Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1433, technology is the primary productive force

You must know that the current market price of a slave in Daming is at least three or forty taels of silver, and a good-looking female slave is even more expensive.

As long as you immigrate to the South African colony, you will be given a few female white slaves, a few horses, two cows, land, seeds and farm tools, and a house.

Calculated from this, for an immigrant, the South African colony needs to spend several hundred taels of silver.

Such terrifying expenditures can only be done by the rich and powerful South African United Commercial Bank, and other colonies and vassal states simply cannot offer such conditions.

Of course, this is based on market prices.

In fact, for the South African United Commercial Bank, it doesn't take that much money at all.

As far as slaves are concerned, the major shareholders behind the South African United Commercial Bank are the largest slave merchants in Daming, and Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., Ltd., which Liu Jin, Zhang Mao and others have invested in, is the largest trading firm in Daming. of.

Like the slave trade, although King Ning made his fortune from the slave trade, the slave trade done by Ning Guo is nothing compared to the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company.

As the first trading firm to carry out overseas trade and overseas colonization, and at the same time the firm controlled by Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao, Zhang Mao, etc. at the top of the Ming Dynasty, the resources it obtained overseas are simply not comparable to ordinary trading firms and vassal states. .

No matter what kind of business it is, it is the first to enter, and it is also the first to dig up gold and rapidly expand to become the largest business.

Therefore, the most and the best slaves can be obtained at the lowest price, so a large number of female slaves fell to the South African colony, and the price was only the cost price, and even in many cases, these slaves did not need money. It was brought here from the South African colony by means of light.

As for horses, let alone, there are a large number of ranches of Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., Ltd. in the best pasture areas around the world.

Central Asia, northern grasslands, southern Golden Continent, Australia, Africa, etc., are full of pastures that specialize in breeding high-quality horses. At the same time, each of these major shareholders has a large amount of land, pastures, etc. overseas.

For them, things like horses, cattle and sheep are just produced in their own ranch, and the cost is very low.

Even if it is so extravagantly prepared for immigrants, it is still affordable, and this policy will always be implemented.

This is also the strength of the South African colony. We don't need local native Kunlun slaves, nor do we need a large number of imported slaves. We only rely on our Han people.

Under such a policy, after these years of immigration, the number of immigrants attracted by the South African colony has almost exceeded one million, which is considered to be the largest number of Han people among the many overseas vassal states and colonies.

And in the South African colony, children are the most common here. An immigrant is assigned a few female slaves for free, and they make people every day. The number of these children can be imagined. Almost every town here can be seen everywhere. They are all children. The number is several times that of Han immigrants.

"Master Hou, the number of schools is not enough, and we have to continue to build schools."

Zhang Ye thought for a while and said again.

"The number of schools is not enough?"

When Du Mingen heard this, he immediately asked in surprise.

"Yes, Master Hou, it's not enough~"

"Master Hou, you also know that our children here go to school for free. Now the school-age children go to school just when the number of immigrants surged in those few years. This year, the number of school-age children going to school exceeds [-]. , the number of children going to school will increase.”

"So we need to build more primary schools to meet the needs of these children, and we need more teachers to teach."

Zhang Ye said helplessly.

Other colonies are desperately trying to create wealth and value for shareholders, but the South African colony still needs shareholders to pour in a lot of money every year.

The very important reason is this policy. The key is to implement compulsory education. All children, regardless of gender, must go to school. Among the many vassal states and colonies, this is the only one.

"Let's build it. It seems that at the shareholders' meeting at the end of the year, the shareholders will scold their mothers again."

Du Mingen thought for a while and smiled wryly.

"No way, who told Liu Gongfei to insist on such a policy."

"And in the future, we will build more middle schools, and we will also build institutions of higher learning. Otherwise, children from middle schools will not be able to continue their studies after graduation."

Zhang Ye also said with a smile.

"The reason why Mr. Liu persists like this is naturally for a reason."

"This South African colony is the last retreat for our big families. Otherwise, why do you think everyone is willing to pour a lot of money in?"

"If it's really for making money, then you won't do it like this."

Du Mingen looked at the busy port and said.

To be honest, he actually didn't understand why Liu Jin did this at the beginning. It was obviously easier to live, there was no need to be so tired, and there was no need to squander his huge wealth like this.

