The topography of Portuguese East Africa is like a giant pincer, with the jaws at the northern end being Nyasaland, and the northwestern salient surrounded by Nyasaland and Rhodesia, and Tete in the center of this salient.

Between 1888 and 1893, the Portuguese colonial authorities established the Mozambique, Niassa and Zambezia companies, which were granted concessions in Portuguese East Africa, similar to the British concessions granted to South African companies, which controlled two-thirds of the territory of Portuguese East Africa.

Tete is under the purview of the Zambezia company.

Tete's whites are miserable indeed.

Prior to this, the white people in Portuguese East Africa enjoyed the treatment of emperors, and the white people in the whole Portuguese East Africa were about 30,000, which was not worth mentioning in front of the Yao people with a total population of 3.5 million.

The whites of Portuguese East Africa are not pure Portuguese, and the immigrants of this era are very free, so the whites of Portuguese East Africa come from various European countries, and these whites are basically broken down before immigration, and they really can't get along in their own country, so they choose to immigrate.

It is conceivable what kind of quality the people who can't get along can be imagined, so the whites in the colonies are generally very arrogant, and the tyranny and extortion are basic operations, and the whites of the Congo Free State are a model of evil, they burn, kill, loot and do all kinds of evil, and even idle and boring to test marksmanship with the natives as the target, which is more brutal than the devils of a certain period.

The whites of Portuguese East Africa are not as brutal as the whites of the Congo Free State, at least the whites of Portuguese East Africa will not kill the Yao people.

This is not because of the kindness of the white people of Portuguese East Africa, but because the white people of Portuguese East Africa want to trade the Yao people for profit, and from the 17th century, Portugal exported slaves from Portuguese East Africa, and by the 18th century, slaves had replaced gold and ivory as the main export commodities of the Zambezi River Valley.

Commodity!

The slave trade in Portuguese East Africa continued until the end of the 19th century, not because the Portuguese conscience found it, but if the slave trade was carried out again, then the Yao people in Portuguese East Africa would be sold out by the Portuguese, so from the end of the 19th century, Portugal implemented a forced labor system in Portuguese East Africa, and began to export a large number of indentured laborers to neighboring countries, that is, Rhodesia and Tanganyika.

These laborers were still slaves at heart, except that the Portuguese business method changed from a one-time buyout to a lease.

Relying on the slave trade, the Portuguese lived a "happy" life in Portuguese East Africa, either on plantations or in business.

This "happiness" must be illusory, all the gifts of God are secretly marked with a price, and now, it is time for the Portuguese to pay the price.

Almost overnight, the Yao people around Tete disappeared, and many plantations in remote areas were murdered by slaves.

When the news broke, almost all the plantation owners fled back to Tete, only to find that there were no Yao people left in Tete, and the happy Portuguese East Africa soon became a hell.

When there was an "endless" number of Yao people to enslave, Portuguese East Africa was indeed happy.

Without the Yao, the whites of Portuguese East Africa found that they had to mow their own gardens and lawns, cook their own meals, clean their own doors, and open the doors for their guests.

It was at this time that many white people in Portuguese East Africa realized that all aspects of their lives were inseparable from the Yao people, and without the Yao people, many white people had degraded to the point where they could not even take care of themselves.

It's amazing, among the white people in Portuguese East Africa, many people have never cooked or washed their clothes since they were born, and the vast majority of people don't know that the freshly squeezed milk has to be boiled before drinking, so it is simply a tragedy to leave the white people of the Yao people.

In just three days, the white people of Tete realized that they could not live without the Yao people, so the Zambesia Company organized a 200-person slave hunting team, ready to catch some Yao people back to continue the white slavery as in the past.

A day later, the slave hunting team returned in vain, leaving the 200 people in Tete, only 13 people returned to Tete, and these 13 people almost did not hesitate after returning to Tete, and after packing up the softness, they took their families and left Tete as quickly as possible.

It's so fast that you don't even have time to sell the property.

So Tete fell into a great panic, at this time, Tete, because the telegraph line was broken, had cut off all external contact, Lorenzo Marguis did not know what happened to Tete, and Tete could not ask Lorenzo Marguis for help.

