Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2528 Migratory Birds

"I'm leaving again, just like migratory birds." On September 1704, 9, a ship full of Korean workers had just set sail on the wharf of Akkeshi Port.

This is a thousand-ton ship originally owned by the South China Sea Transportation Company, but it was disposed of at a low price after catching up with the wave of the company's replacement.After the Blackwater Transportation Company bought it, it was rebuilt at the Hyundai Special Shipyard, and a double-inflation steam propulsion system was installed to make it a real sailing ship, and then it was fully loaded for a whole year. The ship's weapons, ammunition, and chemicals arrived in the Blackwater area and officially entered service.

This ship is now one of the main merchant ships of the Heishui Transportation Company. It has been sailing the offshore route of Manchuria-Heishui-North Korea-Ningshao-Lianwu for a long time, constantly transferring materials and people along the way.Especially for bulk commodities such as coal, grain, and timber, they are usually run by them. After all, a thousand-ton ship pulls a lot of cargo and the unit cost is low.For example, this time, they just ran a route from Heishui Port to Dinghai Port, shipped hundreds of cubic meters of high-quality timber to the local area, and then brought more than 800 tons of Nanyang rice delivered locally to Miaojie Port. Very efficient.

Not to mention, they seized the last moment before the sea of ​​whales was frozen, and loaded a cargo of groceries at Temple Street Port, mainly leather, bacon, wool, dairy products, whale products, seafood and gold, and planned to ship them to the south. .While passing through Ezo, they also temporarily took over a business order and sent more than 500 laborers from North Korea home.

The destination of the North Koreans was Goseong Port on the east coast, because they all came from the three counties of Ganseong under the administration of the Jeon family.The three counties of Gancheng have firmly followed the East Coast government for many years, and various reforms have been carried out in depth. The people of the East Coast also consciously gave them some industries and opened up the market. Therefore, the economy of the three counties of Gancheng has developed very rapidly.The improvement of the economic level has brought about rapid population growth. The three counties are dominated by hilly terrain, and there are not many plains. However, even so, their population density is not much lower than that of Gyeonggi-do, Jeolla-do and other traditional lands of plenty.

With such a large population, work is a big problem.Given the current situation in the three counties of Gancheng, industry and commerce cannot provide so many jobs—nonsense, even Ningshao can’t do it, and it’s even more impossible for the three counties of Gancheng—thus, these new populations must either stay in the countryside, Lower the standard of living of all people, or go abroad to work for a better life.

It should be said that there are people who choose both options in Gancheng, but more people go abroad.Especially those who go to Manmeng and Heishui, many people live in the worst huts, eat the cheapest food, take it hard when they are sick, and resolutely refuse to see a doctor. half a year), and the salary plus bonus was able to leave 50 yuan.They usually pay the "Yuyang" minted by the Dabo Mint, but if you specify, they will also prepare hard gold coupons for you, although not many people have the courage to choose this kind of banknotes.

The cash income of 50 yuan is a lot of money in North Korea, so that they don't have to farm the land at all, and they can support the whole family with this wage income.In order to allow these North Koreans to work with peace of mind, the relevant parties of the Heishui Management Committee have also opened special banking services for them. The East Coast Agricultural Bank and the Bank of Taiwan have opened branches in many port cities in North Korea to facilitate their remittances.The North Korean Kingdom, stimulated by the huge remittance income (more than 300 million yuan per year), is not without small economic benefits. Going abroad to work has suddenly become a big business, and all parties have benefited greatly.

Of course, there are also many North Koreans who have gone abroad to work. After seeing the relatively good living standards in Heishui, Manmeng, Denglai and other places, they plan to completely move here, and try to take over their families and even relatives and friends.They almost succeeded in the past few years, but as the East Bank strengthened the inspection of illegally stranded North Korean guest workers, most of them were repatriated. After all, only a few of them were able to obtain legal status and stay. In the past ten years, only a few thousand Just people.

Among the thousands of people, almost half of them were from the three counties of Gancheng!With the help of these expatriates living on the east coast, the enthusiasm for working abroad in the three counties of Ganseong is significantly higher than that of other counties in North Korea, and the places where they work are becoming more and more widespread, such as Temple Street, Heishui, Dabo, Vladivostok, Ezo People go to the land, the Thousand Islands, etc., and even the remote Heixiazi Port.They are also engaged in a variety of jobs, logging, coal digging, farming, grazing, construction, fishing are the most, in addition to fishing for kelp, picking wild products, helping in factories, doing coolies on the pier, cleaning For the sewer, there is almost nothing they can't do, and they have made great contributions to the economic development of Heishui, Manchuria and other places.And this seems to be the main reason why people on the east coast have never been able to make up their minds to abolish the North Korean guest worker system, although there are many people who oppose this system.

