Two to three thousand Dutch immigrants in Cape Town, South Africa, chose to go deep into the northern interior. The Chu people didn't care where they ended up, as long as they were not in Cape Town.
After all, the Chu Empire has no ordinary colonial plans in this place for the time being. Instead, it plans to plan it as an overseas territory directly under the jurisdiction from the beginning. In the future, the Chu people will set up an administrative agency here, and even the name has been chosen: South Africa Prefecture, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the African Governor's Yamen.
Since it is an overseas territory directly under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China, there will be a relatively large-scale immigration here in the future. After all, the areas around Cape Town are still relatively suitable for settlement.
The geographical environment and climate are very good. There are flat coastal plains, relatively abundant water resources, and a very good climate. It is a typical Mediterranean climate, and it is a type of Mediterranean climate suitable for the development of agriculture. This place is very suitable for development. agriculture.
Generally speaking, it is actually equivalent to the Jinshan Mansion (California) of the Great Chu Empire in North America.
The North American Jinshan Prefecture of the Great Chu Empire has the Golden Valley (Central Valley), and the South African Prefecture also has a coastal plain, which are very suitable for the development of agriculture and have great potential to become a granary.
When large-scale immigration and construction are carried out in a place, the food problem must be solved. The cost of shipping food by sea is not low these days.
When ships return from overseas territories, although they will also transport food back, they are basically used as ballast to return. The shipping company's transport ships have to return anyway, so they can bring some agricultural products back to earn some freight. , as much as possible to reduce the cost caused by empty load when returning.
If you really make a trip back to your home country just to transport food, the transportation cost of these agricultural products will be very expensive.
By the same token, the Chu Empire rarely transported food to an overseas territory. The transportation costs were too high and unbearable.
Therefore, in the development of overseas territories, the local food self-sufficiency rate is very important.
Only by being able to grow and produce a large amount of food on site can we meet the needs of local immigrants and have enough excess food to absorb more new immigrants. At the same time, it can also allow ships to bring some food as ballast when they return. freight, reducing overall shipping costs to and from the overseas territory.
Once we have food and a population, we can talk about other developments. For example, like Jinshan Prefecture in North America, we will start to grow a large amount of cash crops like cotton, or develop gold mines.
Then there will be enough consumer market and attract more capital investment.
Therefore, whether the many overseas territories of the contemporary Da Chu Empire can be developed depends first on whether there are arable land resources suitable for large-scale development.
If not, the basic development will not be very good.
The development of many places in North America is an obvious example. To be honest, the Chu Empire was the first to develop and invested a lot of resources in the early stage, not in Jinshan Prefecture, but in Xiayang Prefecture in the north. However, although the local climate It's okay, and farming can be done, but the agricultural conditions are still average for the huge North American region.
On the other hand, Jinshan Mansion has a large area of excellent arable land such as Jinshan Valley. Therefore, although it developed later and did not invest many resources in the early stage, its development speed is still far faster than that of Xiayang Mansion, and even faster than that of Xiayang Mansion. Luhe Mansion in the middle.
Now the governor of North America is preparing to change his residence again, and is preparing to go to Jinshan City.
There is no way. Jinshan Mansion has developed too fast in recent years. The population has reached hundreds of thousands, and there is still a large influx of people every year. It is estimated that in a few years, the population of this place will reach 500,000. .
This population figure is even larger than some remote prefectures in the country.
The reason why Jinshan Prefecture has developed so rapidly is that the development and development of gold mines is certainly the direct driving force, but without the support of the large amount of arable land and the grain produced in Jinshan Valley, this place would not have been able to develop so fast.
The current South African government is also very suitable for development because it has enough arable land on the coastal plain as support.
Of course, the main reason why the Dachu Empire decided to develop here was not simply because of the better agricultural conditions here. In fact, among the many overseas territories currently controlled by the Dachu Empire, there are also some that can be easily conquered. In overseas areas, many agricultural conditions are also very good.
But I haven’t seen Chu State spending a lot of manpower and force to develop it.
The high-level leaders of the Dachu Empire valued South Africa for the same reason as they valued Malacca and Ceylon. These places were important transportation routes.
The Chu people want to completely control these places!
That's why they carried out large-scale development in these places, adopted the model of directly administering overseas territories, organized large-scale immigration, and expelled the local indigenous people.
Similarly, this is also the reason why these Dutch immigrants are not allowed to stay.
The South African Prefecture is to be developed as an overseas territory directly under the jurisdiction of the State, and it is impossible for such a large number of foreign indigenous people to gather.
Both these Dutch immigrants and the local Africans in the surrounding areas will be targeted for expulsion.
