I want to be emperor

Two to three thousand Dutch immigrants in Cape Town, South Africa chose to go deep into the inland areas of the north. The Chu people didn't bother to care where they ended up going, as long as it wasn't in Cape Town.

After all, the Great Chu Empire in this place has no plans for ordinary colonization for the time being, but plans to plan it as an overseas directly-controlled territory from the very beginning. In the future, Chu people will set up an administrative agency here, and even the name has been chosen: The government of South Africa is directly under the jurisdiction of the African governor's office.

Since it is an overseas directly governed territory, relatively large-scale immigration will be carried out here in the future. After all, the places around Cape Town are more suitable for reclamation.

The geographical environment and climate are very good. There are flat coastal plains, abundant water resources, and a very good climate. It belongs to the typical Mediterranean climate and is suitable for the development of agriculture in the Mediterranean climate. This place is very suitable for development. agriculture.

In general, it is actually comparable to the Jinshan Prefecture (California) of the Great Chu Empire in North America.

The North American Jinshan Prefecture of the Great Chu Empire has the Golden Valley (Central Valley), and South Africa also has a coastal plain, which is very suitable for the development of agriculture and has great potential to become a granary.

For large-scale immigration and construction in one place, the food problem must be solved, and the cost of shipping food by sea is not low these days.

When ships return from overseas territories, although they will also transport food back, they are basically used as ballast to return to the voyage. The transport ships of the shipping company are going to return anyway, so they bring some agricultural products back to earn some shipping fees. , as much as possible to reduce the cost of no-load when returning.

If it is really a special trip to transport food back to the mainland, the transportation cost of these agricultural products will be very expensive.

In the same way, the Great Chu Empire seldom transported grain to an overseas territory, and the transportation cost was too high to bear.

Therefore, in the development of overseas territories, the local food self-sufficiency rate is very important.

Only by being able to grow and produce a large amount of food on the spot can the needs of local immigrants be met, and there will be enough surplus food to absorb more new immigrants. At the same time, when ships return, they can bring some food as a ballast Freight, reducing the overall cost of transport to and from the overseas territory.

Only with food and population can we talk about other developments. For example, like Jinshan Prefecture in North America, it began to plant a large amount of economic crop cotton, or develop gold mines or something.

Then there will be enough consumer market and attract more funds to invest in it.

Therefore, for the many overseas territories of the contemporary Great Chu Empire, whether they can be developed or not depends first on whether there are arable land resources suitable for large-scale development in the local area.

If not, the basic development is not good.

The development of many places in North America is an obvious example here. To be honest, it was not Jinshan Mansion that was first developed by the Great Chu Empire and invested a lot of resources in the early days, but Xiayang Mansion in the north. However, although the local climate Yes, it can also be cultivated, but the agricultural conditions are still only average for the huge North American region.

On the other hand, Jinshan Mansion, because it has a large piece of extremely good arable land such as the Golden Valley, so although the development time is later and the resources invested in the early stage are not too much, the development speed is still far faster than that of Xiayang Mansion, even more than that of Xiayang Mansion. The Luhe Mansion in the middle.

Now the governor of North America is preparing to change his residence again, and is going to Jinshan City.

There is no way. In recent years, Jinshan Prefecture has developed too fast. The population of this place is 10,000+, and there is still a large influx every year. It is estimated that the population of this place will reach 50 in a few years.

This population figure is even larger than some remote prefectures in China.

The reason for the rapid development of Jinshan Prefecture is that the development and development of gold mines is the direct driving force, but without the support of the large amount of arable land and grain produced in the Jinshan Valley, it is impossible for this place to develop so fast.

The current South African government is also very suitable for development because it has enough arable land in the coastal plain as a support.

Of course, the main reason why the Great Chu Empire decided to develop here is not simply because the agricultural conditions here are relatively good. In overseas regions, many agricultural conditions are also very good.

But I didn't see Chu State spending a lot of manpower and force to develop it.

The high-level officials of the Great Chu Empire attached great importance to South Africa. In fact, it was the same reason as they attached importance to Malacca and Ceylon Island. These places belonged to the main traffic routes.

The Chu people want to completely control these places!
That's why large-scale development is carried out in these places, and the model of directly governing overseas territories is adopted to organize large-scale immigration and expel local aborigines.

Again, this is why these Dutch immigrants were not allowed to stay.

The South African government is to be developed as an overseas territory directly under the jurisdiction, and it is impossible for so many foreign indigenous people to gather.

Whether it is these Dutch immigrants or the African natives existing in the surrounding areas, they will all be the targets of deportation.

