Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 227 South African trivia (2)

"Do not keep any of these documents! Remember, if anyone keeps them for trial, I'm not kidding! Execute them!" On March 2, 1687, in a military camp on the east coast of South Africa, Yang Liang, commander of the South African garrison and the commander of the temporary first regiment, pointed to a stack of documents and said.

These documents, including combat plans, orders and some warrants written during the battle, were basically drafted by the staff. The original manuscripts were in their hands, and the others were distributed to the front-line companies. Yang Liang's meaning was that everything should be collected and destroyed in a unified manner to prevent future troubles.

Some people may wonder what shameful things did Marshal Yang do, so that even the combat warrants and records must be destroyed. Is it necessary? Could it be that he wants to rebel?

Well, it is a joke to say that treason is a joke. In fact, what Yang Liang wants to destroy is their previous battle record of the natives. This group of natives are Bantu blacks living on the eastern coast of South Africa. Most of them speak Zulu among the Xhosa people. They have no decent organizational structure and low civilization level. In addition, they have no contact with outside merchants to make any jokes. After repeated orders from the East Coast people, they don’t want to mess up, so their weapons and equipment are also very poor, so they were beaten miserably in many battles with the First Regiment of the East Coast Army. Yes, they are very brave and will fight to the death, but how can their flesh and blood fight against the steel storm? When the East Coast people’s cannons fired, they are doomed to failure!

Some of these defeated native tribes became prisoners of the East Coast people and were captured in the Yiyang Bay area to engage in infrastructure construction for bridges and roads. Some, for various reasons, were naturally "treated". What is to be destroyed now is this part of the battle record, so as not to leave any trouble in the future.

For example, the record that Yang Liang ordered the destruction now is the battle that just ended yesterday. They defeated a migrant native tribe in the wild near the later Ulundi City, and used the food and cattle and sheep they carried as military supplies. According to convention, these people should have been escorted to the rear to guard and waited for "tamed" and used them as coolies. Unfortunately, the grain harvest in Yiyang Bay area last year was a big failure last year. Although the Hezhong area supported a batch of wheat and sent a batch of corn from New China Island, this was only enough to maintain the life of local military and civilians and existing slaves. The extra ones must be stored as reserve grain and should not be moved lightly.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Yang Dashang ordered that all the more than 2,000 black people be "handled". As for what "handled" means, well, the order book is "handled", so don't dig into the details. Anyway, the brothers in the first regiment will handle the beginning and end well, and the relevant text records must not exist, and other traces must also be buried deep to avoid being dug up in the future and being horrible.

In short, they actually did this in line with the country's major policies and guidelines. You should know that the Yellow-Black Dividing Line Theory was not proposed by them, Qiu Ba. Although they always fought and killed on weekdays, it seems very ferocious, but the white shirts in the office who really proposed this theory of apartheid were indeed drawn on paper, creating a man-made dividing line, and I don't know how many bloody storms it caused. The fate of the large group of Bantu blacks was knocked down straight 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) in the world is likely to be erased, no one sad or pay tribute, just like countless civilizations that disappeared in history, forgotten in the long river of history.

"In addition, we sent people to inform the officials of the Black Eight Banners of Yiyang County (established at the beginning of this year, with Yiyang Town, Pingjing Township, Zhongshan Township and Qi'an Township, a total of four settlements, which are the 147th county-level administrative unit in the country) so that they would not have to wait. We promised that their 1,000 people would choose from the slaves of the state-owned farm, so that they would choose early and get out early. By the way, let them pay attention to the schedule and not wait until the ship that picked up people came and was still confused and didn't know what was the matter." Yang Liangtu ordered again.