In the South Africa of the Chu Empire, the indigenous people are not welcome!
The Dutch had no choice but to head all the way north towards the inland areas of South Africa. They also encountered many local Africans who were black and white. At this time, they were bullied by the Chu people and could not even keep their homes. The Dutch, however, turned into brutal European colonists.
Nearly a thousand of the thousands of Dutch immigrants were young and strong, holding matchlock guns, swords and spears purchased from the Chu people in their hands, and they successively wiped out three local indigenous tribal gathering places along the way, killing blood. They robbed the local indigenous people of their food and captured them as slaves.
Even some women and children among these Dutch immigrants participated in some logistical work with swords and spears.
After continuously advancing northward, the Dutch stopped at a place hundreds of kilometers away from the Chu people, but this was not actually their final destination.
This place is still too close to the Chu people, only two to three hundred kilometers away. Seriously, it won't take long for the Chu people to kill them.
After all, they don't think that the Chu people's big moves in South Africa will only be limited to the small port of Cape Town. These Chu people will definitely extend northward and eventually occupy the entire coastal plain.
Some of the wise and knowledgeable people among these Dutch immigrants had anticipated this.
It's not that they know much about the Chu people, but it was the same when they were colonized by the Dutch or other European countries.
First occupy a coastal stronghold, and then gradually move deeper inland.
In order to avoid encountering Chu people again just after settling in a place for a few years, these Dutch people decided to just stay away.
Stop now, just to take a rest and explore the surrounding situation before continuing north.
After all, it was the first time for these Dutch people to go deep into the interior of South Africa. They knew something about the two to three hundred kilometers around Cape Town, but they lacked understanding of places farther away.
They need to know the terrain, climate, hydrology and other conditions before they can decide the next migration direction.
Eventually, they would find a place suitable for farming and far away from the Chu people as a true new settlement.
However, the Dutch immigrants in Cape Town chose to take the initiative to move north. However, the local African indigenous people near Cape Town did not have this awareness.
They have never dealt with the Chu people, so they don't know how terrifying the Chu people are, let alone how ambitious they are.
The Chu people initially sent people to surrounding areas in an attempt to announce the empire's free land expropriation policy to these indigenous tribes. However, due to the language barrier and the fact that the local indigenous people were really unreasonable, the propaganda plan ended in complete failure.
Since they said they didn't understand, the people of Chu naturally had no choice but to use other methods!
The soldiers of the Third Regiment of the Indian Army, after five days of rest, also ushered in the first battle of this expedition to South Africa.
The soldiers of the third regiment divided into three groups and began to leave Cape Town and conducted a dragnet-style cleanup operation in the surrounding areas.
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Under the fierce fighting of Captain Haller and other soldiers of the Third Army, the Chu army quickly cleared away the indigenous tribes within a hundred kilometers of the surrounding area, and also captured tens of thousands of prisoners of war.
Before setting off this time, the generals of the expeditionary force told the commanders of the third regiment not to kill too hard, but to capture some prisoners of war and bring them back. Otherwise, Cape Town's city defense facilities and coastal defense facilities , as well as urban infrastructure such as port facilities, can only be done by your third group.
Hallel and other Indian servant soldiers were naturally unwilling to do such tiring and heavy physical work, so during this operation, although Hallel and other Indian soldiers still had a strong intention to kill.
But at least I held it back...
If all the young and strong men were killed and a sufficient number of young and strong prisoners of war could not be captured, the Chu generals at the top would blame them, and the native officers like Haleer would not be able to hold on.
With the addition of a large number of local indigenous prisoners of war, large-scale construction of Cape Town Port began.
Not only did large-scale construction begin in Cape Town, but in a harbor at the other end of the Cape of Good Hope, there were also hundreds of Chu people commanding a group of local indigenous prisoners of war to carry out construction.
And the South African Expeditionary Fleet has decided to dispatch a large number of personnel and materials to return here for construction.
This is a small port called Dongkai Port by the Chu people. There were no traces of outsiders here before. There was only a small local coastal village with a small number of local indigenous people living here.
Because when the South African Expedition Fleet arrived here, the weather in the Cape of Good Hope was not very good. In order to avoid risks, it anchored here for a day before the fleet set off again to Cape Town.
At that time, the senior generals of the South African Expeditionary Fleet believed that there were greater risks in the waters of the Cape of Good Hope. The current weather was pretty good, but if it were the local winter, the climate would be even worse.
Therefore, ships passing through the waters of the Cape of Good Hope may not be able to pass in time and may need to anchor here and wait for a few days before continuing their departure.
Under such circumstances, it was necessary to establish a supply port here to accommodate ships that continued westward into the Atlantic Ocean and to have a temporary place to stay in case of bad weather.
