Dividing the land rent to others to plough this trick was Bai Nan's idea. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are two types of shares, one is called common shares, and shareholders who hold these shares are not only able to pay dividends, but also have the right to vote at the general meeting of shareholders; The other is called preferred stock, and shareholders who hold this type of stock receive dividends before ordinary shareholders and have a stable income, but they do not have voting rights.

Bai Nan transplanted some of the characteristics of preferred shares to the land distribution of new immigrants, because a large number of new immigrants will run to farm if they choose their careers according to their own interests, because ninety percent of them from China are farmers, and they will have nothing but farming. In the context of the popularization of chemical fertilizers, the development of agricultural mechanization, and the improvement of agricultural technology, Datang wants to use its land advantages to engage in large-scale agriculture and intensive agriculture, and it is impossible for some small farmers to engage in fine work.

Datang needs sufficient industrial workers and a large urban population to be able to produce industrial products and become a large force of consumption power, and it is clear that small farmers with self-sufficiency are the most intolerable to Datang. However, there is nothing more attractive than land to attract immigrants from China, and the land that should be allocated must still be allocated, that is, the immigrants must not be trapped in the land.

So Bai Nan proposed that the land allocated by the new immigrants should be reclaimed by the farms on a priority basis. A large number of skilled farmers have emerged, often using tractors, combine harvesters and other farming equipment. These professional peasants are often divided into two units: families and production teams, and some of the more powerful peasant families can cultivate hundreds of acres of land together with their husbands and wives. The production team is mainly composed of division of labor. Led by a relatively strong cultivator. All of them are the grassroots of the bachelor's farm. The number of these production teams is not large, only five or six people, and the most is not more than twenty people, but they can often cover hundreds or even thousands of acres of farmland in one team, and after removing various costs, the harvest is exchanged for currency and then distributed fairly.

More and more farming families and production teams have become familiar with this mode of production, and the land they cultivate is largely owned by the farm and is subject to a fee. Now Paiknam has gathered the fields of the new immigrants. It is then given to them to plough, and the harvest is distributed in similar proportions. Both the cultivator and the landowner benefited, and for the newcomers, they did not have to do anything, and the land in their name brought in an annual income. Of course, this does not mean that they can do nothing, and new immigrants will be assigned to various employers after literacy and training.

In short, this is forced employment. However, they all have various labor guarantees, such as minimum wages and maximum working hours. Living conditions are more than a fraction of better than they were before immigration.

Of course, the land allocated to newcomers is allowed to be bought and sold. It's just that it is obviously not cost-effective to sell the land, because the price of farmland in the entire Tang Dynasty is very low now, tens of millions of acres of fertile land are waiting to be reclaimed, and the land that is now cultivated will still belong to individuals after years of planting, who will want to buy land.

Bai Nan's proposal was unanimously supported by the cabinet, so that by the time the new immigrants had even arrived in Datang, they had already changed from proletarians to landlords......

On the other side of Borneo, Hu Fakui has already thoroughly understood the vigorous and resolute execution of modern people, the first batch of more than 10,000 immigrants has just boarded the ship, and he has basically determined who will leave and who will stay in the land of West Borneo. His newly established administrative team conducted a rough population count, and the Chinese population in West Borneo, not counting the natives, was about 180,000. Then, the economic officials Banghu Fakui calculated that even if West Borneo was built according to the first phase of the construction plan, and the five towns headed by Pontianak, Dong Wanlu, Shankouyang, Sanfa and Nanbawa, more than 80,000 Chinese would not be needed.

Because Hu Fa Kwai has already captured a bunch of Malays, these Malays have now basically become Hu Fa Kwei's slaves, engaged in heavy mining work. And the gold mining industry, after bringing in some machinery from the country, obviously does not need such a large population as it does now. The plantations absorb a population of 20,000 or 30,000 Chinese, plus the large number of Dayaks in the local area, which is enough to operate, and the population employed in the city's handicrafts and service industries is removed, and considering that some refugees from Vietnam may settle here, the officials of the Governor's Office believe that about 60,000 Chinese in West Borneo are enough.

Hu Fakui also does not think that the people who made this plan deliberately want to send more immigrants from West Borneo to the mainland, and he now also feels that miscellaneous people are very troublesome in front of him. In the past, there were many Chinese companies, redundant construction and low efficiency in the use of manpower, and food still needed to be imported from outside.

