Chapter 1087: South Africa (2)
The Far East Company's retaliation was very brutal, and all the indigenous villages near the base were swept away. At that time, the Far Eastern Company still took great care of the local natives, but its moderate attitude was exchanged for the greed of the other party.
In the face of such a situation, the Far Eastern Company will not be a woman's benevolence, since it cannot live in peace, then it can only speak with a bayonet, and the cruel iron-blooded policy will make the other party tremble in his heart when he thinks of the Far Eastern Company.
Looking back at the history of modern China over the past century, the Chinese have either been slaughtered by foreigners or killed each other, and our national disasters have been continuous, always playing the role of victims.
Chinese people have always paid attention to "harmony" and "morality" from ancient times to the present, and China's national culture can be passed down to this day precisely because of China's inclusiveness, China's emphasis on harmony, and the constraints of moral standards.
Even so, the gentle and humble Chinese still adopt a tolerant attitude towards the people who have hurt them. However, facts have proved that forgetting hatred cannot bring peace, and blindly seeking perfection and calming things down will make the other party become unscrupulous and gain inches.
Although the Far Eastern Company will not carry out a brutal genocidal policy like the Western colonizers, it still puts the interests of the Chinese nation first and does not hesitate to use any means for the survival of the nation.
The fierce counterattack of the Far Eastern Army finally made the local natives of South Africa realize the ruthless side of the Far Eastern Army, and they could not imagine that the gentle Far Eastern Company in the past had such a strong means of retaliation.
What was even more incomprehensible to them was that the Far Eastern Army, which numbered only a few thousand people, actually had weapons that still made them feel uneasy to fear, especially the firearms sprayed with fire snakes, forming an insurmountable rain of bullets in front of them.
Countless people have been battered by this terrible weapon, even the most fierce warriors. It will also be instantly beaten into a sieve. In the face of such fierce firepower, these turtles, who had never seen much of the world, felt that they were fighting with the gods.
A large number of local natives in South Africa were escorted back to the base by the Far East, and the Far East Army did not give the slightest preferential treatment to these greedy natives, and only gave them two meals of thin porridge like water every day. But he had to get up early and do more than ten hours of hard work at night.
In fact, these local natives, perhaps they are simple by nature, but in the face of attractive interests, and in their opinion, there are not many people to protect these attractive interests, so greed will inevitably triumph over all conscience and good thoughts.
Now these local natives of South Africa have been escorted by the Far East to the coast of South Africa with bayonets. The faces were full of grief and indignation, and they didn't have the crazy look when they were carried away by interests.
There was a large number of black laborers. The progress of the Far East's infrastructure projects in South Africa has accelerated dramatically. Under the threat of bayonets and leather whips, these local natives also became exceptionally obedient.
The remains of more than 10,000 natives who died outside the Far East Company's base have now been buried. However, the Far Eastern Army still used the heads of indigenous people to build several tall Beijing temples on the seaside, in order to tell those local natives who had different ideas that the bayonets of the Far Eastern Army were also stained with blood.
When Li Shaojie led the fleet to the coast of South Africa, the defense system, coastal docks, storage areas, airship take-off and landing areas, living service areas, military camps, and other infrastructure facilities of several bases had already been built.
A large number of Portuguese merchant ships at this time. I've already arrived here one after another.
Unlike the arrogant and self-enclosed Ming, Portugal has been in the space of forty years. Having built a fleet of the world's best ships and having the best shipbuilding technology, the Portuguese became the first explorers to expedition into the unknown.
In 1494, Portugal divided the world for the first time with Spain, which was followed by the Treaty of Tordesillas, which provided for the drawing of a line from the North Pole to the South Pole at a distance of 370 leagues west of Cape Verde. The east belongs to Portugal and the west belongs to Spain.
When Vasco da Gama's fleet arrived in India and brought back pepper and cinnamon worth 60 times the total cost of the expedition, the Portuguese opened up commercial sea routes with all their might, entering Malacca, occupying the Spice Islands, leasing Macau, and colonizing Brazil. In the 16th century. They have taken control of commercial routes that span half the world, breaking the traditional monopoly of Arabs and Italian merchants on the Indian Ocean.
From the end of the 15th century to the first half of the 16th century, they transported a tenth of the total spice production in Asia. With a population of less than 2 million, Portugal became a world commercial empire that monopolized the world trade in spices, sugar, and black slaves, and became the center of power in Europe at the same time as Spain.
But the expansion of the Portuguese was a bit "excessive" and dispersed to many places. Portugal did not have the corresponding population to bear such a large number of "territories". I want to "eat" everything, but I can't "digest" it.
Although Portugal has established colonies all over the world, because Portugal has a population of less than two million, the number of troops will inevitably be insufficient, so the Portuguese colonial network except for some key locations, the rest exist in the form of strongholds, and they are simply unable to control the interior and establish real colonial rule.
When these colonists, who controlled the sea power in the east of the world, saw several bases along the coast of South Africa, they were shocked by the generosity of the Far East Company.
They simply did not believe that these well-equipped, well-planned, clean and tidy bases were built in less than a year. Compared to the Portuguese colonies around the world, even the largest colonies cannot be compared to here.
There are trestle docks that allow small boats to dock and load and unload materials reasonably, and there are also vertical docks that are convenient for large ships to dock, which greatly improves the efficiency of loading and unloading.
There are also several large cranes powered by steam-powered units on the wharf, which emit a violent roar when used, accompanied by thick clusters of black smoke that fill the air, giving people a very hard industrial atmosphere.
Since several sites along the coast of South Africa will serve as a base for the company's expansion into the Americas and Brazil in the future, the Far East has built a large warehouse area here. Now the storage area on the wharf has been leveled and is divided into open-air and indoor storage areas.
Stepping out of the docks and into the interior of the base, it has become a well-equipped town. The various service areas are extremely complete and the configuration is also very reasonable.
What shocked them the most was that there were still a large number of black laborers around the base who were busy working day and night for the Far East. The original fierce local natives are now obedient like a rabbit, working hard and complaining, and dare not slack off. (To be continued.) )