According to the official statistics of southern Africa, there are 100,000 Chinese in the Zambezi River Valley.

Corresponding to these 100,000 Chinese are hundreds of thousands of Africans hired by Nyasaland officials from southern Africa, the Kingdom of Mozambique, and the Congo Free State.

At one point, Roque decided that the Chinese could build Nyasaland into a paradise on earth, even without the involvement of Africans.

This is not true, but it turns out that with the participation of Africans, the pace of Roque's development of Nyasaland will be greatly accelerated.

And Africans in this era really don't have as many problems as in another time and space, lazy, idle, and so on, of course, Africans also have these problems, but under the strict laws and regulations of the colony, Africans really don't dare to be lazy, don't dare to be idle, and the guys with these problems, basically the wild grass on the grave is already three feet high-

No one sees this as an abuse of Africans.

And the key point is that African human resources in this era are really cheap, and an adult African, if hired, only needs a few pennies a day.

Even if you buy an adult labour, it won't cost more than five pounds, and Africans won't even consider it an insult to them, because white colonizers have treated Africans this way for hundreds of years, and for Africans of this age, that's their fate.

Nyasaland is also different from other regions in its use of Africans.

Including southern Africa, in all the colonies in Africa, the existence of Africans is equivalent to free labor, and many colonists will even take the initiative to marry Africans in order to get more free labor in the future, so although Africans do not have any political rights, in Africa, Africans still have a lot of room for survival.

This is not the case in Nyasaland, which has never taken the initiative to buy African labor, let alone accept Africans to settle in Nyasaland, including those prisoners of war in the Natal rebellion, and when Nyasaland uses them, it will also pay them salaries and treat affiliations as if they were employment.

The biggest advantage of this is that there are no hidden dangers, and hundreds of thousands of Africans in Nyasaland have formed more than a dozen different construction companies, which have played a huge role in the development of the Zambezi River basin in Nyasaland.

When they come to a new area, they first level the land, set up a rudimentary camp, then build roads, repair water, clear wasteland, clear wildlife that threatens humans, and when the area becomes suitable for human settlement, the construction workers drive away from the area for the next undeveloped area.

What is left for the newcomers is a sheltered camp, a standard road to communicate with, and thousands, if not tens of thousands, of acres of undeveloped farmland.

In the Zambezi River Valley, there are about 1,000 people in almost every settlement, and the camps they live in have a certain defensive function, and all adults receive regular weapons training, and those who excel in the training will join the militia group, and those who excel can participate in the selection of the army and have the opportunity to become an honorable professional soldier.

Once someone in a family becomes a professional soldier, then all taxes of the family are exempted, and the government of Nyasaland will also give out benefits every year, free seeds, livestock, fertilizer, and daily necessities, so in Nyasaland, joining the army is a very honorable thing, this is not a verbal slogan, but a good reputation established with real benefits.

Roque's dedication to the Zambezi River basin has been earth-shattering.

During the Portuguese colonial period, Dylan Karami and Sidney Richards' farms were in Tete, the largest city in the Zambezi River Basin, so they know the situation in the Zambezi River Basin at that time.

Tete is still the largest city in the middle reaches of the Zambezi River Basin, and as for the entire Zambezi River Basin, the largest city has become Port Edward, and Tete has a new name called River.

No, according to the custom of white people, it should be called "Xinhejian".

Compared with the Portuguese colonial period, the change of the city of New River is not only the name, but more importantly, the white and Chinese, as well as Africans, can live in harmony and work together to build a new river.

Although the city of New Riverland certainly did not belong to those Africans in the end, the Africans also showed great enthusiasm in building New River, which is what made Dylan Karami and Sidney Richards yearn for Nyasaland.

Compared with Lorenço Marques, who was full of contradictions and sharp antagonisms between various ethnic groups, the stability of Nyasaland was the envy of Dylan Karami and Sidney Richards, although Nyasaland showed strong aggression in recent years, and the border areas and the Congo Free State and Tanganyika clashed constantly, but the construction in Nyasaland did not stagnate, which was obviously very beneficial to the emerging bourgeoisie led by Dylan Karami and Sidney Richards.

