Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1432, South African Colony
The Big Island of East Africa in the southeast corner of Africa, later known as Madagascar Island, is now called the Big Island of East Africa by Ming Dynasty. It was occupied by the South African United Commercial Bank several years ago and has become the most important South African United Commercial Bank in Africa. colonies.

Together with the large expanse of land at the southernmost tip of Africa, they together form the South African Union Colony, referred to as the South African Colony.

On the coastline of the southeast plain of the Big Island in East Africa, a city full of oriental colors stands on the coastline. Nanzhou City, the core city of the South African colony, is also the largest port on the Big Island of South Africa. must pass through the port.

Nanzhou City runs from west to east, with a long coastline, blue sky and white clouds, sunny beaches, a large number of children playing freely on the beach, and a series of spacious concrete roads that divide the city into dots.

A large amount of cargo is piled up in the huge docks. Large ships are moored here and there, and dock workers are busy loading and unloading cargo. The new type of gantry crane powered by a steam engine is extremely efficient, and the loading and unloading speed is very fast.

"woooo~"

Accompanied by the sound of whistling whistles, one can actually see the latest steam ships. The huge size is like a hill, so that the large sailing ships next to them seem a few sizes smaller.

Du Mingen strolled in the port very leisurely, and was very relieved to see the busy scene in front of him.

Du Mingen was originally just a businessman. Because he heard Liu Jin's remarks about the Golden Isle at the Wangyue Tower in the capital, he boldly invested in the fleet to the Golden Isle, and even led the team to go there.

In the end, after all kinds of difficulties and dangers, he finally returned to Daming smoothly, not only brought back huge wealth, but also brought back high-yield crops such as corn and sweet potatoes that Emperor Hongzhi wanted, and was immediately named Taipinghou.

Later, he led the fleet to open up the Nanyang route, conquered Luzon, and led the fleet to open up the Western route, arriving in Tianzhu, Ceylon Island, Arabia, East Africa, and the southernmost South African island and the southernmost tip of Africa.

Du Mingen created a generation of nautical legends and has become a benchmark in the current nautical history and a person who has been written into the history books.

Born as a businessman, he not only acquired huge wealth through sailing, but also ushered in the advent of the colonial era and the era of sea navigation, and finally won the entrustment of the emperor.

It can be said that this is definitely a proper legend.

However, as he grew older and suffered some diseases from going to sea several times, Du Mingen seldom went to sea. In the end, together with Liu Jin, Zhang Mao and other nobles of the Ming Dynasty, he established the South African United Commercial Bank. Came to the big island of South Africa and became the governor of the South African colony. He was stationed on the big island of South Africa for a long time and was responsible for the management of the South African colony.

The South African colony is very different from other vassal states and colonies.

The first one is that the South African colony implemented an overall system of capitalism similar to later generations earlier than the Western Union Bank. The governor has great power and is responsible for everything in the entire colony.

However, the governor is elected by the general meeting of the shareholders of the South African United Commercial Bank, and he is responsible to all the shareholders of the South African United Commercial Bank.

In addition, Liu Jin is the major shareholder of the South African United Commercial Bank. Naturally, in order to prevent the governor from becoming bigger, he also adopted a system of separation of powers, which separated the military power and judicial power accordingly. , Discussed out, not subject to the appointment and removal of the governor.

The second is that the South African colony has always adhered to the core policy of building a cradle of pure Chinese descendants, expelling and cleaning up the aborigines in the colony, and only allowing female slaves to enter foreign slaves, the purpose of which is to rapidly increase the population.

Such a policy is the only one among the many colonies and vassal states.

You must know that here in the colony, the native population is large, while the number of Ming people who immigrated here is very small. In the era when productivity was not developed, manpower was the most important resource.

Indigenous people and slaves are the most important labor force.

You engage in colonial activities, you don't enslave the local aborigines, you don't buy slaves, you only rely on the immigrants from Ming Dynasty, you can develop in the years of the monkey?
Therefore, except for the South African Union, other vassal states and colonies use a large number of slaves and local aborigines to achieve rapid development and become stronger quickly.

On this point, Ning Guo is the best example.

Ningguo not only occupies a huge land in Tianzhu, but also uses a huge land in East Africa.

King Ning made his fortune by trading slaves at the beginning, so there are millions of slaves in Ning State, and there are also a large number of natives of Tianzhu.

By establishing a complete set of caste system and slavery system, Ning Kingdom developed and grew rapidly, and it is still the most powerful vassal state of Ming Dynasty overseas.

