From Chief to Ball

So after this banquet, Chen Jian communicated with the people in these villages in his stuttering local language.

Even if they are not slaves, they still have to bear a lot of obligations, such as annual tribute, village corvee, dried fish in summer, and shellfish in winter, and their life can only be barely maintained.

They envy the lives of immigrants.

Chen Jian expressed satisfaction that they were able to undertake such a heavy responsibility and still did not flee on a large scale, and he also understood that fleeing happened after the innovation of production tools, otherwise fleeing would not be able to survive.

These men will be good laborers.

Under the invitation of immigrants from the Great Deserted City and the temptation of life, a member of the village community accepted Chen Jian’s proposal: move to live in the Great Deserted City, become the same people as the hired workers here, and reclaim the land together, and wait until five years later. Get enough land.

For the immigrants in the Great Deserted City, the land is enough, and there is no competition with them.What is lacking for governments and organizations is a workforce, and an opportunity for assimilation, and a slightly balanced female population.

The population of the relocated village was dispersed and distributed among different production groups, and the children were forced to go to school to receive literary education.

These people are nothing more than working in another place. They don't have much resistance. On the contrary, they are very satisfied with their daily life.

Soon after, the Ministry of Urban Planning and Public Welfare launched a new life movement, which began to promote the prevention and treatment of some common diseases, health education and sanitation regulations.

A small hygiene products workshop was established, just a small workshop with seven people working.

Toothbrushes with boar bristle or wooden handles are produced, and tooth powder is also produced.

Tooth powder based on this era is primitive, the ingredients are ground and sieved limestone powder, baking soda, ground and mixed with soap powder, salt and a small amount of herbal powder.

The taste can be imagined, when using it, brush your teeth with a toothbrush.

The soap, lye powder and other things carried on the ship are also considered sufficient, enough to guarantee the use of everyone in the Great Wilderness City.

There are various requests for washing, taking a bath, drinking boiled water, and prohibiting defecation anywhere.

This is semi-mandatory, even using moral repression, but it is not a law: it is not a personal matter, and diseases are contagious, so the interests of the majority should prevail, and the majority of people should not be harmed because of personal freedom right to health.

This is also a kind of indoctrination, allowing people here to accept what is restricted freedom and think about what is the interests of the vast majority of people and the common interests.

When the new life movement in this deserted city was going on, a high-ranking priest in the aboriginal city upstream got malaria.

The doctor in Dahuangcheng seized the opportunity to cure the priest's malaria with the Artemisia annua that had been used for hundreds of years in his hometown, and won the trust of the city's upper echelons.

People in the Great Wilderness City are neither prepared to preach, nor prepared to cooperate with these high-level officials.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the people of Great Wilderness obtained the right to trade and travel freely between various villages.

But for trade, the people in Great Deserted City are not very interested.

Counting the population, drawing local maps, looking for minerals, observing the shape of society, listening to the complaints of slaves... these are the main purposes of those people.

Efficient party organizations quickly became active, and a large number of notes, materials, population statistics, land measurement, and other materials were compiled every few days.

After the binding, sorting out and summarizing by specialized personnel, they came to a conclusion: if the old upper strata of this piece of land were wiped out, if the villages were centralized and managed, only about [-] full-time public servants would be needed.These civil servants and party personnel can fully satisfy, but in order to ensure assimilation, about [-] to [-] immigrants are needed.

This is a slow process, not too intense, and not under-prepared.After discussion, it was decided to use four years to complete this goal.

In other words, at least about [-] immigrants per year are needed to be fully prepared.Before that, people here have to learn the language here, increase contact with those people, and use medicine and rescue as an excuse to slowly take root, at least not to resist.

The task of gathering immigrants can only be pressed on Chen Jian. Every voyage today is full of dangers, but they have to do it for the common goal.

Seeing that winter was coming, the wind direction began to change, and the period of frequent typhoons and hurricanes had passed, Chen Jian knew it was time to return.

A large number of guns and gunpowder were left behind, and four cannons were loaded with various seeds, tobacco leaves and a small amount of gold exchanged. After Chen Jian exchanged treasures with everyone in early November, he set sail and returned.

From the perspective of private capital, this time it is considered a big loss... That bit of gold is really not too tempting.As for tobacco leaves, it takes at least three to five years to develop the habit of smoking, and it can be grown in the homeland.

