The response of the Lanfang Military Headquarters was still fast enough. Huang Li's report was quickly approved. Wu Qing was transferred back to Lanfang for other purposes. Huang Li's deputy was replaced by Zheng Jing, who had a background in the National Security Agency.
Zheng Jing, who has completely gone dark, is completely different from Wu Qing, who is struggling between ideals and reality. Although he has the rank of lieutenant colonel, Zheng Jing never wears military uniforms. Every day, he takes several of his subordinates brought from the National Security Bureau.
He was wearing a suit and was quite eye-catching in the exploration guard camp.
Zheng Jing quickly got into work mode. After arriving in Manantenina, Zheng Jing had a long conversation with Brad Johnson, general manager of Reynolds Bauxite Company, and then the exploration convoy sent the workers provided by Reynolds Bauxite Company,
The cost per person has changed from 100 francs to 300 francs.
This alone directly changed the exploration escort's remuneration during this period from 700,000 francs to 2.1 million francs.
Huang Li was very satisfied with Zheng Jing's performance, and Zheng Jing gained more trust.
If you want to build a team mainly composed of Manantenina people and arm them, you should consider this issue in the long term. After Zheng Jing gained greater power, he immediately posed a difficult problem to Huang Li.
If you want to make more money, finish your work here and go home early, then you'd better do what I say. Zheng Jing is a serious man, and his words don't show much respect for Huang Li, the commander.
Although Zheng Jing is now Huang Li's subordinate in name, in fact Zheng Jing and Huang Li belong to different systems. Huang Li's leadership of Zheng Jing is limited to the current period, so Zheng Jing's attitude towards Huang Li cannot be said much.
I'm respectful, just for the sake of Major General Huang Li's rank.
As for generals, there are not many in Lanfang now. Almost all of them are old guys from the Foreign Legion period. They still have certain privileges in Lanfang.
Tell me what you think. Huang Li must at least know the reason before he can consider whether to do what Zheng Jing said.
After the Manantenina Massacre, the Chinese and the Malagasy have already forged a bloody feud. This hatred will never be resolved in the short term, so Huang Li has reservations about the proposal to arm the Malagasy people. God knows what will happen after arming the Malagasy people.
, who will the Malagasy people point their guns at.
It's very simple, just like what we are doing now, the justice of Lanfang needs people like General Wu to protect it, and the dark side of Lanfang also needs people like us to protect it. If you want to end the work here as soon as possible, leave
This damn ghost place, then we should use more efficient working methods. In this regard, I think it would be better to let the Malagasy people deal with the Malagasy people. We only need to provide logistical support and promotion mechanisms, and there is no need to work so hard at all.
, you can successfully complete the work here. Zheng Jing has an idea, and the suggestions he made sound quite reliable.
In fact, it is still the Westernization Movement of the Qing Dynasty, using barbarians to fight barbarians. Western colonists actually did this in the Republic of China, and now Lan Fang can do the same in Madagascar.
What do you mean? Huang Li is a little unsure.
Zheng Jing, a Malagasy who yearns for a bright, just and beautiful life, gave a noble definition, which is definitely more acceptable to Malagasy people than horse cheating: Malagasy people are not monolithic, and the French in Antananarivo
While this is going on, the French have already established a force composed mainly of the Antesaka people. The French are not doing anything at all. They can make a lot of money by just staying in Antananarivo, drinking tea and tasting wine. Are you just doing this?
Don't want to feel comfortable
From the perspective of the Malagasy people, the Antesaka people are standard horse traitors, but from the perspective of the French and Huang Li, the Antesaka people are standard imperial citizens.
Isn't this a bit too despicable and shameless? That's so embarrassing. Huang Li's mouth was hypocritical, and there was joy and excitement on his face that he couldn't hide.
I won't laugh more shamelessly than you do now. Zheng Jing immediately exposed Huang Li's hypocrisy. He is a real villain through and through: General Wu's matter is definitely not an isolated case. The current exploration escort team has the same view as General Wu.
There must be more than one or two. If you don’t want these people to live in pain for the rest of their lives, then it’s best to let them do what they like, such as serving as instructors to train those Malagasy people. You don’t need to train too well, as long as you let them do what they like.
As long as they can kill people with guns, let them retain their true nature for the rest, so that they can better play their role.
Zheng Jing still considered it all. It seems that this idea has not existed for a day or two. Maybe it has been tried in Korea or Japan.
