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The Dutch people in the city also know that resistance cannot be resisted, but they are neither willing nor able to leave South Africa.

After all, these are poor people among the Dutch. They came to South Africa to survive. If they go to other places, where can they go?

Moreover, the boat also requires money. Out of humanitarianism, the people of Chu State said that they could provide a transport ship for a fee to transport them to South America across the Atlantic Ocean, or to the central area of ​​the west coast of Africa in the north.

But these Dutch people basically have no money, and they can't afford to take a boat.

I can’t afford a boat ticket, and it’s okay to take a boat, as long as a labor contract is signed, the Chu people can transport them to South America, and then hand over the people and the contract to some local European plantation owners. Get shipping costs from the owner of the plantation estate.

But these Dutchmen don't want to!

Once the labor contract is signed, it becomes a contract slave again...

And many of them were contract slaves before, and they finally worked for many years and went through untold hardships before they were free.

At the same time, many of them were still indentured slaves, but with the defeat of the Dutch, they were considered free again.

Under such circumstances, no one would choose to become a contract slave for the second time.

When the Dutch East India Company shipped them to South Africa, they basically signed a contract with them. The Dutch East India Company did not charge them for the ticket, but took them to South Africa for free, and provided them with food, clothing, housing and other expenses.

They worked for the Dutch East India Company for free for four to seven years. After the free work period expired, they would be free and at the same time obtain a piece of land of their own from the Dutch East India Company.

This is the contemporary indentured slaves that are more popular among white people, some are voluntary, some are forced by criminals, bankrupts, etc., and there are various sources.

However, because of the relatively high cost, more and more colonists are no longer willing to use white indentured slaves, but prefer to use lower-cost black lifelong slaves.

Well, the Chu people in Chu’s overseas territories are an exception, because Chu people don’t use contract slaves, nor do they need lifelong slaves.

It's forbidden by law, there's no way...

However, a large number of indigenous prisoners of war were used for labor in the armed trading companies in the East and West Oceans.

However, this does not belong to the people of the Eastern and Western Ocean Trading Company, but a prisoner of war from the military. The two cooperate in the form of labor dispatch...

In recent years, it is not only Chu's own military that has cooperated with Eastern and Western Ocean Trading Companies in labor services.Even the officials of some indigenous countries/tribes have also cooperated.

The Western Armed Trading Company opened a super-large rubber plantation in Malacca Province. The rubber workers in the plantation were all extremely cheap labor provided by the Siamese military.

These laborers are generally all kinds of criminals, prisoners of war, bankrupts, or simply captured privately by the dignitaries of the Siamese army. Most of them are prisoners of war. The Kingdom of Siam has often fought against the Kingdom of Burma in recent years. The fighting between the two sides produced a large number of prisoners of war!
Then these prisoners of war are often organized and sent to work in the mines or plantations of the Chu people to earn Chu Yuan foreign exchange!
Of course, the Burmese kingdom on the opposite side is doing the same thing!
As for the state of Chu, as long as you do not resist my colonization, do not affect my business, and generally do not interfere in the wars between these vassal states/puppet states.

It belongs to what you like, and the Chu people don't care.

In fact, many wars were instigated by the arms dealers of the Chu people. The Nanyang Arms Trading Company has been lobbying between the Kingdom of Siam and the Kingdom of Burma all year round, sowing dissension, and even secretly creating conflicts between them.

Not for anything else, just to sell weapons!

Although the method is not on the table, it is not shabby to attract business, as long as the business is outstanding, at least the business volume of Nanyang Arms Trading Company has increased significantly in recent years, but it has made a lot of money.

And because of the expansion of arms exports, it has contributed to the development of the domestic defense industry and employment. Song Pingxun, the former governor of the Nanyang Arms Trading Company, has received the evaluation of "loyalty to the monarch", and now he has returned to the mainland. The Ministry of Trade served.

Loyal to the monarch, these four words are very high evaluations by officials of the Great Chu Empire, and it has even become an honorary title until now.

These four words can not be used casually in the Great Chu Empire today. After all, this word is already very formal in the Great Chu Empire, and the evaluation of officials is also very strict.

This kind of evaluation often requires the Ministry of Civil Affairs to conduct a comprehensive assessment and submit it to the emperor Luo Zhixue for approval before using this comment on an official in the relevant official documents.

After all, Luo Zhixue said that you are loyal to the emperor's affairs, and you are loyal to the emperor's affairs. If you say it yourself, it doesn't count if others say it.

