Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1903 West Indian Ocean ([-])

In fact, just as the officials in the Yicheng area expected, after Yang Jie and Colonel Li Zemin arrived at Dofan Port, the first important task was to use the Navy's transport ship to transport a large number of soldiers to Yicheng Port in the west. supplies and personnel.

The materials are pepper, coconut, palm oil, sisal, coffee and other scattered materials. In addition, there are a large number of dried and cut wooden boards of standard size. These are the materials needed for industrial and agricultural production in the Nghe Seng area. island supply.

In addition to supplies, many island Eight Banners soldiers and their families are also another large "goods".These people brought their families with them, their expressions were disturbed and there was a little longing, and they carried a few oversized packages on their backs, which were their only property.However, after arriving in the Nghe Seng area, I heard that the government will provide them with loans in kind, with extremely low interest, which is close to nothing, which will undoubtedly help them take root from the beginning.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners on the island are the same as the Black Eight Banners founded in South Africa. The soldiers are called "samurai" and they still have certain combat capabilities.These people have land, livestock, and houses, and they can live a decent life. Although they have to go to work with the people on the east coast on a regular basis, in the final analysis, it is not impossible to survive, so they did not want to emigrate.Helpless, their arms can't twist their thighs, and the people on the east bank can give them their current life, so naturally they can deprive them of it with a single word. They really have no room to resist, let alone the courage to resist, so they can only obediently obey their orders.

Of course, the East Coasters deserve to be the most "benevolent" colonists on the planet.For the Eight Banners, the island where the immigrants went to settle in the mainland, they would buy their houses, land, and livestock at a not-too-excessive price, and then distribute the cash to the Eight Banners warriors as severance pay.

According to the thinking of some surviving veterans of the East Coast Republic of China, New China Island is an outlying island from the African continent—well, the fourth largest island in the world is actually quite large—naturally isolated from the mainland.And because of the relatively long separation from the mainland (the ancient Gondwana continent), this big island not only has its own unique biological system, but also has many diseases and insect pests that do not exist on the mainland, which is of great significance to agricultural production.

Wouldn't it be a pity if such a good outlying island was occupied by black people?This is the thinking of many first generation elders.They come from later generations, so they naturally know the harm, so they have been together to avoid it from the beginning.Later, this kind of thinking developed to the extreme, and it turned out that even the descendants of the Malays on the island did not want to stay. They wanted to change the species of this overseas colony and leave it all to the descendants of the east coast. At present, the plan is being implemented in an orderly manner. among.

And if it is necessary to change species, then how to deal with the more than 100 million aborigines on Xinhua Island has become a very serious issue.At the beginning, the people on the east coast thought it was simple, thinking about slaughtering them all, but later found that it was very difficult. They didn’t have so many troops and time, so they decided to take the next best thing and plan to use up the whole island as slaves. until death.However, it was later discovered that this was also unrealistic. Because of the huge size of the island and the complexity of the environment, a large number of surrendered natives were absorbed during the conquest and formed into the Eight Banners of the island. In the end, this force has developed into a force that cannot be controlled by the people on the east coast. Neglected power, so over-squeezing options were also eliminated.

Faced with such a situation, the previous leaders of the central government used their brains, and finally returned to the old road, that is, to give them a big migration—anyway, people on the east coast are now famous for their love of national migration, and this is not bad. Back——slowly relocate these islands and Eight Banners to the mainland, and let them compete with the barbaric Bantu blacks for living space.

The local Joint Chiefs of Staff once conducted a deduction, that is, if there are sufficient personnel and supplies, these island soldiers with mixed hot and cold weapons and participating in various wars all the year round can take those unorganized The Negro tribe was firmly suppressed.Even if they are well organized and do not encounter any black kingdoms or empires, they can push back and drive the blacks to the north. It all depends on how much they are willing to pay and sacrifice. From a technical point of view, there is no Too much difficulty.

