My Daming New Empire

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Like the Australian aborigines, they lack textile technology, do not know how to farm, and can only rely on hunting and picking for a living.

Because they don't wear clothes, they can't resist the cold, so in South Africa, there are very few aboriginals living together.

Later South Africa had so many people, most of them migrated after the European invasion of Africa.

So much so that when the blacks seized power in South Africa, the whites and Boers were actually very wronged.Because this country was not originally black, but they were too fertile. In the end, the number of blacks exceeded that of whites and Boers.

Zhu Zhanji doesn't know much about this period of history, but when he invested in Angola, he read the local history.In Angola's own history books, it shows that most of the South Africans migrated from them, and the two main ethnic groups are the same as Angola.

So Zhu Zhanji found it very funny. In order to develop South Africa, the Europeans brought in a large number of black people to mine. In the end, there were too many black people and they drove them away.

Of course, it's not this that's funny, it's the so-called freedom fighter.But because he has been in prison for decades, he has become a great hero, a saint.

It is such a person who turned a developed country's tossing economy back for 30 years and turned it into a poor country, and some people sang his praises.

Of course, only black people can accept such jokes, since they don't want to live a good life anyway.As long as they are not allowed to work, it is enough for them to sing and dance every day.

Zhu Zhanji has no colonial ideas about Africa, mainly because he feels that the people here are hopeless.

They are so lazy that it is beyond comprehension.When he invested in Africa, he couldn't settle all his wages at all, because once the settlement was settled, the people disappeared.

They don't spend all their money, it's not that they have nothing to eat, and they don't want to work at all.

But he is very greedy for minerals in Africa.In Africa north of the equator, the coast is full of oil.And south of the equator, all are precious minerals. In terms of land area, only Peru and Chile in South America can be as rich as them in the world.

Therefore, it is still necessary to set up a few colonies in Africa. Even if they don't occupy here, they must hold South Africa's gold mines in Daming's hands.

When Zhu Zhanji's Chinese army arrived in Maputo, the former army had already built a filter pool here, and it took two days to replenish the clean water.

A group of navies were changed to act as the former army, and they started the subsequent journey, while the Chinese army waited until the personnel who explored Madagascar returned before starting the journey again.

Although Madagascar is close to Africa, the race here is completely different from Africa.The aborigines here are almost the same as the Nanyang people.

In this era, they just had tribal awareness. According to Zheng He's exploration, there are seven large tribes on the island, but the total population is only 10,000+ people.

Make a key mark here, and the army continues to set off.

In Zhu Zhanji's plan, he wants to relocate all the residents of the island to the mainland, and leave the island to the Chinese in the future.

With the barrier of the sea, I am not afraid that the blacks will confuse the Chinese race, and through here, they can control most of Africa.

But this is a future plan, and until the settlements in South Africa are arranged, these thoughts are too far away.

The third supply point in Africa was located in Cape Town in later generations, but before the Chinese army arrived in Cape Town, it was hit by another storm.

This time, the fleet's luck was not so good, because when the storm arrived, the coast where the fleet was located did not have a suitable port.

At first, the fleet wanted to resist, but in the face of nature, the huge wooden ship was vulnerable.

After destroying more than ten ships, including Zhu Zhanji's flagship, they could only take advantage of the wind to rush to the beach and run aground, and then resigned themselves to fate.

Flat-bottomed sand boats are very advantageous at this time. They can rush directly onto the beach. With the support of the sandy bottom, although the strong wind blows the boat to this side, there is no danger.

However, Fuchuan and Cantonese ships, such as wooden ships with a draft of five or six meters, have too little support area, and even after they ran aground, more than [-] ships were blown down.

Fortunately, the ship kept sailing along the coastline, and even if the ship capsized, the casualties were not serious.

Ma Xin and the others had followed Zhu Zhanji to the sea for more than a year, and this was the first time they encountered such a strong wind. Seeing those warships being blown over, all of them had red eyes and were very worried.

