From Chief to Ball

In the capital, the estuary of the river and other places, the trading company also established an unprecedented weird company called "Colonial Labor Dispatch Company".

In fact, this is a human trafficking company with loopholes in the national law in a certain sense.

The colonizer, the colonizer.Anyone who has received compulsory enlightenment education knows this word.

Citizens, immigrants.Anyone who has received compulsory enlightenment education knows this word.

But this is the first time these two words have been linked together.

Guaranteed by the reputation and strong capital of the trading company, a contract is signed with the local household registration tax official, and the labor dispatch company comes forward to pay the head tax for the recruiters.

As long as the poll tax is guaranteed to fall locally, some officials will turn a blind eye. Anyway, these poor people can't squeeze out much money, they can just collect some poll tax.

Individual immigrants, both leaving and entering, are opposed because of the restrictions on the movement of the poor and the laws for the relief of the poor.

In the form of a labor dispatch company, it can not only guarantee the payment of head tax, but also manage it. Anyway, these head taxes are only the number used to collect taxes on the books.

In fact, the small island does not need so many people, and only Mincheng can make it out, but Chen Jian still made the layout in advance to lay a solid foundation for the future.

Relying on the reputation and appeal of the trading company, they generously pay the poll tax according to the number of people.

According to the contract, as long as the poll tax is not cancelled, the trading company will pay according to the fixed number of people, but will not pay the extra population born.

These Chinese people have become immortal digital people on the local official accounts. They not only pay taxes, but also reduce the possibility of riots. The officials really want to do it.

Through lobbying, bribery and other methods, all coastal counties have obtained permits and commissions.

On the one hand, officials will not associate a business company that mainly sells glass, steel ingots, kerosene lamps, and mirrors in the name of charity with such things as picking and cutting.

On the other hand, those poor and helpless people will not associate some horror stories with the trading companies of the Mexican party.

Therefore, as soon as the news came out, many impoverished and helpless people who could not survive signed up one after another, relying on the reputation accumulated by helping the poor, these people undoubtedly have it.

Many people think that they are all mixed up like this, so how bad can it be?

When recruiting workers, both boys and girls are required. If you want to leave, you are allowed to bring your family with you.And some bachelors sold what they had and set foot on the ships of colonial labor dispatch companies.

After more than ten days of turbulence at sea, on the small island called Turtle Island, more than 600 people, including some artisans and miners from Fujian County, were recruited from various coastal counties and counties to board this empty island. A deserted island.

There is nothing on the island.

There is no arable land, no houses, no workshops.

Some have only more than 2000 hands, as well as tools and food unloaded from the ship.

People were dazed and overwhelmed, but they were quickly broken up and regrouped, and temporarily lived in the caves on the island, and the company's regulations were read out.

There are many and complicated regulations, but what these people hear is only hope.

After becoming an employee of the company first, as compensation for the head tax, you need to work for five years.

During these five years, I normally received low-level wages, and all my food and clothing were purchased with wages, not directly provided.

After five years, the individual is completely free.Either receive part of the severance payment and return to the place of origin, or continue to work here as a regular employee.

There is also a promise that surprised them: After five years, if they do not want severance pay, they can receive a piece of uninhabited wasteland of one hundred acres, which can be cultivated with a very low fee.

As for where the wasteland is, the people in the company didn't say, and these people didn't ask.

With Chen Jian's signboard, this is a reputation that goes without saying, and people believe it very much.

In addition to these, the wages received on the island are not silver coins, but a special printed banknote.

On the banknotes are "Colonial Common Banknotes" with numbers written on them. It is said that after five years of service, these banknotes can be exchanged for silver coins in the company without any mistakes.

Places like money houses already existed, and literal primitive banknotes had already appeared, so people would not directly object to such things.

This is still guaranteed by the company's reputation and reputation, and all food and tools here need to be transported from outside. People quickly recognized the banknotes on this deserted island.

You can't buy anything with silver coins on the island, so the people on the island quickly exchanged the silver coins in their hands for banknotes. Anyway, they can be exchanged for silver coins after five years.With the names of the trading company and Chen Jian as guarantees, the people on the island still trust them—they can’t get much money out of them. According to their imagination, Chen Jian must be a man who is making money every day. How could he be greedy for this? money.

What's more, after switching to the "colonial banknotes", all purchases on the island are normal, and the price is much cheaper than silver coins.At least in the so-called colonies, it seems unnecessary to hold silver coins.

This kind of exchange behavior was confirmed at a colonial labor meeting not long after, and everyone signed a contract: all transactions in the colony are based on the common currency of the colony, including future land taxes, etc., and The Colonial Company also guarantees that the notes can be redeemed for any goods purchased in the Company, and will be exchanged for the normal full amount upon departure from the Colony.

The more than 2000 men and women on the island don't understand what the Mexican Party is up to, but under the circumstances that the means of production and living are completely controlled, they can only accept it as a kind of fun for these people who are said to have brain problems.

What they care about is to bet on a future in five years, a full-time employee of a colonial company, and a hundred acres of free reclaimed wasteland.

After some tossing after landing on the island, the men were told that the island would be built with houses, guano stones dug, wooden track roads, a shipyard and, soon, a lighthouse.

There are many stones on the island, a lot of new explosives have been piled up, wood is everywhere, and there are masons, craftsmen, blacksmiths or other occupations that are official employees of the colonial company.

The first house they built was not these workshops or residences, but a school where all children could receive education.

In the future, the colonial company will pass the so-called company management personnel assessment—actually a civil servant or civil servant examination—to select internal affairs officers and civilian officials disguised as company management personnel.

In the school, we should learn characters, arithmetic, nature, physical education, and simple logic.In the future, after the contention of a hundred schools of thought in Mincheng has come to an end, it may be necessary to learn the ideology of simple bourgeois democracy.

Inside the school, everything is taught in the school controlled by the Mexican Party.He also made a promise that after the expansion of the colonial company's business in the future, managers and teachers will be selected from among these children through examinations.

However, the most important teachers, teachers, and the expenses of enlightenment education were not assigned by the colonial company.

Obviously there are many capable members of the Mexican Party among them, but it’s not because they can’t find such teachers or can’t spend so much money. The company management regulations are issued by powerful departments, and the future regulations of the colonial company’s internal civil service system are also issued by They are issued, but only administrators and teachers are not assigned.

It only gives a set of teacher examination standards - in fact, most of the first-generation migrant workers have no chance to pass the examination, but some members of the Mexican Party who mixed in can manage it.

These weird regulations or practices only made the hired workers who landed on the island feel a little uncomfortable, but they did not strongly oppose it.When one's life is not guaranteed, any outlandish system or attempt is accepted.

And all of this looks very good, except that the salary will be lower in the past five years, it seems that as long as we work hard, the future will become infinitely better.

Not to mention the severance pay after five years, the [-] mu of land provided by the company with interest-free loans five years later is enough to cheer these people up.

Although they can't see it yet, they believe that there will be one, even if there is no such thing as a decent severance package.

It's the same wherever you work, at least the children can live here without paying poll tax.

After a few months, the island finally began to change its appearance, and some people noticed the weirdness of the island.

First, in the name of defending against possible pirate attacks, four hundred light and strong laborers were selected to organize the colonial company escort.

There are 400 new-style flintlock guns for each water, and several veterans serve as instructors.

The clothes of these 400 people are also extremely weird. The shirts are blue and white striped cotton shirts called sea soul shirts.

The hat is octagonal, with a brim at the front, stretched around the brim with bamboo strips, and a piece of red five-pointed star-like cloth is pasted on the soft fabric of the octagonal brim as a decoration.

Clothes were of a button-up style, a dark blue color, and trousers, leggings, knapsacks, gunpowder were handed out.