Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1978 Trivia in South Africa ([-])

"Destroy all these documents, and don't keep a single copy! Remember, whoever keeps the bottom will be tried in a military court. I'm not kidding! Execute it!" March 1687, 3, somewhere on the east coast of South Africa In the barracks, Yang Liang, the commander of the South African Garrison and head of the temporary first regiment, pointed to a stack of documents and said.

These documents include combat plans, orders, and some warrants written during the battle. They are basically drafted by the staff officers. The original drafts are in their hands, and the others are distributed to the front-line companies.What Yang Liang meant was that everything should be collected and destroyed in a unified way so as to avoid future troubles.

Some people may wonder, what shameful thing did Marshal Yang do, so that even the combat warrants and records have to be destroyed, is it necessary?Could it be that he wanted to rebel?

Well, talking about rebellion is a joke. In fact, what Yang Liang wants to destroy is their previous battle records of conquering the natives.These natives are Bantu blacks living on the east coast of South Africa. Most of them are Zulu-speaking among the Xhosa ethnic group. They don’t have any decent organization and low level of civilization. In addition, they have no contact with outside businessmen—— What a joke, I don’t want to get involved in South Africa’s indigenous trade under the repeated orders of the people on the east coast. Because of this, the weapons and equipment are also very poor, so I was beaten in many battles with the temporary first regiment of the East Coast Army. miserable.Yes, they are brave and desperate, but how can flesh and blood defeat the steel storm?When the cannons of the East Coast people fired, they were doomed to fail!

Some of these defeated native tribes became captives of the people on the east coast, and were captured and taken to the Yiyang Bay area to do infrastructure work for bridge and road construction.Yes, because of various reasons, they were naturally "processed", and now this part of the combat records needs to be destroyed, so as not to leave any trouble in the future.

For example, the record that Yang Liang ordered to be destroyed now is the battle that just ended yesterday.In Liangu Township, a newly established settlement near the later city of Ulundi, they defeated a migrating native tribe in the wild, and used the food, cattle and sheep they carried as military supplies.According to the usual practice, these people should have been escorted to the rear to be taken care of and used as coolies after being "tamed".Helplessly, the Yiyang Bay area had a bad harvest last year. Although the Hezhong area supported a batch of wheat and Xinhua Island sent a batch of corn, this was only enough to maintain the needs of the local soldiers and civilians and the existing slaves. It must also be kept as a reserve grain, and it must not be moved lightly.

Therefore, after much consideration, Marshal Yang ordered that all the more than 2000 black people be "disposed of".As for what "handling" means, well, anyway, what is written in the order book is "handling", so don't go into details.Anyway, the brothers in the first regiment will take care of the beginning and the end, and the relevant written records must not exist, and other traces must be buried deeply, so as not to be dug out in the future to make people shocking people.

In short, what they did was actually in line with the country's major policies.You know, the theory of the yellow-black dividing line was not proposed by them, Qiuba. Don't look at them who have been fighting and killing on weekdays. It seems very vicious, but the ones who really put forward this theory of racial segregation are those who sit in the office. white shirts.They stroked lightly on the paper, creating an artificial dividing line, and I don't know how many bloody storms it caused.The fate of this large group of Bantu blacks was knocked down in a straight line in front of this ruthless dividing line and fell into the abyss.Now, with the destruction of various records and documents, the last trace of their existence (the branch that went south) is likely to be erased. No one mourns, no one pays tribute to them. The civilization is average and has been forgotten in the long river of history.

"In addition, send someone to notify Yiyang County (established at the beginning of this year, under the jurisdiction of Yiyang Town, Pingjing Township, Zhongshan Township and Qi'an Township, a total of four settlements, which is the 147th county-level administrative unit in the country) Officials of the Black Banners, let them not have to wait. The 1000 people who promised them will be selected from the slaves of the state-run farm. Let them finish the selection early and get out early. By the way, let them pay attention to the schedule and don’t wait for the pick-up The boats are coming and I'm still confused, I don't know what's going on." Yang Liang suddenly ordered again.

