In mid-to-late October, the Wujiang River Basin has warmed up in full swing. After waiting for another month, many of the last chances of missing the autumn sowing area on the east bank - spring sowing. However, the newly established settlement on the banks of the Wujiang River (later Uruguay Paisandu City, named after the first group of residents came from Fuguo Town, Shandong), Yuer Township (Casablanca, the first group of residents came from Yuer Town, Shandong), Qingcun Township (Constancia, the first group of residents came from Zhongqiansuo Guards and their families captured by the Navy landing troops), and other places, this year's spring sowing is doomed to be delayed.

The reason is very simple. Their settlement has only been established for only two or three months, and the land has not been cleared yet, and there is not a single house. Well, maybe there are a few temporary adobe houses that can complete all preparations before the spring sowing begins. Therefore, their most realistic job is to wait until the fields are cleaned up and then replant a crop of potatoes in the short-growing period so that they can harvest more or less food.

However, in the gap between clearing the fields, these mud legs from the Ming Dynasty had to receive military training for militia arranged by the Wujiang Regional Security Command. This is an obligation that every adult man on the East Coast has to accept. It has been decided at the beginning of its founding, and there is basically no possibility of avoiding it - even descendants of time travelers must receive military training regularly. At this point, the government treats almost everyone equally, because this is the basis of the founding of the East Coast Republic and cannot be violated.

To be honest, the military training of the Civil 4☆ soldiers is still very formal, at least the number of live-fire shootings is very frequent, not to mention the discipline training, the whip in the hands of the officers is waving and making everyone frightened. In fact, in this era, the concept of standing army has just emerged, and its scale is very small. Haven’t you seen that during the Thirty Years’ War, countries recruited a large number of mercenaries to fight? Therefore, this makes European soldiers often receive sufficient or insufficient military training before the war, and the intensity and frequency cannot be compared with those of the East Coast who spared no expense.

In other words, in terms of training intensity and number of times alone, the East Coast militia actually exceeds most of the European armies, and live-fire training is comparable to those standing armies (the European standing armies are also rarely trained during peacetime). If war begins, the East Coast people will definitely be able to mobilize combatants who are shocked by the Europeans, and have a very good discipline and training level. The number is likely to be between 30,000 and 40,000 - this is a number that makes any hostile force coming across the sea powerless, not to mention that they have sufficient logistics, fortresses throughout the country and cavalry all over the mountains.

The immigrants in the Ming Dynasty were conducting military training, so the land cleaning and infrastructure construction could only be used to request a large number of Hejian slaves bought from the opposite side and some European immigrants. The Hejian slaves would not talk about him for now - they were the slaves they bought - those European immigrants are generally the "masterpieces" of the labor brokers Valentino and Mendes who cooperate closely with the East Coast people.

These two people have been working in immigration business for seven or eight years. Now that the capital is becoming stronger and the relationship between the Old and New World is becoming stronger and stronger. Therefore, the number of immigrants is becoming increasingly large - most of them come from Italy and Scotland. Among them, Valentino has set up multiple immigration collection sites in central Italy, specializing in collecting beggars, bankrupts, hunger, and people who have too many siblings in their family who cannot survive. In addition to searching in their own territory, the Portuguese agent Mendes also used his unique relationship network to travel to Scotland to fool those suffering Scots from the East Coast to work - Scotland was also overpopular in this era. You can see working Scottish workers everywhere in the streets and alleys of the Netherlands.

Together, these two people can bring about 2,000-3,000 Italian and Scottish migrant workers to the East Coast Republic every year, and strongly support various construction projects in the East Coast. They have basically a relationship with these so-called labor workers, that is, they transfer their brokers to the East Coast government for the next few years, and they need to work for the East Coast government (during the period, they can receive some meager salary) until they pay off the immigration fees owed. This repayment relationship basically does not have the possibility of defaulting on debts, and the cooperation between the two parties can be said to be each needed, which is extremely fair.

The white labor workers brought by labor brokers, the black labor workers sent by South Africa, the Indian slaves brought by the East Coast people themselves, and the Polish prisoners of war bought by the East Coast government, are probably not already 70,000 to 80,000 (these people are currently "non-nationals" and not included in the total population). These labor workers active in various parts of the East Coast, the indentured slaves used their almost free labor (their wages were extremely low, and some of them had no wages at all), and the semi-serf-like living treatment struggled to support the crazy infrastructure construction of the East Coast Republic nationwide, and greatly reduced the operating costs of the East Coast society and economy, which was outstanding.

