Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1138 "Gentle" Colonists
Dashun Whale Sea Co., Ltd. pioneered and colonized North America, and was relatively "gentle" to the local aboriginal tribes.

The biggest reason is the foundation of handicraft industry laid by thousands of hardworking people in Dashun.

A few blankets, a few catties of cane sugar, and a few barrels of dried peaches can be exchanged for enough expensive furs.

Killing people is sometimes more expensive than exchanging cheap handicrafts, which depends on the country's handicraft industry base and geographical distance.

Moreover, the companies developed in North America are relatively gentle to their "own people".

It has nothing to do with regulations or laws.

The main reason is the previous immigrant uprising, which forced the company to adjust its thinking.

At the beginning, the company also wanted to squeeze as much as possible.

For example, find tenants who are in debt and sign a contract for selling themselves; or directly find human traffickers, and the human traffickers will package the piece. Some of them were bonded workers who were either cheated or somehow obtained.

In addition, there is also the desire to get consumer coupons within the company.

Because there is a monopoly right, other merchants cannot sell goods there.

Those who go there to work are all paid on a piece-rate basis.They are all rushing to get rich, it must be piece-rate wages, and the fur is paid, and the three-one account is divided.Anyway, it is so far away, and there is no boat to go there at any time, so there is no such thing as hiding and taking away.

In this case, the internal consumption coupons, a bottle of sorghum wine, the internal consumption coupons are as expensive as Hailong skin, whether you like it or not.

Not buying?Don't drink if you don't buy it.Because of the monopoly and franchise, when others come here to sell goods, they can be directly bombarded and eliminated.

Is it okay not to drink?In theory it works.

Not in reality.

Ice and snow, polar night, bitter cold, loneliness, high-intensity labor, wet clothes, darkness, fear, blood, killing... In theory, you can be a normal person, save every penny, don't smoke or drink, don't gamble, don't Fight, don't make trouble.

In reality, it cannot be done.

In addition to low-end luxury goods such as alcohol and cigarettes, food, dried fruit and other things are also used within the company to use consumer coupons.

It is similar to the previous Nanyang Banga mines and Batavia Chinese sugarcane gardens - low-quality currency is issued internally, and only when you quit can you exchange internal consumer coupons for silver, monopolizing consumer goods and materials.

If when you leave, you don’t have to work for another three years to pay off your debts, but leave with enough salary, the general manager will take your surname.In the files of the Dutch, it is recorded that many Chinese laborers were used lead coins and internal consumption coupons by high-level Chinese sugar factory contractors, and their parents did not know about it.

Of course, it was the same here in the beginning.Regulations and systems are completely useless and out of control.

Later, the immigrant uprising broke out to grow food and run away.

As soon as they ran away, many hunters couldn't bear it anymore, and even some Raksha Cossacks who had defected to the island took a group of people to the paradise to establish autonomous villages; The Jingtian village community, which has never been in contact with each other until old age, and a group of local aborigines hired from the Heilongjiang area, went directly to the local tribes in the Americas.

Songsu has a lot of laws, regulations, and systems.

Eggs are useless.

Several employee uprisings and immigrant uprisings seriously affected the company's profits, and things developed in a good direction.

very useful.

The imperial court not only sold the monopoly power to facilitate management and collect money, but some things were really difficult to solve.

For example, let go of business and allow private businessmen to go there to sell food and wine.

Let's put it this way, let it go today, and tomorrow these merchant ships selling groceries will all hide furs when they come back, and the monopoly of fur minerals sold by the imperial court is worthless.

The premise of all liberalization is the same as the banning of the East India Company by Britain, the banning of the Russian-American Company by Russia, and the banning of the East India Company by the Netherlands. It must be thrown away after being used up, just like wipes.

Throw it early, it must be troublesome.

But if the buttocks are still left after wiping, then there is something wrong with the pure brain.