The staff officer understood what he meant, and this was aimed at the black Eight Banners Kralls who were waiting in Yiyang Port.Over the past few years, the Black Eight Banners have helped the people on the east coast to go to war, and sometimes even go to sea to fight. The young and middle-aged have suffered a lot, so they need to be supplemented continuously for a long time.In the past, when the South African garrison troops went out, they often handed over some captured tribes to the Black Eight Banners warriors who accompanied the army to supplement their manpower, and at the same time, they would not resent the cruel oppression of the East Coast people too much.

This time Marshal Yang led the main force of the South African garrison troops to fight in Yiyang Bay. As usual, the Black Eight Banners also sent [-] elite warriors to accompany the army, which played a significant role in the battle against the black indigenous tribes.Now this group of Black Eight Banners warriors has been divided into several groups, some continue to mop up the remnants of the enemy around, some are transferring food and grass, and some have returned to Yiyang Port to rest.What Yang Liang meant was to tell these officials of the Black Banners not to think too much. They didn't get too much money from this expedition, and told them not to dream of capturing many slaves to strengthen their own strength. Those who performed well at work will leave (it is also a reward for these people, and set an example for the rest of the black people), which is regarded as the severance pay for this expedition.

When it comes to the political and military power of the Black Eight Banners in South Africa, one cannot fail to mention the Free State Kingdom located on both sides of the Mo River in North America.The foundation of this black country established by the core dignitaries of the Black Banners is the more than [-] Black Banners tribesmen who are still in South Africa.For many years, because of the trade franchise, the Caribbean Shipping Company, a well-known colonial trading company on the east coast, has been carrying out the important task of transporting the tribesmen of the Black Eight Banners to North America.However, due to cost and many other reasons, this company has been very reluctant. There are not many Black Banner tribesmen transported to North America every year. Sometimes when the government is watching closely, they may arrange more ships to transport them, but most of the time To be honest, it's very slack.

In the past decade or so, the enthusiasm of Air Canada to transport people has increased slightly, because the government has begun to give them head subsidies, that is, a reward of several yuan for each person who lands.Although the subsidy is not much, it is not free after all, and they have been approved to set up many more commercial organizations in the Hezhong area, so the speed of transporting people has been accelerated.

In recent years, with the prevalence of the theory of the yellow-black dividing line, many new political stars in the new generation in the East Coast have stated publicly or privately that it is necessary to relocate the Eight Banners of South Africa to other places in order to provide a better foundation for the East Coast. Free up more living space in the country.In particular, they pointed out that even in Hezhong County and Cape County, which are rich counties in South Africa, there are a large number of villages inhabited by the Black Banners. Sending troops to help the people on the east coast conquer the rebels, and then reaping considerable wages or spoils of war, life is very nourishing.Moreover, their social system is extremely closed, the headman controls everything, and the lower class people are barbaric and ignorant. It is a country within a country, so it is best to move them to other places as a whole to avoid future troubles.

This kind of argument, to be honest, is a bit unfair to those Black Eight Banners tribes who have fought for the interests of the East Coast Republic for many years.But so what?Except for a few "Holy Mothers" who feel guilty about this, most people don't care about the thoughts of the Black Banners tribe at all. San, Swazi, Swahili, Zulu, Tongan, Comoros all have mixed ingredients) where to go.Such a large quantity can never be transported by Air Canada alone—this large syndicate company has transported tens of thousands of blacks to the North American continent over the years, but the number of black flags in South Africa has still slightly increased , and it is still the number when they are fighting all the year round and constantly depleting the population-so a more appropriate disposal plan is needed.

The current general plan is a multi-pronged approach.That is: [-]. The Caribbean Shipping Company continues to transport the Black Eight Banners to the Mohe area in North America (try to use families and tribes as units), and at the same time support them to explore further upstream and expand their territories to accommodate more people; [-]. Transport a batch of black flags The Eight Banners went to the northern part of the Swahili coast in East Africa. There were mostly princes who believed in the Green religion (there were also some who believed in Catholicism, but not many). After sending these black Eight Banners tribesmen who believed in Tianzun, they supported them to occupy a piece of land locally. , starting from a city-state, slowly developing, and eventually becoming the local agent of the East Coast people, and by the way, also cultivating a Chinese-speaking country on the Swahili coast, which is also very important; the third is to closely echo The idea of ​​the yellow-black dividing line moved some of the black and eight-banner tribesmen to the originally demarcated boundary line, and established a country for them as the first line of defense against blacks going south.

