Chapter 228: Congo 2

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On March 20, 1878, in the area of ​​the Matadi Estuary in the Congo, Huang Naishang commanded more than 200 Chinese soldiers and more than 1,000 black men to level the land near the river bank.
The climate is hot in Africa. A drop of sweat seeps on the face and body of Chinese soldiers wearing dark green tropical military uniforms. As they drag down the felled trees, the beads of sweat are thrown on the wet ground and the soft mud Mixed together.
A sweat-soaked soldier took off the military cap on his head while he was resting, and held it in his hand as a heat-dissipating fan, shaking a hot breeze.
"This area is open and fertile, and close to the Congo River to the west, it is very suitable for reclamation."
Among the busy people, Huang Naishang pointed to the surrounding land, his eyes filled with Greek wings and caution, "His Royal Colonel Xue, Your Highness has allowed some refugees stranded in Annan to be transferred to the Congo for reclamation. The first batch came from Minqing, Gutian, Seven hundred refugees from areas such as Yongtai and Fujian province will arrive in the Congo in the last week. We must build new camps before the arrival of refugees. We must not let them come here to die of tropical diseases. "
"According to the recommendations of the domestic sent Lang, my soldiers and more than a thousand slaves bought from the nearby indigenous chiefs will level and clean all the surrounding land. The edge of the camp will use wormwood to isolate the camp from the woods. It will not expose newcomers to dysentery. "
Xue Yizhong replied.
"Lieutenant Colonel Xue is very thoughtful." Huang Naichang nodded and agreed. "Everything is difficult to begin with. The first refugees who came to the Congo were all the ordinary people who had nothing. They believed in the Han country and went to the barren land where the disease was raging. As the heads of the Congolese colonization plan, the two of us must resolve their worries and not allow them to come to the Congo as they lack food and clothing and no shelter in the mainland. "
"Master Huang rest assured that although this place is a bit barren, the land is very fertile. In February last year, my brothers and my brothers reclaimed more than 100 acres of wasteland and planted some sweet potatoes and vegetables. By March of this year, The wasteland was already covered with sweet potato vines. The large sweet potato under the vine weighed several kilograms. I spent more than half a month with my brothers and dug more than 100,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes, removing the supplies for the troops and black slaves. Grain, and a small half of sweet potatoes were not eaten, and the brothers who were managed by the logistics used to feed the livestock.
Mr. Huang, as long as food is planted in this place, there is no worry about harvesting. Those refugees who come to the Congo absolutely do not need to worry about insufficiency. "
"This land is really fertile. When the refugees arrive in the Congo, they can organize them to grow a portion of rice and vegetables as food for the base, and then after they adapt to the weather here, they will arrange for them to supervise and guide the black slaves to open mining fields."
"The communication vessel transmitted a domestic telegram yesterday. His Highness ordered us to delay the progress of the mining of the Congo copper mine. The copper mine that has been planned for construction will be temporarily sealed. After the domestic coordination of the relationship with the European powers, the copper mine mining work will be carried out. . "
"Is Lieutenant Colonel Xue reliable?"
Huang Naishang frowned.
"It should be reliable, and formal notifications will be communicated when the fleet receiving the ship stays in the Congo."
"Explorers found a large copper mine in Kinshasa. Since the domestic order temporarily suspends the mining work, I will send someone to notify the exploration team to stop the exploration of the Jinshasa copper mine, so as not to leak out the location of the copper mine and cause unnecessary trouble. "
Huang Naishang pondered for a moment and seriously said, "The Congo region is rich in copper, coal, gold, diamonds and other resources. Two copper mines and one iron mine on the east bank of the Ubangi River border the French colony. Without mining, Lieutenant Colonel Xue took your people to the extent possible to restore the area where the mine was explored, and sent a soldier to defend the east bank of the Ubanji River to prevent the French from expanding their power to the east bank region. "
"A company soldier under Lieutenant Colonel Frank set off for the eastern bank of the Ubangi River this morning. There should be no oversight in the area around the mine."
Xue Yizhong said.
"Foreign legions are outsiders after all, will there be hidden dangers when they are stationed near the mine?"
Hearing that Xue Yizhong's troops were foreign corps, Huang Naichang was a little worried.
"There will be no problem. The foreign soldiers stationed on the east bank of the Ubangi River are more than 20 kilometers away from the mining area. They do not know the situation of the mining area, and within three kilometers of the mining area, there are more than 100 National Defense Forces. Soldiers defend, and anyone, including foreign soldiers, will not be allowed into the mine area without a permit issued by the army. "
"Lieutenant Colonel Xue thought carefully and did a good job of defending the mine in advance, so he can rest assured."
Huang Naishang nodded, and his cautious expression gradually relaxed.
Unlike ordinary Chinese who immigrated to Han, although he was impoverished at an early age, Huang Naishang had the opportunity to receive Western culture when he was an adult. This freed him from the conservative thinking of ordinary Chinese and produced more radical ideas.