It has not yet reached the stage of wiping buttocks, and it is basically still in the state of just squatting down. Let the merchants do it freely, and they can be killed by the enemy's monopoly company and the colonial governor, and they are all busy fighting among themselves.

Fortunately, these uprisings, escapes, and the special environment in North America—unlike Nanyang, where they would die if they left their settlements, and North America was rich and rich, and they ran away with cattle, horses, grain seeds, and lived happily—to fight for Dashun to fight for America. played a very crucial role.

Well, this has a huge impact on the company.

Which of the Dashun employees knows how to farm?

After developing to the Americas, where is the vast America not land?
There is no shortage of land, and there is no shortage of farming skills.

Many people didn't go to work at all, but went purely for "boat tickets".

As long as you get there, you can live no matter what, all you need is an expensive boat ticket.

In the words of why not eat minced meat, it is the clinking of the poor tenants, who are doing work for the landlord, and America is full of land. It really has no pioneering spirit, too much slavishness, and so on.In fact, do people lack the quality of hard work, the spirit of pioneering and pioneering, and the courage to resist?
They just lack a ticket to run over.

These years are full of wooden sailboats, and the trip to the Pacific Ocean takes less than half a year. If the tenants can afford the boat tickets, can they become tenants?
If you talk about nationality, spirit, pioneering and other crap, you can’t explain why the Russians, who claim to be very pioneering and aggressive, set up an immigration area in San Francisco early on. After four or fifty years, they didn’t even make a sound. did not hear.

Economic foundation, material conditions, geographical distance, capital flow, ocean currents and monsoons are not at all dependent on human will.

Again.

Rich people don't want to farm.

If you don't have money, you can't go there if you want to farm.

The landlord and gentry said, wouldn't it be nice for me to sell my property and take the tenants there to cultivate?Not beautiful at all.Going there, without the laws of Dashun, who would recognize you as a landlord and me as a tenant?For up to two years, either equalize the fields or run away.The magistrate of the county can't send yamen servants from Dashun to swim across the Pacific Ocean to catch the anti-tenants.Laws have to be enforced by the violent organs of the ruling class, and when the economic base changes there, it is difficult to say who is the ruling class.

Working for others is far less attractive than being a farmer in the empty Americas, and maybe even when the industrial revolution was developing, the biggest dream of a worker was to save enough money for a boat ticket to become a farmer.

It can be said that the biggest contributor to Dashun's ability to stop in the Americas instead of giving up in desperation was those waves of rebellious employees.

Their resistance set an example for the rest of the bonded labor contract slaves.

After they rebelled, the consumer coupons for plundering wealth within the company were cancelled, the prices of tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea were reduced, houses were built, doctors were dispatched, accounts were cleared, and the system of contracting foremen for labor and dental work was abolished.

If there is no reform, it will become a charity organization that collects free boat tickets, distributes guns and seeds, clicks to give away fertile land, and has a climate suitable for temperate zones and the same latitude!

Does the company want to be this charity offering free boat tickets?

Of course not, so I had to reform.

After the reform, profits did not fall but rose.

Of course, the company also understands that it is not easy to solve the problem of sending immigrants to farm with empty ships.

Or, the company will use its strength to directly allocate one million and one million taels of money, and within a few years, 10 people, five or six thousand live cattle and horses, two or three million shi of grain, seven or eight thousand guns, five Six hundred barrels of gunpowder.

When there are too many people, there will be enough commodity food left over to eat, and these people need to exchange items from the company, so that both the food problem and the escape problem can be solved.

It's just that it's unrealistic for the company's shareholders to take out 10 taels at once without dividends.

As for the court, it is even more impossible for the court of Dashun to pay the money.

It costs 10 taels, thousands of households immigrate, and can’t collect a cent of tax. Does the Dashun household government think I’m being taken advantage of?The one million 10 taels will be spared from the disaster area in Henan, repair the embankment of the Yellow River, and make up for the immigrants in the bitter cold area of ​​the Yalu River to resist the North Koreans and flee into villages and towns, okay?