Hundreds of people who boarded the boat at Akkeshi Port today are from the three counties of Gancheng.They work in the local state-run ranch, harvesting pasture, processing feed, tanning leather, plucking wool, milking, salting meat, and doing almost everything. Like a blessing, it is simply the favorite of business operators.In fact, to a certain extent, the entrepreneurs on the east coast of the Far East are similar to those in New China and other places. They use cheap North Korean guest workers (and now they are targeting bankrupt Japanese farmers and samurai), and the Indian Ocean side Is it really that big of a difference to use the island's Eight Banners hired labor or even illegal slaves?Capital's pursuit of profit is eternal.

"They have to leave. The guest worker system is very strict. It is very difficult for bosses to apply for a work permit for more than six months. Migratory birds have to do it." An elderly official from the Akkeshi Port Authority said: "But it's not that there is no chance. Isn't the Ezo land going to expand the counties and townships soon? There may be opportunities among them."

What the port authority official said was actually mentioned in the document just issued by Bai Yutang, director of the Heishui Management Committee.There are currently only two counties in Ezoji Island, namely Wakkanai Prefecture and Kushiro Prefecture. The former has a population of about 3, and the latter has a population of more than [-].The economy of the two counties is doing fairly well. The output of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery is very large. The development of Kushiro coal mines, shipyards, seafood processing factories, wood products factories, and building materials factories is also very smooth. Therefore, the conditions for expanding to the inland of the island have been met. Mature and ready to act.

In fact, the Blackwater Management Committee has also made some preliminary preparations in recent years.For example, they have established some small settlements in the west of Kushiro Prefecture and south of Wakkanai Prefecture, namely: Obihiro Township (located near the later Obihiro City), Hato Township (located near the later Shihoro Town), Kasai Township (located in the Near the later Daiki-cho), Miyama-go (near the later Asyoro-cho), Rikubetsu-go (near the later Rikubetsu-cho), Kumae-go (near the later Haboro-cho), Rutsu-go (near the later Ruin-city) ), Zhixing Township (located in the vicinity of Zhisai Town in later generations), Xiongwu Township (located in the vicinity of Yuwu Town in later generations), Fengying Township (located in the vicinity of Nakagawa Town in later generations), Keinaga Township (located near Nayoro City in later generations), and Heianaga Township (in the vicinity of Shishi Betsucho), a total of twelve settlements, currently less than 5000 people have been resettled in these places to reclaim wasteland and develop industries such as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery.

Among the above-mentioned towns, the five settlements in Obihiro Township are the most important, because they are a whole plain, and the area is not small, and the potential for large-scale mechanized agricultural production is great, unlike other places, either Broken small coastal plains, or narrow mountain valleys, are not suitable for large-scale mechanized production models, and their value will naturally be lower.

The management committee has basically confirmed that in the future, state-owned farms and pastures will be widely established in the Obihiro Plain, and the main source of labor for these farms, except for a few people from the east coast, most of them will have to fall on North Koreans.Therefore, it is inevitable to appropriately relax the guest worker system and allow some of the North Korean workers who migrate to work in the migratory style to be naturalized.

Of course, this relaxation is also conditional. After the North Koreans are naturalized, they should be dispersed as much as possible and resettled in various places. They must not be allowed to form a very large community, because it is easy for them to preserve their own culture.In addition, they should also be encouraged to intermarry with people from the east coast or even the aboriginal Ainu people, so that their descendants will weaken the Korean imprint and sense of identity.Otherwise, let them know that North Korean blood is always flowing in their veins, which will be very detrimental to the rule of the East Bank government, and they must plan well from now on.

Some people may ask, there are many ronin in Japan at present, why don't people from the east coast recruit a large number of them to settle in Ezoji Island and reclaim wasteland?Again, this place is too close to Japan, and Japan already has its own culture and a relatively stable regime, and the Matsumae Domain still has territory on this island. At this time, bankrupt Japanese farmers were introduced on a large scale. It is much better than the large-scale introduction of North Koreans.In short, it is okay to allow Japanese to work as guest workers on Ezoji Island, but one must be cautious when allowing them to become naturalized and settle down.

The best places for Japanese ronin are still the colonies in Southeast Asia. Where can we not go to Brunei, Timor, Rabaul, and India?There are still a lot of opportunities to go, and there is a high probability that you can mix with others and come out like a dog.After gaining a firm foothold, I will find a way to send money back to Japan, and bring my family over, so that my life will be even better.You can even go to Manchuria, a bitterly cold place. What the Mongolian frontline lacks at this time is cannon fodder for war.The lost warriors don't know how to farm or work. The only thing they are good at is fighting and killing, and they can fight for a future even if they go.Do not believe?The advertisements of the Renmanmeng Pioneering Team have been sent to Osaka, Kyoto, and Edo. There are quite a few down-and-out samurai who signed up to go, and some of them have even made meritorious service on the front line.

Let the Japanese devils and the Manchurian Tartars fight, in the eyes of the people on the east coast, there is really a feeling of aliens fighting the predators-uh, the last sentence is crossed out, readers can ignore it.

(End of this chapter)