After the Hill returned to Ghana City and reported the relevant news, it also attracted the attention of the Governor of the Golden State.
Although it is far away from Kara Port where Chen Jingyun and other armed groups landed, the straight-line distance alone is more than a thousand kilometers, and Kara Port is not a colony of the Dachu Empire and is still under the control of the local indigenous people.
However, the jurisdiction of the Golden State, in addition to its own coastal administrative territory of the Gold Coast, also includes surrounding indigenous areas.
Therefore, theoretically speaking, the Kara area where Chen Jingyun and others landed was probably located in the later Cameroon area. This area also fell under the jurisdiction of the Golden State government. After all, there were actually many coastal city strongholds occupied by the Chu people nearby.
For example, Calabar, which is more than 100 kilometers to the west, and some nearby coastal colonial strongholds that were previously opened by Europeans are currently in the hands of the Chu people.
In the eyes of the Chu people, the coastal areas of this place belong to the category of the Golden Coast, that is, they belong to the management scope of the Golden State.
Of course, the local indigenous tribes probably would not agree with this statement... You Chu people have only occupied a few small coastal city strongholds. When did you occupy the entire vast coastline?
Quite a few coastlines are actually still controlled by local indigenous tribes and kingdoms.
What Chen Jingyun and others landed and occupied was a small coastal village controlled by the local Douala people... This place was actually a wilderness for 20 or 30 years, and some local indigenous people moved here and established villages.
When the Chu people officially drew up the map of Africa in recent years, they gave names to cities, ports, etc. on the west coast of Africa. This small coastal village controlled by the local indigenous people has had several trades with the Chu people. , a trader from Chu State in Guangdong randomly marked this place with a local name on his navigation and trade map, calling it Kara Port!
It means a remote and backward place like Shankara!
Later, when the official map of this area was drawn up, this title was also cited.
This place is indeed very remote and backward. When the Europeans were in West Africa, the trade center was mainly concentrated on the Gold Coast. Although there was a small amount of involvement in other places, the intensity was not large.
To be honest, Chen Jingyun and others should be the first force to land here on a large scale, establish settlements, and implement colonial rule.
It's just that this Chen Jingyun doesn't engage in ordinary colonial expansion, but also builds a country. This makes the governor of the Golden State frown slightly.
It's not easy to deal with this situation even for a while.
You could call him a rebel. He has officially renounced his nationality and become a naturalized member of the local indigenous tribe. He is no longer a Chu nationality...
An indigenous man launched a military rebellion against the original local indigenous ruling class in an indigenous-controlled area, killed the original indigenous chief, and claimed to be the king of West Africa!
Strictly speaking, this has nothing to do with the Chu Empire.
But if you say it really doesn't matter... Fools all know that Chen Jingyun was a serious Chu native not long ago, and he only changed his nationality out of ambition and other factors.
In addition, the Kara area is also within the sphere of influence of the Chu people, so it is impossible for the Golden State to pretend that they have not seen it.
In the end, the governor of the Golden State did not make any decision, but simply sent someone to check the situation again. This attitude was basically too lazy to take care of it.
Well, this is mainly because Zhao Bingxun, the captain of the Hill, said a few good words about Chen Jingyun. He said that although Chen Jingyun was ambitious and a little abnormal, his goal was only to target the local indigenous people, and he was still very respectful to the imperial officials. of.
He also said that the area was occupied and abandoned by the natives anyway, and there was a Chu nationality here. Even if Chen Jingyun, who claimed to be no longer a Chu nationality, went there to engage in immigration development, it would be somewhat good.
When Chen Jingyun starts colonial development in the future, he can also obtain some economic crops and the like. If he wants to take it back directly to serve as administrative territory, he can just take it back. Is it possible that Chen Jingyun still dares to resist?
Then Zhao Bingxun, the epaulette of the Hill, replaced Chen Jingyun and handed over a box of gold to the Governor of the Golden State, saying that he wanted the Governor to play with it.
It is also said that Chen Jingyun and others are resolutely oriented towards the empire and resolutely cooperate with the empire's series of expansion measures in West Africa.
Under such a combination of conditions, the Governor of the Golden State was too lazy to pay attention to Chen Jingyun's troubles... Anyway, in the past few decades, there have been too many examples of Chu people going overseas to build their country, and the empire has become numb.
As long as you don't openly proclaim yourself emperor, give yourself an imperial title, don't resist the imperial army, and don't infringe on the interests of the empire, the imperial officials will generally ignore you...
