The empire has arrived forty-five years with the sound of firecrackers. The empire has experienced decades of peace. Economic development and technological progress have made this land more prosperous, as if all the dirty and chaos in the world have nothing to do with the people of the empire, and this is what the founders of this country pursue.

Shortly after the beginning of spring, the large-scale travel plan of Prince Yu's mansion became the most important news in the empire. The three legitimate sons of the royal family were going abroad, but Prince Yu, who had always been in charge of the empire's foreign affairs, stayed in the capital and did not go out.

The royal family travel is divided into two teams. One is mainly the Royal Cruise Phoenix and Qingluan, supplemented by coal transport ships, service ships and escort ships. The visit group of the princess of the Yu Mansion and the youngest son Li Zhaoming, and the visit group of the eldest son Li Zhaocheng, was also among them.

The second team was Li Zhaocheng's counter-rebellion team, composed of two cruisers and two coal ships. The army was full of soldiers and military reporters, so there was no civilian ship service.

In fact, the two fleets set out together and were expected to be separated only when they arrived in Penang. However, Li Zhaocheng, who went to Yizhou as a major guard, presided over the rebellion, never appeared on the two luxury cruise ships. As the commander of this army, he needed to set an example.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Zhaocheng is favored by the army. The children of the imperial royal family have military experiences throughout the ages, but the kings generally maintain a close relationship with the army. Li Junwei never touches military power, and Lin Junhong never forms cliques in the army. These princes who led the imperial army to sweep the emperor were actually not close to the army.

Only Li Zhaocheng is an exception. He is the only one among the royal children who have finished studying in the military academy and the only one who started from the lowest warrant officer. Of course, his resume is different from ordinary military officers. For example, when he was a warrant officer, he had never even attended a military academy. After attending a military academy, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant. His achievements in the military academy were actually not very outstanding.

But everyone in the army knows that Li Zhaocheng likes the army and strictly demands himself according to the standards of soldiers. Since he graduated from the military academy, he has shown himself in military dresses when he goes to and from any public occasions. He has publicly stated more than once that the identity of a soldier is his most important identity.

The two teams walked together. Whenever they stopped to replenish or approached the port, the visiting delegation would come to visit or inspect the warships, especially Li Zhaoming. This young child was extremely fascinated by warships, the largest steel machinery that humans could make. He always wore a sailor's uniform and played on the two cruisers, and even begged the captain of the cruiser Xunying to let him fire a shot.

The captain did not dare, and finally the princess came forward to express permission. Under the witness of everyone, the child used a 200-mm main gun on the Xunying to attack the unmanned islands and reefs in the South China Sea like setting off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year. Of course, the main gun was fired with cold cannons, and Li Zhaoming just stood far away and pulled the rope.

Although this matter is a child's joke, it is indeed a bit more important to add a piece of money to the navigation log of the Xunying.

In Penang, the fleet underwent the last round of rest. After bidding farewell to the visiting delegation to India and Europe, the fleet continued to set off. Generally speaking, the Imperial Navy fleet would go to the Atlantic Ocean to go through the Suez Canal, and to the South Atlantic Ocean, it would go around the northern edge of the Indian Ocean and move forward against the coastline. However, Li Zhaocheng would not waste time on such matters and demanded to cross the Indian Ocean and go directly to Xiacheng, the main city of the Empire on the east coast of Africa.

Xiacheng is Maputo, the capital of Mozambique in later generations, and it was the empire's first foothold in the development of the east coast of Africa.

In the early years, Xiacheng belonged to an African development company, and the company's headquarters was here, but as the empire began to demarcate territory in Africa, Xiacheng belonged to the empire's inland province.

Because according to the planning of the Empire's Ministry of Overseas Affairs, on the east coast of Africa, the Limpopo River is bounded by the Limpopo River, the southern bank of the river belongs to the territory of the empire, and the northern bank of the river is a colony, because the Limpopo River is also called the Northbound River in the empire map.

Inland province refers to the eastern region of South Africa in later generations. Not far from Xiacheng to inland is the most important pillar of the province - mining, especially gold mining.

Although Xiacheng already belongs to the territory of the empire, it also has the headquarters of the African Development Company, occupying a considerable area of ​​the city. Fifteen years ago, the city was originally a place where people of all colors lived together. With the strong cooperation of the African Development Company, all blacks and mixed races moved to the new city, which is the city at the mouth of the Limpopo River.

The city was called Xincheng, originally called Saisei, a colony bought by the Empire from the Portuguese. Early African development companies settled there. Later, they found that the port conditions in Xiacheng were better, so they moved here.

