Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1726, The Success of the South African Colonies

The headquarters building of Tianjin Sihai Commercial Bank.

In Li Chunyang's office, Li Chunyang came back from overseas only two days ago.

The Four Seas Trading Company is a well-known large trading company in Daming. It owns a large number of factories, workshops, maritime trading companies, plantations, farms, pastures, etc., and even has a large colony in East Africa.

It can be said that the Four Seas Trading Company is definitely a proper giant now, and its overseas colonies even have its own colonial army. It can be said that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, a proper kingdom.

Not long ago, Li Chunyang inspected the colony of the Four Seas Trading Company to see the development of the colony and decide whether to continue to invest more.

The Ming people's colonization is completely different from the Europeans' colonization in history.

The Europeans set up colonies to plunder wealth from the colonies, and did not regard the colonies as their own land, and did not intend to manage and develop them properly.

But Ming people are different.

The colonies and vassal states established overseas by the Ming people all invested a lot in building ports, building cities, cultivating farmland, and immigrating in large numbers. They really took care of the colonies as their own land and their homeland. strive to develop.

Therefore, many colonies and vassal states have invested a lot of money in it, instead of blindly plundering wealth from the colonies.

In the eyes of Daming people, this land is their own, so they should manage it well and cherish it.

Whether you grow it yourself, or simply buy slaves to plant it, in short, the land is worth treating and managing well, so that it will be profitable.

A large number of people also immigrated overseas continuously, creating beautiful cities one after another in the wild overseas, turning the barren land into a new cradle for the descendants of Ming Dynasty.

On this point, whether it is a feudal state or a colony established by a business firm, everyone is trying to develop their own colonies and feudal states, and regard it as the most precious wealth that can be passed down from generation to generation.

Many vassal states and colonies spent a lot of effort to attract immigrants, giving money, land, and slaves in order to attract more Ming people to settle down in their colonies and vassal states.

So the investment in the colony is huge, but the output is far less than the investment, but the people of Daming are willing to do this, there is no way, who let the plot of the land be ingrained.

"Investing every year, investing every year, the financial pressure is too great."

"The local Kunlun slaves in Africa are too muddy to support the wall. They are useless at all. They can't learn or teach anything."

Li Chunyang was extremely troubled when he thought of the colonies in East Africa under the command of the Four Seas Trading Company.

The Four Seas Trading Company is very rich, this is not wrong, but the family has a big business, and there are many places where money is needed, especially the colonies under the Four Seas Trading Company, which spend millions of taels of silver every year to attract immigrants and build Cities, ports, road construction, etc., casually pouring millions of taels of silver a year without even seeing a blister.

What the colony lacks most now is labor force. For this reason, it also attracts a large number of Ming people to immigrate, and buys a large number of slaves. At the same time, it also gives some opportunities to the local Kunlun slaves in Africa.

However, the Kunlun slaves are really muddy and can't support the wall. They are good at eating, drinking and having fun. Letting them do things and learn things is more difficult than reaching the sky.

"If I knew it earlier, I should have learned from the South African colonial firm. Expulsing all the Kunlun slaves would save trouble. Although the South African colonial firm didn't have many people at first, it developed extremely rapidly. Now it can be done." I built my own boats and used a lot of machinery to farm, and the food, vegetables, and fruits produced have been sold throughout Africa."

Li Chunyang naturally thought of the South African colonial firm, the firm established by Liu Jin and the nobles in the capital. The South African colony is very different from other colonies and vassal states.

The South African colony has always insisted on the strategy of only Ming people.

Slaves, they only want female slaves, and they are picky and picky. They only want beautiful and tall female slaves, and they don't want male slaves at all. The local aborigines were also ruthlessly expelled and slaughtered by them.

In everyone's opinion, with this method, the development of the South African colony will definitely be very slow. After all, there are talents and everything. Relying on the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, the area of ​​​​the South African colony is very large. Only in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse can it develop.

Ningguo's model of using a large number of slaves and emphasizing the use of local people is the most successful model. It made Ningguo grow stronger and develop rapidly, and this is what everyone is eager to emulate.

At the beginning, the development of the South African colony was indeed much slower than that of many vassal states and colonies, and a lot of money was invested in it every year.