But if you look at the fate of the entire ethnic group, this money-losing business is priceless.To ease the contradictions, at least 10 people died in the country, prolonging the civil war.New crops of corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes could allow farming to grow and feed more people.

No capitalist would go to the deserted city to grow sweet potatoes and corn, unless they have a brain.

So Chen Jian can't return directly, but has to go south.Whether looting, trading or trading, get sugar, carmine, rubber, beaver hides, gold and silver coins.

He knew the changed world map. Although the appearance of the archipelago and South America had changed, he knew the approximate location.This is the biggest reliance.If you want to gamble, you have to gamble big. Time is running out, and it is nothing more than death.

Chapter 9 Changes

The new year came to Mincheng, and when the new year came, Chen Jian was still at sea, sailing hard, not knowing where.

Chen Jian left Mincheng at the beginning of the year and set off from Turtle Island in March.According to the memories of Mincheng people, a year had passed since Chen Jian set sail in Dahuang City.

And it has been a year and a half since Ye Yuanshan was promoted to deputy governor of the county and in charge of Shibo business affairs.

In the past year and a half, many changes have taken place in Mincheng, and those quiet changes have penetrated deeper and deeper into the most influential county.

Ye Yuanshan really felt the power of the eight characters that the predecessors planted trees and the descendants enjoy the shade, and was excited that he had made the right bet at the beginning, and carried the city of Fujian that seemed to be in chaos at the time.

The bet at the time finally paid off a year and a half later, and it paid off so handsomely.When he chose to gamble, he thought about the return, but he didn't expect the return to be so large.

Before he came to Mincheng, the situation in Mincheng was not good.

At that time, the Mexican party was active everywhere, the cotton spinning cooperative movement was in full swing, and the contractors' guilds at the bottom and the top were at loggerheads.

The wave of miners' petitions just past also made some people see the power of hired workers for the first time, and they were at a loss in the face of the new situation.The faces of the speculators in the storm made the conflicts in Mincheng more difficult to suppress, and the tabloids fanned the flames everywhere, venting the accumulated grievances of the people little by little.

Members of the Mexican party used the wretched cooperatives and voter-building activities. Although it is impossible for too many people to enter the council due to the level of votes, this is the first time that the parties have joined forces to make a sound.Wealthy households, big landowners, big merchants and guilds are full of vigilance and trembling about this, instigating troubles everywhere, and it seems that the rift is deeply rooted.

Old problems have not been solved, and new problems continue to emerge.At that time, many people thought that Mincheng was a powder keg, which would explode if not paying attention.

However, after Yan Yuanshan took office, those fearful and uneasy people found that the situation had not deteriorated to this extent. On the contrary, it seemed that the previous confrontations and rifts were just artificially exaggerated illusions.

In the past one and a half years, the effect of the predecessors planting trees and the descendants enjoying the shade gradually appeared.

After a year and a half of burning, the three fires of the new official's appointment gradually became like a blaze of fire.

The first officially endorsed marine insurance company took advantage of the open sea trade and the geographical location of Mincheng to make Mincheng a navigation industry center within two years.

The new shipping route explored by Chen Jian, the use of latitude and longitude, and the marking of the northeast trade wind made Mincheng quickly become the ultimate route from the port of Qi to the southern trade.

A small triangular trade started to emerge.

The developed handicraft industry in the upper reaches of the Min River and Min City, new glass, steel ingots, kerosene, explosives, alkali, soap and other goods are loaded from Min City.

Go north to the estuary of the Dahe River for a trade, then load the goods at the estuary of the Dahe River, pass through the port of Turtle Island and continue eastward to Qi State.After filling up the goods in Qi State, they turned south and returned to Mincheng.

The maritime insurance company made the port of Mincheng a higher status. On the one hand, the shipbuilding industry began to develop rapidly. New cargo ships based on the Amethyst were widely built. Larger ships were also being tried, and more capital poured into the maritime industry. Among them, there is marine insurance as a guarantee, which makes them more at ease.

On the other hand, cargo ships from neighboring counties will also go to the port of Mincheng, because the marine insurance company only handles business at the port of Mincheng.

Ships from neighboring counties kept stopping at the port of Mincheng, and people from the marine insurance company boarded the ship to inspect the cargo and estimate the value.After that, the ship owner will choose different types of insurance according to the destination, and need to stay for a day or two.

During the two days of stay, the vicinity of the port became more prosperous, and there were more and more teahouses, wine shops, Hualiu Street and other places that were full of people.