From Chief to Ball

But those who came from their native land got used to it quickly.It is nothing more than that the rapeseed oil and soybean oil have been changed to peanut oil, the dogwood has been replaced with pepper, the chicken is slightly larger and the meat is slightly thicker, the batter has been changed to polenta, and there is not much difference in other things.

The food purchases after this banquet can also be regarded as the first silver coin income obtained by the Great Deserted City Colonial Company from the outside world.

This is not yet a city, it can only be said to be a large countryside, with a slight shadow of a city.

It seems that something is still under construction in the distance, but people in the fleet are not allowed to leave without permission, so there is no chance to observe it carefully.

Chen Jian met with the comrades who stayed here and those who were exiled here from the rest of the factions, and the internal welcome meeting was much simpler.

Nowadays, there are quite a few people who have become peripheral members of the party in Dahuang City, and those immigrants are also used to the atmosphere here, and they are in the rising and developing period of the party, lively and full of vitality.

Everyone in the Great Wilderness City knows that the group of the Mexican Party often hold meetings, and there are many meetings.Now that Chen Jian is back, there will inevitably be another meeting.

But before the meeting, it is always necessary to seek truth from facts and do research. Chen Jian doesn't have much time, so he can only stay here for about ten days.

Early the next morning, without any rest, I walked around the Great Deserted City with a few people for three days.

Outside the fort, there are vast cornfields and some other crops.

Although the planting method is rough, the mature ridge farming technology can still achieve an objective yield per mu.Compared with the yield of intensive farming in Asia, it is indeed incomparable, but it is also impossible for Asia to have so much arable land per capita.

The hand-threshing machine was prepared two years before the voyage, so corn could be used as a large-scale food or fodder crop.

In addition to the potatoes and sweet potatoes here, the problem of food self-sufficiency is not a problem.

For the time being, Chen Jian is relying on technology-monopoly industries such as steel ingots, explosives, kerosene, and glass to absorb domestic and global blood, so he does not need to rely on agriculture to complete accumulation.

Furthermore, the advantages of a stable and peaceful environment in a short period of time, and the industrialization of the world is still ahead of our own side, etc., also allow some necessary things to be carried out in a long-term semi-natural way.

After the three-day inspection, a meeting of the party inevitably took place.

The meeting discussed three things: the future development direction of the Great Wilderness City, the relationship with the local aboriginal ethnic group, and listening to Chen Jian's report on the outside world that is temporarily known, so as not to worry about how big the world is.

Since it was a meeting within the party, some people from other factions who were exiled here could not attend, so it was inevitable to be a little depressed.

This is an enlarged meeting, and the leaders of all party groups are required to attend.

At this time, it is still in the form of a company. It will take two years for the first group of free people to arrive, and the members of the Mexican Party are basically organizers. Basically, this is the model of the National People’s Congress two years later. Maybe in the future There will be more people, but it won't be too much.

At the meeting, some people who stayed in the Great Wilderness City gave some reports first, and then Lan Qi made a concluding speech and resolved a very important ideological conflict.

"The development of Dahuangcheng at this time is deformed. This deformity is manifested in the fact that any workshop is not free accumulation, but is supported by Chen Jianyong's factory and stocks in Min County. I hope that all comrades present at the meeting can recognize To understand this point, what can be done in Great Wilderness City may not be able to be done in Min County, and it cannot be copied elsewhere, nor can it be copied mechanically."

"Ignoring the issue of coal and raw materials, a set of factories with sulfuric acid, alkali, glass, yellow blood salt, soap, explosives, and bleaching powder as a system requires at least 20 silver coins, excluding labor and normal turnover."

"Without Chen Jian's input, starting from scratch, starting from reclaiming the land, even without eating or drinking, it would take thousands of people to accumulate for several years."

"This is just one aspect of it. What I mean by saying this is that I hope that everyone will not apply the situation here to Min County or other places in the country, so as not to make big mistakes in the future."

"However, if the accumulation is completed and such a system factory is built, the annual income will be considerable. It can be said that if everything goes well, all the money invested can be earned back within a year."

Speaking of this, Lan Qi glanced at Chen Jian and said with a smile: "After reading the report and statistical data, I can truly understand how important the first pot of gold accumulated by Chen Jian is. But I'm curious, How did Chen Jian make his first pot of gold? It seems that your father is not a clean official..."

Everyone laughed, and Chen Jian also laughed.

I really have to laugh, it would be great if the money was really embezzled and smuggled by my father.

He recalled the process of accumulating his first pot of gold, which caused dozens of families to be destroyed, more than a dozen people were disabled, dozens of people committed suicide after losing their money in venture capital, more than 30 people were disabled in experimental production, and eight people died because of inhalation. Too much poisonous gas lingers...

