The terrain of Portuguese East Africa is like a giant pincer. The northern end of the jaw is Nyasaland, and the northwest protrusion is surrounded by Nyasaland and Rhodesia. Tete is located in the center of this protrusion.
Portugal's rule over Portuguese East Africa was a company system. Between 1888 and 1893, the Portuguese colonial authorities established the Mozambique Company, the Niassa Company and the Zambézia Company, granting these companies franchise rights in Portuguese East Africa. This
The "concession" was similar to the concessions granted by the British to South African companies, which controlled two-thirds of the territory of Portuguese East Africa.
Tete is within the jurisdiction of the Zambezia Company.
The white people in Tete are indeed miserable.
Prior to this, white people enjoyed emperor-like treatment in Portuguese East Africa. There were about 30,000 white people in the entire Portuguese East Africa, which was not worth mentioning in front of the Yao people with a total population of 3.5 million.
The white people in Portuguese East Africa were not pure Portuguese. Immigration in this era was very free, so the white people in Portuguese East Africa came from various European countries. Before immigration, these white people were basically settled in a poor place and could not survive in their own country.
, that’s why I chose to immigrate.
You can imagine the quality of people who can't survive, so the white people in the colonies are generally very arrogant, and extortionate taxation and other basic operations are the basic operations. The white people in the Congo Free State are a model of evil. They burn, kill, loot and commit all kinds of evil, even when they are extremely bored.
The natives competed with each other on their marksmanship, and were more brutal than the Japanese at a certain period.
The white people in Portuguese East Africa are not as cruel as the white people in the Congo Free State. At least the white people in Portuguese East Africa will not kill the Yao people.
This is not because the white people in Portuguese East Africa are so kind, but because the white people in Portuguese East Africa want to sell the Yao people for profit. Starting from the 17th century, Portugal exported slaves from Portuguese East Africa. By the 18th century, slaves had replaced gold.
and ivory, becoming the main export commodities in the Zambezi basin.
commodity!
The slave trade in Portuguese East Africa continued until the end of the 19th century. It was not because of the conscience of the Portuguese, but if the slave trade continued, the Yao people in Portuguese East Africa would be sold out by the Portuguese. Therefore, starting from the late 19th century, Portugal
A forced labor system was implemented in Portuguese East Africa, and a large number of indentured laborers began to be exported to neighboring countries, namely Rhodesia and Tanganyika.
These workers are still essentially slaves, but the Portuguese business method has changed from one-time buyout to leasing.
Relying on the slave trade, the Portuguese ran plantations or did business in Portuguese East Africa and lived a "happy" life.
This "happiness" must be illusory. All gifts given by God have secretly marked prices. Now, it is time for the Portuguese to pay the price.
Almost overnight, all the Yao people around Tete disappeared. In many plantations located in remote areas, vicious incidents of slaves killing plantation owners occurred.
After the news came out, almost all the plantation owners fled back to Tete. Only then did they discover that there were no Yao people in Tete city. As a result, the happy Portuguese East Africa soon turned into hell.
Portuguese East Africa was indeed happy when there were "endless" Yao people to enslave.
Without the Yao people, the white talents in Portuguese East Africa found that they had to mow their own gardens and lawns, cook their own meals, clean their own homes, and open the door for guests.
It was at this time that many white people in Portuguese East Africa realized that all aspects of their lives were inseparable from the Yao people. Without the Yao people, many white people had degraded to the point where they could not even take care of themselves.
It's amazing. Among the white people in Portuguese East Africa, many have never cooked or washed clothes since they were born. Most of them don't know that freshly squeezed milk needs to be boiled before drinking, so
It is simply a tragedy for the white people to leave the Yao people.
In just three days, the white people in Tete realized that they could not live without the Yao people, so the Zambezia Company organized a slave-catching team of 200 people, preparing to capture some Yao people as in the past.
Continue to be enslaved by white people.
One day later, the slave-catching team returned without success. Of the 200 people who left Tete, only 13 people returned to Tete. These 13 people hardly hesitated after returning to Tete. After packing up Xinruan, they took their families with them.
Leave Tete as quickly as possible.
It's so fast that I can't even sell the property.
So Tete fell into a great panic. At this time, Tete had cut off all external contacts due to the interruption of telegraph lines. Lorenzo Marquez did not know what happened to Tete, and Tete could not tell Lourenço Marquez
Renzo Marquez asked for help.
