African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 74 "Purge" Campaign

  In response to Ernst's instructions.

  Starting from April 3, 1867, after several meetings, the high-level East African colonial government decided to implement a one-year "purge" campaign.

   Just by listening to the literal meaning, you can know that the so-called "purge" is aimed at the aborigines in the colony, sorting out and cleaning up the unstable factors in the East African colony.

   And this unstable factor is the local indigenous people and tribes.

  In order to mobilize the manpower of the entire East African colony to complete this operation, the East African colonial government directly assigns tasks to each immigration stronghold according to the region.

   Each stronghold brings its own dry food to encircle and suppress the indigenous people and tribes around the villages and towns.

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  Kagongo Town is a town under the jurisdiction of Kigoma in the Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika) area.

  Today, the town of Kagongo posted an announcement on the "purge" campaign issued by the East African colonial government on the bulletin board in the village.

  The immigrants knew the role of the bulletin board. Every time there was a big move, the colonial government would post corresponding policies and instructions here.

  All official documents in the colonies are written in German. As the most educated group of German mercenaries in the East African colonies, their primary school education has an undoubted right to speak in the East African colonies.

   Only the students of the Hexingen Military Academy and the African managers sent by the Hexingen Consortium have relatively higher education.

  But they also regarded themselves as Germans, and they classified themselves and the mercenary team as one type of people in their hearts.

  In short, the German-speaking population in colonial East Africa is a unified group and belongs to the ruling class.

   Even Chinese immigrants and Austrian Empire immigrants, as long as they can speak German, they will be placed in important positions and regarded as their own.

  The simple economic structure of the East African colonies did not require the personnel of the government agencies at all levels in the East African colonies to be very capable.

  The colony’s simple economic structure and simple and crude collective management model resulted in the colony having only a crude legal operation model.

   After all, apart from agriculture, the colony has almost no other industries. According to the company's indicators, everyone works at sunrise and lives at sunset. There is no redundant entertainment industry.

  Under the simple mode of life, there is no market for economic crimes in the current East African colonies, and the immigrants are honest farmers and mean and serious retired soldiers, so there is no soil for "anti-intellectualism" to survive.

  Kagongo Town Government, bulletin board.

  In the early morning, government staff posted freshly baked German official documents on wooden bulletin boards for display.

  Different from the past, the preacher did not appear to preach the content of the new policy.

   Several immigrants gathered under the bulletin board to discuss the above content.

   "Old Liu, what is written on it?"

   "You ask me, who should I ask? I can only recognize the words 'village', 'gun', and 'disposal' above. I guess it must be a war, and it is almost inseparable."

  Old Liu knows these words, thanks to the frequent use of these words in the East African colonies, especially the new immigrants will receive a short period of military training.

   That is military training, the instructor will teach some simple and necessary vocabulary.

   While the immigrants were still guessing what was written on it.

  A soldier dressed as a colonial soldier walked to the bulletin board, picked up the bugle strapped to his waist, and blew.

   "Woo... woo... woo..."

  Other townspeople also followed the assembly number of the East African colony and began to gather near the bulletin board. The discussion crowd also increased, and the town bulletin board was full of voices for a while.

   Soon, the town mayor and senior civil and military officials from Kagongo Town came together, and the soldiers began to arrange the venue.

  A small wooden platform was temporarily built, and the soldiers invited the mayor and others to speak on the stage.

  The mayor of Kagongo Town, Go Sin Cousy, walked onto the stage with a big belly and began to interpret the latest instructions of the colonial government.

  The military officer, Carson Bullock (a student at the Hechingen Military Academy), was in charge of the translation with a loudspeaker.

   "Townsmen, just yesterday, we received instructions from the superiors of the East African colonial government."

  The venue was silent, and everyone listened carefully to the mayor's speech. After all, the content on the bulletin board is usually closely related to themselves.

   "In order to strengthen the security management level of the colony, and prevent the saboteurs (the official name of the aborigines from the East African colonial government) from destroying and threatening the production and life of the colony."

   "Every village and town under the colonial government should carry out a purge to arrest, encircle and destroy the savages and their tribes within their jurisdiction."

  The crowd began to whisper.

   "This means that the natives will be hit hard again!"

   "Sure, otherwise we didn't get all the land we planted at the beginning, and we didn't **** it all."

   "What is robbery! The natives here don't rely on farming to live. This is all wasteland. We came here to open up wasteland. There is no name on this land, so it doesn't matter who it is."

   "That's right. It's useless for those natives to want these lands. Hunting isn't just hunting. The land that should be grown for food is not used to raise lions, leopards, and jackals."

  Immigrants have no psychological burden at all. The discussion of right and wrong is too far away from the farmers who plan and eat in these lands. Filling their stomachs is more important than benevolence, justice and morality.

  Everyone comes from a feudal country and a feudal country that is transitioning to an industrialized country, so the thinking naturally stays in the thinking of farmers in the feudal era.

  In the vast land of the East African colony, although blacks are the aborigines, the first government in East Africa is indeed the East African colonial government.

   Only the government can give the ownership of the land. If you don’t believe it, just look at the aborigines. They only know that they live in this land, and the nature of the land also stays in the state where they can hunt and pick fruits.

   Immigrants have the concept of land ownership, and the land in the East African colonies is the private property of the Hexingen consortium.

  The status of immigrants is between serfs and industrial workers, and they have no right to choose, but their basic human rights are guaranteed by law.

  Although there were no courts and judicial organs in the East African colonies, Prussian law was implemented by default, but it was not specifically implemented.

  The coexistence of the rule of man and the rule of law is the current status of the East African colonies, similar to the "Three Chapters of Agreement" between Liu Bang and the people, or the Twelve Tables of Rome.

   has a specific yet vague boundary.

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  The mayor continued: "In response to the government's call, we in Kagongo Town will also organize personnel to encircle and suppress Kagongo Town and its surrounding areas."

With the issuance of the order, Kagongo Town and its subordinate villages recruited more than a thousand temporary soldiers, issued weapons, and cooperated with the Kigoma City Government and its subordinate villages to carry out a "purge" campaign on the entire Lake Solon area .

  For a while, the entire Lake Sauron area and the East African colonies were full of gunshots, turning it into a big battlefield.

  (end of this chapter)