Many times, if you want to control it, you can't... For example, people go to the interior of Africa to build a country. If the information is not available, it may take many years to know. Even if they know, it will be difficult to send troops to encircle and suppress those broken places in the interior of Africa. It’s not something you can just go to.
There are also some people from the Chu State who do not directly engage in founding a country, but directly control an indigenous tribe or kingdom and become the actual emperor of the country. It is also difficult to determine the nature of this kind of thing.
So until now, the imperial officials are no longer surprised by these situations... and don't bother to deal with them unless there are any special circumstances.
The officials of the Golden State Governor's Palace are also busy. How can they bother to deal with a group of armed gangs playing a self-entertaining game like founding a country in an indigenous-controlled area.
The most urgent task for Chu officials in the Golden State today is to further improve the local food supply system, and then find coal to provide coal, fresh water and food for passing Chu ships.
The second step was to fully exploit local resources and obtain more gold and ivory. At the same time, the Chu people also tried to introduce and grow cocoa, an economic crop, locally.
In the short term, obtaining more gold is the main trade goal of this Gold Coast region. However, the main origin and distribution center of gold are not actually on the coastline, but in some indigenous-controlled areas further north, that is, in the local area. The indigenous Ashanti Kingdom.
The Golden State is planning to start a large-scale war and then enter the northern part of the Gold Coast to obtain more gold mining sites.
This is also the reason why the Chu people previously set up the administrative center of the Golden State in Ghana City. The development here is relatively mature and it is also convenient to advance northward.
The city of Ghana is located on the Gold Coast in central West Africa, which is also the coastal area of Ghana in later generations. However, before the arrival of the Chu people, this place was not called the city of Ghana, but was called Accra.
At first, this place was just a small coastal village for local indigenous people. Later, colonists from various European countries came here to carry out slave trade and build fortresses and castles.
When the Chu Empire implemented European free trade a few years ago, its first step was to clear out the colonial strongholds of European countries on the west coast of Africa. On the one hand, it was to obtain logistical supplementary ports, and on the other hand, it was to completely expel Europeans from Africa.
When the Chu Empire swept across the western coast of Africa, it naturally took over many colonial strongholds of European countries on the western coast of Africa. Most of them were Portuguese and Dutch, and there were also a few British and French colonial strongholds.
Accra was a colonial stronghold that was captured and taken over by the Chu people. Because the European colonists here did not resist strongly before, the castle stronghold was not severely damaged. In addition, the Europeans operated hundreds of In 2000, the development of surrounding areas was relatively mature, and some agricultural plantations could be easily opened to meet the food needs of the Chu people on the spot.
Therefore, after some consideration, the Governor of Africa of the Great Chu Empire established the colonial capital of the newly established "Golden State" here to serve as the administrative center of the colonies in West Africa, as well as a military center and trade center, and changed its name to Ghana City. …
The Chu people heard that there used to be an ancient indigenous kingdom called Ghana in this area, so they simply used this term to call the city. The Chu people now generally use local names in overseas places very casually and no longer When we first started overseas expansion 20 or 30 years ago, we would transliterate or translate the local names and intercept the syllables. The names would also have to match the charm and avoid duplication of names.
This is very troublesome.
Later, the Chu people simply named them randomly, and it didn’t matter even if they had the same name... There are so many places in the world, and there are only a few thousand commonly used Chinese characters, and places usually have two or three characters. It is really difficult not to have the same name. .
As the local administrative and military center, the city of Ghana's power covered not only the coast of Ghana in later generations, but the entire Gulf of Guinea coast, which is the Gold Coast in a broad sense.
The name "Golden State" comes from the "Golden Coast" among Europeans. The Chu people were lazy and directly intercepted the first two words as the name of the region.
Then the Golden State was established. It is worth noting that the administrative unit of the state no longer exists in the directly governed territory. It is the unique administrative level of the administrative territory.
Because the Chu Empire had already completed the reform of state capitals, abolished all state-level units, and fully implemented the five-level administrative model of province-prefecture-county-town-village.
However, in subsequent overseas colonies, in order to distinguish it from the prefectures in the territories under direct jurisdiction and to lower the administrative level, 'state' was used as the administrative unit below the governor in the administrative territory.
This also leads to the fact that under an overseas governor, such as the governor of Africa, there are directly governed territorial governments such as South Africa Prefecture and Maputo Prefecture, and the prefect is an orthodox fourth grade.
At the same time, there are many administrative territories such as Central Africa and Angola, and the governor is the fifth rank.
