African Nationhood

December 5, Hanking (Pretoria).

Zhou Chuanjian and Huang Kaijia arrived at the government building at the junction of Church Street and Jinbo Street one after another. This is the seat of the cabinet.

The two walked up to the third floor and arrived at Prime Minister Ouyang Geng's office on the highest floor.

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"Please come in."

Ouyang Geng was checking the official document without raising his head, "Please sit down first while I finish reading this document."

Zhou and Huang nodded and found a sofa to sit down. After a while, someone knocked on the door again.

Zhou Chuanjian stood up and opened the door. Standing outside was a middle-aged white man with buck teeth. He was David Bell, the general manager of Rhodesia Company.

Bell David smiled at Zhou Chuanjian and said, "Hello, Commissioner Zhou."

Zhou Chuanjian smiled and nodded, "Hello, General Manager Bell."

The three of them came to the room and sat down. After a while, Ouyang Geng finished reading the official document, got up and walked over.

"The three of you are called here this time because the cabinet plans to move the administrative divisions of the East African Administrative Office, Rhodesia Company and Qifeng Region."

The three of them had been informed before that the territory of Qifeng Region was still a bit poor, with many mountains and few plains.

In order to increase the heritage of this region, the cabinet decided to divide part of the west coast of Lake Malawi into the Qifeng region.

In this way, the farmland of the entire region can be increased, and Lake Malawi's aquatic products and freshwater resources will be more abundant.

David Bell was the least concerned. After all, the Rhodesian company he was in charge of was owned by Boss Shi, and the British government had no control over him.

"Prime Minister Ouyang, I support all your decisions and I will obey your orders."

Ouyang Geng handed the three maps to the three of them: "This is the administrative subdivision map of the East Africa Administration that I drafted.

The Qifeng region and the seaside location to the north of the Zambezi River will be prioritized and resettled for development. Since the Rhodesia Company had not yet been merged into Nanhua, Mr. Bell remembered to sign an agreement entrusting management. "

David Bell nodded immediately, "Okay, Prime Minister Ouyang."

Ouyang Geng continued: "The increased part of Qifeng Region is mainly the part near Lake Malawi. This area is very flat and suitable for the development of agricultural planting.

The Qifeng region is developing rapidly and has many industrial and mining enterprises, which is exactly what it needs to support the plain areas near the lake.

Because the location of Fort William (now the town of Valenko da Gama in Mozambique) is too small and deeply inland, it is not conducive to future development.

The cabinet decided to place the regional capital on the high plains near the lake, which is a fertile bend in the north side of the Lilongwe River.

The new capital was named Liyang (today's Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi). "

Huang Kaijia naturally welcomes the cabinet's arrangement. The Qifeng region has more mountains and scarce farmland. This not only supplements the fertile soil of the plains but also the Malawi Great Lakes. Now their development potential is even greater.

"Okay, Prime Minister, we enthusiastically support the Cabinet's plan."

Ouyang Geng nodded and continued.

"The Zanyang Region is named because it is located in the north of the Zambezi River. This region is mainly designed to develop the tobacco growing industry in the inland Blantyre area. At the same time, this region also plans a coastline. The region The government can develop maritime trade on its own.

With huge potential for future development, the regional capital is Bland City (now Blantyre, Malawi). After talking about the Zanyang Region, the next step is the west bank of the Zambezi River. The cabinet named this area the South Zambia Region. The naming rules here correspond to the previous North Zambia Region.

This large area has rich soil and water, and the western part is suitable for growing sugar cane and rice. It also has abundant forest resources and is suitable for the development of agriculture, wood processing industry and fishery.

The capital is Hindé Port (now Hindé Port, Mozambique).

After talking about Beizan Region, we come to Jinghai Region. This region is lined with high mountains and rich in marine and mineral resources. Among them, bauxite has the most mining value and has always been an important mining site for inland aluminum alloys.

In addition, because Beira Port was an early port of entry for immigrants and built a railway line early to connect to the inland Jianye City (now Harare, Zimbabwe), commerce and trade was prosperous.

The regional capital is Beira.

After talking about the Jinghai Region, next is the Fuhai Region. This region is rich in marine fisheries and is the region with the richest fishery resources in East Africa.

The land within the territory is fertile and flat, the navigation conditions of the Save River are excellent, and it is suitable for the development of inland shipping, and the coastline is long.

Fuhai Region is worthy of its name, and the regional capital is Xinbo Port (now Mozambique, Nuevo Mambone).”

The remaining two major regions, Maonong and Fengyang, are very suitable for agricultural development. In order to allow these two regions to freely develop agricultural planting and maritime trade, the divisions of these two regions have been deliberately made small. Some.

The capital of Fengyang Region is Yiyang Port (today's Port of Inhambane, Mozambique), while the capital of Maonong Region is João Town (today's Sesay City, Mozambique.)
The administrative divisions of the East African Administrative Office are basically like this. Commissioner Zhou, your next job is to submit candidates for the district heads of these regions for Secretary-General Cai to choose. At the same time, you must also do a good job in handing over the administrative office with several regions. "

Zhou Chuanjian nodded immediately after hearing this, "Okay, Prime Minister Ouyang, I will submit the recommendation list as soon as possible according to your request."

After saying this, Ouyang Geng suddenly remembered that there was one more thing he had not said, "How many black indigenous people are left under your administrative control?"

Zhou Chuanjian lowered his head and thought for a moment before replying, "Currently we don't have many indentured laborers under our control, there are probably more than 50,000 left.

The previous ones were either lost naturally or have been shipped out. "

Ouyang Geng nodded and looked at David Bell again, "Where are you?"

David Bell thought for a while, "We have more black indigenous people, more than 30 of them.

After I return, I will speed up the deportation of the black indigenous people and strive to consume them all within two years. "

The black population in the Rhodesian Company is consumed at a faster rate, mainly because most of them are white, and the suppression of the black indigenous people is relatively harsh.

There were often black natives who couldn't stand it anymore and secretly escaped to German Tanganyika.

But the escaped natives were not much better when they arrived at the Germans, and their lives were consumed by slavery.

Huang Kaijia didn't wait for Ouyang Geng to ask, and answered proactively, "There are still more than 19 black indigenous people in our territory. Our methods of mining minerals and building roads have consumed a lot of indigenous people, but it is not enough.

Since a new capital city was to be built, these black people came in handy. "

Ouyang Geng sighed. These black people's problems are getting more and more difficult to deal with. The international environment is becoming more and more severe. We must find ways to eliminate them as quickly as possible.

There are still more than one million black indigenous people in the West African Administration. Junior Brother Zhang Xianghe's method of using mixed-race black people to clear them out is still too slow.

They must be stimulated to resist, and then Nanhua is forced to take action, otherwise it will be difficult to consume all the black indigenous people in West Africa.

Ouyang Geng thought for a while and felt that he would have a conversation with his junior brother Zhang Xianghe in the near future to let him prepare in advance. (End of chapter)