Chapter 695 Dalits’ Plan

After the labor problem that plagued the Tanzanian colony was solved, the development speed of the colony was rapidly improved.

The problems that the colonists of all generations could not solve were easily solved. In fact, many things are like this. Before the quantitative change leads to qualitative change, there is no solution.

In fact, the population of the Tanzanian Governor's District is not small. There are Dutch, Portuguese, Arab, and a lot of mixed-race people who don't know who they are. With Franz's strong support, the white population has exceeded 30,000.

However, even 30,000 people are still too few for Tanzania, and they can't even manage the farmland of the conquered land.

In fact, the 30,000 people are mainly merchants, shop owners, fishermen, craftsmen, soldiers, and sailors. The number of laborers is seriously insufficient, and this group of people does not want to go deep inland, but only want to stay by the sea.

Three of the primitive countries that the Tanzanian Governor's District destroyed before have entered the agricultural age.

However, after the Austrian Empire took over those lands, it found that it had no ability to manage the inland lands, so the former Tanzanian Governor Hendri Vandermeer came up with the idea of ​​using black slaves to increase the labor force.

This trick has been used for hundreds of years in the American continent, but Hendri Vandermeer overlooked a problem, that is, these blacks are too familiar with their own land.

As long as there is no supervisor, or the supervisor is not careful, the blacks will run away or be lazy. As a result, the colonists can only wear straw hats and follow behind with guns to supervise.

Coupled with a series of natural and man-made disasters, the old businessman was finally paralyzed.

But this does not mean that the former governor's idea was wrong. On the contrary, his food plan was very far-sighted.

At this time, the entry of a large number of Dalit workers was just to restore the state of the Tanzanian Governor's District. In fact, it was based on this that the Austrian Empire was able to open up a large amount of agricultural land here in just a few years.

As for the development of land, Franz felt that more manpower was needed. You must know that those farmlands took hundreds of years for the colonists and these natives to open up.

Moreover, unlike East Africa and Galicia, Franz could directly allocate heavy machinery and even explosives to eliminate those things that might hinder development in the Austrian Empire. Besides, there were many more refugees in Galicia than Dalits in Tanzania at that time.

Moreover, compared with pioneering, the current priority is to integrate the lands of the six countries occupied before.

Tanzania's infrastructure construction is too poor. To develop it, at least there must be roads connecting these areas with Bagamoyo on the seaside.

In addition, in order to adapt to the development of the times, Franz also planned to build a new city, which is Dar es Salaam.

This city is the capital of Tanzania in the future and the largest port in the country. At that time, it was still a small fishing village called "Mzizima".

The original residents of the area were the Kutu people of the Mogoro Kingdom, but with the establishment of the Tanzania Governorate of the Austrian Empire, the surrounding indigenous kingdoms broke out in a tragic war for survival space.

Coupled with the sneak attack by the Oman Empire, "Mzizima" had been abandoned at that time.

After dealing with a wandering tribe that had taken over the village, Benny Erbin led the colonial soldiers into the village.

In fact, as an assistant to the governor, he should have taken a boat to explore the terrain, because Dar es Salaam is a port city.

But this time Benny Erbin also had a mission, which was to build roads.

That's right, Franz not only needed a sea route, he also needed a land route. In fact, in addition to strengthening the control of coastal areas, he was also preparing for the construction of railways.

However, with the development level of Tanzania at that time, railways were out of the question. Everything had to be shipped from Europe. Unless the Suez Canal was opened, the cost was too high and it had no practical significance.

Although Benny Erbin had a white face, he was a native Tanzanian, so he knew all the tribes living there.

And this tribe that occupied Dar es Salaam was something he had never seen before. In addition, along the way, he found that the natives who had fled after the defeat had returned.

This is very unusual, because both the Austrian army and the slave-hunting team of the Oman Empire are like natural disasters to the natives.

Theoretically, it is impossible for the natives who have escaped to come back. Although some kingdoms have evolved the most primitive agricultural civilization, the main resource of almost every country is its own herds.

So for those nomads, it doesn't matter where they go, there is no need to come back and take risks.

Benny Erbin wanted to find a few captives to ask, but the Dalit laborers killed black people without any explanation as long as they found them. All he saw along the way were corpses nailed to stakes.

As Dalit laborers were continuously sent inland, the last of the seven kingdoms, the Ngoni Kingdom, was also harassed.

The Ngoni Kingdom has sent messengers several times to request a ceasefire, but in fact the Tanzanian Governor's District did not use troops against the Ngoni Kingdom. There was only a colonial advance team of about 300 people nearby.

After the Ngoni Kingdom absorbed several tribes that had lost their countries, their total population should be 100,000.

However, what neither Benny Urbin nor Hendri van der Meer in Bagamoyo had expected was that the advance team would include nearly 4,000 Dalit laborers.

In fact, in order to prevent the Dalits from rebelling, the Governor-General's District of Tanzania did not distribute weapons to them. Only the leader of each group had an old-fashioned matchlock gun for self-defense.

(The group here is one hundred people.)

After all, there are many wild beasts in East Africa, and there are many wandering blacks. These guys who have lost their homes are more terrible than wild beasts. Many white colonists were killed by these stragglers.

For the colonial army, frontal combat is not terrible. What is terrible is that at night, poisonous insects, wild beasts, and blacks are more terrible than each other.

The job of the colonial army advance team is to protect these Dalit laborers, let them restore local agricultural production, and prevent them from escaping. At the same time, they are also responsible for guarding and distributing supplies.

You must know that food and medicine will not fall from the sky, and food planted on the ground will not mature immediately. If there are only a few hundred people, they can live by hunting and gathering.

But once the population size exceeds four digits, if you don't want to starve to death, you either engage in breeding and farming, or split up and go to other hunting grounds, otherwise the land cannot support so many people.

These foods and medicines are the key to controlling Dalit laborers, more useful than guns and whips. However, the degree of docility (slavery) of these guys opened the eyes of the Austrian colonists.

Later, the colonists of the advance team directly gave the Dalit laborers a week's supply at a time, and then went directly to the grassland to hunt or sleep to kill time.

However, when the Austrian colonists were getting carried away, the Dalits were cutting bamboo into spears, cutting wood into bows, and covering leather into armor, brewing a big plan