Chapter 1224
Population Issues
Chapter 1224 Population Issues
If we want to speed up the local infrastructure construction process, we must first solve the problem of serious shortage of labor force, and the source of labor force must rely on the increase of basic population.However, the existing resident population of Sing Tao is far from enough to provide enough labor to implement these infrastructure projects.The most terrible thing is that unlike other colonies, it either has a certain population base, or there is a stable source of immigrants nearby. It is basically impossible to realize the desire to increase the local population in a short period of time.
Tan Juren secretly regretted it. Before leaving Sanya, he also felt that the number of immigrants approved by the Executive Committee was relatively small. The deployment will also be much more flexible than it is now, so that it will not be stretched everywhere like it is now.
"When I was inspecting the island of Annabuna earlier, I saw that the plantations over there used a lot of slaves. Can we refer to this method?" Tan Juren thought about it, and proposed the solution he thought of to Roger. plan.
It is obviously unrealistic to expect a large number of immigrants from Hainan Island to come to Xingdao in the short term. If the executive committee had made such a plan, then the population of Xingdao would not be at the current level, so Tan Juren just gave up after thinking about it. intend to work in this direction.Another way to increase the local population rapidly in the short term is through the slave trade.Although this method will definitely cost a lot of money, for the wealthy Haihan, the problems that can be solved with money are not big problems.
Roger smiled and said, "Who sold it to us?"
"Slave trader!" Tan Juren responded casually, but then even though he felt that something was wrong, Roger first served as the leader of Abuna Island for a period of time, and then transferred to Xing Island. This experience in dealing with human traffickers is not reasonable Less, certainly not a layman.He made such an answer, there should be another secret.
Sure enough, Roger went on to explain: "The slaves who sold slaves to Ambuna Island were mainly Dutch and Portuguese human traffickers, but since last year, they have consciously reduced their supply. In this case, your Didn't anyone tell you?"
Tan Juren shook his head subconsciously. During his investigation in Abunna Island, he really didn't pay attention to the local slave trade situation, and Mu Xiabo didn't seem to take the initiative to mention this situation.Of course, it is also possible that Mu Xiabo had mentioned it, but it happened that Tan Juren and others were visiting the south of the island, so he missed this information.
Seeing this, Roger continued: "The situation in the South China Sea, I believe you should have done your homework. Our control area has advanced to the vicinity of Portugal and the Netherlands. Although they seem to be friendly with us on the surface, they should have already felt the reality. There is a threat. Although I dare not confront us openly, but secretly using some small means to slow down our development speed, it can still be done."
"You mean...they deliberately controlled the sale of slaves to our country, with the purpose of slowing down our expansion in the South China Sea?" Tan Ju reacted as soon as he heard it, and asked Roger to prove his guess.
"There is no other reasonable explanation other than this reason." Roger nodded in agreement with his guess: "They continue to sell slaves to us, and from a certain point of view it is actually equivalent to digging their own grave. We are The faster the development and construction of the South China Sea, the fewer areas of activity and places they can attack. They have realized this now, and as long as their brains are not too stupid, they will think of taking measures to deal with our population needs in terms of slave trading. "
The history of Haihan's expansion in the South China Sea was accompanied by the continuous retreat of Portugal and the Netherlands. The Annan Hoi An Port originally controlled by Portugal and the Ambuna Islands controlled by the Dutch were all in the hands of Haihan.After the loss of Hoi An Port, Portugal has no transit port of its own in the [-]-nautical-mile voyage between the Strait of Malacca and Daming Macau, and can only rely on the port of Haihan to complete the replenishment on the way.However, after that, the two sides took what they needed, and Portugal also gained a lot of practical benefits through Haihan, and the losses in Hoi An Port that year had already been recouped.
