The East African Island in the southeastern corner of Africa, later known as Madagascar, is now called the East African Island by the Ming Dynasty. It was occupied by the United South African Trading Company several years ago and became the most important South African Trading Company in Africa.
's colony.
Together with the vast expanse of land at the southernmost tip of Africa, they formed the United Trading Colony of South Africa, referred to as the Colony of South Africa.
On the coastline of the southeastern plain of the East African Island, a city full of oriental colors stands on the coastline. Nanzhou City, the core city of the South African colony, is also the largest port on the South African Island and serves as a gateway between East Africa and West Africa.
Must pass through the port.
Nanzhou City is located from west to east, with a long coastline, blue sky and white clouds, sunny beaches, and a large number of children playing freely on the beaches. Spacious cement roads dotted the city.
Here at the huge docks, a large amount of goods are piled up like mountains. At each dock, large ships are berthed, and dock workers are busy loading and unloading goods. The new gantry cranes powered by steam engines are extremely efficient and can load and unload goods very quickly.
"Woo~"
Along with the sound of whistles, one can actually see the latest steamships, which are so huge that they are like hills, so that the large sailboats next to them seem several sizes smaller.
Du Mingen strolled leisurely in the port and was very pleased to see the busy scene in front of him.
Du Mingen was originally just a businessman. Because he heard Liu Jin's words about Huangjinzhou at Wangyue Tower in the capital, he boldly invested in a fleet going to Huangjinzhou and even led the team there himself.
Finally, after going through many difficulties and dangers, he finally returned to the Ming Dynasty smoothly. Not only did he bring back huge wealth, but he also brought back the corn, sweet potatoes and other high-yielding crops that Emperor Hongzhi longed for. After that, he was directly granted the title of Taipinghou.
Later, he led the fleet to open up routes to the South Seas, conquered the Kingdom of Luzon, and led the fleet to open up routes to the West, reaching Tianzhu, Ceylon Island, Arabia, East Africa, and the southernmost island of South Africa and the southernmost tip of Africa.
Du Mingen created a generation of sailing legends and became a benchmark in the history of navigation and a figure written into the history books.
As a businessman, he not only gained huge wealth through sailing, but also led the colonial era and the maritime era, and finally received enfeoffment from the emperor.
It can be said that this is definitely a legendary figure.
However, as he grew older and suffered from some diseases caused by several trips to sea, Du Mingen rarely went to sea. Finally, together with Liu Jin, Zhang Mao and other Ming Dynasty nobles, he established the South African United Trading Company.
He came to the South African island and became the governor of the South African colony. He was stationed on the South African island for a long time and was responsible for the management of the South African colony.
The South African colony is very different from some other vassal states and colonies.
The first one is that the South African colony implemented an overall capitalist system similar to that of later generations earlier than the Western Union Corporation. The governor had great power and was responsible for all affairs of the entire colony.
However, the Governor is elected by the General Meeting of Shareholders of the Associated Commercial Bank of South Africa and is responsible to all shareholders of the Associated Commercial Bank of South Africa.
In addition, Liu Jin is the major shareholder of the United Commercial Bank of South Africa. Naturally, in order to prevent the Governor from becoming too big, a decentralized system was adopted to separate the military power and judicial power accordingly. The main persons in charge of each are also recommended and elected by the shareholders' meeting.
, those reached through consultation are not subject to appointment or dismissal by the Governor.
Secondly, the South African colony has always adhered to the core strategy of creating a cradle of pure Chinese descendants, expelling and cleaning up the indigenous people in the colony, and only allowing female slaves to enter the colony, in order to rapidly increase the population.
This kind of policy is unique among many colonies and vassal states.
You must know that here in the colony, the local indigenous population is large, but the number of Ming people who immigrated is very small. In an era when productivity was not developed, manpower was the most important resource.
Aboriginal people and slaves were the most important labor force.
When you engage in colonial activities, you do not enslave the local indigenous people or purchase slaves. You only rely on immigrants from the Ming Dynasty. How can you develop in a year and a month?
Therefore, except for the United Trading Company of South Africa, other vassal states and colonies used a large number of slaves and local indigenous people to achieve rapid development and become stronger quickly.
In this regard, Ningguo is the best example.
Ningguo not only occupied a huge land in Tianzhu, but also used a huge amount of land in East Africa.
King Ning initially made his fortune by trading slaves, so there were millions of slaves in Ning State, as well as a large number of natives of Tianzhu.
By establishing a complete set of caste systems and slavery systems, Ningguo developed rapidly and grew stronger, and today it has become the most powerful vassal state in the Ming Dynasty overseas.
