Chapter 737 (2/2)

At the thought of the RAND gold mine near Johannesburg with a recoverable reserves of more than 50000 tons, the stone bear felt that his mouth would be filled with some liquid

Australia is also rich in gold reserves. Now Australia is still a land of no owners. Just grab it.

As for the tiesijiao area in Brazil, the high-grade iron ore with reserves exceeding 100 billion tons is also exciting

Why are Europeans keen on seizing colonies? Very simply, one is human resources, the other is the mineral resources of the colonies.

Now the Great China Empire has the strength to open up colonies overseas. If we don't take advantage of this time, will we have to wait until the 20th century?

Therefore, the use of large sailboats to open up colonies is also an important work for the Empire.

In terms of the strength of the fierce bear army, one battalion is enough to seize a colony of several hundred thousand square kilometers.

Or that sentence? If you don't agree, you'll be convinced!

Under such a guiding ideology, the Empire began to vigorously develop its internal affairs, build a coastal defense artillery system on the east coast, and send a small group of troops to open up colonies.

In this era, looking at the colonies all over the world, except for North Africa, West Africa, India and South America, most of the other colonies were concentrated near the coastline. Even in the colonies of South America, most of the colonists lived near the coastline.

Africa can be said to be the earliest colony opened by Europeans, but after hundreds of years of development, most of the colonists in Africa also live near the coastline. Some colonies deep into the interior only belong to a certain European country in name, but the actual control power of those European countries is very weak.

Under such circumstances, the first colonial team sent by the Empire was aimed at South Africa.

In September 1792, a sub fleet of seven galleons of the Empire's West Indies fleet successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean, went south along the west coast of Africa, bypassed the Cape of good hope, and landed in Maputo.

Maputo at this time was just the territory of a local Aboriginal Tribe, and it had not become a city at all. The imperial fleet soon conquered the black tribe. After a little rest, some people stayed and began to build a port with the help of Maputo Bay, while others gathered local guides and began to conquer the barren land about 400 kilometers west.

The prosperous Johannesburg of later generations is still a barren area. The soldiers of the Great China Empire don't know why they want to go across the ocean to build a base in such a ghost place where birds don't shit and chickens don't lay eggs. However, it is said that the order was given by the great chief himself, so no one will oppose this seemingly ”labor and money” plan.

At this time, although the Netherlands occupied South Africa, most of the places occupied by the Netherlands were coastal areas, especially near Cape Town. For example, there is no trace of the Dutch in this barren area more than 1000 kilometers away from Cape Town

So this large area was declared a colony by the great Chinese Empire.

Well, if anyone dares to look for trouble, the heavily armed bear soldiers will beat the shit out of ya!

The first colony of the Empire on the African continent was thus established.