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Colonial development at the national level has never been an act of tenderness. Although the Chinese troops tried their best to avoid conflicts with indigenous tribes, during the process of repeatedly penetrating into the interior of the Congo and establishing trading points near the main channel and tributaries of the Congo River, conflicts broke out between the National Defense Forces and the local indigenous tribes.
There were hundreds of battles, large and small.
Due to the advantages of equipment, few soldiers suffered direct casualties in frontal battles. However, due to the complexity of jungle battles, many soldiers were sneak attacked by indigenous people or bitten by poisonous snakes, spiders and other poisons, and eventually died without effective treatment.
It is difficult to effectively control the number of non-combat casualties. When many officers of the National Defense Force complained about the poor medical skills of the army doctors, they also directed their anger at the indigenous tribes who were unwilling to cooperate.
On January 5, 1875, all 600 young men from the Gaod tribe were shot dead for attacking the development team of the National Defense Forces.
On February 13th, the Aratak tribe was completely wiped out. On May 8th, the National Defense Forces eliminated the largest indigenous force around Akadi, and two thousand young black men were captured and worked as hard labor...
The National Defense Force's powerful attacks on indigenous tribes not only caused some small black tribes who had narrowly escaped to become more hostile to the Chinese, but also strengthened the Han government's control over the Congo region.
Matadi is the only large-scale stronghold established by the National Defense Forces in the Congo region. The African colonial troops of the National Defense Forces, foreign troops and the earliest refugees arriving in Congo are all distributed in the surrounding areas of Matadi. After the National Defense Forces took the initiative to eliminate hostile indigenous tribes, the Han Dynasty
The government gradually established small trading points integrating trade and military control along the Congo River.
Small trading points are generally established against the main channel of the Congo River. Each trading point is stationed with a squad of five to 20 people and about 20 black servants. They use the weapons and supplies brought by the fleet to maintain trade.
The waterways near the point are safe, and a policy of deterrence against nearby indigenous people is implemented.
As Han's domestic support for the colonial development of the Congo continued to increase, Huang Naishang and Xue Yizhong had established 26 small trading points in the Congo. Through the interconnected trading points, the National Defense Forces troops were deployed in the vast interior of the Congo.
A dense grid block chessboard is established. When any hat point on the chessboard is attacked by indigenous forces, the nearby National Defense Force soldiers can quickly arrive at the battle location by boat and attack the attacking indigenous forces.
With the trading points as the pillars and the main channel of the Congo River and its many tributaries as chains, Li Mingyuan drew on the Japanese army's cage policy and exerted good results in the Congo region. The indigenous tribes that were blocked by the grid composed of the trading points were
More and more indigenous tribes gave up resistance under the threat of force from the National Defense Forces and chose to cooperate with the National Defense Forces.
The Umudu tribe is one of the more obedient tribes that have taken refuge, and Masamba, as the tribal chief, is the indigenous chief who is most cooperative with the actions of the National Defense Forces.
Although there are more than twenty indigenous tribes that have surrendered to the National Defense Forces, there are not many who sincerely surrender to them like Masamba.
In order to reward Chief Masamba for mobilizing the tribe's young men to assist the National Defense Forces in combat, Huang Naishang, after asking Li Mingyuan for instructions, allocated 200 square kilometers of land around Umudu, where Masamba is located, to his tribe and canonized him as the Congolese Commander.
The first Tuwang was responsible for managing more than ten indigenous tribes around Umudu.
The enfeoffment system of native kings was an idea derived from Huang Naishang's experience in British colonial India.
In India, the British colonists retained some rights of hundreds of Indian kings, and indirectly managed extensive areas beyond the reach of colonial forces through the Indian kings.
The British policy of relying on native kings to manage the Indian region was very effective. During the great uprising that swept across India in 1859, many colonial strongholds controlled by British colonists were captured by the Indians, and the British soldiers, old and weak in the colonial strongholds were massacred.