The situation in the Netherlands is even worse. After the defeat, the East India Company lost the Abona Islands, which covers an area of more than [-] square kilometers and is located in the hinterland of the South China Sea.The Zheng family, which had been supported in Fujian for many years in the Ming Dynasty, was also completely destroyed under the attack of the Haihan army. Not only did the Netherlands' influence in the Fujian Strait suffer, but even Dayuangang, its stronghold on Taiwan Island, was hijacked by Haihan.In order to keep Batavia's trade route to Northeast Asia, the East India Company finally had to put down its face and admit defeat to Haihan.
Of course, these two countries are unwilling to be oppressed by Haihan all the time, but Haihan's force is strong, and the two are far from their opponents on the frontal battlefield.Moreover, Haihan couldn't see the meaning of stopping at all, and then continued to advance southward along the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula. Originally, the two families thought that Haihan would stop when he reached Anbuna Island. The voyage is too far, and it is difficult for Haihan to absorb immigrants nearby for development.It has to be said that Haihan's shortcomings still cannot be hidden from the eyes of colonial experts, but they still underestimated Haihan's determination to go south.
In 1633, Haihan organized a powerful three-nation joint fleet to cruise the South Seas to demonstrate force to neighboring countries, and took this opportunity to organize the South China Sea Trade Alliance, and decisively pushed the colony southward to the front line of Xingdao and Bangka-Belitung Island.
Bangka-Belitung Island is within [-] nautical miles from the Sunda Strait and Batavia Port, and the fast boat will arrive in one day. This is already a dangerous distance for the Dutch.The situation on the Strait of Malacca is even more exaggerated. The Xingdao stronghold established by Haihan is only a hundred nautical miles away from the city of Malacca occupied by the Portuguese. It can be said that it has already hit the face.
With Haihan making such a strong gesture, if Portugal and the Netherlands allow slave traders to sell young and strong slaves to them without restriction, it will really be slow suicide.So starting in 1634, the two countries began to control the flow of slave trade, prohibiting slave traders from selling young and strong slaves to Haihan, so as to slow down Haihan's construction process in the South China Sea colony.
Annbuna Island already had a certain population base. After Haihan occupied the local area, it invested a lot of money to vigorously develop it, and introduced private funds to plan a large number of plantations. Before the ban was imposed by the two countries, a large number of them had been purchased through various channels. Slaves, the population of the island has also reached a certain size, so the slave trade ban enacted last year has relatively little impact on it.However, Xingdao was almost poor and white when it started, and the surrounding countries were hostile to Haihan’s establishment of a stronghold here. The growth rate will of course slow down.
After listening to Luo Jie's explanation, Tan Juren felt that his intelligence collection work was not detailed enough, and he even missed such important news.Speaking of it, I was too relaxed during my stay on Ambuna Island. Otherwise, I just need to pay attention to this kind of thing and inquire about it, and I won’t hear any news.To ask Roger such a question now is simply self-exposing.
But fortunately, Tan Juren is not a novice with too thin skin. He coughed dryly and said: "So, even if we are willing to pay, we can't buy people at all?"
"You can still buy it, but the situation is not ideal." Roger continued to explain: "In addition to slave traders from these two countries, there are also practitioners from other countries, but they are not as good as these two. There is no advantage at all, so the path to take is not the same.”
In addition to the slave traders of Portugal and the Netherlands, the two maritime powers, there are actually many merchant ships traveling between the two oceans who also traffic in people part-time.It's just that these two countries have almost monopolized the market for young and strong slaves, and traders from other countries have to find another way to do this business.For example, selling craftsmen, beauties, aliens with strange shapes, and even young children.Because these types of slaves are rare and expensive, they are often worth more, and their profits are more lucrative than ordinary slaves.But for Xing Tao, which is in urgent need of labor, the role of these people is extremely limited, and they may even become a burden instead.
Although Haihan has always been generous in the matter of buying slaves, he also has requirements for who he buys. If he buys a bunch of messy people, Roger can't make a deal with his superiors.These slave traders who mainly work in the sidelines can naturally provide very limited suitable slaves to Xingdao. Even if there are some sporadic young and strong laborers, the prices they offer are often much higher than the wholesale prices of Portuguese and Dutch slave traders. , it is very uneconomical for Haihan.
