According to Li Yi, the slaves should not be too resistant to this condition. After all, they have the opportunity to get rid of their current life state that has been working until death and has no hope. Of course, Li Yi and Mo Ming both selectively ignored how many of these indigenous slaves who were exported to the Changshanbao iron mine area could return to South Africa alive and finish the construction period. They were not interested in discussing this issue.

Mo Ming and Li Yi said to do it. Anyway, most of the cabins were empty when these transport ships returned to the local area, so they would take them as ballasts when they were transported back. Hezhong Fort currently has more than 5,000 slaves (plus the 3,000 captured this time), and basically they farmed, grazed, and did infrastructure around Hezhong Fort. Although their labor intensity is not small, they are not very good at living. To be honest, they are not very good at living. Although the food is crude, they are full. Compared with the "free" life of hunger and fullness in the past, it is really hard to say which one is better. Therefore, the escape of these slaves is not very strong, which has become a great wonder of Hezhong Fort.

Mo Ming and his militia were picking and choosing among these slaves, and finally selected a thousand people, most of them were popular among Coisans, and a few were black people in Bantu. These people were the bargaining chips he sent back to the local area to bargain with the Executive Committee. At the same time, he decided to follow him back to Dongfang Port to try to move his relationship and seek some benefits for Hezhong Fort.

After picking up nearly 4,000 slaves, Mo Ming broke them apart and divided them into two tribes, and managed them in a unified manner with the other six tribes currently attached to the East Coast people. Each tribe was awarded a flag, and six "free" tribes were awarded a flag of red, yellow, blue, green, purple, and gray, and the two slave tribes were awarded a flag of black and white.

Which tribe each indigenous belongs to is not fixed. For example, indigenous people who violate the laws of the East Coast and are judged guilty will be surrendered to the Black and White Banners and become slaves; similarly, indigenous people who are charged with escape and rebellion will be executed, and their immediate relatives will be demoted to the Black and White Banners and become slaves. If there are people in the Black and White Banners who have excellent work and brave combat, they will be approved by the East Coast officers, and their families will be pardoned and raised to the upper Six Banners.

With this highly mobile system, the enthusiasm of the indigenous people can be fully mobilized so as to fully utilize their potential and better serve the East Coast people. Currently, there are six or seven thousand indigenous "Eight Banners" in Hezhongbao. After some rectification, these indigenous people with relatively advanced organizational methods will surely become the pioneers of the East Coast people's development of South Africa. The so-called precursor to the king is just like this.

After everything was ready to stop, on August 4, Mo Ming handed over all the affairs to Liu Ang, deputy captain of the South African Development Team, and then returned to Dongfang Port together on a naval warship and several transport ships loaded with slaves, ivory, fur and liquor.

After Mo Ming left, Liu Ang immediately announced that Hezhong Fort was in a state of mobilization. Anyway, winter was already in progress, and there was no work to do in the farmland. In addition to maintaining the necessary manpower to expand the city walls, forts, and digging ditches, the rest of the people had to conduct high-intensity military training. In addition to these East Coast people, the "Eight Banners" tribes outside the city had to practice every three days under the supervision of the East Coast officers. For a time, guns and cannons were made all day long, and the sound of killing was shocking, and the training was very lively.

The East Coast people were very busy, and the Englishmen who came from afar were not idle. They were working hard to build their new territory in the Cape Town area.

At this time, on the coast of Cape Town more than 100 kilometers away, old friends from the East Coast - George Haywood Knights and Nick Warnham were walking by the sea while chatting. The cold wind blew from the Atlantic Ocean was a bit loud, and South Africa was still a little cold in the middle of winter during the Little Ice Age. Heywood and Nick simply found a wooden shed built by the beach, smoking their pipes while looking at Table Mountain not far away.

"That must be God's dining table." Nick said to the long mountain, "It's incredible. Mr. Heywood, I think we can build a lighthouse on it, which can provide positioning for the kingdom ships of night voyages, and Capetown will surely become the pearl of Africa. This is your glory!"