In South Africa of the Great Chu Empire, the natives are not welcome!
The Dutch had no choice but to go all the way north towards the inland areas of South Africa. They met many local African natives who were not in the dark. At this time, the Dutch who were bullied by the Chu people and could not even keep their homes, But it turned into a brutal European colonist again.

Among the thousands of Dutch immigrants, nearly a thousand males were young and strong, holding arquebus guns, swords and spears bought from the people of Chu, they wiped out three local indigenous tribes in succession along the way. The flow was rolling, and they robbed the food of the local aborigines, and captured the aborigines as their slaves.

Even some women and children among these Dutch immigrants participated in some logistical work with swords and spears.

After continuous northward advances, the Dutch stopped at a place hundreds of kilometers away from the Chu people, but this was actually not their final destination.

It's still too close to the Chu people here, only two to three hundred kilometers away. To be honest, it won't take long for the Chu people to kill them.

After all, they don't think that the Chu people's big moves in South Africa will only be limited to a small Cape Town port. These Chu people will definitely extend northward and eventually occupy the entire coastal plain.

This some of the wise men of the Dutch emigrants had foreseen.

It's not how well they understand the Chu people, but it's the same when they were colonized by the Dutch or other European countries.

Occupy a coastal stronghold first, and then gradually go inland.

In order to avoid encountering Chu people again after settling in one place for a few years, these Dutch people decided to go further away.

Stop now, just take a rest for a while, and at the same time inquire about the surrounding situation, and then continue northward.

After all, these Dutch people are also the first time to go deep into the inland area of ​​South Africa. They have some understanding of the two to three hundred kilometers around Cape Town, but they lack understanding of places farther away.

They need to know the terrain, climate, hydrology and other conditions in order to decide the next migration direction.

In the end, they will find a place suitable for farming and far away from the Chu people as a real new settlement.

However, the Dutch immigrants in Cape Town chose to move north on their own initiative, but the local African natives near Cape Town did not have this awareness.

They have never dealt with the Chu people, so they don't know the horror of the Chu people, and they don't know how ambitious the Chu people are.

At the beginning, the Chu people sent people to the surrounding areas to try to announce the empire's free land acquisition policy to these indigenous tribes. However, due to the language barrier and the unreasonableness of these local indigenous peoples, the preaching plan ended in complete failure.

Since they said they didn't understand, the Chu people naturally had to use other methods!
The soldiers of the third regiment of the Indian Army, after resting for five days, also ushered in the first battle of this expedition to South Africa.

The soldiers of the third regiment began to go out from Cape Town in three groups, and carried out dragnet-style cleanup operations on the surrounding areas.

Under the hard work of the soldiers of the Third Army including Captain Harrell, the Chu army quickly cleared up the indigenous tribes within [-] kilometers of the surrounding area, and captured tens of thousands of prisoners of war along the way.

Before setting off this time, the generals of the expeditionary force told the commanders of the third regiment not to kill too hard, and at least capture some prisoners of war, otherwise Cape Town's city defense facilities and coastal defense facilities , and urban infrastructure such as port facilities, you can only let your third regiment do it.

Harrell and other Indian servant soldiers were naturally unwilling to go to do the exhausting and strenuous work, so during this operation, although Harrell and other Indian soldiers still had a strong killing intent.

But at least I held back...

If all the young and strong were killed, and a sufficient number of young and strong prisoners of war could not be captured, the Chu generals above would blame them, and the native officers like Harrell would not be able to hold on.

With the addition of a large number of local indigenous prisoners of war, the large-scale construction of Cape Town Harbor began.

Not only did large-scale construction start in Cape Town, but also in a harbor at the other end of the Cape of Good Hope, hundreds of Chu people commanded a group of local indigenous prisoners of war to carry out construction.

And the South African Expeditionary Fleet has decided to transfer a large number of personnel and materials back here for construction.

This is a small port called "Dongkai Port" by the Chu people. There were no traces of outsiders here before, only a small local coastal village, and a small number of local aborigines lived here.

Because when the South African expedition fleet arrived here, the weather in the Cape of Good Hope was not good. In order to avoid risks, they parked here for a day before the fleet set off for Cape Town again.

At that time, the senior generals of the South African Expeditionary Fleet believed that there was a greater risk in the waters of the Cape of Good Hope. The current weather is not bad. If it is the local winter, the climate will be even worse.

Therefore, ships passing through the waters of the Cape of Good Hope may not be able to pass in time, and may need to park here and wait for a few days before continuing to set off.

Under such circumstances, it is necessary to establish a supply port here to accommodate ships that continue westward to the Atlantic Ocean, and to have a temporary place to stay in case of bad weather.

