Chapter 258 Cayenne Meeting

"I hate storms, I've been bumped by the waves a dozen times, can't you hurry up to the southwest land?"

"I can't help it, it's always cloudy now, it's difficult to position, I've been driving in the southwest direction, I'm definitely sailing to South Chizhou, I just don't know how long it's still from the coast, maybe I can see the coastline in the afternoon." Li Fei looked at the gloomy sky, and he also looked uneasy.

Four days and four nights

Since leaving the Green Horn, the ship has endured four days and four nights of wind and rain, almost all of which have been spent in heavy rain, torrential rain, light rain and cloudy days. I don't see the sun during the day, I don't see the stars at night, and I don't know my latitude and longitude at all with manual primitive equipment. If you only know the direction and speed, you can basically get to the destination, which is the advantage of a straight route.

"I see the land, and the black oppression is the land."

"It's finally time to get rid of this damn bad weather. Hurry up and get ready, and drop anchor when you get to the shore. ”

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Three days later, the traversal finally ushered in a sunny day. "This is Nan Chizhou, and we are lucky to have arrived in this new continent. According to the latitometry, we are near Cayenne in South Chizhou, which is 04°51′N, 174°16′W." Li Fei pointed to the high-precision internal secret charts brought from the old time and space and said.

"We now have two options. One is to the west, along the coastline to the Isthmus of Panama, and after walking a few dozen kilometers to our supply point on the Pacific side, we can take a scientific expedition ship back. One is to go southeast and make a large circle along the coastline. Sail five or six times the distance of most of the coastline of South Chizhou, skirting Tierra del Fuego and heading north to the Pacific side of the Isthmus of Panama. Now for the democratic vote, please raise your hand if you agree to visit Tierra del Fuego. Li Ji pointed to the chart and drew a circle, and finally pretended to ask for advice.

Seeing that no one raised their hand, Lee Ki knew that everyone was frightened by the bumps of the storm, "Since no one wants to go far, then let's take a short route." The ship will not necessarily make it to Tierra del Fuego, either. Since you all want to try this tropical trip, we need to take care of our bodies and eat back the vomit we vomited a few days ago. Let's take a few days off before setting sail. Let's set up the tent first. ”

After everyone set up their tents, Li Ji and the others began to sleep, and the bumps for several days made everyone have no way to rest well, even if their physical fitness was different from ordinary people. After a day and a night's sleep. And the people who were awakened by hunger began to eat and drink.

This rainforest is good for this. There is no shortage of wood, and there is no shortage of fresh water. There is also a great surplus of all kinds of stored food because of the shortened routes. Taking a hot bath every day, eating all kinds of delicious food, and playing all kinds of games on the beach, the people who had a lot of tanned skin were urged by Li Fei to board the ship and set sail.

The children and grandchildren are having fun, and the people who cross the crowd are not idle. The long-shelved Chizhou development plan was put on the table of tents, and Li Ji and others first circled the best coastal Yinong plains on the map, and roughly divided the administrative divisions and road construction in the initial stage of these places. It took three days, and as for how to settle the aboriginal people and distribute the land, they were settled on the beach while basking in the sun.

At this time, Chizhou did not have a real state. All the indigenous people are primitive tribes, and apart from the tropical areas of North Chizhou, the most advanced aboriginal organizations are only tribal alliances. At this time, there was no shadow of what Aztec and Inca were. There are only three civilized countries that have come into contact with the Chinese Empire, namely the Mayan city-state alliance (not yet a federation, but it can be regarded as a confederation of states), the Toltec Kingdom, and the Qimu Kingdom. These three civilizations are only about the same as those slave tribal alliance countries in Xuanzhou.

Not to mention feudalism and standing armies, even the Iron Age has not entered. In the eyes of most of the explorers and colonists of the Chinese Empire, the only difference from the primitive tribes was that they did not migrate and relied on nomadic hunting for a living. This kind of civilization, whose combat effectiveness can be ignored, cannot be regarded as an adversary at all, and it does not even have the value of establishing diplomatic relations. If it weren't for the strict prohibition of large-scale immigration to develop Chizhou, these civilizations would have become historical terms like the Mongol tribes.

If you want to talk about why the Crossing Crowd strictly forbids the Empire from entering Chizhou, this is to mention the harrowing biological invasion of microorganisms. The frenzied reproduction of animals and plants without natural predators and diseases in the new environment will lead to serious ecological damage and economic losses, and invasive species such as snails, crayfish, fire ants, and water hyacinth are weaker than viruses such as smallpox and measles.

The invasion of animals and plants is at most a loss of money and endangers some agricultural industries, while the invasion of microorganisms will cause a serious plague in human history. The Old World was relatively exchanged, and tens of millions of people died in Europe during the Black Death, and a third of the population died from the plague brought by the Mongols' westward expeditions. And the inhabitants of the New World, who have not communicated with each other for nearly 10,000 years, have long been doomed to have no resistance to infectious diseases in the Old World. Once a sporadic explorer enters the coastline and has physical contact with the indigenous people, some powerful microbes can cause great plagues.

