The Rise of the European Emperor

Cape Town is "Capetown" in English, which means "cape town". This is in line with Cape Town's geographical location, because it is located on the headland of the Cape of Good Hope. When it was first established, it was just a small town built on a headland, and the name fits its characteristics very well.

In addition, Marin didn't bother to think of another name. He felt that this classic name was very suitable for the occasion, so he simply used the original name.

What's more, giving this important place a name like "Cape Town" is even more low-key. In fact, at the strategic point of the Cape of Good Hope, it is more appropriate to build a town and call it a fortress. However, that is too high-profile, and it is easy to be valued and taken back by the Portuguese. Therefore, using a name like "Cape Town" is more likely to be ignored by the Portuguese.

Anyway, Portuguese eyelids are very shallow. Generally speaking, Portuguese colonists operating along the African coast only favored those areas that produced sand and ivory. Or, I like to deal with some violent black natives and buy black slaves from them. However, the purchase of black slaves is generally accompanied by the trade of sands and ivory as an additional purchase, so the Portuguese only set their sights on the coast of West Africa. Because, there are not only sand and ivory resources there, but also black slaves can be bought.

As for the area around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, because they cannot be exchanged for the Sands, and the combat effectiveness of the local black natives is also very poor, the Portuguese are not interested. Because, even if it was ivory and rhinoceros horns, the Portuguese colonists did not like to hunt and kill them by themselves. Instead, they liked to deal with powerful black tribes, and exchanged worthless glass products with local black natives.

In this era, the San and Khoi people in the southwestern coast of South Africa were not very effective in fighting, and their ability to hunt ivory and rhino horns was not as good as that of black people in West Africa. After all, black people in West Africa have entered the era of slavery, and civilizations such as the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire have emerged. They are more civilized than the San and Khoi people, and they are more valuable for trade and use.

Therefore, the Portuguese ignored such an important place as the Cape of Good Hope, and did not establish strongholds and fortresses here. Then, until the rise of the Dutch, a town was established here in 1652 in the 17th century, which later became Cape Town. And a hundred or so years before that, the Portuguese never thought of building a town in this important place, the Cape of Good Hope...

Of course, it's not that the Portuguese completely ignored this place before. In fact, the Portuguese also operated on the coast of South Africa. As reported by Marin's ship, Portuguese merchant ships have already operated in the Cape of Good Hope. However, they are not permanent here, but stop temporarily. Then, go ashore to trade with the local San and Khoi people for products such as ivory and rhino horn. After the exchange was over, they left immediately without any thought of establishing a stronghold again.

It is no wonder that the ivory and rhino horns produced near the Cape of Good Hope can be traded in most African coasts, while the West African coast is closer to the Portuguese mainland and can be traded for golden sands, which is much more cost-effective than the South African coast. Therefore, the short-sighted Portuguese never established a permanent base here until the Dutch established Cape Town here...

In fact,

The Dutch established Cape Town at the Cape of Good Hope, not for trade, but just to establish a transit supply station. At the same time, it also shoulders the task of intercepting merchant ships of hostile countries.

After all, before the opening of the Suez Canal, the Cape of Good Hope was the only passage for European merchant ships to go to Southeast Asia. As long as the Dutch deploy warships here, they can intercept and loot merchant ships from hostile countries. Even, the original Cape Town colonial leader was not called the governor, but the commander, and it was not until 1672 that the title was changed to the governor.

In fact, at the beginning, the Dutch did not find a profit point in the Cape Town colony, but only used Cape Town as a supply station. For this reason, the Dutch have established many farms here to produce fresh vegetables. Because, in the 17th century, Europeans also realized that eating more vegetables could reduce the chance of getting scurvy.

It was by relying on the few simple farms established in Cape Town that the Dutch colonists took root in Cape Town and continued to expand their territory, eventually forming a colony rather than a colonial stronghold.