However, Zhu Zhanji's flagship has been specially designed and fastened, and the resistance of such a large ship in the face of sea wind is also higher than that of warships with no more than two thousand stones and four to five thousand stones.

"Why are you crying? The strong wind was already expected. Now we should be thankful that this coast is a sandy beach instead of a rocky coast, otherwise the loss will be even greater!"

"Your Highness, I don't worry about myself. I'm not afraid of anything by your side. I just feel sorry for those soldiers... just now, a ship on the right wing capsized, and I saw a soldier being crushed by the ship."

Zhu Zhanji felt uncomfortable, and he didn't want to comfort them.I can't light the fire today, and I don't want to have a hot meal tonight.I'll have someone bring you some dry food in a while. "

Just about to go out, Liu Chenghui was drenched and came in from the outside. "Your Highness, it's getting dark, where are you going?"

Zhu Zhanji didn't answer her, but asked, "Is the Taoist priest still in good health?"

"Your Highness, don't forget that we live in Huizhou. Although the wind is strong, we will encounter it several times a year in Huizhou. It's okay."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "You change your clothes, don't go out when it's dark. I'll go out and have a look."

Liu Chenghui opened his mouth, trying to stop him, but closed his mouth again.He was already familiar with Zhu Zhanji's character, and knew that this man would not listen to persuasion, so he could only call a servant and send Zhu Zhanji a coir raincoat.

It is late autumn in South Africa in May. The temperature during the day is more than ten degrees, but only five or six degrees at night.

With such a temperature, the soldiers will not feel well after falling into the water. As long as they have cramps, there is a high possibility of drowning.

However, Zheng He and the others have been sailing all year round, and they have a set of self-rescue methods. After the ship is stranded on the beach like this, they will pull a cable from the ship to the shore.

The soldiers on the shore fixed the rope to the shore, or simply pulled it directly, so that after someone fell into the water, there would be something to cling to. As long as they didn't panic, they could always walk to the shore along the rope.

Zhu Zhanji was worried about those young troops, because the navy basically knows how to swim, but among the young troops, most of them can't swim.

Zhu Zhanji's flagship is the farthest from the shore, but his ship is also the safest.When the strong wind came, several large treasure ships were guarded around the flagship.

Then everyone worked together to tie all the surrounding ships to the flagship with thick cables.

When the strong wind blew, the cable was not broken, but the wooden railings in many places were torn off by the huge force.Moreover, the collision and friction between the boats and the boats made teeth-stinging creaking sounds.

This safety comes at the cost of damage to the hull, but in everyone's opinion, it is worth it.

Fighting on the deck, the wind is blowing, and people can hardly hear people talking face to face.

But at this time, one fire after another had already been lit on the shore.Looking from the boat, these fires stretched for dozens of miles, until they were out of sight.

These fires can bring warmth to the soldiers, and even bring hope to the soldiers who fell into the water.

Although there are no stars, Zhu Zhanji knows that the current location of the fleet is about the area near Port Alfred, South Africa in later generations.

The hundreds of kilometers along the way are all sandy beaches. Even if the fleet suffers some losses, it will not be too big.

If the typhoon came a day or two late, and the fleet arrived just before Cape Town, where most of the beaches were rocky, the fleet would suffer a great loss.

The strong wind blew for a whole day and night, and although the wind eased the next day, the rain didn't stop.

By the time the storm passed, it was already noon.At this time, no one cared about the rain, and dispatched all the order ships that were originally fastened to the big ship to search and rescue the wounded along the coastline.

Since leaving Daming, the accompanying [-] soldiers have carried out dozens of missions, large and small, and experienced several wars, large and small.

Leaving aside the Dongying people who stayed in Nanzhou, there were no more than two hundred soldiers who died and were injured along the way.

But this night alone, more than 1000 people were injured and more than 100 died.

Some of them were injured or killed on the deck, and some were blown into the sea by strong winds.But most of them drowned in the cabin because of the ship's hull turning over.