"If you want to ask where the number of non-national labor workers in the country is the largest, you have to count the Brazilian area!" Xuan Hao, who represented the owner to come to the wharf to "select goods" in a Huaiyang restaurant in Huhua Port Terminal District, was listening attentively to the speech of a young man.

"Look at how many old forests are here, how many farms are here, how many plantations are here!" The young young man held a wine glass in his left hand and waved his right hand in front of him, saying with a full momentum: "It can be said that this is one of the most dynamic regions of the local economy. Not only is there a lot of surplus funds flowing into here, but the remaining funds from the Dutch West India Company, Gena* Republic, and the Principality of Tuscany have all flowed into here. Ah, by the way, there are more Republic of Venetians now. I heard that several Venetian merchants arrived in the capital by boat and are applying to establish a coffee plantation in the port of Hue. Haha, look, with so many people coming to Hue to invest, how could there be not many non-national labor workers here?"

"Yes, compared to this place, the Namib Desert area where we have been active all year round is really desolate and backward." Another older man also picked up his wine glass and continued: "Hailan Port and Whale Bay Port have a small population and a shortage of supplies, and there is no entertainment and entertainment. It is really impossible to compare with this place. To put it bluntly, it is just a place where I make money. If it weren't for the rich fishery resources and the seals were in groups, who would be happy to go there? When I make money for a few more years, I will leave the boat and the company to the kids below, and I will withdraw my shares and take the money back to Luoqia's hometown to retire."

Speaking of which, the Namib Desert area has now almost become a paradise for fishermen, fishing merchants, leather merchants, and animal fat merchants on the east coast. Perhaps because of the serious land desert, whether it is the British, Portuguese, Dutch, or other colonists, they are not interested in this vast arid land. After all, there are still a lot of land on this planet with fertile soil and suitable climate waiting for them to occupy and colonize. Why should they squeeze into such a barren and arid desert?

Therefore, the Namib Desert (between the Orange River where people mined diamonds on the east bank to the Portuguese territory of Angora to the north) became an exclusive colony for the East Bank. There are a large number of "gold diggers" who come to find diamonds, fishermen who are attracted by abundant fishery resources, hunters who hunt sea animals for fat and furs, and of course, merchants who buy the above-mentioned specialties, such as merchants who come from the river center to purchase animal fat (partially consumed, partly soap), and leather.

In short, in the two spontaneous settlements of Hailan, the only two people on the eastern coast of the Namib Desert, in the two ports of Whale Bay, except for a few farmers who grazed cattle and sheep and planted vegetables, there are many lawless and wealth-chasing people. These people either come from their hometowns or from the Hezhong area. One common feature is that they only regard the Namib Desert as a place to make money, not a place to settle down. After making money, they will eventually have to return to their hometown, just like these brothers who are drinking and chatting.

"Uncle Zan, what are your plans? I smell the fishy smell on the boat now and want to vomit. Sometimes I want to go ashore to live a stable life. How many old guys who went with us to engage in fishing in the Namib Desert near the sea of ​​the Namib Desert are still there? Not many more! Those who died of storms, those who were captured by pirates, those who died of illness, those who fought to death, those who could go home to retire smoothly with a large sum of money. We are lucky, and we still have to do it all, and it is true that we will stop when we make money." The young man who spoke first turned his eyes to the middle-aged man sitting at the bottom of the Eight Immortals table and asked: "Actually, if you weren't for your old age, you would have formed a brand new Zhongguo Army in Hue area this time, it would be a good opportunity. Uncle Zan, have you been obsessed with your military career? This opportunity is a pity."

"What a pity, Simon! You're so stupid when you blow too much sea breeze? What kind of troops is the Zhongguo Army? Anyone with a little older qualification here knows that it can be called a unit? What's the difference between it and the mob! Besides, who is the opponent of the Zhongguo Army this time? The French! The French army has been spreading across the continent for almost 30 years and has almost no rivals! They can mobilize more than 200,000 troops at will. Are you afraid? Just relying on the crooked melons of the Zhongguo Army, I'm afraid it will be defeated in one battle and even a single fight. Haven't you seen that Mr. Conelis of the West India Company once visited the training of the Zhongguo Army in a temporary barracks outside the city. After returning, he kept his face black. The meaning was obvious.

Satisfied!" The older young man curled his lips and looked at the young young man and said disdainfully: "Our Uncle Zan is now a poor person. How could he get involved in such a mess? If he beat the natives in the country, it would be fine. Now he is going to Europe to fight against the French. No one with a little bit of brain will do this, right? Are French people so easy to mess with? It's not worth it to be a waste of money. If I want to say, what we talked about before is more reliable, that is, we have to withdraw our stocks and go to Hue to open a plantation. Although it is impossible to get rich overnight, the steady business is always more stable than the days when we chase cod on the Atlantic Ocean, right?"

Xuan Hao, who was sitting on the table next to him, nodded secretly after hearing this. He said that he, Mr. Xuan, hated the decision of his superiors to form the Zhongguo Army in Hue area. The reason was nothing special, but there was too much pain. They left the logging camps, wood processing farms, farms, plantations, brick kilns where they worked, and went to nearby recruiting sites to seek opportunities to sign up for the Zhongguo Army. To put it bluntly, they felt that fighting on the battlefield was better than working in the tropical jungle that was terrifying, especially when most of these places were wilderness, it was too easy to swallow life and damage people's health, and it was not even much worse than the battlefield.

But for entrepreneurs like the proclaimed owner, the non-national labor workers who finally fooled him and ran to the army, which is always a very depressing thing, because no one works! Especially, most of them are still very harsh in their labor workers, and there are many violations of arrears of wages and paying wages in kind. The labor workers have been dissatisfied with them for a long time. This time, they have the opportunity to jump out of the contract openly and escape from the sea of ​​suffering. How could they be unhappy? Therefore, even though they knew that they might be going to Europe to fight with the French, there were still a large number of non-national labor workers who resolutely signed up and decided to try their luck.