The matter of spending money is handled by the imperial court.

Profitable fur business, capital to earn?

The imperial court would rather spend the 10 taels on emigrating to the Western Regions or the Korean border than to spend money on emigrating there.

If the money has not been floated or corrupted.

At this time, the emergence of the lunar distance longitude surveying and mapping technology and the discovery of Honolulu were just in time to find another possibility for capital.

For Dashun's fur company, it doesn't matter and doesn't care whether the people on the island believe in Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or even primitive worship.

As long as the island's productivity develops and it can provide enough and cheap commodity food, even if the people on the island use living sacrifices, they can still be friends.

Just pull the production on the island into the capitalist system.

But this is an ideal situation where the Dashun family dominates.

In other words, this is the ideal situation under true free trade.

However, the reality is not ideal.

The rise of Dashun has led to the mainstream of European economics conservatives, free trade is not mentioned at all, and competition is still based on the divisions of countries, religions, and cultures.

When the Whale Sea Monopoly Company competed in the north before, the most annoying thing was not the Rakshasa hunting team. The two sides often fought, and it didn't matter.

Just hit.

What bothers me the most are the damned missionaries, especially the Old Manners, who are half-heretics in Russia.

It was a product of the schism in the Russian church, a little like a religious utopian society.

In short, this faction is closely related to the village community tradition, cooperative industry and commerce, public ownership of land, internal charitable education, reduced working hours, property donation after death, low-interest loans for internal members, and so on.It even has something to do with why collective farms in the black soil areas of Don Ukraine with good conditions had major problems, while some places with poor conditions were implemented very smoothly in collectivization.Tradition itself is also a kind of reality basis.

This group of people are heretics, they can only mix industry and commerce, free farming, and border areas, which makes the Whale Sea Company really miserable.

Even when there was fierce competition between the two companies in the early years, the Cossacks on the Raksha side and the pioneers on the Dashun side actually seized the ship and ran away together, went to the Thousand Islands as free citizens, and built collective self-government, fairness and equality. village affairs.

Can this company stand it?

Companies compete with each other, a bit like facing monsters, zombies, etc., with a gun in hand, look at the caliber of the gun, and just do it.

And this kind of religious and cultural competition is a bit like facing ghosts and ghosts.Even with a cannon in hand, I don't know how to fire it.

After suffering such a loss, the company has a long memory of what happened in Honolulu.

On the one hand, I am worried about some things that are easier to spread and affect the company's profits.

And Dashun's strong traditional sense of private ownership since the collapse of the military system is more suitable for the company to grab profits.

On the other hand, everyone is arguing that if a missionary goes to the island, it will be hard to say who the people on the island will turn to in the future.

And the ghost knows what those weird religions will do when they come to the island.In the future, it is very possible to instigate people on the island not to sell the company's food and not let the company's ships dock.

After all, now Dashun is not controlling the whole world by himself, and the competition is still very fierce, especially for such a key place in the Pacific Ocean.

Missionaries must be towards their own country.

If there is no competition from external forces, it doesn't matter what the island believes in, as long as it develops productive forces and becomes a commodity grain base.

However, this is still the era of competition at the national level.

If the company wants to transform into a gold mine in the future, it must manage this place well.

Moreover, it is best to make it more culturally close, able to resist the spread of Christianity, resist missionaries coming to the island, and prevent hostile parties from controlling the politics and culture of the island.

This is the helplessness of the emerging classes in Dashun.

They like the whole set of classical liberal theories very much, and in theory, it doesn't matter whether the island believes in Christianity, Allah, or worships Confucian temples, as long as it is pulled into the capitalist production system and food is provided.

But in reality, it is between countries and monopoly companies supported by various countries, customs offices, and navies are competing with each other.

The group in Dashun worried about the high tariffs and cotton cloth bans imposed by Britain and France all day long.

I personally feel that it is much more effective than language education. They are not so innocent now, and they really believe that it will work.

(End of this chapter)