The Dalits' Plan

After the labor shortage plaguing the Tanzania Governorate was resolved, the colony's development accelerated at a breakneck pace.

A problem that generations of colonists had racked their brains over was easily solved just like that. The truth was, many things were impossible until quantitative change gave rise to qualitative change.

In fact, the Tanzania Governorate had a sizable population. There were people of Dutch, Portuguese, and Arab descent, along with a whole lot of mixed-race people who had no idea what they were. With Franz's generous support, the white population had already exceeded thirty thousand.

Even so, thirty thousand people was far too few for Tanzania. They couldn't even take over the farmland in the conquered territories.

Most of those thirty thousand were merchants, shopkeepers, fishermen, craftsmen, soldiers, and sailors. There was a severe shortage of laborers, and these people had no desire to venture inland; they only wanted to stay by the coast.

Of the primitive states previously wiped out by the Tanzania Governorate, three had already entered the agricultural age.

But after the Austrian Empire took control of those lands, it became clear that they had no way to manage the inland territories. That was why Hendry Vandermeer, the former governor of Tanzania, came up with the idea of using black slaves to increase the labor force.

The practice had been used on the American continent for centuries, with plenty of examples to learn from. But Hendry Vandermeer had overlooked one problem: these Black people knew their land far too well.

As long as there was no overseer—or the overseer let his guard down for even a moment—they would run away or slack off. In the end, the colonists had to follow them around constantly, wearing straw hats and carrying guns to keep watch.

Then, with one disaster