But gradually he understood a little bit.

Take a look at the South African colony. In less than ten years, the fertile land originally controlled by the barbarians has become the cradle of the Ming people.

The land here is fertile, rich in resources, and pleasant climate, but in the hands of those indigenous Kunlun slaves, it is simply reckless.

For a long time, they just didn't develop a decent country and civilization.

But in the hands of the people of Ming Dynasty, Yanran has become a brand new country full of vitality.

Beautiful cities and towns sprang up on the earth, and vast and fertile fields appeared on the earth, and there were herds of cattle, sheep and horses on the pastures.

More importantly, it is very different from the traditional Ming Dynasty.

The education here does not have so-called private schools and academies at all, but a new style of school education is adopted uniformly, and the content taught is no longer the Four Books and Five Classics. very small.

The New History School adopts the teaching mode of later generations and similar teaching content, which is divided into mathematics, Chinese studies, physics, chemistry, biology, physical education, history, etc.

In addition, in the recruitment of many administrative agencies under the South African Colonial Governor's Mansion, more unified examinations and interviews were adopted in the recruitment of later generations. The content of the examination was not stereotyped essays, but similar to the civil service examinations of later generations.

Even the colonial government adopted the system of later generations, which was service-oriented and fundamentally different from the traditional government offices.

All of these were set up by Liu Jin, and the purpose was naturally to create a brand new country far away from Daming.

In the future, once you can't play with Daming anymore, you can retreat to the South African colony at that time.

Blank paper is good for drawing.

Under this system, the South African colony is also full of vitality.

Although it still needs to invest a lot of money and a lot of material resources.

However, the South African colony itself has already begun to exert its strength gradually. I believe that in another ten or twenty years, when the children here and there gradually grow up, the South African colony will develop rapidly.

Just like the Nanzhou city in front of me, it seems to have sprung up overnight.

"By the way, how is the construction of the machinery factory going?"

Soon, Du Mingen came to his senses. There were a lot of children in front of him, but they were still very young after all. Every mouth needed to be fed, and the food needed was a headache.

Fortunately, although there are no local aborigines and a large number of slaves in the South African colony, they have attached great importance to the power of technology from the very beginning.

Steam cultivators and steam harvesters are widely used, both of which can be compared with the Liaodong area of ​​Daming, and in order to save transportation costs.

Liu Jin has even established a whole set of industries on the South African side, from textile factories to glass factories, from cement factories to steel factories, to the machinery factory that is currently under construction, and the shipyard that is already in operation.

These numerous factories not only provided a large number of jobs, but also allowed the South African colony to be self-sufficient, and even the cloth, cement, and glass produced could be exported to other colonies and vassal states.

Liu Jin is very clear that if you want to create wealth, you must rely on traditional farming. Only by relying on technology as the primary productive force can you create more wealth.

Simply speaking, in terms of farming, in traditional farming, even if you are given cattle and horses, a farmer can't grow a few acres of land with hard work and diligence.

But relying on agricultural machinery, with steam cultivators and steam harvesters, a farmer can easily cultivate hundreds of acres of land.

The South African colony is sparsely populated, the land is fertile, open and flat, and is very suitable for large-scale mechanized farming. Therefore, from the very beginning, the southern colony has attached great importance to the use of agricultural equipment.

Steam cultivators, steam harvesters, steam rice mills, flour mills, etc., as soon as Daming appears, the South African colony will soon be able to use them. Now there is a machinery branch factory, which can produce, Develop various machines.

"It has almost been built, and it is expected to start production by the end of the year."

Zhang Ye replied.

"Can it be put into production at the end of the year?"

"In this way, we still have to buy a lot of steam cultivators and steam harvesters from Daming this year."

Upon hearing this, Du Mingen thought for a while and said.

"Yes, I still have to buy a lot this year. I have placed an order very early, and it is estimated that they will be shipped in a month or two, so this year's farming season will not be delayed."

Zhang Ye nodded, and then he suddenly remembered something and said: "Wa and North Korea have recently developed colonies in West Africa, hoping to buy food from us. Should we also go to West Africa to seize some colonies?"

(End of this chapter)