African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 74 "Purge" Campaign

In response to Ernst's instructions.

Beginning on April 1867, 4, after several meetings, the top leaders of the East African colonial government decided to implement a one-year "purge" campaign.

Just by listening to the literal meaning, you can know that the so-called "purge" is aimed at the aborigines in the colony, sorting out and cleaning up the unstable factors in the East African colony.

And this unstable factor is the local indigenous people and tribes.

In order to mobilize the manpower of the entire East African colony to complete this operation, the East African colonial government directly assigned tasks to each immigration stronghold according to the region.

Each stronghold brings its own dry food, and encircles and suppresses the aborigines and tribes around villages and towns.

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Kagongo Town is a town under the jurisdiction of Kigoma in the Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika) area.

Today, the town of Kagongo posted a bulletin about the "purge" campaign issued by the East African colonial government on the bulletin board in the village.

The immigrants knew the role of the bulletin board. Every time there was a big move, the colonial government would post corresponding policies and instructions here.

All official documents in the colony are written in German. As the most educated group of German mercenaries in the East African colonies, their primary school education has an undoubted right to speak in the East African colonies.

Only the trainees of the Hexingen Military Academy and the Hexingen Consortium dispatched African management personnel have relatively higher academic qualifications.

But they also regarded themselves as Germans, and they classified themselves and the mercenary team as one type of people in their hearts.

In short, the German-speaking population in colonial East Africa was a unified group, and a group belonging to the ruling class.

Even Chinese immigrants and Austrian Empire immigrants, as long as they can speak German, they will be placed in important positions and regarded as their own.

The simple economic structure of the East African colonies did not require very strong capabilities for the members of government agencies at all levels in the East African colonies.

The colony's simple economic structure and simple and rude collective management model also resulted in the colony having only a crude legal operation model.

After all, apart from agriculture, there are almost no other industries in the colony. According to the company's indicators, everyone works at sunrise and lives at sunset. There is no redundant entertainment industry.

Under the simple mode of life, there is no market for economic crimes in the current East African colonies, and the immigrants are honest farmers and mean and serious retired soldiers, so there is no soil for "anti-intellectualism" to survive.

Kagongo Township Government, Bulletin Board.

In the early morning, government staff posted freshly baked German official documents on wooden bulletin boards for display.

Unlike in the past, the preacher did not appear to preach the content of the new policy.

Several immigrants gathered under the bulletin board to discuss the above content.

"Old Liu, what is written on it?"

"You ask me, who do I ask? I just recognize the words 'village', 'gun', and 'expelling' above. I guess it must be a fight, and it's almost inseparable."

Lao Liu knows these words, thanks to the frequent use of these words in the East African colonies, especially the new immigrants will receive a short period of military training.

That is military training, the instructor will teach some simple and necessary vocabulary.

While the immigrants were still guessing what was written on it.

A soldier dressed as a colonial soldier walked to the bulletin board, picked up the bugle strapped to his waist, and blew.

"Ugh...uuuuuuuu..."

Other townspeople also began to gather near the bulletin board following the assembly number of the East African colony, and the number of people discussing it also increased. For a while, the town bulletin board was full of people.

Soon, the mayor of the town and the civil and military officials of Kagongo Town came together, and the soldiers began to arrange the venue.

A small wooden platform was temporarily built, and the soldiers invited the mayor and others to speak on the stage.

The mayor of Kagongo Town, Go Sin Cousi, came to the stage with a big belly and began to interpret the latest instructions of the colonial government.

The military officer, Carson Bullock (a student at the Military Academy in Hechingen), was in charge of the translation with a loudspeaker.

"Townsmen, just yesterday, we received instructions from the superiors of the East African colonial government."

The venue was silent, and everyone listened carefully to the mayor's speech. After all, the content on the bulletin board was usually closely related to themselves.

"In order to strengthen the security management level of the colony, and prevent the savages (the official name of the aborigines from the East African colonial government) from destroying and threatening the production and life of the colony."

"Every village and town under the jurisdiction of the colonial government should carry out a purge to arrest, encircle and destroy the savages and their tribes within their jurisdiction."

The crowd began to whisper.

"This means that we are going to attack the natives again!"

"It's for sure, otherwise we didn't get all the land we planted at the beginning, and we didn't snatch it all."

"What is looting! The natives here don't live by farming. This is all wasteland. We came here to open up wasteland. There is no name on this land, so whoever it is belongs to?"

"That's right. It's useless for the natives to want these lands. Hunting is not for hunting. The land that should be grown for food is not used to raise lions, leopards and jackals."

Immigrants have no psychological burden at all. The discussion of right and wrong is too far away from the farmers who plan and eat in these lands. Filling their stomachs is more important than benevolence, justice and morality.

Everyone is from a feudal country and a feudal country that is transitioning to an industrialized country, so the thinking naturally stays in the thinking of farmers in the feudal era.

In the vast land of the East African colony, although blacks are the aborigines, the first government in East Africa was indeed the East African colonial government.

Only the government can give the ownership of the land. If you don’t believe it, just look at the natives. They only know that they live in this land, and they also stay in the state of hunting and fruit picking in the nature of the land.

Immigrants have the concept of land ownership, and the land in the East African colonies is the private property of the Hexingen consortium.

The status of immigrants is between serfs and industrial workers, and they have no right to choose, but their basic human rights are guaranteed by law.

Although there were no courts and judicial organs in the East African colonies, Prussian law was implemented by default, but it was not specifically implemented.

The coexistence of the rule of man and the rule of law is the current status of the East African colonies, similar to Liu Bang and the people's "three chapters of the agreement", or the Roman Twelve Tables Law.

There is a concrete yet fuzzy boundary.

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The mayor continued: "In order to respond to the government's call, we in Kagongo Town will also organize personnel to encircle and suppress Kagongo Town and its surrounding areas."

Following the issuance of the order, Kagongo Township and its subordinate villages recruited more than 1000 temporary soldiers, issued weapons, and cooperated with the Kigoma City Government and its subordinate villages to carry out a "purge" campaign against the entire Lake Solon area.

All of a sudden, the entire Lake Sauron area and the East African colonies were full of gunshots, turning it into a big battlefield.

(End of this chapter)