"Your Excellency, the most important task of the new year (1672) is to solve the problem of the decline in the number of non-national labor workers in China and the shortage of laborers and manual laborers. This is the latest requirement in the guidance for diplomatic activities sent by the local government." The secretary wearing a pair of glass glasses handed a document with the word "top secret" on the cover to Li Qing and said softly.

Outline documents for diplomatic or negotiation guidance sent from the local area have always been very high-level secrets. According to regulations, these documents are written in passwords, brought by quick contact ships or merchant ships to Amsterdam and handed over to Li Qing's secretary, and translated and copied by him who has the codebook and then handed over to Li Qing for review.

"People, people, or people, need people everywhere!" Li Qing gently rubbed her sore brows, sighed, and said, "Is it so short of people in the farm, mine, forest farm, brick kiln, wharf, construction team? I haven't returned to the local area for many years, and I don't know what the family has developed. It's so short of people. Where are the tens of thousands of Ming people who immigrate every year? Could it be that as Lao Wang said in his letter, they are all "bound" on the land? This is really bad!"

"Lao Wang" who wrote to Li Qing is the current deputy minister of the Ministry of Justice and the president of the Honorary Court. He was a close friend of Bai Siwen and others in the early days. At present, a large amount of capital in his family has been invested in the Xinxing Shipyard on the north bank of Yazi Lake and the forest development company run by the Genoa. It is considered one of the domestic industrial families in the East Coast.

As we all know, the logging and board processing industry that are extremely upstream of shipbuilding have always required a large amount of labor. Now, with the decrease in the number of foreign workers (at the same time, the number of workers who have become regular workers after five years has not decreased at all), their production and operation have begun to encounter some difficulties, such as the extension of the delivery period of ships, etc. The main reason is that the workers in the original forest farm and board processing factory immediately quoted the relevant provisions of the East Coast "Houseland Law" to apply for naturalization, which has caused great difficulties in the normal production and operation of these factories and mining enterprises mainly engaged in foreign workers.

No one can come up with any good solution to this point. After all, the working environment of labor workers is extremely harsh, the heavy work is very prominent, and the salary is very low. All of this makes everyone plan to escape from the huge pit that devours people's health and life whenever they have the opportunity, and then quickly and happily receive a five-acre share of land granted by the East Coast government in the border area, and from then on, they begin their career of striving for themselves.

And to be honest, the life of farmers on the east coast is really good, and the national policies provide a lot of subsidies to agriculture are also quite large. For example, the Northwest Reclamation Bank specially set up in kind loans for the peasant class, such as low-interest cash loans such as Brazilian rural financial cooperatives, and seed companies constantly launch new breeding grains. These have greatly increased the production enthusiasm of the peasant class and enabled them to maintain a certain standard of living. Although the income gap between them and workers has gradually begun to widen in recent years, overall, it is still possible, not to mention non-national labor workers who live in harsh environments all day long. Therefore, it is no wonder that when a five-year period is over, a large number of labor workers put away their luggage and flickered.

In this situation, the problem was not too big, because the number of labor workers was still growing in that era. However, since the year before yesterday, after the number of labor workers reached its peak, the severity of labor force in the source places such as Ireland, Italy, and Russia (of course, there are factors that restrict the local lords. After all, no one is stupid. People have let you abduct, where will I enslave people?), this problem began to be exposed, and it has gradually affected all corners of the East Coast industry. Who has made the current East Coast industry and agriculture depend on non-nationals more and more deeply? This is addictive!

So, after this situation lasted for two years, there have been some voices in the East Coast that questioned the Executive Committee's policies, that is, many people think that it is necessary to continue to expand the territory and continue to allocate land to new Ming immigrants? Because this has long since made the huge middle class of peasants, but the result has resulted in the lack of sufficient labor in industries such as logging, mining, road construction, river digging, construction, etc., and they can only find ways to find ways to work from foreign workers if they are not the second son of some families, the women who are unwilling to stay away from their hometowns and work in the county (the eldest son inherits almost all the property, especially real estate), and the current scale of industrial industry in the East Coast is not large enough, it is estimated that even industry and commerce will be affected to a certain extent.

