Chapter 661 Viceroyalty of Tanzania

Chapter 661 Viceroyalty of Tanzania

Huje Vasje was a man of little ambition, and in fact he was more in awe than gratitude towards the Austrians.

After all, the former Kiran Vasje and Kalai Capang were almost invincible in the eyes of the former. However, such a behemoth burst like a balloon in front of the Austrians.

Huye Vasje knew his situation very well. He actually had no choice. The strength of this neighbor was far beyond his imagination, and perhaps only the British could match it.

But now that the whole of India is in turmoil, it is still unclear whether Britain can maintain its foundation. At this time, it is more important to have good relations with the Austrians.

Moreover, the Austrian side's demands are not excessive. The requested territory is just a piece of land close to the interior and about the same size as Tranquiba.

As for the export labor agreement, Huye Vasje felt that the untouchables in his territory had been an eyesore for a long time, and it was really worthwhile to exchange them for money and equipment.

As for the promise not to deliver opium to Austria and its colonies and to plant cotton instead, Huye Vasje didn't think it mattered. After all, he had no way of selling opium. In the end, foreign companies stole most of the oil and water. In addition, he also had to Criticized by religious figures.

In fact, the Varma Plateau and the Ganges Delta in northern India are the main opium-producing areas. Too much precipitation in the south is not conducive to the growth of opium. Even if it is grown, it can only be considered a low-grade product.

(Opium produced in Bangladesh, also known as Pangong Tu, is considered the finest opium in the world.)

Although growing cotton is not as profitable as growing opium, it is more stable than growing cotton. In fact, this should be regarded as optimizing resource allocation, not a threat.

But what Huye Vasje thinks is not important to Austria. Franz's purpose is to develop the East African plateau with Indian manpower and confuse the "water" in Sri Lanka.

As for that land, it can be used to grow cotton, and it can also be used to confuse the British.

At this time, I have to mention the East African Viceroyalty of the Austrian Empire. Franz’s original plan was to use the Dutch to develop East Africa, which would save a lot of money and make it easier to receive.

As a result, the two consecutive governors of Tanzania could not do anything well with Franz's plan, and the number of immigrants they attracted was not as many as those sent by Franz.

The first Benny Erbin can be said to be a man of great luck who has the right time, location, and people. He started with tens of thousands of colonists and was supported by two empires (Austria and Oman). He was born and raised The East African mixed-race boy has a rare white skin and is supported by the strongest kingdom in Tanzania.

As a result, he trusted his black brothers too much, which led to his excessive expansion, which eventually led to the Weijin Rebellion.

If Friedrich hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid the Viceroyalty of Tanzania would have been reduced to a sea of ​​flames, and the siege of Slave Castle would have reappeared.

If the Oman Empire takes the opportunity to add insult to injury, Austria's East African colonies will cease to exist, and they may even have to fight another war with the Oman Empire or pay huge tolls in order to restore shipping routes.

Fortunately, Friedrich directly defeated the Weijin Kingdom's army in the Battle of Paradise Castle. Biru Nyumbayi (Benny Erbin's younger brother) died in the battle, and the proud 10,000 Most of the three thousand indigenous warriors were killed.

This was not because the Austrian side's artillery and rifle fire were accurate, but because Bilu Nyumbayi blocked all the exits of Paradise Castle and wanted to hold on with sufficient supplies.

As a result, the Austrian Empire directly used the newly developed incendiary rockets, burning the city with fire. In addition, Paradise Castle was close to the seaside and within the attack range of the Austrian Navy, so the scene was extremely tragic.

The Weijin Kingdom has now disappeared from the world, and all its population, livestock, and property have been occupied by the Ngoni Kingdom that is loyal to Austria.

Of course, Benny Erbin also had achievements. For example, he destroyed three of the seven kingdoms in Tanzania, and his brother destroyed two more countries.

Now that the Weijin Kingdom was destroyed, all the land belonged to the Austrian Empire, which quadrupled the area under its actual control in Tanzania. The remaining Ngoni people worshiped the Austrians as gods and were landlocked and difficult to exploit.

So Franz did not punish Benny Erbin, but only removed his title of Governor of Tanzania.

The second governor was Hendry van der Meer, a powerful businessman from Bagamoyo. His ideas were similar to those of Franz. They both believed that Tanzania should not look to outsiders for development and advocated using the land in the region. Advantages in developing agriculture and animal husbandry.

