Lan Qi's words can be regarded as a warning to the mentality of some grassroots members within the party. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

A handful of people began to discuss the purchase of slaves from the indigenous people next to them to work, and wrote in a sprinkling article that it would do no good to everyone.

Before Chen Jian returned to the Great Wilderness City, these people had already been expelled from the party at the party meeting, and the beginning of today's meeting could be regarded as the end of this matter.

The previous discussion had already touched on a lot of issues, such as human rights and freedoms, which had been revised into a publication, and Jian Chen had also read it.

In fact, even if there are no such ideological things, from the simplest interests, why buy slaves?

Wouldn't it be better to encourage slave rebellion and get rid of the upper slave owners of the indigenous people, and transform them into labor force and population? After being a colony, he became a leader after separatism and independence, and after indirectly ruling the upper echelons, he learned new cultures and ideas...... And so on, maybe 50 or 100 years will be very cool, and then you will face endless struggles, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Slaves are fine for individuals, but why should an organization with ambition and purpose or even control it alone, believe that unfree slaves can be more productive than free hired laborers?

Moreover, a hired laborer is not a slave who does not sell all his labor power in his lifetime at once, but sells his labor power one by one at a time. There is no difference.

After all the staff passed the "Slave Prohibition Act in the Great Wilderness City", Chen Jian walked to the front and made a report related to agriculture.

After the food was secured, the main crops here were cotton and tobacco.

The cultivation of indigo requires extremely intensive labor, and since it is not possible to own slaves, it is not profitable to grow indigo here.

Tobacco cultivation is feasible, and Chen Jian has tasted the tobacco here, and the taste is a little rushy, much worse than the tobacco leaves in the tropical archipelago.

In the future, there will be opportunities to steal some seeds, but now we can only develop low-end tobacco. The habit of smoking has not yet been developed here, and the tens of millions of people behind it are still a long time away from producing large-scale smokers, and it is feasible to export to Europe, although the profits are low, but the use of advanced planting methods and new technologies of cave flue-cured tobacco can still ensure small profits and quick turnover.

Tobacco requires a lot of fertilizer, and this newly cultivated land is very fertile, and even then it can only be grown for four years, with the second and third years being the best to grow.

After four years, the land will run out of fertilizer.

Historically, the European colonizers used the method of constantly moving, just like the era of slash-and-burn farming.

This problem has not yet appeared, but Chen Jian has made some plans under the pretext of his own investigation and research in the port of St. Friday.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that the Great Wilderness City is still in the form of a company, there are still more than two years left, and the first batch of free Great Wilderness City immigrants will appear. The land issue is also an important issue that we must solve. ”

"I conceive of it this way, the land here is our direct land, and it is not allocated, but the wasteland."

"The land here depends on the labor of five years of hired labor that comes here every year. In the process of labor, there are many things to learn. Planting, breeding, fighting for one's own rights, long-term interests, and so on. This will be a school for these newcomers, and not every immigrant will be able to farm. ”

"The freelancers who are divided are to be allocated a sufficient amount of wasteland on the basis of a hundred households, and they are to reclaim it themselves. The main purpose of the establishment of cooperatives is to facilitate collective work and reclamation. This is not to be considered, a piece of land, one person to reclaim is completely different from a hundred people to reclaim. ”

"And, even if it's planting, some things can't be handled by one household. For example, when planting cotton, can one person harvest it during the cotton harvest season? We don't have slaves here, we don't have a shortage of labor, and we can't hire people at all. ”

"What should I do? Cooperatives can solve this problem. Plan the planting area, and take the cooperative's people as the standard for grabbing the harvest. Similarly, the ability of individual farmers to resist risks is too poor, and the ability of more people to resist risks is also stronger. ”

"Of course, we don't intervene, we just guide. Whether you want to do it or not, it's all voluntary. However, we can support it through loans, cattle regulation, and subsidies. The internal managers are also elected by the cooperatives themselves, and all prices will be regulated according to the market in the future, and there will be no interference except for the necessary grain planting. ”

"What else is there for that?"

"In the case of planned tobacco cultivation, each large cooperative divides the land into fifteen portions. One is planted with tobacco for two years, and then for the next fifteen years the field is planted with alfalfa or the rest of the leguminous fodder crops, and so on. ”

"In this way, the cooperative can raise cattle and horses, grow tobacco, grow cotton and other crops. Such an income would certainly be higher than a single household with no slaves and no free workers. ”

"This is also a trend, and the machinery factory in Nan'an is trying new cotton planting machines, wood threshers, horse-drawn ear cutting machines, etc. These machines are not something that a single household can bear, but the collective capital of the cooperative can bear these things. ”

"And now that the land has been cleared in the form of employment, new hired workers and new immigrants are here, they can just have more time to learn more things."

"In other words, a five-year cycle guarantees that about 3,000 immigrants a year can learn their survival skills in this barren land on this public land."

"It's not that just one person thrown into a barren land can survive and grow the family business. Whatever it is, the mortality rate will not be less than 50 percent. ”

"In short, everything is voluntary. Those who are willing to go out and cultivate their own land will go out on their own. If they are willing to set up a cooperative, they will set up a cooperative. However, we still have to be inclined in terms of policies and loans. ”

"And we have to learn this way of regulating with policies, loans, and so on. The specific approach will be discussed by everyone. ”

Chen Jian calculated it for a while, and calculated it according to the reincarnation of fifteen years of fallow and fertile land. If he could survive fifteen years later, his fleet would have grown and he could control the saltpeter mines in Chile and the guano fields in the Pacific islands, and agricultural production would have increased.