"Haha, if you lack manpower, you can only find a way in the old continent. The Executive Committee's officials look down on me, Mr. Li, too much." After reading the documents slowly, Li Qing laughed and said, "Who made the immigrant treasures from the East automatically become citizens as soon as they come. Except for a few craftsmen, all the others are designated as rural household registrations and farm happily. But someone must do dirty, tiring, hard work, hehe, only European whites, African blacks, and American reds. Now, even these second-class, third-class, and fourth-class people are getting short of them. What kind of egg is the Executive Committee making?"

Li Qing's secretary is less than 30 years old this year. His father is from Ming and his mother is from North Korean. Therefore, after hearing Li Qing's complaints, he didn't say anything, but just whispered: "The special envoy, the country's existing major policies and guidelines do not seem to be very likely to change in a short period of time. We still have to actively respond to the spirit of the document..."

"I know how to do this." Li Qing waved her hand and interrupted the secretary's speech, saying: "Now the situation in the UK is becoming increasingly stable, its strength is increasing, and its industry is developing. For those who specialize in recruiting immigrants from Ireland, business is indeed becoming increasingly difficult for Mendes who specialize in recruiting immigrants from Ireland. I heard that in Manchester's silk cotton textile industrial area, a large number of Ireland began to enter the countryside to find jobs, and instead the original British farmers began to enter the city to work in large quantities, so it is impossible to find people from Ireland now; Batino, which mainly operates on the Apennine Peninsula, is similar. Italy, which was originally narrow and dense, has had a good weather in recent years, and the population and food have reached a balance. Now the number of immigrants has begun to decrease, but in the end, it is still a bit, although it cannot be expected more."

"Goshkinbimendes and Battino are both more and less tragic, but he has suffered some of the unstoppable disasters we have brought to him. Fortunately, the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish and Lithuanian Federation is tense, and the situation is about to break out, which gives us a chance to compensate him. The Crimean Tatars, this time, there will be a big business!" Li Qing closed the document, lit a pipe for himself, and said to the secretary while sucking the clouds and swearing mist, "Xiao Sun, please turn down some activities for me in the second half of the year, and say hello to Speaker Dwit again. I have to go to Istanbul once and meet the old Ottoman friends. If possible, I also want to go to Bekchisale to meet Grey Khan. The spirit of the document sent by the Executive Committee will be relied on these Tatar cavalry who come and go like the wind when it is finally implemented!"

What Li Qing said about counting on the Tatars is actually very simple, that is, the deeper and deeper conflict between the Ottoman Empire and Poland. The cause of the incident originated from the Ukrainian Cossacks. In order to get rid of the rule of the Poles, Peter Doroshenko, the leader of the Cossacks in the west bank of the Dnieper River, began to ask for help from the Ottomans and promised to recognize the Ottoman sovereignty over them. The Sultan accepted this.

However, as the relationship between the Kingdom of Poland and Russia gradually eased in the past two years, this was reflected in the fact that the two sides reduced the number of front-line troops garrisons, led by Peter Doroshenko, the Ukrainian Cossacks, were getting sadder. They were repeatedly defeated by the Polish cavalry and German infantry (employed by the Polish government) transferred back from the front, losing a large area of ​​territory.

As the Ukrainian Cossacks were about to be suppressed by the Poles, the Ottomans, who had ended the Cretan War, decided to get involved in this conflict, stand up for the Ukrainian Cossacks, crack down on the Poles' power on the northern coast of the Black Sea, and open up a new channel for the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, Yes, the Ottomans insisted on being involved in the conflict between the Kingdom of Poland and the Cossacks in order to occupy Polish territory and expand the power of the Sudan.

The one who decided to decide this war was Fahir Ahmed Koprulu, the former son of Davizi Mohammed Koprulu, and the former governor of Damascus. Fahir, who had served as the Ottoman Empire for ten years, had basically consolidated the power of the Koprulu family in the Ottoman court. At the same time, he took advantage of his father's east wind to hold the army firmly in his own hands and became the indisputable number one powerful minister of the Ottoman Empire.