"Then there should be smart people who bought slaves from the Portuguese and the Dutch, and then sold them to us?" Tan Juren asked unwillingly.
Roger nodded and said: "It is true that someone went to do this under our suggestion, but the good times didn't last long, and within two trips, even the person and the boat disappeared together. In such a big South China Sea, if you go missing, you can't find it." gone."
After Tan Juren heard this, he was dumbfounded for a moment. Could it really be such a coincidence?He doesn't quite believe that this situation is more likely to be in line with some kind of conspiracy theory. For example, after Portugal and the Netherlands knew about the actions of these middlemen, they directly dealt with slave traders who were bent on making money at sea.Even after hundreds of years, it will be difficult to find hundreds of missing persons in the South China Sea after all the efforts of all countries, let alone in this era.As long as people and boats sank into the sea together, even if Haihan has all-hands and eyes, he will never be able to find the whereabouts of the missing again.
After all, this is just a price difference, the profit can't be said to be huge, and it's far from crazy.In this way, even if Hai Han can afford the price, no one dares to risk his life for this opportunity to make a fortune.
"It seems that the road of buying slaves will not work!" Tan Juren couldn't help but sighed helplessly.
"I have basically tried all the ways that I can try. To be honest, I am quite helpless." Roger paused and said: "I wish you would bring 800 immigrants instead of 8000! No With enough population, the development speed of our place can’t be increased.”
Tan Juren pondered for a moment before saying, "How much arable land is actually allocated after the immigrants come?"
"According to the head, [-] mu per person." Roger replied: "The standard is set by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and we here also implement it without compromise."
Of course, Tan Juren knew the official farmland allocation standard for immigrants, and he just asked for further confirmation, and immediately proposed another method: "If we propose to Sanya to increase the quota for the allocation of farmland for immigrants, do you think we can attract more people?" of the immigrants voluntarily apply to settle here?"
"It's not difficult to lure some people to come here with favorable conditions, but the word-of-mouth here will also be affected over time." Luo Jie saw that Tan Juren didn't seem to understand, so he patiently explained: "Even according to the current distribution standard , and very few people can cultivate all the allocated land. The local young and strong laborers spend a considerable part of their time engaged in collectively organized infrastructure projects, and simply do not have enough energy to take care of their own cultivated land. Fortunately, in overseas colonies The new immigrants do not have to pay public grain for the first three years, otherwise they may have to pay back. Even if we allocate [-] mu or [-] mu to the new immigrants, it is just a name, and the land cannot be privately owned. The land they can use But there are more than ten or twenty mu, and when the farmers realize this, they will definitely think that we deliberately tricked them to come here to work as coolies."
"Then how about applying to send the prisoners of the hard labor camp here?" Tan Juren still asked persistently.
Roger shook his head and said: "I have also thought about this way, but the executive committee thinks that the tin mines on Bangka-Belitung Island need more labor than ours, so all the light criminals sent to the South China Sea are sent there went."
Tan Juren suddenly felt that his head hurt a little. This population problem was far more difficult than he imagined. After much deliberation, there was no reasonable solution.He originally thought that the current situation in Xingdao was caused by Roger not paying much attention to civil affairs, but after this on-the-spot investigation to understand the situation, he found that the problem was indeed a bit tricky. It was not that Roger didn't think of a way to solve it, but He is also troubled by this matter.
"It seems that we will continue to struggle in this place." Tan Juren is very clear that the current population is not enough for Xingdao to take off quickly. According to the colonization speed arranged by the executive committee, this place is still far away from getting enough labor. no period.The population is small, all aspects of infrastructure projects can only be advanced slowly, and the improvement of living conditions will also be a very long process. If you want to develop as fast as other colonies, it seems that it will be an unattainable goal in the foreseeable future. .
