Black Loyalty led his slaves, escorted Ivanov and his party, and marched slowly southwest.
After three days, the team came to the corner of a river.
The historical name of this river is the Carmel River, the Oak River downstream, and the Shari River further downstream. The Shari River will eventually merge into Lake Chad.
Ivanov felt annoyed when he saw the river and the empty fields on both sides of the river's corner.
If immigrants had been allowed to go up the river and settle here last year or during the rainy season, the land west of here would belong to Lucia from now on.
But now I have to continue walking downstream.
Black Loyalty's team went down the river, and after eight days of walking, they came to a place where the river bifurcated.
The main river channel originally ran in the northeast-southwest direction, but here it branched off into a branch that turned south.
This year's rainy season has just passed, and the fork is surrounded by swampy mudflats.
In the southeastern area of Chakou Swamp, there are a dozen simple houses scattered on a relatively flat highland.
There are a dozen Taixi people outside the house, driving more than a hundred Mexican slaves to cultivate farmland on the edge of the swamp.
They found a large number of Mo people approaching and immediately became nervous.
The Tessie immediately picked up his rifle.
And commanded his Ink slaves to pick up crude weapons and stand in front of him.
Ivanov reported to Black Loyalty with complicated emotions:
"This is our residential area, and the current tentative name is Hetan Town."
In the original history, there was a small town called Melai.
It is already more than 380 kilometers away from the 91st longitude line drawn by Zhu Jingyuan.
Hei Zhongcheng looked at the situation by the river with a telescope:
"With such a small population, we can just move this settlement away just like we captured and relocated you..."
Ivanov almost collapsed:
"You can't do this! They have already settled here. If you seize settlements, it is no different from war!"
Hei Zhongcheng chuckled and said:
"Yeah, we can't do that.
"But it would be better for you people to move to the west of the tributaries and swamps.
"In this way, our two sides will build on the east and west sides of this tributary respectively, without affecting each other and not easily causing conflicts."
Ivanov breathed a sigh of relief, and then immediately asked:
"You mean, we use this river as our border?"
At the forks of this river's tributaries, the general direction of these mud swamps is basically towards due south.
But after traveling more than 20 kilometers along the tributary, the river will turn to the southeast.
The black loyalist in front of him should not know these situations.
If the river channel of this tributary is used as the boundary, the further south, the more land belongs to Lucia.
If such conditions can be obtained, it would be okay to give the simple houses and land on the west bank of the existing tributaries to the Ming Dynasty.
Hei Zhongcheng shook his head directly:
“No, we have not observed conditions in other areas of the river and cannot make decisions about other areas.
“So the temporary dividing point between our two sides is limited to the bifurcation of the tributaries of the river that we see.
“The west of the bifurcation is for you to explore and develop, and the east of the bifurcation is for us to explore and develop.
"This is just a temporary boundary to explore. The real boundary must be discussed by the adults in Ming Dynasty and Lucia's court."
Ivanov felt a little regretful when he saw that Heizhongzhong was not fooled at all, and then began to discuss the issue of settlements:
“The houses here and the farmland here are now east of the fork, and these are all the results of our development and construction.
"We cannot give it to you unconditionally. If you ask for it, you should come up with conditions."
Black Loyalty said noncommittally:
“We did not directly seize your settlements, and allowing you to develop and build here is our condition.
"Now that you are free, go over and tell your companions to move to the other side of the swamp. We will be neighbors from now on."
Ivanov suddenly felt helpless again.
The people of Ming Dynasty were tough in negotiations, and the slaves of Ming Dynasty were just as tough.
But the promise of black loyalty does work.
The two sides finally settled on the temporary dividing line.
At least everything west of the branch of the river belongs to Lucia.
Lucia's land area in Mozhou is at least one million square kilometers.
And this is not a bad land like the Xianbei Wasteland, but the warmest and moistest savanna.
They can all be cultivated into the best farmland, which is already a very good result.
Human civilization countries are basically farming people, but in some places the farming conditions are not good, so they have to develop other side industries.
Then this side job might become a hit.
The Vikings were poor farmers who couldn't survive, and their highest goal when they went out to rob was actually to get a piece of good land.
The British people had poor farming conditions, so the Stuart dynasty implemented mercantilism.
