African Nationhood

Chapter 32 New Immigrants and Settlement
  The Swakop River originates from the Eros Mountains and is a river that runs through the middle of the mountainous desert.

At the same time, it is an elusive seasonal river.

In the rainy season, its flow is very abundant, infiltrating and nourishing the entire river basin, but in the dry season, it will fall into the dilemma of drying up in the downstream areas.

As a result, the Swakop River formed a large lagoon at its mouth, where many flamingos and other seabirds live.

Original time and space German colonists began to build a town at the mouth of this river in 1892, named Swakopmund, and became the center of their colonial rule.

Later, the German colonists were driven away, and it gradually became a small seaside town.

Its status gradually declined to become the regional capital, and eventually became the fourth largest city in Namibia.

Because of the freshwater river, the Germans built a dam in the valley of the river to form a reservoir, which enabled them to start farming in the desert valley.

The sandy land here is nourished by fresh water, coupled with sandy soil rich in organic matter brought from the inland.

Therefore, the land here is naturally fertile and can grow wheat, corn, and even cash crops.

Because of the "Benguela" cold current, the temperature here is cool all year round, making it the best seaside resort town in the country.

Shi Jintang decided to develop here. In addition to the superior geographical conditions here, the most important thing is that with a little transformation, agriculture can be vigorously developed here.

Walvis Bay is a natural deep-water port. Just let it play its role as a natural port.
  Separating the function of immigration transfer also has another purpose, which is to separate immigrants from the various groups of people who have recently flocked to gold mining.

Most of the gold diggers are not good people, but the immigrants are mostly good people, so they should not be allowed to mix.

Today's seaside town is still in its infancy, and the construction of river dams is very slow.

One is because the black natives are stupid and lazy, and they dare to be lazy just by looking at them. The other is that the building materials cannot keep up.

Building river dams requires cement and steel, which need to be imported from outside.

The dry season in Southwest Africa is from April to October every year. It is already the end of August, and he is inevitably a little impatient.

Fortunately, Cecil Rhodes was reliable and well-connected.

It helped Shi Jintang contact the Portland cement in short supply from the UK, which was a big help.

Most of the black slaves who built the dam were Herrero people. They were captured by Qusanggan's slave-catching team and sent here.

These black slaves had too much to eat and not much to do, and the progress of the project was far behind.

Shi Jintang had to call the white official who oversaw the work to Walvis Bay Port and reprimanded him severely.

Two days after reprimanding the white officials, he felt worried and took Trudeau to the dam site for inspection.

I found that the black people at the scene were still lazy and numb, and their efficiency was still not improving.

He was so angry that he immediately ordered Trudeau to take over the supervision work here.

The white officials were ordered to study nearby.

The American Trudeau is very talented at supervising work and is also very good at punishing niggas.

He first called all the black slaves together, then pointed at the three strongest black slaves among them and said: "These three niggas have a lazy and lazy work attitude.

In order to warn you and increase your memory, today I must let you know what will happen if you don't work hard. "

As soon as he finished speaking, the guards brutally grabbed the three black slaves and tied them to the log pillars.

Then Trudeau and two other white guards began their punishment show with whips.

"Crack!"

"Ah~~~"

"Crack!"

"Ah~~~~"

……

A crack of a whip and a burst of screams became the only melody of this small seaside town. The black slaves around were so silent that they did not dare to make any sound.

Hundreds of black slaves watched helplessly as three white men beat three black slaves to death!

The progress of the subsequent project progressed very quickly, and the black slaves felt a chill to their bones in the vicious eyes of the white overseers.

If they don't want to die and find peace after death, they have no choice but to work hard.

Otherwise, their bodies will be thrown into the sea and become food for sea fish, just like their compatriots who died before.

This is a great fear for black slaves. They believe in returning to the territory of their ancestors after death, otherwise their souls will not be able to rest in peace. Shi Jintang was very satisfied with Trudeau’s work and offered to give him a salary increase, doubling his annual salary.

This made the middle-aged white man very happy and shouted "wonderful!" to Shi Jintang.

