Chapter 142: Immigrants Coming Ashore
Just as Fang Lang had just finished the call and was about to lean back on the sofa to drink a cup of coffee and relax, there was a knock on the office door.
It seemed that he couldn't relax, and sighed helplessly, Fang Lang said, "Please come in!"
I saw Qi Qingshan walking in with Xin Shiliang.
"Boss, Mr. Xin handed over the labor statistics to me, and I thought that he was in charge, so I brought him over to report to you."
Fang Lang nodded at the two of them, pointed to the sofa in front of him and said:
"Hmm! Come in and sit! Does Mr. Xin drink coffee?"
Xin Shiliang looked at the large office, the huge mahogany desk and sofa, and now he also knew that the young man in front of him was the supreme commander of this military base.
At the same time, he also holds the position of the chairman of a provincial military administration, which is similar to the image of Zhang Dashuai as a warlord in his impression.
Therefore, when I saw Fang Lang again, it was obviously not as hearty as last time, but a little cramped.
Hearing Fang Lang's question, he hurriedly waved his hand and said:
"Thank you, sir, I don't drink it."
"Also, everyone in my hometown drinks tea, how about we try Brazilian tea today."
As an adjutant, Qi Qingshan, of course, immediately started to make tea.
Yes, Brazil also has a long history of tea cultivation, and the source of tea is its hometown of Macau.
It's just that the production of tea in Brazil is not as large as that in India, and the main reason is that the Americas are the home of coffee, and the people are more accustomed to drinking coffee.
In fact, Fang Lang also likes to drink tea, but the original body has been living in the Americas, and he has also developed the habit of drinking coffee, so Fang Lang has not picked up the habit of drinking kung fu tea in his previous life for a while.
Looking at Qi Qingshan's action of making tea, Fang Lang suddenly felt very nostalgic for the kung fu tea in his previous life.
It seems that it is necessary to find a way to make a delicate kung fu tea set, and then select a thick mahogany from the Amazon jungle to make a delicate tea table.
Preferably, there is a beautiful young lady tea master next to you to perform exquisite tea art. The tea art here is literally the art of tea.
Ah! Don't think about such a day too wonderful.
"If you want to talk about the craftsmanship of making tea, it still depends on the craftsmanship of the south of my hometown. Qingshan, you rough man making tea has no beauty at all."
Looking at Qi Qingshan's appearance of making tea, Fang Lang said with a disgusted expression.
Fortunately, Qi Qingshan and Fang Lang were very familiar with each other, so they just smiled and didn't say much.
Xin Shiliang on the side relaxed a little and said:
"The kung fu tea in the south is indeed a must, it is very pleasing to the eye, and the chief is a person who really understands tea."
"Oh! Mr. Xin has also seen kung fu tea?"
"When I was working as a nurse in a food factory, I met customers in the south and met them twice."
"It's a pity that Brazil doesn't, and if you have the opportunity to invite tea masters from the south in the future, you must ask Mr. Xin to evaluate it together."
"Sir, you are too polite, it is Shiliang's honor to have such an opportunity."
"What is the honor or not the honor, we are all compatriots, don't see outsiders like this. Let's try the taste of Brazilian tea today."
Saying that, Fang Lang motioned for Xin Shiliang to drink tea, and he also picked up the teacup and took a sip, barely having a taste of tea.
It's a pity that there are still some differences with the tea taste in Fang Lang's influence.
Xin Shiliang didn't dare to really relax and savor it, just rubbed it lightly and put the teacup down.
Fang Lang put down the teacup and began to talk about business:
"Mr. Xin, how many people have been counted?"
Hearing that Fang Lang began to ask about business, Xin Shiliang hurriedly sat up straight, took out a small notebook and said:
"Sir, the total population is 2,130, of whom 1,800 are males and 330 females. Among them, 350 were ordinary workers.
There were 870 peasants, 420 men with their own trades, 300 former soldiers, 20 policemen, 16 teachers, 101 merchants, and 42 company employees
Eleven others have served as government clerks."
"Oh! So what kind of category do you put yourself into?"
Obviously, Xin Shiliang still put his heart into it, and classified all the people according to the type of work. I just don't know which category he will be classified into if he has worked in the government and has done management.
Hearing Fang Lang's question, Xin Shiliang smiled embarrassedly and said:
"Well, Shi Liang served as a junior director at the City Hall for a while, so I classified myself as a government clerk."
"Oh! So, does Mr. Xin want to continue his work?"
"Ah! Shi Liang didn't think about this problem, mainly because during the period of doing Xiangli, I personally felt that I was not doing well, so I ......
"Hmm! I see what you mean! Is there anyone among them who wants to start their own business?"
"Everyone is not familiar with the land and the language is not understood now. So, I don't have any ideas about that yet."
After understanding the general situation, Fang Lang said to Qi Qingshan again:
"Well, that's right! Qingshan, you first find a few people from São Paulo who can speak Portuguese, and make sure that everyone can have a simple language exchange.
After the equipment of the textile factory arrived, they were also asked to act as interpreters first, and we should hurry up the construction of our textile factory.