Spain and Portugal also set up plantations in Yinzhou, and the United States has been a large farm since the Thirteenth Colonial Era.
In the serious history of later generations, the Thai people themselves did not know what "marine civilization" was.
When marine civilization is used seriously, it usually refers to extremely small island countries such as Tonga and Fiji.
The major civilized countries of later generations gradually developed industry and commerce based on the agricultural era.
Before the development of industry and commerce, and even after the development of industry and commerce, there was no civilized person who did not want to develop a piece of good land.
Lucia, Germany, and France on the western continent have better farming conditions and have stronger farming traditions.
Especially Lucia, they particularly like the land, especially the warm land.
The Mozhou colony that Zhu Jingyuan assigned to Lucia almost conforms to all their beautiful imaginations about land.
However, although Lucia likes the land, she does not regard it as life.
If we regard land as our destiny, we will not sell Alaska, nor will we cede land to Japan without paying compensation.
This shows that for Lucia, life is more important than money, and money is more important than land.
Lucia doesn't dare to conflict with Daming now, so it's natural for her to give up when things get better.
After Ivanov's exploration team regained their freedom, they quickly went to join their fellow tribesmen in the settlement of Hetan Town.
Ivanov explained the situation to the officials here. Although these Lucian immigrants were very angry, they finally accepted the conditions of black loyalty.
Abandon existing settlements east of the river and abandon the small amount of farmland developed around them.
Take your slaves and luggage with you, return to the west of the river, and find a suitable place to build and develop again.
There is no way, there are too many people on the other side.
Once the number of people exceeds 10,000, it becomes a sea of people with no end in sight.
No matter how bad this group of Mo people is in fighting, they can still crush a dozen Taixi and hundreds of slaves on their side.
Moreover, the other party had Daming's back, so if there was a conflict, he would probably die in vain.
Lucia retreated to the other side of the river very wisely, and Black Loyalty did not hesitate to arrange his team to settle down.
The nomadic activities that Black Loyalty mentioned were not an excuse, but they also had predetermined goals and plans.
The task given by the master of Ming Dynasty was to wander until he found the Taixi people on the opposite side.
After finding the Taixi people, they settled along the exploration border on both sides.
Nomadism is great for exploration, but it is not a long-term solution.
The history of human civilization should be that fishing and hunting first began, then farming developed, and finally nomadic life developed.
There was no fishing, hunting and farming life, and all kinds of domestic animals were domesticated, so there was no concept of animal husbandry.
Without animal husbandry, people would have no way to live dependent on livestock, and nomadism would be impossible.
The earliest true nomads were no earlier than 1,000 BC, probably formed during the Spring and Autumn Period.
Nomadic animals may seem barbaric, but they are actually the younger brother. Fishing and hunting are the older brothers.
Farming evolved from the accumulation of technologies from the fishing and hunting civilization, just like the industry and commerce that emerged after the farming civilization.
But nomads are the losers in the competition among agricultural civilization circles.
The true origin of nomadism is probably that the original farm was occupied by other ethnic groups, and they had to escape with the livestock they could take away.
Then they discovered that as long as I brought enough livestock, they could still live without stopping to farm.
However, as agricultural civilization continues to expand, the activity space of nomadic groups continues to shrink.
If they don't change their lifestyle and find a place to settle, they will eventually "leave" all the land and disappear.
Black Loyalty ended his temporary nomadic life and settled down on the west side of the fork of the river.
Spread out your slave army into a unit of one hundred people from each hundred households.
Starting from the river town built by the Lucians, explore and settle in the north and south directions.
Keep a kilometer distance between each unit, find a suitable location to build your own village, and reclaim land for farming.
There are more than a hundred residential areas spread out at once, and each residential area may not be smaller than the Hetan Town opposite.
The key is that a border wall with a length of more than 100 kilometers was directly formed.
Moreover, the Black Duke is not just Black Loyalty.
In the next half year, other black nobles will arrive one after another with slaves.
They will follow the same rules and continue to extend to the north and south sides of the "black wall" of black loyalty.
When six or seven Black Duke's slaves are spread out, they can form a "black wall" that is thousands of kilometers long.
It stretches from the tropical rainforest in the south to the desert in the north.
