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Chapter 608 New Success Islands (Fourth Update, please subscribe)
Everything is beyond people's expectations.No one would have thought that a news report would bring the emperor to the home of a disabled worker, let alone that the imperial court would enact the Sickness Insurance Law, the Workers' Compensation Law, and the Disability and Pension Insurance Law , although the enacted bills were only drafts, it is certain that the whole world was changed when these bills were enacted.

For the Ming Dynasty, 1872 was a year of change. This year seemed to be the dividing line between the past and the present.

As soon as these systems were launched, they were warmly welcomed by the people of Ming Dynasty. After some "friendly" negotiations, the result of these bills was: the capital side paid the big money, the workers got the small money, and the government paid subsidies and enforced them.

In fact, there is no such thing as mandatory or not, and it doesn’t matter if those companies are unwilling to implement it. Anyway, all the companies affiliated to Emperor Zhu’s private company——America Company will cooperate with the implementation of these laws and purchase various insurances for their employees.

In other words, just such a group of workers covers basically more than 80% of the employees and employees of factories and enterprises.

At the same time, Imperial Agriculture has also purchased pension, medical and work-related injury insurance for all farm employees.

In this way, if other enterprises do not purchase insurance for their employees, then he will definitely not be able to recruit more workers.

Just like after Ford in the United States offered the "$5 salary", various companies had no choice but to follow up in order to survive, and those companies could only follow up whether they were willing or not.

From 1873 to 1883, the number of insurance participants in the Ming Empire increased from 300 million to 2550 million, covering almost all adult workers.

Workers' survival, retirement benefits, and health impairment, inequality, and oppression in the working environment are all addressed positively under this system.Even those ethnic minorities - Europeans and European-Indians are willing to live under the rule of Ming Dynasty.The social order is stable and the industry develops steadily and rapidly.

It was also from this day that Ming became a country completely different from other countries, and it would leave other countries far behind in the future.

But if you want to leave other countries far behind, you still need someone.After all, whether it is industrial production or market consumption, there must be people.

No one is all talk.

For Daming, there is nothing more important than introducing immigrants.After all, Daming's population is only ten million people.

And for Daming, there is another biggest advantage of introducing immigrants-cheap labor!

Those new immigrants not only have low wages, but also don't need to buy various insurances for them within half a year. This is simply the best cheap labor.

Fortunately, there are hundreds of millions of hungry people in China, and all parties with different minds are doing everything possible to send a steady stream of immigrants onto trains and ships for various purposes.Then arrive at this new continent.

Before Christmas in 1872, the immigrant ship "Kang Ping" sailed from Huaxia slowly entered the port of New Xiamen located in the Success Islands in northern New Guinea.

New Xiamen is the capital of the Success Islands. It is not another well-known Rabaul in the world, but Kokopo. Before 1910, it was the capital of German New Guinea, and then moved to Rabaul. .

The reason for choosing this place as the capital is to stand on the shoulders of historical giants. After all, in history, Rabaul was wiped out twice by volcanic eruptions.

As the so-called destiny cannot be violated, since this is the case, there is no need to bite the bullet and insist on building the capital again in Laval.

After nearly ten years of development, the new Xiamen has become the largest city in the entire Central Pacific region.

Although the population is only [-] to [-] people.But in the Central Pacific region of this era, it is definitely a well-deserved number one city.

More than a dozen magnificent Ming-style modern buildings and Western-style buildings stand in the harbor. These buildings are the offices of commercial banks here, and the most magnificent one is the building of the successful branch of HSBC Bank.Except for these buildings, most of the cities are oriental wood and bamboo buildings—thanks to the rich timber resources on the island, most of the residential buildings in New Xiamen are wooden houses. Charm.

All of this is fresh in the eyes of the immigrants on board. Although the "Kang Ping" sailed from Yangzhou, compared with the crowded, dirty and messy place... It can be seen at a glance that it is not only clean Clean and tidy, and the wealth visible to the naked eye!

"Brother Li, shall we just stop here!"

Looking at the city on the shore, especially seeing the red faces of the people on the pier, Zhao Si shouted to the sailors on the ship full of expectation, after sailing on the ship for so many days, he recognized this fellow, Like him, he is from Fengyang, the hometown of Emperor Zhu of Ming Dynasty.

According to him, in the Ming Dynasty, they were dignified Zhongdu people.

"It's only been a few days. Our ship is going to Linhai. You can look at this side, but this is just our overseas territory of Daming. You will know when you get to Linhai. Daming...is much better than this place. !"

Daming is so good!

The immigrants on the boat looked at the city on the shore, their eyes were full of doubts and expectations. This place seemed so rich, so Daming would definitely be even richer.

In fact, for those people who migrated from Huaxia, no matter where they go, as long as they can not go hungry, they can eat enough.

For the vast majority of ordinary people, their requirements have never been high, but this is just the requirements of ordinary people,

When the ship came into the port, Li Laile, who was driving the carriage, came to the pier again. As a plantation owner, the reason why he rushed to the pier was to put it bluntly, because he wanted people.

"Boss Li, you are here again."

"Why don't you come, Section Chief Xu, how many people on this ship were sent to us today."

Li Laile said a little excitedly.

"I have been registered for two full months. My oil palm plantation is also the most we can count in the Success Islands. If someone comes, don't consider us first..."

The pillar industry of the new successful archipelago located in the tropics is the rice dumpling planting industry. For Daming, palm oil is not only an edible oil, but also an industrial raw material for the production of soap and other products.

Moreover, the blended oil mainly composed of palm oil is still the most important export product of Daming.Tens of millions of dollars of palm oil are exported from Ming Dynasty to European countries every year. The poor people in European countries have a demand for cheap oil, which is far beyond what Emperor Zhu thought.

It is also because the market demand is constantly increasing, so now the rice dumpling planters will continue to expand their plantations.But expanding a plantation always required labor.

"Look at what you said, if someone comes, they will definitely be assigned to you, but..."

Section Chief Xu, who was holding a single booklet, spread out the book and said.

"Look, there are no such things! Don't say you don't have any, we don't even have a single immigrant in the Success Islands!"

"How could this be?"

Li Laile shouted loudly,

"It's been half a year, and we don't even have a single person here on Chenggong Island. Didn't the imperial court give us any more people?"

"It's not that we won't give it, it's that there's nothing we can do right now. I've heard people say that we have a place in North America called Beihai. Yes, we can't deal with it in the United States. So in the next two years, immigration should be given priority. Consider that side, let's succeed here..."

Section Chief Xu said with a helpless sigh.

"Of course there will be no one left!"

"What, how can this be? The Governor-General doesn't know how to tell the Emperor, our Chenggong Island is also Daming's, how can we not give it to us?"

"What can I do?"

Chief Xu stared at the immigrant ship entering the port and said.

"There's nothing to do about it. The imperial court has to think about it. Don't say you are in a hurry. In our plantation, no one is in a hurry. No one. How can this garden be expanded? I heard that someone sent People went to the rainforest to catch the natives..."

"Catch the native!"

Li Laile opened his eyes wide and said,
"This, this is also fine..."

"The people don't want to be promoted, and the officials don't investigate. If you close your house in the garden, what can the government do? But, according to me, Brother Li, if you have a way, you might as well think about breaking it in your hometown or somewhere, instead of relying on others. , it’s better to rely on yourself instead of… besides.”

Section Chief Xu looked at Li Laile, who was wearing a silk robe, and said.

"Brother Li, you are so rich now, you don't want to go back to your hometown in clothes, why don't you go back to your hometown and have a look!"

(End of this chapter)