This last solution is more complicated to be honest, and it is also much more difficult to operate.Because according to the plan formulated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the members of the Executive Committee, these people are to be sent to Zambia in later generations to establish an independent country.But the problem is that the people on the east coast don’t even control all of South Africa, especially the northern part of South Africa, where the environment is harsh and sparsely populated. The people on the east coast are still in the process of trying to build small settlements. No matter what, they couldn't support their water consumption on the way.

In recent years, people from the East Bank have generally not invested heavily in the expansion of the Juzi River Basin.By the end of 1686, they established three settlements along the river, near the town of Pella on the south bank of the Orange River in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, near the town of Kakamas, and near the border city of Upington in Namibia. The names are Dacaotan Township, Dongzhai Township and Wuyang Township.The number of people in the three settlements is very pitiful, some even have only a few hundred people, and they can barely support themselves until now. Killed them.If more than [-] black and eight banner tribesmen go north along here, I am afraid that it will not be enough to eat them all.

Therefore, if we want to get the more than [-] black flags to the north, we have to think of a way.People, definitely can't go all at once, so the already very fragile logistics supply system along the way will collapse in an instant, and everyone will finish playing together, so they will score several batches.In addition, there must not be only one route. It is best to divide it into three branches: the left, the middle and the right. The relatively humid Zambian plateau eventually settled down and became a barrier for people on the east coast.

In short, this is a huge and complicated project, the cost will definitely not be low, and it is very likely to arouse the resistance of the Black Banners, so it is necessary to make multiple preparations in advance, and then proceed step by step, not in a hurry In short, it must be completed without any future troubles. It doesn't matter if it takes 20 years for this. Anyway, there are no competitors or serious opposition forces nearby.

And once these Black Eight Banners tribes move to the Zambian plateau, with their level of civilization—although they were forcibly transplanted to them by people from the east coast, they are already enough to look down on their surroundings—the level of equipment and system advantages, they should be able to compete with people on the east coast. Under the control of all the surrounding indigenous people.Even, under the command of the officers and advisers on the east bank, they can support the occupation of the southeastern Zimbabwe plateau by the people on the east bank, which is quite important.

Yang Liang once made an assessment of them, and believed that if more than [-] Black Eight Banners carried the existing weapons and equipment, agricultural tools, seeds, livestock and war horses to the north, then they would be enough to control the land with a radius of several hundred kilometers. It is the size of a medium-sized country, enough to become the most powerful barrier of the yellow-black dividing line (the other barrier is the vast, arid and barren Kalahari Desert), allowing people on the east coast to calmly carry out various constructions in southern Africa .

People from the east coast will never give up places like southern Africa to others!South Africa has a huge amount of high-quality coal and countless gold; Zimbabwe, known as the "bread basket of Africa" ​​in later generations, produces food and tobacco; the land in southern Mozambique is also very fertile, with flocks of cattle and sheep, and fishery resources in the offshore.The most important thing is that the number of blacks in the above-mentioned areas is very small, which is very conducive to the people on the east coast to clean up and make room for the people of the country.

In this grand race of ethnic migration, although the people on the east coast lagged behind the Bantu blacks by more than five centuries——Bantu blacks were also outsiders from southern Africa, and they had been wandering all the way in the tenth century. Into south-central Mozambique - but they were more productive, organized, and planned, so it was not impossible to drive blacks out of southern Africa, which was not yet overpopulated.This is a competition between different races and nationalities to compete for living space. As a senior military officer of the East Coast Republic of China, Lieutenant Colonel Yang Liang naturally understands it, so he will definitely not discount it when implementing various policies. The disposal of indigenous forces leading to gold and coal mining areas is the result of this guiding ideology.

(End of this chapter)