Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2518 March of Suffering ([-])

"It's been a while since I've been here, and Tiande City has changed a lot. It seems that it's doing well here." After Tang Chengzhi entered the city, Head Tang looked around and said with emotion.

"When there are more people, it will naturally develop. And, don't look at it as a new city, but we are not allowed to build indiscriminately. Everything is planned. It is clear what to build and what not to build. Chu. People from Dapeng Design Office have been squatting here for more than half a year.” Tang Chengzhi said: “Of course, it is also a design within the cost range. , it can’t be too exaggerated.”

Head Tang nodded after listening.He saw a building just now, and the stone used for the outer wall contained many totem statues worshiped by black people, perhaps the materials were obtained from a temple that was demolished.There was even an underground stone temple that was directly transformed into a material storage warehouse. It can be seen that Tiande City pays attention to saving costs. After all, their current economy is far from being self-sufficient.

"Plan it in advance! The early cities in China have already learned their lessons. There are too many people, and the urban area is passively expanding outwards in rounds, making it messy and messy. People don't like it." Director Tang said: "Actually, Xinhua Islands have the same problems, and they are even more serious. Colonial cities, lacking both people and money, started as a small settlement at the beginning. Fortunately, they have developed now and accumulated some capital, so in the newly captured When the Central Plateau was under construction, everything was planned in advance and developed in an orderly manner.

The construction of Da'an City, the capital, is a model.The design is from a well-known design institute, and the construction funds are not seriously in arrears, so the whole city is beautiful, combining the advantages of Chinese classical gardens, modern architecture on the east coast and tropical island style, which makes many newcomers fascinated by it admiration.

Other cities in the Central Plateau are also being planned.This highland has a vast area, a cool climate, and excellent agricultural conditions. In the future, it will be the colonial center of the people on the east coast, and it will definitely give a lot of resources.Although the coastal areas developed earlier, in the long run, the Central Plateau may not be able to catch up, especially when the extension of the Tadong Railway has penetrated deep into the plateau.Cool and livable are the biggest reasons.

"Is there any difficulty in the construction of Zimbabwe? Captain Wang asked me to ask, and if there is any difficulty, please bring it up. After all, we are separated by sea, and we should help each other." Head Tang asked again.

"Hehe, Old Tang, although I am happy to hear what you said, it is not inappropriate. We in Zimbabwe are still under the jurisdiction of Commissioner Zhu from Yicheng." Tang Chengzhi laughed and said.

"The Appeasement Administration has been established. Director Tang, why are you talking so much? The Zimbabwe plateau is vast, and it will definitely not be under the jurisdiction of the Yicheng area. The establishment of a separate administrative division in the future is a high probability event, especially in the black people. After clearing up." Head Tang said with a disapproving expression.

Speaking of which, the agency of the Appeasement Administration is somewhat different from the Military Administration that is often heard in the local area.The Military Administration is an institution that implements military law within its jurisdiction. The chief officer is an active soldier, and most other officials at all levels are active soldiers or reserve soldiers. They are usually located in new lands or places where the situation is relatively chaotic. Military means deter the enemy and maintain order.The agency of the Appeasement Administration is new and has never existed before. The Zimbabwe plateau is the first practice of this kind of agency.

This agency, like the Military Administration, exercises high-handed rule within its jurisdiction, but there are some differences.First of all, there is not a large number of troops here, and even the militia system is not well established. After all, there are few people, which is understandable.At the current stage, only the Yicheng area and the Hezhong area have sent two county security groups in turn to defend and eliminate the remaining blacks in the area—the local security groups. Although the army has been training and managing them, theoretically the county government also has jurisdiction. It is a typical dual management.

Secondly, a strict police and secret service agency has been established within the jurisdiction of the Appeasement Administration.The Ministry of the Interior sent a large number of policemen, commonly known as "armed policemen", to maintain the safety of the traffic lines.In various settlements, the construction of stationed police and patrol police systems is also very fast, and it can even be said to be a bit ahead of schedule, with a very large number of people, mainly used to maintain the safety of towns and important villages.

Third, the State Intelligence Agency is also heavily involved in local affairs.They have dispatched a crack team, from senior analysts to ordinary agents, each of whom has his own secret police team directly under him.Because of the particularity of their work, they can often take the lead in actions, so you can see that the great spy Tang Chengzhi was crowned as the director of the Zimbabwe Appeasement Agency.

