The total population of Beihai is only about 2 million, but the mainland alone covers an area of more than 100,000 square kilometers, and most of it is still plains. Therefore, not to mention surplus labor, there are not enough people to cultivate the land at all. Now that the price of food is so high, Marin is reluctant to free the precious population from the land.

Therefore, if you want to engage in infrastructure, mining, transportation, and industry, you can only rely heavily on migrant workers. However, because of the political side problem, Marin's North Sea State was hostile to most of the German states, and it was not necessary to get a large number of people from other German states. Therefore, Marin can only invest in other places to obtain migrant labor.

First of all, Italy, although the Italian region is mountainous and lacks arable land. However, there are many people. Don't look at the fact that the area of arable land is far less than that of Germany, but there are really many people there. The entire Italian region has a population of about 11 million, almost catching up with Germany with a population of 1,200. The Kingdom of Naples alone has a population of 2 million.

Because most of the Italian states were not involved in the internal affairs of the Holy Roman Empire (only a few northern states such as the Duchy of Milan were involved in the affairs of the Holy Roman Empire), most Italians did not care about the internal team problems of the Holy Roman Empire, and naturally they were not hostile to the North Sea Kingdom of Marin. Therefore, it is still very easy for Beihai to go to Italy to recruit migrant workers.

It's just that the Italians, who have always looked down on cowards, have not been interested in the Italian population. But now it is different, Marin does not want Italians to immigrate to Germany proper, but only wants to obtain labor and speed up the construction of the North Sea State. Well, it doesn't matter whether the Italians are cowardly and funny or not. Anyway, it's just looking for someone to do the work.

Moreover, it is also more convenient for Italian migrant workers to go to the North Sea Country than it is for the southern part of Germany to go to the North Sea Country. Marin only had to send ships to pick up people from various ports on the Italian peninsula to bring the migrant workers back to their homeland.

This is even less the question of whether the lords of the Italian states prevented him from recruiting migrant workers. As long as you give a little benefit, those lords will never be embarrassed.

Italy is very similar to the Fujian of China, with many mountains and few plains. Why are there so many Hakka people who have emigrated overseas in Fujian and Guangdong? Isn't it because there is little arable land and there is no way to live in my hometown? I can only go to other places to find food, and even go to sea to beg for a living.

The same is true for Italy, which is mostly mountainous, with the exception of a few plains in the north, such as the Milan Plain. The local area is similar to Fujian, both have the trouble of more people and less land. So, the Italians had to find another way. For example, going to other places to do business, engaging in sailing or something. Otherwise, with those mountains in Italy, it would definitely not be able to feed so many people.

But not every Italian knows how to do business, or rather, has the money to do business. Most of the landless Italians still worked for a small number of wealthy merchants. Moreover, there are not necessarily enough jobs.

Just like the Republic of Venice, despite its large area, the total number of Venetian citizens does not exceed 200,000, which is the smallest population among the Italian states. But Venice had more than 3,000 merchant ships crisscrossing the Mediterranean, and the total number of sailors exceeded 40,000. According to normal calculations, the families of more than 40,000 sailors are more than 200,000 people. But it is impossible for all the young and strong people of the Venetian to become sailors, and many of them are craftsmen. As a result, most of the sailors who served the Venetian merchant ships were hired by Venice from the Italian states.

After remembering the great role of migrant workers in later generations, Marin decided to send people to Italy to recruit migrant workers to work as builders, porters, sailors and other occupations in the North Sea Kingdom.

As for the dangerous mining industry, Marin decided to try it out in France and see if he could recruit French people to mine for him.

In fact, it is even better to go to France to recruit migrant workers than to go to Italy. After all, Italy has a population of only 11 million, while France has a population of 15 million.

But the problem is that France is not friendly to the North Sea countries. Going to France to recruit migrant workers may be difficult and blocked. Moreover, in the future, Beihai Kingdom will build houses and roads on a large scale, and a large amount of cement will definitely be used. If migrant workers are recruited from France as construction workers, they will inevitably be exposed to sensitive materials such as cement. When the time comes, the French will be mixed in with some spies, and they may steal the secrets.

Unlike the Italian states, which are not hostile to Marin, and Italians are not as fond of stealing other people's secrets as France. Therefore, using Italians as construction workers is more reassuring to Marin.

