Chapter 127 The Correct Usage of Japanese Labor
Colony California was different from the other colonies of the Austrian Empire because the population here grew too fast.
Although the population growth rate of East Africa is not slow, after all, it has been developed by the Dutch and Portuguese colonies for hundreds of years, and there is a certain population base, even if a large number of Austrian imperial immigrants arrive, it will not produce earth-shaking changes.
Secondly, dumping Dalits in the Kalaika area is no different from taking out garbage, they are brought in by men, women and children, and the original social structure has not changed much.
So when the Japanese laborers in California began to make trouble, the singles regiments, led by the soldiers, beat them brutally.
Fifteen thousand Japanese laborers died tragically, and their bodies were nailed from farms to the sea. Under the constraints of the laws and religious morality of the Austrian Empire, they could only vent their excess energy and dissatisfaction in this way.
As mentioned earlier, Austria had adopted an iron-fisted policy in the lawless land of California, and the local governor, Archduke Ferdinand, was a ruthless commander.
So the Hispanic Native Americans went from 8,000 to 8,000, and the Indians went from 150,000 to less than 30,000, and that's not counting the foreign additions and newborns.
Naturally, this is not the way to go, and this time Franz no longer feels that the Japanese at this time are a group of sheep at will.
Franz felt that California's cleared farmland should remain in the hands of German immigrants who identified with Austria.
As for the Japanese laborers, let them go to the wilderness, anyway, there is no shortage of wasteland in California. In addition to California, there is also land in the Nevada region that is worth developing.
However, in view of the harsh environment in the area, the rampant banditry, and the frequent presence of Indians, this kind of work that needs to be filled by Japanese laborers is left to the Japanese laborers.
In addition, the mines and factories all need people, and the normal worker is 996, and if you change it to a Japanese, you can change it to 697, fifteen hours a day, all year round.
Of course, Franz did not fail to give people hope, such as that it only took nine years to farm the land to obtain the status of a free man and obtain the status of a citizen.
It takes eight years to go to the mine, and it only takes seven years to go to work in the factory.
However, it is usually not used, because the previous rebellion has made the California government have a very poor view of Japanese labor.
In less than ten years, he will be able to leave Asia and join Europe, and Yukichi Fukuzawa, the father of modern education in Japan, will faint with laughter when he knows this.
Of course, it is okay to save up to 3,000 florins by doing a side job, and if you can find a citizen to marry.
Although there was a huge gap between the aesthetics of the East and the West at this time, Japanese women could accept it when there were more men and fewer women, and even sheep could not be found.
As for the male laborers in Japan, it is unlikely that this opportunity will be available, not to mention the extremely low number of female citizens in the colonies, and the huge difference in status alone makes this seem a bit fantastical.
In addition, it is unlikely that a female citizen of California at this time, whether it is aesthetics, religion, or some cultural concepts, will find a Japanese laborer to marry.
In fact, the most fundamental reason should be that there is no contact, whether it is a pioneer group or a mine, there are almost no women, and the Austrian factories are separated from men and women.
So a side hustle is the best way to get out of the labor status, after all, California has just developed a small entertainment industry.
Soon the Japanese laborers began to make new attempts. Even those who still have a conscience and have good discipline will soon fall under the weight of their parents, brothers, and even husbands.
With the social status of Japanese women at the time, all this was almost a certainty. In fact, in terms of the social morality of some people at that time, it was still earned, but with the inversion of economic status.
These Japanese women began to awaken their sense of self, and they began to try to break away from their original social relationships. However, the traditional concept of a nation cannot be changed in a day or two, and these people have naturally become the targets of attack.
Gangs have sprung up to do the same thing, while maintaining order and attitudes, and eliminating those who break the rules when necessary.
But it soon became clear that California citizenship was a form of protection for them, and a new weapon was born: the law.
Those traditions and families among the Japanese laborers were not worth mentioning at all before the laws of the Austrian Empire.
The so-called yakuza was even more of a joke in front of the army, and soon the last backbone of the Japanese workers was broken, and even the gangs that had united the Japanese immigrants were turned into tools for the Austrians to maintain their rule.
The loyalty of those gangsters who stepped on the corpses of their own compatriots to qualify as dogs was nothing short of outrageous.
There's a reason why Japan's custom industry will be unbeatable for generations to come, and soon Japanese custom streets will be popping up all over the California region.
However, in the 19th century, there were only a few people who were able to marry people across ethnicity and skin color, and a large number of Japanese women, who were freed from the shackles of feudalism, familial and tradition, had a hard time raising their children.
With the exception of a few, most chose abandoned babies. Fortunately, the church has already greeted these people in advance, and the Foundling Hall will take on the responsibility of raising them.
Raised by the church, and then instilled in the patriotic ideology of loyalty from an early age, under the double poison, these mixed-race outcasts will be completely brainwashed into the best tool people.
Franz will put them to good use, after all, life is precious. In fact, the people who can be used as Franz's pawns are the most outstanding and can prove themselves, and most of them are just trained as firewood.
As for those Japanese women, their jobs are difficult for a lifetime, and unless they can integrate into the local society, they will not end well.
With the increase in the number of stores and practitioners in the Japanese style street, the California colony finally ushered in a brief period of harmony.
In fact, at that time, the shogunate and the feudal domains would provide healthy workers of the right age as they had promised, but the traditional concept of an agrarian society was that women were physically weaker and therefore relatively cheap.
The shogunate and the feudal governments were very active in this regard, and they would choose to be shoddy.
In addition, for Japan, which has a population of more than 30 million, 50,000, even 500,000, will not affect their demographic structure.
Although Japan's agriculture developed at that time, the harsh environment, coupled with unscientific planting methods and backward technology, led to a seed yield ratio of only 1:3~1:4.
This figure is not even as good as before the Industrial Revolution in Europe, which is why they are so eager for land on land.
Franz's approach, though somewhat brutal, ensured the dominant ethnic structure of the region.
In fact, it laid the foundation for stable development in the future, and it was better to sacrifice Japanese laborers than to sacrifice the already small number of Germans in Austria.
In fact, Franz didn't think so much about the Juche nation, but a whole group of Asian faces in a Western country always had a little bit of disobedience...
(End of chapter)