"Major Huck, this is the labor we have sent you this month, there are 2,000 of them, the Mbendu people, all young men from 20 to 30 years old, absolutely in good physical condition, and free from any infectious diseases or bad habits. They are obedient and have some mining experience, and they are definitely the best miners you can handle. Portuguese businessman Navarro said respectfully.

"Yes, that's good. If the labor you provide this time can be the same as last time, then you can also provide the labor next year. As soon as Major Huck finished speaking, Navarro handed over a check.

"Stinky boy, don't use this thing to buy me, Lao Tzu is not short of this money! I'd like to spend more time in Lüderitz Bay! Do your job well and put more effort into your business! Colonel Huck immediately pushed the check back, and watched cautiously at the civil affairs officers who were not far away as they were about to receive the laborers.

Major Huck is getting more and more fond of life now. The helplessness, pain, and even resentment of his first arrival in Africa have been thrown into the Atlantic. After more than five years of construction, the current Lüderitz Bay is no longer what it used to be. Towns that have developed around diamond mining have been able to provide a high quality of life for all. In the "special zone" controlled by the Kingdom of Bavaria, there were 2,000 Germans and 11,000 "natural" blacks, as well as tens of thousands of migrant laborers. And Major Huck is one of the core personnel who manages this 80,000 square kilometer area!

Recalling the hard life when he first came, and thinking about the orders given to him by His Royal Highness the Prince, Major Huck is now admiring his master more and more, it is simply too prescient! Although Major Huck has the title of nobleman, he is a complete turtle, and the largest city he has ever visited is Munich. For more than 20 years, the trajectory of life has not left Bavaria. His image of Africa is undoubtedly backward, barbaric, black javelin, terrible poison and so on.

As a cavalry officer. He was not afraid of any enemy, and when he came to Africa with confidence, the biggest problem they encountered was not the hostility of the blacks. It's no one. That's right, you read that right, it's no one! Anyone in the future will be able to know the situation in Namibia at a glance. The area of 820,000 square kilometers is about the same as the area of four and a half Hebei provinces. The result was only 2.4 million. Not enough for 3 people per square kilometer! And this is the population at the beginning of the 21st century!

If you go back to 1895, under the bayonets of the German colonists in a harsh environment, you can imagine how many people can be here, and how many people can't even figure out the colonists, after all, there was no hukou in this place at that time, and Germany didn't bother to care about it, but one thing is certain is that there are very few people.

Then Major Huck was immediately transformed from a cavalry officer to a contractor! No way, diamond mines must be mined! If you can't find African laborers, you'll have to let Huck pick their own pickaxes! Huck once protested to the prince, believing that it was an insult to himself to let a soldier do this!

Then the prince decisively gave him two choices. The first option is to give you 1 million marks, no matter what method is used to solve the problem of labor shortage and means of subsistence. The second option is to get out of here immediately, and Lao Tzu will find someone else! A group of down-and-out aristocrats in Bavaria waiting for promotion, quite a few of you!

At the critical moment, Dr. Itmer did Major Huck a great favor, as an old fritter who had been in South Africa for a long time, the doctor had a good relationship with the Boers and the British, after all, he found a lot of gold mines. The British needed him to open mines, and he also recommended the Boers to buy weapons. Eat on both sides!

On the recommendation of the Doctor, the British provided Major Huck with a group of black laborers, each of whom cost around £40. These were all rebels and their families in British South Africa, and they were disposed of at a low price to Major Huck on the principle that out of sight is net, and if they were sold, they could be repaid.

In the face of the 500 black buddies sent by the British who were actually slaves, Huck did not have the idea of directly squeezing out the labor force of the other party with the capitalists of the same period! The reason is simple. If these people end up on their knees, then Huck himself will have to lead the pickaxe! What's more, Major Huck also works for people, and he is not the boss, and the boss approves the funds, and he just uses them.

Of course. Some people will think about corruption, but Huck and others quickly figured out the current situation, even if you get money, how do you spend it in Africa? What you buy on the black market is just too expensive, ridiculously expensive! Moreover, the rations sent by regular domestic steamships were sufficient, and it became more popular in later generations to say that the means of subsistence could already be distributed according to needs. Anyway, there were only a few hundred Germans at the beginning. As for sending the money back home? Thinking too much, there is a special person in charge of the incoming and outgoing emails, and if it is discovered, it is really impossible to eat and walk around.

If you want someone to do the work for you, you must at least have enough to eat first. Although the food was not good, in order to ensure the progress and quality of the project, Major Huck was still in charge of the amount of food. And this treatment is already heaven for the black buddies who have just come out of the concentration camp! The black buddies who came here saw that life was okay, and they didn't plan to resist or run away.

The crows in the world are as black as the crows, but the black compatriots in the world are not a family! Where did those people come from when the Europeans were engaged in the slave trade? The Europeans themselves caught only a small part, and the vast majority of them were caught by the black tribes against each other! When the blacks from South Africa arrived in Namibia, they were unaccompanied. Even if you escape, not to mention whether you can eat or not, it is possible to be caught as a slave!

Therefore, after ensuring the basic nutritional supply of black laborers, the black people chose to cooperate very honestly. And a small number of high-ranking officers, such as Huck, also asked for heavy manual labor and began to engage in some more valuable and creative activities! Because they find that the vegetables and grain shipped from their home country are too expensive, and it will be cheaper if they buy them locally, but the problem is that there is not enough local food to eat.

"Damn capitalists, farmers!" As a colonist, Huck cursed his fellow German colleagues who were colonists more than once, not because of the high level of thinking of Major Huker, but because the actions of the capitalists and farmers harmed Major Huck's interests. They did make a lot of money by promoting the cultivation of a single cash crop on a large area, but the consequences of this were all paid for by the German colonial government!

The direct consequence of all the cultivation of cash crops is a significant reduction in food production, and in terms of population and land relations in Namibia, it stands to reason that there will never be a shortage of food. And after such a toss by the farmers, there was a shortage of food, and it was necessary to import, there was less food, and when the price of food was high, some people went hungry, and the turmoil in the German African colonies was partly due to the brutality of German rule, and partly because of the lack of food.

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