After handing over this batch of indigenous South American immigrants and some of the supplies to the Hezhongbao government, Guo Zili completed his first task. His second task was to hand over a letter from the Executive Committee to Mo Ming, the captain of the South African Development Team. The general meaning of the letter had already told him before he set out: There is only one thing, that is, to vigorously capture local indigenous people in South Africa.

In the second half of last year, about 2,500 South African natives were divided into three wholesales for the local area. Except for 500 people taken away by the Ministry of Agriculture, the remaining 2,000 people were used in the Changshanbao iron mine area in the Yihe area. The original 400 miners (700 total population) in the Changshanbao area finally escaped from the sea of ​​suffering. At this moment, they were either engaged in the leisure mining area - dock transportation or equipment maintenance work. The remaining about 200 people were all transferred to supervisors.

At present, with the assistance of a large number of tools, South African miners in the Changshanbao area can mine about 200 tons of iron ore per day on average. These iron ore are crushed and screened and then sent to the wharf through transportation tracks, and transported by inland transport fleets docked on the wharf. Such a mining volume is enough that the iron smelting furnace of Ping'an Iron and Steel Plant will start construction. Once the iron smelting furnace starts, the steel smelting furnace will also start. Next, the downstream machinery plants, arsenals and upstream coking plants can start normal production. By then, the old-fashioned graphite crucibles can finally withdraw from the stage of history.

However, it is not accurate to completely withdraw from the stage of history, because this graphite crucible can artificially control the ratio of graphite and other materials in the crucible during manufacturing, and it is most suitable to smel special steels with different carbon content. Now the east coast is particularly lacking in high-hardness special steels and alloy steels (such as ferrochrome alloys, etc.), and there is no high-hardness alloy steel. It is difficult to rifle the current steel cannon or mature iron barrels.

After tasting the sweetness of using these South African indigenous people, Changshan Iron Mine was also extremely jealous. They reported to the Executive Committee to apply for the use of South African labor dispatch workers, especially brick kiln factories, cement factories, lime factories, and labor-intensive enterprises such as Ping'an Coal Mine and coal washing factories under several major building materials factories, which were even more demanding that labor dispatch workers be introduced.

Faced with the strong demands of industrial and mining enterprises, the Executive Committee had to follow suit, so it was written about the Hezhong Fort in South Africa.

"Tsk, the men from the Executive Committee and the Government Department finally remembered my good news now." After reading it, Mo Ming casually threw the letter on the table and then patted the table. He said, "When I went to the capital at the end of last year, what did those people think of me? When I heard that I was here to ask for people, I was ruling and ruthless. Damn it made me feel like I was begging for food. From the end of last year to now, our Hezhongbao has exported more than 2,500 labor services to the local area. The Executive Committee has sent me the three or four hundred people in front of me, and he is still a damn restless person. In short, I have exchanged 7 South African natives and the Executive Committee for one from the local area. This business is really a loss!"

Guo Zili smiled faintly and ignored Mo Ming's words. The so-called butt determines the head, and Mo Ming's butt sits on the side of Hezhong Fort. Of course, he has to plan for Hezhong Fort, while the Executive Committee needs to consider it comprehensively. The so-called national chess game is also.

Moreover, he himself opposed the use of slaves, and he was a negative attitude, whether it was a state slave or a private slave. These indigenous people sent to their local South Africans said that they were labor dispatches, but in fact they did not pay a penny. At most, they lived better than slaves, and they were really not much different from slaves in other aspects.

Especially those South Africans who work in the Changshan Iron Mine Area, they are overwhelmed by heavy physical labor, and many of them get sick, injured or even die. Several doctors and nurses in the iron mine are simply too busy, and they are first of all, serving those East Coast people, and they rarely treat South African labor dispatch workers. The harsh working environment and heavy physical labor have made these South African labor dispatch workers lose a high rate of staff, and many people are destined to live less than the day when they return to their hometown after three years.

In such a situation, these South African natives began to escape sporadically. However, their escape was destined to be a tragedy. In this deserted hill, they would die of hunger or death by barbarians within a few days. There was no possibility of surviving. Moreover, the armed supervisors were not vegetarians, and they led hunting dogs and llamas carrying equipment, and could catch up with these fugitives within a few days.

