"When will the Chinese veterinarians arrive?" Yucun asked. The Zulu king's voice was full of anxiety.
In the face of the king's agitation, his ministers looked at each other, unable to answer immediately. The Zulu system was much more advanced than that of other black tribes, but it had its limits. The so-called ministers basically followed the old system of the tribal army, and those who came here were the leaders of the various tribes. It was too much to ask these Zulu bigwigs to know how to treat "foreign" horses. The only thing they could count on now was probably the China veterinarians.
"Immediately! Send someone to the China and ask them to send veterinarians immediately. If we let the horses continue to have diarrhea like this, how many horses will die? "Faced with a group of ministers who had no ability to solve the problem, Zulu shouted.
Horses were a good thing. They could run fast and pull carts. In the past, the Boers defeated the Zulu people with their cavalry. In the face of the elusive Boer cavalry, the Zulu people, who could only run on foot, had no way to deal with them. Later, the Zulu response became: "You have horses, I have to have horses too! I have more horses than you! "
"Is there anything we can do now?" Zulu continued to ask his men. In fact, he also knew that the China people were hundreds of miles away. Even if the China people rushed over, many of the sick horses would not last long. Since the implementation of this self-reliance policy, their experience in raising horses had taught them that it was more difficult to take care of horses than people. At least people could say what was wrong, and even if they were sick, they could rely on memory to point out what they had eaten wrong. Until now, horses had not been able to communicate so deeply with humans. Accumulating knowledge through experience was too slow.
"Your Majesty, let's ask the captive British if any of them know anything about raising horses." The Zulu minister finally proposed a solution.
"The British weren't all killed?" Rain village? Zulu was a little surprised. This battle was also thanks to the China, who provided the Zulu kingdom with extremely accurate information. The British first suffered defeat at the hands of the Boers, and the British had to retreat with heavy losses. The well-prepared 60,000 Zulus, armed with rifles and artillery, launched a surprise attack on the British Army based on intelligence provided by China.
After a whole day of fighting, more than 10,000 British were wiped out by 60,000 Zulu. The route provided by the Chinese was very accurate. A mixed force of infantry and cavalry passed through the rugged mountain road and seized the high ground at top speed, cutting off the British escape route. In such a bloody battle, the Zulu suffered heavy casualties. So when the British collapsed, the news spread to the Rain Village. The Zulu King was full of news of the Zulu soldiers killing the British and how many heads they had cut off. So Yu Village? The Zulu king could not believe that an Englishman had been captured.
"Your Majesty, we did capture some British people, but the number of them is not large." The minister did not know what the king was thinking, so he could only speak ambiguously.
"Then what are you waiting for? Go and ask them now!" Zulu shouted at them.
The ministers leaving one after another meant that this group of people probably had captives. Rain Village? The Zulu king did not care too much. Capturing white people was a very rare thing for the Zulu people, and keeping some white people as slaves was a very interesting thing for the Zulu people.
But on second thought, Rain Village? Zulu felt that he could not let these people go so easily. He called his attendant over and said, "Tell these people that if those white people can't cure our horses, let them be buried with our horses."
Looking at the attendant who walked out quickly, Rain Village? The Zulu king rested his elbows on the combat table, his brows almost knitted together. Before the war was over, Rain Village felt that victory was everything. But when it was time to win, he felt that things were very wrong. Because he had lived on the docks of China's Madagascar province, Rain Village had personally experienced the huge difference between industrial countries and the Zulu Kingdom.
Just one dock had several departments, especially the medical department that treated the sick and injured. Rain Village also noticed that even the medical department, which only had 30 people, was divided into two professions, doctors and nurses. After China recruited Rain Village, he finally had a chance to ask what this design meant. Rain Village still remembered the surprised look on the faces of the Chinese at the time, but China still gave an explanation. Doctors were there to determine the disease, formulate a medical plan, and carry out treatment. Nurses were there to care for the patients according to the direction of treatment proposed by the doctors.
In fact, Rain Village did not understand this, but after this day, Rain Village felt the difference between a civilized country like China and a tribal country in Africa. It was not just that the Chinese could create many things that Rain Village dared not think of, but that the two countries looked at the world from a completely different perspective and way of solving problems.
