"To build dozens of three-thousand-ton docks? Even after it is built, we will not have enough shipbuilders? Except for Eurome, we simply can't recruit qualified shipbuilders! Liu Dingzhuang was stunned when he heard this, he didn't understand what Hu Zhen was going to build so many docks.

Hu Zhen said with certainty: "There must be fewer of these dozens of docks, and I still want to build hundreds!" Think about it, we have 10,000 large and small islands in the territory controlled by the South Seas, how many steam engine ships do we need to transport back and forth? Just these dozens of dockyards for shipbuilding, is this enough? As for the shipbuilders, I have asked Fan Qianhai to arrange to go to Fuzhou, Shanghai, and Tianjin to recruit skilled shipbuilders, and Zhang Suan in Europe is also recruiting shipbuilding technicians with high salaries to come back, you don't have to worry about this, thousands of skilled shipbuilders will be trained in the future. Let's plan and arrange the dockyard according to this number first! ”

"But we don't have many people, right?" Liu Dingzhuang knew that although the territory controlled by the Huaxia Guild had 1.3 million square kilometers of land, the population of the Huaxia people in it was only 4 million.

"It is precisely because we have too few people that we need to increase the number of ships to transport enough people to fill this hole, so that the children and grandchildren of China can always firmly control the territory in their hands!"

"But people don't have enough money to buy steam engine ships!" Liu Dingzhuang still has his worries.

"You can rest assured, I will ask Fan Qianhai to formulate a financial policy, we will encourage people to buy boats and become ship owners in the form of interest discounts, interest-free loans or simply financial leasing, which can be customized into cargo ships and fishing boats according to people's needs, in short, so that more Chinese people can rely on sea ships to embark on the road to making a fortune, so as to encourage more people to come to Nanyang to eat the sea! You see, maybe we'll have to build thousands of dockyards to build ships! ”

"Also, as long as we do well in Nanyang and our living conditions improve, there will be a steady stream of Chinese people coming here from our homeland to take root and blossom!" Hu Zhen said and looked north, where it was the homeland of Great China, where there were 40,000,000 people. If one or two million people can be relocated, the population will expand to more than 50 million in the future, and this vast maritime territory of 10,000 islands will forever be the territory of Great China.

Among the Chinese people under Hu Zhen, who does not have a Great China plot? Liu Dingzhuang was deeply encouraged when he heard this. He replied loudly: "Yes, I will complete this task no matter what, so that thousands of Chinese people can come to the South Seas through ships and docks to take root, blossom and bear fruit, and finally flourish!" ”

Take a look at various construction sites in the city of Pontianak. After Hu Zhen went back, he immediately found Chen Zichao and asked, "How is the implementation of the population plan I arranged for your intelligence department?" ”

Now that Borneo is in ruins, there is a shortage of manpower, and there is no special immigration management department, so Hu Zhen has no choice but to arrange for the intelligence department to follow up on the plan to increase the population of Nanyang China.

Chen Zichao reported: "Mr. Report, according to your arrangement, our resettlement plan in the coastal areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shandong has begun, and the first phase of the budget will invest 700,000 taels of silver, and it is estimated that it will be able to attract 100,000 people to Nanyang within three months!" ”

Chen Zichao's answer. Hu Zhen felt a little surprised: "700,000 taels of silver, converted into about 100,000 pounds, can move 100,000 people over, a little more than a pound to immigrate a person, it is estimated that all of them are young and middle-aged laborers, such a cost is too worth it!" ”

"The second phase of the immigration plan was much more difficult, because it was to leave the harbor and go inland to pick up migrants, and to bribe the officials and garrisons of the Qing Dynasty. The budget needs 1.4 million taels of silver, but only about 150,000 people can be relocated! ”

"Chen Zichao, your plan is too petty, not atmospheric enough. In this way, I will immediately give you a budget of 10,000,000 taels of silver, and you will bring me 900,000 people in a year! You hurry up and discuss with Fan Qianhai and come up with a charter, as long as the first batch attracts 900,000 immigrants and successfully settles them. Let them have food, work, land reclamation, and make money, and then they will return to their hometowns to spread the word of mouth, saying how good Nanyang is, and there will be more immigrants who will continue to go to Nanyang, and they don't even need to spend a silver or two of our financial budget! ”

Hu Zhen is now wealthy, and this mere 10 million taels of silver is converted into more than 1.4 million pounds, which is really not in his eyes, but if he can relocate hundreds of thousands of Chinese people, and attract millions of Chinese people to migrate in the future, and firmly hold this land, it will be a big profit.

