Daming 1805

Chapter 333 "Black Wall"

Hei Zhongcheng led his slaves, escorted Ivanov and his party, and marched slowly southwest.

After three days, the team came to the corner of a river.

The historical name of this river is the Carmel River, the downstream is called the Oak River, and the downstream is called the Chari River, which will eventually flow into Lake Chad.

Ivanov felt annoyed when he saw the river and the empty fields on both sides of the river's corner.

If immigrants were allowed to go up the river and settle here last year or during the rainy season, the land west of here would belong to Lucia.

But now they have to continue to go downstream.

Heizhong's team went down the river, and after walking for another eight days, they came to a place where the river forked.

The main channel was originally in the northeast-southwest direction, and here a tributary diverted to the south.

This year's rainy season has just passed, and there are swamps and mudflats around the fork.

In the southeastern area of ​​the Fork Swamp, on a relatively flat highland, there are more than a dozen simple houses scattered.

There are more than a dozen Taixi people on the periphery of the house, driving more than 100 Mexican slaves to cultivate farmland on the edge of the swamp.

When they found a large number of Mo people approaching, they immediately became nervous.

The Taisi took up his rifle at once.

And commanded his own Mexican slaves to pick up crude weapons and stand in front of him.

Ivanov reported to Heizhong with mixed feelings:

"This is our settlement, and the current tentative name is Hetan Town."

In the original history, there was a small town called Melai here.

There is already a straight-line distance of more than 91 kilometers from the 380st longitude line drawn by Zhu Jingyuan.

Hei Zhongzhong looked at the situation by the river with a telescope:
"With such a small population, we can directly remove this settlement just like arresting and relocating you..."

Ivanov almost collapsed:

"You can't do this! They have already settled here, and your seizure of settlements is no different from war!"

Hei Zhongcheng laughed and said:
"Yes, we can't do that.

"But your men had better move to the west of the tributaries and swamps.

"In this way, our two sides will build on the east and west sides of this tributary separately, without affecting each other, and it will not easily cause conflicts."

Ivanov breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately asked:

"You mean, we're bounded by this river?"

The general direction of these mud swamps at the fork of the river's tributaries is basically facing due south.

But after going up more than 20 kilometers along the tributary, the river will turn to the southeast.

The black loyalty in front of him should not know these things.

If the river channel of this tributary is used as the boundary, the further south one goes, the more land belongs to Lucia.

If such a condition can be obtained, it doesn't hurt to give the simple houses and land on the west bank of the existing tributary to Daming.

Hei Zhongzhong shook his head directly:
"No, we haven't seen what's going on in other parts of the river and can't make decisions about other parts of the river.

"So the temporary demarcation point between our two sides is limited to the branch of the tributary of this river that we see.

"The west of the bifurcation is for you to explore and develop, and the east of the bifurcation is for us to explore and develop.

"This is only a temporary exploration boundary. The real boundary will be discussed by the adults in the court of Daming and Lucia."

Seeing that Hei Zhongzhong was not fooled at all, Ivanov immediately felt a little regretful, and then began to discuss the issue of settlements:
"The houses here, the farmland here, are all east of Chakou, and these are the results of our development and construction.

"We can't give it to you unconditionally. If you ask for it, you should come up with conditions."

Hei Zhongcheng said noncommittally:
"We did not directly seize your settlements, allowing you to develop and build here is our condition.

"Now you are free, go tell your companions to move to the other side of the swamp quickly, and we will be neighbors from now on."

Ivanov suddenly felt helpless again.

The people of Ming Dynasty were tough in negotiating, and the slaves of Ming Dynasty were equally tough.

But the promise of black loyalty is indeed useful.

After all, the two sides have finalized the temporary demarcation line.

At least everything west of the branch of the river belongs to Lucia.

Lucia's land area in Mozhou is at least 100 million square kilometers.

And this is not a rotten place like the Xianbei Wasteland, but the warmest and most humid tropical grassland.

All of them can be cultivated into the best farmland, which is already a very good result.

Human civilized countries are basically farming peoples, but in some places the farming conditions are not good, so they have to develop other sidelines.

Then this sideline business might shine.

The Vikings were impoverished peasants who couldn't survive, and the highest goal of going out to rob was actually to get a piece of good land.

