"Okay, people, you can pull it away!" Mikhail waved his hand and said to Giovanni.

"Okay, brother, you must contact me first next time you have goods." Giovanni sat in the carriage and shouted to Mikhail.

The goods of Giovanilla were the peasants after the bankruptcy of Tsarist Russia, although Alexander II's reforms gave freedom to the serfs.

However, the local aristocracy did not want to lose money, and they used all kinds of means to squeeze as many free peasants as possible.

For example, land, as part of the compromise with the feudal conservative forces, naturally gave priority to ensuring the ownership of the land of the landlords and nobles, and also gave compensation.

After the emancipation, the serfs were given a share of land (which required a ransom to be paid), and the area of the land was determined according to the region, and the aristocratic landlords "extracted the fine", leaving the fertile land and a large number of forests and pastures, and distributing the most barren land to the serfs.

Even so, Tsarist Russia had a lot of land, and in terms of area alone, the land acquired by the Russian serfs was still considerable, but many of these lands had no value.

For example, in the north of Tsarist Russia, there was a large area of ice and snow, and crops were difficult to grow, while the sandy steppes of southern Central Asia and rotten land in other regions were also distributed to serfs, and finally the serfs paid three times the market price to redeem the land, which was all desert, alpine, salinity and other worthless land.

In addition to the small area (compared to the landlord's land) and poor quality, when dividing the land, the landlords and nobles deliberately dispersed the peasants' land, resulting in the peasants' fields being divided and fragmented, and the distance was very far away, and many of them had no development value.

At the same time, after liberation, the serfs lost the right to use the corresponding production tools, such as cattle and horses, and farm tools were all recovered by the landlords.

In this way, many serfs, although they were granted land after liberation, were difficult to develop, and the serfs were also burdened with a heavy debt.

However, the government also wanted to ensure that the finances continued to be maintained, and continued to collect heavy taxes on the emancipated serfs, who were not as good as they were before the emancipation.

Of course, the reforms were not without effect, at least a number of kulaks were produced, but more peasants still went bankrupt, the land was re-annexed, and the current fertility rate in Tsarist Russia was very good, and there were always people who had to go out and make their way, and many peasants were forced to go to the cities to work, or return to the local landlords and nobles to farm.

With such a surplus population, the Heixingen consortium is naturally salivating, and now the immigration from Germany and other places has entered a stage of flattening, and these surplus labor forces in Tsarist Russia are just used to fill the shortage.

What pleased Ernst the most was that the price of women's labor in Tsarist Russia was much lower than that of men, and to reconcile the demographics of East Africa, it was natural to allow different immigrants to marry each other as much as possible.

East Africa has been working to increase the proportion of mixed-race families, and the results have been very good, in addition to marrying Chinese immigrants and buying white women, white men will also marry women in Southeast Asia.

Of course, these are aimed at those populations that East Africa has acquired through abnormal means, after all, East Africa has exchanged real money or slaves.

As for whether the two parties are willing, anyway, neither party has to choose between the arranged marriage, and only the East African government has the right to decide.

The immigrants of Tsarist Russia are low-human rights immigrants, who were bought by East Africa, so their status in East Africa is only higher than that of immigrants from Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

The Hexingen consortium contacted the local elites in Tsarist Russia through monetary transactions, and brought in local laborers at a price of 25 roubles per man and 17 roubles per woman.

Tsarist Russia is not Russia, there are Poland, Ukraine, the three Baltic states, Belarus, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Finland......

Therefore, there are many channels to get the population from Tsarist Russia, and as long as the money is in place, it will not be a problem.

Of course, the Heshingen consortium did not massively introduce the Slavs into East Africa, but controlled them within certain limits.

When buying things, it is most taboo to be anxious, and it is easy for sellers to rip off customers, so the Heixingen consortium has a planned small-scale purchase of immigrants, so that the Heixingen consortium can have more autonomy and save costs in terms of price.

At the same time, the staff of the Heixingen Foundation in Tsarist Russia can also have more energy to select high-quality immigrants.

It is best to be from the kind of old Tsarist Russian serf family with three generations of roots, and the culture is definitely not there, just a handful of strength, nothing else, and assimilation is effortless.

……

Saint petersburg.

It was an all-Russian region, a transit port for Russian migrants to East Africa.

In the rest of Eastern Europe, there were mainly ports through other ports, such as Poland under Russian rule.

Giovanni came to St. Petersburg with the purchased laborers to deliver the goods.

"Giovanni, this time you will count the most people you have pulled in, and teach the secret to your brother!" Maxim asked.

Giovanni didn't say anything, just stretched out three fingers, Maxim immediately understood, this is their rule, but still said with a sad face: "Brother, three meals are too much, two at most." ”

"This is my experience of eating, three meals is cheap enough! No, you go somebody else," Giovanni said.

"Alright! But you can't fool me! ”

There was no way, Maxim could only agree to Giovanni's request.

Giovanni was not stingy and began to impart experience: "If you want to find a 'source of goods', you have to go to the countryside more, don't stay in the office all the time, communicate with the local noble landlords, and have a good relationship with them, so you naturally don't have to worry about not being able to attract people."

This man! You don't just look in the city, now there are a lot of unemployed peasants who want to go to the city to find a job, and they have all entered the city, so they must have their own channels, nothing more than some relatives and friends, and those who can take the initiative to enter the city must be more active in their minds, and they are not so easy to deceive.

Therefore, if you want to fool people in the city, it must be unreliable, but it is different in the countryside, those nobles and landlords, in the face of those villagers, can speak better than our mouths.

Moreover, many villagers are in debt, and their fate is in the hands of local nobles and landlords. A few boys in a family can't eat, so they always have to go out.

At this time, when we go to the township, it can basically pull a lot of people 100%, of course, there are shortcomings, dealing with local nobles and landlords, it will definitely cost more money, but it will save trouble......"

Giovanni was not afraid of Maxim learning these experiences, because the two were in different areas and could not compete with each other.

Giovanni was in charge of operations near Moscow, while Maxim was active near St. Petersburg, Poland, Ukraine, the Caucasus......

(End of chapter)