After sending off the first fleet to return home and the Dutch ships that had gone to Hirado to open a trading house, Chen Jian sorted out the matters he had discussed with all parties in the past few days and submitted them to the organization, but concealed the unknown cruelty he had done to the Dutch merchant ships.

Ship trainees who arrived here on Dutch Indian ships were placed in the fleet of the newly formed Maritime Company. A number of letters sent by the organization about the "March of Dignity" in China have been circulated internally, causing a great deal of discussion.

The demands of these petty-bourgeois socialists, which are half a world apart, are confirmed in the long-standing ideas and practices of the Ming Dynasty and some of the previous dynasties, such as the suppression of annexation, and in this ancient empire that broke the feudal system of the nobility and the shackles of serfdom as soon as iron farming tools were popularized, this demand is easy to understand and easy to produce, and the steps of two thousand years ago are too big and illogical, but it has its own insight into all this.

To a certain extent, the revolution of the old and new epochs 2,000 years ago gave rise to many ideas, forced by the lack of productive forces, but ahead of them and spontaneously tried to adopt the feudal monastic socialism or the romantic moral socialism of the petty bourgeoisie—the patriarchal agriculture under which the land could be freely leased and sold, the village sages who relied on morality at the grassroots level, and the crude slogan of absolute egalitarianism shouted before every uprising—and proved in practice that none of these things could circumvent the cyclical laws.

These things are mixed with feudalism to maintain the stability and optimal plan of "the world" when the productive forces are insufficient, but they are vulnerable to the impact of large machines and factories.

It is precisely the reason why the Communists praise capitalism but give priority to these heresies, which are always closely associated with feudalism under the banner of an ideal society, because it was born in an era of insufficient productive forces, and it is destined to be designed with the blueprint of a small peasant and handicraft economy.

This is the transitional stage that will inevitably appear after the disintegration of feudalism, only because the rapid development of science and technology in the era of big factories has not become the mainstream elsewhere, and has been ruthlessly crushed by the times and has only been popular for one or two hundred years, and has been united by the big capitalists and communists to oppose and ridicule, but here it has taken a little longer because the level of productivity has not been reached too early.

Letters sent from that side can mirror each other with this side, so that you can understand what you want to oppose and support if you want to make progress, who is the alliance and who is the enemy, don't go fast, don't go wrong.

And Chen Jian is almost time to leave, in this case, everything in the future construction, goals, and plans of Wangbei City must be determined, and a meeting to expand the scale is inevitable.

Everything has just begun, everything is thriving, and the young people who have been exercising in Minjun, Nan'an, and Dahuang City for several years also have the ability to take charge of themselves, after all, the population of Wangbei City is not too much, and there is no problem in controlling it.

In this meeting, there were not only members of the original organization, but also a new group of six or seven young people from the coastal areas of Fujian who had gradually embraced the new ideas in Wangbei City.

For example, the woman who changed her name to Luo Chou who cut her face just to seek freedom, and Lin Zigui, who had problems with her thoughts.

There are not many local people for the time being, but Chen Jian believes that with the construction and education here, the number will continue to increase when the new batch of people grows up.

The main issue of this meeting was to complete the transfer of power here, and after internal nomination, after a vote of discussion, the general head of the organization and the heads of each department were selected, as well as the goals for the next few years.

The success of the political party organization depends on whether it can smoothly transfer power when it sends people in the future, and if it does not even do this, it is not even as good as the joint-stock companies in the Netherlands and Britain, and there is still some confidence in this.

Lin Zigui and Luo Chou were extremely excited to participate in such a conference, they did not understand many things, but they strongly agreed with the practice of seeing good hope here on some issues.

For Lin Zigui, two years ago he was just a whining maniac, dissatisfied everywhere, influenced by a lot of Confucian heresy, and his heart was depressed and hesitant.

And now, he is sitting in the midst of such a group of people, and has become one of them, who can express his opinion on the survival and life of tens of thousands of people—although he can't think of any opinion, but at least he has the qualifications.

At the meeting, the financial staff with a background in accounting first made a report on the income and expenditure of the previous years, and made an estimate of the income and expenditure in the next few years.