It was decided to leave more than 300 soldiers and a certain number of engineers stationed here, and build a small supply port.

And named this small supply port as Dongkai Port.

It means the port on the east side of the Cape.

In terms of the name of Cape Town, the Chu people continued to use the previous Dutch name for the local area, of course they used the transliteration of 'Cape Town', and did not insist on changing the name to something new.

This is also the normal state of the Great Chu Empire in the conquered areas. Generally, the transliteration of the original name is used directly. If the transliteration is too long, two or three characters are used.

This is the case for Cape Town, and according to the names of other areas taken by Cape Town, there are naturally names such as Dongkai, Westkai, and Beikai.

This is the case for Dongkai Port.

Although the Dongkai Port has not yet been formed, and only a temporary small wooden trestle can be used, the geographical location here is very important, and the South African expeditionary fleet still pays more attention to it.

Otherwise, hundreds of people would not be left here to build the port.

Once this port is completed, it will even become an important port of the Great Chu Empire in South Africa in the future.

Ships coming from the mainland of the empire, or from India, West Asia, North Africa and other regions, whether they come to South Africa, or go to Europe or even the Americas, then this is the best place to stay.

Because this port is at the eastern end of the Cape of Good Hope, ships coming here do not have to undergo the test of the Cape of Good Hope.

However, the developable agricultural resources here are not good, and there are no large-scale plains around it for farming, so it can be used as a supply and rest port, but it cannot be used as a settlement to carry a large number of immigrants.

Cape Town is not the same, where there are abundant agricultural resources that can be developed and can carry a large immigrant population.

This is also the reason why the Great Chu Empire chose to carry out large-scale development and construction in Cape Town, the western end of the Cape of Good Hope, instead of opening a port in the east.

In fact, it is similar to the reason why the Dutch chose to establish immigrant settlements in Cape Town.

The Dutch also took a fancy to the flat plains near Cape Town at the beginning, which could carry out better immigration development, but the Dutch were beaten away by the Chu people before they had time to develop on a large scale.

Now, this rich land has also fallen into the hands of Chu people.

Just when the Chu people were carrying out large-scale infrastructure construction in the Cape Town area of ​​South Africa, and began to open up planting land on the spot, in preparation for the follow-up to welcome more immigrants.

The Dutch immigrants who moved from Cape Town to the inland north also penetrated into the vast inland of Africa.

All the way north, they killed many tribes along the way, relying on plundering the food and other supplies of these tribes, and expelling the native slaves to go all the way north. Even so, they still died hundreds of people on the way.

In the end, the remaining 2000 Dutch immigrants arrived at a place suitable for farming, and they were far enough away from the Chu people... thousands of kilometers away from the Chu people.

At this time, they are finally relieved, and are ready to farm and breed here, and live a new life.

And because there is no sign of civilization here, and there is no country to manage them, in order to protect themselves and unite, they also followed the Dutch system and established a miniature country called the Republic of Tshwane.

This Tshwane is actually the name of their settlement area.

All of this is normal. These days, when there is no sign of civilization to take risks, there are more immigrants who settle down, and there are also many people who build their own countries. It is very common.

Not to mention the Dutch, there are a lot of people from Chu State. Not all the immigrants from Chu State who go to North America every year will honestly hang out in the territory directly under their jurisdiction. Many will choose to go deep into the interior of North America in order to make a fortune. , directly snatching a large amount of land and other wealth from those natives.

There are not a few people who make a fortune doing this.

Not only in North America, even in South America and the west coast of North America that Chu's official power has not touched, there are actually many people from Chu who do business and live there.

In Mexico under the control of the Spanish, there were at least thousands of Chu people doing business there and opening up plantations. This is still open, and the Chu people living in the area directly controlled by the Spaniards.

Therefore, the distribution of Chu people in overseas areas is actually many, not only limited to the overseas territories, colonies, and puppet states of the Great Chu Empire.

In many indigenous-controlled areas, and even in some uncivilized areas, there are unknown numbers of Chu people doing business, living, and even fighting to build the country.

In recent years, in some remote overseas places in the valleys, there are really some ambitious Chu people who ran to build the country. They have no guts to call themselves emperors, but people who call themselves kings or give themselves other messy titles are too too much.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and no one can control them.

These Dutch people came to the inland areas of Africa. In order to protect themselves and better colonize and expand, it is normal for them to capture local aborigines as slaves to work for themselves, and to build a republic by themselves.

But what is abnormal is that when they just settled here and started to drive a large number of indigenous slaves to farm, a Dutchman accidentally tripped over a strange stone when he was chasing escaped slaves on his farm. .

Take a closer look, good guy... Nima, this is a golden stone, weighing several kilograms!