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Jiang Yaohui and Ding Zhen wandered on the long street outside the walls of Hezhong Town. Along the way, they encountered some naval officers and soldiers wearing sky blue military uniforms and cylindrical military caps. Most of them were the "National Will" battleship and some auxiliary ships. At this moment, everyone had the opportunity to rest in South Africa, so they greeted happily as soon as they met.

After dealing with two fellow villagers from Luoqia County with a smile, Jiang Yaohui and Ding Zhen sat down in a snack shop, and then asked the owner to serve them the beef made of the famous South African scalpers - this is famous in the local area; in addition, there is a plate of salt peanuts, a plate of ostrich meat, and a plate of green onion ostrich eggs. Of course, I didn't forget to order the famous South African silver cod. Don't doubt the consumption capacity of these two people. Go out and ask. Who in South Africa doesn't know that the generals of the navy are the richest? The biggest move is the best?

This street with many shops built one after another is located outside the South African city wall and belongs to the standard antagonist building. Although the existence of this antagonist building is very unfavorable for military defense, considering that the main defense direction of Hezhong Port is in the west (the coastal defense fortress was built here) and in the south (there are defensive fortresses on the south bank of Henan and the dependent black tribe warning), if the enemy can attack below the city, it basically means that they have destroyed the main military power of the East Coast people in South Africa. It is no longer a big point to defend the Hezhong City. Therefore, Chang Kaisheng, who is now in charge of the power of South Africa, has acquiesced to the existence of the antagonist building.

The population of Hezhong Town has exceeded 10,000 (the urban population is more than 3,000). It is mainly distributed in the vast countryside on the north bank of the Berg River. Most of these people are bandits from Shandong, horse bandits, orphans of Shun Army, and prisoners of the Qing army. They are not born good people. In addition, the local harsh public security environment (need to fight against black people from the Kama tribe frequently), and the South African region is strong in people. The guns in the hands of militia will even be taken home at night. They usually call friends to hunt the heads of hostile black tribes for bounty.

In addition to Hezhong Town, there are more than 5,500 people in the Gundam Township to the east, and they are also mainly engaged in farming. At the same time, it is also the front line to resist black infiltration, and often has armed conflicts with black scattered soldiers. Today, the Kama tribe has gradually unified the entire Little Kalu and the western part of the Great Kalu Plateau, and its power is becoming more and more powerful. At the same time, by sending children of the ruling class to learn knowledge from the Dutch, the civilized attributes of the entire tribe have also undergone tremendous changes. At present, many people at the top of the tribe are already proud of speaking Dutch. They can grow crops, raise cattle and sheep in captivity, and make iron and bronze and pottery. Now they have learned more advanced technology from the Dutch. The productivity level of the entire tribe has been greatly improved, and the population and livestock are becoming increasingly prosperous. Even the musketeers have formed a team of more than 200 people.

Such strength is no longer something that people on the East Coast can insult, so the large-scale conflict between the two sides has gradually subsided in the past two years. Now only a few small-scale fights and grass-fighting operations are left, which is no longer painful from a strategic perspective.

Nearly three years ago, before Liu Ang, the former captain of the South African Development Team, left office, he built a settlement near the later Klan William Reservoir in the north, named Xiangbao. After three years of development, this settlement has now built towering city walls, beautiful villages and neat fields. Backed by the rich water sources in the Xianghe River Basin (two-thirds of South Africa are severely arid) and the unique local terrain and climate, more than 4,500 settlers from Xiangbao formed an industry characterized by wheat, grapes, and cattle raising. The place has now begun to try to make wine, intending to form its own advantageous industry, and then export it back to the local area to compete with Xiangshan Ganhong in Zhenhai County for the market.

A while ago, given that the population, economy and land in South Africa had a certain scale, the Executive Committee approved the approval of the Executive Committee and the Government Council officially approved the application for the establishment of Hezhong County. The Hezhong County Capitol is Hezhong Town, and it also has two township-level administrative units under its jurisdiction. The total population is more than 20,000, which is more than many local counties.

Among these 20,000 people, the proportion of Ming people was extremely high, reaching more than 55%, and the remaining were Persian, Balochi women (20%), Indians (15%), and some other ethnic groups. In fact, the number of Indians was originally very large - thanks to the local exile policy - but neither the Chaluans, Guarani, Crandi, and Tverches could adapt well to the environment of the Old Continent and died of illness in large quantities. In addition, these people also died in large numbers in the continuous bloodletting battle with blacks. Therefore, although there were continuous replenishment (local exiles came), their population proportion was still slowly declining, and it was likely to disappear into the racial fusion of South Africa.