Placing Dylan Calami and Sidney Richards at the Capet Hotel in Little Rock, Roque immediately called Christian and Louis Broad.

After the federal government was formed, Christian's position became Nyasara's Minister of the Interior, while Louis Broad had left Yaya's jurisdiction and became Brad's head of the Zambezi River Valley.

Roque's support for Lorenzo Marques was through Christian and Louis Broad.

"Lorenzo Marques is of course very good, there are well-developed farms, there are excellent seaports on the east coast of Africa, there are colonial bases that the Portuguese have carefully built over the centuries, and in all fairness, the natural conditions of Port Edward are not as good as those of Lorenzo Marques, and we should have driven the Portuguese out of place a long time ago, otherwise Southern Africa would not be a complete Southern Africa." Christian has long coveted Lorenço Marques, which is understandable, because it is because of the unique natural conditions of Lorenço Marques that the Portuguese chose to use Lorenço Marques as the center of colonization in Africa, rather than other ports.

"It's very simple to support Lorenço Marques, the Portuguese are not Germans after all, when Tanganyika is in chaos, Germany can still transfer troops from the mainland to support, Portugal is now too busy to take care of itself, the king is on the verge of being deposed, and there is no power to quell the chaos of Lorenço Marques-" Louis Brod is relaxed, Louis Brod has been active in the North Sea basin before, facing Tanganyika, which is in an arms race with Britain, and now it is replaced by Portugal, Louis Brod really feels no difficulty, The Portuguese and Germans were not at all opponents in the same rank.

"Well, I'll admit it's not difficult, but don't let that make you careless, and remember, don't let the Portuguese get the hang of it." Roque was not worried that Christian and Louis Broad would not be able to complete the task, and specially advised, mainly because he was worried that the Portuguese would bite back before they died.

As long as Nyasaland was involved in the rebellion of Lorenço Marques, it was certain that the Portuguese would not be able to retreat in their entirety.

This is the sorrow of small countries and widows, they don't need to be compared with Britain, even if they are compared with southern Africa, or even if Nyasaland is singled out, Portugal is not strong, and Lorenzo Marques only has 100,000 square kilometers left, which can be described as a small land, so the Portuguese are decided, and the only suspense is that if the Portuguese lose a complete defeat, will they use a weak image to build momentum in the international arena and affect the reputation of Britain and southern Africa.

After all, nominally, Britain and Portugal are still allies, and if the Portuguese seize the handle of Nyasaland, it will really have some impact on Britain's reputation in the world, after all, the current colonial system is dominated by Britain and France.

In terms of "exporting", Christian and Louis Broad are also experts, even the Germans can't do anything with Christian and Louis Broad, let alone the Portuguese.

So Christian and Louis Broad grinned and then turned back to a series of punches.

The most effective weapon for exporting to the outside world is, of course, mercenaries.

Don't forget that Louis Broad himself was a mercenary, and Christian had several construction companies under him, and some of the construction companies in this year were not only construction workers, but also had a strong armed force to effectively manage tens of thousands of workers, so Louis Broad and Christian easily arranged for hundreds of mercenaries to go to Lorenço Marques to join the Labor Party and participate in the battle against the royalists.

A few hundred sounds like a little small, but it was enough for Lorenço Marques, whose whites combined were only a few hundred thousand, and the royalists even had to form an African force to deal with the strong pressure from the Labour Party.

This reflects the contradiction of the Portuguese themselves, who on the one hand oppressed the Africans to meet their domestic needs, and on the other hand, they needed to rely on the power of the Africans to protect their interests in the colonies.

In this case, when the Africans are incapable, they can only be forced by the Portuguese and helpless, but once an external force intervenes, the strength of the Africans' resistance can be imagined.

So the situation in Lorenço Marques quickly collapsed, and in mid-January 1909, the Labour forces completely defeated the Royalist forces in Manisa, about 50 kilometers from Lorenço Marques, and won control of Lorenço Marques, before Dylan Calamy and Sidney Richards had even left Nyasaland.

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