Of course, people on the east coast must also be vigilant, that is, to prevent the Eight Banners tribes of these islands from taking root in the local area, wantonly recruiting surrendered black tribes and enslaving black slaves, then the problem will become more difficult.Therefore, the officers, advisers, and intelligence agents stationed on the east coast of the various ministries must closely monitor the situation of the Eight Banners tribes on the island, and report any signs of them immediately to extinguish them in the bud.

On today's port of Duofan, the island soldiers of the Eight Banners who were waiting to set off assembled for the last time, and then listened to the lectures of the instructors on the east coast.The content of the lecture was as mentioned before. After arriving in Mozambique, these people were told not to keep private slaves, not to privately incorporate and surrender black tribes. In short, there are a lot of rules and regulations, and there are many restrictions. , can't do anything and so on.

The officers on the east bank who gave the lectures spoke a little fast, and the Chinese of these people may not be very good, so many people were confused.But it doesn't matter, when they get to the land, someone will teach them how to do it, and they will have plenty of time to understand it all.

On June 1684, 6, after a simple voyage, the ship carrying goods and the eight flags of the islands successfully arrived at Ngai Seng Port, a beautiful city that has become the largest port in East Africa.The Navy's transport ship will load a large amount of coal, furs and black slaves "ordered" by some state-run plantations here, and then return north to Xinhua Port.On the other hand, under the arrangement of officials sent by the Yicheng District Administrative Office, 18% of the population of the Island Eight Banners stayed in Yicheng County and waited for the arrangement of local officials. The northern border of the county, and then camped and settled down.

Here, thousands of soldiers from the Eight Banners of the island are already settled here. The arrival of more than 2000 people will further enrich their strength and make them more confident in resisting the invasion of black tribes.According to the usual practice, the central government on the east bank will provide weapons, ammunition and necessary military resources, and the local government will provide food and other services, and make every effort to make the Eight Banners of these islands gain a firm foothold, and then plan to move northward—the northern border of Yicheng County The Eight Banners of the islands performed very well. After gaining a firm foothold, they began to gradually go north, killing or driving many Tonga black tribes, and pushing the border on the east coast to the north for a long distance, so that the Portuguese came to protest coming.

However, their protest seems to have little effect so far. At least Xiao Jingzong, the commissioner of the Yicheng District Administrative Office, didn't bother them much, so he should continue to do what he should do.He even directly said to the Portuguese that the area north of Yicheng County, he hadn't seen a Portuguese official come to collect taxes or do anything for many years, but it was a paradise for ignorant barbarians, the Portuguese It is not a good reason to say that this is their land.

Strictly speaking, Xiao Jingzong's words are somewhat politically incorrect, because the East Bank government once signed a demarcation agreement with Portugal, which clearly marked this as the territory of the Kingdom of Portugal.But the agreement, sometimes it is important, sometimes it is very unimportant, it all depends on the international situation and the comparison of strength at that time-well, well, sometimes it also depends on whether you have a thick skin or not, obviously Xiao Jingzong's shame is relatively thick.

Besides, the Portuguese and the Spaniards live together on the Iberian Peninsula. Your neighbor Spain has suffered from the cross-border colonization of the East Coast for many years. You have to try this feeling too, brother Portugal. Guaranteed It will make you want to die, and you can receive a sum of money in the end, how wonderful.

Xiao Jingzong is now hanging on the large map in the office, and he has drawn a large circle with a pencil. This circle includes South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and the south-central region of Mozambique in later generations.This large circle has a vast area, rich resources, and a suitable climate (this is especially important), but the population is not very large. Outsiders may not understand what this means, but anyone who is familiar with Xiao Jingzong's colonial policies will understand that this is what he did for him. The living space marked out by the people on the east coast is the place where people from the east coast will settle and live in large numbers in the future—there will be no Bantu blacks here!

