Chapter 71: Exchange Blood Plan
Fortunately, this paddle steamer was still quite powerful this time. There was no problem in the short two-hour voyage, and a ship of guests and cargo was successfully delivered to the North City of Dongfang Port.
After arriving at Dongfang Port, Guo Zili quickly went to the Admiralty to complete some handover procedures. After the procedures were completed, he refused to have some social engagements, and then went straight to the port military terminal. The second batch of exploration fleet ships on the African route were waiting here.
The formation is four ships, namely Guo Zili's ship "Free Trade" battleship, Lieutenant Box Yang as the captain, the merchant ship "Abbot" and the high-speed cruiser "Choyong" which had just been in service - Lieutenant Han Dezhi as the captain.
In the afternoon, after the supply was completed, the three battleships of the Exploration Fleet left the military terminal of the Oriental Port in a low-key manner. After more than a month of sailing, they arrived at the River Centennium Pier in South Africa on February 25, 1639.
The Hezhong Fort stands on the river bank as always, with the blue and white flags of the Republic of China on the east bank of China flying. After a while, the walls of the Hezhong Fort have been built again for a long time. It seems that after a while, this big city, which is still numerous, is about to be completed even if it is placed in the local area.
More than 300 Guarani and Chalua immigrants came out of the "Galicia Flying Fish" transport ship. They will be a new group of residents of Hezhong Fort. Regarding why the Executive Committee has to transport these hundreds of precious populations to South Africa when the local labor force is so tight, this is actually related to a plan that the Executive Committee has never announced - the "Blood Transformation Plan".
The so-called blood exchange plan refers to immigrating as many local indigenous residents to overseas South African territory as much as possible. The space they freed up was naturally occupied by European and Ming immigrants. As for why this is done, it is mainly for future considerations. To put it bluntly. These South American natives are natural and primitive masters in the current East Coast. Others, including the travelers, are actually outsiders who have seized their homes.
Of course, they are weak now and have to accept the fact that their homes are occupied. But this does not mean that they will always be like this. They will not make trouble for ten or twenty years, or even fifty or one hundred years? Especially after the popularization of education on the East Coast and the wisdom of the people is opened, they are likely to have fierce conflicts with the descendants of outsiders. As a ethnic group, even if they are assimilated by you, recognize your culture, and recognize your lifestyle, they will be confident that they are the natural masters of the land in front of them.
Even if the interracial intermarriage that the country is currently vigorously promoting, they will naturally believe that they are more qualified to inherit this land than those pure Europeans and the Ming people. By that time, conflict will be inevitable. If indigenous or indigenous mixed-race descendants account for a large proportion of the population, the intensity of this conflict will be stronger, which is likely to cause severe damage to the country's vitality or even division.
In order to avoid this situation, the Executive Committee has crafted such a so-called blood exchange plan. This time, more than 300 native immigrants in South America are the first batch of immigrants in the program, and there will be the second and third batches next. Don’t you, Chalua, Guarani, and you believe that you are the natural masters of the East Coast? Don’t you think of the Europeans and Ming people who violently captured you as outsiders and robbers? Well, now you are all sent to South Africa!
In this wild land of Africa, you are also outsiders, and you do the same things as robbers. At this time, can you still be so righteous? Do you still think you are the natural masters of the land under your feet? Look at the indigenous South Africans and blacks who look at you with vigilance and awe. What can you rely on in this unfamiliar land? By the way, all you can rely on here is the government! Only the government can shelter you! From now on, farm, work, and fight here honestly. The government will do whatever you ask you to do, put away your resistance, and stop thinking about those dangerous ideas that divide the country. Listen to the government, you can still eat delicious food and drink spicy food; if you are still hostile to the government and engage in some dangerous activities, then you are not missing from the gallows set up outside the city.
Sheriff Aiwani, who had been transferred to Hezhong Town Police Station, looked at the South American natives who were rushing out of the cabin with a complicated expression. As the first indigenous Chaluans who defected to the East Coast people, Sheriff Aiwani, with his own efforts and a little luck, climbed to the high position of the police station director step by step. Looking around, this is a middle-level cadre among so many officials in the East Coast Republic of China.