The staff officer understood what he meant, which was directed to the several Black Eight Banners Klars who were waiting in Yiyang Port. In recent years, the Black Eight Banners helped the East Coast people to fight in the east and sometimes even went to sea to fight. The young and middle-aged people suffered great losses, so they needed to replenish them for a long time. In the past, when the South African garrison troops went on a warrior, they would often hand over some captured tribes to the Black Eight Banners warriors who accompanied the army to replenish their manpower, and at the same time they would not resent the cruel exploitation of the East Coast people.

This time, Yang Dashui led the main force of the South African garrison army to fight in the Yiyang Bay area. As usual, the Black Eight Banners also sent a thousand elite warriors to accompany the army, playing a significant role in the fight against the black indigenous tribes. Now this group of Black Eight Banners warriors have been divided into several stocks, some continue to sweep away the remaining enemies around, some are transporting food and grass, and some return to Yiyang Port for rest. Yang Liang's meaning is to let these Black Eight Banner officials not think too much. They did not get much oil and water when going out of the expedition, so they should not dream of catching many slaves to strengthen their own strength. They should quickly pick a group of people who have good work performance from the state-owned farm and leave (at the same time, it is also a reward for these people and a demonstration effect for the other black people). Even if the severance payment for this expedition is.

When it comes to the political and military forces of the Black Eight Banners in South Africa, we must mention the Free State Kingdom located on both sides of the Mo River in North America. This black country, established by the core powerful class of the Black Eight Banners, has its foundations for more than 100,000 Black Eight Banners tribes who are still in South Africa. For many years, due to trade concessions, the Caribbean Shipping Company, a famous colonial trading company in the East Coast, has been carrying the important task of transporting Black Eight Banners tribes to North America. However, due to many other reasons such as fees, this company has always been reluctant. There are not many Black Eight Banners tribes transported to North America every year. Sometimes when the government keeps a close eye on it, it may arrange for more ships to transport, but most of the time it is very slack to be honest.

In the past decade, Air Canada's carriers' enthusiasm has increased slightly because the government has begun to give them capita subsidies, that is, one person on the shore will give them a reward of several yuan. Although the subsidies are not much, they are not in vain after all, and they have also approved them to set up many more commercial institutions in the Hezhong area, so the speed of transporters has accelerated.

In recent years, with the prevalence of the Yellow-Black Dividing Line Theory, many political stars in the new generation of the East Coast have stated in public or non-public situations that it is necessary to move the Eight Banners of South Africa to other places as a whole in order to make more living space for the East Coast. They particularly pointed out that even Hezhong County and Cape County, such as South Africa’s rich counties, have a large number of Black Eight Banners living in the local area. They are peaceful and grazing, or come to help the people of the East Coast to build houses and roads, or send troops to help the people of the East Coast to conquer, and then get a considerable salary or spoils, and live a very comfortable life. Moreover, their social system is extremely closed, and the people of the lower class control everything, and the people of the lower class are barbaric and ignorant, and they are a country in the country. Therefore, it is best to move them as a whole to eliminate future troubles forever.

To be honest, this argument is somewhat unfair to those Black Eight Banner tribes who have been fighting for the interests of the East Coast Republic for many years. But so what? Except for a few "Holy Mother" who feel guilty about this, most people don't care about the idea of ​​the Black Eight Banner tribe. They are more considering how to transport the number of black people up to 170,000 to 180,000 (Xoxa, Koisan, Swasi, Swasili, Zulu, Tongan, Comoros, and so on). With such a large number, Air Canada alone is a large syndicate company that can never be transported to the North American continent for many years, but the number of Black Eight Banners in South Africa has increased slightly, and the number of them in the case of wars and continuous loss of population is needed.

At present, the general plan is a multi-pronged approach. That is,: First, Caribbean shipping companies continue to transport the Black Eight Banners to the Mohe area in North America (try to use families and tribes as much as possible), and at the same time support them to further explore the upstream areas and expand their territory to accommodate more people; Second, transport a group of Black Eight Banners to the northern coast of Swasili, East Africa, where most of them believe in the Green Cult (some believe in Catholicism, but not many), and use this group of Black Eight Banners tribes who believe in the Heavenly Lord to the northern part of the Swasili coast.