However, there is no problem in handing over the work of mining to the French. After all, mining doesn't come into contact with too many sensitive materials such as cement. Let the French migrant workers stay underground all day long, and they will not be able to find out any secrets.

As for the use of advanced technologies such as steam engines and railroad rails in the mines, Marin was not afraid of being learned by the French. Why? Even if the French learn this, there is nothing to dig in the country!

Speaking of which, the French are also sad. The huge France has no mineral resources. Of course, from the perspective of later generations, France's mineral resources are not bad. The reserves of high-value mineral resources such as bauxite and uranium ore are still abundant. But the problem is that in this era, neither bauxite nor uranium ore is of any use. The Lorraine Iron Mine, which was very important to the French in later generations, still belonged to the Principality of Lorraine in the HRE at this time, and had nothing to do with the French.

As for coal mines, they are also very lacking. This also forced the French to find another way to concentrate on nuclear power and hydropower, but there was no way, if you want to engage in thermal power, you must have enough coal......

In other words, at present, France is short of coal and iron, and even if they learn the mining technology of trapping, there is no mine to mine. Therefore, Marin is inclined to go to France to find miners.

And if enough miners were obtained from France, Marin would be able to beat the idea of the more than 30,000 coal miners in the Ruhr area......

Coal miners! That was the best choice for Qi Dashuai to pick troops. The famous Qi Jiajun started with 4,000 miners in Yiwu!

As long as the more than 30,000 coal miners can be liberated, Marin will definitely be able to select a few thousand elite soldiers from these people! After all, people who mine all day long must have stronger arm strength than ordinary farmers, and they are more suitable for cold weapon combat.

Moreover, using the French to dig coal mines, even if there is a gas explosion or something in the coal mine, it is the French who die, not the residents of the country, and it will not make Marin feel distressed. It's a big deal, lose a sum of money. But that amount of money is nothing compared to human life.

Not only that, but for the compensation and compensation for the miners killed in the mine, Marin also played a flower......

According to the current rules of Beihai Kingdom, generally those involved in accidents in mines will receive 10 gold coins in compensation from their families. Although it cannot be compared with the compensation standard of later generations, it is less than a person's salary for a year. However, in this era, Mallinken's compensation is already very conscientious. You must know that many mercenary generals who are not particular about it in this era directly swallow the commissions and compensation of their fallen men.

Moreover, for the miners killed, the compensation given by Marin was not all the same. In addition to those 10 gold coins, there is also land compensation - compensation for 10 acres of fiefdom!

However, instead of 10 acres of arable land on the mainland, it was 10 acres in the American colonies!

In this way, if a miner recruited from France dies in a mining accident, his family will receive not only 10 gold coins in compensation, but also 10 acres of arable land.

If the families of the victims accept the 10 acres of land, it means immigrating to the Americas. And the Americas are Marin's territory, and immigrating to the Americas is equivalent to becoming Marin's people and laborers.

Therefore, this compensation is also a hidden means of soliciting immigrants. If you want to cash in on the 10 acres of land, you have to immigrate to the Americas and become a labor force driven by Marin. For a poor French family who is so poor that they can only dig coal for their family, 10 acres of arable land is absolutely attractive. After all, that's 60 acres of land!

France has such a population, and out of a population of 15 million, there will always be many poor families. At the very least, there is no problem in letting Marin recruit tens of thousands of miners.

As for the question of the possible obstruction of the French, Marin also came up with a killer feature - take the initiative to pay taxes!

For example, for every miner recruited in France, he voluntarily paid the French official labor export tax of 1 gold coin, and paid it every year.

In other words, if there were 50,000 miners in France mining in the North Sea Kingdom, the French court would receive a "labor export tax" of 50,000 gold coins every year. This is a pie falling from the sky, and if you don't take it for nothing, you won't take it. Not only does it have more money, but it can also solve the work problem of 50,000 poor people, which is a double win.

Similarly, against the Italian state, Marin also decided to throw money at it. As long as Eun can recruit hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, Marin doesn't care about throwing hundreds of thousands of gold coins every year. You must know that hundreds of thousands of migrant workers can create more wealth for Marin, at least millions of gold coins.

For the sake of the gold coins, not to mention the lords of the Italian states, they are hostile to the French in the North Sea country, and I am afraid it will be difficult to refuse. Besides, these migrant workers are not immigrants to Beihai Country, they are just going abroad to work, and they can still create a lot of tax revenue every year, so why not?

