Two ships, one in front and one behind, drove into the Uruguay River.

These are two "small boats" with a tonnage of only about 300 tons (are a very large and medium-sized ship in Europe). They were auctioned at a special auction of smuggled goods inspected by the customs. They were slightly modified and repaired locally. Now they have been used to run the ocean trade, and there is nothing inappropriate.

Of course, there are some differences in the goods loaded by the two ships. The first ship is full of goods from India, Australia and Persia, including madder grass, rough silk (Punjabi silk), caramel, gems, insect paint, aphrodisiac, benzoin, fennel, mohair (produced from the mountainous areas of Australia, is the flagship product exported by Australia in recent years. It has high prices and is mostly made for rich people). It has rich varieties and high value.

Indian goods have been selling well on the East Coast for many years, and people are still very popular with them. Various goods are often in short supply, so there are many merchants engaged in this trade. Among them, Datou is naturally a state-owned East African transportation company. However, with the economic development of the East Coast and the growth of the wealth accumulated by the people, various small-scale private trading companies have also developed like mushrooms after a rain, and have maintained a high growth rate in recent years.

It is them who sold a large amount of Indian goods to the East Coast year after year. The total amount of this trade is so large that it makes the East Coast a trade deficit against India at the moment when trade is very strong around the world. It is a surprising thing. A large number of Indians have created huge wealth, but due to the influence of poverty, closure and small peasant economy, they are very unaware of the import of external goods, just like mainland China. The East Coast people, Portuguese, Dutch, British, French and other European merchants have worked together for more than a hundred years, and only allowed Indians to accept a few types of goods, including steel products (this is the fist goods exported to India by Britain), hardware, muskets and cannons. Commercial development is not very ideal.

Fortunately, the East Coast people do not regard mercantilism as the things in their bones as Europeans. They advocate free trade and eliminate trade barriers in markets around the world. Therefore, they do not care much about the "Chinese fever", "Indian fever" and even "Mexican fever" (a series of Mexican goods represented by tequila, cochine, and raw paint). Most of the imported products from the East Coast are primary products, and no matter how much they buy, they will not threaten the local industries. However, what they exported in the past were industrial products, and everyone knows how much profit it is.

Following this ship full of Indian Ocean specialty goods was a special ship, that is, an immigrant ship from the Far East. The captain of the ship was Zhang Yilan. He was in his thirties. When he was a teenager, he followed his family to South Africa to do business, opened quarries, and set up plantations (growing sorghum and wheat), but none of them were too profitable. In the end, he simply joined the Renjun trading company of the East Coast veteran Li Renjun, and started the tobacco and black slave business in New Kurland, and then he accumulated his first pot of gold.

After becoming rich, Zhang Yilan was tired of this kind of game of multi-angle trade on both sides of the Atlantic. He was born from a Ming Dynasty immigrant descendant and was full of interest in China on the other side of the earth. He had always planned to go to Jinan, Shandong where his father was born and grew up, and see what it looked like and how the customs and customs were different from the east coast. Therefore, after confirming that most of the family's property would be inherited by his elder brother, he left home with a few thousand yuan of floating wealth. He first took a smuggling merchant ship in a pretty good condition, and then bought some hardware products, steel bars, soap, wool velvet, medicines, dyes, etc. that he thought could be sold at a high price in the Far East, and went straight to sea.

There were more than 30 sailors on his ship, actually they didn't need that much, but the ocean trade situation was complicated, so they would usually be equipped with more staff in case of emergencies. Only a few seven or eight were from the East Coast. They were all hired by Zhang Yilan for high salaries, all from his hometown Yiling County, a quiet small county located on the southern foot of Dingjun Mountain.

The remaining sailors were divided into two parts, most of which were recruited Italians. Due to various reasons, these people were unwilling or did not find jobs for farming, and the construction team was unwilling to go. Instead, they were more interested in sailors with high wages, not only had high basic salary, but also various bonuses. They were also allowed to carry a suitcase of a specified size to load various goods. In addition, there were a small number of Indians hired through gray channels. These people were sent to overseas colonies to reclaim land according to regulations, but when they hid on the ship, no one could find them.

In short, because of the stability of local life in the East Coast and the relative abundance of the people, apart from the navy with high social status and strong sense of honor, many young people are unwilling to be sailors. The reason is nothing more than boring and dangerous life, and they are not in a state-run state-run ocean transport company's average age is rising, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find new sailors. As a result, the incentive measures can only be greatly improved to recruit more young people to participate in the navigation industry. Otherwise, who is full and is full and can be gambled with you in the huge waves? Is it fun?

Compared with state-owned ocean-run trade giants, the way private captains recruit sailors is a completely different way. They usually use the township party as a bond to form a group, and each person contributes money, effort, or technology, all occupy part of the profits of this business. On this basis, they recruit some non-national labor work as sailors because their wages are low (just like the Dutch directly kidnapped the Germans and the Scottish people boarded the ship to act as sailors), which can effectively save costs.

Moreover, these sailors with complex backgrounds recruited will not be unhappy. They are generally people who are short of money and are not very interested in farming step by step. Therefore, they go to sea to act as sailors under the temptation of high returns, bet on their lives with God. If they win, they will go home and enjoy happiness. If they lose, they will be buried in the belly of fish, and the last trace in this world will disappear.