The primordial accumulation of blood is sucked from others. The time is still early, and you can take the road of light industry accumulation and slow development, and you don't need to be in such a hurry.

The geographical advantage here can give priority to the development of light industry, and at the same time, its technological advantages and the advantages of batch talent transfer, some of the "heavy industry" at this time can also wait until the population is sufficient.

Cotton production here is guaranteed on the basis of cooperative agriculture, which can be started with textiles as the center.

New carding machines, winch machines and water-powered spinning machines, coupled with hand-drawn looms, can produce cotton cloth that has advantages over any homespun cloth.

The cost problem, minus the required workers' welfare and provident fund, is still cheaper than the handicraft weaving at this time.

Good quality and cheap price.

Even if Europe protects its cotton spinning handicraft industry with 100 percent tariffs, it is a dead end.

The bourgeois revolution in England was still a few days away, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry did not have such a big say, and the king was too busy with the affairs of the handicrafts to be in charge of the business.

Although the Dutch were nominally a bourgeois revolution, the dominant stratum was the mercantile bourgeoisie - what if the Spaniards had no money to fight with the Dutch? Ask the Dutch bankers for a loan - the Dutch fleet is a second-hand dealer, and the merchants don't care about the domestic handicrafts.

Spain was about to embark on a large-scale anti-Judean and anti-Moorish purification campaign, both of which were the main force of the southern handicraft class, and without them it was much purer, but the last trace of the development of the handicraft industry could be regarded as extinguished by itself.

This short period of peace was followed by a large-scale war more than a decade later.

More than ten years of accumulation can accomplish many things.

Large-scale capital and technology were transferred from Minjun to here, and improvised chemical systems could produce explosives. The iron-smelting plant can produce steel ingots and pig iron, and as long as the mineral problem is solved, half of the ordnance workshops in Minjun can also be settled here.

There is a wooded area, a water-powered sawmill, and a shipyard can be built once apprentices and shipbuilders from European shipyards return.

War, on the contrary, is an opportunity.

There are many things that are needed for war. Cotton, firearms, explosives, ingots, pig iron, tobacco, spirits, grain......

Seize the opportunity, and the Great Wilderness City can get a golden opportunity for development in the war in the west.

The last item of the conference was about the outside world.

Chen Jian uses a similar analysis, but in fact a priori after history, to illustrate the inevitability of possible war in Europe.

And by inference, a detailed development plan for the future of the Great Wilderness City was formulated.

The vast majority of people present were still ignorant of the outside world, and many of the things that Jian Chen said, such as religion, were ignorant, so it made Jian Chen's words more convincing.

Some of the people selected by the party also sailed around the world with Chen Jian to broaden his horizons and serve as Chen Jian's backing in the event of some special events.

For the general events of this round-the-world voyage, Chen Jian gave a two-year estimate, which may be more, but not less.

Therefore, many arrangements for the Great Wilderness City in the past two years had to be decided at this meeting.

Two years later, the first free hire-workers appeared. Two years later, it was the time to take out the upper echelons of the nearby aboriginal city.

These can be said after the return of the people who have seen the world with the ship, but it is necessary to prepare in advance.

For this reason, it is necessary to continue prospecting for these two years.

The prospecting team discovered a silver mine upstream, which was kept secret for the time being and could not be mined until two years later, when enough labor had been absorbed.

With this silver mine as a reserve, the Great Wilderness City Bank will be established in two years to ensure that future banknotes can be promoted in the region.

At the same time, in the next two years, it was necessary to build a textile mill, rebuild a branch of the simplified workshop, and build a simple shipyard and paper mill.

and the construction of salt pans by the sea, first to ensure that edible salt and chemical salt can be self-sufficient.

The construction of the fort is still proceeding slowly according to the ten-year plan, and all employees on five-year contracts are paraded during the off-season to ensure the safety of the place.

Some of the nearby depressions, swamps and small lakes are the best, most fertile and best land where detachable windmills are built and the water is drained by the windmills. This is not something that can be done by one person, and it must be carried out in a planned manner with the use of specialized personnel.

In addition, after Chen Jian began his circumnavigation of the world, the Great Wilderness City fleet separated two ships and headed north along the coastline.

Map the coastline, survey the north, and choose places where the rest of the city-states are present to set up trading posts. Especially in some important estuary areas, trading posts must be built first, and the general map must be drawn clearly, and the intricate city-state relations and ethnic relations here must also be sorted out.

After the plan was approved, all internal members were notified, except for some things that need to be kept secret, and all the rest of the plan statements were formulated.

After all this, there were more than fifty more people in the round-the-world fleet, and this time they really sailed westward and never looked back.

The Spanish envoy did not know where Jian Chen was going, so after crossing the fleet into a new sea area, he asked, "Mr. Governor, where is your fleet going?" ”

Jian Chen looked at the North Star with an octagonist and replied nonchalantly, "Amsterdam." ”