The first time the fugitives were sentenced to two years of hard labor, that is, to continue to serve for two years after the three-year labor period expired; the second time, they would be hanged in public, and other labor workers in the same dormitory with him would also receive punishments such as food reduction and whipping. This barbaric system was also stunned when Shao Shude, who created the Changshanbao iron mine area, visited. In his opinion, this cruel, barbaric and inhumane system was almost the same as the Europeans who were doing in the colonies at that time. As young people who had received education in the 21st century, they were indifferent to this cruel system, which is a kind of assimilation. That is, when the time travelers assimilated indigenous people in the 17th century, some of the life concepts of the 17th century indigenous people were also quietly influenced the time travelers, and assimilation was always mutual.

"Your side... uh, does the Eight Banners still have enough population to send?" Guo Zili suddenly asked, looking at Mo Ming with a frown.

"Of course there is no more." Mo Ming sighed, holding his forehead with his hand, and said, "The 2,500 people sent in the past few times were either slaves to the Six Banners or simply people who lowered the Two Banners. There are less than 7,000 people in the Eight Banners. Now there are 2,500 people. Many chiefs and deputy chiefs come to complain to me, saying that no one has made the crops in the field, no one has cut the wool in the sheep pen, no one has peeled the cowhide, or something. In short, they complained about insufficient manpower, and then I was bombarded out. However, although what they said was a little exaggerated, it was basically true that the Eight Banners could not be weakened anymore, otherwise these people would not follow us wholeheartedly."

"That's true." Guo Zili nodded in agreement and said, "They originally wanted to seek protection from us, and the other was to gain some benefits. If you force them too much now, you may indeed force them to rebel."

"It won't be forced." Mo Ming smiled confidently and said, "Don't look at the current chiefs and deputy chiefs, each of them is five or six, but don't forget that I appointed them to the position of these people at the beginning. Since I can arrange them to go, I can arrange them to go. If they are just obsessed with themselves, I think there are many Kral masters (Kral: the basic living unit of the black Bantu, usually ranging from several to dozens of households. Later, it is promoted to the Eight Banners, and the standard Kral is rated for twenty households.) will happily eliminate rebellion for us, so that we can get ourselves to the position. However, it is correct that you can't force too much, and sometimes you have to give them some sweetness."

"So what are you going to do? Continue to organize people to capture South African natives?" Guo Zili asked.

"Yes!" Mo Ming nodded and said, "Last autumn and winter, we organized the first sweep operation, successfully realizing the clearing of the world, and made great contributions to the British who starved to death and trapped the south. This year, I decided to carry out the second sweep in South Africa. The direction of this sweep is mainly in the north, and more accurately, the northeast. There are a large number of nomadic Khoisan tribes, as well as the Xhosa farming tribes who flowed west from the Great Karu Plateau across the continuous mountains. This time I put my target on them. I guess if the action is fast, it will be no problem to capture thousands of people at a time. With these thousands, we can solve our big problem."

Guo Zili nodded silently, and at the same time sighed secretly for the fate of the Koisan and Xhosa people. They should not have suffered such misfortune at this time. It was the arrival of the East Coast people who had been plundered and enslaved by foreign invaders dozens or hundreds of years in advance. The East Coast people are now struggling to survive, without any obligation or strength to teach you to enter the civilized world. Perhaps after the East Coast Republic has enough strength and capital in more than a hundred years, they can give back to your descendants - if your descendants continue.

On February 28, 1639, Mo Ming, the highest commander of the South African Development Team of the East Coast Republic of China, ordered the second major sweep to begin. The major sweep lasted for two months and ended before the busy farming period. The sweep area was north of the Berg River to the two sides of the Lingyang Lake (formerly the Verlore Lake along the coast), and the farthest must not be crossed the Great Salt Pond (Wad Rif Salt Pond, with a seasonal river injected into it); it will go east to the area between the Dongshan Mountains (Cederberg Mountains) and the Xiang River.

The target of the mobilization was all the Koisan and Xhosa tribes living in this area, mainly arresting personnel and robbing property. The troops dispatched included 180 people from the Fourth Company of the South African Governors, 55 new South African cavalry company (reserve troops), 40 artillery company and guards of militia; 300 strong men from the Eight Banners, 100 fugitives from England and Ireland, and a total force of 675 people.
Chapter completed!