Chapter 2858
Chapter 2858
Chapter 2858
After listening to Chen Yixin's explanation, everyone was full of curiosity about the other cooperation project he mentioned—for Man Qing, what could be more sensitive to buying a horse for export to Haihan?
Chen Yixin quickly revealed the answer to them: labor.
Haihan is facing a serious labor shortage in the Liaodong region, and everyone has already felt this clearly during their trip to Shenyang.In order to solve this problem that restricts the development of the region, the local government has also made various attempts, and even the business partners from the Manchu Qing Dynasty have been targeted by Chen Yixin.
"According to the data we have, there are still 50 to [-] Han Chinese, Koreans and other small tribes under the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Qing is the bottom of society, even just private slaves."
Chen Yixin explained: "These people can only do the lowest level of manual labor in the Qing Dynasty, and the economic value they can produce is not high, so I plan to use trade channels to persuade the nobles with red flags to send their slaves abroad. To work in our country, and then we pay wages or designated materials to the masters of these slaves as compensation. If this plan can be implemented, then the labor shortage problem in Liaodong may be alleviated to some extent.”
Bai Kesi said: "If you want Manqing to hand over the precious labor force to us, then the price you will offer must not be low, right?"
Chen Yixin nodded and said: "That must be much more valuable than what they created by grazing and farming in the Qing Dynasty. But we have these labor forces, and we can use them to produce more wealth."
One of the purposes of the Manchu Qing wars was to seize a large number of people from neighboring countries by force and bring them back to their own territory to use as slaves.Even though they were retreating steadily during the battle with Haihan, the Qing Dynasty still did not forget to take these civilians away when they retreated. It can be seen that they also knew the value of the population and would never hand over these populations to Haihan easily. .
Chen Yixin's idea sounds like hiring people with money, but it is not the case after careful consideration.Although these people belonged to the Manchu Qing rule, there were probably not many people who were willing to be slaves in the Manchu Qing Dynasty for a lifetime. How could the Manchu Qing let them out of their control?
Bai Letong asked: "But even if we are willing to pay and hire these people, can Manqing trust our conditions? If we fail to receive wages from us when it comes to settlement, even if all these laborers are If we keep it for ourselves, then we might lose money and people, how do they deal with such a risk?"
Chen Yixin said: "The other party has clearly raised the issues you mentioned, but it is actually not difficult to solve."
Chen Yixin provided several guarantee measures for cooperation to the other party.One is that Haihan can advance a certain percentage of wages, and then after these slave laborers complete the work of this stage, Haihan will advance the wages for the next stage.In this way, the Manchu party can collect the money first, and then do things later, and the risk of being breached can also be reduced.
Second, the Manchu Qing screened the slave labor sent to Haihan in advance, and only selected those with families. In this way, the old and young family members of the expatriates stayed in the Manqing, so there was no need to worry about these people leaving and never returning.
The third is to send supervisors from the other party. On the one hand, it is confirmed that the labor force can contribute to work in Haihan. On the other hand, when these laborers are in a state of birth, old age, sickness and death, they can also be confirmed immediately by the supervisor of Manqing, so as to avoid the occurrence of labor settlement. dispute.
Bai Letong said: "Since it's so troublesome, and you still have to send money to Man Qing, why not follow the original plan to introduce immigrants from the south or Daming?"
Chen Yixin did not answer this question directly: "According to our estimation, if the mines in Shenyang and Liaoyang organize large-scale mining, there will be a large number of infrastructure projects to be completed at the same time. There is a labor gap of about 10 people. These people don’t need to master any engineering skills, as long as they can understand orders and work hard.”
"If calculated according to the normal population ratio, the labor force accounts for a little more than one-third, then we need to introduce 30 people to the area north of the Liaodong Peninsula to meet the labor demand in this area. This is only the first stage. To accomplish this goal, we have calculated how much time we need and how much resettlement costs we need to invest.”
"With the same amount of time and the same cost, if we can get immigrants from other channels to solve the employment problem here, then of course we don't have to spend all this effort. I also hope that hundreds of thousands of naturalized immigrants can move to Liaodong without any effort. Han Zimin, but this is obviously far from the reality."