But they didn't know that Marin had also laid another foreshadowing - during the period when those foreign migrant workers were working in Beihai Country, they would definitely lure their whole family to immigrate to Beihai Country. Even if you can't recruit all of them, it is cost-effective to attract some people to immigrate.

Moreover, the use of land as compensation for the miners killed is also a potential means of attracting French immigrants, but it is more hidden.

What's more, even if he pays the salaries of French migrant workers, Marin doesn't cost much......

According to the salary level of workers in Beihai Country, Ma Lin plans to pay 2 fennigs per day for migrant workers, including food and lodging, and work clothes......

The salary doesn't seem to be high, but it's very powerful when it comes to food and housing. After all, in this era, food prices in Europe were extremely expensive. A salary of 2 pfennigs a day is only enough to buy two pounds of rye, which is not enough for a family to eat. Therefore, in addition to the people of Beihai Kingdom, the common people of other European countries in this era ate a large amount of bread mixed with wild vegetables, wood chips and even soil, in order to make up enough for the family to eat. Generally speaking, half of the bread is flour, which is good.

The migrant workers are provided with food and shelter and work clothes, which means that they do not need to spend anything, and they can save most of the money and bring it back. That's a big deal, 2 pfennigh a day, that's at least 720 pfennig a year (there will be a few days off, let the workers go back for Christmas and New Year's, and at the same time, bring home the wages). 720 Fennig, that's 12 gold coins!

Don't look at the fact that ordinary people can earn so much money in a year, but because of the super high price of food in Europe, even if they can earn 12 gold coins a year, after the expenses of eating and drinking Lazar are removed, ordinary people have no money left at all. Even, many poor people have worked hard all their lives and have never seen any gold coins.

As a migrant worker in Beihai Country, I can save almost half of my salary every year and bring it home, which will definitely make my family's life much better. At the very least, it is possible to get out of poverty.

In fact, within the North Sea Kingdom, the current salary of miners is actually 3 pfennig per day. After all, miners are a dangerous profession, and no one is willing to do it without paying a high salary.

But Marin deliberately gave the migrant workers an ordinary salary of 2 fennigs per day, wanting to get the same salary as the local miners in Beihai Country, that is, the salary was increased by half? Yes, emigrate! When you get a green card from Beihai Kingdom, your salary will immediately increase by half!

People in this era don't have any national concepts, so if their wages are raised by half, there will be many migrant workers who want to emigrate. In this way, the population of the North Sea Kingdom can increase significantly.

In short, as long as the money is enough, the country with bad relations will also allow him to bring in migrant workers. For the sake of money, those foreign migrant workers can easily set up an immigration and increase the population of Beihai Country in order to have the same high salary as the locals.

The most evil thing is that when paying the salaries of French migrant workers, Marin can also pay the wages with fake French deniers coins minted in nickel and white copper. In this way, you can save a lot of money.

The difference between the cost of nickel cupronickel and real silver coins is enormous, equivalent to Marlin employing a large number of French laborers to help him make money at a very low cost. Moreover, it is still the most dangerous mining work.

Thinking of the low cost of hiring French migrant workers, Marin suddenly thought about whether to hire tens of thousands of more French migrant workers and let them help dig the canal......

In the era when there were no excavators, the excavation of the canal could only rely on manpower, the cost was very high, and the progress of the project was very slow. Although Marin can use the spare time of the farm, requisition farmers to dig. However, once the farming season began, these people had to retreat, delaying the project.

If tens of thousands of French migrant workers can be hired for a long time to dig canals and irrigation canals in Beihai Country, it will be of great benefit to Beihai Country. Not to mention the benefits for agriculture and transportation, the mere fact that wages can be paid with fake French "silver coins" can save Marin a lot of costs.

After making up his mind, Marin immediately sent someone to form a labor company. Then, they were sent to Italy and France to negotiate with the local government to discuss the recruitment of migrant workers.

Marin believes that as long as the "money ability" is sacrificed, no one can refuse in front of the gold coin! In particular, in this era, there were many aristocrats in debt. As long as the money is given, some are lords and nobles who are willing to cooperate. Even, the French could hardly refuse. After all, the income of 1 gold coin per year for each migrant worker is tempting even for the king of France. If you send 200,000 migrant workers to Beihai Kingdom, you can get 200,000 gold coins in taxes every year......