This time, Xuan Hao came to Huhua Port. In addition to routinely conducting some goods for daily necessities for workers and families in logging camps and wood processing plants. The main thing is to check whether there are any extra labor workers in the offices of several major labor companies on the dock to hire. This is what the owner has repeatedly told him.

But things don't look very smooth. Now with the severance of Russian immigration, Ireland and Italy immigrants are becoming increasingly rare. All parts of the country have gradually lacked labor workers who do dirty, tiring and rough work. Any new faces appear in the market, they will basically be snatched away. On the one hand, a large number of laborers in the East Coast are bound by artificial policies on the land, while on the other hand, the market is extremely eager for labor. This contradiction has made non-national laborers very popular for many years and gradually become a stable big business, but now the business is obviously a bit impossible!

"Of course I support opening a plantation, otherwise you wouldn't agree to it when you asked me for a time. And I have some connections in the official position. You don't have to worry about applying for land and licenses. Xiao Zhu, your old man, is also the number one figure in Luoqia County. He has many business partners and can purchase construction materials, labor tools, livestock, grain, cloth, medicine and other necessities at a relatively low price. But this is not enough, we still lack people! To put it bluntly, it is a lack of non-national labor workers who can accept low wages! Where does this come from?

Get it?" The middle-aged man slapped his wine glass on the table made of pine wood boards of Parana and sighed, "You have also seen that the labor force in this manpower market is becoming increasingly rare, and no ships have been transported by ships for a long time. This will cause trouble, and the country will form the Zhongguo Army in Hue and fight with the French. This greatly intensifies the tension of labor on the market. What can we do? You can't just hire the people of our country to open a plantation. Not to mention whether it can be hired, this cost alone will make our products uncompetitive. It's a pity!"

This is the truth. For a moment, few people had nothing to say, only helpless sighs. Xuan Hao felt a little distressed when he heard this. He was so sad that the boss arranged for recruiting 32 non-nationals in the labor market in Hue Port to make up for the forest farm and the shortage of employees in the board factory, and no longer had any big expectations.

There was a sound of commands by the dock outside the window. Everyone who was having a drink and chatting looked out the window. They saw a long-lost merchant ship transporting non-nationals just approaching the port. Hundreds of ragged and unkempt men and women got off the boat one by one, and then entered the quarantine center next to them, preparing to undergo a fifteen-day quarantine and learn some rules.

The sudden arrival of these people made Xuan Hao and others feel that the labor problem that had troubled them for a long time seemed to be solved, but soon they were disappointed again. A carriage with the East Coast Building Materials Company logo outside the carriage almost drove into the quarantine camp next door at the same time. It seemed that they were going to negotiate and handle all the procedures.

This perception made everyone realize that these new non-nationals probably have no share, because they are obviously "people from the country" and no share in others. You should know that the people who can compete for labor with the giant company East Coast Building Materials Company have a great background, and these people here obviously do not have them.

After sighing heavily again, several people looked at each other, smiled bitterly, and began to think in their hearts: When the political consultation meetings of each county were held at the end of this year, they must instigate representatives from their hometowns or industries to make suggestions at the meeting, and the country will step up to increase the introduction of non-national labor workers. For this reason, it doesn’t matter if you pay more money, and you must ensure sufficient manpower. As for letting the country change its major policies and cancel the national treatment of new Eastern immigrants, let them start from non-nationals (this can release up to 60,000 laborers every year, and solve most of the problems in one go). Sorry, these people are not so brave yet, and they are afraid of being shot by the army!

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Just as Xuan Hao and others sighed about the lack of labor, more than 700 Zhongguo* soldiers had already been recruited in the military camps in the suburbs of Hue City, not far away, were undergoing restorative training. The Army Department only sent a young lieutenant staff officer to serve as training officers, obviously not taking these people too seriously. It is no wonder that Conelis, the representative of the Dutch West India Company, was disappointed after seeing it, and hurried to the East Port to report to Dutch Ambassador Hironimus van Bevreninghe. At that time, this lord came to Hue Port to negotiate a black slave business. He was authorized before departure to check the troops that were said to be on the expedition.

The training status of the infantry battalion of the Zhongguo Army was speechless as soon as he saw it. Isn’t this the norm for the army temporarily recruited by many countries without standing troops in the old continent? Beggars, hooligans, bankrupt merchants, and serfs were everywhere. They barely understood a little discipline under the harsh training of officers’ whips and military sticks, and then they went to the battlefield and became a locust army that everyone feared. They had no sense of honor, no sense of mission, and no sense of responsibility. Such an army could undoubtedly not fight tough battles, hard battles, and their combat effectiveness was not even comparable to Germany and Swiss mercenaries. Therefore, Conelis would report to the ambassador as soon as possible.

However, Mr. Van Beverninghe may be destined to be disappointed. Because under the continuous instigation of the army system, the Executive Committee is now somewhat confused. Some executive committee members do feel that it is unnecessary to send 4-6 mixed battalions that have been fully trained for a long time to fight in the United Provinces, because if they are lost, the backbone of the East Coast Army may be crushed and cannot recover in less than ten or twenty years.

Based on this consideration, some executive committee members agreed to the army's small actions and planned to send some miscellaneous cannon fodder troops to the United Provinces to replace some regular troops that were originally planned to go on expedition to reduce risks. They also prepared the Dutch to blame him for the previous one and two regular battalions, and finally the Dutch would have to leave it alone.
Chapter completed!