After Chen Jian finished speaking, he concluded: "It can be seen that maritime trade still occupies a large share of income. This situation will become bigger as we invest in trading companies in the form of collective shares, and some sources of income will have to be clearly distinguished. ”

"Before investing in the establishment of a company, the island's rice, deerskin, etc., can be counted as direct income. But with the establishment of the company, we must recognize that we have a share in the company's profits, but Wangbei City does not belong to the company, but to everyone on the island. We occupy 50% of the company's equity, which is a helpless behavior, but Wangbei City and the entire island must ensure that it cannot be interfered with by the company, and must be firmly controlled in our own hands. ”

"Why is it so clear? Because for us, profit is not an end, but a means to achieve our ends. If the island is controlled by corporations, then profit is the ultimate goal, and all means will be for profit. ”

"The island's 30,000 sturdy immigrants now employ plantations and workshops with a large wage system. Now they are extremely profitable, because they have just experienced the threat of disaster and the despair of death, and they have signed a four-year labor contract. ”

"But can such a contract be enforced indefinitely? If you want me to say, it can't be, even by extreme measures. ”

"There's still a lot of plains on the island, and it's not possible for us to do it in this way, because we don't have enough cadres."

"On a four-year cycle, after four years, the planters here are familiar with the law, our organizational form, and they get to know each other, and then they move en masse to reclaim land elsewhere."

"According to a group of 100 households, continue to divide a wasteland in a collective way, and give ploughing cattle and iron tools. Farmland or collective plantations are cultivated in a collective manner, and there is no need to manage them in addition to the normal common tax, as long as a certain amount of rice is planted each year, and it is not so strict. ”

"But grassroots organizations in the villages must be established, including various women's organizations, production organizations, militia training organizations, and so on. Large-scale plots of land and plantations can save on labor costs, and collective villages of hundreds of people are more resilient to risks. ”

"Our main income comes from the monopoly of maritime trade, with commercial income to nourish agriculture, agricultural production to guarantee the food of the big workshops, and then to return the profits from the big workshops and the mines to be built in the future. This method can be used here, but not necessarily elsewhere, because there is no monopoly elsewhere on the income from maritime trade, and this will have to be clarified in the future. ”

"In the short term, in addition to the dividends of the trading company, there are two main aspects of the island's trade income."

"One is deerskin, the aboriginal deerskin trade must be monopolized by us, and no one else can interfere, and trading companies are prohibited from buying it directly. Deerskin is the material used by the Japanese to make armor, and they need a lot of deerskin. ”

"The other one is sugar cane. It is foreseeable that the price of cane sugar will increase steadily in recent years. Domestically, the amount of sugar cane in the islands near the Spanish Viceroyalty does not meet domestic demand, let alone Europe. With the spread of tea and coffee, as long as war does not break out, the price of cane sugar will increase step by step. Many of you will have the impression that the previous British people had black teeth because they liked sugar so much. ”

"The sugarcane plantations are maintained at this level, and the displaced and poor people in Fujian are brought together in a four-year cycle, so that they can first familiarize themselves with the work of the plantations and the organization of the plantations. The rest of the land reclaimed by the collectives allows them to grow sugarcane normally as income for the small workshops of the village community, but a certain amount of rice must be guaranteed. ”

"Let's put it this way, a portion of the annual sugarcane income is used to stock up on rice purchased from Thailand, Vietnam, and other places. It is necessary to have sufficient food reserves to prepare for the arrival of more victims and migrants. ”

Speaking of this, someone raised his hand, and after receiving approval, said: "If this is the case, the price of cane sugar will indeed increase gradually." Then, three years later, the first group of people who went out to work collectively were given enough freedom and were no longer forced hired laborers, and they would definitely choose to grow sugar cane. ”

Jian Chen nodded and said, "Yes, under the condition of sufficient labor and sufficient technology, of course they will choose to plant sugarcane." However, after the establishment of grass-roots organizations, they can choose administrative coercion and persuasion to ensure a certain amount of rice cultivation. This cannot be too liberal. Sucrose, unified purchase and sales, we can appropriately lower the price, or increase the price of other ironware, cotton cloth or other commodities that we can produce, and rely on price control. ”

"With the ability to grow three crops a year, and the abundance of good struvite fertilizer on the nearby inaccessible islands, the food problem can still be guaranteed as long as there is no big famine. But we must not only ensure the survival of the island, but also understand the purpose of building the island, reclaiming the land, and training the soldiers. ”

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