"Building a lighthouse is a good idea, Nick, but not now." Knight Haywood took a deep breath of cigarettes, and then said with a slight look: "Our first priority now is to repair the Good Hope Castle. Good Hope Castle is the core area of ​​Cape Town. If the castle and the fort are not repaired, I can't even sleep well at night. Nick, you don't know, since I heard that the people in the East Coast in the north began to massacre those savages, I was worried that one day they would suddenly rush into Cape Town, just like they rushed into the Gambia Castle. It was a group of barbaric, bloodthirsty, cruel villains, who were even reluctant to let go of the peaceful residents living in the Gambia Merchant Station. God, they must be all thugs bewitched by demons!"

Nick looked at Knight Haywood with pity. This weak man seemed to be scared out of fear since he was captured by the East Coast people in the Gambia. Perhaps he left some bad memories in the prison of the East Coast people. But fate is so teasing that the defeated Knight Nick and the East Coast people, the two defeated men, are now sent to the distant southern Africa to build a colonial city that is extremely important to the East India Company and even the Kingdom of England.

Now both sides are grasshoppers on the same rope, Nick couldn't help but comfort the Knight Heywood: "The East Coast people have just signed a peace agreement with us. They dare not risk angering the kingdom and start a war with us. They absolutely dare not! All we have to do is beware of some indigenous attacks. A few days ago, didn't we meet a small indigenous tribe? They seem to have great hostility towards us, those outsiders. I think maybe they regard us as the East Coast people. But the force of these indigenous tribes is so weak that we don't have to worry too much."

Knight Haywood spit out a milky white circle and said, "The construction progress of Good Hope Castle must be accelerated! We have been building for almost a month, and I don't want to wait too long. You have to make it clear to Aaron and the others about this. It's about the coldest season. Before it snows, I'll move in!"

Nick nodded silently and began to think about the division of manpower in his mind. The scale of the colonization of Cape Town organized by the East India Company was not small. They transported more than 1,600 people to come here at one time. Of course, the number of people before departure was far more than 1,600. The cruel ocean-going voyage ruthlessly eliminated a considerable number of weak or unfortunate people. Among these 1,600 people, landless farmers from central England accounted for the vast majority, about 1,000 people; the remaining 600 people were from the Ireland conquered by England.

After the colonial fleet landed on June 30 this year, it began to build a large scale. However, these new immigrants had just experienced months of sailing at sea, and their physical condition was generally poor. Many people even got sick as soon as they arrived here, which made the British construction of colonial sites very slow. More than a month has passed, and even the supplies on the ship have not been completely unloaded, and a lot of cement, lime and bricks are still piled in the cabin.

Due to poor physical condition of the personnel and the rainy weather in Cape Town for days, the construction progress of the British colonists on the shore was not satisfactory. They built a castle facing Tablebay, the Good Hope Castle, but despite half of the manpower was invested in the construction, according to the current progress, it is estimated that it will not be initially completed until the end of September or even October. As for other parts, such as residential buildings, port facilities, city walls, forts, etc., the progress is even slower. Nick pessimistically predicted that if all these were completed, it might have to wait until the first half of next year.

At this moment, when Heard the Haywood Knight was obviously anxious and impatient, Nick, who was Heywood's deputy, had to decide to send some Irish farmers to participate in the construction of the Good Hope Fort. Even forcing them to work 18 hours a day. After all, they would be safeguarded one day earlier than building the Good Hope Fort one day earlier.

Thinking of this, Nick couldn't help but feel resentful towards the East Coast people. These villains and scumbags slaughtered all the barbarians on the northern plains and moved all their food, cattle and sheep away, forcing the noble English to accompany mud in the cold and rainy winter climate of Cape Town, and worked hard to build the castle with one hand and one foot. Many people became ill for this, and the resentment of the immigrants was generally very strong.

That's not all. These shameless people even organized people to catch all the fish in the northern rivers, and the herds of bison were driven or hunted by them, making it impossible for the English to obtain valuable meat and protein supplements on the spot. The immigrants could only eat pea soup and chew on the hard-to-swallow black bread to satisfy their hunger, which further aggravated their resentment.

Fortunately, a while ago, a foolish indigenous tribe might have rushed to the Cape Town area to avoid the killing of the East Coast people and bumped into the English who were building a castle on the coast. After a less intense battle, the English easily defeated the indigenous tribe and captured more than 500 of them, as well as a small amount of food and cattle and sheep. After these more than 500 people were captured, they had been doing hard work to level the foundation and dig ditches under the strict surveillance of the English. The high-intensity work has caused dozens of people to die so far, and about dozens of people to escape while the British were not paying attention.
Chapter completed!