As we all know, the southward migration of Bantu blacks on the African continent probably began in the 10th century, and by the 13th to 15th centuries, it had formed a large scale and occupied many places in southern Africa, killing and massacring a large number of indigenous peoples who originally lived there.When people from the east coast sailed to South Africa for the first time, a group of Xhosa people from Bantu blacks had just arrived in eastern South Africa from Mozambique for more than a hundred years, and had not completely wiped out the Khoisan Reds, the indigenous people of South Africa. Therefore, in fact, the number of Bantu blacks in southern Africa is still not enough, and the further south they go, the fewer they are, because they have been here for a short time.

Based on this fact, Xiao Jingzong finally drew this circle on the map after a long discussion with some like-minded local people.He feels that the land in the circle is suitable for farming, and the climate is not as hot as in the north—Zimbabwe has a plateau, and southern Mozambique also has a savannah climate, not to mention South Africa and other places. People immigrated to the past on a large scale. If the measures are effective, the investment is sufficient, and the determination is firm, it is possible to gain a firm foothold and multiply in large numbers.

Those black people are just nomadic and nomadic tribes, and there are even more backward hunting and gathering tribes in the jungle.He believes that with the speed of development on the east coast, as long as people immigrate from mainland China vigorously and move them to this circle, it is impossible for them to be unable to support themselves.The only problem is that it will cost a lot of money, and whether it is worth it is still up for debate.After all, not everyone considers things from the perspective of nationality and culture, and economic considerations are also very important.Don’t you see, some people are already clamoring to reduce immigration from mainland China. They want to save the country from the heavy immigration financial quagmire and invest in other areas. This is a concrete manifestation and cannot be ignored.

Fortunately, the upper-class people in power still have a habit of continuing to insist on the great cause of immigration that has lasted for 40 years, which has continuously replenished the population of Rabaul, Australia, New China, South Africa and other places along the way.Otherwise, if you want to immigrate from the mainland to overseas colonies, it is really unrealistic.Therefore, an interesting current situation is that in the future, the mainland may no longer be keen to spend a huge amount of money to emigrate from the Far East, but the overseas colonies have a strong impulse to immigrate.

Over the years, the implementation of many measures, such as the continuous deployment of the Eight Banners soldiers on the island and the exile of native Indians here, has greatly improved the border situation of the actual control area on the east coast, stopped many black tribes from going south, and made the south The Bantu black population was not replenished by new arrivals.At the same time, in South Africa, the Namib Desert, and southern Mozambique, people from the east coast are also constantly attacking and arresting Bantu black tribes, including Xhosa, Tonga, Zulu, and Swazi, reducing In addition to its population size and economic strength, it also collected a certain amount of slave labor resources, which strongly supported the construction of various infrastructures of the country.

However, it seems that the strength of this blow is not enough!Because the number of black people in the circle is still very large, it is conservatively estimated that there are still millions of people.If you want to drive it out, it will take a lot of energy and expense.Take what Colonel Guo Handong Guo, who was transferred back to China a while ago, did for example. He has been in South Africa for several years, and he has been hard at fighting blacks, but he still has not been able to drive out all the blacks on the east coast of South Africa. That is to say, the so-called "South Africa Penetration Operation" plan has not yet done its full work.

This time, the central government transferred Yang Liang, who proposed the original plan, to serve as the commander of the South African Garrison. His first task was to move the headquarters to the Yiyang Bay area on the east coast, and then focus on attacking the relatively densely populated black tribes in this place. Take this piece of land with rich water and grass as your own.For this reason, a large number of militia security regiments and Black Eight Banners servants from the Hezhong area in the west have also been transferred eastward to the Yiyang Bay area, preparing to participate in the long-term war against the local Xhosa and Zulu people.

This kind of war for living space is related to the ups and downs of the country, and everyone is familiar with it for a long time, so it is not difficult to implement.At least, Yang Liang, the head of the regiment, is still very confident. The premise is that his superiors will give him sufficient autonomy and sufficient supplies and supplies, and there is nothing else to ask for.

(End of this chapter)