Chapter 286 It’s really not for sale
The Hebrews would rather give up their faith than insist on staying. Amur’s people-oriented development route has played a huge role.
Nowadays, in European and American countries, even the most developed countries such as Britain, France and the United States, there are still a large number of sweatshops. The strength of a country has nothing to do with its civilians. Ordinary people have not shared the dividends of national development.
Vladivostok has relied on welfare policies to attract immigrants from the very beginning. On the premise of ensuring survival, the two magic weapons of education and medical care have been used with almost no disadvantages.
For East Asian countries, as long as they can survive, many people are willing to immigrate to Vladivostok.
The Trans-Siberian Railway is only constructed in the summer and will be suspended before winter. Therefore, when winter comes every year, how to relocate hundreds of thousands of Japanese and Korean workers becomes a big problem.
For the common people in the three East Asian countries, having enough food is a luxury, and they are lucky if they do not starve to death.
Amur Railway workers don’t say that they eat plenty of food and meat every day, but they still have no problem eating. They also provide extra meals during traditional Russian festivals. For many railway workers, this is undoubtedly a paradise.
So every winter, many railway workers are unwilling to return to their hometown even if they stay in Amur to mine.
Compared with the Russian workers who go on strike at every turn, these Korean Japanese workers are all model workers.
The Amur Railway Command once implemented a competition system among railway workers, but it was forced to stop after only one month.
In order to win, there are really workers who work more than 16 hours a day.
The railway command was forced to stop in order not to exhaust the workers to death.
Only then did George realize that he was still narrow-minded.
When Yasan first granted Amur to George, George was worried that the Japanese in the Amur region would become a hidden danger during the Russo-Japanese War. Therefore, after Mikhail came to Amur, he assigned the Amur region to of Japanese descent were wiped out.
It's completely unnecessary now that I think about it.
Today's Japan is not the Japanese Empire that lost consecutively to the Qing Empire and the Russian Empire.
But Japan is struggling desperately to survive, trying every means, even women can be sacrificed.
This kind of Japan is not even looked down upon by the Qing people, so naturally it is impossible to have any cohesion, let alone deliberately defeat the Russian Empire.
Since Amur has been able to import Chinese on a large scale, it has become less repulsive to Koreans in recent years.
Then why can't we absorb Japanese?
If nothing else, the officers and soldiers of the Siberian Fleet still like Japanese women very much.
Milyugin and Mikhail have a good impression of Japanese workers.
Low salary, few requirements, more work, correct attitude, hard work and no complaints -
This is the best subordinate for any manager or capitalist.
"Every winter, there are many Korean and Japanese workers who would rather live without a kopeck salary. If possible, they are even willing to move their families here because they don't want their daughters to become prostitutes when they grow up, let alone Let his son die of exhaustion in the factory before he grows up."
Milyuging hopes that George can change his attitude towards the Japanese.
"The Japanese are building warships. Sooner or later they will become a threat to the empire."
George once again emphasized the Japanese threat theory.
"So what, if a war breaks out between Japan and the Empire, they can even provide us with intelligence."
Mikhail's words startled George.
But if you think about it carefully, it doesn’t seem impossible.
George can’t remember exactly when the Russo-Japanese War broke out.
Definitely after entering the 20th century.
If you calculate it this way, there will be at least ten years left.
So George had time to train a group of intelligence personnel to collect intelligence for the Russian Empire.
But liberalizing Japanese immigration will also cause security problems, and the Japanese government will not let go of this opportunity.
So this is a double-edged sword.
George was not noble enough to use any illegal means to obtain information. Whether it is legal or not depends on whose standpoint you are standing.
From the standpoint of the Russian Empire, all means of obtaining intelligence are legal.
"If you insist that Japan will become a threat to the empire, then we should try."
Milyugin knew how to convince George.
George didn't even expect there was a boomerang here.
Amul is not George’s Amul alone.
Since both Milyutin and Mikhail think so, let's try it.
The Yuriev Palace rarely holds several banquets a year, and the New Year's dinner is definitely a must.
As usual, Catherine invited Concubine Min again this year.
Gaozong, as a family member, arrived in Vladivostok with Concubine Min.
What surprised George was that Emperor Gaozong and Concubine Min actually learned Russian!
Although he is not yet proficient in it, Gaozong's Russian is already good enough to communicate with George.
This is really a heart that can be expressed in words.
The relationship between Goryeo and Amur has become increasingly close in the past two years.
Goryeo provides human resources to Amur, and Amur provides protection to Goryeo. The weapons of Goryeo's new army were even donated free of charge by Amur.
Gaozong was very satisfied with the performance of the Goryeo New Army, so he took the initiative to ask George to expand the size of the new army.
The total population of Goryeo was nearly 13 million, and the total number of new troops trained by the Qing Empire and Amur was only 8,000.
Gaozong's requirements are not high, as long as the military strength can be increased to 10,000 to protect the capital of Goryeo.
Amul must be responsible for the weapons, equipment, and even daily supplies of these 10,000 people.
Gaozong was willing to hand over the Goryeo Customs to someone managed by George if George agreed.
After the Opium War, the Qing Empire could hand over customs management to the Germans, and the same could be said for Goryeo.
Of course, compared with the Qing Empire Customs, the Goryeo Customs had little business.
The foreign trade volume of the Qing Empire is still very high, and the customs is rich in oil and water. It is said that Hurd made at least 5 million taels of silver in the Qing Empire.
Goryeo's main foreign trade comes from Amur. Although there is not much oil and water, it has a good attitude and deserves encouragement.
"Ten thousand people are too few, let's say twenty thousand."
George has long been interested in Korea again.
Regardless of whether it is out of fear or peace, it is impossible for Amur to expand its army in a short period of time.
But if we wait until the war breaks out to expand the army, it will definitely be too late.
Many of George's plans require violence to be achieved.
So George must go through a curve to save the country in order to achieve his goal.
“Duke, I don’t know how to express my gratitude!”
Gaozong's hands were shaking with excitement.
Unlike Meiji, Gaozong had no ambitions and his main purpose was to survive.
Gaozong also wanted to make Goryeo strong.
But being caught between the Qing Empire, the Russian Empire, and Japan, Goryeo had no chance of becoming strong at all and could only choose to hold it firmly with one thigh.
(End of this chapter)