Of course, they were not without hope. Black laborers were generally tribals conquered by the Black Eight Banners. After working on the East Coast for 3-5 years, they were immediately granted the legal Eight Banners’ status, and they were also given cattle and sheep, and they became "noble" bannermen. The future of Indians was in South Africa, New China and Australian colonies. After several years of heavy physical work - because of their impatience, their mortality rate was above 40%, they could be granted the status of East Coast colonies, and then went to various places.

The overseas colonies were pioneered and divided into lands; white labor workers, Polish prisoners of war were treated similarly, and they also needed to work for several years before they could gain freedom. Then they applied for their status as a national of the East Coast Republic of China according to the provisions of the Homestead Law. The only difference between them was probably that those Italian and Scottish labor workers could repay their debts in just 3-5 years, and they usually had a higher degree of freedom. The Poles were basically treated as prisoners of war, with limited freedom, and generally needed to work for 5-7 years to gain freedom.

In addition to these labor workers, there is a special group on the East Coast, namely free immigration. They generally come from the Livornia region and have close ties with the largest white group of Livornians on the East Coast. For example, some Livornians in Riga often receive money from East Coast ships or La Plata Bank. Then these people use the money they receive to call their friends to raise enough fees to hire a sea ship (usually a ship of the Hanseatic League), and then go to the East Coast to make a living by themselves.

It is worth noting that these people are usually with their families. After arriving on the East Coast, they can apply for official nationals as long as they learn daily Chinese dialogues. The superiors generally approve their naturalization applications faster. Therefore, on the East Coast, the Livornians actually have a profound sense of superiority compared to those white Europeans from other places. Although they are despised as barbarians in Europe and are discriminated against for not believing in Christianity, in the eyes of the East Coast people, the latter is a very valuable "advantage" because it means extremely low assimilation costs.

I don’t know if it is a historical reason or something. Livornia has always had more women and fewer men. Therefore, among the Livornians who come to the east coast, the number of women is more than that of men, which is very strange in the history of immigration in various countries. But it is not surprising that the business station in Riga in the East Coast Republic of China invests in funding some Livornian women to the east coast. Taoist churches have been doing this. Perhaps this is the fundamental reason why a large number of Livornian women go to the east coast.

The treatment of free immigration is naturally very different from contract slaves and labor workers. After all, they basically did not squeeze out the resources of the East Coast government - whether it was money or transportation capacity - but came by chartering a boat by themselves. Therefore, when they helped the East Coast people work, they could receive almost no less wages than ordinary people in the East Coast people (usually 80% of the salary). Therefore, they accumulate property very quickly. Often after the nationality is approved, they can already make up for some of the expenses of the land. The road of life is much smoother than that of the Poles, Italians, and Scots.

However, in terms of quantity, these free Livornian immigrants only account for a very small proportion of migrant workers, and most of them still receive low wages or even no wages to receive. Although these people's living benefits exceed that of the Old Mainland (the various construction bureaus under the Ministry of Transport will provide sufficient supply of grain, protein and fat), their work is extremely heavy (mostly heavy physical work on the construction site), and are hated by locals in the East Coast - because their low wages indirectly hinder the increase in wages of ordinary East Coast people.

Fortunately, many so-called "locals" on the East Coast had been suffering a few years ago. They were quite restrained in hatred for these migrant workers, and sometimes they could understand each other, which was not a big problem. Among the nearly 100 migrant workers working in Phu Quoc and other places, only about 20% of the free Livornian immigrants were, so the State Development Administration only had to pay a small fee to drive these people to work quickly, and their efficiency was quite good - the supervision of the police and militia of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is not vegetarian.

After all, the "Ming people" (some East Coast officials jokingly claim) need to conduct militia military training, so hard work such as construction can only be used to trouble these foreign workers. Anyway, as long as they work hard for a few years, they can enjoy the official identity of the East Coast citizens. As for the inequality of treatment between the two sides, it can only be blamed for not being ruled by God, but a pagan country where most of the men are yellow people. Please accept your fate! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!