In 1866, 18-year-old Huang Naishang was baptized by an American priest in order to maintain her life and entered a church opened by an American in Fujian to work as a handyman. During the six or seven years in the church, Huang Naishang was diligent in addition to reading the Bible. The study of English and cultural and scientific knowledge came into contact with the history of expansion and development since the founding of the United States, and gave birth to the radical idea that China should learn from the United States, and organize the government to organize non-governmental Chinese to migrate to Nanyang and open the Nanyang region as a Chinese colony.
At that time, Huang Naishang was in his early twenties, and his ideas were radical. No one recognized his idea. Until his later years, the determined Huang Naishang took out all the accumulated wealth and borrowed from other places, and saved the initial immigration startup funds. Mantan Island bought 3,000 acres of land and recruited more than 1,000 Chinese from its native Fujian Province to carry out reclamation activities in Mantan Island, Kalimantan.
Huang Naishang is a Fuzhou native. After the reclamation farm began to take shape, Huang Naishang named it the New Fuzhou Reclamation Farm, hoping to emulate the British to develop Australia, Xinzilan and other colonies, and develop the reclamation farm on the island of Kalimantan into a new Chinese. Breeding ground.
In 1903, the first batch of land purchased had been completely reclaimed. Huang Naishang felt satisfied. While sending son-in-law and middle-aged and junior family members to welcome new immigrants, he negotiated with the British colonists to expand the scope of the settlement. However, he saw that After the prosperity of the Chinese farms, the British colonists feared that more and more Chinese would gather to bring instability to the local area, so they not only rejected Huang Naichang's request, but also put pressure on the other party, or agreed to the British conditions , Allowing British merchants to sell opium on the farm, or dissolve the farm.
The British used opium to open China's door. A large number of Chinese people lost their homes due to the opium country, and opium also brought a negative image of the East Asian sick man to the Chinese. The young and poor Huang Naishang was well aware of the dangers of opium and was banned in his management of the farming city. The Chinese on the farm smoked opium, and the British once again pressed him with the opium problem, touching Huang Naishang's bottom line. In the mood of anger and feeling powerless, Huang Naishang rejected the British colonial request and sold the farm to the local Chinese. With the Chinese workers who worked on the farm, they returned to their hometown alone, and soon joined the revolutionary cause.
The original fate of Huang Naishang, like so many hungry Chinese disaster victims, was changed by the South Korean and Han nations. After emigrating to South America in 1873, Huang Naishang used the knowledge she learned in churches. The Western Ministry of Foreign Affairs was recruited as a section-level diplomat, and after three years of work, he was gradually promoted to deputy division-level official. (The ranks of officials are from department to department, department, bureau, department, department, cabinet, and vice president, etc.)
In early 1877, Huang Naishang suggested that some refugees stranded in the Nanyang region should be evacuated to the colonial bases established by Han in Africa. This would not only solve the problem of resettlement of Chinese refugees, but also increase the proportion of Chinese in African bases, and strengthen the Han country ’s role in Africa. Colonial stronghold control.
The climate in Africa is hot and tropical diseases are prevalent. Even if Han is able to provide a large number of anti-dysentery drugs, quinine, the action of the Chinese to expand their forces in the local area is still greatly hindered.
Deep in his heart, Li Mingyuan is not willing to immigrate the Chinese to Africa, so he has the experience of later generations. After the collapse of the dominant powers in Africa ~ EbookFREE.me ~ None of the foreigners left in the area can keep them The regimes of South Africa, Rhodesia, and Mozambique, one African country dominated by whites, were overthrown by blacks, and the surviving whites were reduced from rulers to ruled and accepted the jurisdiction of black governments.
Africa is experiencing rapid population growth due to poverty, cultural backwardness, and other factors. In later generations, black people not only left Africa but took root in various parts of the world. The United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, the mainland, and Russia are not only those economically developed places. There are black people all over the country, and even Russia with severe weather and the continent that is still in the ranks of developing countries also have a large number of black people.
Li Mingyuan did not intend to clean up the blacks of the Han Chinese base in Africa, but he was also reluctant to see the Chinese and whites left in Africa suffering the same fate. Therefore, when he first saw the suggestion presented by Huang Naishang, Li Mingyuan refused. Later, after careful consideration, he approved Huang Naishang's plan, and promoted his establishment to the official level, responsible for Han's colonial affairs in Africa.
From a long-term perspective, with the rapid development of science and technology, the disadvantages that limit the expansion of Han's colonial power in Africa will quickly disappear. Migrant ships can transport larger immigrants from the Far East to settle in African bases, and the expansion of Han in South America. It will not stop. When Argentina and Uruguay are completely annexed, the Han country can receive the Chinese who stay in the African base nearby and reduce the number of Chinese in Africa. Find this site Please search for "" or enter the URL: