New Shun 1730

The Dashun Whale Sea Company, in its colonization of North America, was relatively "gentle" towards the local indigenous tribes.

The biggest reason was the handicraft foundation laid by the thousands of hardworking people of Dashun.

A few blankets, a few kilograms of sugar cane, and a few barrels of dried peaches could be exchanged for sufficiently expensive furs.

Killing people is sometimes more expensive than exchanging for cheap handicrafts, depending on the country's handicraft foundation and geographical distance.

Moreover, the companies that developed in North America were relatively gentle towards "their own people".

This has nothing to do with supervision, laws, or anything else.

The main reason was that the previous immigrant uprising forced the company to adjust its thinking.

At the beginning, the company also wanted to squeeze as much as possible.

For example, they specifically looked for tenants who were in debt and signed a contract to sell themselves; or they directly looked for human traffickers, who would take care of a piece of land. For example, if this piece of land was contracted to human traffickers, the furs would be divided into three-one accounts, and the money would be directly given to human traffickers, who would then take out a part of it to give to the contract workers they had cheated or somehow made.

In addition, there is also the desire to get internal consumption vouchers within the company.

Because of the monopoly, other merchants cannot go there to sell goods.

Those who go there to work are all paid by piecework. They are all going there to make money, so they must be paid by piecework, and the furs will be divided into three parts. Anyway, it is so far away, and there is no ship that can go there at any time, so there is no possibility of smuggling.

In this case, internal consumption vouchers are issued. A bottle of sorghum wine is sold as expensive as sea dragon skin. You can buy it or not.

Don't buy it? If you don't buy it, don't drink it. Because of the monopoly, others who come here to sell goods can be directly bombarded and destroyed.

Is it okay not to drink? In theory.

Not in reality.

Ice and snow, polar night, bitter cold, loneliness, high-intensity labor, wet clothes, darkness, fear, blood, killing... In theory, you can be a normal person, save every penny, don't smoke or drink, don't gamble, don't fight, and don't make trouble.

In reality, it can't be done.

In addition to low-end luxury goods such as alcohol and cigarettes, things like grain and dried fruits are also purchased with consumption coupons within the company.

It is similar to the previous Nanyang Bangga Mine and Batavia Chinese Sugarcane Plantation - internally issued inferior currency, and only when you quit can you exchange internal consumption coupons for silver, and monopolize consumer goods.

If you leave without owing debts to work for another three years to pay off, but actually leave with enough salary, the general manager will take your surname. The Dutch files record that many Chinese laborers were cheated by high-level Chinese sugar factory contractors using lead coins and internal consumption coupons, and their parents didn't recognize them.

Of course, it was the same here at the beginning. The regulations and systems are useless and can't be controlled.

Later, the immigrants who grew grain revolted and ran away.

When they ran away, many hunters could not stand it. Even some Cossacks who came to join them took a group of people to the Utopia to set up autonomous villages; some Confucian scholars who had studied for a few years took people to set up Jingtian villages; a group of local indigenous people hired from Heilongjiang Province ran directly to the local tribes in America.

Songsu has a lot of laws, regulations, and systems.

It's useless.

Several employee uprisings and immigrant uprisings seriously affected the company's profits, and things developed in a good direction.

Very useful.

The court sold the monopoly rights, which made it easier to manage and collect money, but some things were indeed difficult to solve.

For example, liberalizing business and allowing private merchants to go there to sell grain and wine.

Let's put it this way, if it is liberalized today, these merchant ships selling groceries will all hide furs when they return tomorrow, and the fur and mineral monopoly rights sold by the court will be worthless.

The premise of all liberalization is the same as the banning of the East India Company by Britain, the Russian-American Company by Russia, and the East India Company by the Netherlands. It must be thrown away after use, just like using toilet paper.

Throwing it away early will definitely be troublesome.

But if you keep it after using it, then you have a brain problem.

