Chapter 594: The Whereabouts of Yinzhou Immigrants
On May 20, the sixth year of the Grand Duke, the wharf of Dongyi Guolin County, North Yinzhou.
The former Isaac Roosevelt, now Luo Yi, took his whole family and boarded the official transport ship to Mozhou.
Luo Yi was not prepared to enter politics when he was a teenager, perhaps not very interested in Tessie and British or American-style politics.
After being admitted to the Dongyi Kingdom, he started as a translator at the bottom, but he slowly adapted to the Ming-style yamen work.
After working as a grassroots translator for a period of time, he got excellent results in the assessment and got the official status from Jiupin.
When the officials of the Ming Dynasty obtained the official status, they had to choose the direction of the future officials.
Choose one of the four directions: government affairs, criminal law, supervision, and staff.
After being selected, except in extremely special circumstances, you can only be promoted in the selected system for life.
A little special is the staff, after serving as a staff member for grassroots officials, there is a chance to transfer to the government affairs system in the future and become an official below the Qipin county order.
The staff after the Renmu Dynasty were also officials in the imperial court, and they were also dispatched according to the system of liuguan.
No official may hire his own private staff.
After discussing with his father, Luo Yi judged that his background as a Taixi might hinder his promotion.
It is likely that there will be no chance of becoming a local magistrate, let alone the criminal law and inspection system.
The least restrictive is the staff, although there is no actual decision-making power, but in terms of rank and salary promotion, it is also relatively relaxed.
Therefore, Luo Yi chose the direction of staff at the beginning, and then he was promoted step by step by taking an exam every three years.
By the time he was in the sixth year of Dagong, Luo Yi already had the treatment of the seventh grade.
Now that the world war is over, the Ming Dynasty began to send the Taixi people of Yinzhou to the Mozhou colony, and at the same time, a large number of Taixi natives were sent to Mozhou.
The entire operation needed to be staffed enough to manage these complex migrations as instructed by the superior officials of the Ming Dynasty.
Luo Yi was admitted to the Dongyi Kingdom at the age of sixteen, and then worked in the Dongyi State Yamen for 20 years.
He himself has been fully enlightened, and he is very familiar with both Tessie and Daming traditions.
Such personnel are now very useful and even lacking.
In particular, compared to the Taixi intellectuals on the mainland of Taixi who had just surrendered and had just joined the Ming system, they were obviously more reliable and loyal.
Therefore, Luo Yi, a Taixi official from the Dongyi Kingdom, has now been given an additional opportunity to advance.
Those who are already government affairs, criminal law, and supervision officials can go to Mozhou for promotion, and they can also be directly transferred to administrative officials if they were originally staff members.
But there is one condition, that is, you must bring your whole family to the new colony of Mozhou to open up the wasteland.
The fixed assets they own in Dongyi can be acquired by the four major industrial groups at market prices, and at the same time, a piece of land in Mozhou will be obtained as compensation.
Depending on the situation in the new colonies, there was also the opportunity to obtain the lowest nobility, the squire and townsman who were not hereditary for life.
Luo Yi immediately knew that this was the last chance for a Taixi official like himself.
So Luo Yi signed up directly.
Now that there is a shortage of such officials, Luo Yi's application was quickly approved.
Luo Yi's final appointment was Soren Zhizhou.
At the same time, he got the status of a local lifelong villager in Soren State, and 10,000 acres of land.
Luo Yi was shocked when he saw the letter of appointment, he was originally treated as a seven-pin person, and he could be a magistrate at most if he was transferred to an administrative officer.
As a result, it has now become directly from the Zhizhou of the six products.
There are also titles and land......
However, after carefully reading the job description, Luo Yi understood that he was really going to open up the wasteland.
The southwesternmost part of Soren is about a thousand square kilometres in the southwestern corner of the continent, and is now mostly pure wasteland and jungle.
His 10,000 acres of land, of course, are all undeveloped wasteland, and there is no output at present.
At present, the registered population of the entire Soren State is just over 3,000......
If you want to rely on this 10,000 acres of land to generate considerable profits, it will take at least ten or twenty years later.
The reason why this ghost place is a state and not a county is only because the lord's title here is an earl, and the earl must be at least a state earl.
It is a place where the descendants of the former German royal family are housed.
Of the less than 3,000 people, in addition to the former members of the German royal family, the rest are also former German aristocrats, bureaucrats, and military officers.
This is certainly not all of the former German bureaucrats, aristocrats, officers.
Instead, he surrendered more neatly, and did not find any major evils, and he belonged to himself who could be regarded as a good person, and he was willing to cooperate.
That's why now I have a semi-free identity.
Aside from not being able to leave the prefecture where you are located, there are not too many restrictions on your daily activities.
As for those who were sinful in their own right, and those who resisted in the process of surrendering, they had already been killed in the process of capture.
Those who did not resist, but were obviously emotionally resistant, did not take the initiative to cooperate, or had committed varying degrees of fault, were also sent to other places to be controlled in re-education through labor.