It can be said that this appeasement office is completely a tool created by civilian officials to fight against the military management office of the military.They really don't want to see the rapid development of military power in the newly expanded land, and the placement of countless officials, so that it will be difficult to clean up in the future.Therefore, on the precious land of the Zimbabwe plateau, they firmly do not want to "make mistakes again", and must firmly grasp the dominance in their own hands, although it is difficult to say whether the effect of doing so is good or not.

The Zimbabwe Appeasement Agency is currently under the jurisdiction of the Yicheng District, but it should be noted that the administrative level of the two is actually the same, because the possibility of establishing an independent district in the future is extremely high.Tang, as the director of the Appeasement Administration, is very likely to be directly transferred to the regional administrative commissioner in the future.From this perspective, he is indeed qualified to make some proposals on the development of the region.

"Currently there are only a few towns in Zimbabwe, with a total population of no more than [-]. The economy has not made much progress, mainly in agriculture and animal husbandry." He said: "I am ashamed to say it. In this situation, we have not even done the most basic farming and animal husbandry. The agricultural conditions that can drill oil out of the soil are still relying on other places for food. It is ashamed."

"It's mainly the troubles in animal husbandry." Tang Chengzhi added: "According to the long-term investigation of the local Ministry of Health, the trypanosomes carried by the fly fly have caused great difficulties in animal husbandry production. Once the cattle are bitten, then It will soon lose weight and eventually die. The cattle and sheep we rushed here before were sent to the north after a little fattening for the use of those marching columns. They usually slaughter them mainly because of Cui Cui Fly is too powerful."

"Is there no way to prevent it?" Head Tang has also worked in this area for two years, so he knows something about it, but unfortunately, there is no good way until he leaves.

"There are some methods, but the effect is the same." Tang Chengzhi sighed, and said: "We found that the tsetse flies mainly live in the highlands of Zimbabwe. After they lay eggs, the larvae will soon turn into pupae, and then Immediately burrow into the wet and soft soil or sand. The method we adopt is to clear the bushes along the river, and at the same time prevent wild animals from entering the livestock area. Because we found that within about five kilometers from the breeding area of ​​​​the fly The range of them is their main activity area. In fact, this method can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, it can only alleviate the problem, but cannot completely eradicate the problem. Experts from the Ministry of Health believe that using a large amount of insecticides in the breeding and living areas of the fly fly Insecticides are the most effective way, but it is actually not easy because we don’t have any long-acting insecticides yet. This needs to be solved by the chemical sector, but I don’t think there will be any progress in the short term.”

In fact, colonizing Africa is such a pain.Zimbabwe is not bad, the soil texture is first-rate.Further north, the forest is dense, the climate is hot and humid, and all kinds of strange diseases or parasites emerge in endlessly, enough to make any colonist daunting.The local blacks have initially adapted to the local environment after living for generations, but the people on the east coast can't do it!They went, and the death rate would be unbearably high - the Courlands of the Congo River Basin will tell you about their bitter colonial history, I am really too hard!

Therefore, you may now understand why the people on the east coast have only colonized South Africa, the Zimbabwe Plateau, the Namib Desert, and Xinhua Island so far without any decent competitors. It is really too difficult!The farther north you go, the worse the land, the less friendly the environment, and the lower the income, it's really not worth it!

For those places, let the kingdoms of Malawi and Luangwa go tossing around.Anyway, it's not necessarily that it can't be developed, it's just a matter of killing more people and spending more money.East Coaster lives are precious and not worth investing in that kind of waste.

"The future of Zimbabwe still depends on the planting industry. We can't waste this good soil." Tang Chengzhi said in a certain tone: "At present, we need to solve our own food problems first, so at this stage we mainly use this The key point. You should have seen it when you came here. There are a large area of ​​farms developed around Tiande City. They are all land in the area of ​​the national reserve grain depot. In the future, large-scale mechanized operations will be implemented. There is no way, and there are few people. It will definitely bring great benefits to the local area.”

Head Tang nodded upon hearing this.A prominent feature of large mechanized farms is high production efficiency. If this model is vigorously promoted in the Zimbabwe plateau, the price of the food produced will be very competitive.In the future, if a dense railway network is built on this plateau, so that its products can be transported to the sea at a relatively low logistics cost, then almost all places such as Xinhuaxia Island, Yicheng, and Hezhong do not need to produce food, and can just import it directly. The quantity is large and cheap, how nice.

Africa's granary, that's the kind of place it's talking about!

(End of this chapter)