Chapter 292: Unity River (4)
Goshkin sat down under a big tree sweating profusely, and a few young students served tea and fanned fans, and they were very busy. But this only made Goshkin a little more comfortable, and the beads of sweat on his head still kept gushing, the weather was too hot, and the ghost plateau of Brazil was really stuffy.
Of course, Goshkin is not young now. After so many years of struggle on the east coast, the man who was originally vigorous is now an old man with gorgeous hair, and his once sharp eyes have become cloudy, which shows that no matter how heroic you are, you can't resist the silent erosion of the years.
It stands to reason that Goshkin at such an age should not go out to work again, but who made him extremely prestigious among the Russian diaspora? Almost every Russian who comes to the East Bank may not know who the East Bank chairman is, but no one does not know who Goshkin is. Therefore, in many cases, officials of the Ministry of Immigration and the General Directorate of State Development will still ask Goshkin to come out and help them do some united front work.
This time, the Tokrimeans defeated the Russians under the city of Azov, and the East Coast bought more than 15,000 Russian prisoners of war cheaply. Most of these men are still being held in leased areas in Hadji County, but a considerable number of them are brought to the east coast by leased Venetian, Portuguese and United Provinces merchant ships.
According to statistics, the number of these people is around 4,000, and they have landed in the ports of Jiaohe, Hue, Changshun, Zhenhai, and Yancheng. There is no doubt that this group of people is so sought-after that as soon as they arrive at the land, they are snatched up and divided among the local state farms, forestry farms, stone quarries, coal mines, brick kilns, construction teams, and other units that are in dire need of a large amount of labor, preferably relatively cheap labor.
The First Bureau of Communications Construction under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Communications has allocated about 1,000 people, which is the unit with the largest number of people this time. In the spirit of their superiors, they formed a super-large construction team of about 2,000 people to help set up new settlements, roads and other infrastructure in the Tuanjie River Valley.
From here, it can be seen that this is actually a kind of exchange, that is, the state sells the cheaply obtained prisoners of war to the First Bureau of Communications and Construction at a low price, and asks them to sign a seven-year labor contract with these Russians, and then the First Bureau of Communications and Construction comes forward to contract a series of low-profit, high-risk infrastructure businesses in the Tuanjie River Basin. Seven years later, the infrastructure in the Unity Valley will certainly have improved considerably, and the time has come for these Russian laborers to officially apply for East Bank citizenship, although it is difficult to say how many of them will have left.
These Russians are basically clear about their next fate. The treatment given to them by the people on the east coast is about the same as before, it is so-so, including food and shelter and a salary of two yuan and five dimes a month, which seems to be much more profitable than in Russia. However, it is necessary to take into account that their working environment is harsh and the labor intensity is huge, so the necessary reassurance is actually indispensable. No, after sending some religious people to do some psychological and spiritual comfort, Goshkin, a legendary figure in the Russian immigrant community, was also moved out, and traveled thousands of miles to a barren Unity River valley to convince these Russians with his own personal experience, so that they could clean up their moods, work hard, and carve out a world for their future.
Goshkin's tricks are actually the same as the old, and he is nothing more than using his own personal experience to talk about the success of the East Coast dream. He began by talking about the situation of his family when he was a carpenter in Russia, and pointed out the rampant corruption of officials and the brutality of the lords, which resonated with some people. Subsequently, he highlighted the reality that he was forcibly conscripted into the battlefield and participated in the foreign wars of Tsarist Russia, so that his family life was in a desperate situation, which was simply the most itchy part of the hearts of the Russian laborers, who were mainly prisoners of war, and suddenly made most people establish a good impression of him.
It has to be said that Goshkin's eloquence is excellent, and his personality charm is quite good. At the same time, he is also very good at analyzing the actual situation, knowing what these bitter prisoners of war are thinking, so he picks out what they like to hear, and speaks nine truths and one falsehood, making it impossible to distinguish between them, but the emotions are mobilized all of a sudden, and the labor efficiency will naturally rise.
It took about a month for Goshkin to visit all six construction sites, including Fangshan Township, and she was tired enough to choke on her old bones. But there is no way, his family has taken root on the East Coast, and he can't return to Russia, so hugging the thighs of the East Coast lords tightly and in-depth cooperation with the government is the foundation for him and his family to gain a foothold on the East Coast.