Xiacheng started out through colonization, but now it has been whitewashed and has become the second largest city of the empire on the African continent, second only to Cape Town.

February in the southern hemisphere is in a very hot season, so Li Zhaocheng refused to prepare a welcome ceremony for him. He did not want to inspect the guard of honor here under the sun, but agreed to go to the military camp to inspect at the appropriate time.

This happened to the local officials because they did not dare to be too enthusiastic about Li Zhaocheng. After all, no one was sure of Li Zhaocheng becoming the emperor. If he did not in the end, excessive enthusiasm would be harmful.

In this city, there is a group of minorities, namely Portuguese, and many of them are colonial whites. They were born and raised in Africa and have never returned to the Portuguese native.

The current Portuguese African Governor in Mombasa is in Mombasa. Over the years, the Portuguese have lived quite well under the protection of the empire. In the early years, they were committed to the slave trade, but now they are not, because they opened up a large number of plantations on the east coast of Africa. It is not enough for slaves to be used in their own plantations, so where can they be sold?

The reason why Li Zhaocheng stayed in Xiacheng and took the initiative to contact the local Portuguese was to recruit some Portuguese speakers, because although the enemies he faced in Yizhou were Japanese as the backbone, many of them were Indians and mixed-race children, and the language of these people was Portuguese.

However, the trip to Xiacheng was really not going well.

The reason is very simple. All the Portuguese ethnic groups living in this city are either rich or noble. This is also the main ecology of the east coast of Africa. Whether it is the powerful and nobles of the Inland Empire African Development Company or the nobles of the African Governor of Portugal, they all have a large number of industries in their colonies and empires.

Although the colonies are not subject to law and are all local emperors, their medical and health conditions are very poor. Some big landlords and large planters often choose to live in Xiacheng and use telegrams to remotely control the agricultural activities of the colonial plantations. The products produced and imported and exported goods transactions are almost all carried out in Xiacheng, the largest city on the east coast of Xiacheng, so that the African Governor of Portugal would complain that Mombasa, where his Governor's Mansion is located, is a military camp.

Li Zhaocheng nodded: "Okay, then you go and get it."

Li Zhaocheng explained to Tian Long: "When he was in Shin Kyung, King Joao lost his scepter to me. When he went to Shin Kyung this time, he stayed in Mombasa. The nobles there should have seen the scepter."

"No need, second young master, of course I believe in your friendship with that young king." Tian Long immediately changed his attitude.

He even said that he was already selecting people in his heart. As the commander of the reserve, he was also a well-known figure in the South African war zone. He had a lot of contact with Portugal and could use these places to earn a lot of favors.

"Chief Tian, ​​you should let your people bring them."

Tian Long nodded: "Then I asked my son to go. He has been to Mombasa several times and is very familiar with the people there. In addition, the second son, do you still need to prepare troops for you here in the South African War Zone?"

"Yi joined the army?" Li Zhaocheng asked.

This is the tradition of the empire fighting in the Americas. At that time, Li Junwei led a large army to attack Americas and fought most of South America. Among them were the elite of the Imperial Army, but the main force was still the Yi army, and these Yi army were mainly dispatched from South Africa.

African development companies were the main force to provide troops, and later they also relied on the Yi army to solve ethnic issues in their territory. For example, in Yingzhou (Madagascar), African development companies recruited a large number of local people to join the Yi army, went to the Americas or participated in various intensity wars in African colonies, and then sealed the land on the African continent, then moved the families of these soldiers, basically solving the black tribes in the inland areas of Yingzhou Province.

"If there is a Portuguese ethnic group, it is OK. Whites and mixed races are OK, but the number should not be too large, with a limit of 300." Li Zhaocheng said after considering it.

Tian Long asked: "Can't black people do it?"

"No. I want to go to America, but this time I can't use the army of the African Development Company, so I have to resettle all the Yi army. America cannot accommodate black people, and this is for their own good." Li Zhao admitted to responding seriously.

When Tian Long heard this, he thought to himself that the black people are slaves in the current Americas. Whether in the Spanish colony or in the Portuguese colony, similar things happened to African development companies. Some Yi troops went to the Americas to fight and did not want to return to East Africa to resettle. After receiving military pay and resettlement fees, they were arrested and became slaves. Even more, ships that were placed against the countryside were kidnapped by slave ships, and some black soldiers were arrested as slaves.

Later, under the negotiations between the empire, some of the survivors were able to restore freedom.
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