"As for sending money to Manqing..." Chen Yixin smiled and said, "That's not a problem. As long as they dare to accept it, I will give it away."
Compared with the expenditure required to resolve the dispute between the two countries by military means, the cost of buying the Manchu nobles with money is only a fraction.People like Shuo Sai who can influence the national policy of the Qing Dynasty are worth spending a lot of money to maintain relationships.If the Man Qing's will to fight can be disintegrated through such a channel, it will be much more cost-effective than fighting.
And after the money is spent, a considerable part of it will be used by the other party to buy supplies from Haihan, which is equivalent to going out for a circle and then returning to Haihan in disguise.
Bai Letong said: "Then these slave workers, can they benefit from it?"
Chen Yixin said: "We will provide basic conditions including food and housing. At least the living environment will be better than when they were slaves in the Qing Dynasty, but that's all."
Bai Letong said: "But many of them are Han Chinese..."
"They are not Haihan nationals, so they won't enjoy the treatment of Haihan nationals." Before Bai Letong finished speaking, Chen Yixin interrupted him: "Perhaps you want to say that we can take these people back by military means." , but I can tell you that spending money to hire them to work at this stage is far lower than the cost of us continuing to fight the Manchu Qing, and this is the reason."
Bai Letong opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.Chen Yixin has mentioned more than once before that the truce between Haihan and the Manchu Qing was the result of comprehensive weighing of pros and cons. It is extremely uneconomical to continue the crusade against the Manchu Qing, and the military risks they face will become higher and higher.It would not be wise for Haihan to launch a war just to plunder the slave population under the Manchu Qing rule.
Chen Yixin's decision sounds a bit cruel, but as the ruler of this region, what he needs to consider is how to maximize Haihan's interests, not the individual fate of those Manchu slaves.In the final analysis, they are just bargaining chips for the deal between Haihan and the Qing Dynasty. Even if the transaction is successful, they are just tools used by Haihan to develop Liaodong.
(End of this chapter)
After listening to Chen Yixin's explanation, everyone was full of curiosity about the other cooperation project he mentioned—for Man Qing, what could be more sensitive to buying a horse for export to Haihan?
Chen Yixin quickly revealed the answer to them: labor.
Haihan is facing a serious labor shortage in the Liaodong region, and everyone has already felt this clearly during their trip to Shenyang.In order to solve this problem that restricts the development of the region, the local government has also made various attempts, and even the business partners from the Manchu Qing Dynasty have been targeted by Chen Yixin.
"According to the data we have, there are still 50 to [-] Han Chinese, Koreans and other small tribes under the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Qing is the bottom of society, even just private slaves."
Chen Yixin explained: "These people can only do the lowest level of manual labor in the Qing Dynasty, and the economic value they can produce is not high, so I plan to use trade channels to persuade the nobles with red flags to send their slaves abroad. To work in our country, and then we pay wages or designated materials to the masters of these slaves as compensation. If this plan can be implemented, then the labor shortage problem in Liaodong may be alleviated to some extent.”
Bai Kesi said: "If you want Manqing to hand over the precious labor force to us, then the price you will offer must not be low, right?"
Chen Yixin nodded and said: "That must be much more valuable than what they created by grazing and farming in the Qing Dynasty. But we have these labor forces, and we can use them to produce more wealth."
One of the purposes of the Manchu Qing wars was to seize a large number of people from neighboring countries by force and bring them back to their own territory to use as slaves.Even though they were retreating steadily during the battle with Haihan, the Qing Dynasty still did not forget to take these civilians away when they retreated. It can be seen that they also knew the value of the population and would never hand over these populations to Haihan easily. .
Chen Yixin's idea sounds like hiring people with money, but it is not the case after careful consideration.Although these people belonged to the Manchu Qing rule, there were probably not many people who were willing to be slaves in the Manchu Qing Dynasty for a lifetime. How could the Manchu Qing let them out of their control?