And in the future, the local Chinese will also multiply, and the immigrants from the mainland who go abroad to work hard will also come one after another, and many spontaneous people who go abroad will prefer Luzon and Borneo, because it is relatively close to the mainland, and many of them want to work hard and return to their hometowns after becoming rich. Of course, many people have also taken root in the local area and become expatriates.

Before the Tang Dynasty immigrant fleet was ready, an armed merchant ship of the Dutch East India Company arrived in Pontianak. Hubbert stood at the bow of the ship and watched all this, and wondered: "Is this the ship of the Tang Republic?" My God, what a displacement this must be, and there are so many more! ”

The Dutch already knew by this time that there was a Tang Republic on the west coast of North America, and in fact, when the Spaniards spread the news in Mexico two years ago, Dutch sailors sent the news back to Amsterdam. Later, some Dutch merchants heard the news of the marketing of Datang goods in China in Guangzhou, so the Dutch knew some information about the Tang Kingdom, such as the fact that the science and technology were very developed and had a good business.

Hubbard's main responsibility is the Dutch-Indian company's business in Southeast Asia, and he knows that if there is no external intervention, the Netherlands will get Kalimantan sooner or later. Before that, he knew that the Spaniards did not have much energy, and the main thing to watch out for was the British. However, he did not expect that not long ago, a group of pirates from Hong Kong actually took control of a Chinese company in West Borneo, and this group of pirates was very powerful, and even armed with a very large number of muskets.

However, Harbert believes that pirates are pirates and that there is no need to worry about them.

But a few days ago, the Dutch who stayed in Pontianak escaped from here and reported a fact to Hubbert - behind the pirates is the North American country of the Tang Republic, so they have a large number of weapons, and now this group of pirates has officially carried the banner of the Tang Dynasty and eliminated all forces in Borneo except them, regardless of the Chinese natives, that is, the Dutch have not established any fixed forces here, otherwise they will definitely be targeted.

The clerk beside him, Bagman, who had run out of Pontianak before, said: "There is no way, the Tang people have established their rule over West Borneo, they have more than a thousand soldiers armed with muskets, and from a tactical point of view, they must be regular soldiers who command them." It's just that I don't understand why the Tang people occupied this place, and even established a governor's palace here, but they wanted to take the Chinese away from here? ”

Hubbert speculated: "North America is a new continent, the Chinese are not the aborigines there, they have established a country there, I am afraid they also need to immigrate, the Qing country has very strict control over population flow, and the Chinese who have gone abroad on this side of West Borneo have no control, so as long as they get here, they can transport the Chinese here to their own country." In this way, the scale of this Tang Republic will not be very large, and the population is also very small. ”

Bagman pointed to the huge ships in the harbor and said, "But how can a small country build so many huge ships, and we in the Netherlands cannot build such huge ships, I heard the Spaniards say that the ships of the Tang people are steam ships, and they can burn coal without using wind power, and the speed is quite fast." Moreover, the weapons of the Tang people are also exceptionally sophisticated, I have peeked at the risk of death when they attacked the company of Heshun, their rifles are quite fast, and our Dutch infantry can fire at least three shots with one shot. ”

Hubbert said: "In this case, the weapons of the Tang people should be very valuable, I don't know if I can get them." Of course, it is imperative that we cannot just withdraw from West Borneo, there is still gold and spices here, and although the East India Company does not have the strength to defeat the Tang people and seize this land for the time being, we can at least protect the trade here. ”

"It is said that the Tang people are as keen on trade as we Dutch, so they should not refuse to trade with us, and we can reaffirm our position in Pontianak," Bagman said. ”

"First of all, we should still collect a lot of intelligence here, and we can't let the Tang people sit down here. Whether it is inciting the Chinese or the local natives, we will constantly cause trouble for them. The archipelago in Southeast Asia is in the interests of our Netherlands, and the British control of Malacca has put us at a considerable disadvantage, and we must consolidate the position of Batavia and establish our own colonies in Sumatra and Kalimantan. Alas, in the final analysis, our strength is no longer as strong as it was in the sixteenth century, and the glory of the sea coachman is now only a vestige of its glory. Hubbert sighed.

Bagman was silent for a moment and said, "Sir, my grandmother taught me to do what I am capable of. It is already relatively difficult for us to forcibly send troops to seize the colonies or something, and the financial resources of both the government and the East India Company are relatively limited. The Tang people have more than 1,000 soldiers in the local area, and they are Chinese themselves, and they will be more recognized by the local Chinese, and we are afraid that it will be difficult for us to make this place our colony. ”

Hubbert didn't know what to say, and said, "Anyway, let's contact this Tang Governor first." (To be continued.) )