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 listen to the literal meaning and you will 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 will bring 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, the town of Kagongo posted an announcement on the village bulletin board about the "purge" campaign issued by the East African colonial government.

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 students from the Hechingen Military Academy and the Hechingen Consortium dispatched African managers with relatively higher academic qualifications.

But they also consider themselves Germans, and mentally classify themselves as the same type of people as the mercenary team.

In short, the German-speaking people in colonial East Africa were a unified group and a group belonging 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 at sunrise and sleeps at sunset according to the company's targets. There is no unnecessary entertainment industry.

Under the simple lifestyle, there is no market for economic crimes in the current East African colonies, and the immigrants are honest farmers and hard-nosed retired soldiers. There is no soil for "anti-intellectualism" 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.

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

"Old Liu, what is written on this?"

"You ask me, who am I asking? I just recognize the words 'village', 'gun', and 'drive away' above. I guess there must be a war, we are inseparable."

The words "Lao Liuhui" benefited from the frequent use of these words in the East African colonies, especially new immigrants who would 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, he walked under the bulletin board, picked up the bugle at his waist and blew it.

"Woo...Woo...Woo..."

Other townspeople also followed the East African Colony's rallying call and began to gather near the bulletin board. The number of people discussing was also increased, and for a while, the town bulletin board was full of people.

Soon, the mayor and the top civil and military leaders of Kagongo Town came together, and the soldiers began to decorate the venue.

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

The mayor of Kagongo Town, Go Sin Kusi, 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.

"Townshippers, just yesterday, we received instructions from our superiors in the East African colonial government."

The venue was completely silent. Everyone listened carefully to the mayor's speech. After all, the content on the bulletin board was usually closely related to them.

"In order to strengthen the security and 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."

"Every village and town under the jurisdiction of the colonial government should carry out a purge, and the savages and tribes within its jurisdiction should be arrested, surrounded and destroyed."

The crowd began to whisper.

"This means we have to strike hard at the natives again!"

"Definitely, otherwise the land we farmed in the first place would have been stolen."

"What is robbing! The natives here don't 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 belongs to the species?"

"That's right. Those indigenous people want these lands for no purpose. They are not hunting. This land that is supposed 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, so their thinking naturally remains that of farmers in the feudal era.

Although black people were the indigenous people in the vast land of the East African colonies, the first government in East Africa was indeed the East African colonial government.

Only the government can give land ownership. 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.

Immigrants have the concept of land ownership, and 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 Twelve Bronze Tables of Rome.

There is a specific yet fuzzy boundary.

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The town mayor continued: "In response to the government's call, we in Kagongo Town will also organize manpower to carry out encirclement and suppression in and around Kagongo Town."

Following the issuance of the order, Kagongo town and its subordinate villages recruited more than a thousand temporary soldiers and issued weapons to cooperate with the Kigoma municipal government and its subordinate villages 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.