it recently? Has the number of indigenous people increased? These days, indigenous people often pass by our plantation. Yesterday I Three batches have been expelled."

"That's true. I don't know what the Luanda Kingdom is doing. Could it be that there is turmoil in their country?"

"It's very possible that the indigenous tribes of Lunda often attack each other, maybe it's another tribal war."

"I don't think so. Even if the Kingdom of Lunda is in turmoil, they shouldn't have come west! They know Angola well, and they really regard it as a paradise!"

"That's right. In the past, the natives only fled from our side to the east, but these days they are running from the territory of Lunda to this side. It's too abnormal! Is there anything more terrifying than us?"

"It must be a terrible thing to come to Matala from the east to make the natives not even afraid of us."

At this time, Yadros guessed: "These natives have gone crazy and come here from the west. It can't be that there is a plague in the west!"

Thinking of this, Oliveira and Yadroston felt a shudder. Plague is not a rare thing for the Angola colony. If this is the case, everyone will be in danger.

"It's better for us to be more cautious about this matter. It's better to let people go to those people to catch a few natives and find out the situation."

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Following the orders of the two slave owners, soon, the armed forces of the plantation went to the area around the plantation to arrest suspicious aborigines.Soon a few healthy-looking natives were captured from the exile.

"Why are you running here in such a large scale from the east?" asked the plantation interpreter.

"Grumble rumble..."

After listening for a long time, the interpreter said: "Mr. Oliveira, the accent of these natives is not the same as that of the natives of the Rwanda Kingdom. What he said is not very easy to translate! But some words are still similar."

Oliveira said: "It's not from the Luanda Kingdom! Have you figured out where they came from?"

"He said that they were driven from the west by a group of strangers, passing through the land of the Runda kingdom, but the Runda people did not take them in, so they crossed the Runda kingdom and came here, but the group that drove them People are what we dress up, so they'll walk around our plantation."

"Dress like us, we haven't made any big moves recently!" Oliveira said to Yadros.

"Of course not, and the Governor's Mansion has not issued an order, and even if the colonial government makes any major moves, it is impossible to bypass us. I am here in the westernmost part of Angola!" Yadros said: "That's why it must be someone else, but To make such a big commotion, it must not be an ordinary force, which made me guess a suspicious person."

"Ok!"

"Did you say that the Mozambican colony caused the trouble? They dress up like us, and they are in the east. There is a high probability that it is a Mozambican colony." Yadros analyzed.

Oliveira said: "This is impossible. The Mozambique colony is on the east coast, and the distance is too far."

"Remember what the passing caravan said last year? A German force appeared in the east. They occupied the Kazenbe Kingdom. Could it be them?"

"But how to explain the fact that we are dressed the same?"

"Maybe the aboriginals can't tell the difference between us and the Germans. They probably can't tell the difference between us Europeans and our aboriginals."

Oliveira didn't want to guess, he said to the translator: "Let these natives describe carefully whether there are any distinctive features of the group of people they met."

The translator started working again, and soon, all the captured natives were questioned over and over again.

The translator shook his head and said to Oliveira: "Mr. Oliveira, in fact, these few people have never seen what that group of people looked like, they just ran with the tribe, they only heard that a group of people came from the west White-faced monsters, and can eat people, according to their meaning, many tribes were killed, so they escaped from the west under the leadership of the chief."

"Where is their chief?"

"Uh, it is said that among the few people shot and killed by our people was their chief," said the translator.

After asking for a long time, but still didn't get the answer he wanted, Oliveira said angrily, "Take them out and decide to die on the cross."

Dare to say that he is a "monster with a white face that eats people". Although Oliveira knows that these indigenous people refer to people from other forces, it has been connoted.

At this time, Yadros said: "It seems that if you want to get accurate information, you still have to start from the Kingdom of Runda. Simply send someone to the Kingdom of Runda to ask their king."

"That's the way it is," Oliveira said.

(End of this chapter)