In fact, the 57-year-old man wrote a development plan of more than one million words to Franz. Just from this word count, Franz knew that he must have been planning for many years, and he should be given a chance to show himself.

In fact, Franz has also read Hendry Vandermeer's development plan. Generally speaking, it is quite satisfactory and has a relatively good market analysis.

In particular, they saw the serious shortage of food production in the Oman Empire and West Asia, coupled with the continuous fighting within the Abyssinian (Ethiopia) Empire, and the opportunity that Egypt's food self-sufficiency rate plummeted after the failure of the Turkish-Egyptian War.

This is a European with very flexible beliefs. He believes in Protestantism in the Netherlands, Catholicism in Austria, and various sects of Shenfa religion in the Arab world.

His knowledge of East Africa and West Asia is far beyond ordinary people, and he has extensive connections and has "friends" everywhere.

Franz's previous plans in East Africa were based on cotton and coffee cultivation, supplemented by grain cultivation. In order to avoid conflicts with the Oman Empire, spices and dye crops based on cloves were not planted.

Hendry van der Meer believes that such progress is too slow and is a waste of land resources. Food crop cultivation should be vigorously carried out, so as to grasp the lifeblood of the countries in East Africa and West Asia, strengthen the strength of Tanzania, and create a solid foundation for the Austrian Empire. Contribute a lot to the economy.

Franz felt that he had at least drawn an SR, so he allocated a large amount of manpower and material resources to support it.

But what Franz didn't expect was that this old man actually wanted to engage in a slavery economy. The reason is that the Omanis can do it, the French can do it, and the Americans can do it, so why can’t Austria do it?

Although according to econometric calculations, theoretically speaking, the slave economy is a more efficient economic system when sharing a unified market (researched by Nobel Prize winners in economics, not the author's statement).

Forget it is contrary to the laws of the Austrian Empire. The slaves captured in the Tanzania colony are all genuine indigenous black people.

Putting aside the issue of language communication, the work efficiency of this group of people was far beyond Hendry Vandermeer's imagination.

They couldn't even dig a trench well, and in the end they had to rely on the colonists to dig it again. The efficiency of loosening the soil was not as good as that of oxen and horses.

What's even more outrageous is that these black people don't know how to use tools. They wear out tens of thousands of shovels and pickaxes in a month. Some people can even break several shovels in a day.

At first, the colonists thought that there was a problem with the quality of the tools. As a result, several strong men of the colonists could not break them after turning them around for a long time. They broke after being handed over to the black slaves for a long time.

Lazy and greedy, every meal is a war. Strong slaves often rob the weak ones, and those with more people rob those with fewer people. Almost every day, several slaves or colonists will be killed. By.

Later, Hendry VanderMeer did the next best thing and prepared to send the slaves to the border wall. In his eyes, this was an easy task, but as a result, the wall fell down when the wind blew and animals touched it.

It rained all night and the border wall literally disappeared.

Hendry Vandermeer had to personally supervise the work, and found that the so-called walls were just a mixture of small mounds of earth and stones, not square, but ovals.

In addition, black slaves often stole seeds and colonists' belongings. Hendry Vandermeer thought that the whip would make these guys behave better.

But in the end, the whips were all broken, and those slaves still did what they should do.

Seeing that the delivery date was approaching, Hendry Vandermeer looked at the black slaves who were eating raw rice, wheat, cotton, and even raw sisal. His eyes went dark and he fainted.

Hendry van der Meer wanted to make a big splash in Tanzania, but he was so angry that he suffered from high blood pressure, cerebral thrombosis, and finally hemiplegia and could only rest in bed.

So now Franz could only take over the affairs of Tanzania himself, but he could not spare so much time to appoint Benny Erbin and Hendry Vandermeer as assistants to the governor.

Franz's first order was to ask the Omanis to come and take away these black indigenous people. At this time, it was unrealistic for the manpower of the Tanzania colony to develop the Tanzania colony.

Even for existing cotton and coffee fields, planting and care are no problem, but picking is definitely a big problem.

This is not because the Austrian colonists had steel plates in their legs and could not kneel down, but because the quantity was too large and they could not be finished, and they had to be picked before the second rainy season, otherwise they would be in vain.

East Africa is different from West Africa. West Africa has only one rainy season and one dry season a year, while East Africa has two rainy seasons a year.