How's the doctor's examination going?"
Hearing Fang Lang ask about the physical condition of the laborers, Qi Qingshan smiled and said:
"Boss, everyone's health is fine, mainly because they have been engaged in high-intensity labor for a long time, and their nutrition can't keep up, they are all a little malnourished, and their bodies are overdrawn.
The doctor said that you can return to normal after about a month of recuperation."
"That's good. Mr. Xin, since you have been the director of the office, you will be responsible for assisting Qingshan in managing everyone during this time. Is there a problem?"
"Please rest assured, sir, it is incumbent."
"Hmm! Very good. Then go down first."
Early the next morning, the huge fleet that set off from Japan finally arrived at the Natal Naval Base, and looking at the warships sailing into the military port one by one, Fang Lang felt that he was full of strength.
The arrival of this huge fleet also deeply shocked the people of Natal.
It is not that the inhabitants of Natal have not seen a large naval fleet, and during the war Natal was stationed a large American fleet.
But those are the fleets of the Americans, and now they are docked here is indeed Brazil's own fleet.
All of a sudden, the distant seashore was filled with onlookers.
With the return of the naval fleet, the naval base, which has always seemed very empty, has finally begun to gain popularity.
There were also two migrant boats that arrived with the fleet, and Fang Lang originally thought that one ship would be good if it could carry five hundred people.
As a result, the team of immigrants was too large, and Fang Xinshui directly ordered the crew to rebuild the cabins of the ships, and each ship carried more than 1,200 immigrants.
More than 2,400 immigrants were able to engage in some simple Portuguese conversations after nearly a month of study on board.
With the help of the people who came with the ship to manage the migration, Fang Lang arranged for all the peasant immigrants to the farm that he had just taken over from the Yakubu family.
More than 5,800 hectares of farms are mostly at low elevations, mainly growing sugarcane and rice.
In order for these farmers to be able to take root and sprout in Natal, Fang Lang can be regarded as painstaking.
Instead of using the Brazilian large-scale farm method to resettle the farmers, they directly signed a loan purchase contract with the farmers.
All the peasants buy land according to their own wishes by taking out loans from immigration companies, and of course the price of the land is lower than the price of land in Brazil, and with the addition of interest, it is equal to the price of land in Brazil.
In Brazil's vast and sparsely populated country, the price of land is of course very cheap, which makes all farmers ecstatic.
Zhou Changlin is a farmer from Fujian Province, and unlike most immigrants who are sold, he is an immigrant who applied to join on his own initiative.
Fujian Province is mountainous and less populous, and Zhou Changlin's family is a farmer in the mountains, and in order to be able to grow food, the hometown people have cultivated a large area of terraced fields on the hillside.
However, the family has too many people to support their families by relying on the production of terraced fields alone.
Before the war ended, he heard in the town that there were immigration companies that had come to recruit immigrants to Brazil, and where there were fewer people and they could plant as much land as they wanted.
In addition, there are Chinese forces in the local area to protect them, so they don't have to worry about being bullied.
The people of Fujian Province originally had the character of daring to dare to fight, and as soon as their brains were hot, they sold their family's land, came to Shanghai, and boarded a ship to immigrate to Brazil.
When I got on the boat, I found that many of the people on the ship were not voluntary immigrants, but were sold piglets.
This made him panic, but fortunately the instructor showed up in time to dispel his concerns.
When the instructor told him that he could sign a loan purchase contract with an immigration company, he still had some scruples, fearing that it would be a loan shark.
When I got the contract, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the price of this land.
The price of only one acre of farmland can be purchased in the hometown, but here you can buy ten acres, and even if the interest on the loan is converted, the price of one acre of land in the hometown can also be bought eight acres here.
What else is there to say, I looked at my wife and three children around me, although the eldest child was only fifteen years old, and the youngest was only ten years old, but they were all able to work in the fields.
Thinking about it in the future, when the child grows up and has a family, he directly borrowed money to buy 50 acres of farmland.
When he arrived at the farmland he had purchased in a truck from an immigration company, he was simply overjoyed.
This is because, in addition to the best paddy fields, the fields are still planted with rice.
The contract stipulates that from this moment on, the land will be theirs.
At this time, he finally believed what the instructor said, and it turned out that the immigration company really thought about them.
What else is there to say about Mr. Fang selling such a good field of his own at such a low price.
The money to buy the prosperous rice growing in these 50 acres of rice fields alone is enough to repay half of the loan!
"Master, there's already something planted in this field!"
Obviously, the wife next to her hadn't reacted to what was going on.
"You lady-in-law, this is Mr. Fang taking care of us! The crops in these fields are ours, and when we sell them, we will be able to repay half of the loan."
"What? Isn't that Mr. Fang stupid?"
Hearing his mother-in-law's words, the angry Zhou Changlin slapped his mother-in-law on the back of the head and said:
"You're stupid! This is Mr. Fang taking care of our compatriots. Didn't the sir say what kind of tropics is this? There is no winter at all, and three crops of rice can be planted in a year.
We'll be able to pay off the loan in a year, and we still have the balance. Lady Han, our good days are coming."