Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 614 Cuba
The reason why Bai Mingxiu is not too worried is that there are actually not many people in Europe now, and there are even fewer people who have migrated to the New World of America.

The combined population of the entire British North American colonies, New England and the southern colonies is only about 30.Compared with the tens of thousands of illegal European immigrants emerging from the Ming colony, they are very powerful, which shows that the good life in the Ming colony is attractive to them.

Bu An also told Bai Mingxiu that the Europeans who came to the Ming colony were usually more adaptable and adventurous people, and they were willing to get along with Ming people with completely different cultures. In fact, in the British North American colonies, a large number of Most of the Protestants resisted going to the Ming territory because they thought it was not in line with their way of life.

Bai Mingxiu also admired Bu An very much. So far, the entire Jun'an Mansion has built a Buddhist temple and a Taoist temple, but not a single Christian church. There have been a large number of European missionaries who tried to come to the land of the Ming Dynasty to preach, but they were all rejected. Deportation and even imprisonment.

In fact, missionary work is useless. A key factor in the success of missionary missionaries in history is to pass on better production tools to people in backward areas. There is no reason why Ming Dynasty, with its developed productivity and prosperous economy, should accept backward and ignorant European missionaries. What kind of fairy did the priest bring.This is a simple truth that the pure economic base determines the superstructure, and the material determines the consciousness.

Also because of religious issues, neither Hongwu Province nor Yongle Province are very popular with devout Christians from Europe, whether they are Puritans or Catholics, they are all the same.

Unlike the overseas provinces on the mainland, Cuba, Haiti and Puerto Rico, which also accept the jurisdiction of North American overseas territories administratively, are more tolerant of immigrants from other places.

Bai Mingxiu then flew to Haifan Mansion, the capital of the Cuban Propaganda Department, which was renamed Havana.The consolation here is not even Chinese, but a white Latino named Valentine Gisepo.Gisepo is not an Iberian, nor a native white, but a systematic talent.At that time, Bai Mingxiu found that it was novel to be able to change the skin of some talents in a certain system, so he recruited a few, and this Ji Saibo was one of them.

Gisepo is a thin Latin man with curly hair and deep eye sockets. He has darker skin and a prominent Adam's apple, but he speaks loudly.When meeting Bai Mingxiu, he said a lot of compliments like parallel comparisons very disgustingly.

"...You have come to your loyal territory, making the whole of Cuba glow with admiration. Our people are rejoicing and looking forward to your arrival."

Bai Mingxiu had seen a lot of officials who saw the emperor as if they were superiors, but he hadn't seen many officials like Ji Saibo.

Compared with metropolises such as Long Live City and Jun'an, which are overseas territories in North America, Haifan Mansion is much smaller in scale, making Bai Mingxiu feel like a small seaside village with a rather tropical style.There are no high-rise buildings here. Although the streets are relatively spacious, there are mostly low-rise buildings with two or three floors built on the side of the road.There are a few motor vehicles occasionally running on the street, but not many.

Cuba is [-] square kilometers, an area comparable to that of Zhejiang, and most of the land is plain, with sufficient water and heat, which is very suitable for the development of agriculture.After the Ming Dynasty defeated Spain and acquired Cuba from Spain, a large number of Spanish whites and even native whites left Cuba and returned to Iberia or Mexico.As a result, many state-owned enterprises and even private entrepreneurs in Ming Dynasty came to Cuba to invest in building farms and plantations.

The most important industry in Cuba today is agriculture and agro-processing.On the other side, two-thirds of the food of the descendants of Cuba cannot be self-produced, and they have to import food from the United States, which has blocked itself.But the actual situation is that although Cuba has rainy and dry seasons, and the soil is red soil, which is not conducive to food production, the flat land is large, suitable for mechanized farming, and there is sufficient water and heat.The problem is that Cuba has been in a colonial state for a long time. The colonists planted cash crops such as sugar cane and tobacco here without considering the food supply of the local people. They have no way to produce food so that the sovereign country can control them economically.

However, the overall colonial thinking of the Ming Dynasty is different, and the Han nationality is originally a farming nation, and the first choice for survival in any place is to ensure that they can eat first, so in Cuba, grain cultivation and cash crops are carried out simultaneously.After a group of agricultural talents came to Cuba, they introduced the grain and technology of upland rice cultivation from the local area, so in just a few years, Cuba became a new granary.

The climate in Cuba is indeed not suitable for growing winter crops such as wheat and oats that Europeans are used to, but the Chinese are good at both wheat and rice.In addition, farmers in Ming Dynasty also grow corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes in Cuba, so the grain output is very large. Now Ji Sepo, as a consolation envoy, has a headache about how to sell the remaining grain to other places.

Bai Mingxiu visited the sugar cane farm in Haifan. The farm workers here include Han Chinese, Europeans, and a few Africans. They each perform their duties. Some of them drive harvesters like forklifts, directly from Drive across the sugarcane field and cut off pieces of sugarcane stalks.

Jiseppo said happily: "Now most of the sugar in North American overseas territories is supplied by Cuba. We will use the bagasse left after sugar extraction to make paper and sell it to the North American continent and Europe."

Bai Mingxiu asked: "Do you have enough labor here?"

Speaking of this, Ji Saibo was very helpless, "It is definitely not enough. The economic behavior here is more dominated by enterprises themselves, and our office just provides some conditions. For example, some time ago, the sugar company wanted to expand, and they We have to send employees from the mainland or go to the North American continent to recruit workers. We Cuba is a small propaganda department, with a population of only 20 so far. The annual immigration quota is basically more people going to the North American continent. There are three or two kittens."

Bai Mingxiu said: "The governor of North America is going to pack up the illegal immigrants from the mainland and send them to you. There must be 5 to [-] people. Do you have the ability to resettle them here?"

When Ji Sepo heard this, he cheered up and said, "Capable, capable! Our Cuba still has great potential. If the labor force is replenished, the GDP will definitely rise to a higher level."

Bai Mingxiu touched the cold sweat on his forehead. This guy has a European face, but his mind is full of Chinese-style GDP supremacy theory.

(End of this chapter)