The local farming conditions of the British were poor, and the Stuart dynasty implemented mercantilism.

Spain and Portugal also set up plantations in Yinzhou, and the United States has been a large farm since the Thirteenth Colony.

In the serious history of later generations, the Taixi people themselves do not know what "marine civilization" is.

When using marine civilization, it usually refers to small island countries such as Tonga and Fiji.

The major civilized countries of later generations have gradually developed industry and commerce on the basis of the farming era.

Before the development of industry and commerce, and even after the development of industry and commerce, there is no civilized person who does not want to build a good land.

The farming conditions in Lucia, Germany, and France on the western continent are better, and the farming traditions are stronger.

Among them, Lucia is the most important. They especially like the land, especially the warm land.

The Mozhou colony that Zhu Jingyuan allocated to Lucia almost conformed to all their beautiful imaginations about land.

However, although Lucia likes the land, she doesn't regard the land as her life.

If it regards the land as its life, it will not sell Alaska, nor will it cede land to Japan without paying compensation.

This shows that, for Lucia, life is more important than money, and money is more important than land.

Lucia doesn't dare to start a conflict with Daming now, so it's only natural that she accept it as soon as she sees it.

After Ivanov's exploration team regained their freedom, they quickly went to join the same clan in the settlement of River Beach Town.

Ivanov explained the situation to the officials here. Although these Lucian immigrants were very indignant, they finally accepted the conditions of black loyalty.

Abandon the existing settlements east of the river, and abandon a small amount of farmland developed around it.

With his slaves and luggage, he returned to the west of the river and found a suitable place for construction and development.

No way, there are too many people on the other side.

Once the number of people exceeds [-], it will be a sea of ​​people, and there is no end in sight.

No matter how bad this group of Mo people are in the war, they can directly crush a dozen Thais and hundreds of slaves on their side.

Moreover, the other party leaned against Da Ming, and if there was a conflict, his death would probably be in vain.

Lucia retreated to the other side of the river in a very sensible manner, and Hei Zhongzhong didn't take it too far, and arranged his own team to settle down.

The nomadic activities mentioned by Hei Zhongcheng are not excuses, but they also have predetermined goals and plans.

The task given by Daming's master is to nomadic until he finds the Taixi people on the opposite side.

After finding the Taixi people, settle along the exploration border of both sides.

Nomadism is great for exploration, but it's not a long-term solution.

In the history of human civilization, there should be fishing and hunting first, then farming, and finally nomadism.

Without fishing, hunting and farming life, various domestic animals have been domesticated, and there is no concept of animal husbandry.

Without animal husbandry, people would not be able to rely on livestock to live, and it would be impossible to nomadic.

The earliest real nomads were formed no earlier than 1000 BC, probably during the Spring and Autumn Period.

Nomad looks barbaric, but he is actually a little brother, and fishing and hunting is the big brother.

Farming is the result of the accumulation and evolution of fishing and hunting civilization technology, just like the industry and commerce bred after farming civilization.

But the nomad is the loser in the competition in the circle of farming civilization.

The real origin of nomadic animal husbandry is probably that the original farm was occupied by other ethnic groups, and they had to flee with the livestock they could take away.

Then they discovered that as long as I bring enough livestock, I can live without stopping to farm.

However, with the continuous expansion of farming civilization, the space for nomadic people's activities has been shrinking.

If they don't change their way of life and find a place to settle down, they will eventually "leave" all the land and disappear.

Black Loyalty ended his temporary nomadism and settled down on the west side of the river fork.

Distribute your own slave army, with 100 people in each hundred households as a unit.

Starting from the beach town built by the Lucians, explore and settle in the north and south directions.

Keep a distance of one kilometer between each unit, find a suitable location to build your own village, and reclaim land for farming.

All of a sudden, there are more than 100 settlements, and each settlement may not be smaller than the opposite river beach town.

The key is to directly form a border wall with a length of more than 100 kilometers.

Moreover, the Black Duke is not just Black Loyalty.

In the next six months, other black nobles will arrive with slaves one after another.

They will continue to extend to the north and south sides at both ends of the "black wall" of black loyalty according to the same rules.

After six or seven slaves of the Black Duke are spread out, a "black wall" of thousands of kilometers can be formed.