As a purely blooded Chalua, Sheriff Aiwani did not have much disgust for the East Coast people to occupy their homes. This may be related to his current middle-level official in the system, but he really felt that the arrival of the East Coast people was not a catastrophic event. Perhaps they were too rough in capturing the Chalua tribe and forcibly migrating the village of Guarani, which caused many bloodshed events, but that was the "price" that civilization progress must be paid, even if that price was bloody.
Yes, this is what Chief Aivani thought. He never forgot that winter day seven years ago, a group of East Coast soldiers with live ammunition suddenly surrounded their village, demanding that they surrender immediately, and move to the designated location of the East Coast people to settle down. The elders of the village refused the East Coast people's request and killed their messengers, hanging their heads high on the trunks. The furious East Coast people washed their village with force, and almost half of the men in the village died under the swords and guns of the East Coast people. The well-trained East Coast soldiers knocked down all those who dared to resist to the ground like a sophisticated killing machine.
However, the officers on the East Coast ordered the soldiers to let go of all surrendered Chalua and give some injured tribe members basic hemorrhage bandages. Uniform, strong, cold and merciful, that year, Aivani, who was still a young man, was completely shocked by the East Coast people.
After joining the East Coast people, Aiwani rose step by step with his talent and hard work, and rose from the assistant police to the high position of police station director. In his understanding, the East Coast people have strong military power, strict social organizations, high living standards, and relatively fair distribution system. It seems that it is not a bad thing to lead the future of the Chalua and Guarani people. As a middle-level cadre on the East Coast, he is also a native Chalua. He has the obligation to help these not yet fully civilized fellow tribes adjust their mentality and integrate into life on the East Coast.
At this moment, Aivani must have never heard of the name Stockholm syndrome, otherwise he and many Chalua people who share the same ideas as him would probably re-examine their past lives.
The more than 300 new immigrants were not very at ease when they were in the local area. They refused to intermarry with people of other races and were willing to accept fines for this. Many people still do not speak Chinese well, and they stubbornly adhere to the backward tradition in their lifestyle. For this reason, local police officers have rectified them several times, but the effect is very limited.
At this moment, they crossed the ocean to this continent across the sea from their hometown. They stepped on the strange land, and were surrounded by blacks and monsters looking at them with strange eyes. This psychological feeling of confusion and helplessness was so strong. Fortunately, there was a familiar flag flying on the castle ahead, and a group of East Coast soldiers wearing familiar uniforms and live ammunition stands neatly outside the pier, which gave them a sense of familiarity and dependence.
Sheriff Aivani took a group of civil affairs officials to his residence with these new immigrants. The more than 300 people were split up and divided into various residential areas and villages inside and outside the city to better manage and assimilate them. The new immigrants who were newcomers were still obedient and basically did not obey orders. Even if they were split up, it only caused a small noise, but they soon disappeared under the attack of the militia's scabbard.
"The Executive Committee's trick to remove firewood from the cauldron is very good." Guo Zili walked out of the cabin, shook Mo Ming's hand with a smile, and said.
"It's hard to deal with these indigenous people without this trick." Mo Ming also responded with a smile, "Actually, I suggested to the Executive Committee. Liu Ang and I studied the colonization process of later Spanish people in South America, especially the historical evolution of countries with a majority of indigenous peoples such as Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay. We found that once the consciousness of these indigenous people is awakened, especially when they have a considerable population base, their xenophobia will be very serious. Even if they have lost their traditions and fully accepted your culture, the indigenous people are indigenous people, and they are the natural owners of this land, so they will inevitably hate outsiders. Once the country's political situation is unstable, this xenophobia may even lead to riots, and then things will be serious."
"So you decided to let these South American natives come to Africa?" Guo Zili shook his head with some amusement and said, "This trick is a bit harmful. Africa is not the Africa of the Chalua people, but the east coast is the east coast of the Chalua people. If you let the Chalua people on the east coast come to Africa, they will lose their natural ownership of the land under their feet, and they have become outsiders and invaders. This has to be said to be a great irony."
Mo Ming smiled disconcertedly: "How can we occupy it with peace of mind if we don't drive away or kill all the original owners on the land? The Executive Committee is reluctant to let them go, and it does not conform to our current mainstream values, so we can only let them move a place. We need space to survive and land under the sun, so they can only give up their homes for us. Of course, we have arranged a new home for them, and they are not too much of a loss. The only person who suffered losses here is probably the indigenous people of South Africa, but who cares?" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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