However, the United Commercial Bank of South Africa, under the strong request of Liu Jin, the major shareholder, has always implemented policies that are incredible.
The South African colonies are constantly expanding. Every time they expand to a place, they will inevitably expel the local indigenous people. If they cannot be expelled, they will be massacred.
There was no intention to use these local indigenous people at all. All the slaves introduced were female slaves, and a large number were distributed free of charge to Ming men who immigrated to the southern colonies.
Under such a policy, although the United Trading Company of South Africa was the earliest colonial trading house, it was the most powerful at the beginning, with the most powerful armed forces and a large number of merchant ships, and it also occupied the most fertile and largest land in Africa.
However, over the years, the development gap with other vassal states and colonies has become wider and wider, and it has become increasingly weak in subsequent expansion, so that it now does not have the strength to join the fierce competition for West African colonies.
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Even the huge resources possessed by the South African colonies did not have enough manpower to exploit them.
There are mahogany resources, gold mines, silver mines, copper mines on the big island of East Africa, and a large number of gold mines, silver mines, diamond mines, etc. have also been discovered here in the southernmost tip of Africa.
There are a lot of these resources. The land occupied by the South African colonies is a good place with rich resources and extremely high natural conditions.
However, because there are not enough manpower, many minerals cannot be mined even if they are discovered.
On this point, at several shareholders' meetings of the South African United Commercial Bank, some people expressed doubts about Liu Jin's policies and asked whether we should learn from other vassal states and colonies.
But fortunately, Liu Jin is the major shareholder. Zhang Mao, Xu Yongning, Zhu Fu, Du Mingen, Yang Yun and others believe in Liu Jin's long-term vision and feel that Liu Jin's actions must be reasonable. All he needs to do is follow what Liu Jin said.
Just continue to execute it.
It doesn't matter whether the South African colony makes money in a short period of time. Anyway, to these big guys, they are not short of money and have plenty of silver. It doesn't matter if the South African colony doesn't have much output.
The key is to occupy this precious land first, and it doesn't matter if the development is slower.
Therefore, the South African colony has always adhered to this policy.
Du Min'en looked at the busy port in front of him with a lot of thoughts. He recalled the scene when he led the fleet to the East African island for the first time.
This is still a deserted land with no hint of civilization.
In the blink of an eye, the land changed, tall buildings were built on the ground, and a big city appeared on this beautiful and fertile land.
"Time flies so fast!"
Du Mingen sighed softly. He was used to the life here and planned to spend the rest of his life here.
"Master Hou, Master Hou~"
At this time, someone on horseback hurriedly came to Du Mingen's side.
"What's going on?"
Du Mingen looked at the person and asked.
"Master Marquis, the Zulu Kunlun slaves refused to accept our expulsion, and even launched an attack on us."
The visitor's name is Xu Wenxi, a member of the Xu family of Duke Ding, an officer of the Ming Dynasty army. He received formal training and education at the Ming Dynasty Royal Military Academy. Now he is mainly responsible for leading the 15,000-strong South African colonial army to protect and protect the colony.
Pioneering work.
"Since they don't accept our expulsion, don't blame us for being rude. They should act in accordance with the regulations and kill them ruthlessly. I don't believe they really intend to perish."
Du Mingen gave the order directly without thinking.
"Yes, Mr. Hou~"
Xu Wenxi replied with a solemn military salute.
This kind of thing is nothing new. In the South African colony, the South African United Commercial Bank has been faithfully implementing this policy, constantly expelling the local Kunlun slaves in the territory, and at the same time vigorously immigrating Han people from the Ming Dynasty.
"Master Marquis, another group of immigrants will arrive in our South African colony in two days. Should we follow the old rules?"
Next to Du Mingen, Zhang Yewen, who was in charge of the immigration policy, was a member of the British Zhang Mao family. In fact, all the important positions and responsible persons in the entire South African colony were held by members of the family members of the shareholders of the South African United Commercial Bank.
"Well, let's follow the old rules. First give him a few female white slaves, and then give him a piece of land, a few horses, two cows, seeds and farm tools."
"By the way, the immigrants who came this time will be assigned to Two Ocean City (the location of Cape Town later, named because it has the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Indian Ocean to the east)."
Du Mingen thought for a moment and nodded.
"Yes, Mr. Hou~"
Zhang Ye nodded quickly and recorded it. The main way to attract immigrants in the South African colony is to provide you with a few female white slaves for free as your wife and concubine. In addition, there are horses and cattle. This is definitely the case for all vassal countries and colonies.
The best conditions.
There is no way, who makes the shareholders of the United Merchant Bank of South Africa be wealthy and powerful, willing to spend money to attract immigrants. Other vassals and colonies are not so wealthy.