It's just that these things are all carried out secretly, and now that the accumulation is completed, he has transformed into one of the best philanthropists in Fujian County.

After everyone laughed, Lan Qi went on to say: "Can this process of accumulation be overtaken? It is possible in the Great Wilderness, because the Great Wilderness now has only a few thousand people, and Chen Jian's factory attracts millions of people from the coastal counties and the capital city." silver coins."

"But for the homeland, it is impossible. We have to see the possibilities of the future after the land is annexed and the guild is broken, and make a decision based on this. This is also the difference between us and some factions, although they are in They are the closest to us psychologically, but they are destined to have no way out."

"This process has to happen, but do we do nothing during the process? Let it happen? If so, then what is the purpose of our coming together?"

"Another example is the slave trade that Chen Jian mentioned earlier. This is also an effective means to complete primitive accumulation. Should we do it? Can we do this kind of thing for our purpose?"

"I want to say, no. In that case, our party will change its name. It will no longer be the Mexican Party, but the National National Party."

"What's the difference? The difference is that we have determined at the previous year's general meeting that we cannot represent the interests of all, but only some. This is the basis for our roots here, and it is also the basis for our continued activities in the country. cornerstone."

"Before we discovered the outside world, we were absolutely righteous, and those who joined the organization never had any doubts."

"Why? Because the world we knew at that time was only ourselves. What we fought for was what the whole world wanted to fight for."

"But now, the outside world has appeared, and doubts have also arisen. This kind of doubt is not one person, two people, but there are many within us, in the Progressive League."

"Some people began to wonder whether the [-]-hour work system, work injury compensation, social adjustment, minimum wage, symbolic unemployment insurance, etc. that we are pursuing... count as treason?"

"Because when we are pursuing an eleven-hour work system, others have a [-]-hour work system, and there is no such thing as a minimum wage for workers' compensation, so it is easier to accumulate. From this perspective, we are indeed traitors. .”

"There are also people who say that you are pursuing these things, but others are not pursuing them. It is wishful thinking that you are going backwards while others are moving forward."

Lan Qi took a deep breath and said: "This matter is a question worth thinking about. We don't need everyone to answer or discuss it at this time. I just hope everyone can think about it carefully. However, the Great Deserted City must have the attitude and rules of the Great Deserted City, Even if we fail, we have pursued what we believe to be just."

"The road has to be taken step by step. In Dahuangcheng, our future factories, including private factories not owned by our collective investment here in the future, must implement an [-]-hour work system, and must implement the work-related compensation that we have formulated. All kinds of rules."

"Even if we fail, even if we are ridiculed by others, at least we have worked hard for the justice we believe in. If you haven't tried, how do you know you will fail? If you haven't tried, how do you know that under the minimum wage increase and the eleven-hour work system The efficiency of slaves must be lower than that of slaves?"

"Free employees with a little bit of welfare, compared with those slaves. Our Great Deserted City is to make a comparison, so that the world can see which one develops faster."

Chapter 27 Great Desert City Planning

Lan Qi's words were a warning to some grassroots members in the party.

A small group of people began to discuss the matter of buying slaves from the aborigines nearby to work, and expressed in an eloquent article that doing so would benefit everyone but not harm.

Before Chen Jian returned to Great Deserted City, these people had already been expelled from the party at the party meeting, and the beginning of today's meeting was considered to be the end of this matter.

The previous discussions have touched on many issues, such as human rights and freedom, which have been revised into a publication, and Chen Jian has also read it.

In fact, even if there are no such ideological things, considering the simplest interests, why buy slaves?

Wouldn't it be better to encourage slaves to rebel and get rid of the upper-class slave owners of the aborigines, and transform them into labor force and population?Being a colony is fun for a while, after the fun of separatism and independent thought, the heirs of the upper class who rule indirectly become leaders after learning new culture and ideas... etc. These problems may be very cool in 50 or 100 years, and then you will face them The endless struggle is not worth the candle.

Slaves are good for private individuals, but for an organization with ambitions and purposes that can even control this place alone, why believe that unfree slaves will be more efficient in labor than free employees?

Moreover, hired workers are not just slaves who have not sold all their labor power in their lifetime at one time, but sold their labor power one by one.There is no difference.

After all members passed the "Great Deserted City Slave Prohibition Act", Chen Jian went to the front and made a report related to agriculture.

After the food is guaranteed, the main crops here are cotton and tobacco.

The cultivation of indigo requires extremely labor-intensive labor. Since slaves cannot be owned, it is not profitable to grow indigo here.

Tobacco cultivation is feasible. Chen Jian has tasted the tobacco here, and the taste is a bit harsh, much worse than the tobacco leaves in the tropical archipelago.