From the tropical rain forest in the south to the desert in the north.

The entire prairie was divided by this black wall.

The most senior Black Duke, the true elite of the Menu Legion, was barely able to complete this task.

After the other small-scale black nobles arrived, the slave groups led by them would open up wasteland behind the black wall.

The Lucians couldn't see the changes in the future, but Hei Zhongzhong's current operations had stunned them.

They could also imagine that if there were more black nobles, the entire grassland could be divided into two.

In the future, it seems impossible for the Lucians to go around and open up wasteland.

Ivanov couldn't understand, how did the Ming people let these slaves manage themselves, and manage them quite successfully?

Hei Zhongzhong and Ivanov, while both sides were wary of each other, neither of them forgot more important things.

After the two sides settled down, they immediately arranged manpower to report the situation to the rear.

This is the depths of the savannah, most of which are still being explored.

There were no roads, no railroads, no telegraph wires, not even accurate maps.

Both sides can only arrange small-scale cavalry to go back to deliver the letter.

Even in the rear of the exploration forces of both sides, other more and larger settlements may not have telegraph facilities.

The telegraph facility that Lucia can use closest to River Beach Town is in the headquarters of the Inland Allied Army of Lucia and Prussia.

Lake Chad in Mexico in history is now named Baltic Lake by Lucia and Prussia.

The lake is now part of the colonial border between the two countries, and the headquarters is to the southwest of the lake.

Lucia and the Prussian colonial authorities are working together to encircle and suppress the Fulani and Bornu kingdoms in this area.

The Bornu Empire is a classical kingdom in the west of Mexico, which has existed here for thousands of years.

The Fulani are an important ethnic group in the Bornu Kingdom. Their religious leader, Osman Dan Fodio, was once appointed by the old king of the Bornu Kingdom as the prince's teacher.

However, the prince didn't like this teacher very much, and drove his teacher away after succeeding to the throne.

Fodio rallied his followers, launched a holy war, stormed the capital, and drove out the new king.

The king, who belonged to the Dalatava people, was expelled from the capital and asked for help from the patriarch Ganiemi.

Ganiemi also summoned his people to conquer Fodio for the king.

According to the original history, the two sides will have a war in 1808, which is the year.

Ganiemi defeated Fodio and became a power minister who "holds the emperor to command the princes".

Then, 38 years later, Ganiemi's son executed the king and established a new dynasty himself.

Ganiemi is true Mozhou live Cao Cao.

In this world, when the Fulani and the Dalatava fought, Lucia and the Prussians became fishermen.

Lucia and Prussia have prepared for a long time in advance in order to completely control the inland plateau and completely destroy the Kingdom of Bornu.

A military logistics base was specially established here, and a telegraph line was laid from the coast to the lakeside headquarters,
Ensure smooth communication between the headquarters and St. Petersburg in the Gulf of Mexico.

And this coalition headquarters located by the Baltic Lake is more than [-] kilometers away from Hetan Town in a straight line.

There are no perfect post stations and roads on the way, only scattered settlements, and there is no way to implement "[-]-mile express".

The cavalry who reported the letter traveled lightly, replenished and changed horses at the settlements on the way, and ran for ten consecutive days before arriving.

As a result, when the team of cavalry arrived at the headquarters, they found that the situation here was in chaos.

There are a large number of Mo people everywhere inside and outside the barracks.

Of course, it wasn't that the coalition forces were defeated, or that the headquarters was breached by the Mo people, but that the coalition forces had won a decisive victory.

The religious leaders and kings of both groups surrendered, and Lucia and Prussia completely conquered the land.

A small number of Mo people's nobles accepted the canonization of the two countries and became the low-level nobles of the two countries.

But a large number of Mexican soldiers became captives, and directly became slaves together with a large number of civilians.

They were tied hands, escorted by Prussian and Lucian soldiers, and left this land where they had lived for hundreds of years.

They would become slaves to Lucia and Prussian immigrants, clearing land and building houses for them.

The cavalry who reported the message ran for a long time among the crowd before finally finding a chance to send the message to the telegraph room of the headquarters.

If it hadn't been specifically mentioned that Daming was involved, this telegram might not be sent out now.

The telegraph room is hurrying to send and receive messages from the combat commander and the rear.

(End of this chapter)