(End of this chapter)
If we want to speed up the local infrastructure construction process, we must first solve the problem of serious shortage of labor force, and the source of labor force must rely on the increase of basic population.However, the existing resident population of Sing Tao is far from enough to provide enough labor to implement these infrastructure projects.The most terrible thing is that unlike other colonies, it either has a certain population base, or there is a stable source of immigrants nearby. It is basically impossible to realize the desire to increase the local population in a short period of time.
Tan Juren secretly regretted it. Before leaving Sanya, he also felt that the number of immigrants approved by the Executive Committee was relatively small. The deployment will also be much more flexible than it is now, so that it will not be stretched everywhere like it is now.
"When I was inspecting the island of Annabuna earlier, I saw that the plantations over there used a lot of slaves. Can we refer to this method?" Tan Juren thought about it, and proposed the solution he thought of to Roger. plan.
It is obviously unrealistic to expect a large number of immigrants from Hainan Island to come to Xingdao in the short term. If the executive committee had made such a plan, then the population of Xingdao would not be at the current level, so Tan Juren just gave up after thinking about it. intend to work in this direction.Another way to increase the local population rapidly in the short term is through the slave trade.Although this method will definitely cost a lot of money, for the wealthy Haihan, the problems that can be solved with money are not big problems.
Roger smiled and said, "Who sold it to us?"
"Slave trader!" Tan Juren responded casually, but then even though he felt that something was wrong, Roger first served as the leader of Abuna Island for a period of time, and then transferred to Xing Island. This experience in dealing with human traffickers is not reasonable Less, certainly not a layman.He made such an answer, there should be another secret.
Sure enough, Roger went on to explain: "The slaves who sold slaves to Ambuna Island were mainly Dutch and Portuguese human traffickers, but since last year, they have consciously reduced their supply. In this case, your Didn't anyone tell you?"
Tan Juren shook his head subconsciously. During his investigation in Abunna Island, he really didn't pay attention to the local slave trade situation, and Mu Xiabo didn't seem to take the initiative to mention this situation.Of course, it is also possible that Mu Xiabo had mentioned it, but it happened that Tan Juren and others were visiting the south of the island, so he missed this information.
Seeing this, Roger continued: "The situation in the South China Sea, I believe you should have done your homework. Our control area has advanced to the vicinity of Portugal and the Netherlands. Although they seem to be friendly with us on the surface, they should have already felt the reality. There is a threat. Although I dare not confront us openly, but secretly using some small means to slow down our development speed, it can still be done."
"You mean...they deliberately controlled the sale of slaves to our country, with the purpose of slowing down our expansion in the South China Sea?" Tan Ju reacted as soon as he heard it, and asked Roger to prove his guess.
"There is no other reasonable explanation other than this reason." Roger nodded in agreement with his guess: "They continue to sell slaves to us, and from a certain point of view it is actually equivalent to digging their own grave. We are The faster the development and construction of the South China Sea, the fewer areas of activity and places they can attack. They have realized this now, and as long as their brains are not too stupid, they will think of taking measures to deal with our population needs in terms of slave trading. "
The history of Haihan's expansion in the South China Sea was accompanied by the continuous retreat of Portugal and the Netherlands. The Annan Hoi An Port originally controlled by Portugal and the Ambuna Islands controlled by the Dutch were all in the hands of Haihan.After the loss of Hoi An Port, Portugal has no transit port of its own in the [-]-nautical-mile voyage between the Strait of Malacca and Daming Macau, and can only rely on the port of Haihan to complete the replenishment on the way.However, after that, the two sides took what they needed, and Portugal also gained a lot of practical benefits through Haihan, and the losses in Hoi An Port that year had already been recouped.