After the people sent it over, they supported them to occupy a piece of land in the local area, started from a city-state, developed slowly, and eventually became the agents of the East Coast people in the local area, and also cultivated a Chinese-speaking country on the Swasili coast. This is also very important. Third, it is to closely echo the idea of ​​the Yellow-Black Dividing Line, and moved some of the Black Eight Banner tribes to the originally designated territory dividing line, and established a country for them as the first line of defense to resist the black people's southward movement.

To be honest, this last plan is quite complicated and has many difficulties in operation. Because according to the plan formulated by the Joint General Staff Headquarters for the Executive Committee, these people were sent to the Zambia area in later generations to establish an independent country. But the problem is that the people on the East Coast have not even fully controlled South Africa, especially in the northern part of South Africa, where the environment is harsh and sparsely populated. The people on the East Coast are still trying to establish small settlements. If a large group of Black Eight Banners head north, they will not be able to support their water consumption along the way.

In recent years, the expansion of the Orange River Basin by the East Coast has not been large in general. By the end of 1686, they had established three river settlements near the Pera town on the south bank of the Orange River in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, near the Kakamas town in later generations, and near the Namibian border city of Apington, named Dacaotan Township, Dongzhai Township and Wuyang Township. The number of people in the three settlements was very pitiful, some even only had a few hundred people, and they could only barely support themselves until now. At most, they were given some water and horse supplies to the East Coast cavalry passing through this place, which would have cost them their lives. If more than 100,000 Black Eight Banners tribes traveled north along here, they would probably not have eaten up enough.

Therefore, if you want to get the more than 100,000 Black Eight Banners to the north, you have to think of another way. People must not go all at once, so the logistics supply system, which is already very fragile along the way, will collapse instantly. After everyone plays together, they will score several batches of points. In addition, there must be no one route, it is best to divide it into three left, middle and right branches, go hand in hand, and go north together. Only in this way can you pass through the sparsely populated areas in northern South Africa and the more cruel, vast, thousands of miles of Kalahari Desert, enter the relatively humid Zambian Plateau, and eventually settle down and become a barrier for people on the east coast.

In short, this is a huge and complex project, and it will definitely cost less, and it is very likely to arouse resistance from the Black Eight Banners tribes. Therefore, it is necessary to make multiple preparations in advance, and then proceed step by step, and do not rush to complete it in a short time. In short, it must be done without any trouble. For this reason, it doesn't matter even if it takes twenty years. Anyway, there are no competitors or opposition forces nearby.

Once these Black Eight Banner tribes moved to the Zambian Plateau, although their civilization level was forcibly transplanted to them by the East Coast people, they were enough to respect the surrounding equipment level and institutional advantages. They should be able to beat all the surrounding indigenous people under the control of the East Coast people. Even under the command of the East Coast officers and consultants, they can support the East Coast people to occupy the southeast Zimbabwe Plateau, which has a considerable effect.

Yang Liang once evaluated them, believing that if more than 50,000 Black Eight Banners carry existing weapons, equipment, seeds, livestock and war horses to the north, they would be enough to control the land within a radius of hundreds of kilometers. This is already the size of a medium country and is enough to become the most powerful barrier on the Yellow-Black Dividing Line (the other barrier is the vast, drought-barrier Kalahari Desert), allowing people on the east coast to calmly carry out various constructions in southern Africa.

In places like southern Africa, the East Coast people will never give it to others! South Africa has huge amounts of high-quality coal and countless gold; Zimbabwe later became known as the "Bread Basket of Africa" ​​to produce food and tobacco; the land in southern Mozambique is also very fertile, with cattle and sheep in herds, and there are fishing resources offshore. The most important thing is that the number of black people in the above areas is very sparse, which is very conducive to the cleaning of the East Coast people and freeing up space for their people.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next