The thirteen families who left Tete did not go far. Soon, they returned to Tete and were hung on crosses.
Roque only dispatched "military observers" to Portuguese East Africa at the end of March. By the beginning of May, Tete was on the verge of collapse.
The power of rural areas surrounding cities is so great.
Rock knew nothing about what happened in Tete, and even if he knew, Rock didn't care. Rock's current work focus is in Nyasaland, and he can't even take care of Johannesburg.
The construction of Nyasaland is advancing rapidly. The Chinese who left the quagmire of the Qing Dynasty cherished the opportunity to survive. They were undoubtedly anxious when they first arrived in Nyasaland, but this uneasy feeling continued after eating for a long time.
After a full meal, he disappeared.
Roque still did not explain. All Chinese arriving in Nyasaland must first cut off the braids on their heads, wash off the dust on their bodies, and put on the clothes prepared by the agricultural company before they can sit down.
Eat in the spacious and bright dining hall.
The logistics provided by Xiaosi are still very good. The canteen provides fruits, bread, mashed potatoes, vegetables, broth, fish, and milk and eggs specially prepared for children. The broth here is the same as the one with only a few floating on the surface.
Geyouxing's clear soup is different from watery. It is a real meat soup. The meat comes from wild animals around Lake Nyasa. The young men of the militia have to conduct field training every day. The wild animals near Lake Nyasa are
Unfortunately, whatever the vigilante boys shot, they ate in the cafeteria.
In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the Chinese, Roque promised that after the completion of Xiaoshi Town and Xiaoshi Port, all workers involved in the construction would be rewarded with one acre of land.
All Chinese people will go crazy after knowing this news. Even women and children are helping on the construction site day and night. The Chinese people's obsession with land is unparalleled. Henry has already seen it, but Xiaosi doesn't know it yet, so Xiaosi is now
Why not stay on Likoma Island to witness the birth of Little Rock Town and Little Rock Harbor with your own eyes.
"Is there anything good to witness? If you think this is a miracle, then such miracles will continue to be replicated in Nyasaland in the future. One day you will become accustomed to it." Roque is not surprised because he is used to it. It was created by the Chinese.
There are many miracles, and construction speed is only one of them.
"Locke, now I kind of understand why you are always so confident." Stoudemire has a new understanding of the Chinese group, and this time it is no longer limited to Rock personally.
Compared with whites and blacks, the Chinese have obvious advantages.
The white people in Africa are spoiled. When these low-income people and "poor white people" arrive in Africa, they become emperors or superiors. The mentality of poor people suddenly getting rich goes to the minds of most people, and they start to act recklessly, shamelessly, and burn out.
Killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil.
The white people in the Congo Free State and Portuguese East Africa have no shame, and the white people in the Cape are no better. Black people are also slaves in the Cape and have no status at all. For hundreds of years, black people have been massacred, enslaved, and oppressed by white people.
They are bought and sold at will like commodities, and all the black people who dare to resist have been killed. The vast majority of the remaining black people are insensitive, do not know how to resist, and do not dare to resist. They work hard like livestock and do not complain.
The presence of Chinese in Africa is definitely a breath of fresh air.
Different from the tyranny of white people and the numbness of black people, the Chinese are hard-working and brave, smart and kind. They have enough food and clothing by themselves. They do not enslave black people or flatter white people. They build their own farms and homes by themselves.
When he was rich, he would not beg. When he was rich, he would donate excess milk to the school instead of pouring it into the river. Among the Chinese, Xiaosi saw the long-lost pioneering spirit of white people and the gentlemanly demeanor that many people scorned.
This feeling made Xiaosi intoxicated, so Xiaosi didn't want to leave Nyasaland.
"Cecil, now is just the beginning. Sooner or later, Nyasaland will shock everyone." Roque has always been confident that as long as the Chinese are given enough space and full freedom, the energy burst out by the Chinese can sweep across the country.
world.
About every other week, a ship of Chinese will arrive in Nyasaland. The ticket for each Chinese is 15 pounds. The Nyasaland Agricultural Company signed an agreement with the ship owner who transported the Chinese, requiring the ship owner to treat the Chinese during the voyage.
Take proper care.
After the Chinese arrive in Nyasaland, the agricultural company will conduct random interviews with the Chinese who have just arrived in Nyasaland. If someone reports that the ship owner mistreated the Chinese during the voyage, or more than 5% of the Chinese died during the voyage, then the policy will be lifted.
