Chapter 1124 The Civilized Way of the Civilized World (First update, please subscribe)
Africa is the last virgin land!
The last vast piece of virgin land that has not been occupied by any country, of course, does not include the vast southern Africa. This area has long been occupied by the Ming Empire. In fact, it was the occupation and subsequent development of the empire that led to the world's occupation of Africa. After all, the once wilderness has become a "dairy cow" in just a few years.
"…The empire's African colonies are vast, with abundant land resources, a suitable climate, abundant sunshine resources, sufficient labor, and most of the area is tropical with abundant rainfall, which is very suitable for agricultural development. Crops can be harvested three times a year…"
Closing the documents in his hand, Nachdigal, Germany's most famous expert on Africa, spoke in an extremely envious tone.
"Like the Ming Empire, their homeland also has three crops a year. In most of our areas in Germany, we only have one crop a year. But what about here?"
Nahdigar said, pointing to the vast plantation outside the car window.
"They grow rice, corn and wheat and can harvest three times a year..."
“Not all areas either.”
Herman said.
"During the dry season, their plantations often remain fallow, firstly because of insufficient water, and secondly because of fertilizers, as the land needs time to accumulate fertilizers."
"All this will change soon. When we were in the Governor's Mansion, we learned that they are building water conservancy projects in some places. Facilities such as aqueducts will conquer the dry land during the dry season, and the fertilizers produced in their fertilizer factories will also solve the fertilizer problem of the land..."
Nahdigar said as he looked out the car window at a coffee plantation speeding past.
"In terms of operating the colonies in Southwest Africa, we should learn from them and not only make the most of our land resources, but also, for Germany, our colonies are limited. If we cannot make the most of our land resources, how can we provide enough resources for the limited colonies?"
Why are colonies needed?
One is used to accommodate the excessive local population, and the other is to plunder and plunder resources!
This is the fundamental reason why countries seized colonies.
As for markets and commodity dumping, they are just new things that came into being after the Industrial Revolution. Even now, for European countries, what they often need are the resources of the colonies - various tropical crops and agricultural crops.
But for Germany, they... joined this game a little too late. Even until now, they only have a small colony in Southwest Africa.
This is why Germans like Nahdigal envy the Ming Empire - when the world was not paying attention to Africa, the Ming Empire turned most of Africa into its colony. And now this vast colony is like a strong cow, continuously providing precious milk for the development of the empire!
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At ten o'clock in the morning, when the train entered Mombasa, Nahdigal and Herman, who were about to finish their survey of Ming Africa, did not leave immediately, because if they wanted to leave, they needed to wait for the ship.
So after getting off the bus, they went directly to the port. When Hermann went to the shipping company at the dock to ask when there would be a ship to Cairo or Suez, Nahdigar saw a human resources company not far away.
“Human Resources Company.”
With a pipe in his mouth, Nahdigal looked at the car parked outside the human resources company, thoughtfully recalling what he had witnessed during the past two years of investigation.
"Three days. There's a ship going to Cairo in three days. What are you looking at, sir?"
Listening to Herman's question, Nahdigal pointed to the company across the street with his pipe-holding hand and said in a somewhat sarcastic tone,
"Human resources. For them, perhaps, those people are also some kind of resource!"
"Oh, you mean this!"
Herman said with a smile.
"The whole world knows that the Ming Dynasty liberated millions of Brazilian black slaves - this was even one of the justifications for their occupation of Brazil. They not only liberated the black slaves, but also sent them back to their homeland, Africa, where they were abducted by slave traders. The Liberator of Slaves... This is the title many people gave to Emperor Shengde."
"Liberator of slaves..."
Nahdigar sneered.
"Isn't this the most ironic thing? On the one hand, they liberated the slaves and sent a large number of black slaves back to Africa, but on the other hand? They used the labor system to drive a large number of black people to do heavy physical labor for almost no pay. They even set up a human resources company and used a large number of these unpaid laborers in the colonies..."
Although there was absolutely no slavery within the territory of the Ming Empire, in fact, disguised slavery was still common in this country's colonies, especially in Ming Africa. Here, they not only conscripted a large number of laborers through labor, but also hired a large number of laborers through contracts, but the employment period was a little longer.
"Well, sir, you know, this is inevitable. In the colonies, everyone is like this, always trying to squeeze everything as much as possible. However, I think the most interesting thing in this land is another thing."
Herman's rhetorical question made Nahdigal curious.
"What is it?"
"They are the white prisoners of war, the white officers and soldiers they once captured. Most of them have settled in this land. Their wives are often black, and the skin color of their children is a mixture of white and black coffee. Of course, some people have very fair skin..."
When Herman mentioned the white prisoners, Nahdigal thought for a moment and said.
"It's not just them. Even many Japanese people in the Empire mostly marry locals."
The Japanese were the most common foreign workers in the colonies. Of course, their status and income far exceeded those of the locals, and their status in the colonies was second only to the Chinese.
"Yes, but what about them?"
Hermann said, pointing to the natives who were mowing the grass in the flowerbed by the roadside.
"They are either serving as laborers or have signed long-term contracts to work on plantations and farms. They don't even have time to get married or have children. If this continues, sir, what will happen here in the future?"
Facing Herman's question, Nahdigal thought for a moment and then spoke.
"This is indeed a problem, but it is not a problem at all. After all, whether it is the Spaniards in America, the British in Australia and New Zealand, or the Americans in the United States, they are all doing this. Civilization..."
What did the British do in Australia? Under the pretext of protecting the aborigines and improving the lives of indigenous children, they stipulated that the authorities could take away mixed-race indigenous children from indigenous families at will. Their reason was that these mixed-race children had high-quality European blood and had the potential to be educated, while their indigenous mothers did not have the ability to raise and educate them.
Taking Aboriginal children away from their native families and letting them grow up with white education will gradually make them forget their connection with Aboriginal culture. When these Aboriginal children grow up and marry white people, their children and grandchildren will have whiter skin from generation to generation. Eventually, there will be no more black Aboriginal people in Australia, and it will become a genuine "white Australia".
This does not even require several generations, three generations at most will be enough. Of course, these people must be white men and native women. After all, there are many poor white people among the British immigrants, and they also need wives. As for those native boys who cannot find wives... they will gradually be eliminated by nature.
Americans in North America did it more directly. They took Indian girls to church boarding schools and used whips to teach them how to be a "civilized person" and how to be a "qualified American housewife". They taught them how to bathe, wash clothes, cook, and sweep the floor. They forbade them to speak Indian. When they were close to adulthood, like the British, they would organize nearby rednecks to come to school to attend dances.
In a word, they fundamentally eliminated the indigenous people through this systematic reproductive plunder. Of course, all in the name of civilization.
After a pause, Nahdigar said.
"This is the conquest of barbarism by the civilized world!"
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(End of this chapter)
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