The situation in the Netherlands is even worse. After the defeat, the East India Company lost the Abona Islands, which covers an area of more than [-] square kilometers and is located in the hinterland of the South China Sea.The Zheng family, which had been supported in Fujian for many years in the Ming Dynasty, was also completely destroyed under the attack of the Haihan army. Not only did the Netherlands' influence in the Fujian Strait suffer, but even Dayuangang, its stronghold on Taiwan Island, was hijacked by Haihan.In order to keep Batavia's trade route to Northeast Asia, the East India Company finally had to put down its face and admit defeat to Haihan.
Of course, these two countries are unwilling to be oppressed by Haihan all the time, but Haihan's force is strong, and the two are far from their opponents on the frontal battlefield.Moreover, Haihan couldn't see the meaning of stopping at all, and then continued to advance southward along the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula. Originally, the two families thought that Haihan would stop when he reached Anbuna Island. The voyage is too far, and it is difficult for Haihan to absorb immigrants nearby for development.It has to be said that Haihan's shortcomings still cannot be hidden from the eyes of colonial experts, but they still underestimated Haihan's determination to go south.
In 1633, Haihan organized a powerful three-nation joint fleet to cruise the South Seas to demonstrate force to neighboring countries, and took this opportunity to organize the South China Sea Trade Alliance, and decisively pushed the colony southward to the front line of Xingdao and Bangka-Belitung Island.
Bangka-Belitung Island is within [-] nautical miles from the Sunda Strait and Batavia Port, and the fast boat will arrive in one day. This is already a dangerous distance for the Dutch.The situation on the Strait of Malacca is even more exaggerated. The Xingdao stronghold established by Haihan is only a hundred nautical miles away from the city of Malacca occupied by the Portuguese. It can be said that it has already hit the face.
With Haihan making such a strong gesture, if Portugal and the Netherlands allow slave traders to sell young and strong slaves to them without restriction, it will really be slow suicide.So starting in 1634, the two countries began to control the flow of slave trade, prohibiting slave traders from selling young and strong slaves to Haihan, so as to slow down Haihan's construction process in the South China Sea colony.
Annbuna Island already had a certain population base. After Haihan occupied the local area, it invested a lot of money to vigorously develop it, and introduced private funds to plan a large number of plantations. Before the ban was imposed by the two countries, a large number of them had been purchased through various channels. Slaves, the population of the island has also reached a certain size, so the slave trade ban enacted last year has relatively little impact on it.However, Xingdao was almost poor and white when it started, and the surrounding countries were hostile to Haihan’s establishment of a stronghold here. The growth rate will of course slow down.
After listening to Luo Jie's explanation, Tan Juren felt that his intelligence collection work was not detailed enough, and he even missed such important news.Speaking of it, I was too relaxed during my stay on Ambuna Island. Otherwise, I just need to pay attention to this kind of thing and inquire about it, and I won’t hear any news.To ask Roger such a question now is simply self-exposing.
But fortunately, Tan Juren is not a novice with too thin skin. He coughed dryly and said: "So, even if we are willing to pay, we can't buy people at all?"
"You can still buy it, but the situation is not ideal." Roger continued to explain: "In addition to slave traders from these two countries, there are also practitioners from other countries, but they are not as good as these two. There is no advantage at all, so the path to take is not the same.”
In addition to the slave traders of Portugal and the Netherlands, the two maritime powers, there are actually many merchant ships traveling between the two oceans who also traffic in people part-time.It's just that these two countries have almost monopolized the market for young and strong slaves, and traders from other countries have to find another way to do this business.For example, selling craftsmen, beauties, aliens with strange shapes, and even young children.Because these types of slaves are rare and expensive, they are often worth more, and their profits are more lucrative than ordinary slaves.But for Xing Tao, which is in urgent need of labor, the role of these people is extremely limited, and they may even become a burden instead.
Although Haihan has always been generous in the matter of buying slaves, he also has requirements for who he buys. If he buys a bunch of messy people, Roger can't make a deal with his superiors.These slave traders who mainly work in the sidelines can naturally provide very limited suitable slaves to Xingdao. Even if there are some sporadic young and strong laborers, the prices they offer are often much higher than the wholesale prices of Portuguese and Dutch slave traders. , it is very uneconomical for Haihan.
