Chapter 74: "Purge" Movement
In response to Ernst's instructions.
Starting from April 3, 1867, after several meetings, the top leaders of the East African colonial government decided to launch a one-year "purge" campaign.
Just from the literal meaning, we can know that the so-called "purge" was aimed at the indigenous people in the colonies, to sort out and eliminate the unstable factors in the East African colonies.
And this destabilizing factor is the local indigenous people and tribes.
In order to mobilize manpower from the entire East African colony to complete this operation, the East African colonial government directly assigned tasks to each immigration base according to the region.
Each stronghold was required to bring its own dry food and encircle and suppress the indigenous people and tribes around the villages and towns.
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Kagongo Town is a town under the jurisdiction of Kigoma in the Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika) region.
Today, the town of Kagongo posted a notice on the village bulletin board about the "purge" campaign issued by the East African colonial government.
The immigrants knew the role of the bulletin board. Whenever there was any major action, the colonial government would post the corresponding policies and instructions here.
All official documents in the colony were written in German. As the most educated group in the East African colonies, the German mercenaries, with their primary school education, had unquestionable say in the East African colonies.
Only the students of the Hexingen Military Academy and the African managers sent by the Hexingen Group have relatively higher academic qualifications.
But they also considered themselves Germans, and in their hearts they classified themselves as the same kind as the mercenary groups.
In short, the German-speaking people in colonial East Africa were a unified group and a ruling class.
Even Chinese immigrants and immigrants from the Austrian Empire, as long as they could speak German, would be assigned to important positions and be treated as one of their own.
The simple economic structure of the East African colonies meant that the personnel of government agencies at all levels in the East African colonies did not need to have very strong abilities.
The simple economic structure and crude collective management model of the colonies resulted in only a crude legal operating model.
After all, the colony has almost no other industries except agriculture. Everyone works from sunrise to sunset according to the company's indicators, and there is no extra entertainment industry.
Under the simple lifestyle, economic crimes have no market in the current East African colonies, and immigrants are honest farmers and harsh and serious retired soldiers. There is no soil for "anti-intellectualism" to survive.
Kagongo Town Hall, notice board.
Early in the morning, government workers posted freshly printed German documents on a wooden bulletin board for display.
Unlike in the past, there was no speaker present to explain the content of the new policy.
Several immigrants gathered under the bulletin board to discuss the contents above.
"Lao Liu, what does it say?"
"You ask me, who should I ask? I only recognize the words 'village', 'gun', and 'expel'. I guess there will be a fight, almost certain."
Lao Liu knew these words thanks to their high frequency of use in East African colonies, especially since new immigrants would undergo a short period of military training.
That is, during military training, the instructors will teach some simple and necessary vocabulary.
While immigrants are still guessing what is written on it.
A soldier dressed as a colonial soldier walked to the bulletin board, picked up the bugle on his waist and blew it.
“Woo…woo…woo…”
Other townspeople also began to gather near the bulletin board following the East African Colony's rally call. More and more people came to discuss the matter, and for a while the town bulletin board was bustling with noise.
Soon, the mayor and high-ranking civil and military officials of Kagongo Town arrived, and the soldiers began to set up the venue.
A small wooden platform was temporarily built, and the soldiers invited the mayor and others to the stage to speak.
The mayor of Kagongo, Go Sin Kusi, walked onto the stage with a big belly and began to interpret the latest instructions from the colonial government.
The military commander, Carson Block (a student at the Hechingen Military Academy), was responsible for translation with a loud speaker.
"Town residents, just yesterday we received instructions from our superiors in the East African colonial government."
The meeting room was completely silent, and everyone listened carefully to the mayor's speech. After all, the content on the bulletin board was usually closely related to themselves.
"In order to strengthen the level of public security management in the colony and prevent the destruction and threats caused by savages (the official name of the East African colonial government for the indigenous people) to the production and life of the colony."
"Every village and town under the jurisdiction of the colonial government should be cleaned up, and the savages and their tribes within its jurisdiction should be arrested, rounded up and destroyed."
The crowd began to whisper to each other.
"This means we are going to strike hard at the natives again!"
"Of course, otherwise where would we get the land to farm from? We must have robbed it."
"What do you mean by robbing? The natives here don't make a living by farming. This is all wasteland. We are here to open up the wasteland. There is no name on the land, so whoever plants it owns it."
"You're right. There's no use for the natives to have these lands. They can hunt everywhere. These lands should be used to grow crops, not to raise lions, leopards and jackals."
Immigrants have no psychological burden at all. The discussion of right and wrong is too far away from the farmers who make a living from the land. Filling their stomachs is much more practical than any kind of morality.
We all come from feudal countries and feudal countries in transition to industrialized countries, and our thinking naturally remains at the level of peasants in the feudal era.
Although black people were the indigenous people of the vast land of East African colonies, the first government in East Africa was indeed the East African Colonial Government.
Only the government can grant ownership to the land. If you don't believe it, just look at the indigenous people. They only know that they survive on this land, and their understanding of the nature of the land is that they can hunt and pick fruits there.
Immigrants have the concept of land ownership, and the land in the East African colonies is all private property of the Hei Xingen Consortium.
The status of immigrants is between serfs and industrial workers. They have no right to choose, but their basic human rights are protected by law.
Although there were no courts or judicial organs in the East African colonies, Prussian law was implemented by default, but it was not specifically enforced.
The coexistence of rule by man and rule by law is the current situation in East African colonies, similar to the "Three Articles of Law" between Liu Bang and the people, or the Twelve Tables of Rome.
There is a boundary that is both specific and vague.
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The mayor continued, “In order to respond to the government’s call, our Kagongo Town will also organize manpower to carry out a siege in and around Kagongo Town.”
As the order was issued, the town of Kagongo and its subordinate villages recruited more than a thousand temporary soldiers, issued weapons to them, and cooperated with the Kigoma Municipal Government and its subordinate villages to carry out a "cleansing" campaign in the entire Solon Lake area.
For a moment, the entire Lake Solon area and the East African colonies were filled with gunfire, and it seemed like a huge battlefield.
(End of this chapter)
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