This decision left more than 300 soldiers and a certain number of engineers stationed here, and built a small supply port.
And named this small supply port Dongkai Port.
It means the port located east of the Cape.
As for the name of Cape Town, the Chu people continued to use the previous Dutch name for the place. Of course, they used the transliteration of 'Cape Town' and did not insist on changing it to a new name.
This is also the norm in the areas conquered by the Chu Empire. Generally, the transliteration of the original title is directly used. If the transliteration is too long, two or three characters will be used.
This is the case with Cape Town, and based on the names of other areas in Cape Town, there are naturally names such as Dongkai, Xikai, and Beikai.
This is the case for Dongkai Port.
Although Dongkai Port has not yet taken shape and only a temporary small wooden trestle can be used, its geographical location is very important and the South African Expeditionary Fleet still attaches great importance to it.
Otherwise, hundreds of people would not be left here to build the port.
Once this port is built, it will even become an important port for the Chu Empire in South Africa in the future.
For ships coming from the empire, India, West Asia, North Africa and other regions, whether they are coming to South Africa or passing through to Europe or even the Americas, this is the best place to stay.
Because this port is at the eastern end of the Cape of Good Hope, ships coming here do not have to endure the test of the Cape of Good Hope.
However, the exploitable agricultural resources here are not very good, and there are no large-scale plains around it for farming. Therefore, it can be used as a supply and rest port, but it cannot be used as a settlement to carry a large number of immigrants.
This is different in Cape Town, which has abundant exploitable agricultural resources and can host a large immigrant population.
This is also the reason why the Chu Empire chose to carry out large-scale development and construction in Cape Town, the western end of the Cape of Good Hope, instead of opening a port in the east.
In fact, it is similar to the reason why the Dutch chose to establish an immigrant settlement in Cape Town.
The Dutch originally also took a fancy to the flat plains near Cape Town, which could be used for better immigration development. However, before the Dutch had time to develop it on a large scale, they were driven away by the Chu people.
Now, this fertile land has also fallen into the hands of the Chu people.
Just when the Chu people were carrying out large-scale infrastructure construction in the Cape Town area of South Africa and beginning to open up land for planting, they were preparing to welcome more immigrants in the future.
The Dutch immigrants who moved north from Cape Town also penetrated deep into the vast interior of Africa.
They went all the way north, killing many tribes along the way. They relied on plundering these tribes' food and other supplies and expelling the indigenous slaves to go all the way north. Even so, they still killed hundreds of people on the way.
In the end, the remaining approximately 2,000 Dutch immigrants arrived in a land suitable for farming, and they were far enough away from the Chu people... They were thousands of kilometers away from the Chu people.
At this time, they finally relaxed and prepared to farm and breed here and live a new life.
And because there are no signs of civilization here, and there is no country to control them, in order to protect themselves and unite, they also imitated the local system of the Netherlands and established a miniature country called the Republic of Tshwane.
This Tshwane is actually the name of this area of their settlement.
This is all normal. These days, it is very common to take risks when there are no signs of civilization. There are more immigrants settling down and many establishing their own countries.
Not to mention the Dutch, there are also a lot of Chu people. Not every immigrant from the Chu country who goes to North America every year will honestly hang out in the directly-administered territory. Many of them choose to go deep into the interior of North America in order to make a fortune. , directly snatching large amounts of land and other wealth from those natives.
There are many people who have made a fortune from this.
Not only in North America, but also in South America and the west coast of North America, which are not touched by Chu's official power, there are actually many Chu people doing business and settling down there.
In Mexico under the control of the Spanish, there were at least several thousand Chu people doing business and developing plantations there. These were still public Chu people living in areas directly controlled by the Spanish.
Therefore, Chu people are actually distributed in many overseas areas, not just in the overseas territories directly under the Chu Empire, colonies, and puppet states.
In many indigenous-controlled areas, even some uncivilized areas, there are an unknown number of Chu people doing business, living, and even fighting to build a country.
These days, in some remote overseas places with mountains and valleys, there are really some very ambitious Chu people who have gone there to found a country. They don’t have the guts to call themselves emperors, but people who call themselves kings or give themselves other messy titles are too much. too much.
The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and no one can control them.
These Dutch people came to the interior of Africa. In order to protect themselves and better colonial expansion, they captured the local indigenous people as slaves to work for them, and it was normal for them to build their own republic or something.
But what is abnormal is that when they first settled here and started driving large numbers of indigenous slaves to farm, a Dutchman accidentally tripped over a strange stone while chasing runaway slaves on his farm. .
Take a closer look, good guy... This is a golden stone, weighing several kilograms!
