Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1946, lazy Kunlun slave

A few days later.

Here, Liu Dazheng and Li Bianzhan, Governor of Taiyuan Colony, talked and laughed while visiting the textile factory here.

Li Bianzhan was Liu Da's senior when he was in university. When Liu Da was a freshman, Li Bianzan was a senior.

Although Li Bianzhan looks young, he is only in his early 20s, but now he is the governor of the Li family's Taiyuan colony.

Of course, the reason why he was able to become the governor of the Taiyuan colony at a young age was mainly because he was the son of Li Chunyang, a merchant from all over the world, and he was also the legitimate son. Therefore, like Liu Da, he was arranged to take over the family in Africa. important industry.

The size of the Taiyuan colony is quite large, almost the size of a province in the Ming Dynasty. Although it cannot be compared with the Western United Commercial Bank, the Mystery Land of South Africa, and Ningguo, for general colonies, the size of the Taiyuan colony is already considered Not too small.

This is the colony that Li Bianzhan's father Li Chunyang spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to establish with great difficulty, and it can be regarded as the Li family's own small kingdom.

"It's been a few years since I left, and the senior's demeanor is still the same, and now he is the governor of this Taiyuan colony!"

Liu Da looked at Li Bianzhan next to him. He came here as soon as he graduated, and he became the governor in a few years. Although there are reasons for his father, his own ability is beyond doubt. He was the emperor when he was in school. The man of the Polytechnic Institute.

"Liu Da, stop laughing at me."

"I'm really having a headache now. This governor is really not that easy to be."

"After you go to the South African colony, you have to help me more."

Li Bianzhan shook his head with a wry smile.

Although the area of ​​our own colony is not small, the resources are relatively poor. Gold, silver, diamonds, etc. have not been found, and there are even few elephants, and the ivory cannot be sold.

But these are nothing, the Li family is rich and the world is not short of money. The real headache for Li Bianzhan is that the development of this colony is full of difficulties, and it is too difficult to manage it well.

"Oh, what's the matter?"

"I think this Taiyuan City is still very prosperous and lively. The scale of this textile factory is not small. I'm afraid it needs to employ tens of thousands of people to operate it."

When Liu Da heard this, he was immediately full of doubts.

This original city is not small, with a population of hundreds of thousands. It still looks very prosperous and lively, and there seem to be many factories here. The big factory in front of you needs at least tens of thousands of people. large textile mills.

"Ah~"

"It's hard to say. It's all because my father was so soft-hearted and kind. He gave these Kunlun slaves the treatment of free citizens, which led to today's predicament."

Li Bianzhan sighed, and began to speak out slowly.

It turned out that when the Li family came here to build a colony, they were faced with a serious labor shortage. Therefore, on the one hand, they bought a large number of slaves to build and develop the colony, and on the other hand, they also put their ideas on the local indigenous Kunlun slaves.

Li Chunyang believes in Buddhism, he doesn't like killing, and he doesn't like too serious exploitation and oppression. At that time, he felt that these Kunlun slaves were very pitiful. They lived in primitive thatched huts. .

Of course, the main thing is to take a fancy to the labor force of the local Kunlun slaves, and want to make good use of the labor force of these Kunlun slaves.

Therefore, the Li family is one of the few colonies and vassal states that directly gave these Kunlun slaves free citizenship from the very beginning.

Originally, I wanted to give these Kunlun slaves the status of free citizens, and then teach them the culture of Ming Dynasty, so that they can become as hardworking, down-to-earth, and hardworking as the people of Daming, and then teach them farming and so on. It can be developed soon.

However, soon the Li family was dumbfounded. These Kunlun slaves are simply muddy and can't support the wall. They are all delicious and lazy. They mainly have food. Only then will they be willing to return to work.

As for learning, learn a hammer.

Even the simplest farming, Ming people are very industrious in farming, working hard to cultivate, sow, fertilize, weed, harvest, etc., and take good care of them.

But these Kunlun slaves, no matter how they are taught, they are still very lazy, and they are not willing to farm at all. Even if they are farming, they simply sprinkle the seeds into the ground, and then they don’t care, and they don’t care about how much they harvest in autumn. How much, anyway, as long as there is food today, as for tomorrow, we will talk about it tomorrow.

If there is no food, you can ask the Li family to ask for it, just make a fuss.

