Chapter 154 Delivering "Goods"
"Okay, just take the person away!" Mikhail waved his hand and said to Giovanni.
"Okay, brother, be sure to contact me first when you have the goods next time." Giovanni shouted to Mikhail while sitting on the carriage.
Giovanilla's goods were farmers after the bankruptcy of Tsarist Russia, although Alexander II's reforms gave freedom to the serfs.
However, the local nobles will not engage in loss-making business. They use various means to squeeze the freed peasants as much as possible.
For example, land, as part of the compromise with feudal conservative forces, naturally gave priority to ensuring the ownership of land by landlords and nobles, and also provided compensation.
After liberation, the serfs obtained allotments of land (need to pay ransom). The area of the allotments was determined according to the region. The aristocratic landowners "removed the rough and extracted the essence", leaving fertile land and a large amount of forests and pastures behind. The poorest lands were given to serfs.
Even so, Tsarist Russia had a vast land and abundant resources. In terms of area alone, the land obtained by Tsarist Russian serfs was still considerable, but many of these lands had no value.
For example, in the northern part of Tsarist Russia, there was a large area of ice and snow where it was difficult for crops to grow. In the south, the sandy grasslands of Central Asia and rotten land in other areas were also given to serfs. In the end, the serfs spent three times as much money on the market. The land redeemed at high prices is all desert, cold, saline and other worthless land.
In addition to the small area (relative to the landowners' land) and poor quality, when dividing the land, the landlords and nobles intentionally scattered the farmers' land, causing the farmers' fields to be divided and fragmented, and The distances are very far, and many of them have no development value.
At the same time, after liberation, serfs lost the right to use corresponding production tools, such as cattle and horses, and farm tools were taken back by landlords.
In this way, although many serfs obtained land after liberation, it was difficult to develop the land, and the serfs were also saddled with a heavy debt.
However, the government had to ensure that the finances continued to be maintained and continued to charge heavy taxes on the liberated serfs. Many serfs did not live as well as they did before liberation after liberation.
Of course, the reform is not ineffective. At least it has cultivated a group of rich farmers. However, more farmers still go bankrupt and their land is re-annexed. In addition, the fertility rate in Tsarist Russia is very good at present. There are always people To go out and make a living, many farmers were forced to work in cities, or to return to farming for local landlords and nobles.
With such a surplus population, the Hechingen Consortium is naturally coveting it. Now that immigration from Germany and other places has entered a gentle stage, the surplus labor force in Tsarist Russia is just used to fill the vacancies.
What made Ernst most satisfied was that the price of women's labor in Tsarist Russia was much lower than that of men. To coordinate the population structure of East Africa, it was natural to try to allow different immigrants to intermarry with each other.
East Africa has been committed to increasing the proportion of mixed-race families, and the current results are very good. In addition to allowing Chinese immigrants to marry bought white women, white men will also marry women from Southeast Asia.
Of course, these are aimed at those populations that East Africa acquired through abnormal means. After all, East Africa exchanged them for real money or slaves.
As for whether both parties are willing, in any case, neither party has a choice in an arranged marriage. Only the East African government has the decision-making power.
The immigrants from Tsarist Russia are immigrants with low human rights. They were bought with money from East Africa, so their status in East Africa is only higher than that of immigrants from Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
The Hechingen Consortium contacted local powerful forces in Tsarist Russia through money transactions, and introduced local laborers at a price of 25 rubles per man and 17 rubles per woman.
Tsarist Russia is not Russia. There are Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic States, Belarus, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Finland...
So there are many channels to get people from Tsarist Russia. As long as the money is available, it won't be a problem.
Of course, the Hechingen Consortium did not introduce Slavs to East Africa on a large scale, but controlled them within a certain range. The most taboo thing when buying things is to be impatient, as it is easy for sellers to rip off customers. Therefore, the Hechingen Consortium plans to purchase immigrants on a small scale, so that the Hechingen Consortium can have more autonomy in terms of price and save costs.
At the same time, the staff of the Hechingen Consortium in Tsarist Russia can also have more energy to select high-quality immigrants.
It is best to come from a family of old Tsarist Russian serfs whose ancestors are three generations old and prosperous. They definitely have no culture. They only have a handful of strength and know nothing else. It will be effortless to assimilate.
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St. Petersburg.
This is the entire Russian region, a transit port for immigrants from Tsarist Russia in East Africa.
In other parts of Eastern Europe, it mainly passed through other ports. For example, Poland and other places under Russian rule had their own ports.
Giovanni took the purchased laborers to St. Petersburg to deliver goods.
"Giovanni, this time you will win the most people and teach the secrets to your brothers!" Maxim asked.
Giovanni said nothing, just stretched out three fingers. Maxim immediately understood that this was their rule, but he still said with a troubled expression: "Brother, three meals is too much. Two meals at most.”
“This is my dining experience, three meals is cheap enough! No, go find someone else,” Giovanni said.
"Okay! But you can't trick me!"
There was no other way, Maxim could only agree to Giovanni's request.
Giovanni was not stingy and began to impart his experience: "If you want to find the 'source of goods', you need to go to the countryside more often. Don't stay in the office all the time. Talk more with the local people." If you communicate with the noble landlords and have a good relationship with them, you will not have to worry about attracting people.
Don't just look for this person in the city. There are many unemployed farmers who want to go to the city. try to find He has gone to the city for work, so he must have his own channels, which are nothing more than relatives and friends, and people who can take the initiative to go to the city must be more lively and not so easy to deceive.
So I want to be there. It is definitely unreliable to fool people in the city, but it is different in the countryside. The nobles and landowners are more eloquent than us in facing the villagers
Moreover, many villagers are in debt, and their fate is in the hands of local nobles and landlords. There are also some rural people who can survive! There are several boys in the family who have no food to eat and always have to go out to make trouble.
At this time, if we go to the countryside, we can basically attract a lot of people. Of course, there are disadvantages. It will definitely cost more to deal with the local nobles and landlords, but it will save trouble..."
Giovanni is not afraid that Maxim will learn these experiences, so The areas they are responsible for are different and there is no competition.
Giovanni is responsible for the business near Moscow, while Maxim is active near St. Petersburg. In addition to them, they also have Poland, Ukraine, and the Caucasus...
(End of this chapter)