It is not yet the stage of wiping the buttocks. It is basically still in the state of just squatting. If you let the merchants do it freely, they will be killed by the monopoly companies and colonial governors of the enemy. They are all busy fighting internally.

Fortunately, these uprisings, escapes, and the special environment of North America - unlike Nanyang, Nanyang will die if you leave the settlement, while North America is vast and rich in resources, and you can live happily with cattle, horses, grains and seeds - played a very critical role in Dashun's fight for America.

This matter has a great impact on the company.

Which employee of Dashun can't farm?

After developing to the Americas, where is the vast America not land?

There is no shortage of land, and there is no shortage of farming skills.

Many people did not go there to work, but purely for the "ticket".

As long as the profit was there, they could survive, but they just lacked an expensive ticket.

In the words of He Bu Shi Rou Ji, the tenants were so poor that they had to work for the landlords, while there was land everywhere in America. They really had no pioneering spirit, were too servile, and had bad roots. In fact, did they lack the quality of hard work, the spirit of pioneering and daring, and the courage to resist?

They just lacked a ticket to run over.

These days, all the ships were wooden sailing ships, and a trip to the Pacific Ocean took less than half a year. If the tenants could afford the ticket, could they still become tenants?

Talking about nationality, spirit, pioneering and other crap can't explain why the Russians, who are said to be very pioneering and aggressive, set up an immigrant area in San Francisco early, but didn't hear any sound after 40 or 50 years.

Economic foundation, material conditions, geographical distance, capital flow, ocean currents and monsoons, are not subject to human will at all.

It's the same sentence.

The rich don't want to farm.

The poor want to farm but can't.

The landlords and gentry said, I sold my property and took the tenants to cultivate over there, wouldn't it be beautiful? Not beautiful at all. There is no Dashun law over there, who will recognize you as a landlord and I as a tenant? At most two years, either you will share the land or run away. The county magistrate can't send yamen runners from Dashun to swim across the Pacific Ocean to catch those who resist tenants. The law must be enforced by the violent organs of the ruling class. Once the economic foundation changes over there, it is hard to say who is the ruling class.

Working for others is far less attractive than being a farmer in the vast America, and even during the great development of the Industrial Revolution, the biggest dream of workers was to save enough money for a boat ticket to become a farmer.

It can be said that the biggest contributor to the fact that Dashun was able to stay in America instead of exhausting all its resources and finally giving up in disgrace was those waves of employees with a rebellious spirit.

Their resistance set an example for the rest of the indentured workers.

After their resistance, the company's internal consumption coupons for plundering wealth were cancelled, the prices of tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea were reduced, houses were built, doctors were sent, the account books were cleared, and the contracting system of indentured workers was cancelled.

If there is no reform, it will become a charity that provides free boat tickets, additional guns, cattle and seeds, fertile land, and a climate suitable for the temperate zone and latitude!

Does the company want to be a charity that provides free boat tickets?

Of course not, so it has to reform.

After the reform, profits have risen instead of falling.

Of course, the company also understands that it is not easy to solve the problem of sending immigrants to farm with empty ships.

Otherwise, the company could be ruthless and directly allocate a million or more taels of silver to send 20,000 or 30,000 people, 5,000 or 6,000 live cattle and horses, 200,000 or 300,000 shi of grain, 7,000 or 8,000 guns, and 500 or 600 barrels of gunpowder within a few years.

When there are more people, enough surplus commercial grain will appear, and these people need to exchange goods from the company, so that both the food problem and the escape problem can be solved.

However, it is unrealistic to ask the shareholders of the company to take out a million or more taels of silver at once without dividends.

As for the court, the Dashun court is even less likely to pay this money.

Spending a million or more taels of silver to immigrate thousands of households, but not collecting a penny of tax, will the Dashun government think that I am a sucker? Can't this million or more taels of silver be used to exempt the disaster areas in Henan, repair the Yellow River embankment, and help the immigrants in the bitter cold area of ​​the Yalu River to resist the Koreans fleeing into villages and towns?