What Zheng Jing said is also true. Lanfang soldiers have been instilled with concepts such as loyalty and honor from the first day they joined the army. Strictly speaking, what the exploration escort team is doing now is contrary to the education they have always received.
Yes, this is a complete subversion of their initially formed values and outlook on life. If they do not do a good job in ideological work, it will definitely affect their future lives.
When it came to business, Huang Li immediately became serious: You are right, just do as you say, and just tell me what you need me to do.
With Huang Li's complete delegation of power, Manantenina's work began rapidly.
In fact, in the current Manantenina, including the employed Annamites and Koreans, as well as the work results of the exploration escort team during this period, the number of workers in Manantenina has exceeded 20,000, and these are 20,000 young people in their prime.
They are all strong young men who can be recruited into the army if possible.
Zheng Jing would definitely not pull up an army of more than 20,000 people, so Pierre would probably doubt Zheng Jing's true purpose. Zheng Jing only found Brad Johnson and asked for less than 500 people, and then started recruiting exploration guards.
Receive training in the army camp.
Now Manantenina is different from before. With the gradual increase in population and the gradual development of mining sites, Manantenina has formed several residential areas with different functions, including the military camp where the exploration escort team is located, and the Renault Bauxite Company.
headquarters, worker dormitories where workers are recruited, and shantytowns where the Malagasy people live.
Yes, the place where the Malagasy people live in Manantenina is a shanty town with poor facilities, sewage flowing across the street, worrying sanitary conditions, and poor security conditions, which is similar to the slums in London and Paris.
Zheng Jing recruited enough soldiers from the Malagasy people without much cost, or even just a promise to escape from the shanty towns. After these soldiers joined Zheng Jing's colonial army, each of them would receive two new sets of clothes.
They can all have enough to eat, and if they do a good job, there will be additional rewards, and they can even bring their family members to live with them.
Of course, this is based on the premise that they can still find their families.
To be honest, there are not many serious promises, not even benefits, just the guarantee of basic survival, which is enough to make those Malagasy people flock to it.
In the Renault Bauxite Company, these Malagasy people did not enjoy the treatment as human beings at all. The food provided by the Renault Bauxite Company to these slaves was not even as good as pig food, the quantity was not enough, and there was often moldy food.
With that kind of food, these Malagasy people simply don't have enough to eat.
While they don’t have enough to eat, the Malagasy people also undertake heavy physical labor. In the mines of Renault Bauxite Company, these Malagasy people do the dirtiest and most tiring work, because there is no labor protection. If there is a work-related injury,
There is no need for compensation from Renault Bauxite Company, so any dangerous work will be done by these Malagasy people.
The French people at Renault Bauxite Company do not regard these Malagasy people as human beings at all. They will punch and kick them if they are not satisfied. It is common to be tied up and displayed in public. If these Malagasy people get sick, they can only wait to die.
The French will not use their limited medical resources on these Malagasy people.
In this case, a place to sleep peacefully at night and a job where they can eat well and not be abused have become the biggest hopes of these Malagasy people. So when Zheng Jing obtained the authorization, it only took him half a day.
Within a short period of time, Zheng Jing had recruited 500 soldiers.
In order to get these 500 soldiers, Zheng Jing and Brad Johnson reached an agreement. Zheng Jing could take these people from Reynolds Bauxite Company without paying any money. When Zheng Jing completed training these people, Zheng Jing would
One thousand, free of charge, to repay Brad Johnson for his generosity.
The training work went extremely smoothly. At the training stage, Huang Li understood why Zheng Jing insisted on only training these Malagasy people to use weapons, and did not conduct any discipline training on these Malagasy people such as formations and queues.
Zheng Jing still had standards when selecting people. The Malagasy people he selected basically all used to make a living by hunting. In other words, the 500 people under Zheng Jing were basically all hunters before.
Of course, the weapons used by these hunters before were primitive weapons such as bows and arrows and bamboo guns. It was with these extremely crude weapons and a keen sixth sense similar to the instinct of beasts that Zheng Jing wanted these hunters to fight against those large prey.
What remains is these things. If these hunters are equipped with modern weapons, it is really exciting to see what kind of combat power these hunters can unleash.
The slogan of the Colonial Legion is also very unique. Fearlessness and bravery are the most emphasized things of the Colonial Legion, and there is nothing related to honor and loyalty at all.
In the second month after arriving in Manantenina, Zheng Jing sent out his colonial regiment and officially began to undertake the task of hunting slaves for the exploration convoy.