Bai Letong asked: "But even if we are willing to pay and hire these people, can Manqing trust our conditions? If we fail to receive wages from us when it comes to settlement, even if all these laborers are If we keep it for ourselves, then we might lose money and people, how do they deal with such a risk?"
Chen Yixin said: "The other party has clearly raised the issues you mentioned, but it is actually not difficult to solve."
Chen Yixin provided several guarantee measures for cooperation to the other party.One is that Haihan can advance a certain percentage of wages, and then after these slave laborers complete the work of this stage, Haihan will advance the wages for the next stage.In this way, the Manchu party can collect the money first, and then do things later, and the risk of being breached can also be reduced.
Second, the Manchu Qing screened the slave labor sent to Haihan in advance, and only selected those with families. In this way, the old and young family members of the expatriates stayed in the Manqing, so there was no need to worry about these people leaving and never returning.
The third is to send supervisors from the other party. On the one hand, it is confirmed that the labor force can contribute to work in Haihan. On the other hand, when these laborers are in a state of birth, old age, sickness and death, they can also be confirmed immediately by the supervisor of Manqing, so as to avoid the occurrence of labor settlement. dispute.
Bai Letong said: "Since it's so troublesome, and you still have to send money to Man Qing, why not follow the original plan to introduce immigrants from the south or Daming?"
Chen Yixin did not answer this question directly: "According to our estimation, if the mines in Shenyang and Liaoyang organize large-scale mining, there will be a large number of infrastructure projects to be completed at the same time. There is a labor gap of about 10 people. These people don’t need to master any engineering skills, as long as they can understand orders and work hard.”
"If calculated according to the normal population ratio, the labor force accounts for a little more than one-third, then we need to introduce 30 people to the area north of the Liaodong Peninsula to meet the labor demand in this area. This is only the first stage. To accomplish this goal, we have calculated how much time we need and how much resettlement costs we need to invest.”
"With the same amount of time and the same cost, if we can get immigrants from other channels to solve the employment problem here, then of course we don't have to spend all this effort. I also hope that hundreds of thousands of naturalized immigrants can move to Liaodong without any effort. Han Zimin, but this is obviously far from the reality."
"As for sending money to Manqing..." Chen Yixin smiled and said, "That's not a problem. As long as they dare to accept it, I will give it away."
Compared with the expenditure required to resolve the dispute between the two countries by military means, the cost of buying the Manchu nobles with money is only a fraction.People like Shuo Sai who can influence the national policy of the Qing Dynasty are worth spending a lot of money to maintain relationships.If the Man Qing's will to fight can be disintegrated through such a channel, it will be much more cost-effective than fighting.
And after the money is spent, a considerable part of it will be used by the other party to buy supplies from Haihan, which is equivalent to going out for a circle and then returning to Haihan in disguise.
Bai Letong said: "Then these slave workers, can they benefit from it?"
Chen Yixin said: "We will provide basic conditions including food and housing. At least the living environment will be better than when they were slaves in the Qing Dynasty, but that's all."
Bai Letong said: "But many of them are Han Chinese..."
"They are not Haihan nationals, so they won't enjoy the treatment of Haihan nationals." Before Bai Letong finished speaking, Chen Yixin interrupted him: "Perhaps you want to say that we can take these people back by military means." , but I can tell you that spending money to hire them to work at this stage is far lower than the cost of us continuing to fight the Manchu Qing, and this is the reason."
Bai Letong opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.Chen Yixin has mentioned more than once before that the truce between Haihan and the Manchu Qing was the result of comprehensive weighing of pros and cons. It is extremely uneconomical to continue the crusade against the Manchu Qing, and the military risks they face will become higher and higher.It would not be wise for Haihan to launch a war just to plunder the slave population under the Manchu Qing rule.
Chen Yixin's decision sounds a bit cruel, but as the ruler of this region, what he needs to consider is how to maximize Haihan's interests, not the individual fate of those Manchu slaves.In the final analysis, they are just bargaining chips for the deal between Haihan and the Qing Dynasty. Even if the transaction is successful, they are just tools used by Haihan to develop Liaodong.
(End of this chapter)