"Then there should be smart people who bought slaves from the Portuguese and the Dutch, and then sold them to us?" Tan Juren asked unwillingly.
Roger nodded and said: "It is true that someone went to do this under our suggestion, but the good times didn't last long, and within two trips, even the person and the boat disappeared together. In such a big South China Sea, if you go missing, you can't find it." gone."
After Tan Juren heard this, he was dumbfounded for a moment. Could it really be such a coincidence?He doesn't quite believe that this situation is more likely to be in line with some kind of conspiracy theory. For example, after Portugal and the Netherlands knew about the actions of these middlemen, they directly dealt with slave traders who were bent on making money at sea.Even after hundreds of years, it will be difficult to find hundreds of missing persons in the South China Sea after all the efforts of all countries, let alone in this era.As long as people and boats sank into the sea together, even if Haihan has all-hands and eyes, he will never be able to find the whereabouts of the missing again.
After all, this is just a price difference, the profit can't be said to be huge, and it's far from crazy.In this way, even if Hai Han can afford the price, no one dares to risk his life for this opportunity to make a fortune.
"It seems that the road of buying slaves will not work!" Tan Juren couldn't help but sighed helplessly.
"I have basically tried all the ways that I can try. To be honest, I am quite helpless." Roger paused and said: "I wish you would bring 800 immigrants instead of 8000! No With enough population, the development speed of our place can’t be increased.”
Tan Juren pondered for a moment before saying, "How much arable land is actually allocated after the immigrants come?"
"According to the head, [-] mu per person." Roger replied: "The standard is set by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and we here also implement it without compromise."
Of course, Tan Juren knew the official farmland allocation standard for immigrants, and he just asked for further confirmation, and immediately proposed another method: "If we propose to Sanya to increase the quota for the allocation of farmland for immigrants, do you think we can attract more people?" of the immigrants voluntarily apply to settle here?"
"It's not difficult to lure some people to come here with favorable conditions, but the word-of-mouth here will also be affected over time." Luo Jie saw that Tan Juren didn't seem to understand, so he patiently explained: "Even according to the current distribution standard , and very few people can cultivate all the allocated land. The local young and strong laborers spend a considerable part of their time engaged in collectively organized infrastructure projects, and simply do not have enough energy to take care of their own cultivated land. Fortunately, in overseas colonies The new immigrants do not have to pay public grain for the first three years, otherwise they may have to pay back. Even if we allocate [-] mu or [-] mu to the new immigrants, it is just a name, and the land cannot be privately owned. The land they can use But there are more than ten or twenty mu, and when the farmers realize this, they will definitely think that we deliberately tricked them to come here to work as coolies."
"Then how about applying to send the prisoners of the hard labor camp here?" Tan Juren still asked persistently.
Roger shook his head and said: "I have also thought about this way, but the executive committee thinks that the tin mines on Bangka-Belitung Island need more labor than ours, so all the light criminals sent to the South China Sea are sent there went."
Tan Juren suddenly felt that his head hurt a little. This population problem was far more difficult than he imagined. After much deliberation, there was no reasonable solution.He originally thought that the current situation in Xingdao was caused by Roger not paying much attention to civil affairs, but after this on-the-spot investigation to understand the situation, he found that the problem was indeed a bit tricky. It was not that Roger didn't think of a way to solve it, but He is also troubled by this matter.
"It seems that we will continue to struggle in this place." Tan Juren is very clear that the current population is not enough for Xingdao to take off quickly. According to the colonization speed arranged by the executive committee, this place is still far away from getting enough labor. no period.The population is small, all aspects of infrastructure projects can only be advanced slowly, and the improvement of living conditions will also be a very long process. If you want to develop as fast as other colonies, it seems that it will be an unattainable goal in the foreseeable future. .
(End of this chapter)