Generally, officials with this evaluation will basically be included in the list of vigorous cultivation.

Having obtained this evaluation and being promoted as fast as a rocket, Song Pingxun, who is now the deputy director of the Nanyang Department of the Ministry of Trade, has set a model for a large number of overseas arms trading companies, and now those overseas arms trading companies are also like this Follow the example, make war break out every day on the earth...

This also produced a large number of prisoners of war, which then became dispatched laborers.

The Western Armed Trading Company doesn't care where these people come from, and they don't even manage these workers directly. They only provide assigned tasks, pay according to the tasks, and station armed personnel on the periphery to prevent them from running out.

The internal management and supervision of labor is done by the indigenous officials themselves, and the Chu people never intervene.

There are quite a lot of similar situations. In recent years, this method of labor dispatch has also attracted the attention of a large number of ordinary private enterprises, and they also want to introduce this kind of almost free indigenous labor.

However, the Great Chu Empire is very strict about slavery and mutant slave labor, and is also very vigilant and repulsive of foreign natives living in the overseas territories directly under the Chu State.

For this reason, legislation has been made many times to prohibit individuals or enterprises in Chu State from using indigenous labor dispatch in the local or overseas directly-administered territories. No matter what name you use, anyway, it is not allowed to bring a bunch of aboriginals to work in the local or overseas directly-administered territories.

As for the Eastern and Western Ocean Trading Company, this is an exception... because these two companies are said to be companies, but they are actually official organizations in the name of companies, and they also have a strong military nature...they are serious Armed by eight classic companies.

These two armed trading companies have characteristics that other companies do not have, so they are treated specially in management... so they can use labor dispatched prisoners of war and indigenous official labor in limited and cautious overseas territories, However, this authority also has different time limits in different regions. It is often only allowed to be used in some overseas territories with immature development. Once the construction is slightly mature, this authority will be cancelled.

As for other companies and individuals, it is completely prohibited, and no opening will be left for you.

But there are many smart people. After reading the legal provisions, these people said that the mainland and overseas territories cannot do it, but they didn't say that the colonies with limited control can't do it either!

Not to mention that companies or individuals in the Chu state are not allowed to use these indigenous laborers in the indigenous-controlled areas!
Well, slave or not.

Although in some indigenous-controlled areas that the official power of the Great Chu Empire cannot reach, there are many Chu people who are serious slave leaders.

However, such things as slaves are still too eye-catching, if they are done too much, and if the impact is relatively bad, once the officials find out, they will have to use you as an example... Even if you use native slaves on native land, that won't work.

After all, many laws of the Great Chu Empire are human principles. As long as you are from Chu, no matter where you are, you must abide by the laws of our Chu. Slavery is one of them.

At the same time, this is also the reason why the Great Chu Empire has always emphasized extrajudicial jurisdiction overseas, and it is because of this personal principle.

Therefore, even in the indigenous-controlled areas, if the Chu people dare to blatantly engage in slavery, it will be quite serious, and the negative impact will be very bad. If the officials know about it, they will punish you.

Ever since, the labor dispatch system appeared!
In some colonies or puppet country areas managed by puppets that were not directly under the jurisdiction of the Great Chu Empire, many companies used so-called labor dispatch to obtain a large amount of extremely cheap labor for mining and planting.

It was first developed by Dongyang Armed Trading Company, then introduced by Western Trading Company, and finally adopted by other enterprises and individuals operating overseas.

This kind of overseas labor dispatch system sounds good, but its reputation is really not good.

Because according to those Europeans, whether it is the Dutch, the Portuguese or the Spaniards, they all agree that the labor dispatch system of these Chu people in the colonies and indigenous-controlled areas is purely taking off their pants and farting... like those indigenous laborers We are not slaves if we wear the skin of a laborer...who are you kidding.

According to those Europeans, the labor dispatch workers of the Chu people are no different from their slave workers, and many dispatch workers are even treated worse than slaves.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Back then, the Western Armed Trading Company came up with this thing, purely to circumvent the relevant laws of the Chu State prohibiting slaves, so they came up with the term labor outsourcing.

And generally do not cooperate with private slave owners and the like, but cooperate with some indigenous officials. For example, in Northeast Africa, there are some tribes who organize a lot of workers in the name of the official to the mines run by the Chu people. Work in the plantation to earn precious foreign exchange of Chu Yuan, which can then be used to buy the weapons and ammunition of the Chu people to launch tribal wars, obtain more labor force population from the hostile tribes, and then organize them to work in the Chu people’s mines and plantations .

