The special management of a small island, the distant mountains did not take it to heart. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The so-called piracy is only related to the policy of whether or not to open the sea trade, not the pirates organized the sea trade, but because there was no explicit official permission for the sea trade.

If he really built a commercial market, a lighthouse and a safe haven as Chen Jian said, he could indeed win enough political capital for him in a few years at the intersection of shipping routes.

He Yuanshan knew what to talk about with Jian Chen, and he also knew what not to talk about.

For such people, there is no point in buying, because there is not enough to buy. Therefore, for the market organization in Mincheng, Yu Yuanshan felt that it was useless to say more, but it added to the gap.

Can say that he wants to go to sea, he understands that this kind of person is still a fool in the end, the kind of fool who really believes in the interests of all Chinese people.

It is useless to deal with such fools, coercion and temptation, they do not know how to turn back, they only know to follow the path they think is right. The only thing that can move them is to show them a more magnificent and beautiful future where most people can live better, but he knows that he does not have such ability.

Even Yu Yuanshan didn't know that when Jian Chen was talking to him about the issue of immigration and reclamation, an emigration that was outside the loopholes of national law had quietly begun.

As early as the beginning of the New Year, when the city of Fujian was in chaos, the trading companies of the coastal counties had already begun to carry out clandestine activities.

In the capital, at the mouth of the river, and other places, the trading company also established an unprecedentedly strange company called the "Colonial Labor Dispatch Company".

In fact, this is a kind of human trafficking company with loopholes in national law.

Colonists, cultivators. This is a word that is known to anyone who has undergone a compulsory enlightenment education.

Civilians, immigrants. This is a word that is known to anyone who has undergone a compulsory enlightenment education.

But this is the first time that these two words have been connected.

Guaranteed by the credibility and abundant capital of the trading company, a contract is signed with a local resident tax officer, and a labor dispatch company comes forward to pay the poll tax for the recruiter.

As long as the poll tax is guaranteed to fall locally, some things will be turned a blind eye by the officials, and these poor people will not be able to squeeze any oil and water anyway, they can only collect some poll tax.

Individual immigrants are opposed to leaving and entering because of the Poor Movement Restrictions and Poor Relief Laws.

In the form of a labor dispatch company, it can not only ensure the payment of poll tax, but also manage it, and these heads are only the amount used to collect taxes on the books.

In fact, that island doesn't need so many people, and only Mincheng can make it up, but Chen Jian still laid out the layout in advance to lay a good foundation for the future.

With the reputation and appeal of a trading company, the poll tax is generously paid according to the number of people.

According to the contract, as long as the poll tax is not abolished, the trading company will pay a fixed number of people, but will not pay the excess population.

These countrymen have become immortal digital figures on the local official books, paying taxes and reducing the likelihood of riots.

Through lobbying, bribery, and other methods, in each coastal county, a permit was obtained and a mandate was obtained.

On the one hand, officials do not associate a trading company that sells glass, steel ingots, kerosene lamps, and mirrors in the name of charity with such a thing as harvesting and cutting.

On the other hand, those who are destitute and helpless do not associate some horrific stories with the trading companies of the Mexican Party.

Therefore, as soon as the news came out, many poor and helpless people who could not survive signed up one after another, relying on the reputation accumulated by helping the poor, these people did not doubt it.

Many people think that they have been mixed up like this, no matter how bad it is, how bad can it be?

Boys and girls are required to recruit workers, and if they want to leave, they are allowed to bring their families with them. Some of the bachelors sold what they had and stepped onto the ships of the colonial labor dispatch companies.

After more than 10 days of turbulence on the sea, more than 2,600 people from various coastal counties, including some craftsmen and miners from Minjun, landed on the small island called Turtle Island.

There is nothing on the island.

There is no arable land, no houses, no workshops.

Some only had more than 2,000 pairs of hands, as well as tools and food that had been unloaded from the ship.

The people were dazed and overwhelmed, but were quickly broken up and regrouped, and took up temporary accommodation in the caves on the island, where the company's regulations were read out.

There are many and complicated regulations, but there is only hope in the ears of these people.

After becoming an employee of the company first, you need to work for five years as compensation for the poll tax.

In the past five years, I have received a low-level salary, and all my food and clothing needs are purchased with wages, not directly.

After five years, the individual is completely free. Either receive a portion of the severance pay and return to your home country, or continue to work here as a permanent employee.

There was also a promise that surprised them: after five years, if they didn't want severance pay, they could receive a hundred acres of uninhabited wasteland, which could be cultivated for a very low fee.

As for where the wasteland is, the people from the company didn't say, and these people didn't ask.

With Jian Chen's signboard, this is the credibility that goes without saying, and people believe it very much.

And in addition to these, the salary received on the island is not a silver coin, but a special printed banknote.