At the same time, the title of Count of Sauron was not just given for the surrender of the former German crown.
He once had the Ming Emperor as a guard, and he also served in the Ming army, so he had the opportunity to become a semi-free lord.
Of course, only semi-free, not highly free.
Therefore, the Ming court now directly arranged a Zhizhou to bring a large number of immigrants from Yinzhou to his territory to open up wasteland.
He had to gradually divide at least half of the land in his hands and give it to these new immigrants.
In the future, the civil affairs of Solon Prefecture will also be dominated by the Zhizhou arranged by the Ming Dynasty.
The Luo Yi family threw away their assets in Dongyi Kingdom, but they did not directly go on the road with a large amount of cash.
Instead, they contacted several machinery dealers, ordered agricultural trucks, tractors, agricultural planes and other machinery and equipment, and traveled with the ship to Solon.
Luo Yi's fleet has three passenger ships with the same destination as Luo Yi.
The three ships carried 3,000 families of Yinzhou Taixi immigrants, with a total number of about 20,000.
The conditions for their move were similar to those of Luo Yi's family, with the acquisition of existing assets at a normal price, and then the granting of a batch of land to be developed in Mozhou.
It's just that ordinary immigrants don't have titles and official positions.
Compared with the Ming people, the Taixi people are not so serious about the relocation of the land.
Especially the descendants of immigrants who immigrated to Yinzhou.
Most of the people who are willing to try this kind of buying and selling that can retain the value of the existing asset while getting an additional piece of land is willing to try.
I really don't want to try, I must stay in Yinzhou's new home, and Daming will not force them to leave.
This part of the stubborn immigrants, after most of the same clan left, will be diluted by more and more Ming people in the future.
Just like the few natives left over from the mainland of Tessie.
Luo Yi's fleet sailed at sea for ten days.
On the first day of June in the sixth year of the Grand Duke, he came to the outer periphery of the docks in Solon.
Luo Yi and his fellow immigrants stood on the deck or by the window, looking at the scene on the shore.
What catches the eye is a rather large village.
But it can only be regarded as a village, because there are no brick and stone buildings, only a large number of simple new wooden houses.
There is only a simple wooden fence around the village.
Outside the fence is a vast farmland, planted with rice, which is the favorite food of the Ming people.
The so-called wharf is a wooden trestle, and it is impossible for a 20,000-ton transport ship to dock directly.
Therefore, it is only possible to slowly transfer supplies and personnel to the dock by small boats.
William, Earl of Sauron, with his own guards, personally arrives on the docks of Solon to welcome his new neighbors and colleagues.
William found a problem in the territory, the whole territory is full of big men, and there are no women at all.
Originally, it was fine when I worked hard to open up the wasteland, but now that I have settled down a little, it is easy to breed problems.
The Ming court also did not allow the inland to enter the interior to hunt the ink people at will, because the default ink people were theoretically under the management of the black aristocratic system.
The slightly discouraged Tessie people also don't want to be married to the Manu woman.
But William knew that the current situation had been going on for a long time, and that the ban on the hunting of Monu might be difficult to enforce.
The young and middle-aged men in the territory are holding back their eyes, not to mention the Monu women, and the goats may not dare to use them.
So William wrote a report and an application to the officials of West Momoth.
William's identity is special, mainly as a guard for Zhu Jingyuan, and he also served as an officer in the Ming Servant Army.
So his request was quickly answered.
In addition, now that Daming is transporting Yinzhou immigrants to Mozhou, he simply arranged a group of Mozhou immigrants to come over.
Although William's identity is special, it is only a very low-level special.
Even if the Ming court arranged for people to divide the territories that nominally belonged to them, and arranged officials to manage government affairs in their own territories.
William could only accept this arrangement.
Luo Yi took a few guards and first went ashore in a small boat, and after meeting and greeting William, he showed each other his identification documents.
Then Luo Yi began to perform his duties, and together with William, he directed the migrants on the ship to disembark.
Some of them set up temporary tents to live in, and some of them lived directly in the original wooden houses.
William had concentrated as many of his inhabitants as he could in the last twenty days.
A number of relatively spacious wooden houses were vacated for the new immigrants to live temporarily.
When you have a new house in the future, you will return the borrowed house.
It turned out that the old immigrants in the camp, the former nobles of the Kingdom of Germany, had no problem with this arrangement.
On the one hand, William was originally their former prince, and now he is also their lord, as well as his own guards, and the support of the Ming court.
On the one hand, new immigrants are coming, and they have the opportunity to break away from their status as singles and start a new family.
For the sake of future life, most of them are very cooperative.
Luo Yi is also a very experienced grassroots official, and there are no major problems in the settlement of new immigrants.
After settling down, he began to allocate land to clear the wasteland, and cut down trees to build houses over and over again.
During the same period, a large number of immigrants from the United States of America also continued to migrate to various settlements in the western part of Mexico.
Their goal wasn't supposed to be here.