The court will take care of the money.

The profitable fur business, capital will make money?

The imperial court would rather spend the millions of taels on immigration to the Western Regions and the Korean border than on immigration there.

If the money had not been lost or corrupted.

At this time, the emergence of lunar distance longitude mapping technology and the discovery of Honolulu were timely to find another possibility for capital.

For the Dashun fur company, it didn't matter whether the people on the island believed in Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or even primitive worship.

As long as the productivity of the island was developed and could provide enough cheap commercial grain, even if the people on the island used living people for sacrifice, they could still be friends.

Pull the production on the island into the capitalist system.

But this is the ideal situation of Dashun being the only one.

Or, this is the ideal situation under true free trade.

However, the reality is not ideal.

The rise of Dashun led to the conservatives in European economics taking the mainstream, and no one mentioned free trade at all. They still competed with each other based on national, religious, and cultural divisions.

When the Whale Sea Monopoly Company was competing in the north before, the most annoying thing was not the Russian hunting team. The two sides often fought, which didn't matter.

Just fight.

The most annoying thing was those fucking missionaries, especially the Old Believers who were considered semi-heretics in Russia.

This is the product of the split of the Russian Church, and it has a bit of the flavor of religious utopian society.

In short, this faction is closely related to village traditions, cooperative-style industry and commerce, public land, internal charity education, reduced working hours, donation of property after death, low-interest loans for internal members, etc. It even has a certain relationship with why the collective farms in the black soil area of ​​Don River Ukraine with good conditions later encountered big problems, while collectivization was implemented very smoothly in some places with poor conditions. Tradition itself is also a realistic foundation.

This group of people are heretics, and can only mix in industry and commerce, free farmers, and border areas, which makes the Whale Sea Company really miserable.

Even in the early years when the two companies were competing fiercely, the Cossacks on the Luosha side and the pioneers on the Dashun side actually took the ship and ran away, going to the Kuril Islands to be free people and build collective autonomous fair and equal villages.

Can the company bear it?

The competition between companies is a bit like facing monsters and zombies. With a gun in hand, look at the caliber of the cannon and do it.

And this kind of religious and cultural competition is a bit like facing ghosts and spirits. Even if you have a cannon in your hand, you don’t know how to shoot.

After such a loss, the company has learned a lesson about what happened in Honolulu.

On the one hand, it is worried that some things that are easier to spread will affect the company's profits.

The strong traditional sense of private ownership in Dashun, which has existed since the collapse of the Fubing system, is more suitable for the company to make profits.

On the other hand, everyone is fighting. If a missionary goes to the island, it is hard to say who the people on the island will side with in the future.

And who knows what those weird religions will do when they go to the island. If they instigate the people on the island not to sell the company's grain or allow the company's ships to dock in the future, this is very likely.

After all, Dashun is not in control of the whole world now, and the competition is still very fierce, especially in such a strategic place in the Pacific Ocean.

The missionaries must be on the side of their own country.

If there is no competition from external forces, it doesn't matter what the island believes in, as long as the productivity is developed as a commercial grain base.

However, this is still an era of competition at the national level.

If the company wants to transform and dig for gold in the future, it must manage this place well.

Moreover, it is best to make it closer in culture, to resist the spread of Christianity, resist the missionaries coming to the island, and prevent the enemy from controlling the politics and culture of the island.

This is the helplessness of the emerging classes of Dashun.

They like the whole set of classical liberal theories very much, and in theory, it doesn't matter whether the islanders believe in Christianity, Allah, or Confucianism, as long as they are pulled into the capitalist production system and provided with food.

But in reality, it is the monopoly companies, customs offices, and navies supported by countries that are competing with each other.

The people of Dashun are always worried about the high tariffs and cotton cloth bans in Britain and France.

Personal experience is much more effective than language education. They don't have so many innocent people now, and they really believe that it can work.