After half a day of sailing against the current, several intelligence officers of the Ministry of Security, who had blended into the labor force, arrived at their destination on a small steam steamer.

Taking advantage of the docking, several security intelligence officers raised their eyes to observe the surroundings.

To the west of the riverbank are rolling mountains and dense primeval forests.

On the eastern side, on the edge of the primeval forest, small patches of shrubs and weeds spread out haphazardly on the flat land, and the eye can be seen in the distance, with rich greenery and hazy mist.

The flat land on the eastern side of the river bank was the land they were to cultivate, and if nothing else, the workers toiled the land under their feet for two years until the wasteland was cleared into regular plantations.

The first batch of more than 200 workers came ashore with simple axes, firewood knives and other tools into the forest, and the lush and vigorous branches and green leaves covered the sky in the upper part of the forest, and no wind could pass through the blockade line composed of branches and leaves to reach the interior of the forest.

The hot, closed primeval forest is like a big stuffy box, tormenting the more than 200 laborers below.

Beads of sweat the size of soybeans dripped from his forehead and fell onto the worn and faded coarse cloth sandals, and the sweat gathered so that even the straw sandals became wet.

The primeval forests in northern Argentina have climatic conditions close to those of the tropics, and the natural environment is more hot and humid than the southern Fujian region in the south of the mainland.

The managers of Yixing Shipping Company did not have the leisure to give their workers time to adapt, and the ocean-going shipping ships arrived in South America, and after the necessary health checks and immigration registrations, the Chinese immigrants who only rested for two days had to experience a two-year life as wage laborers.

The Chinese who fled from the mainland took transport ships to South America, seeking hope to live, sweating like rain every day and working on the plantations like livestock, like marionettes deprived of emotions, with no time for rest and entertainment, no time to think about the way out of the future, and some just for themselves or their families to live, and strive to persevere.

The roar of steam machinery brought about the progress of science and technology, and put ordinary people on an organized, fast-paced lifestyle.

However, compared with the classical agricultural society, the Chinese laborers have lost the idyllic classical rural life, the freedom to rest at sunrise and sunset, and the natural tranquility of "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and leisurely seeing Nanshan" in their spare time.

In a way, industrial development based on the struggle of ordinary Chinese laborers to survive is a historical regression in a specific period, a bloody price that must be paid for the accumulation of primitive capital in the early days of the country's establishment.

Relying on the exploitation of the people at the bottom of the country to obtain the original capital for industrial development is a choice that the leaders of a conscientious country have no choice but to make, but if they turn a blind eye to the sacrifices of the people at the bottom, ten years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, they still attribute the achievements of industrial construction entirely to the contributions of the king and the national defense forces, and do not stop businessmen and certain meritorious people from stealing the national capital accumulated by ordinary people with their blood and sweat, and then let them become a monopoly class and new vested interests. Then the new ruling order will inevitably fall into the whirlpool of history of the past, and sooner or later it will be overthrown by the dissatisfaction and anger of the people at the bottom.

The rotten leaves and rotten trees under the primeval forest have been piled up for hundreds or thousands of years, and the thick rotten leaves are nearly half a meter deep, and the Chinese workers walk on them, like stepping on layers of cotton mattresses.

The thick layer of rotting leaves often contains unknown poisonous insects, snakes and ants. During an afternoon of Chinese laborers working in the primeval forest, eight people were injured by the bite of poisonous insects.

The number of Chinese workers was so high that continuing to order the workers to work could lead to more casualties, so the stewards in charge of supervising the workers temporarily suspended the reclamation work and gave the more than 200 Chinese workers a rare break.

In the evening, more than a dozen bonfires burned lonely near the riverbank, and groups of Chinese laborers who had worked for a long time gathered together, with only a coarse cloth shorts to cover their bodies, and half lay down in the clear river water with great interest, washing their sweat and fatigue with the cool river water.

The river near the flat land is a rare place to dissipate heat and rest in the primeval forest, not only the Chinese workers lie in the water to take refuge in the heat, but even several managers and men of Yixing Company have also chosen a good place to go down to the river to cool off the heat.

The Chinese workers stayed in the river for about half an hour, and when it was time for the meal, everyone left the river one after another, put on their shirts and prepared to eat.

"Big guy, be quiet, there is something I want to tell you before dinner."

More than 200 Chinese workers came up from the water, and a steward stood between the crowd and said, "There were several small accidents when the work started today, and 8 workers were injured, for everyone's safety, let you rest for half a day, but the progress of reclamation of the plantation can not be pulled down, I just discussed with a few stewards, and decided to start tomorrow morning, set fire to the wasteland, first burn the bushes on the periphery of the forest, and then gradually open up the wasteland to the depths of the forest, the big guy has a full meal tonight, and has a good night's rest, Tomorrow morning, if you all work hard and hard, reclaim the wasteland in front of us, and plant sugar cane, rubber, and cocoa, maybe in two years, you will not only be able to pay off the money you owe to your host, but also save a sum of money to marry your daughter-in-law. ……”

Most of the Chinese workers who had just come to South America and did not know the actual situation of Yixing Company were attracted by his words, staring at the managers of Yixing Company, and their eyes were full of hope for the future life.

"This brother, you don't seem to agree with what the steward said?"

On the periphery of the crowd, the intelligence officer noticed a man with shaggy hair and a gentleman's appearance, and when everyone else was listening carefully to the steward's speech, he was the only one with a blank expression, and he didn't care at all about what the steward said.

"I don't know how many times I've heard his nonsense, and my ears are calloused."

The man pursed his lips disdainfully, and said, "I went to South America two years ago, because I was weak and couldn't do heavy work, I worked as a coolie on the plantation under the name of Yixing Company for two years, and I didn't pay off the original boat fare, so they arranged me to work with you." ”

"Brother Guantai's words and deeds are like a scholar, how did he end up working as a coolie on the plantation like me?"

"There is only one poor and sour showman, what kind of scholar can he be."

Sven Hanzi laughed at himself, "It has become a common practice in the Manchu officialdom to sell officials and lords, and even if you spend money on a scholar, you may not be able to buy a county order that is really lacking, not to mention that I am a poor talent." ”

"Brother Tai is also a hard-working person, I heard that the disaster under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty lasted for several years and did not improve, and the five provinces of Zhili, Jin Province, Shaanxi and Gansu were all affected by the disaster, and the people of the affected provinces wandered to other provinces to survive, and nearly 10 million people fled out of the province, and I don't know when the disaster will end."

"If it weren't for the fact that there was no way to live in the Central Plains, and in the next poor and sour talent, he would not have taken his wife and children to abandon his ancestral business to South America to seek a way to live."

Outbreak in 1874 Ding Wuqi famine spread a vast area, lasted for a long time, from 1874 famine only appeared in a few small places, to the end of 1879, under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, about 20 million people died in various places, because of the impact of the famine, similar children, Xiucai and other low-level scholars are also without food and clothing, and people living abroad abound, and the rapid development of the Han Kingdom, has not been as urgent as ten years ago in the shortage of low-level reading talents, therefore, Some low-level scholars who have been smuggled into South America through private convoys or have lost direct access to government work. …………

The intelligence agents of the Ministry of Security sent by Sun Bin dispersed and disguised themselves as laborers and businessmen to infiltrate the Yixing Company, and then relied on their skilled intelligence skills and experience to continuously summarize the information they found into Sun Bin's hands, and then forwarded it to the central government, where Li Mingyuan personally reviewed and decided.