The banknotes are written on the top of the "Colonial Common Banknotes" with numbers written on them, and it is said that after five years of drying, these banknotes can be exchanged for silver coins in the company, and there will be no mistakes.

Places like money banks have existed for a long time, and literal primitive paper money has long appeared, and people don't directly resist such things.

This was still guaranteed by reputation and credibility, and all the food and tools here had to be transported from outside, and the people quickly recognized the paper money on this desert island.

Silver coins could not be bought on the island, so the people on the island quickly exchanged the silver coins in their hands for paper money, which could be exchanged for silver coins after five years anyway. With the name of the trading company and Chen Jian as a guarantee, the people on the island still trust them - they can't make up much money, according to their imagination, Chen Jian must be a person who makes money every day, how can he covet this money.

In addition, after switching to the "Colonial Currency", all purchases on the island are normal, and the price is much cheaper than silver coins. At least in the so-called colonies, it seems that there is no need to hold silver coins.

This exchange was confirmed at a convention of the Colonial Hired Workers shortly afterward, and a contract was signed that all transactions in the colony would be based on the common currency of the colony, including future land taxes and fees, and that the colony company would guarantee that the paper money could be purchased at the company for any goods and that it would be exchanged in full after leaving the colony.

The more than 2,000 men and women on the island did not understand what the Mexican Party was trying to do, but under the condition that the means of production and subsistence were completely controlled, they could only accept it as a kind of fun for these people who were said to have problems with their heads.

What they care about is gambling on a future in five years, a regular employee of a colonial company, and a hundred acres of freely cultivated wasteland.

After a lot of tossing and turning after landing on the island, the men were told that houses would be built on the island, struvite excavated, wooden tracks, a shipyard, and a lighthouse would soon be built.

There were many stones on the island, new explosives were piled up, wood was everywhere, and there were regular employees of the colonial company as masons, craftsmen, blacksmiths, and other occupations.

The first house they built was not a workshop or a residence, but a school where all the children could be educated.

In the future, the colonial company would select internal officers and civil servants disguised as company managers by passing the examination called the examination of company managers, which was actually a civil service or a civil service.

In the school, you should learn words, arithmetic, nature, physical education, and simple logic. In the future, when the controversy of a hundred schools of thought in Fujian City comes to an end, it may be necessary to learn the ideology of simple bourgeois democracy.

Inside the school, everything is taught according to the school controlled by the Mexican Party. It was promised that, in the future, when the colonial company expanded, it would select administrators and teachers from among these children by examination.

However, the most important expenses for teachers, teachers, and enlightenment education were not assigned by the colonial corporation.

Obviously, there are many capable members of the Mexican Party who are mixed in, and it is not that they cannot find such teachers or cannot come up with so much money, and the company's management regulations are issued by the powerful departments, and the regulations of the civil service system within the colonial company in the future are also issued by them, but only the managers and teachers are not appointed.

It's just a set of criteria for the teacher exam – in fact, most of the first-generation migrant workers don't have a chance to pass the exam, but some of the members of the Mexican Party who mix in with it do.

These strange regulations or practices only made the hired workers on the island feel a little uncomfortable, but they did not vigorously oppose it. When one's life is not guaranteed, any strange system or attempt will be accepted.

And all of this seems to be excellent, except for the lower salary in the past five years, it seems that as long as you work hard, the future will become infinitely better.

Not to mention the severance pay after five years, it is enough to cheer these people up to a hundred acres of land that will be provided with horses and cattle ploughing equipment by the company's interest-free loan after five years.

Although they can't see it yet, they believe that there will be, and even if there is none, there will be a decent severance pay.

It's the same everywhere you work, at least the children can live here and don't have to pay the poll tax.

After a few months, the island finally began to change, and some people noticed the strangeness of the island.

First, in order to defend against possible pirate attacks, 400 light and strong laborers were selected and the colony company convoy was organized.

A new flintlock pistol of four hundred men and one water, with a few veterans as instructors.

The costumes of these four hundred people were also extremely strange, and the shirts were cotton shirts called sea soul shirts with blue and white stripes.

The hat is octagonal in shape, and there is a brim in front of it, which is decorated with a red five-pointed star on the soft cloth of bamboo strips, and a red five-pointed star-like cloth is attached to the soft cloth of the octagonal brim.

The clothes were in button style, the color was a dark blue, and trousers, leggings, backpacks, gunpowder were distributed.

I practiced on the island every day, and although there were only 400 people, the sound of ping-pong gunfire was always heard.

After a while, there were not only guns, but also four cannons unloaded from a ship, as well as more than two dozen naval gunners.

Someone secretly calculated that the daily cost of eating and drinking is very high.

So some people wondered, can this island really make money?

What is this colonial corporation all about?