Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1413 The Last Step of the Yellow River Problem ([-])
Villandry's understanding is basically correct.

But this noose in North America is very special.It was actually the yeoman who pulled the noose.

The differences between reclamation and hunting, planting and gathering, under the 450 mm isoprecipitation line, and under the agricultural technology and metal smelting technology at this time, will soon be decided.

The tyrants of New France are all in the fur business.

The tyrants of the thirteen states have land speculators.However, due to the power of New France, it is impossible for land speculators to appear, because New France is not Virginia, and cannot grow tobacco or agricultural products for Europe.

Villandry is also considered sober.

But this sobriety is meaningless.

He knows that every time he expands the wine or livestock trade with Xinyizhou, he is selling the noose that hangs the fur and ginseng company.

But he, and all the shareholders, even the royal family, had to sell the noose.

Every time the volume of wine trade is expanded, it means that hundreds or even thousands of migrants can be provided to Dashun.

In the long run, this is dangerous.

But in the short term, or even within ten or twenty years, every shareholder, royal family, and fur merchant will rejoice in the re-expansion of wine and grain trade, and the more dividends will be paid each year.

However, the adjutant translation stabbed at the right time and said: "In fact, more people will join this migration. You may not understand their love for the land and their desire to have their own arable land."

"The more people there are, the easier and cheaper it is to move here."

Villandry nodded and didn't say anything. Instead, he and the translation adjutant and a few others continued to move forward and entered the cooperative winery of Brother Wang Long.

In the workshop, among the people who were busy amidst the strong smell of wine and steaming heat, no one looked up to see these strange-looking people.Just like the church block before the ban on religion in the capital, no one would be shocked by these weird-looking ghosts.

People here have seen a lot and are used to it.

Whether it is to transport cattle and horses or buy wine, there will be a wave every year.

Wang Long, who was busy in the factory, saw these people and knew that they were probably here to discuss business, so he went up to meet them, and after a little questioning, he learned the identity of the other party, and said to the adjutant translator: "You guys come here. It’s just right. I heard that you are going to expand the wine trade, is this time it’s settled?”

This is not a commercial secret. Although Dashun's wine trade here is also controlled, it is necessary to communicate in advance about things like expanding the business output.

Because...the situation here is so special.It is almost a semi-planned system, and there is too much production, and it cannot be sold at all.

It's not that only Indians drink alcohol, such as gold mountain, silver mountain and other mining areas, where the consumption of alcohol is more.

But the question is, who will come here, walk the rough road over the mountain pass, to transport wine?The wine in Fenglin Bay is shipped directly to Jinshan along the coast, which is much cheaper than here.

Wang Long and others have long been thinking about expanding production, including expanding production by purchasing potatoes from local farmers.As for the capital to increase production, the accumulation of support in the past few years, after repaying the support loan from the imperial court, there is still money left, which is enough to upgrade the winery.

Villandry naturally explained that the matter of trade expansion this time has been settled, and then asked: "Did you also migrate from the Yellow River?"

This question made Wang Long somewhat at a loss as to how to answer it.

After a long time, he smiled and said, "We didn't have the Yellow River before. But there will be in the future. If you want to ask, it can also be said that it was moved from there."

"So...these workers are all moved from there, right? Can I ask them? Don't worry, I know your policy very well. I am not a missionary. And I have a pass." Villandry He clearly stated what the Dashun court was very concerned about. It was a taboo for missionaries to come here.

Fortunately, something has happened to the Catholic Church in Europe in the past few years. Spain, France, etc. have jointly "forced the palace" against the Pope-either disbanding organizations such as the Jesuits that have seriously threatened the royal power, or Spain and France withdrawing from the Holy See.

Even... In fact, the Jesuits also contributed to France's previous wars in North America.But throw it away when it's used up, and the French Society for Foreign Missions, which is affiliated with the crown and the government, has taken over many businesses of the Jesuits.

This is of course a good thing for Dashun.

Because of the people in the Holy See, the regime in New France has nothing to do with them, and the missionary also completely disregards the interests of the country—or, in other words, disregards the interests of France, but the interests of the Papal State.

Including the distorted Christianity on the Dashun side, which requires Taoist monks and monks to be managed by the ritual government. In fact, it is not much different, and they are all trying to complete the regime's control of religious power.

France now puts the missionary business under the French Foreign Missionary Society.

Then, Jesus is still the king, God is still the country, then the distinction is relatively clear.

At least they won't be idle and have nothing to send people to run to Dashun.Preaching also involves politics.

"The west of the Mississippi River is not in the hands of the Lord." This was the treaty negotiated with France after the war. Villandry is not only a shareholder of the fur company, but also an official military officer of the French government, so he is very careful about this. .

After obtaining the consent of Wang Long and others, Villandry passed cigarettes to a group of distiller's lees workers who were resting there, and asked, "Are you considered contract slaves? Are you satisfied with your life here?"

This matter is not easy to define.

To debate the scriptures, one must first clarify what is a human being and what is a slave.

But in essence, they are.

Because their migration costs are prepaid by these employers.Dashun has a government here, and it also has violent agencies.

Since there is a violent agency, it is necessary to "respect the contract."

In other words, if these people escape or something, violent agencies will be dispatched to catch them back.Of course, the legal principle of arresting people is not something like the "fleeing slave law".

Rather, it is because they owe money and repay the debt, it is only right and proper, and it is not because you are a slave that you are arrested, but because you owe money to your employer.

