Chapter 74 "Purge" Movement
In response to Ernst's instructions.
Beginning on April 3, 1867, after several meetings, senior leaders of the East African colonial government decided to implement a one-year "purge" campaign.
Just by listening to the literal meaning, you know that the so-called "purge" is aimed at the indigenous people in the colonies, sorting out and eliminating unstable factors in the East African colonies.
And this unstable factor is the local indigenous people and tribes.
In order to mobilize the manpower of the entire East African colonies to complete this operation, the East African colonial government directly assigned tasks to each immigration stronghold based on 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) District.
Today, Kagongo Town 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. Whenever there was any big move, the colonial government would post corresponding policies and instructions here.
All official documents in the colony are written in German. As the most highly educated group in the East African colonies, German mercenaries have an undoubted right to speak in the East African colonies with their primary school education.
Only the students from the Hechingen Military Academy and the Hechingen Consortium dispatched African managers, with relatively higher academic qualifications.
But they also regard themselves as Germans, and mentally classify themselves as the same type of people as the mercenary team.
In short, the German-speaking people in the East African colonies were a unified group, and they belonged to the ruling class.
Even Chinese immigrants and immigrants from the Austrian Empire, as long as they knew German, they would be placed in important positions and treated as one of their own.
The simple economic structure of the East African colonies meant that the personnel at various levels of government agencies in the East African colonies did not require very strong abilities.
The colony's simple economic structure and crude collectivized management model resulted in the colony having only a crude legal operating model.
After all, apart from agriculture, there are almost no other industries in the colony. Everyone works according to the company's targets, working at sunrise and sleeping at sunset. There is no unnecessary entertainment industry.
Under the simple life style, there is no market for economic crimes in the current East African colonies. The immigrants are honest farmers and mean and serious retired soldiers. There is no soil for "anti-intellectual"ism to survive.
Kagongo town hall, bulletin board.
In the early morning, government staff posted fresh German official documents on wooden bulletin boards for display.
Unlike in the past, the preacher did not appear to preach the content of the new policy.
A few immigrants gathered under the bulletin board to discuss the above content.
“Old Liu, what is written here?”
"You ask me, who am I asking? I recognize the words 'village', 'gun', and 'drive away' above. I guess we must be fighting, and we are inseparable."
Old Liu Knowing these words is due to the frequent use of these words in the East African colonies, especially new immigrants who 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 under the bulletin board, picked up the bugle in his waist and blew it.
"Woo...Woo...Woo..." Other townspeople also followed the East African Colony's rally call and began to gather near the bulletin board. The number of people discussing increased, and the town bulletin board was filled with people for a while.
Soon, the mayor and the top civil and military leaders of Kagongo Town came together, and the soldiers began to arrange the venue.
A small wooden stage was temporarily built, and the soldiers invited the mayor and others to speak on the stage.
Go Sing Kusi, the mayor of Kagongo Town, walked up to the stage with a big belly and began to interpret the latest instructions of the colonial government.
The military commander, Carson Bullock (a cadet at the Hechingen Military Academy), held a loudspeaker and was responsible for the translation.
“Townshipmen, just yesterday, we received instructions from the superiors of the East African colonial government.”
The venue was completely silent. Everyone listened carefully to the mayor’s speech. After all, the announcement The content in the column is generally closely related to yourself.
“In order to strengthen the security management level of the colony and prevent the destruction and threats caused by savages (the official name of the indigenous people of the East African colonial government) to the production and life of the colony.”
“The colonial government has Every village and town should carry out a purge, arrest, encircle and destroy the barbarians and tribes within its jurisdiction."
The crowd began to whisper.
“This means we have to strike hard at the indigenous people again!”
“Definitely, otherwise we didn’t steal all the land we came from.”
"What is robbery! The indigenous people here do not make a living by farming. This is all wasteland. We are here to open up wasteland. There is no name on this land. Doesn't it belong to whoever is of the race?"< br>
"That's right. Those indigenous people want these lands but it's useless. They are not hunting. The land that should be used to grow food is not used to raise lions, leopards and jackals."
There is no burden on the mentality of immigrants. The discussion of right and wrong is too far away from the farmers who work on the land. Filling their stomachs is more practical than benevolence, justice and morality.
We all come from feudal countries and feudal countries that are transitioning to industrialized countries, and their thinking naturally stays in the thinking of farmers in the feudal era.
In the vast land of East African colonies, although black people are the indigenous people, the first government in East Africa was indeed the East African colonial government.
Only the government can give ownership of the land. If you don’t believe it, just look at the indigenous people. They only know that they live on this land, and their understanding of the nature of the land is that they can hunt and pick fruits.
Immigration has the concept of land ownership. The land in the East African colonies is the private property of the Hechingen Consortium.
The status of immigrants is between serfs and industrial workers. They have no right to choose, but their basic human rights are protected by law.
Although there were no courts or judicial organs in the East African colonies, Prussian law was implemented by default, but there was no specific implementation.
The coexistence of the rule of man and the rule of law is the current status of the East African colonies, similar to Liu Bang's "Three Chapters of Agreement" with the people, or the Roman Twelve Tables.
There is a specific and fuzzy boundary.
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The mayor continued: "In order to respond to the government's call, our Kagongo town must also organize manpower to carry out encirclement and suppression in and around Kagongo town."
With the issuance of the order, Kagongo The town and the villages under its jurisdiction recruited more than a thousand temporary soldiers and issued weapons to cooperate with the Kigoma municipal government and the villages under its jurisdiction to carry out a "purge" campaign across the entire Solon Lake area.
For a time, gunfire broke out throughout the Solon Lake area and the East African colonies, turning it into a big battlefield.
(End of this chapter)