The advantage of Hezhong County's population of more than 20,000 has completely suppressed the southern Dutch colonies. Although the Dutch have gradually realized the importance of South Africa in recent years and have tried every means to migrate a large number of Boers (peasants) from the country, with a population of nearly 2,000; coupled with the stimulus of trade with the Kama tribe, the Dutch have tried to "scam" more than 1,000 German immigrants with dreams of making money from the neighboring poor German areas; including the Dutch Batavian High Court constantly ruled to exile the Han people (Southeast Asian Han people) to the Cape of Good Hope, and the natives they captured from Madagascar themselves, the population of the entire Dutch Fort Colony has exceeded 6,000 (more than half of them were slaves).

This number is extremely stunning, because even decades later in history, there were only more than 2,000 white talents in South Africa - because the Dutch East India Company had never thought about developing it at first and had no competitors, they leisurely sent some company employees (rather than settlers, who had no land ownership) to come here to grow crops, grazing cattle and sheep, and replenish passing fleets.

This colonial policy was naturally unattractive to European immigration, so throughout the seventeenth century, there were more than 250,000 European immigrants who flocked to North America. However, few came to South Africa. But now it is different. Due to the rise of East Coast people in South Africa, the Dutch found that after careful research, they could not let this place be controlled by the East Coast family. Therefore, they slightly reduced their investment in the East Indies, and then used the money to recruit a large number of pioneers from the Old Continent and promised to give them land ownership, which quickly attracted a large number of poor farmers to come here.

Two thousand Low German-speaking Dutch people and more than a thousand German countrymen formed the white subjects in the Good Hope Fort area. After these Germans intermarried with the Dutch, their next generation would basically lose their cultural characteristics. These white people and their descendants in the Good Hope Fort colony would sooner or later form a new nation - the Afilica people.

The six thousand people were distributed in a vast area, and the northernmost area had arrived near Marmesbury, which began to border with the East Coast people - and this was the border line recognized by both sides. The Dutch logged and built houses, built forts, opened land and farmed, grazed cattle and sheep, salvaged fishing, and reached commercial and political alliances with the blacks (little targeted the East Coast people to share the huge pressure they faced), and this small life could still be achieved.

Moreover, it was said that with the continuous outbreak of civil turmoil in France, the Dutch began to immigrate from France to South Africa through their own channels. These French people brought advanced grape cultivation and winemaking technology. The Dutch themselves were the most advanced European agricultural technology, and the hardworking and hard-working German farmers. The population, arable land and economy of the entire Good Hope Fort Colony are on an upward trend. The huge initial investment made by the Dutch East India Company will sooner or later receive fruitful returns. This is beyond doubt.

However, perhaps because the above thought that southern Africa was not messy enough, just last month, several ships from the Principal of Kurland suddenly appeared in the Cabinda area north of the Congo River and landed in large quantities. The landing personnel included a small number of armed soldiers and more than 500 Kurland immigrants, who were carrying a full set of houses, livestock and seeds, and they looked like they were preparing to settle down and do a big fight.

In fact, when it comes to the arrival of these immigrant ships from the Baltic Principal of Kurland, the East Coast people themselves did it. After the failed colonization of the Principal of Kurland on Tobago, her ruler, Grand Duke Jacob, was not willing to give up. He was extremely eager for wealth and still wanted to obtain a new overseas colony, thinking that he and his country would bring new sources of wealth.

Zheng Yong, who was in charge of the Great Northern trade at that time, wrote a letter to Grand Duke Jacob, suggesting that he send someone to colonize Africa. At that time, Grand Duke Jacob did not reply, and Zheng Yong did not care, thinking that things had just passed. But now it seems that Grand Duke Jacob did listen carefully to Zheng Yong's suggestions and actually sent a ship to colonize Africa.

This time, the colonies still operated the tobacco leaf planting that the Grand Duke himself had never forgotten. After they landed in the Cabinda area, they did not take any aggressive attitude - it seemed that they had learned a lesson from being driven away by the Indians and the Dutch on Tobago Island - they gave gifts and traded with the locals, and got along quite happily. Next, they should have found a way to build a stronghold and settled here to plant tobacco leaves.

As for why they didn’t choose St. James Island in Hanoi, Gambia as a stronghold in history, ask me who should I ask? Maybe they think they have a good relationship with the East Coast and want to be closer to the East Coast people. So, they sent people to visit Hezhong Port a while ago, which roughly means watching over and helping each other.
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