The thirteen families who had left Teth did not go far, and soon they returned to Tete in the form of being hung on the cross.

Roque sent "military observers" to Portuguese East Africa only at the end of March, and by early May, Tete was on the verge of collapse.

That's how powerful the countryside is to encircle the city.

Roque didn't know anything about what happened to Tete, and even if he knew, he didn't care, and Roque's current focus was on Nyasaland, and he couldn't even care about Johannesburg.

The construction of Nyasaland is advancing rapidly, and the Chinese who have left the big quagmire of the Qing Kingdom cherish the opportunity to live, and their mood when they first arrived in Nyasaland is undoubtedly apprehensive, but this apprehension disappears after a full meal.

Roque still did not explain that all Chinese who arrived in Nyasaland had to cut off their braids on their heads, wash off the dust on their bodies, and change into the clothes prepared for them by the agricultural company before they could sit in the spacious and bright canteen to eat.

The logistics provided by Xiao Si are still very good, the canteen daily supply of fruits, bread, mashed potatoes, vegetables, broth, fish, and milk and eggs specially prepared for children, the broth here is different from the kind of clear soup with only a few oil stars floating on the surface, it is a real meat broth, the meat comes from the wild animals around Lake Niasa, the boys of the militia group have to conduct field training every day, the wild animals near the Nyasa Lake are unlucky, and the boys of the militia group eat whatever they get.

In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the Chinese, Roque promised that after the completion of Xiaoshi Town and Xiaoshi Port, all workers involved in the construction will each receive a reward of one acre of land.

All the Chinese who knew the news were going crazy, even women and children were helping on the construction site day and night, the Chinese people's obsession with the land was incomparable, Henry had already seen it, and Xiao Si didn't know it yet, so Xiao Si now simply lives on Likoma Island to witness the birth of Little Rock Town and Little Rock Harbor.

"If you think it's a miracle, then in the future, such miracles will be repeated in Nyasaland, and one day you will become accustomed to it." It's no wonder that the Chinese have created many miracles, and the speed of construction is only one of them.

"Locke, I kind of understand now why you're always confident." Xiao Si has a new understanding of the Chinese community, and this time it is no longer limited to Roque personally.

Compared with whites and blacks, the advantages of the Chinese are obvious.

The white people in Africa are spoiled, these broken settlements and "poor whites" go to Africa, they become the emperor of the soil or the master, the mentality of the poor and rich has overwhelmed the minds of the vast majority of people, and they begin to do misdeeds, incorruptible and shameless, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil.

The whites of the Congo Free State and Portuguese East Africa have no shame, the whites of the Cape are not much better, the blacks are also slaves in the Cape, they have no status at all, for hundreds of years, the blacks have been slaughtered by the whites, enslaved, and bought and sold as commodities at will, and the blacks who dare to resist have been killed, and the vast majority of the remaining blacks are insensitive, do not know how to resist, and do not dare to resist, and work as hard as livestock.

The presence of the Chinese in Africa is definitely a breath of fresh air.

Different from the tyranny of whites, different from the numbness of blacks, the Chinese are hardworking and brave, they are smart and kind, they do their own food and clothing, do not enslave blacks, do not flatter whites, build their own farms, build their own homes, do not beg when they are hungry, and donate excess milk to schools instead of pouring them into the river when they live a rich life. So Si didn't want to leave Nyasaland.

"Cecil, now is just the beginning, sooner or later, Nyasaland will shock everyone." Roque has always been very confident that as long as the Chinese are given enough space and full freedom, the energy of the Chinese can sweep the world.

About every other week, a shipload of Chinese would arrive in Nyasaland, each with a ticket of £15, and the Nyasaland Agricultural Company signed an agreement with the owner of the ship transporting the Chinese, requiring the owner to take proper care of the Chinese during the voyage.

After the Chinese arrived in Nyasaland, the agricultural company would conduct random visits to the Chinese who had just arrived in Nyasaland, and if there were reports that the shipowner had mistreated the Chinese during the voyage, or if more than 5% of the Chinese died during the voyage, the owner would have to compensate the agricultural company for the losses at the same time as the agreement was terminated.