Before the crossing was ready for full contact and development of Chizhou, many explorers who arrived in Chizhou could only enter the coastline of no more than 20 kilometers, and were strictly forbidden to communicate and contact with the local aborigines. Every time the ships and personnel departing and arriving at the temporary expedition base along the coast of Chizhou were subjected to strict inspection and quarantine, and even in some tropical strongholds, there were strict concentration camps to isolate seafarers with colds and other diseases. Only three ships with 200 places were allowed to go to Chizhou a year, and in the more than ten years since the first discovery of Chizhou, the perverted examination and quarantine system has achieved the miracle that not a single flea has landed on the Chizhou continent.

The largest source of funding for the Bioweapons Research Institute, which has been established at a great expense, is the vaccine and related pharmaceutical industry, as long as there are sufficient vaccine reserves. This new continent would be able to retain the vast majority of the population and provide a sufficient human base and consumer market for the future empire's industries and industries. The traversers will never engage in genocide for the sake of some worthless land and gold and silver mines, and any brain-dead methods such as massacre and spreading plague are simply burning money. Such a loss-making business can only be done by uneducated religious lunatics and feudal and illiterate landlords who have not experienced the market economy. A slavery world with a population of more than 10 million is poor. The wealth extracted through trade and investment is also hundreds of times greater than that of a single Potosi mine. Pizarro's idea is as stupid as the United States to kill all the Chinese with a nuclear bomb for a little dollar foreign exchange cash deposit, and then rob the bank banknotes.

The three-step strategy born in Cayenne's tent was the prototype of the Chizhou Development Act of the Chinese Empire, which later made countless indigenous people of Chizhou hate and love, the first step was to make the aborigines dependent on the abundant dumped goods through friendly trade exchanges, to establish basic mutual trust and economic ties, and the second step was to provide military assistance to fund the expansion of the investment-worthy regime into a feudal regional power. Infiltrate and control these puppet states in all directions. The third step is to tilt towards investment in the real economy, turning the vast and sparsely populated Chizhou into the sixth colonial and investment hotspot (the first five are Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, India, West Asia, and Xuanzhou).

In addition to the prototype of the Chizhou Development Act of the Chinese Empire, there was also a prototype of a decisive bill that would determine the human development index for hundreds of years to come. That is the New World Aboriginal Medical Allowance Act drafted by Wu Qi. In order to compensate for the value of the land, which was the largest wealth of the indigenous people, at a low price, the full subsidy of free medical treatment for common diseases for the tribal people and their descendants who sold the land was the core of the law. According to the estimates of the Travelers, even if the Imperial government that enclosed these lands paid for the basic medical expenses of tens of millions of people for a hundred years, it would not cost half of the value of these lands.

After the Imperial Government acquired most of these lands, they would only be rented out, not sold. The rent collected annually is more than enough to cover these additional costs. It can be said that the plan of killing birds with one stone is also a good strategy to get rid of the burden. In any case, the Universal Health Insurance Act will be passed in the future, and this preferential policy for indigenous people can be regarded as an important auxiliary channel for wealth redistribution. The increase in the value of the land was sufficient to cover the huge debt, which extended the life of the imperial government by several times the credit standard of the national debt after the abolition of the gold standard.

The results of the Cayenne Conference are not only the main driving factor for the demise of many indigenous civilizations in Chizhou, but also an opportunity for Chizhou to quickly enter modern civilization in the future. A meeting in a small tent can decide the fate of tens of millions of people on a continent, and only the traversal can do it.

As we all know, the government of the power group also needs financial resources, and it is impossible to survive the era of universal welfare through taxation alone. In Li Ki's conception, among the three groups that constitute the core of domination, the capitalist group, the scientist group, and the politician group all have independent social discourse and funding sources, and without pigtails being caught in the hands of competitors, they will naturally maintain their independence and competitiveness, and mutual supervision and competition can embark on a virtuous circle.

As the largest trinity group, Chenji Group is naturally the boss of the balance of these three groups. The annual adoption of the Board's budget allocation would allow the three groups to be balanced. But this does not create sufficient independence. In order for politicians to not rely on the control of capitalists, it is necessary to establish an independent source of funding for organizational activities as an inevitable era of party politics in the future. In order to ensure the independence of political parties, the Government's fixed allocation has become the main source of funding for political party activities. This expenditure will hardly pass the Senate's budget meeting, and can only be listed as a separate system of additional government revenue and expenditure, and the land management committee under the SASAC is the largest source of revenue for this independent system, and the rent of these Chizhou land will be a source of economic confidence for the government and the Senate to fight each other.

The many colonies and local lands that have been privatized long ago are the source of confidence for the capitalist group, and the most sophisticated assets of the Chenji Group will naturally focus on supporting the scientist group, becoming a fashion-leading giant group with scientific and technological innovation and the sale of patents as the main source of income, and professionally speaking for scientists and cultural and academic groups. The three pillars of the ruling group will be transformed from the three groups of warlords, bureaucratic landlords, and nobles in feudal society into these three groups that are more competitive. (To be continued......)