Moreover, the early Dutch did not only immigrate the Dutch to Cape Town, but immigrated a large number of poor German farmers and even French farmers. After all, the Dutch business atmosphere was strong at that time, and the Dutch were either engaged in seafaring colonization, or they were serving seafaring colonization. Only German farmers and French farmers can do farming, which is not very profitable. Of course, there were also many poor Dutch people who accepted employment from the Dutch East India Company and came to Cape Town to discuss life and run farms. Therefore, the white South Africans of later generations have very mixed blood, not only descendants of the Dutch, but also many German and French descendants. Due to the heterogeneity of the population, the local Dutch accent has been distorted. Then the Afrikaans of the Boers, which became less and less like Dutch, became the new language. This also led to the fact that when the blacks turned over and bullied the Boers, they would not choose to immigrate to the Netherlands. Because the Afrikaans they speak is no longer Dutch.

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These original historical events gave Marin enough lessons. Therefore, Marin attaches great importance to education in the colony. It not only attaches great importance to the education of characters, but also attaches great importance to the education of accents. It has specially created standard phonetic symbols, and no mispronunciation is allowed.

Never underestimate the influence of accents on politics. Even if people of the same language speak the same language, if they have different accents, there will be estrangement.

Just like the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, there were obvious disputes between local factions. For example, Qi Dang, Chu Dang and so on. The biggest faction dispute is the confrontation between southern officials and northern officials.

As for why? As soon as you open your mouth, the difference comes out. Therefore, in many cases, fellow villagers have to hold together to keep warm. Because others are out of tune with them.

However, this problem has obviously been solved to a large extent in China in the 21st century. Especially since the post-80s generation, everyone has lost their ability to speak Mandarin. It is difficult for people from all over the world to hear the difference in accent, and regional discrimination has gradually decreased. After the 90s and 00s, children only speak Mandarin in school, and there is no accent difference compared with the previous generation.

An obvious phenomenon is that - the post-80s, post-70s and post-60s, because Mandarin is generally not good, there are still a lot of cases of fellow villagers clinging together. But since the post-80s generation, because everyone speaks fluent Mandarin, the regional differences have become smaller, and the gap between people is not as serious as before.

Of course, the generation born in the 1980s is the generation that connects the past and the future when Huaxia Putonghua began to vigorously promote it. Therefore, many post-80s born in rural areas cannot speak Mandarin very well. This is mainly because, in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a serious shortage of rural teachers. At that time, there was a kind of people called "private teachers". Let's ignore the great contributions these private teachers have made to Huaxia Education, but objectively speaking, the level of these private teachers is really not good. Many Chinese teachers among private teachers in rural areas cannot speak Mandarin themselves. Naturally, the children they teach cannot speak Mandarin well. Later, the "small technical secondary school" teachers at that time trained a large number of professional teachers and spread them to the countryside, which gradually improved the situation. In the 21st century, the state mandates that Mandarin must be used in classroom teaching. Then, the children born after 00 and 10 can speak Mandarin at home.

And speaking the same Mandarin, everyone will naturally ignore regional differences. People from different regions can also become good friends, and there is no longer the behavior of fellow villagers holding together. Because everyone speaks Mandarin, there is no difficulty in communication, so there is no need to hang out with fellow villagers. The dialect is often only used when making phone calls with family members.

Therefore, after learning lessons from previous lives, in order to strengthen the national identity (including the people in the colonies) of the country, eliminate regional differences, and avoid the appearance of "Boers" as in the original history, Marin ordered—— While building the Cape Town castle, missionaries were selected to carry "standard" textbooks and teach local children "standard pronunciation" German and English (Friesian). Even, standard German and standard English pronunciation tests will be implemented in the Cape Colony in the future, and those who fail the test will not be allowed to hold public office. In this way, it can also force the locals not to change their accents, avoiding differences in culture, language and sense of identity with the local people.

For this reason, Marin wrote down the sentence "accent is very important" on the paper afterwards, and wrote it three times in a row, indicating the degree of importance. Then, send someone to Caesar to let him comprehend and understand...

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