……

In mid-September, the dam was finally completed.

When the rainy season arrives, a reservoir covering hundreds of acres will be formed here.

By then, it will not only be able to supply drinking water to the urban population, but also open up nearly 10,000 acres of fertile land.

During next year's dry season, a second dam will need to be built on the river to expand the surrounding cultivated land area.

In the original time and space, the Germans built two dams, which provided a prosperous life for tens of thousands of people here.

In addition, port trade can also be carried out here, but the conditions are not as good as Walvis Bay Port, but it is enough to meet the town's maritime supply needs.

After the dam is completed, urban construction work in the settlement will begin, and manpower will be transferred from Walvis Bay Port to station in the new settlement one after another.

Shi Jintang named the new settlement Anhai Town. The outer sea is rough, but the bay here is quiet and peaceful.

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In the blink of an eye, it was October, and the dry season was about to end. The belated passenger ship transporting the second batch of immigrants from the British finally arrived.

After Shi Jintang received the news, he immediately set off for Cape Town. When he arrived in Cape Town, he counted the immigrants on this trip.

Most of the immigrants transported this time were adults, with fewer children.

Among them, there are 194 adult men, 97 adult women, 14 boys and 35 girls.

The reason why the number of people transported this time was so small was mainly because the British passenger ship encountered a pirate attack in the South China Sea, and dozens of immigrants died in the pirate attack.

The passenger ship was also damaged and flooded, and the British businessmen had no choice but to suspend sailing and go to the port in the Philippines for repairs.

It took nearly a month. During the maintenance of the passenger ship, more than ten immigrants died of illness on the ship.

The British businessman felt very distressed after this trip, but what made the British businessman more gratified was that the ones who died most were young children.

In a bar in Cape Town, Shi Jintang met with British businessman William Sfield.

While the two were drinking, the British businessman expressed his bitterness, saying that this business was too hard and that if something went wrong, he would lose everything. It was far less comfortable than Shi Jintang, a colonial manager.

Hearing Shi Jintang rolling his eyes, I worked hard to get less than a thousand people. These people have to worry about everything by themselves. Who is tired?
  However, these are inevitable hardships. The foundation of Southwest Africa is weak. When this territory is on the right track that day, he will be relieved.

However, this meeting was also fruitful. British businessman William told him: Although the northern part of the Qing Dynasty has been severely affected by famine in the past two years, it is still in the inland area. It is too far from the port and it is not easy to collect the population. It must be gathered slowly, not to mention young children. said.

Shi Jintang thought about it and it was true that except for the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" and the "Nian Rebellion", there were no other wars in the coastal areas of the Qing Dynasty.

After that, Empress Dowager Cixi declared war on 11 countries, which caused a huge fuss. The capital was captured by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, and the "Boxer Rebellion" shocked China and foreign countries.

After that, a large number of "Boxer Bandits" were sold by the Qing government to work as coolies in America, just like the remnants of the "Taiping Rebellion".

With the help of the Qing government, it will be a good time to transport immigrants!
  So, he gave the Englishman William a tip and asked him to go to North Korea to find out.

During the period from 1860 to 1870 in Korea, natural disasters continued, and people continued to migrate to the Heilongjiang Basin in order to survive.

Later, Japan invaded and occupied North Korea, and hundreds of thousands of Koreans fled into the northeastern region of China, so that when New China was founded, there was an additional Korean ethnic group.

After hearing this, the Englishman William nodded and said that he would try it.

Shi Jintang immediately made it clear to the British that he only wanted women and children from North Korea, not adult men.

The British were puzzled, but finally accepted Shi Jintang's request, who made Shi Jintang his financial backer.

After settling the account with the British, Shi Jintang waited in Cape Town for more than ten days.

Not for anything else, but for the blind dates with his Chinese guards who had rented cultivated land.

He is not going to take the 97 women brought back to Anhai Town this time. He plans to let the bachelors in Rand Basin digest them.

With land and a wife, they will truly take root in the Rand Basin, and they will be able to better obey his orders in the future.

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