Even within the South African colonial firm, there were many differences and different opinions, but in the end Liu Jin and Zhang Maoli resisted all opinions and insisted on their own line.

Time flies, ten years have passed.

The South African colony has begun to exert its strength, because it insists on following its own line, following the line and road of the pure Ming people, buying a large number of female slaves for the Ming people who immigrated there.

Therefore, the population of the South African colony began to explode rapidly. At first, only a few hundred thousand Daming people immigrated there, and they bought millions of female slaves.

After more than ten years, the population of the South African colony has broken through tens of millions, and it is still growing at a terrifying rate.

The key new generation of Ming people is growing up gradually, and the South African colony is a place where new education is fully implemented. There are no traditional private schools, and there is no need to test the Four Books and Five Classics, all of which are new education.

These new generations of Ming people grew up under the new education, they started to join the work, and they continued to show great strength.

In addition, since the South African colony has attached great importance to technology and technology from the beginning, Liu Jin transferred part of the industry here and gave it a foundation.

The South African colony has begun to exert its strength. It is the most powerful in science and technology, industrial strength, economic strength, and agricultural strength among overseas colonies and vassal states.

It has its own iron and steel factories, a large number of textile factories, shipyards, glass factories, cement factories, machinery factories, etc., as well as a large number of farms, and large-scale use of cultivators and harvesters. The arable land is large and the output is high. The grains, vegetables, and fruits produced began to be exported in large quantities.

After the initial difficulties, the South African colony has ushered in a period of rapid development. Because of the single tribal structure, all of them are Ming people. Even if the proportion of mixed blood in the new generation is very large, they are still descendants of Ming people. It is also the culture and education of the Ming people.

There is no complicated tribal structure, and the South African colony attaches great importance to education, science and technology, which also makes the South African colony an overseas industrial place second only to Daming.

What can be manufactured in Ming Dynasty, can also be manufactured in South Africa. Even the shipbuilding factories in South Africa are now able to manufacture large steam ships. The steel smelted by the steel factory can not be used up by itself, and can be exported to surrounding areas at a high price. Colonies and vassal states.

Instead of digging for gold and silver, hunting elephants for ivory, or relying on slaves, the South African colony also achieved great success and laid a solid foundation.

There are even several roads running through the main immigrant towns on the South African colony, and two railways are going to be built to run through several major cities.

Li Chunyang went to his own colony to see it, and also went to the South African colony to meet Taipinghou Du Mingen, and visited the South African colony in detail, which also made him regret why he didn't copy his homework thoroughly.

Simply learn all aspects of the South African colony and learn from Liu Jin, otherwise, your own colony will not become a tasteless existence now.

You say continue to invest money in it, but it seems like a bottomless pit. You don't know how much money you need to invest in it, and it seems that you can't see much output.

The few gold mines I discovered can't produce much gold in a year. It's a drop in the bucket. The African elephants are hunting less and less. If the hunting continues wantonly, it may be extinct by then. The South African colony This side actually protected these African lions and elephants and built a large nature reserve.

If you don't invest money in the colony, it will develop too slowly. Only in the year of the monkey will it be able to look a bit like this. After all, this is also the colony of my old Li family. Many shareholders are also waiting for the future as a kingdom to be passed down from generation to generation. , passed on to their descendants.

It is a pity that it is tasteless.

"Money is needed everywhere."

Li Chunyang sighed, there is no way, it is impossible to give up, and finally got a colony, which is an independent small kingdom, except that it cannot be called king or emperor, it is no different from a country in other aspects.

Since ancient times, there have been many people who wanted to be emperors, and it is even more so now. Overseas vassal kings, colonial governors, etc., the two Zhang brothers have become Burmese kings in Myanmar. I don't want to come back.

Thinking of money, Li Chunyang also had a headache. The owner of the dignified Sihai Commercial Bank also had to worry about money. They were all short of money. The family had a big business, and there were many places to spend money.

"Boss, this is a summary of major events that happened in Daming and the Beijing-Tianjin area when you were no longer in Beijing-Tianjin."

At this time, someone handed over an edited newspaper and reported to Li Chunyang the major events that happened in Daming during this period.

Of course, because of the telegram, Li Chunyang knew the basic things even when he was overseas, but he still needed to report some minor things.

(End of this chapter)