Zhang Yilan's ship was loaded with more than 200 immigrants from Ningbo. Due to the large number of local people and few jobs, many people boarded the ship in a confused manner under the means of half-coaxing and half-tempting by Zhang. When they were in Qingdao Port, they had already registered and compiled by the Ministry of Immigration and the State Administration of Development. For this reason, they also paid Zhang Yilan a subsidy of 20 yuan per person, which was more than 4,000 yuan in income.

Of course, this is not the entire income of their ship. In fact, after arriving at the final destination, Daxing Port, the local county government will also give them a financial subsidy of ten yuan per person, and employers (state-owned farms, ranches) will also pay the same amount. In other words, Zhang Yilan and the others will receive a financial subsidy of forty yuan on each healthy immigrant who arrives on the east coast. This is quite a lot. Their ship earns almost nine thousand yuan this time.

If we consider the high shipping ticket fees that these Eastern immigrants need to pay, it is obvious that they have no money to pay shipping tickets, so they can only owe it first. After arriving on the East Coast, they deducted their total income from their immigration journey from their wage income in the previous few months. In terms of business behavior, it is attractive enough and worth continuing. Not to mention, the goods they brought to the Far East when they set off were also sold at a good price locally. The Japanese copper blocks that were used to press the bilge on the return trip were also of high value in the local area, so the overall income is considerable. Although it is not as good as the income from selling raw silk, porcelain, and tea from the Far East (not everyone can get these goods), it is not as good as the top and bottom. Compared with many merchants from the British East India Company who sat in Guangzhou for a year, they could not get the goods they wanted and the bankruptcy situation was much better, right?

It is worth mentioning that ship owners like Zhang Yilan who are engaged in private immigration business take the Malacca route in pursuit of timeliness. Including the time of rest in the middle, it takes about eight months, which is twice as fast as the government-led immigration transportation route. Therefore, the Dutch East India Company controls the Malacca Strait and the Sunda Strait. If they insist on blocking these areas and refuse to rest and replenish East Coast immigrant ships in Malacca, Ceylon Island and other places, then this route will become very difficult, and it is not an exaggeration to say it is aborted. Therefore, in Asia, East Coast people and Dutch people can be said to be holding each other's key points. Perhaps East Coast people have the upper hand, but this does not mean that the Dutch people cannot cause harm to them, although they may never dare to do such stupid things.

According to the Ministry of Local Immigration, there are currently about twenty private ships engaged in this type of ocean-going immigration business, and they can add more than 5,000 immigrants from the East every year, which undoubtedly strongly supports local development. After seeing the benefits of this, the East Coast government has begun to focus on guiding and accelerate the cultivation of this market and advocate new opportunities for development. Even, they have set their minds on some foreign captains, especially those Portuguese, hoping that they can use transporting Eastern immigration as a business like they did decades ago, although East Coast people can no longer pay them a super high price of 400 yuan per person.

The combination of official immigration and private immigration is undoubtedly of great significance in the context of the depletion of immigration sources. It is also magical for those private ship owners to use various means to reap some people willing to go to sea and do things that the official cannot do. As of the middle of this year (1686), after unremitting efforts of all parties, the total population of the East Coast Republic of China in the East Coast of China has been estimated to have reached a high of 6.232 million, and for the first time in history, it has exceeded the six million mark, which is very symbolic.

Among these people, the number of Ming people is about 1.777 million, accounting for 28.5, which is undoubtedly the backbone of the population; the proportion of Europeans is not much different from before, and it is in a slow decline, accounting for about 13.2-20, followed by 42%, and the remaining ones are basically Indians. According to the country's policies, blacks and Indians are both sent away. Therefore, if you don't think of a solution, the non-national labor group that once made great contributions to the economic development of the East Coast will shrink to a surprising level, which does not seem to be a good thing for the East Coast. Therefore, this caused the previous officials of the Nancun Water Plant to pass on messages on behalf of others and ask Goshkin to find a way to "engage a big business" in Ukraine, which is said to be due to the lack of coolies.

By the way, I seem to have forgotten to mention one thing before, that is, even Eastern immigrants who come to the East Coast on a private boat can automatically obtain Eastern Coast nationality. It is the same as official immigration and is uniformly included in the resettlement plan formulated by the General Administration of Development of the State. Compared with them, European immigrants are much more difficult. Each of them has to work on the East Coast for five years and pass the Chinese dialogue exam before they can apply for nationality.

This is not an easy task! You can just go to the streets of Qingdao Port to ask someone, and he can tell you a pity with a look of pity. What's more, I heard that there is a call for amending the "Houseland Law" in the East Coast recently, that is, when the Founder's Parliament meets, it is necessary to focus on whether to extend the term of the non-national labor worker's work from five years to seven years to further squeeze their blood and sweat. Therefore, compared with them, they will automatically obtain nationality and can divide the land into Eastern immigrants, and they don't know where the happiness is.

Many times, Zhang Yilan feels lucky for these people, because the East Coast government is sacrificing the interests of all old citizens to subsidize their new immigrants. This kind of thing may not be possible to continue. Compared with them, non-national labor workers who have been sweating for five years on forest farms, mines, farmlands, swamps, sewers and construction sites for five years seems to be the correct "operation model". These five years are equivalent to their tickets to join the East Coast, which is expensive!

"I don't know when this kind of business can be done." Seeing the ship slowly approaching the port, Zhang Yilan stood bored on the front deck, thinking in his mind: "But even if the government cancels the captive subsidy for Eastern immigrants in the future, I will try my best to continue this business. At most, the price of ship tickets will be increased. Moreover, at that time, the colonies in the Indian Ocean will develop very well. They should make some profits in doing business along the way, and they should not lose too much."
Chapter completed!