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Chapter 159: The March of Suffering (13)

"It's been a long time since we came, and Tiande City has changed a lot. It seems that the management is well done here." After Tang Chengzhi entered the city area, Commander Tang looked around and said with emotion.

"With more people, they will naturally develop. Moreover, don't look at this new city, but the superiors did not allow us to build randomly. Everything is planned. It is clear that wherever we build and where we can't build it. The people from Dapeng Design Firm have been here for more than half a year." Tang Chengzhi said: "Of course, it is also a design within the cost range. After all, there is nothing to do with Tiande City, and it depends entirely on the allocation of funds and things to be allocated by superiors. It is impossible to be too exaggerated."

Commander Tang nodded after hearing this. He just saw a building with stones on its exterior walls carrying many totem statues that were worshipped by blacks. Maybe it was the materials obtained by a temple that was demolished. There was even an underground stone temple that was directly transformed into a material storage warehouse. It can be seen that Tiande City is very concerned about saving costs. After all, their current economy is far from being self-sufficiency.

"Plan in advance! The early cities in China have learned lessons. With more people, the urban areas passively expand outward, making it messy and disliked." Leader Tang said: "In fact, New China Island also has such a problem, even more serious. Colonial cities, people and money are short of both people and money, and they started from a small settlement at the beginning. Fortunately, they have developed and accumulated some capital. Therefore, when the newly seized central plateau is being built, everything has been planned in advance and developed in an orderly manner.

The construction of the capital Da'an City is a model. The design is a famous design institute invited, and the allocation of construction funds has not been severely arrears. Therefore, the entire city is beautiful and integrates the advantages of Chinese classical gardens, modern buildings on the east coast and tropical island style, which makes many newcomers admire it.

Other cities on the Central Plateau are also planning one after another. This highland is vast, with cool climate and outstanding agricultural conditions. In the future, it will be the center of colonial rule for the East Coast people, and will definitely give a large amount of resources. Although the coastal areas have developed early, in the long run, the Central Plateau may not be able to catch up, especially when the extension of the Tadong Railway has penetrated the plateau. Cool and livable are the biggest reasons.

"Is there any difficulty in building Zimbabwe? Captain Wang asked me to ask if there are any difficulties. After all, it is appropriate to help each other by a sea." Captain Tang asked again.

"Oh, Lao Tang, I heard that you are happy, but it's not very suitable. Zimbabwe is still under the jurisdiction of Commissioner Zhu of Yicheng." Tang Chengzhi laughed and said with a smile.

"The Pacification Office has been established. Director Tang, why do you say so much? Zimbabwe's plateau is vast and it will definitely not be all managed by the region. It is highly likely that a separate administrative division will be established in the future, especially after the black people are gradually eliminated." Commander Tang said with disapproval.

Speaking of which, the Pacification Office is somewhat different from the SMAC that is often heard of in the local area. The SMAC Agency implements military laws in its jurisdiction, and the chief officer is the active-duty military personnel. Most of the other officials at all levels are active-duty military personnel or reserve personnel. They are generally located in newly-drawn places or in relatively chaotic places, so as to use relatively fierce military means to deter the enemy and maintain order. The Pacification Office is a new institution and has never been seen before. The Zimbabwe Plateau is the first practice of such an institution.

Like the Military Control Agency, this institution implements high-pressure rule in its jurisdiction, but there are more or less differences. First of all, there are no large number of troops here, and even the militia system has not been fully established. After all, there are few people, which can be understood [Zhengling Bookstore.com]. At present, only the Yicheng area and the Hezhong area have taken turns to send two county security groups to guard and clear out the remaining black local security groups in the local area. Although the army has been training and management, the theoretically county government also has jurisdiction, which is a typical dual management.

Secondly, a strict police and spy agency was established within the jurisdiction of the Pacification Office. The Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a large number of police officers, commonly known as the "armed police", to maintain the safety of traffic lines. The construction of various settlements, stationed police and patrol systems was also very rapid, and it can even be said to be a little ahead of the times. The number of people was very large, mainly used to maintain the safety of towns and important villages.

Third, the State Administration of Intelligence also intervenes in local affairs in large quantities. They sent out capable teams, from senior analysts to ordinary agents, each with their own secret police team. Because of the particularity of their work, they often gain the dominance of their actions, so you can see that the big spy Tang Chengzhi was elected as the director of the Zimbabwe Pacification Office.