This is actually very tricky. Farming must strictly abide by time rules, and some varieties cannot be planted at all.

Two rainy seasons mean twice the floods. At this time, Europe's infrastructure cannot keep up, let alone Africa.

The water conservancy project at this time was a joke. Vienna was flooded three times and Paris was flooded twice in twenty years.

Although no buildings in London were destroyed by floods, the overflowing Thames River caused a large amount of garbage and waste to fill the streets. At the same time, a large amount of stagnant water in the city could not be drained in time, which indirectly led to the occurrence of the London Plague.

In 1858, the Danube River flooded, killing hundreds of people in Austria and destroying nearly a thousand houses, not to mention those in the downstream countries.

At this time, there was almost no water conservancy project construction in East Africa, which is one of the reasons why the colonial settlements were all located near the mouths of rivers.

In addition, this kind of short-term, high-intensity rainfall has also caused another problem, that is, it is extremely difficult to build and maintain roads.

Portugal, the Netherlands, Oman, and even the indigenous kingdoms failed to build a road that could connect various cities to the interior for hundreds of years.

The floods flowing freely will often wash away the roads, and the continuous heavy rainfall will erase all traces of its existence. There are also swarms of animals and wildly growing plants. Everything tells the story of the great disaster. The wildness of nature.

Then there was the biggest problem in colonizing East Africa, terrible diseases. The warm and humid climate here during the rainy season could easily create a large number of mosquitoes, spreading terrible diseases.

If it weren’t for the trade with the Oman Empire, the output of Tanzania’s colonies (cotton and coffee trees would take time) would not be enough to buy quinine.

PS: Franz has already developed allicin, and quinine is grown in Chenla and Kalimantan in Southeast Asia, so the loss is not huge.

(Chenla and Kalimantan are both important quinine-producing areas in later generations, so transplanting is not too difficult, although it took several years to successfully plant it.)

So where can we find labor that is disease-resistant, cheap, and good at growing food and cotton?

The answer is India. Asan's anti-drug talent is at the full level. At least Franz doesn't have the courage to challenge the clean and healthy Ganges River water.

Of course, in addition to this, from an economic perspective, India is close enough to Tanzania and is also affected by the monsoon. The time for transporting labor is greatly shortened, and the mortality rate (loss rate) can also be reduced.

During this period, whether they were black slaves or indentured workers, the attrition rate during the journey would exceed 15%, and it was possible that the attrition rate would be close to 50% in case of emergencies.

The journey from Tranquiba to Bagamoyo does not have this problem at all. It only takes more than ten days due to the influence of ocean currents and monsoons, which is really short for a sea journey.

Moreover, Dalits, as untouchables, are not property to the local Indian princes, but complete garbage.

Modern people always like to say that the island country has no human rights when Japanese samurai chop people to test their swords, but those samurai still have to find a good excuse, such as being hit or insulted.

But in India, there really is no reason for the upper castes to kill the untouchables. It can be that a shadow falls on someone else's feet, their smell is smelled, or even footprints are left on the road. Reasons to kill.

And even today, these atrocities against Dalits have not stopped.

"India does not need Dalits." - From the mouth of a famous Indian politician.

They are spurned, exploited and oppressed by society. They are all landless farm laborers and people engaged in "unclean industries", usually laundry workers, sweepers, butchers, etc.

Even as the lowest level of excrement workers, they do not have the right to obtain excrement. Those dung belong to the Shudras (fourth level) who lead them and are also responsible for driving.

According to ancient Indian traditions, people of any caste cannot come into contact with lower-class people like them or accept things used by them to avoid being defiled.

They also have no right to enter temples and various religious places, let alone schools to receive education.

In the 19th century, not only did these Dalits have no surnames, many of them even had no names.

Dalí specifically refers to the "oppressed person" and at the same time is called the "untouchable".

But for Franz, there were no more suitable pioneers to go to Africa at this time. These people have been enslaved by the caste system for a long time, and their humble obedience has been engraved in their bones.

But compared with the original African indigenous people, their sociality and organization are much better, and they can learn new things much faster than black people.

In Silicon Valley in the United States, Dalits account for a large proportion of Indian-origin senior engineers (Indian-origin executives are not included here, because Dalits are relatively unsuitable as managers).

Hearing that the Austrians wanted Dalit laborers, Huje Vasje immediately expressed his willingness to cooperate, and the price was easy to negotiate, so he could just give him whatever he wanted.