Very perfect cycle!
However, the people of Chu State are very stubborn when speaking to the outside world, and they refuse to admit it.

Moreover, there is another very interesting phenomenon in this overseas labor dispatch system, that is, the cost of Chu people using labor dispatch workers is lower than that of European colonists using slaves...

Because the overseas companies in Chu State neither need to be responsible for the birth, old age, sickness and death of the laborers, nor do they need to pay for the purchase of labor in one lump sum, but can be divided into many years and paid in installments in the form of labor costs.

Laborers can't work and don't need to be paid, let alone any protection.

There is no need to spend money on treatment when you are sick, and you don’t even need to feed them, just give them some salary.

Anyway, the ownership of these laborers is not their own, but the official organizations of various countries/tribes, so there is no need for Chu people to worry about them.

Chu people's enterprises only pay money according to the completed tasks. As for how the workers complete the tasks, whether they live or die, they don't care about it, and they have no right to control it. That is the business of the labor dispatching party.

And when Europeans use slaves, they first need to spend a lot of money to buy slaves, which is a lot of money. A black slave in the Americas costs tens of Chu dollars, and slave traders will not play with you about installment payments!
Then slaves are also their own property, and they should not be used too much in the process of use, otherwise they will be worn out, and they will lose themselves.

Usually, if the illness is not too serious, the slaves need to be treated to some extent, or if they die, they will lose their own assets.

As a result, the current life-long slaves under the hands of the European colonists actually have a better quality of life than the labor dispatch workers entrusted and hired by the Eastern and Western Companies of Chu State... Slave owners may not care about the lives of slaves, but They will care about the safety of their assets.

And the people of Chu State... don't need to care about the safety of the labor's assets, they can keep the wages as low as possible, and most of the labor dispatchers are doing no-cost business, they can accept very low prices, and carry out labor inspections. Extremely oppressive.

So much so that the attrition rate of these laborers is even higher than that of slaves...

So much so that when the Spaniards in North America deal with the Chu people, they often use the slaves under their hands to live a better life than the dispatch workers under the Chu people to establish a sense of superiority...

Some Chu state bosses who set up plantations in Native American-controlled areas and mines often despise the Spaniards after hearing these words: "A group of European barbarians know how to control cost!"

"Just play a fart plantation like this, go home and nurse!"

Regardless of whether they are slaves, indentured slaves, or laborers, these Dutch immigrants don't want to... want to leave and can't take a boat.

Finally, after internal discussions, they decided to move to the north, to go further north, and start a new life in the land that still belongs to the local aboriginal people.

Soon, these Dutch immigrants took their belongings, and the whole family went northward. Before leaving, they pooled a sum of gold and silver and purchased a batch of matchlock guns, swords and spears from the Chu people.

Naturally, the Chu people have no opinion on this, as long as they leave Cape Town, the future military base, they don't bother to care about going to other places by boat, or going north and deep into the interior of Africa.

Not to mention the sale of weapons and equipment, the export version of the matchlock gun, basically anyone who buys it will sell it... Even if the Dutch East India Company came to buy the export version of the matchlock gun, the people of Chu would still buy it, even if The muzzle of the arquebus that was sold back will be aimed at yourself.

However, as a conscientious and ambitious arms dealer, he would never stop selling bullets just because the bullets might hit him.

The arms dealer of the Great Chu Empire is a businessman with a good reputation and a conscience.

In the eyes of many aborigines, the arms dealers of the Great Chu Empire were civilized and polite, and they spoke and acted with propriety.

The leaders of many indigenous tribes, they will not trust their family members and subordinates, but they will definitely trust the arms merchants of Chu State.

As long as you give money, no matter who you are or what you are purchasing weapons for, as long as the weapons and equipment you want are on the export approval list, they will sell them.

Even if you say clearly that I purchased weapons to beat you damned arms dealers, the arms dealers in Chu State will still sell them, and even recommend better weapons and equipment to you... Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to kill me !
The arms dealers in Chu State are not run-and-run gangs, but are large government-run enterprises that have a monopoly on the arms market in a certain region.

When someone sells weapons, they will bring a large number of armed security guards there, and when the transaction is large-scale, they will also be escorted by overseas troops.

If the natives don't get more advanced weapons, they really can't kill these arms dealers!