However, under the strong request of Liu Jin, the major shareholder, the South African United Commercial Bank has always implemented an incredible policy.

The South African colony is constantly expanding, and every time it expands to a place, the local aborigines will inevitably be expelled wantonly, and if they cannot be expelled, they will be massacred.

There was no plan to use these local aborigines at all, and all the imported slaves were female slaves, and a large number of them were distributed free of charge to Ming men who immigrated to the southern colonies.

Under such a policy, although the South African United Trading Company was the first colonial trading company to come out, although it was the most powerful at the beginning, with the most powerful armed forces and a large number of merchant ships, it also occupied the most fertile and largest piece of land in Africa.

However, over the years, the gap in development with other vassal states and colonies has become wider and wider, and it has become increasingly weak in subsequent expansion, so that now it has no strength to join the fierce competition for West African colonies. .

Even the huge resources owned by the South African colony did not have enough manpower to mine them.

There are mahogany resources, gold mines, silver mines, and copper mines on the big island in East Africa, and a large number of gold mines, silver mines, diamond mines, etc. have also been found here at the southernmost tip of Africa.

There are a lot of these resources, and the land occupied by the South African colony is a good place, rich in resources and extremely high in natural conditions.

However, because there are not enough manpower, many minerals cannot be mined even if they are discovered.

On this point, at the several shareholder meetings of the South African United Commercial Bank, some people expressed doubts about Liu Jin's policy, and asked whether they should learn and learn from other vassal states and colonies.

Fortunately, Liu Jin is the major shareholder. People like Zhang Mao, Xu Yongning, Zhu Fu, Du Mingen, Yang Yun and others believe in Liu Jin's long-term vision. Just continue to execute.

As for whether the South African colony makes money in a short period of time or not, it doesn't matter. Anyway, for these big guys, they are not short of money, some are silver, and it doesn't matter if the South African colony doesn't have much output.

The key is to occupy this treasure land first, and it doesn't matter if the development is slower.

Therefore, the South African colony has always adhered to this policy.

Looking at the busy port in front of him, Du Mingen was full of thoughts. He remembered the scene when he led the fleet to the big island in East Africa for the first time.

This is still a barren land, and there is no breath of civilization.

In a blink of an eye, the vicissitudes of life, high-rise buildings rose from the ground, and a big city appeared on this beautiful and rich land.

"Time flies so fast!"

Du Mingen sighed softly, he was used to life here, and planned to spend the rest of his life here.

"Lord Hou, Lord Hou~"

At this time, someone hurriedly came to Du Mingen's side on a horse.

"What is it?"

Du Mingen looked at the person and asked.

"Master Hou, Zulu Kunlun slaves refused to accept our expulsion, and even launched an attack on us."

The person who came was Xu Wenxi, a member of Duke Ding Xu’s family, an officer of the Ming army, who had received formal training and education at the Daming Royal Military Academy. Pioneering work.

"Since you don't accept our expulsion, then don't blame us for being rude, follow the rules and kill them fiercely. I don't believe they really plan to perish."

Du Mingen ordered without thinking.

"Yes, Lord Hou~"

Xu Wenxi replied with a solemn marching salute.

This kind of thing is not new. In the South African colony, the South African United Commercial Bank has been faithfully implementing this policy, constantly expelling the local Kunlun slaves in the territory, and vigorously emigrating Han people from the Ming Dynasty.

"Master Hou, another group of immigrants will arrive in our South African colony in two days. Let's follow the old rules?"

Next to Du Mingen, Zhang Yewen, who was in charge of the immigration procedures, was a member of the British Zhang Mao family. In fact, all the important positions and responsible persons in the entire South African colony were held by the family members of the shareholders of the South African United Commercial Bank.

"Well, let's follow the old rules, give him a few female white slaves first, and then give him a piece of land, a few horses, two cows, seeds and farm tools."

"By the way, the immigrants who came this time will all be allocated to Two Oceans City (the location of Cape Town in later generations, because the west is the Atlantic Ocean and the east is the Indian Ocean, so it got its name)."

Du Mingen thought for a while and nodded.

"Yes, Lord Hou~"

Zhang Ye quickly nodded and recorded that the main method of attracting immigrants in the South African colony is to provide you with a few female white slaves for free as wives and concubines, plus horses and cattle, definitely among all the vassal states and colonies The best conditions.

No way, who made the shareholders of the South African United Commercial Bank all rich and powerful, willing to spend money to attract immigrants, other vassal states and colonies are not so rich and powerful.

　Would you like to go under such immigration conditions?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)