Mo Quan stood on the bow of the ship and looked at Madi City. It was not because Madi City attracted his attention because of its large scale, large population, and prosperous economy, but because this place would be the new starting point for their South Vietnam Kingdom.
According to the scheduled plan, nearly 50,000 people from their migration to the Kingdom of South Vietnam will disembark here and then head northeast. They will reach their destination after about more than 100 kilometers.
Their new territory of the South Vietnam Kingdom is located in the northeast of Madi City, and its east is adjacent to Madi State of Tang Dynasty. It has no outlet to the sea, because the entire coastal area of Africa belongs to the overseas territories of Tang Dynasty and belongs to various states.
The territories acquired by the Southeast Asian countries in Africa did not have access to the sea, but most of them were adjacent to the overseas territories of the Tang Dynasty.
However, except for the coastal areas, the Tang Dynasty was very generous in the inland areas. Basically, it gave relatively large areas to the Southeast Asian countries, and also gave some places with relatively good natural conditions according to the situation.
However, these places are generally still in the hands of the local indigenous people, and it will take a lot of effort for the Southeast Asian countries to cultivate and survive there.
However, although these Nanyang countries are all small countries, they are all countries with complete systems. They have been fighting each other in the Nanyang region for many years. Their fighting power is much stronger than that of the uncivilized natives, so there is no need to worry about being unable to gain a foothold.
After the fleet arrived at the port, Mo Quan waited for the passenger ship carrying the Mo Dynasty dignitaries to enter the port. At this time, Mo Quan's father, the current king Mo Qiamao, disembarked first with a group of Mo Dynasty dignitaries, and Ma Dizhou came to greet him.
meeting with relevant officials.
Naturally, the meeting was quite friendly. The officials of the Tang Dynasty in Madizhou didn't talk too much with them. They just told their people not to run around after entering the port. When they got off the ship, they should follow the planned fixed road. They couldn't run around, let alone
Sneak into Madi City and stay.
Apart from this, Datang officials were very friendly in other aspects.
They even arranged a welcoming banquet for the dignitaries of the Mo Dynasty.
The next day, the dignitaries of the Mo Dynasty left and headed west together with the soldiers and civilians who had disembarked one after another and headed inland.
Since there were not many means of transportation, and many people had just experienced a long sea journey and were not in good physical condition, the Tang Dynasty people did not force them to run over all at once. Instead, they could set up a number of rest points on the road.
Mo Chao's army, which had arrived last year, was allowed to send troops to greet him.
If it were normal times, the dignitaries of the Mo Dynasty would naturally not care about the life and death of ordinary people, but now that they have come to this strange place to establish a new country, they need labor to open up wasteland, and they also need to fight against the surrounding natives who are full of malicious intentions.
So we still care about the safety of a large number of people.
A large number of people at the rear advanced slowly on foot, while Mo Quan and other dignitaries from Mo Chao advanced in carriages and other means of transportation.
Two days later, they arrived at New Thang Long, the first city of the Kingdom of South Vietnam in its new territory in Africa and also their tentative capital.
This place was also the first place where the Mocha people settled down after arriving on the African continent. After the early settlement and construction of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, it has begun to take shape.
There are wooden houses and fences, and a lot of the surrounding wasteland has been reclaimed.
However, because the time was relatively short, and the number of soldiers and civilians in the early stage was only about 10,000, the farmland area developed was not large, and the building area was not large.
But even so, Mo Quan and the others still felt at ease, as long as they got to the place.
After arriving and resting for a few days, the monarchs and ministers of the Mo Dynasty carefully studied a map of the surrounding area obtained from the Tang Dynasty people.
After arriving at the place, the most important thing is naturally to cultivate the land and build the city.
However, the threat from the surrounding indigenous people is very great. They had few people before, and they were new to the area and were not adapted to the local environment. They could only passively defend against the attacks of the indigenous people.
But now, they plan to take the initiative and kill several surrounding indigenous tribes first.
Otherwise, tens of thousands of them will not be able to settle down and survive here safely. If they are unable to cultivate enough land, they will not be able to support the increasing number of immigrants in the future.
Although only tens of thousands of people have come from Mo Chao now, hundreds of thousands more will arrive one after another. These people all need to eat. Now Mo Chao's family is running out of money. Moving to the country is a big deal, and they have spent a lot of money on it.
So many, the shipping cost for these hundreds of thousands of people is an astronomical figure for them.
Even if they collected all the money they could before moving, it would not be enough to pay for the huge freight. In the end, they had to delay Datang's freight cost of at least 1.5 million Tang Yuan.
In addition to freight, many supplies in the early days of arriving in Africa also had to be purchased from the Tang Dynasty, which was another huge expense.
Obviously, the Mo Dynasty's treasury was unable to pay such a large amount of funds, and had to borrow money from Datang.
However, it was easy to borrow money from the Tang Dynasty, but the interest rates were also quite harsh. When he was in Madi City, Mo Quangang reached a loan agreement with the African branch of the Royal Bank on behalf of the Mo Dynasty, borrowing 500,000 Tang Yuan for the purchase of grain, etc.
Various living supplies, ordnance and ammunition, etc.
If enough land is not reclaimed in the future, when more immigrants arrive, they will have to take out loans. By then, it may take hundreds of years to repay these loans.
The Kingdom of South Vietnam has a small population, and this new land in Africa has just been developed. A large number of its citizens are still in Nanyang or on the way here. They are very poor, and even eating and maintaining basic survival is a problem.
If a big boss like Datang hadn't been teasing him behind his back, even if hundreds of thousands of people from the South Vietnam Kingdom arrived in Africa, most of them would have starved to death.
In fact, the food problem alone cannot be solved.
It's just that although the Tang Dynasty was very powerful and could meet the food and various supply needs of the South Vietnam Kingdom, the Tang Dynasty was not a charity, and these things all required money.
People in the Tang Dynasty were also willing to borrow money, but the money had to be repaid, and the interest was quite high.
Under such circumstances, after the South Vietnamese Kingdom arrived in Africa, they still wanted to be self-sufficient as soon as possible to avoid defaulting on huge loans that could not be repaid for hundreds of years.
After the royal family of the Mo Dynasty arrived with their troops and tens of thousands of people, they immediately began to organize the people to colonize and build houses. At the same time, they also sent thousands of troops to carry out mopping up operations against the surrounding indigenous people.
The combat effectiveness of the Mo Dynasty's army may not be a big deal in the world, but when compared to the Tang Dynasty, it is just as good as cannon fodder.
Even if it is placed in Europe and fought against the Tatars or other Europeans, it is probably not enough, but it is still quite good against the indigenous people in Africa who are still in a tribal situation.