There is no doubt that this guy was a militant, and his war with the Austrians, the Venetians, and the border conflict with the Russians all attracted his great attention. This time, the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, which was severely injured in the ongoing war with Sweden and Russia, came into his sight again and was selected as the opponent of the next war.

The number of troops mobilized by Fahir Ahmed Davizi is an astonishing number of troops. The large number of troops seems to be the consistent feature of the Ottoman Empire. Among them, the famous Ghanishari Legion and Spasi Legion dispatched a total of 30,000 people. Muslims in Damascus, Aleppo, Baghdad, Egypt, Athens, Sophia, Belgrade, Bucharest and other places. Christian lords also responded to send troops and prepared to go to the Catholic country Poland to "make a fortune". This part may have more than 100,000 people, which is enough to scare ordinary countries to death.

Of course, we must not forget the Cossacks of Ukraine and the Tatar cavalry of the Crimean Khanate. This part has a total of more than 70,000 people. Therefore, the total force of the Ottoman Empire after it merges with it is likely to reach an astonishing 200,000. It feels like you can easily beat Poland to the opposite side. Of course, this is just the idea of ​​the Ottomans.

Perhaps the goal of His Excellency Vizi was to rescue the Ukrainian Cossack Emirates and occupy part of the land in southern Poland, but as one of the main partners of the Ottomans, the East Coast people always focused on population, and this matter was mainly based on the Tatars. You should know that every time the Ottoman army went on an expedition, the cavalry of the Crimean Khanate always had to be accompanied by, ranging from 30,000 to 40,000 to 60,000 or 70,000. These cavalry had very strong mobility, strong combat power, and plundering. They would rob wherever they rushed (two hundred thousand people were robbed in Ukraine that year), and they had always been the main slave providers of the East Coast people.

It just so happened that the number of foreign workers on the East Coast has gradually decreased in the past two years, and it has gradually affected economic development. Therefore, the Executive Committee issued a red-headed document to Li Qing, asking him to find a way to collect the population. As the saying goes, someone gave him a pillow. The people on the East Coast are just worried about the shortage of labor. The Ottoman Empire has begun to be ready to invade Poland on a large scale, and has ordered materials and military mobilization in various places. The Grey Khan of the Crimean Khanate also received an order and planned to personally lead 40,000 cavalry to fight. This is the opportunity for the people on the East Coast!

It just so happened that the Crimean Tatars were also worried about the decrease in the source of slaves (no chance of war), because male and female slaves were one of the country's largest export commodities. Once this income decreased, the blow to their national finances was far from adding some grain plantations to make up for the gap. Therefore, when the opportunity to invade Poland, the Crimeans had long been full of energy to grab it, and then packaged and sold young male and female slaves to the East Coast in exchange for various supplies. As for the elderly slaves, of course, they had digested internally. Large farms on the north coast of the Black Sea were their destination. After all, exporting rye, wheat and barley to Italy is a big business.

"I understand, the special envoy, all activities in the second half of the year will be cancelled." Secretary Xiao Sun nodded, and then seemed to suddenly remember something, and reported to Li Qinghui: "By the way, the Marquis Montespan of France is here again. He just sent an invitation to invite us to the Wien Manor outside the city to have a small gathering, saying that there is something important to discuss. Look, this matter..."

"Wynn Manor?" Li Qing seemed familiar with the name, and then reacted after a while, and then "sprayed" and said, "It turned out to be the place where the noble ladies and people are looking for fun and tainted dirt! Montespan, an old widower (actually speaking, he is not a widower, but he is actually separated because his wife is Louis XIV's mistress), would choose a place and know that I am good at it! But forget it this time, I don't have time to play with them, Xiao Sun, let's refuse this matter. We will set off tomorrow and go to Istanbul! When we come back, we will meet the French for a while. Now nothing is more important than buying people!"
Chapter completed!