At the same time as the agreement, the ship owner must also compensate the agricultural company for its losses.
In the agreement signed between the agricultural company and the ship owner, these immigrant Chinese are the property of the agricultural company. If the ship owner accidentally damages the cargo owner's "goods", compensation is a matter of course.
Although the name does not sound good, these agreements still protect the safety of the Chinese to the greatest extent. Chinese people continue to arrive in Nyasaland. From the end of March, when the first boat of Chinese arrived in Nyasaland, to the end of May, in just two days,
Within a month, nearly 30,000 Chinese arrived in Nyasaland.
Most of these Chinese were resettled in Xiaoshi Town
It is no longer Little Rock Town. A residential area with more than 10,000 people is qualified to be called a city, so Little Rock Town is now called "Little Rock City".
Some Chinese people went to the northernmost end of Lake Nyasa, where a new port city was also under construction. The name of this port was Xuanwu Port, which was very oriental.
Considering the poor transportation in Nyasaland, the early development of Nyasaland must have revolved around Lake Nyasa. The transportation of production materials and food also relied on Lake Nyasa, so agricultural companies started early
A shipping company was established, six ships for inland navigation were purchased from the UK, and preparations were made to establish its own shipyard in Hard Rock City.
"Shipbuilding looks complicated, but it is actually very simple. Merchant ships do not pursue protection and attack, but only pursue tonnage and speed. Today's diesel engines are not complicated. As long as there are suitable materials, they can be produced locally in Nyasaland, and the use of
Diesel engine merchant ships are more powerful than steam engines and are quite stable in operation. We can completely produce merchant ships for inland water transportation, not only for our own use, but also for sale." Duncan, the manager of an agricultural company, studied in the UK.
Shipbuilding, now I finally get back to my old profession.
"Don't think so far ahead. Let's build a fishing boat or something to practice now. Then we can build a merchant ship when we are confident about it." Rock doesn't want to aim too high. Nyasaland is just a blank piece of paper for Rock to do whatever he wants, but he also needs to
Follow the basic rules and take your time, little by little. You won't become fat after one bite.
For example, when it comes to making bullets, having a machine does not mean everything will be fine. Now the raw materials have to be purchased, and it is estimated that we will not be able to produce them ourselves within three to five years.
The same goes for shipbuilding. Everyone knows that shipbuilding and selling are very profitable. The center of the world's shipbuilding industry is the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom's ability to build ships benefits from a relatively complete industrial chain. Nyasaland has nothing now. It can't even produce the steel needed for shipbuilding.
, It’s useless to think too far. When looking up into the distance, you should also look down at the road.
For the current Nyasaland, fishing boats are more useful than merchant ships.
Nyasaland is a freshwater lake. There are about 200 kinds of freshwater fish living in the lake. These freshwater fish can provide sufficient nutrition for the Chinese people. Therefore, until the farm stably produces benefits, fishing will be an agricultural company for a long time.
main projects.
Now the agricultural company has organized a fishing team with more than 200 people and ten fishing boats to fish in Lake Nyasa every day to supplement nutrition for the Chinese who built Little Rock.
The fish in Lake Nyasa are unlucky. In the past, white people and Africans near Lake Nyasa didn't like eating fish. After all, the nearby wild animals couldn't eat them all, so the fish in Lake Nyasa were a bit...
Flooding, these fish don't know how to avoid after seeing the fishing boats. Not to mention reaching the level of "scooping fish", basically a fishing boat can catch all the fish with only three or five nets.
Therefore, the Chinese who built Little Rock were well-nourished. It didn’t matter whether Xiaosi bought beef or not. The chef in the cafeteria cooked fish soup in different ways every day. It wasn’t that he didn’t know how to cook it in other ways, but that he couldn’t make it because there was too much fish.
Well, frying and cooking one after another can tire the chef to death.
"After Little Rock reaches a certain scale, we will start farm construction. As for the tractor you mentioned, we will also send people to Europe and the United States to purchase it at the same time. After the samples come back, we will study the possibility of replicating it." Duncan
I have a certain understanding of internal combustion engines, but I don’t know them in detail. I still need Roark’s guidance on how to use them.
In fact, Rock doesn't understand internal combustion engines, but it doesn't matter. Agricultural companies now have a so-called "tape measure department". If they don't know how to design, they can imitate them first.
