African Entrepreneurship Records Chapter 154

  Chapter 154 Sending "goods"

   "Okay, you can take me away!" Mikhail waved his hand and said to Giovanni.

   "Okay, brother, you must contact me next time you have the goods." Giovanni shouted to Mikhail while sitting in the carriage.

  Giovanilla's goods are the peasants after the bankruptcy of Tsarist Russia, although Alexander II's reform gave the serfs freedom.

  However, the local nobles will not do business at a loss. They use various means to squeeze the free peasants as much as possible.

  For example, land, as part of the compromise with the feudal conservative forces, naturally must give priority to guaranteeing the ownership of the land of the landlords and nobles, and must also provide compensation.

After liberation, serfs obtained allotment of land (ransom was required), and the area of ​​allotment was determined according to the region. The noble landowners "removed the dross and selected the essence", leaving the fertile land and a large number of forests and pastures, and allocating the most barren land to the serfs.

   Even so, Tsarist Russia has a vast land and abundant resources. In terms of area alone, the land acquired by Tsarist Russian serfs is still considerable, but many of these lands are of no value.

For example, in the northern part of Tsarist Russia, there is a large area of ​​ice and snow, and it is difficult for crops to grow. In the south, the sandy grassland in Central Asia and the rotten land in other areas were also distributed to serfs. In the end, the serfs paid three times the market price to buy the land. It is all desert, alpine, saline and other worthless land.

In addition to the small area (compared to the landlord's land) and poor quality, when dividing the land, the landlord and the nobles deliberately scattered the peasants' land, causing the peasants' fields to be divided into fragments, and the distances were very far away. No development value.

  At the same time, after liberation, the serfs lost the right to use the corresponding production tools, such as cattle and horses, and farm tools were taken back by the landlords.

  In this way, although many serfs obtained land after liberation, it was difficult to develop these lands, and the serfs also carried a heavy debt.

  However, the government must ensure that the finances continue to be maintained, and continue to collect heavy taxes on the serfs after liberation. Many serfs after liberation are not as good as they were before liberation.

Of course, the reform is not ineffective. At least a group of rich farmers have been cultivated, but more farmers are still on the road to bankruptcy, and the land has been re-annexed. In addition, the fertility rate in Tsarist Russia is very good. There are always people who want to go out to make a living. Forced to go to the city to work, or to return to the local landlords and nobles to farm.

  With so many surplus populations, the Hexingen Consortium is naturally salivating. Now that immigration from Germany and other places has entered a flat stage, the surplus labor force from Tsarist Russia is just used to fill the vacancies.

   What satisfied Ernst the most was that the price of Russian women's labor was much lower than that of men. To reconcile the population structure in East Africa, it was natural to try to allow different immigrants to intermarry.

  East Africa has been committed to increasing the proportion of mixed-race families. So far, the results are very good. In addition to allowing Chinese immigrants to marry white women who bought them, white men will also marry women in Southeast Asia.

  Of course, these are aimed at those people who were acquired by East Africa through abnormal means. After all, East Africa exchanged them with real money or slaves.

   As for whether the two parties are willing, anyway, neither party has to choose an arranged marriage. Only the East African government has the right to decide.

  The immigrants from Tsarist Russia are immigrants with low human rights. They were bought from East Africa with money, so their status in East Africa is only higher than that of immigrants from Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

  The Hexingen consortium contacted the powerful forces in Tsarist Russia through money transactions, and introduced labor from the local area at a price of 25 rubles per man and 17 rubles per woman.

   Tsarist Russia is not Russia, there are Poland, Ukraine, the three Baltic countries, Belarus, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Finland...

  So there are many channels to get people from Tsarist Russia, as long as the money is in place, it will not be a problem.

   Of course, the Hechingen Consortium did not introduce Slavs to East Africa on a large scale, but controlled it within a certain range.

  The most taboo is to be impatient when buying things, and it is easy for the seller to rip off customers. Therefore, the Heixingen Consortium has planned small-scale purchases of immigrants, so that the Heixingen Consortium can have more autonomy in terms of prices and save costs.

  At the same time, the staff of the Hexingen Consortium in Tsarist Russia can also have more energy to select high-quality immigrants.

   It is best to be born in an old Tsarist Russian serf family with three generations of ancestral roots. There must be no culture, so you just have to work hard and know nothing else. It is effortless to assimilate.

  St. Petersburg.

  This is the whole of Russia, a transit port for Tsarist Russian immigrants going to East Africa.

  In other parts of Eastern Europe, it mainly passes through other ports. For example, Poland and other places under Russian rule have their own ports.

  Giovanni brought the purchased labor to St. Petersburg to deliver the goods.

   "Giovanni, this time you will get the most people, and pass on the secret to your brother!" Maxim asked.

  Giovanni didn't say anything, but just stretched out three fingers. Maxim immediately understood that this was their rule, but he still showed embarrassment: "Brother, three meals are too much, two at most."

   "This is my eating experience, three meals are cheap enough! No, you can find someone else," Giovanni said.

   "Okay! But you can't lie to me!"

   There is no way, Maxim can only agree to Giovanni's request.

Giovanni was not stingy, and began to impart experience: "If you want to find 'sources', you have to go to the countryside more often, don't stay in the office all the time, communicate more with the local noble landlords, and They have a good relationship, so naturally they don't have to worry about not being able to attract people.

  This man! Don't just search in the city. There are many unemployed farmers who want to go to the city to find a job. If they have already gone to the city, they must have their own channels. They are relatives and friends who can take the initiative to go to the city. , the mind must be more active, not so easy to deceive.

  So trying to fool people in the city is definitely unreliable, but it is different in the countryside. Those nobles and landlords are more eloquent than us when facing those villagers.

   Moreover, many villagers are in debt, and their fate is in the hands of local nobles and landlords. There are still some, rural people can live! There are a few boys in the family who can't eat, so they always have to go out to make a living.

  At this time, when we go to the countryside, we will be able to attract a lot of people. Of course, there are also disadvantages. Dealing with local nobles and landlords will definitely cost more money, but it will save trouble..."

  Giovanni is not afraid of Maxim learning these experiences, because the two are in charge of different areas and cannot constitute competition.

  Giovanni is in charge of business near Moscow, while Maxim is active near St. Petersburg. Besides them, there are Poland, Ukraine, Caucasus...

  (end of this chapter)

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