Chapter 259: Let others learn to exchange for labor
The owner of Wang Defa Island said to the people who went to recruit laborers:
"The rest of the people told them to cut the timber if they were fine, they didn't have to send it here, we would send a boat to transport it.
If a woman is fine, she will soak more jute...... They don't have a machine to weave hemp, they just sell us jute and linen yarn...... You can also go and pick wildflowers, and then dry them and sell them to us.
In the future, they don't have to bother making salt and wine, just go pick coconuts if you have nothing to do, pick up the coconut seeds, scrape the coconut meat and dry it, and wait for us to buy it.
You can stay there a little longer, and you have to teach them how to grow corn, cassava, and sweet potatoes......"
In fact, the owner of Wang Defa Island had already spoken to the members of the Imperial Army who were in charge of security.
What he probably meant was that the aborigines of the island, except for the people of the Ma Yi country, no matter what tribe they were, basically belonged to the primitive people, and they could do it by simply exchanging goods, but they did not belong to the stage of respecting the private rights of other people's property.
This reason is different from that of the Tatar robbers, except that they are not civilized enough.
There is no need to make a big fuss when you encounter them stealing in the future...... If they rob and use weapons, that's another problem, and it's a tough way to make them understand: robbing people, especially people like us, will pay a terrible price!
Therefore, when you deal with them, try to make them understand that there is no need to steal, and that with a little effort, they can get more than they steal.
The members of the Imperial Army all listened to Wang Defa's speech with a smile on their faces...... They knew in their hearts that with their military strength, it would be extremely easy to destroy a so-called tribe...... However, that would be a pity.
Transforming the indigenous people into qualified labor is the more clever way!
Of course...... It is still necessary to maintain the strength of the punishment.
Don't worry about the technical capabilities of the Aborigines...... The demands of labor are diverse.
They can not operate the machine and will not plaster the walls...... But moving bricks will always be done, right?
The technique of cutting down trees will not ...... Climbing trees and picking coconuts is always a good thing, right?
In fact, there have been unpleasant tragedies on some islands...... Some of the indigenous people refused to exchange their labor, preferring to form groups to rob, believing that it was a zero-cost gain...... It turned out to be the most costly, and I paid for my life!
The owner of Wang Defa Island has a detailed report in his hand, and every three months, the mines on the island have to submit a report, not only about the amount of production, but also about the situation of public order.
Over the years, a total of 762 aborigines were killed and 27 seriously injured.
Sometimes, the owner of Wang Defa frowned and thought that if the number of people with the genes of robbery gradually decreased, maybe it would be better in the future.
In fact, it is exactly that...... There has not been a single fatality in the past three months.
The men who had gone to recruit laborers in the country of Mayi soon arrived on their island.
Those people were warmly welcomed by Daro, the leader of the Mayi Kingdom, and when he heard that the people of the Great Shang Federation Empire had built a new city in Manila Bay, the Daluo leader was very happy!
The upper echelons of Ma Yiguo were proud to speak the Great Song dialect, and there was no problem in communication between the two sides.
Dhaka can also write with a brush.
Ma Yiguo has long been in trade with the Great Song Dynasty, since Zhang Anguo and they vigorously opened up the golden sea trade route, there are far more sea ships passing through Ma Yiguo than before.
Therefore, they already knew about the affairs of Liuqiu Island, and they also knew about the establishment of the Great Shang Federation Empire.
Those people also saw the "Liuqiu Times" on the floor of the hay-topped wood-framed house of Daro, the leader of the Ma Yi Kingdom!
The leader of Daluo is a straight man, and he said in a blunt Da Song dialect, in fact, the newspaper was left by the maritime merchants who passed by here last time, and no one in the entire Ma Yi country could read it all...... Hehe.
The words of those men made the leader of Darrow very happy.
"You don't have to wait for the ships to come to your country before you can trade...... You can come to us at any time and get whatever you need! ”
Can the leaders of Darrow not be happy, they don't have to wait for others to do business!
The merchants of the sea thought that their country did not produce much, and that it belonged to a place where people were poor and goods; The small maritime merchants were not regular, even though they were already very trustworthy.
They can paddle between several islands, but they want to paddle bamboo rows to Guangzhou City or Liuqiu Island in the Great Song Dynasty...... That's looking for death!
However, they can paddle a bamboo raft to Manila Bay...... Although it didn't have that name, it was a place where weeds were overgrown and the environmental conditions were far less favorable than those of Mayi Country.
The people of the Great Shang Federation Empire were really capable of building a big city in such a place.
Without hesitation, the Daro chief agreed to the recruitment of those men.
He couldn't get enough of the objects they brought...... In particular, the kerosene gas lamp is really better than the torch lighting.
The leader of Darrow also promised to do what the people asked them to do, because it was an act that would bring benefits to the entire country of Mayi.
On this night, under the bright kerosene lamps, the chief Darrow and the elders of the country welcomed those people warmly.
Dinner was co-hosted by both parties.
The chieftain, Daro, ordered two domestic black pigs to be roasted, as well as fruit wine...... The men brought out canned whale meat, sausages, and spiced peanuts.
Everyone also enjoyed the girl's dance, and in the sound of the two smooth wooden sticks, the dancing posture of the girl with the tattoo on the face was quite beautiful......
The young men waved their iron-headed spears in a roar, showing their heroism in hunting.
Those people nodded frequently...... The young men were in good health, they were smaller, their skin darker, but they still had muscles, and they must have been good at moving bricks, carrying cement, digging trenches, and pushing two-wheeled carts.
The chieftain, Dhaka, did not monopolize the items, but in the circle of elders, he had all the special items taken out and roughly distributed.
Those who noticed that the distribution did not seem to give more to the elderly, but to more people with more bars on their faces.
Later, they realized that the so-called Ma Yi Kingdom was actually like a federal empire, composed of large and small tribes
Of course, in the eyes of those people, there is nothing more than the difference between a big village and a small village...... The difference in numbers was stabbed in their faces.
The more elders in the tribe, the more horizontal stripes they have on their faces.
That's a really good idea...... In the event of a tribal split, perhaps the two elders would just need to count the bars on each other's faces...... Naturally, there will be corresponding concessions.
Some of those people maliciously thought that what if there were not so many people, but they deliberately stabbed too much?!
Well, this is a good way, the elders of Ma Yiguo can't think of it yet.
Toward the end of the feast, the men brought out the seeds they had brought, claiming to teach them to plant the seed of God.
The leader Daro was greatly surprised, and even quickly found a few clever young people, and asked them to serve those people well, and they must learn to plant divine seeds.
In the evening, all of them were left in the stockade by the chieftain Daro, and they were not allowed to go back to the three-masted ship to rest.
When they saw that their attitudes were very kind, and they did not seem to be malicious, they all stayed.
At that time, they each lived in a hay-roofed wooden frame house at night.
However, let them not expect that something happened.