An example was right in front of him. Every time the Zulu people, who lacked experience in raising horses, sent out a large number of cavalry on a large scale, it would lead to the death of a large number of horses. Raising horses consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, and if they could not send out a large number of cavalry on a large scale, they could not guarantee victory. And the large-scale loss of horses caused by the large-scale deployment of cavalry made the cost of war extremely high. The Zulu people really could not afford such a loss.
The victory of the battle had caused too many problems. In addition to the wine from China, Rain Village? The Zulu king did not have many very realistic means to boost the morale of the soldiers. There was not much wine left from the Gem Wine Company in China. Victory came so fast and so big that the consumption of wine far exceeded that of Rain Village? The Zulu king imagined.
In addition to these immediate problems, the long-term problems were equally huge. The Chinese could reward their subordinates by paying Chinese money, and with it they could go to Chinese shops to buy all kinds of products. To eat, to drink, to use. When Rain Village was idling around the China docks, he found that if he had enough money, he could even buy beautiful houses and have his own residence.
The Zulu people did not have these things, not even talking about currency, and the Zulu family concept did not accept the China model. The basic structure of Zulu society was the clan, which consisted of a number of father-son families, each with its own land and livestock, headed by an older man. The patriarch had high authority, so the Zulu people could call it the patriarchal system. Marriage was polygamous, and the wives and concubines were strictly ranked according to seniority, headed by the mother of the family heir. There was also levirate marriage (that is, the widow had to marry the brother of the deceased husband).
According to Rain Village's observation, the social system of the Chinese was completely different from that of the Zulu people. Although not very clear, Rain Village was sure that there were no clans in China, and the emperor of China seemed to hate this model of organization. The Chinese people had a simple small family model, with only parents and children in a family, and the children left the family to stand on their own when they reached adulthood. Rain Village felt that China had too many people and a super-complex social structure, which the Zulu Kingdom could not compare with. But the family structure in China was so simple that it could only be described as fragile in the eyes of the Zulu people.
Now Rain Village? The Zulu family model was a headache for the Zulu king. He even had to use the horse problem to temporarily prevent his senior officials from talking about post-war rewards. For a clan-based society, the distribution of rewards was a big deal, which often led to fierce struggles within the clan. But when the clans asked the king for a reward, they were particularly greedy.
In order to prevent such a problem from erupting immediately, Rain Village? The Zulu king could only first use the horse problem, which everyone thought was more appropriate as an excuse. And now he could see that these Zulu people had captured so many British captives not because they could not bear to kill them, but because they wanted to squeeze more out of the British. After the war, they cleaned up the battlefield and did find a lot of things, including British clothes, weapons, ammunition, and even some British currency.
But this was not a particularly happy loot for the Zulu people. What the Zulu people needed was land, land that they could farm and operate on. As long as they had land, Rain Village? Zulu could make his men feel at ease. For decades, the Zulu people's grasslands and water had been taken away by the white people, which made life in the Zulu Kingdom worse and worse.
After asking a few Europeans and some Chinese, Yucun Village was the first place to go. The Zulu people found that the European countries and the Chinese countries seemed to establish their territories through diplomatic means. This ensured that the territory of each country would not be easily invaded. The reason why they sent messengers to Europe was also because of Rain Village? Based on the information they had obtained, the Zulu people came to a conclusion. If the Zulu Kingdom could be recognized by the European countries, then the European countries would also recognize the Zulu land.
In Rain Village? While all kinds of thoughts flashed through the Zulu king's mind, his attendant came in quickly. "Your Majesty, the Boers have retreated!"
"What?" Rain Village was surprised by the news. He had been prepared to fight the Boers when he attacked the British army, but he never expected the Boers to retreat.
"Yes, our scouts saw that the Boers had indeed retreated. They went all the way to Johannesburg and did not leave any troops behind. " The attendant was also very happy. The Boers had won and lost against the British, and now that they had won again, they were naturally full of confidence. Against the Boers, the Zulu people were almost always defeated. After decades of trauma, the Zulu people were naturally more worried about the Boers.
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