In some vassal territories, the Chu Empire often dispatched vassal governors to supervise one or more vassal states and protect the interests of the Chu state, such as the British governor who oversaw the five kingdoms in the British region, and the Spanish governor who oversaw Spain and Portugal.
Some relatively large administrative territories sometimes dispatch administrative governors to rule. For example, the Golden State, an administrative territory that governs the entire West African region, is under the jurisdiction of the administrative governor and dispatches a fourth-grade governor.
The grades of these governors vary according to the size and importance of their territory, ranging from the fourth grade to the third grade. Generally speaking, these governors have relatively large authority. To a certain extent, they are a reduced version of the governor. At the same time, some The governor-general still falls under the jurisdiction of the superior governor.
For example, the British Governor-General and the Spanish Governor-General were under the jurisdiction of the European Governors.
The Governor of the Golden State falls under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Africa.
These are mainly European governors and African governors. These two governors are relatively special. They are colonial governors with a large jurisdiction and great authority.
Unlike the governors in various places in the Americas, they are all governors of directly governed territories, and their jurisdictional area and authority are not that large.
The governor of a vassal territory is mainly to protect the interests of Chu State in the vassal state, but the governor of a vassal territory is special because he also has the power to declare war... His title is usually "he is ordered to supervise the affairs of a certain kingdom and vassal"... This vassal Affairs are not just ordinary diplomatic affairs as later generations think, they also include the power to sign treaties and declare war!
Theoretically, it can be believed that all matters related to these indigenous people can be handled.
Strictly speaking, he is an imperial envoy, just like a governor... but without the commission of civil affairs.
The governor of an administrative territory is different from the governor of a dependent territory. His title is generally "he is ordered to supervise the civil affairs and vassal affairs of a certain state." Compared with the governor of a dependent territory, he has one more authority on civil affairs.
But both types of governors have diplomatic authority...that is to say, they can sign treaties with the indigenous people within their jurisdiction and declare war when necessary.
To put it simply, these overseas governors and governors can declare war and then tell the local military stationed there to fight. As for whether to fight and how to fight, this is the military's business.
Theoretically, if the military does not agree, it can find various excuses to delay and not carry out the operation... but generally it will not do this.
In addition, there is another very important rule: the military does not have the authority to declare war!
This is a measure to check and balance the military and political parties in overseas territories. Neither the overseas governor/governor nor the military can decide to start a war without authorization.
Only after both parties reach a consensus can a war be successfully launched.
Otherwise, overseas governors and governors declare war, but the military is too late to advance, and the war cannot go on, and the governor has nothing to do. At the same time, the military wants to start filming, but the governor does not declare war, and the military cannot Method!
Governors (including governors of directly governed territories and overseas governors), governors of dependent territories, governors of administrative territories, these complex administrative agencies are also a last resort.
The Da Chu Empire had a large territory, too many colonies, and no radio communications, so it was extremely difficult to rule. It was impossible for Jinling to keep track of news about overseas territories and respond in a timely manner, so it was also important to appropriately delegate power to overseas territories. certain!
At the same time, because there are so many colonies, there are also many kinds of indigenous people in the colonies, and many indigenous people have different customs.
This made the Chu people very troublesome when conducting colonial rule. They often needed to formulate different governance strategies based on the conditions in different regions. As a result, the local laws in many colonies were actually different.
Of course, the laws against the Chu people are naturally unified, and the different laws refer to the laws against the indigenous people.
After all, the Great Chu Empire was a global empire, with numerous administrative territories and vassal territories, and the indigenous people in them were all different. It was difficult to say that it was governed by a completely consistent set of legal standards.
The Golden State also reflects the Chu Empire's strategy of adopting a governance method that adapts to local conditions in its overseas colonies.
For example, registered colonial development enterprises, such as mining enterprises and agricultural companies, are allowed to reach cooperation agreements with local indigenous countries, tribes, enterprises and other institutions to facilitate labor dispatch.
and fully respect the autonomy of indigenous partners.
This article is very interesting, that is, it fully respects the autonomy of the indigenous partners... In other words, the Golden State Administrative Office does not care where your labor force comes from or how it is used. You indigenous people take care of yourselves. We Chu people only give Money, nothing else.
This is the indigenous labor dispatch system adopted by the Great Chu Empire in some periods and in some areas. This was mainly to circumvent the Great Chu Empire's anti-slavery legal policy and the very fucked-up personal principle in the Great Chu Empire's laws...
Even if the Chu people engage in slavery in the indigenous-controlled areas, it is illegal...
