Chapter 17: Choices

The return of Zhao Shijie and others not only brought a large number of urgently needed materials, but also brought the most important information of this era, that is, the current accurate time, September 1640.

The era of the Great Voyage Colonization was also an era of alternation of old and new colonists, during which the old Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires were being replaced by the newly rising Dutch, England and France.

The famous American Empire has not yet taken shape, and it will take more than a hundred years to become independent, in this period, both the East and the West are undergoing tremendous changes, at this time the Eastern Ming Dynasty has been going downhill, and the rivers are declining in four years, and it will be sent into the dust of history by the peasant rebels, followed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

In the West, the dark Middle Ages had come to an end, and the dogmatic authority of cumbersome philosophy and theology, which had constrained the free development of people's minds, was gradually destroyed. Feudal society began to disintegrate, and in its place came capitalist society, and the productive forces were greatly liberated. The prosperity of the capitalist factory crafts and the transition to machine production led to the rapid development of technical science and mathematics.

Both technology and culture laid the foundation for the later Western capitalist world during this period, while in the East, civilization was replaced by barbaric culture and stagnated, which directly led to the humiliation of modern China.

The question before everyone now is very simple, whether to stop the wild boar skin who is hated by pain in the future, or stay in Australia and grow old and live a leisurely farming life.

If you want to stop the wild boar skin from entering the customs, it means that the traversal must develop a strong enough strength, with the current number of people and productivity is not enough to protect themselves, what can be done to stop the wild boar skin.

In the near future, although there are no European colonists on the Australian continent who have established a foothold here, in the near future, Europeans will establish a stronghold here, and by then it is obvious that if the Travelers do not develop enough self-protection ability, they will be wiped out.

That is to say, although the traversers know the knowledge of world history for hundreds of years in the future, and also have the scientific and technological knowledge that is ahead of any country in this world, it will take a process to transform them into useful strength, and the replication of civilization may take years, maybe decades, or even hundreds of years.

"At present, everyone is still concerned about whether the Ming Dynasty is about to be destroyed and how to choose, it is a bit premature, and what they really care about should be whether the environment they are in is safe or not."

Zhou Aiguo's words are very pertinent and practical, that is, don't think too much, you should think about how to develop the Manchester City base, for the old people of Zhou Aiguo's generation believe in being down-to-earth, thinking more, saying more is not real to do real.

For now, there are all kinds of problems in the Manchester City base, the medical and health conditions are not keeping up, there is a lack of medicines, the surrounding environment is not safe, and there are worries about whether there will be a sneak attack every night.

Although the Crossing had established a security team of 60 people, they were extremely lacking in weapons, except for the semi-automatic rifles and grenades that had been crossed together, the rest of the people carried out their daily patrol work almost with sticks.

Now, in addition to whether to save the Ming Dynasty that was destroyed by barbarian civilization in a few years, as well as its own security, although everyone knows the course of history, but under the influence of the butterfly of the crossing people, it is difficult to say whether it will change, for example, the British or the Dutch will establish a stronghold in Australia in advance because of the arrival of the crossing people.

In addition to these, the internal economic system is also a problem, although it adopts a salary system, but to put it bluntly, Manchester City's executive committee is like a large state-owned enterprise, and everyone is working for this company.

In the first few days, everyone didn't have any ideas, but now that a month has passed, the big guys naturally have more ideas, and it is basically impossible to return to the previous time and space, so what everyone thinks about the most is the future, whether the future will always be in this mode of life.

To be honest, the small private owners in the crossing account for a large part, and there are some talents who have mastered the technology, and they are not willing to continue to do so, and now they can make a fortune by relying on the technology they have mastered.

Although this kind of thinking is nothing and seems a bit selfish, it represents the real thoughts of some people. However, the committee members, who are managers, have to think about how to guide these people.

Among them, Hu Xijing and You Nanzhe are the representatives of these people, Hu Da Beauty seems to be not at all restless, and always likes to toss some things.

The establishment of a bank to provide loan assistance to prospective applicants has transformed the economic system of the Manchester City base from a single economy to a diversified one. At the same time, the executive committee can also indirectly control some private enterprises by way of shareholding, which is a common thing in later generations.

As for the capital used by the Manchester City Executive Committee to lend, it can be minerals, land and all the materials at present, in addition to providing loans to immigrants in the Ming Dynasty, such as giving them loans to build rents and residences, etc., according to her ideas, this is the standard for revitalizing internal capital to build a town.

Although Hu Da Mei likes to toss, I have to say that people's ideas are sometimes indeed in the forefront of ordinary old men, and I have to make others a little embarrassed, is it really too pedantic and rigid in my own ideas.

So let's vote now, everyone has read the plan, and on the whole, Xiaohu's method is good, this is to build a town, not to build a business, I personally agree.

After Zhou Aiguo finished speaking, he cast his vote, which meant that the older part of the people who traveled through the crowd almost agreed with this plan.

Zhao Shijie took the bank establishment plan provided by Hu Xijing in his hand, and always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it, but in the long run, if the future of the traversal is towards a town and a country, the implementation of this plan is very necessary.

"I also agree with the establishment of the bank, although we have only more than 1,000 people at present, but in terms of scale, it has reached the scale of a township, coupled with the continuous introduction of immigrants, it is conceivable that our social environment will inevitably be affected, and the emergence of private economy is inevitable."

With the analysis and explanation of Zhou Aiguo and Zhao Shijie, the result of the unanimous vote in the next vote ended the meeting, which also signaled the establishment of Manchester City Bank and the beginning of the private economy.