African Nationhood

Chapter 36 Advance Camp

Southwest Africa, Anhai Town.

Because the women in the second batch of immigrants were to stay in Cape Town for blind dates, Shi Jintang transported the men and young children back to Walvis Bay in advance.

James Lister, the person in charge of Walvis Bay Port, followed the immigration acceptance regulations and after completing the preliminary purification of the newly arrived immigrants, he sent these immigrants and young children to Anhai Town.

When they arrived in Anhai Town, they were greeted by the outstanding members of the first batch of immigrants, namely the Anhai Town management team headed by Qin Mo, Li Tong, Ye Rong, and Yan Han.

Qin, Li and Ye were responsible for teaching, and Yan Han was responsible for military training.

Needless to say, Qin Mo and Li Tong were both Sinology teachers. Ye Rong was promoted purely because of her intelligence and studiousness.

Yan Han, on the other hand, has the highest military literacy among the first batch of immigrants and is Trudeau's favorite disciple.

According to immigration control regulations, these immigrants were divided into small classes and began to study. The immigrants, especially the adult men, had never thought that they had to learn literacy and arithmetic to make a living in a foreign country.

The difficulties of the new life include not only studying, but also having to take weekly quizzes.

The literacy teacher stipulates that students must learn 30 new words a week, and the arithmetic teacher requires counting to 100.

If you don't know how to do it, slap the palm of your hand. If you make a mistake, you'll be slapped. If you don't change your ways after repeated admonitions, you'll be put in solitary confinement.

The dark place was locked up for two days at a time. After the lockdown, I still had to make up for the progress I owed.

The gadgets in the school made them complain incessantly. After passing the learning test, the immigrants were divided.

The boys and young children were separated, with the boys continuing to the next stage of training and the young children continuing their education.

The next thing adult men have to overcome is the difficulties of military training. Military training instructors train them to death every day.

Sit-ups, push-ups, cross-country running... there are many kinds of tricks, you name it.

Among them, sit-ups and push-ups can be completed on the training ground in the town, and they can accept it.

The cross-country running is a bit speechless, because this cross-country running requires training in an uninhabited desert.

The desert is vast. If you are not careful, you may get lost in the desert, and your life or death will be unpredictable.

Skeletons of wild beasts can often be seen in the desert, as well as the constant whimpering screams of terror in the fog at the seaside, which frighten people and make them uneasy. The military training students privately named the desert north of Anhai Town "Ghost Desert."

Halfway through the training, many people had the idea of ​​​​quitting, but few dared to bring it up. The soldiers with guns waiting at the edge of the training ground made them miserable.

The military instructors intensified their torture, and the most difficult part was the formation drill.

Queue drills have strict requirements. In addition to neat lines, the queues must also be clear and must not be skewed, otherwise it will be a mistake.

If you make a mistake, you will be punished, and if you are punished, the entire class will be punished. The formation training period is the period when the students fight and fight most frequently.

Standing in the military posture often lasts for a quarter of an hour and a half. Many people practice until their legs and feet cramp, holding their thighs and crying. Even after they recover, they are still forced to continue practicing.

After finally passing the queue, the next step was firearms training.

Before shooting live ammunition, they also need to learn firearm knowledge and how to maintain firearms.

After studying, you have to take a test. If you fail the test, you have to go back and continue studying. After passing, you have to catch up on the progress of live-fire training.

Over the past few months, their physical fitness and mental outlook have been greatly improved.

On this day, the assembly whistle suddenly sounded in the town. The students subconsciously stopped their activities and took action quickly, running towards the square in the center of the town.

As the five long and three short whistles ended, hundreds of people gathered in the entire square.

The teams in uniform uniforms appear more orderly and distinct.

The effect of military management is remarkable. Everyone, whether adults or children, is in high spirits, and no one whispers or makes a noise during the gathering.

This inspection showed that the hard work of the trainees in the queue was not in vain, and strict management is very necessary.

Modern military queue drills are a top priority. Queue drills are an excellent means of blurring individual differences and are also an important process in cultivating a sense of collective honor.

After standing on the clock tower at the highest point of the square and watching the entire procession of the trainees gathering, Shi Jintang nodded to Trudeau beside him.

"The boys have trained well, and your apprentices are excellent."

Trudeau waved his hand, "They are still far away. I ask you to give them some more time. If they rush deep into the interior, the damage may be serious.

Boss, you don’t want the team you have worked so hard to cultivate to be wasted on a barren land. "

The danger Trudeau mentioned was not fighting the indigenous people, but more the dangerous natural environment in the interior.

Wild beasts and mosquitoes are very harmful to immigrants, and every colonist must pay attention to this factor.

Shi Jintang understood the principle of Ci not to control troops, and he had been mentally prepared since he considered colonizing here.

With the arrival of the rainy season, the Swakop River is full again and the Anhai Town Reservoir has been filled with water.

The land around the reservoir has been almost reclaimed by black slaves, and food planting will begin soon.