, but many Indian kings who were local rulers and came from the same clan as the rebels did not join the team to fight against the British colonists. On the contrary, they gathered their armed forces to rescue the British who were besieged by the rebels in various isolated strongholds.
The colonial army helped the British colonists persist until reinforcements arrived, and then led by the British army to defeat the revolting Indian people.
After the Indian Uprising was suppressed, the revolting Indian people were brutally persecuted, and those native kings who wholeheartedly followed the British white masters also received generous rewards. In view of the hard work of the Indian native kings in the great uprising, the British not only
It recognized the Tuwang's right to manage the territory and gave them more power.
The native princes and nobles of India have always been more submissive to the rule of the British. It was not until the India-Pakistan Partition Agreement was signed that the Indian princes gave up their illusions about the British when they learned that they had been betrayed.
The British gave up on the Indian kings they had single-handedly supported and instead roped in Nehru and others to form an opposition force. In the long run, this was undoubtedly a wrong move. In the Congo region, Huang Naishang did not consider what would happen in the Congo region nearly a hundred years later.
In the end, he just improved the Han Dynasty's governance structure over the Congo based on the experience he gained from the British.
Huang Naishang had two plans for the colonial rule of the Congo. One was to establish direct rule in areas with strategic locations and rich mineral resources such as Matadi, Kinshasa, and Sankigani, and have colonial institutions manage the local areas; the other was to
This is a primitive area deep in the interior of the Congo, far away from shipping channels. It rules indirectly by appointing the indigenous chiefs who have taken refuge as native kings.
Masamba was Huang Naishang's first attempt to implement the Tuwang enfeoffment system.
In October 1877, after learning that he had been canonized as a native king by a nobleman from afar, and with the translation and explanation from the tribe who had a little understanding of the Chinese meaning, Masamba knelt down excitedly on the ground to accept Huang Naishang's canonization in accordance with the four different etiquettes he had learned.
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The certificate for canonizing Masamba as the king of the earth is a yellow cloth edict and a fine iron seal.
The yellow cloth edict is easily damaged in the African tropical rainforest. Mabasan arranged for the tribesmen to place it in their big houses. Although the black fine iron seal does not seem to be used as a weapon, it serves as a symbol of the status of the native king.
, has always been taken by Masamba.
Near the place where the fleet docked, Masamba, who was in his thirties, dark and fat, first found Huang Naishang who was standing in front of the crowd, and then started to dance and make gestures while chattering in indigenous dialects.
"Master Huang, King Masamba has brought us good news. The tribe that attacked us last time was defeated by them. The more than one hundred black natives behind are a gift from King Masamba."
Xue Yizhong partly relied on the translator and partly looked at Masamba's gestures to understand what the other party meant.
"King Masamba has made another contribution to the National Defense Force." Huang Naichang looked at Masamba with admiration and said with a smile, "Lieutenant Colonel Xue, ask the brothers to accept the prisoners brought by King Masamba and take them from the ship.
Ten muskets for King Masamba."
In addition to the standard weapons equipped by the National Defense Forces, Huang Naishang also received more than 2,000 Dresser rifles that had been retired by the National Defense Forces from China. Most of these rifles were sealed as backup weapons in emergencies, and a small number were given as rewards to the indigenous people who assisted the National Defense Forces in operations.
tribe.
Xue Yizhong nodded, waved and sent more than 30 soldiers forward to receive more than 100 black natives, and then escorted them to the river to line up.
"Raise the gun, load it, prepare it... let it go!"
Bang bang bang, bursts of gunfire rang out, and more than a hundred black prisoners were shot one after another and fell into the river.
When dealing with tribes that resisted the National Defense Forces, Xue Yizhong always tended to directly eliminate them. This time, it was no surprise. He simply executed the black prisoners and left the rest of the processing to the black people under Masamba, while the National Defense Force soldiers and two hundred
The refugees from Fujian Province, with the cooperation of Umulla black people, began to expand the Kisangani trading point.