They are also citizens of the Li family's Taiyuan colony. The Li family can't ignore their life and death, steal, rob, and make troubles without food, so the law and order in the Li family colony is extremely poor, and production is very unstable.

Not only did they not get any benefits from the colony, but the Li family needed to invest a lot of money in the colony every year, and it became a piece of chicken ribs. If you don’t give up, you can’t bear to give up. What hope is there is really a headache.

".As far as the textile factory in front of me is concerned, if it were placed in our Daming, it would easily earn tens or millions of taels of silver this year."

"But you know, our factory doesn't make money at all."

"Look at the Kunlun slaves who work in this factory. They are all doing foreign work there. They are too lazy to die. When there is someone supervised, they will give you a decent job. If there is no one supervised, they can sit down all the time. to chat with."

Li Bianzhan pointed to the Kunlun slaves who were working in the factory and said helplessly: "A factory of mine needs to hire hundreds of supervisors to supervise their work."

"But even so, they always find various reasons to miss work, especially after the salary is paid, they often can not come to work for many days, unless the money is spent."

"This factory is often unable to operate. There are few people in this place and there are few people in that place. One group of people will not go to work today, and another group will not go to work tomorrow. It is very difficult to continue."

"Originally, our family also took a fancy to the cheap labor here, thinking that it would be enough for the people here to give one or two taels of silver a month, and the cost of the cloth produced could be greatly reduced. In addition, the climate here is good and the land is fertile. Whether it is growing grain, rice or sugarcane, it can grow very well.”

"But who knows, these Kunlun slaves are absent from work every now and then, and often don't come to work, coupled with laziness and slippery, resulting in extremely low output and extremely low efficiency in our factory. Cloth prices cost even more."

"Not only this textile factory, but also other aspects. If we Daming people do it, it will take a few months to repair the concrete road. But hiring these local Kunlun slaves to build it will take a few months." At that time, they couldn't even fix the roadbed, and they didn't even want to see the road built in a few years."

While listening to Li Bianzhan, Liu Da looked at the textile factory in front of him. He could see these Kunlun slaves in the textile factory chatting very lazily, and even sat aside directly. It's not their business.

Only when they saw a supervisor coming over with a whip, they would work in a decent manner, but when the supervisor left, they immediately went back to their old ways.

"Didn't you think about the piecework system?"

Liu Da thought for a while and said.

"It's useless. It doesn't work for them Kunlun slaves. Their envelopes are completely different from ours."

"They are very lazy. Even if it is a piecework system, they are unwilling to do more things. Before it is time to get off work, many people have already slipped away."

"If there is money in this pocket, they can stay off work forever."

"You have also seen the situation in Taiyuan City. You can see Kunlun slaves doing nothing on the road everywhere, so there is no way, we can only adopt the method of partitioning."

"We Ming people are divided into one area, and these Kunlun slaves are in one area. The area where we Daming people are located is clean and tidy, while the area where Kunlun slaves are located is extremely dirty and messy."

Li Bianzhan shook his head helplessly.

"Now we really have nothing to do. We have tried all kinds of methods, but nothing works. They just can't support the wall with mud, and the development of the entire colony is extremely slow."

"That is to rely on the support of our Li family members. Otherwise, this place will soon return to the primitive tribal stage. They are fundamentally unwilling to learn and do it. They would rather bask in the sun than work, and would rather go hungry." The stomach is not willing to make money."

"There is no money or food, and you reach out to our Li family to ask for it. It is really speechless."

"Then why don't you learn from other colonies and degrade these Kunlun slaves into slaves?"

Liu Da thought for a while and asked.

"It's useless. They are still lazy after being reduced to slaves. They can only be driven by the whip."

"At the beginning, we should learn from the South African colony, and kill or drive out these Kunlun slaves who cannot be supported by the mud."

"It may be difficult at the beginning, but slowly and naturally it will become better and better. Now our Li family is in a dilemma."

"Using force to drive and kill them doesn't seem to work. They have a lot more people than us in Daming, and there is no rebellion or anything. But if this continues, there will be no hope."

Li Bianzhan shook his head and said.

"I see. It seems that my father has seen the true face of these Kunlun slaves clearly from the very beginning, so I don't want these Kunlun slaves."

Liu Da immediately understood why the South African colony did not want Kunlun slaves.

PS: Ask for tickets~~
(End of this chapter)