Chapter 140: A Journey to the West (6)
Life is always full of miracles.
Hard work always pays off.
This is an era where everyone has a chance to succeed......
Director Huang Poluo may not be able to say such a green and chicken soup flavor, but he really thinks so.
You have the skills to earn a high salary, and the owner of any factory will rush to ask for it...... You can also go into business, you can go to the military, you can go to politics, and no one restricts you.
Of course, you can also choose to take risks, and there have been many cases of making a fortune by finding gold, silver and copper mines...... You can find such reports in the newspapers at will!
If you can endure a little hardship, you can open a horse farm or a cattle and sheep farm, then the land in Australia is not given away for nothing, even if the cattle and horses are cheap, it is also very good to sell things.
The Great Song Dynasty government has allowed private beef to be bought and sold...... The cheapest beef is also more expensive than pork, isn't it?!
But adventure is the least technical one here, especially for people who know everything and don't know anything.
Director Huang Poluo is just such a person...... He had joined the Indian Group because he had heard that it had the background of His Majesty the King.
At that time, the recruiter asked him if he would be willing to go if he could get three or five times the salary he would get if he was away from home for three or five years than he was on the island of Liuqiu.
He said yes right then!
His wife was originally at home with two children, but later he heard that the Imperial Ministry of Education had also set up a kindergarten, and that school-age children had to go to the primary school they wanted, otherwise they would be fined, and of course he would have to obey.
His wife was bored at home, so she got a job as a conductor at the train station, and as a result, she earned no less than him...... It's stressful for him.
Director Huang Poluo has worked hard in the factory as a porter and a storekeeper, and has also operated a grinder, as a small merchant and hawker to resell all kinds of small items to the countryside, and has also entered a money bank specializing in small loans, the kind of one thousand wen with a daily interest of four wen, he has also worked very hard, but he has only been in a situation of small gains, and it is completely enough to support his family, but there is still a long way to go to make a fortune.
His wife once casually said that her sisters were using the full set of Violet cosmetics, and she had to buy them for nothing.
He couldn't see how much better violet cosmetics were than other cosmetics, but since his wife worked, although there was more money in the family, he seemed to have lost a sense of superiority......
A woman's little whining is a lethal weapon for a man who wants to be strong.
When the company was about to send someone to operate in a foreign land, he immediately signed up with several other people.
His wife was shocked when she found out, and said, a few years ago, she came to live on Liuqiu Island from the Great Song Dynasty, which made her tremble for half a year, and now she has just been stable for a short time, why do you want to go to a distant foreign land to operate? !
The family is not short of money.
Director Huang Poluo explained with a smile at the time that if he had taken the same risk as others going to Australia alone to find Jinshan, he would definitely not dare to do it...... But why dare this time?
This is the inheritance of the king of the empire...... Do you think the king of the empire will put his estate in danger?!
He will definitely find a safe place to operate and make a fortune!
Moreover, I heard that there were also Imperial troops with them...... You think it can be dangerous there?!
Well, these words convinced his wife at once, which made him feel refreshed.
After three or five years, the family can still get a large amount of settlement expenses, and his Huang Poluo and the estate of the imperial king will be tied together!
As it turned out, he was right...... He has already achieved initial success, and perhaps in the next step, he can also get the position of governor!
Of course, he also understands that everything is just beginning.
With the help of the Governor of the Second Lieutenant, he quickly built the most basic infrastructure, coordinated all aspects of interpersonal relations, and organized the entire labor process without leak...... Of course, he was also exhausted, and he never rested for more than ten minutes, constantly running around the various construction sites.
He has to take care of almost everything such as building houses, building warehouses, distributing supplies, assigning tasks, and who calls him the local supervisor.
Fortunately, his work was recognized by everyone, and a small town was built in less than twenty days...... Although it relies on the advantages of materials and human technology, it is also extremely rare and can be regarded as a successful case.
The Governor of the Second Lieutenant can finally set sail again with confidence...... After an afternoon of feasting together on a hundred fishes, they set sail north for a sea where no Orientals had ever been.
Both the Governor and Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding were full of excitement, and to be honest, it was not for wealth, but that history would remember their names.
Nankaicheng, Nankai Cape, Tianci Port, Table Mountain...... Those are their names, and if nothing else, they will all live with history.
The kings of the empire made several markings on their charts on the so-called West African coastline, saying that they were huge estuaries and that as long as they went north along the coastline, there was no need to worry about fresh water and food supplies.
Except for the top part of the coastline in the north and south, the rest of the coastline will be lush virgin forest!
The forest will provide everything you need for sailing......
The Viceroy was interested in the so-called black West Africans, who were said to be very different from the tall, long-legged, long-armed, black East Africans.
Those people are far darker than the blacks of East Africa, and they are the kind that is translucent in the dark.
They are shorter, but sturdy, less enduring, but more explosive.
They are more resistant than black East Africans...... This point, the little second governor kept in mind, maybe they fought each other more fiercely in the jungle?
Anyway, the Governor knew that he would treat them in a more gentle way.
The development of the Canary Islands cannot be entirely Tianzhu labor, and recruiting black West African talents nearby is the best choice.
Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding, of course, thinks so, and he is looking forward to transporting black West Africans to Australia, where the big cotton growers are in dire need of black ...... They have always praised the blacks for being suitable for growing cotton, and the back traffickers simply have no ability to reach West Africa, so they have to do the work themselves.
He didn't care much about the so-called spirit of rebellion.
Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding said: "Don't worry about that, we are recruiting laborers, not killing people and setting fires, how we treated the black people in East Africa, we also treated them!" ”
In fact, the large cotton growers or other ranchers in Australia treated black or white slaves well, for the simple reason that the imperial king approved of the slave trade, but there was a time limit, that is, after working for the buyer for a maximum of five years, he had to return the freedom of the people...... It was a legal rule, and as the largest buyer of slaves, the Imperial King did so from the beginning.
Every slave bought and sold had to be registered through a tax record, and traffickers and traffickers did not escape the collection of taxes, so it was clear where and when each slave was purchased.
In addition to guaranteeing the freedom of slaves, this law also had the advantage of invisibly lowering the purchase price of slaves.
The Federal Empire did need slaves, but because they wanted to give slaves back their freedom, the price certainly could not be calculated according to the tenure system.
If the slave trader wants a high price, he has to consider whether he can sell it.
The world's largest buyers, of course, also have pricing power.
Therefore, the price of slaves has always been stable, there is no phenomenon of ups and downs, and it is in long-term normal operation.
The large cotton growers or other ranchers did not want the slaves to leave themselves after the end of their working periods.
Five years of work can completely train an agricultural technical expert, and it is definitely a loss to let such a person go!
Therefore, while the slaves are still slaves, treat them kindly, and in the future you can leave them to continue to work for themselves and earn money for themselves.
It's all simple common sense.
PS: The third update, the third update!