The reason why the local government of the Golden State came up with this regulation was also related to the situation of the local indigenous people... They urgently wanted the Chu people to buy slaves. When the Chu people said they would not buy slaves, several local indigenous people The tribe actually started a rebellion.
People from the Chu state said that they have lived for a long time!
After the Great Chu Empire took over these West African colonial strongholds, it did not carry out any major actions in the past many years. It mainly adopted more traditional colonization, except for a few core port cities with important strategic positions that were granted In addition to the legal status of directly administered territories, other occupied coastal areas basically adopted the administrative territory model and established administrative colonies one after another.
But the Da Chu Empire played a different role in these colonies than those Europeans before... It mainly engaged in ordinary trade and promoted plantations.
Although it is also engaged in plantations, the Chu Empire does not engage in slave trade and will not transport African slaves to Africa. There is no need... America, whether North America or South America, has been identified by the Chu Empire as The territory under direct jurisdiction, the living space of the Chu people, could not tolerate any foreigner, let alone a large-scale organization to transport foreigners to the Americas.
Not even slaves!
Although America is huge, there is no room for aliens to live!
Therefore, the Chu people would not transport any natives to the Americas, so naturally there would be no slave trade that was prevalent during the Western Age of Discovery.
Then a situation occurred that many Chu people did not expect and even felt surprised.
When the indigenous tribes in Africa learned that the Chu people would not buy slaves, they all expressed great dissatisfaction, cried and shouted, and even threatened the Chu people to buy the slaves in their hands!
This is also closely related to the chain of interests formed by the slave trade that has been prevalent in Africa for hundreds of years.
You must know that most of the slaves transported to Africa in the past were not actually captured by Europeans who went to the interior of Africa in person. White people did not have that ability...
The vast majority of slaves were created due to wars or other factors between local indigenous tribes. After those tribes fought wars and plundered the slaves, they would sell the slaves to European slave traders, who would then transport them to the Americas for sale. to local European plantations, which in turn made a profit.
In this process, local African tribes were also important participants. They obtained funds by selling slaves, and then purchased various European commodities, thus forming a whole chain of interests.
Many times they would initiate wars in order to obtain more slaves.
Of course, Europeans are not good birds. In order to obtain more slaves, they will encourage those tribes to launch wars to capture slaves.
However, when the Chu people arrived, the slave trade was forced to stop... This made the local tribes who had captured a large number of slaves for sale very dissatisfied.
This led to several rebellions.
In the end, in order to calm this chaotic situation, and also to promote local gold mining and plantation development, gold mining companies and agricultural companies will have sufficient labor force.
The Golden State government implemented a labor dispatch system locally.
In this way, after the tribes capture the slaves, they can set up an official indigenous labor dispatch company in the name of the tribe, use this labor company to sign a labor dispatch cooperation agreement with Chu State enterprises, and finally dispatch the labor force to the mines run by Chu State people. Work was carried out on the plantation.
Through the labor dispatch system, a good situation has been achieved in the vast African region where everyone is good and everyone is good.
However, this kind of labor dispatch system is currently limited to administrative territories and non-controlled areas, and is not allowed in the territories directly under the jurisdiction of the Dachu Empire.
In directly-administered territories, if a large amount of labor is to be used, they will usually cooperate with the military and ask the military to drag prisoners of war to work.
The Chu army fought all over the world, and the prisoners of war produced in this process passed away. The Chu army could not directly release the prisoners of war, nor would it directly engage in massacres, let alone raise them for free, so it would drag the prisoners away. Go to the construction sites in the directly-administered territory for a few years, let them earn their own food, and then, depending on the situation, release the prisoners of war after a few years and let them go home.
Today's Governor of the Golden State is busy with these things, developing gold, promoting the construction of plantations, dispatching labor, and is also preparing to discuss with the military to advance northward and seize the gold minerals in the north.
Although the gold production here on the Gold Coast is actually not very large, and is far inferior to the Tshwane gold mine in Maputo Prefecture, which is the focus of development by the Chu Empire, the gold resources are not small and are worthy of development.
Anyway, the current Chu Empire is more interested in gold. Even if hundreds of tons of gold are mined every year, the demand for gold in the empire is still very large because of the gold standard system.
Therefore, the Da Chu Empire had a strong interest in all gold producing areas.
The Gold Coast is no exception!
The Golden State Governor's Palace adopted a conservative bystander attitude towards the affairs of Chen Jingyun and others. This made Chen Jingyun and others sigh a great deal, and then they began to prepare for an attack on the surrounding indigenous forces to expand their territory. , increased labor force.
(End of chapter)