According to Zhu Jingyuan's private discussion with Charlotte, it was originally planned to send the American Tessie to the British mainland and the British colonies in Mexico.
Now there are indeed Americans who are being sent back to the British mainland.
But the other part, which was supposed to be sent to the British colony of Southwest Mexico, was sent to the Ming colony in West Mexico.
Because after the executive officer in charge tried it, he found that the operation of sending migrants to southwest Mozhou could not be carried out at all.
The British colony in Murphy in the southwest was probably Namibia, plus the northwest corner of South Africa and the western part of Botswana.
The British changed the name of Yinzhou to New England when they began to focus on the construction of Southwest Mexican after the New England region was ceded to France.
Young men and women from the English in the Tianzhu region were successively migrated here, and a New England composed of Tianzhu people was established here.
Of course, the owners are still traditional English.
The vast majority of Tianzhu people were slaves of British factory owners, or indentured slaves of the British crown and official factories of the imperial court.
A small number also became domestic servants of the English aristocracy.
It's all factories, and there are basically no farms.
Because this land is not a place to feed people in the first place, most of the area is desert and arid grassland.
The British sent tens of millions of Tianzhu slaves here, and most of them eventually became slave laborers.
They still produce relatively basic industrial products.
Such as fabrics, clothes, shoes and socks, ceramics, toys, jewelry, minerals, etc......
Most of their main rations and raw materials came from American farms, with a small number of local inland farms and mines.
The main products are sold in China and the United States.
But why did the British toss so much? Why not put the factory in China or in the United States?
Since slavery had been abolished in Britain itself, this was the result of a compromise between radicals and conservatives in exchange for benefits.
At the same time, the American Congress legislated to prohibit the importation of slaves in order to protect the interests of slave owners who bred slaves in the region.
At the same time, Britain's industrial area in Yinzhou was originally in the northern part of the United States, that is, where Adams brought independence.
After the Yinzhou War, these places were ceded to France.
At the same time, the British in order to protect and appease the slave owners, plantation owners in the south.
It is also to avoid the recurrence of independent things, so I will not engage in industry in the United States.
The infrastructure and a small part of the basic industry in the United States were invested by the Ming side.
Therefore, if the British factory owners wanted to use slave labor, they could only build factories in the southwest of Mexico.
At the same time, they also found that the Tianzhu people were really suitable for slave labor.
If slave labor really cooperates, the cost of using basic industry is generally lower than that of wage workers.
There is no technical content in the work, and they can work if they are fed, and they do not need to be paid.
Only when the degree of industrialization is higher and the industrial technology content is relatively high, the cost of using wage workers will be lower than that of slave labor.
Because when the technology level is high, the factory owner has to spend a lot of time and money to train the skills of slave labor.
On the contrary, it is a freelance wage worker who voluntarily goes to school to learn knowledge and skills in order to get a job to earn a living.
This can help the factory owner save this part of the cost and replace the unsuitable hired workers at any time.
Therefore, the British factory owners all placed their labor-intensive factories in the southwest of the Murphy region, and adopted the model of slave labor.
This is due to the strange political game and legal accommodation in the UK.
On the basis of this fact and law, in addition to the slave labor factory, a set of special local resort tourism projects have been developed in the southwest of Mezhou.
There were slave estates for entertainment, and slave trading houses for entertainment and service.
Brits who want to experience the life of true masters, with a penchant for directly enslaving others, can come here to experience this life.
Similar facilities and industries existed in the United States itself, but the slaves in the United States were all Moxicans.
It's that the slaves in the southwest Mozhou are Tianzhu people, and the grade is higher.
If you have more money, you can directly build a manor by yourself, or buy a villa as a place for overseas vacation.
If you have less money, you can go to the commercial estates and playgrounds that are open to the public for a few days.
The Ming people, who know the situation here, describe this place as a corrupt and degenerate, drunken and gold-obsessed, and extremely evil place in the world.
After Zhu Jingyuan learned about the situation here, he felt that the situation of the main cities here might be cyberpunk in this world......
But the time has come for all this to change.
The Taixi War ended, and Britain became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
The three main parts of the UK are also being de facto separated.
The mainland is called Britain, the United States is called the United States, and the colony of Southwest Mexico was finally determined to be India.
The economic systems of the three places will be integrated into the Ming Dynasty as a whole.
It's no longer a twisting cycle between the three of them.
Zhu Jingyuan and Charlotte subconsciously wanted to migrate the Americans to Southwest Mexico.
But after the first batch of immigrants were sent, it was found that ordinary free people could not live a normal life here.
There are only factories with slave labor, and entertainment cities with drunken gold fans.
So in the end, I had to change my strategy and send those who wanted to return to the mainland to the British mainland, and the others to the Ming colony in West Moxico.
As for the future of New England, which is made up of Indians, Zhu Jingyuan does not intend to interfere too much.
There was no intention of finding another place for these Indian slave laborers.
Life will find its own way.
(End of chapter)