It can be said that this appeasement office is a tool for civil servants to trick out against the Military Control Agency of the Military Control Agency. They really don’t want to see that the military forces are developing rapidly in the newly developed land, and they have arranged countless officials, so it will be difficult to clean up in the future. Therefore, on the treasure land of the Zimbabwe Plateau, they are determined not to "make mistakes again" and must hold the dominance firmly in their own hands, although it is difficult to say whether this is effective or not.

The Zimbabwe Pacification Office is currently under the jurisdiction of the region, but it should be noted that the two are actually the same in administrative levels, because there is a great possibility of independent districts in the future. As the director of the Pacification Office, Tang is likely to be directly transferred to the regional commissioner of the regional administration in the future. From this perspective, he is indeed qualified to make some claims on the development of the region.

"Now there are only a few towns in Zimbabwe, with a total population of no more than 20,000. There is no economic success, mainly agriculture and animal husbandry." Tang Chengzhi and the leader Tang talked and chatted while walking, and only heard him say, "It's so shameful to talk about it. In this situation, we have not even done the most basic agriculture and animal husbandry well. The agricultural conditions that can produce oil in the soil still rely on other places to supply food. I am ashamed."

"It's mainly troubles in the animal husbandry industry." Tang Chengzhi added: "According to a long-term investigation by the Ministry of Health, the coneworms carried by the Cuicui flies have caused great difficulties in animal husbandry production. Once the cattle are bitten, they will soon lose weight and eventually die. The cattle and sheep we rushed here before were all brought to the north after they were fattened and sent to the north for those in the marching columns. They usually mainly slaughter because the Cuicui flies are too powerful."

"Is there no prevention and control?" Commander Tang also worked in this area for two years and knew a little about it, but unfortunately, there was no particularly good solution until he left.

"There are some methods, but the effect is just that." Tang Chengzhi sighed and said, "We found that the main tsy flies living in the Zimbabwe Plateau area. After they lay eggs, the larvae will quickly turn into pupas, and then immediately drill into the wet and soft soil or sand. The method we used is to clear the bushes along the river and prevent wild animals from entering the livestock area. Because we found that the range within about five kilometers of the breeding area of ​​the Cuicui flies is their main activity area. In fact, this method can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, it can only alleviate the problem, and cannot completely eradicate the problem. Experts from the Ministry of Health believe that using a large amount of insecticides in the breeding area and living area of ​​the Cuicui flies is the most effective method, but this is actually not easy, because we do not have any long-term insecticides at present. This needs to be solved by the chemical department, but I don't expect there will be any progress in the short term."

In fact, colonizing Africa is so painful. Zimbabwe is pretty good, and the soil texture is first-class. Going further north, the forest is dense, the climate is humid and hot, and all kinds of strange diseases or parasites are emerging one after another, which is enough to make any colonist afraid. The local black people have initially adapted to the local environment after generations of life, but the East Coast people are not good! When they go, the mortality rate will be unbearable. The Kurians in the Congo River Basin will tell you their bitter colonial history. It is really hard for me!

So, you may now understand why the East Coast people have only colonized South Africa, Zimbabwe Plateau, the Namib Desert and New Huaxia Island without any decent competitors. It is really difficult! The northward, the worse the land, the less friendly the environment, the lower the income, and it is really not worth it!

For those places, let Malawi and the kingdoms of Lu'angua go to trouble. Anyway, it is not necessarily impossible to develop. At worst, there are more people who die and spend more money. The lives of people in the East Coast are precious and not worth investing in that kind of consumption.

"The future of Zimbabwe still depends on the planting industry. We cannot waste this excellent soil." Tang Chengzhi said in a certain tone: "At present, we first choose to solve our own grain problems, so we mainly focus on this at this stage. When you come, you should see that there are large areas of farms opened around Tiande City, which are all the land of the national grain reserve warehouse circle. In the future, large mechanized operations will be implemented. There is no way, there are few people. If this is done well, it will definitely bring great benefits to the local area."

Commander Tang nodded after hearing this. A prominent feature of large mechanized farms is their high production efficiency. If this model is vigorously promoted on the Zimbabwe Plateau, the produced grain will be extremely competitive in price. In the future, if a dense railway network is built on this plateau, so that its products can be transported to the beach at relatively low logistics costs, then almost no grain production is needed in Xinhuaxia Island, Yicheng, Hezhong, etc., just import it directly. The quantity is large and cheap, which is great.
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