In the agreement signed between the agricultural company and the shipowner, these immigrant Chinese were the property of the agricultural company, and the shipowner accidentally damaged the "cargo" of the cargo owner, and compensation was a matter of course.

Although the name is not very good, these agreements still protect the safety of the Chinese to the greatest extent, and the Chinese continue to arrive in Nyasaland, from the end of March when the first ship of Chinese arrived in Nyasaland, to the end of May, nearly 30,000 Chinese arrived in Nyasaland in just two months.

Most of these Chinese were placed in Little Rock Town-

It is no longer a small rock town, and a settlement of more than 10,000 people is qualified to be called a city, so now small rock town is called "Little Rock Town".

Some of the Chinese went to the northernmost tip of Lake Nyasa, where a new port city was under construction, and the port was called Xuanwu Port, which was very oriental.

Considering the poor transportation in Nyasaland, the early development of Nyasaland must have revolved around Lake Nyasa, and the transportation of means of production and food also depended on Lake Nyasa, so the agricultural company established a shipping company early, purchased six ships for inland navigation from the British mainland, and prepared to set up its own shipyard in Boulder.

"Shipbuilding looks very complicated, in fact, it is very simple, the merchant ship does not pursue protection and attack, only the pursuit of tonnage and speed, the current diesel engine is not complicated, as long as there are suitable materials, in Nyasaland can be produced locally, and the use of diesel engine merchant ships, with more power than the steam engine, the operation is also quite stable, we can completely produce our own inland waterway transport for commercial ships, not only for their own use, but also for sale." Duncan, the manager of the agricultural company, had studied shipbuilding in England and was now back in his old job.

"Don't think so far ahead, let's build a fishing boat or something now, and then I can be sure to build a merchant ship again." Roque is not good at being ambitious, Nyasaland is now a blank sheet of paper, which can be played by Roque at will, but he must also take his time little by little according to the basic rules, and he can't become a fat man by eating in one bite.

For example, when making bullets, having a machine does not mean that everything is fine, and now the raw materials have to be purchased, and it is estimated that they will not be able to produce them by themselves within three to five years.

The same goes for shipbuilding, everyone knows that shipbuilding is very profitable, the center of the world's shipbuilding industry is the United Kingdom, Britain can benefit from a relatively complete industrial chain for shipbuilding, Nyasaland now has nothing, even the steel needed for shipbuilding can not be produced by itself, it is useless to think too far, look up at the distance and look down at the road at the same time.

For Nyasaland at present, fishing boats are more useful than merchant ships.

Nyasaland is a freshwater lake, and there are about 200 species of freshwater fish living in the lake, which can provide enough nutrients for the Chinese, so fishing will be the main project of the agricultural company for a long time before the farm is stable and profitable.

Now the agricultural company has organized a fishing team of more than 200 people and 10 fishing boats to fish in Lake Niasa every day to supplement the nutrition of the Chinese who built Little Rock.

The fish in Lake Nyasa are unlucky, in the past, the whites and Africans near Lake Nyasa did not like to eat fish very much, after all, the wild animals nearby could not eat it all, so the fish in Lake Nyasa were a little overflowing, these fish did not know to dodge after seeing the fishing boat, not to mention reaching the level of "scooping fish", basically a fishing boat is three or five nets can be filled.

Therefore, the Chinese who built Little Rock are very nutritious, it doesn't matter if Xiao Si buys beef or not, the chef in the canteen stews fish soup every day, not because he can't do other ways, but he can't do it, there are too many fish, fried and cooked one by one, and the chef can be tired to death.

"After the scale of Little Rock reaches a certain level, we will start the construction of the farm, and as for the tractor you mentioned, we will also send people to Europe and the United States to purchase it at the same time, and when the samples come back, we will study whether there is a possibility of replication." Duncan has a certain understanding of the internal combustion engine, but he does not know it in detail, and he still needs Roque's guidance on how to use it.

In fact, Roque doesn't understand the internal combustion engine, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand it, the agricultural company now also has the so-called "tape measure department", which can't be designed, so it can be imitated first.