Chapter 508: Niu Co Lok Feng Shen Yinde (3) The expansion of Jeju City
But that's just the first step!
Although the productivity of these Korean and Japanese contract laborers was liberalized, it was not practical for them to farm all of them due to the small size of Jeju Island. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info So their work arrangement became a problem.
So Zheng Yi put forward a new idea in trade.
First, in the name of the Golden Pirate Group, a Jeju trading house was established. All pirates also received shares in the comptoirs for free. It's just that according to the level of status, there are more or fewer shares. The highest, undoubtedly Wang Chunfeng, got 20 percent of the shares. The captains of the six detachments share the other 30 per cent of the shares.
Another 15 percent was given to the other pirates.
He, the founder of the firm, owns 5 percent of the shares in the name of managing the firm.
As for the last 30 percent, it was divided into two parts by Wang Chunfeng. Ten percent of them were given to the previous Skeletron. Due to the secrecy involved, most of the people in the Golden Evil Pirate Group did not know about it. The other 20 percent will be handed over to the commercial department of Daming, which is regarded as official participation. After all, with an official status, it is much more convenient to do things.
This new type of shareholding system is not uncommon in Daming. And the first to appear was not the Ming Dynasty. Wang Chunfeng had heard of the Dutch East India Company before, which used this kind of shareholding ownership to implement management.
Therefore, for Zheng Yi's establishment of a joint-stock ownership firm, he raised his hands in favor.
And as he gets older, he thinks a little differently from other pirates. It's also that I'm getting older, and I don't have the courage and excitement I once had to sail at sea.
Of course, the main thing is that his body can't bear it anymore.
So slowly, I started to settle down.
Originally, he wanted to live in Daming for the rest of his life, but after living in Jeju Island for so long, he felt that this place was not bad. It's not cold in winter and not hot in summer. All year round, it's warm and comfortable. In addition, he has been a pirate for a long time, and he is used to it.
And Daming is a country that stresses the rule of law, and there are many rules and regulations. So he had the intention of turning Jeju Island into his own comfort zone.
If the Ming Dynasty goes north in the future, he will ask to be the owner of Jeju Island. After all, there are so many islands on the sea, and Daming also encourages people to go to the sea to develop desert islands. His request is not a violation of the laws of the Ming Dynasty.
What's more, he worked for the Ming Dynasty, and he had no credit and hard work. I believe that Da Ming will not be so unemotional.
As a result, Zheng Yi's later proposals for expanding the port, opening Jeju Island, and free trade were all strongly supported by Wang Chunfeng.
It was under such circumstances that Jeju Island ushered in a major development. Those indentured laborers who had nowhere to arrange were also arranged by the trading houses to build new ports and cities.
Since there was a castle on Jeju Island before. So now, it only needs to be expanded on the basis of the original.
Jeju Fortress also ushered in the second city wall.
For safety reasons, Wang Chunfeng did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy steel bars and cement from Daming. And invited Ming craftsmen to strengthen and increase the height of the first wall of Jeju City. The houses and streets inside are also built in style and brightly according to the style of the Ming Dynasty.
Running water, flushing toilets, white tiles, marble floors, and luxurious ceilings have all been incorporated into the renovation and expansion of Jeju Fortress.
It is also Wang Chunfeng, who is ready to turn the inner city into the exclusive residence of the middle and high-level of the Jinsha Pirate Group. That's why all kinds of frighteningly expensive building materials are thrown into it as if they don't want money.
In order to improve the progress of the construction, the Jinsha pirate group also snatched many civilians from Korea and Japan. It's just that their treatment is not as high as the previous batch of contract workers. Although it is not a slave, it is necessary to spend a two-year inspection period first.
During this period, there were naturally no minimum benefits such as salary, housing, medical care, and freedom. And they have to do the most tiring work and eat the worst meals. After the inspection period is over, you can freely choose the type of indentured labor.
This class division made those former indentured workers feel that they were much superior. Zheng Yi selected a part and made them the foremen of the contractor to manage these later compatriots. As a result, they inflicted double on these newcomers what they had suffered before.
Anyway, how to press and squeeze how to come!
If you don't survive and die, you can only think that you are unlucky.
At first, Wang Chunfeng was worried that it would lead to a rebellion against the contractors. As a result, Zheng Yi set up a reporting system and punished the contractor who was over-pressed and squeezed. As a result, the hatred of the contract workers always revolves around the contract foreman and the ordinary contract workers.
On the contrary, the Golden Pirate Regiment, which founded this system, is in a transcendent position.
Let Wang Chunfeng once again praise Zheng Yi for learning well in Daming. He also agreed to Jung Il's previous request to set up a school and establish two types of schools, elementary school and middle school on Jeju Island. As long as they are minors, they must go to school.
As for the tuition fees, they are all exempted.
In order to ensure the quality of education, some graduates of the crash course for teacher training were hired from Damyeong to take charge of education in Jeju Island.
After Zuo Peng, the Minister of Education of the Ming Dynasty, learned about the incident on Jeju Island, he also published a report to praise Wang Chunfeng's efforts to promote education work. And also across the ocean, awarded an educator's medal of honor.
Finally, it was promised that all teaching materials in Jeju Island would be provided free of charge by the Ministry of Education.
made Wang Chunfeng, an old pirate who couldn't read big characters, get carried away with joy.
As a result, many years later, the education level of Jeju Island has maintained a super high standard in sync with the prosperous provinces and cities of Daming. Wang Chunfeng's feat of promoting education is also talked about by the people of the island.
In order to further divide the class of indentured laborers, Zheng Yi distributed the land on the island to those indentured laborers with outstanding performance. In addition to paying 30% of the tax every year, the rest can be kept for yourself.
This is obviously much more favorable than the 70% and 80% taxes in North Korea and Japan.
Moreover, the people of the agricultural country value the land very seriously. So even those North Korean and Japanese indentured laborers were temporarily given work arrangements. I was also worried that I would lose my job one day. is like a rootless duckweed, and I always feel unsteady in my heart.
Therefore, a field of immutability and stability is a great temptation for them.
In disguise, it also made the control of the Golden Pirate Group over the indentured workers more tight.
However, there is only so much land on the island, and due to the volcanic island, the island is not suitable for farming. In addition, with the growth of the Jinsha pirate group, many relatives and friends have also moved to Jeju Island.
According to statistics, there are more than 40,000 non-immediate family members of the Golden Evil Pirate Regiment. Many of them have already been divided into land. As a result, the existing arable land on Jeju Island is somewhat scarce.
Therefore, the arable land that the Golden Pirate Regiment can reward to the indentured workers is very small.
It also promotes the rarity of things to be expensive, and the rarity of land rewards is highlighted!