Therefore, they are essentially indentured slaves.

But legally, they are not.

It is [a long-term worker who has paid the employment fee in advance, signed a labor contract, and the contract is in line with the legal rights of private ownership, recognized and protected by the court law, and cannot be regarded as a slave but a human being].

These hired workers don't pay attention to whether they are regarded as human beings or slaves, and they don't care much.

I would be more than happy to answer Villandry's second question.

Most of the answers are satisfactory.

On the whole, the labor intensity is not too great, and the "price" of each person is relatively high. After all, the freight is here, so the employer dare not use it to death.

It's not like that group of Irish people on the east coast.

Many slave owners would hire Irishmen to do some dangerous work, because Irishmen were cheaper than black slaves, and black slaves were personal property.It's like a self-cultivating farmer raising cattle, and he knows that he can't use them to death. The meat of dead cattle is not as valuable as live cattle, and black slaves cannot be sold as beef.

But the problem is, those Irish people ran to North America by themselves.Slave owners did not pay their tickets.

Here in Dashun, every hired worker is paid by the employer. In fact, compared to the Irish who came here by themselves, only in terms of "price", they are more like slaves.

In the end, the cost is still too high.

The ferry ticket across the Pacific Ocean, the remigration across the mountain pass from Maple Bay, is not a small fortune.

These hired workers came here last year, and after working here for eight years, they can almost pay off their debts and save enough money to buy land.

However, in fact, their time of "working for others" may not exceed eight years.

In their hometown, they also participated in river excavation, embankment construction, etc., and then went here to work for six years to pay off debts, and two years to save money for buying land. If these are all counted, it can basically be regarded as more than half busy. In my whole life, I finally got my own arable land when I was about to be unable to work.

But to say if they're happy with life here...surely yes.

Here, after all, it is different from going down to Nanyang.Going to Nanyang, there are folk songs such as urging you not to go to Nanyang, and Song of Death to Nanyang, because it is too scary.The death rate is simply too high.

And this is a temperate zone. In terms of mortality alone, compared with the 20% mortality rate in the early days of Dashun and Nanyang Great Development - malaria, fever, mosquitoes, cholera, Leishmania visceral black death, hookworm, dengue fever, schistosomiasis , Tropical leprosy—relatively speaking, the death rate of Dashun’s large-scale voyage to Nanyang is still lower than that of Batavia in the early days when people change every three years, but as a temperate semi-arid climate, it is definitely much safer than Nanyang .

And, or, there is hope.

Hope is even within reach: there is really land here, and I can really get the land and become a self-cultivator of [-] mu of land, and this hope can be achieved in only seven or eight years.

For the Central Plains of Dashun, at this moment, saying to a tenant farmer, "If you work hard for eight years, you will have 120 mu of land"-for any poor peasant, this is comparable to Paradise temptation.

If there is hope, then of course they are satisfied.

As for the living standard here, it is indeed higher than when I was in my hometown.

Earlier, Massachusetts issued a law that slaves could not eat lobster more than twice a week; later, eating fried chicken and watermelon was considered an insult.

As far as eating is concerned, the living standard here is high, needless to say.The per capita grain output is here, and the per capita land area is also here.

They were not the early first wave of immigrants.

People like Wang Long Nabo must have been dissatisfied at first, because they were self-cultivated farmers in their hometown.The conditions offered by Dashun were really not attractive to them, who were originally farmers, at first—all fools know that if you are a landlord, only the land is useless, and you must have tenants.And at the beginning of the situation, it seemed impossible to have tenants, so I traveled [-] to [-] miles to change to another place to be a self-cultivator. If this is satisfactory, then hell.

But the later group of people were different. They themselves could not be regarded as true homesteaders.Therefore, it is conceivable what the standard of living is like.

When I got here, I dare not say anything else, the food is enough.

As for the work, it's more difficult and tiring... that's the way it is.When I was in my hometown, I had to work as a corvee; I had to scratch my fingers and ponder over the grains and return them to the warehouse, and I had to get all the straw home.

Working here may seem tiring, but it may actually be easier than working in my hometown.

Hearing that these people are very satisfied with life here, Villandry thought to himself, it seems that he has to send his sons back to France to buy land and manors as soon as possible.If these people are satisfied with life here, it means that out of a population of more than 3 million, at least 1000 million people are satisfied with such a life. Years, the balance of power here will be broken.It seems that it is safer to buy land in mainland France, buy noble titles and buy manors.

In fact, Villandry estimates that at least 1000 million people would find life here acceptable... an order of magnitude underestimate.For Dashun, the issue of migration has never been about the desire to migrate. Self-cultivated farmers like Wang Long belonged to the problem of the Yellow River rather than the issue of migration.

The hard part is always how to move people here. This is the root of some violent opinions of the radicals in Dashun Real School.

If you only talk about the willingness to migrate, Villandry's estimate is really an order of magnitude less.

The problem of the Yellow River and the problem of ethnic migration and land occupation are two different things.

Dashun can easily pick millions or tens of millions of people who can accept this kind of land grant of [-] mu.

But for the problem of the Yellow River, Dashun did not choose to slaughter, nor did he choose to directly destroy the Yellow River, or deliberately force the grass to rebel against it, so it must be more troublesome than simple ethnic migration and occupation of land.

Although, in fact, as far as the feudal dynasty is concerned, choosing to deliberately force against Kusanagi is the most likely choice.

(End of this chapter)