Since most of the land around Walvis Bay is planted with fruits such as grapes and citrus, and little food is grown, Anhai Town must focus on food crops.

Wheat, corn, soybeans, potatoes and sweet potatoes are pre-planted, and the first three crops are planned to have a scale of 1,000 acres each.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes are what he wants to vigorously promote. After all, these two crops have large yields and are durable in storage. Wheat and corn are mainly used to adjust the immigrant rations.

Soybeans are oil crops and are used to meet the immigrants' demand for oil.

The soybean cake left after pressing the oil can also be fed to livestock, which is indispensable for the development of animal husbandry in the future.

In addition, he also wants to introduce rapeseed to enrich the immigrants' oil crops.

After the completion of the second phase of the Anhai Town Dam, the scale of several crops will be expanded.

There is also the need to organize people to transport guano to coastal islands to be used as fertilizer for planting.

At this time, farmers all over the world have no concept of chemical fertilizers.

The agriculture industry in Anhai Town must be the first to take advantage of the situation. In order to support a larger population, it must tap into the potential of the land as much as possible!

Achieving self-sufficiency in food is the basis for sustainable development in Southwest Africa. Purchasing food from outside is a dead end.

Every time he looks at the company's bills, Shi Jintang's blood pressure soars because the deficit is so serious.

Several factories in Walvis Bay have started trial production, but they are not yet profitable.

The glass factory had sufficient raw materials for sea sand, but it lacked fuel and needed to import coal from the Cape Colony. Coupled with poor quality control, it suffered losses.

The garment factory lacks raw materials and needs to import Indian cotton cloth and dyes from Cape Town. The products are mainly for self-use and suffer losses.

The cannery has sufficient raw materials, but it lacks tinplate to make cans and needs to be imported from Europe.

There is no shortage of raw materials for canned fruits, but the glass factory needs to be officially put into operation to have a stable supply.

In addition, sugar and coal must be purchased from outside, and the initial production capacity cannot be increased, resulting in losses.

The oil mills also lacked raw materials. The Cape Colony had sufficient raw materials, but its output was still mainly for its own use, resulting in losses.

At present, several oil mills have achieved self-sufficiency in raw materials in the short term to reduce losses.

Other factories also need to increase production capacity and improve quality control.

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In addition to financial pressure, Shi Jintang felt a sense of urgency deep in his heart, urging him to head inland quickly.

Those lands were like devils, tempting him and calling him to annex them and occupy them.

Therefore, he must take action. He cannot feed these people in vain. Nanhua Company must expand its influence and march towards the central and northern parts.

The captured black slaves can be sold to the nearby Nawakab gold mine. In addition, a powerful offensive must be used to force the natives to pay taxes, in order to increase revenue.

Otherwise, it would be really hard to just rely on him to support it.

British businessmen sent telegrams that they would transport a large number of people over in the near future, and most of these immigrants were Korean women.

Once new immigrants arrive, several factories can replenish workers. In addition, they can also balance the population pressure of excessive male immigrants.

"Is there any news about the expedition team sent out?"

Since the location of the Nawakab gold mine was discovered, Shi Jintang arranged for elite personnel to go on staff trips to the central and northern interior.

Along the way, these consultants not only had to mark the mountains and rivers, but also ascertain the location of primitive tribes and inquire about the population of each tribe.

These are important military intelligence indicators. The indigenous people are stupid and do not understand the evil of human nature, and basically have little sense of defense.

But they are an organized group after all, and they have to go all out if they become hostile.

This kind of staff trip is also a process of training skills, and the cadet army's battle against the indigenous people is the highlight.

Strong armies are tempered by war, and no matter how well they are trained, it will all be in vain if they pull their hips on the battlefield.

The land in Namibia is mostly barren, and the total number of indigenous people here is also small.

For example, the Herrero people who attacked the prospecting team before had only a few thousand or at most tens of thousands of people.

And they are in scattered form, and a single tribe is very small, no more than a hundred people at most.

The reason for this is that it is difficult for them to make a living, and if there are too many tribesmen, they will easily starve to death.

It is easy to survive by dividing into small tribes and large clusters, which also gives the slave catching team led by Qu Sangqian the opportunity to defeat them one by one.

A slave-catching team consisting of a hundred people could easily take down a small or medium-sized tribe.

But the tribes in the northeast are usually large tribes, with groups of hundreds or even thousands of people everywhere. It would be difficult for the slave-catching team to recruit them.
  Therefore, Shi Jintang plans to form an advance camp of Nanhua Company. Students who have performed well in previous military training will be selected into the advance camp.

The advance battalion has a quota of 500 people and is divided into 3 combat companies and 1 engineer company.

The commander of the advance battalion was scheduled to be Qu Sangqian. His slave-catching team was cancelled, and its personnel were merged into the advance battalion to serve as mid-level officers.

Integration training will begin soon. Once the integration training is completed, Nanhua Company will head directly inland.

　The first update, I beg you readers to keep reading, thank you!
  　　
  　
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