A building with a Nanyang company Jiaozhi branch was completed in Tokyo (Hanoi). The magnificent building and the surrounding yards combined together even surpass the Xizhawang Palace where the Zheng family lives.

But no one dares to say that the scale of this company is not in line with the rules. After all, this is an institution located in Jiaozhi, the major shareholder of Nanyang Company is the Ming Dynasty royal family. Although the Jiaozhi Kingdom claims to be the Dayue Empire, everyone knows that in name, the Jiaozhi Kingdom is just a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. The Jiaozhi King and the Jiaozhi Zheng clan are only at the level of a prince when they are taken to the Ming Dynasty, and they cannot even reach the prince.

The company's architecture is magnificent. Although its level is even higher than that of the Jiaozhi Palace, it is open to the people of Annan. Anyone who is willing can come in to visit. Of course, there is a company security team guarding the door with self-generated muskets and bayonets inserted into the muskets. As long as Annan people who do not carry the company's waist-baring cards want to enter the company, they must register and inspect before entering.

Many Annan people who know Chinese have passed the application and successfully joined the company and became employees of the company. Those employees who work in the building are called local white-collar workers by the Annan company.

"What does white-collar workers mean?" An Annan teenager asked the middle-aged man next to him.

The middle-aged man shook his head: "I don't know what it means. I heard that he is a company manager. I heard that there are also blue-collar workers, who work in factories and mines below. But I heard that the salary of blue-collar workers is not inferior to that of white-collar workers."

"How are their salary calculated?" the boy asked.

The middle-aged man didn't know after asking: "I don't know either. Let's go in and ask, can we know?"

So the two walked into the company gate, and the security guard standing at the entrance of the hall stopped them and asked them to queue up to register. The two followed behind the queue, and saw that the people in the queue were very long and were almost at the intersection of another street. However, since there were so many people queuing, there might be some surprises, so the two followed behind the queue and waited patiently.

The queue was still relatively fast, and soon the two of them lined up in front of the security guard.

The security guard opened a roster, pointed to the roster and asked, "Name, where is the man from?"

After the boy answered, the security guard wrote his name on the roster and asked him to press a handprint behind him. Then he put the boy in the company.

When I walked into the company compound, I saw that there were still many people queuing up inside.

Annan boy looked at the billboard next to the queue with a strong curiosity, but he couldn't read it, so he asked a person who looked like a company staff member: "Why are there so many people queuing here?"

The man said: "If you can successfully become an employee of our company and become a miner, you will earn one or two silver dollars a month. You work hard at home to farm and spread it out. Does each person have one or two silver dollars a year? Of course there are more people queuing up."

Nanyang Company recruits miners locally, and the salary is one tael of silver per month. This price is much lower than being a worker in the Ming Dynasty. In the factory opened by the Donglin Party of Jiangnan, a worker earns six taels of silver per month! The annual income of textile workers in the Ming Dynasty was about seventy taels of silver. Not only could they afford a big house, but they could also afford maids and concubines at home.

Although Zhao Peng tried his best to launch a female textile worker, even a female worker from the Ming Dynasty earned four taels of silver per month. Recruiting a strong labor force in Annan only costs one tael of silver, only one sixth of the income of a male worker from the Ming Dynasty and one quarter of a female worker. It can be said that starting a company in Annan saves a lot of labor costs for the boss.

However, this kind of salary is considered very low in Jiangnan, and when you get Annan, you will get a high salary. As a result, the local Annan who wanted to join the Nanyang Company signed up enthusiastically and competed to join.

It is not easy for Annan people to join Nanyang Company. You have to pass the interview before you can be admitted. The initial salary of a worker is one or two taels of silver per month. If you complete the task extra, there will be an additional bonus.

After having miners, Zhang Yuanwai began to lead people around to search for coal mines.

In fact, it is very simple to find a coal mine. Zhang Yuanwai has a map of the Annan coal mine branch sold to him by Zhao Peng. As long as you search based on this Annan coal mine distribution map, the error will not exceed one mile and you can easily find the coal mine.

"The loyal and brave man is really amazing. He even knows where the Jiaozhi coal mine is. It seems that he has never been to Jiaozhi." A company's security guard, actually a mercenary, said.

Mr. Zhang said: "Zhongyong Hou is the boss of the Jinyiwei. The Jinyiwei is well-informed. If he doesn't even know about the Annan Coal Mine, then the Jinyiwei under his command will stop working. It's better to go home and sleep."

In fact, this coal mine distribution map was not drawn by the Jinyiwei under Zhao Peng, but by Zhao Peng based on his memory. Although Zhao Peng is a historical novices, he is indeed a geography expert and is very familiar with the geography, mineral resources, economic crops and other information of various countries.

In Guangning Province, not far from Tokyo, it contains a large number of high-quality coal mine resources. These coal mines are shallow from the ground, and the depth of coal is only twenty meters away from the ground. It also has a large content and high-quality coal. It is a high-quality coal used for steelmaking.

If it were later generations, the coal seam was so shallow from the ground, it would definitely be more cost-effective to build an open-pit coal mine. However, with the technology of this era, twenty meters is not very shallow, so it still needs to be dug down to mine coal.

Because the tunnel does not need to be dug too deeply, in order to improve the efficiency of coal mining, Zhang Yuanwai felt that the tunnel was excavated by building large-diameter tunnels. The diameter of the tunnel was very large, reaching four meters, and the railway directly led to the coal tunnel. The workers only needed to push the mine truck into the tunnel, load the dug coal onto the truck, and then push the mine truck out.

The tunnel has a large diameter and is well ventilated, and the gas in the coal mine is easily emitted. The working conditions in the mine cave are also better, and there are labor-saving mine trucks, which are very easy to push. Therefore, the miners in Annan are very satisfied with this job.

In addition to recruiting miners in Annan, Zhang Yuanwai also recruited a large number of dock workers and engineering construction workers, built a giant port at the rented estuary of the ban river, and built a railway from the coal mine to the riverside at the Guangning Coal Mine. Everything was in progress in an orderly manner.

At this time, the Nanyang Company on Borneo Island sent someone to ask Zhang Yuanwai for help, demanding a large number of Annan miners to go to Borneo Island to mine gold mines. There were not enough Han people on Borneo Island.

At this time, the small town at the mouth of Kunjiangkou, Borneo Island, had become a big city under the construction of Sun Lin and Fang Qiyi. The Han people on this island were trained by Sun Lin to be soldiers of the whole nation. Almost all young and middle-aged Han people became mercenaries and adopted a two-pronged approach to the local indigenous people: all those stubborn cannibalism were exterminated, while those who traded with the Han people kept them, and opened schools in the local area to educate them.
Chapter completed!