African Nationhood

Five of the more powerful privileged families in Goa, Lorenz, Losa, Cotto, Barstow and Barva, came together to the office to ask for an audience with Commissioner Xiewang. Xiewang refused because he was busy with official duties and was inconvenient to meet him.

Commissioner Xie Wang did not lie, he was indeed busy.

In the past few months, the civil servants of the East India Administration have not been idle. They have been exploring the mineral resources in the Goa region. There are rich mineral resources in the interior away from the coast.

Goa's mineral resources are mainly iron, bauxite, manganese, clay, limestone and silicon. These mineral resources are enough to support the rapid economic development of the Goa region.

If Xiewang wants to develop these minerals, he must use local people, and local privileged families have a monopoly on the foreign trade of grain, sugar, fruit and wine in Goa.

In addition, they also control the media industry in Goa. For example, "Goa Daily", which they use to shout out to the Administrative Office, is one of the many newspapers under the control of the media.

If we want to gain a foothold in Goa, we must not be lenient in this struggle.

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There are hundreds of criminals, and it is easy to find those who are not tough-talking enough. The garrison will arrest them immediately after getting the confession.

In just a few days, the heads of more than a dozen wealthy families were arrested in Panaji, the capital of Goa. One of them was the Cotto family, one of the five most privileged families.

The charge they were convicted of was "intending to overthrow the executive government."

Seeing the harsh attitude of the administrative government, many wealthy families were frightened, especially the remaining four major families.

They tried to flee Goa, but the border crossing had long been blocked by the South China garrison.

In desperation, some people began to take desperate measures. They tried to escape from Goa and the Western Ghats. Some people were injured or died as a result.

These things are not under the consideration of the administrative government. It is enough for people to leave their property and stay.

In this era, no one in the surrounding princely states or British colonies cared about the ups and downs of a Portuguese-Indian mixed-race person. The surrounding forces only cared about whether Nanhua would infringe on their interests.

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As the principals were arrested, they were tortured and forced to recruit more people. The prisons and police stations in Panaji were suddenly overcrowded.

The garrison had to commandeer a school in Panaji as an interrogation venue to interrogate who was organizing the opposition to the executive government behind the scenes.

Once admitted, they will be convicted quickly, with whipping and fines as the starting penalties, and the most severe one is death.

Xie Wang has made up his mind to overthrow the five major local families, so the direction of the interrogators' torture is determined. As long as there are problems, they can be convicted.

The head of the Cotto family was a softie. He couldn't bear it after being whipped a few times by the garrison, and directly confessed his crime of conspiring with other families to resist the executive government.

Once you get a confession, it will be easier to handle.

The garrison directly drove military vehicles with machine guns to arrest people from the four major families. The four major families softened when they saw the dark muzzles of the guns. No matter how tyrannical they were, they did not dare to confront the regular army, so they had no choice but to let the garrison arrest them.

It took almost a month to complete all the examinations. The garrison interrogation would not only examine their conspiracy against the administrative government.

We also need to dig deeper into the crimes they have committed in the past, such as bullying civilians, tax evasion, and smuggling. All crimes must be accounted for.

After confessing the crime, they will be handed over to the judicial department for conviction.

These five major families must be dismantled. For the most minor crimes, they will be fined with confiscation of their family property, while for the most serious crimes, they will be hanged directly, and still others will be fined with confiscation of family property and exiled to Sumatra Island.

The number of mixed-race ethnic groups related to the five major families reaches an astonishing tens of thousands, accounting for one-tenth of the total population of Goa.

The Administrative Office directly punished these related ethnic groups and sent them to work in plantations on Sumatra Island. As a result, Indians have become one of the three major ethnic groups on Sumatra.

Black ethnic groups, indigenous ethnic groups, and Indians who had previously moved from Natal, coupled with these Portuguese-Indian mixed blood, the situation in the entire Sumatra Island became more and more intense.

However, the Dutch welcome Nanhua's large-scale transportation of manpower. It is great that so many people can transform the local environment and promote local development.

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The giant family that has been intertwined for hundreds of years is astonishing. The administrative government uprooted them, causing many local indigenous people to applaud.

Invisibly, he won a lot of public support for the administrative government, which was Xie Wang's unexpected gain.

Once the five major families were overthrown, no one in the entire Goa region dared to stand up to resist.

The civilians who had made trouble before were also honest. This time the administration sentenced thousands of people to exile in one breath. No one dared to resist such a punishment.

Most of them obediently obeyed the arrangements of the administrative government and studied Chinese conscientiously.

The medical team in Nanhua was very skilled in medical treatment. They treated the common people at low prices and also vaccinated them against smallpox at low prices.

These benevolent policies made the lower-class civilians in Goa feel more and more friendly about the new government, and began to slowly accept Nanhua's rule.

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The administrative government took over a large number of industries from the five major families. Plantations, orchards, sugar refineries and breweries can be profitable if they are taken over.

The next step is to recruit local businessmen to come here to invest in establishing primary industries, such as canneries, steel plants, paper mills, cement plants, etc.

The media industry is the biggest gain for the administrative government. The media in any place is a top priority. Most of the places that Nanhua took over before were poor and had no power to control the media.

Portuguese India is special. Now that these five major families have been brought down, Xie Wang, a newborn calf, can breathe a sigh of relief.

The subsequent election of parliamentary members was also carried out in accordance with the administrative policy agenda. Most of the key civil servants from the mainland became members of the regional parliament.

The Speaker of the Administrative Council is Guan Wenhao, a civil servant from the Ministry of Overseas Territories, and the Administrative Grand Court and Administrative Procuratorate are served by Qin Wenbao and Lin Mu, civil servants dispatched by the Local Judicial Committee and the Cabinet Ministry of Justice respectively.

As for the garrison personnel, after Xie Wang discussed with Minister Zhong Yilin, 1200 troops were stationed in Goa, 300 troops were stationed in Diudaman, and 300 troops were stationed in Dadra Nagar Haveli area.

In order to facilitate quick contact with various places, the Navy decided to dispatch two fast cruisers and four destroyers to form a mini-fleet to patrol the East India Agency and the Emirate of Bahrain-Qatar.

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After renovating the Goa area, Xie Wang asked Minister Zhong Yilin to sit in Panaji for him.

And he took the garrison, educational personnel and medical personnel to Diu, Daman and Dadra Nagar Haveli again to continue rectifying the local government institutions.

This rectification did not encounter any resistance. After all, the mixed-race forces in these places were mostly insignificant. They did not dare to resist Nanhua's arrangements.
Instead, they hope to receive some support policies and subsidies from the administrative office.

Portugal is too poor, and they have been squeezed too hard. Now that there is a new government, they are naturally full of expectations.

Naturally, Xie Wang would not give them any discounts. These three places did not have any resources worth worrying about, as long as these mixed-race ethnic groups did not get into trouble and paid taxes honestly.

In the future, just send some immigrants over and mix it with sand. There is no need to invest too much energy in these places.

However, the military and political leaders of these three places must be South Chinese, and at the same time, the Chinese education of mixed-race ethnic groups cannot be relaxed. (End of chapter)