The entire prairie is divided by this black wall.
The highest-ranking Black Duke, the true elite of the Menu Legion, was barely able to complete this task.
After the slave groups led by other small-scale black nobles arrive, they will open up wasteland behind the black wall.
The Lucians could not see the changes in the future, but Black Loyalty's current operation had already shocked them.
They can also imagine that if there are more black nobles, they can divide the entire grassland into two.
From now on, it seems impossible for the Lucians to go around and open up wasteland.
Ivanov found it difficult to understand how the Ming Dynasty allowed these slaves to manage themselves and still managed them quite successfully.
Black Loyalty and Ivanov, while both sides were wary of each other, they did not forget more important things.
After both sides settled down, they immediately deployed manpower and reported the situation to the rear.
This is deep in the savanna, and much of it is still being explored.
There were no roads or railroads, no telegraph lines, not even accurate maps.
Both sides could only arrange for a small number of cavalry to go back and deliver the message.
Even behind the exploratory forces of both sides, other larger settlements may not have telegraph facilities.
The closest telegraph facility available to Lucia from Hetan Town is within the headquarters of the inland coalition forces in Lucia and Prussia.
The historical Lake Chad in Mexico is now named Lake Baltic by Lucia and Prussia.
The lake is now part of the colonial border between the two countries, and the headquarters is located to the southwest of the lake.
Lucia and the Prussian colonial authorities are working together to suppress the Fulani and Bornu kingdoms in this area.
The Bornu Empire is a classical kingdom in the west of Mozhou, which has existed here for thousands of years.
The Fulani are an important ethnic group in the Kingdom of Bornu. Their religious leader Osman Dan Fodio was once appointed as the prince's teacher by the old king of the Kingdom of Bornu.
However, the prince didn't like this teacher very much, and after he succeeded to the throne, he drove his teacher away.
Fodio gathered his followers, launched a holy war, captured the capital, and drove away the new king.
The king belonged to the Daratawa people, and after being driven out of the capital, he asked for help from the patriarch of his tribe, Ganiemi.
Ganiemi also gathered his tribesmen to conquer Fodio for the king.
According to the original history, the two sides would fight in 1808, that is, this year.
Ganiemi defeated Fodio and became a powerful minister who "held the emperor in power to command the princes".
Then thirty-eight years later, Ganiemi's son executed the king and established a new dynasty himself.
Ganiemi is the real Mozhou living Cao Cao.
In this world, when the Fulani and the Daratawa fight, Lucia and Prussia become fishermen.
Lucia and Prussia had been preparing for a long time in advance in order to completely control the inland plateau and completely destroy the Kingdom of Bornu.
A military logistics base was specially established here, and a telegraph line was laid from the coast to the lakeside headquarters.
Ensure smooth communication between the headquarters and St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Mexico.
The straight-line distance between this coalition headquarters next to the Baltic Lake and Hetan Town is more than 700 kilometers.
There are no well-established stations or roads on the way, only scattered residential areas, and there is no way to do the "Six Hundred Miles Express".
The cavalrymen who reported the news traveled lightly and simply, and changed horses for supplies at the settlements on the way. They ran for ten consecutive days before arriving.
As a result, when the cavalry team arrived at the headquarters, they found that the situation here was in chaos.
There were large numbers of Mo people everywhere inside and outside the military camp.
Of course, it was not that the coalition forces were defeated or that the headquarters was breached by the Mexicans, but that the coalition forces achieved a decisive victory.
The religious leaders and kings of both groups surrendered, and Lucia and Prussia completely conquered the land.
A small number of Mexican nobles accepted the canonization of the two countries and became low-level nobles of the two countries.
However, a large number of Mexican soldiers became prisoners and directly became slaves together with a large number of civilians.
With their hands tied and escorted by Prussian and Lucian soldiers, they left the land where they had lived for hundreds of years.
They would become slaves to Lucian and Prussian settlers, clearing land and building houses for them.
The cavalryman who reported the news ran among the crowd for a long time before finally finding an opportunity to send the news to the telegraph room of the headquarters.
If it hadn't specifically mentioned that Ming Dynasty was involved, this telegram might not have been sent out now.
The telegraph room is taking no time to send and receive messages from the combat commander and the rear.
(End of chapter)