About this, Goshkin knows better than anyone and is therefore really available and very hardworking.
Coincidentally, while Goshkin was sweating profusely for the united front work of the East Bank gentlemen, a group of agents from the Dutch West India Company had just finished their expedition to the Unity River Valley, and then followed the path opened by the Portuguese to the sea in the General Bahia District, where they met in San Salvador to discuss.
In terms of time, the West India Company merchants had not yet received any news of the changes in the United Provinces. However, all of them are not ordinary people, they all have more or less sources, and they are very familiar with the internal undercurrents in the United Province and the in-depth intervention of the East Bank government, although they are not sure that the republicans will win, but they also know that they will have the upper hand, so they decided to investigate the newly developed areas on the East Bank to see if there is an opportunity, and it has become their common goal.
Needless to say, the best investment opportunities for people on the east coast are often not in the long-developed, wealthy and prosperous old areas, but in the new areas that are inaccessible and full of wilderness, and the Tuanjie River Basin is actually such a typical example. In order to attract foreign capital and manpower, the East Coasters often offer very good terms for such undeveloped wild areas, such as land leases for up to 50 or 60 years (rent is almost meaning), such as a certain degree of mineral development rights (which can only be sold to East Coast companies), such as the convenience of financing, and so on. Basically, investors only need to prepare the money, and then complete the recruitment and entry of foreign laborers, and then they can do it in a big way. And this, in the developed coastal areas, is almost unthinkable!
As a result, more and more foreign investors who focus on long-term gains and can tolerate short-term losses are turning to the inland areas of the east coast to see if there are suitable investment projects. After all, the first companies to venture inland – such as the Forest Development Company, in which the Italians invested in a group – made a lot of money.
Not to mention, the situation in the United Provinces is now turbulent, the safety and yield of investment are not very ideal, and the capital accumulated in the country is in urgent need of a new channel of catharsis. In such a situation, going overseas and allocating more assets overseas has become a matter for many Dutch businessmen to consider. Their preferred investment destination was, of course, England, a highly industrialized and commercially developed country across the sea, but the Republic of China, a powerful country in the Southern New World, was also a good choice, especially for the agents or shareholders of the West India Company, who had already established a certain amount of experience in the East Coast.
It can be seen from this that due to the strong rise of the East Coast Republic, Britain's ability to siphon Dutch capital and talent has weakened a lot, and many merchants engaged in overseas trade are very familiar with the East Coast because they have many businesses on the East Coast - mainly the two Indian companies in the East and West - and at the same time are very impressed by the good business environment in this country, and it is normal for them to decide to expand their investment here over time. As for investing in the UK like most people, I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with it yet, and the living conditions there are not as good as here.
Naturally, the people of the East Coast are happy to see this. The Dutch, Italians and even the Portuguese, brought money and talent with them, injecting a lot of liquidity into the East Coast's economy. At the same time, they also tried to recruit bitter laborers from densely populated Italy and Germany, and traveled across the ocean to the east coast to develop wild areas, paying great sacrifices. It can be said that under every settlement, every road, every forest farm, and every farm in the inland areas of the East Coast, there are the bones of foreign non-national laborers.
Such a model that can be called reciprocal benefit was very satisfactory to both the East Bank and the Dutch, so the East Bank people immediately thought of the Dutch in the development of the Unity River Basin, and thus had this collective inspection by the agents and shareholders of the West India Company. Tired of the political struggles at home and dissatisfied with the growing voice of the Dutch people on the West India Company's board of directors, they began to consciously transfer assets and devote more resources to the East Coast Republic in order to diversify business risks.
The rally in San Salvador lasted three full days. The reason why they have spent so long is not to argue whether to invest or not, but to discuss the details of investment. They are very optimistic about the gold-rich Tuanjie River Basin, which is a treasure trove that continues to attract people and capital, and the future development prospects are limitless. Although the East Coasters do not intend to allow foreign investors to mine gold, diamonds, jadeite and other precious mines in the region, it is not bad to invest in other industries. Although the yield is low, the investment is safe and secure, and the business can be trickled down for a long time, and it is not impossible to operate it as a "long-term meal ticket".
In this day and age, it is not easy to find an inheritance that can be passed on to future generations.
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