Fan Qianhai is really a businessman with a unique vision, after Chen Zichao found him, he didn't look at the plan and had different opinions:

"This plan can't do this, no matter how much money we have, we can't do it, 10 million taels of silver to settle 900,000 immigrants, what about 9 million? Is it necessary to use 100 million taels of silver? There's so much silver, you might as well spend it on something else! In addition to Guangdong, Fujian and other coastal areas, in the eyes of the Chinese people in the mainland, Nanyang is a place full of miasma plague and crocodiles, but if the first few immigrants can eat here and earn money to show off, there is no longer a need to invest directly in immigrants, but only to work resettlement in the back, and even do not need special immigration investment, as long as there is enough labor needs, someone will come here to make money! ”

Fan Qianhai and Chen Zichao tinkered for a while, and immediately formulated a policy to attract immigrants.

Fan Qianhai did not advocate Hu Zhen's method of using heavy money to transport migrants, and he suggested that after using the budget of 10 million taels of silver for the first batch of 900,000 migrants, the budget should no longer be directly invested in the migrants, but should be used for resettlement.

Fan Qianhai's proposed policy was to attract Chinese immigrants with reclaimable land, as follows:

1. Establish a special immigration department to manage the affairs of Chinese immigration, which will be managed by the Ministry of Intelligence for the time being, and then become an independent department at an appropriate time.

2. Where male immigrants are to be given 15 acres of cultivated land in designated areas, if male immigrants bring their wives with them, the husband and wife are given 60 acres of cultivated land, so as to encourage people to settle in Nanyang with their entire families or even entire families.

3. Cultivated land can be handed over to the immigrants themselves for cultivation and cultivation, or it can be concentrated and rented to farming companies to cultivate in the form of farms, or they can become shareholders in farming companies in the form of shares to enjoy dividends and dividends, and those who have invested in shares can work in farming companies or industrial enterprises.

4. In the first year of new immigrants arriving in Nanyang, a grain subsidy of 200 catties per person will be provided, and no tax will be levied on the income from cultivated land for three years.

5. In the future, any Chinese who introduces a Chinese immigrant under the age of 30 to Nanyang and successfully naturalizes himself will be rewarded with five silver coins (five taels of silver) in Nanyang, but this policy will only be extended for five years, and this incentive policy will be cancelled after five years.

After Hu Zhen received the detailed immigration policy plan handed over by Chen Zichao and Fan Qianhai, he read it carefully, and praised it with deep approval: "This Fan Qianhai is really a good businessman, even I can't remember this, but I came up with it for him!" ”

Hu Zhen remembered another time and space in the 80s of the 20th century, when the people of the whole country "made a fortune in Guangdong", that was because at that time, the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong could find a money-making job and get rich, and it could attract countless people to flock to Guangdong without fear of hardships and dangers. As long as a strong industrial base is built in this Nanyang territory, there are jobs all over the land, and people have the opportunity to get rich, it is not difficult to attract hard-working people to come to the homeland of China.

After thinking about it for a while, Hu Zhen only changed "no tax on cultivated land income within three years" to "no tax on cultivated land income will never be taxed", and put forward a slogan in the plan: "Make a fortune in the southeast, northwest, and southwest, and go to the South Seas", while all other terms were not changed.

"Sir, are we all going to do no more tax on agriculture in the future?" Fan Qianhai asked with some doubts, in his mind, there has been no one in China who has not collected farmland taxes for thousands of years, including Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, who shouted "no grain", and the rebel army could not live without agricultural taxes at all.

"Yes, we don't levy agricultural taxes, and we never have to go without agricultural taxes!" After the era of industrialization, this non-taxation of agricultural taxes has become a common practice in all countries in the world, and he now has strong financial strength, so there is no need to levy a small tax on the crops grown in the fields.

Chen Zichao was elated when he heard this, and felt that it would not be a problem to complete the task by himself if he continued to do it according to this plan. As for whether or not to levy agricultural taxes, it has nothing to do with him.

But Fan Qianhai felt that this non-agricultural tax was too crazy, and said in surprise: "How can we ensure our tax sources in the future?" ”

"Fan Qianhai, you can rest assured that in the future, we will rely on our industrial taxes to feed back the agricultural industry. What's the point of leaning heavily on the little crops that grow in this field? Hu Zhen said firmly, in his mind, he has the powerful technical information in the nuclear submarine, he knows the future direction of industrial development, if the future industry can not develop, do not monopolize the world in most industrial industries, he should find a piece of tofu and kill his head.

Hu Zhen arranged the immigration policy and budget, Fan Qianhai and Chen Zichao just walked out of the door, and saw Su Wenzhi running over panting, and when they saw Hu Zhen, they opened their mouths very anxiously and said: "Sir, it's not good, something is wrong in Batavia!" ”

Usually, Su Wenzhen looks for Hu Zhen through staff officers or soldiers, but this time he ran over angrily, which shows that the matter is very urgent, and Hu Zhen was very surprised when he heard it: "What big things can happen in Batavia?" Aren't we in the process of handing over to the Dutch? Do they dare to go mad? (To be continued.) )