Chapter 1727, the success of the South African colony
Tianjin Sihai Commercial Bank Headquarters Building.
In Li Chunyang's office, Li Chunyang had just returned from overseas in the past two days.
Sihai Trading Company is a famous large trading company in the Ming Dynasty. It owns a large number of factories, workshops, maritime trading houses, plantations, farms, pastures, etc., and even has a large colony in East Africa.
It can be said that the Four Seas Trading Company is now definitely a giant. It even has its own colonial army in overseas colonies. It can be said that the sky is high and the emperor is far away.
Not long ago, Li Chunyang inspected the colony of Sihai Commercial Bank to see the development of the colony and decide whether to continue to invest more.
The colonial establishment of the Ming Dynasty was completely different from the colonial establishment of Europeans in history.
The Europeans established colonies in order to plunder wealth from the colonies. They did not regard the colonies as their own land, and had no intention of operating and developing them properly.
But the people of Ming Dynasty were different.
The Ming Dynasty established overseas colonies and vassal states with a large amount of investment, building ports, building cities, cultivating farmland, and bringing in a large number of immigrants. This was truly treating the colonies as their own land and caring for their own home.
To work hard to develop.
Therefore, many colonies and vassal states invested a large amount of money instead of blindly plundering wealth from the colonies.
In the eyes of Ming people, this land belongs to them, so they must manage it well and cherish it well.
Whether you plant it yourself, or simply buy slaves to plant it, the land deserves to be treated and managed well, so that you can gain profits.
A large number of people are constantly immigrating overseas, creating beautiful cities one after another in the wild overseas, turning the wild lands into the new cradle of the descendants of the Ming Dynasty.
This is true whether it is a vassal state or a colony established by a trading company. Everyone is trying every means to develop their own colonies and vassal states, treating them as the most precious wealth that can be passed down from generation to generation.
Many vassal states and colonies spent a lot of effort to attract immigrants, giving money, land, and slaves, just to attract more Ming people to settle down in their colonies and vassal states.
Therefore, the investment in the colonies was very large, but the output was far less than the investment. However, the people of Ming Dynasty were willing to do this. There was no other way. Who allowed the land plot to be deeply rooted.
"I invest every year, every year. The financial pressure is too great."
"The Kunlun slaves who are native to Africa are really unable to support the wall with mud. They are of no use at all. They can neither learn nor teach anything."
Li Chunyang was extremely troubled when he thought of the colonies in East Africa under the Four Seas Trading Company.
It is unmistakable that Sihai Commercial Bank is very rich, but as the family is big and has a big business, there are many places where money is needed, especially the colonies under Sihai Commercial Bank. Millions of taels of silver are invested every year to attract immigrants and build
Cities, ports, road construction, etc., you can throw millions of taels of silver into them every year without even seeing a blister.
The most lacking thing in the colony now is labor force. Therefore, it attracted a large number of Ming people to immigrate and purchased a large number of slaves. It also gave some opportunities to the local Kunlun slaves in Africa.
However, the Kunlun slaves really can't hold up the wall. They are good at eating, drinking and having fun. It is more difficult for them to do things and learn things than to reach the sky.
"If I had known earlier, I should have learned from the South African Colonial Trading Company and expelled all the Kunlun slaves. It would have saved me the trouble. Although the South African Colonial Trading Company did not have many people at first, it developed extremely rapidly. Now it is possible
I built my own boats, used a lot of machinery for farming, and the grain, vegetables, and fruits produced have been sold throughout Africa."
Li Chunyang naturally thought of the South African Colonial Trading Company, which was established by Liu Jin and the nobles from the capital. The South African colony was very different from other colonies and vassal states.
The South African colonies always adhered to the Ming Dynasty's strategy.
Slaves, they only wanted female slaves, and they were picky and selective. They only wanted beautiful and tall female slaves, and they did not want male slaves at all. The local indigenous people were also ruthlessly expelled and massacred by them.
Originally, it seemed to everyone that relying on this method, the development of the South African colony would definitely be very slow. After all, there are talents and everything, just relying on the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, and the area of the South African colony is very large.
It can only develop in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.
A model like Ningguo's large use of slaves and emphasis on the use of local people was the most successful model. It allowed Ningguo to become strong and developed rapidly, and this was what everyone was trying to emulate.
At the beginning, the development of the South African colonies was indeed much slower than that of many vassal states and colonies, and a large amount of money had to be invested every year.
Even within the South African colonial trading houses, there were many disagreements and different opinions, but in the end it was Liu Jin and Zhang Mao who insisted on following their own lines despite all the opinions.
Time flies, more than ten years have passed.
The South African colony began to exert force here, because they insisted on following their own route, taking the route and path of the pure Ming people, and purchased a large number of female slaves for the Ming people who immigrated there.
Therefore, the population of the South African colony began to explode rapidly. At first, only hundreds of thousands of Ming people immigrated there, plus millions of female slaves were purchased.
More than ten years later, the population of the South African colony exceeded 10 million for the first time, and it is still growing at a terrifying rate.
The new generation of Ming Dynasty people gradually grew up, and the South African colony was a place where new education was fully implemented. There were no traditional private schools, and there was no need to take exams in the Four Books and Five Classics. It was all new education.
These new generation Ming people grew up under the new education. They began to join the work and continued to exert their great strength.
In addition, the South African colony had attached great importance to science and technology from the beginning, so Liu Jin transferred part of the industry here, which laid the foundation.
The South African colony has begun to exert its strength. It is the strongest in terms of scientific and technological strength, industrial strength, economic strength, and agricultural strength among the overseas colonies and vassal states.
It has its own steel factories, a large number of textile factories, shipyards, glass factories, cement factories, machinery factories, etc., as well as a large number of farms, using cultivators and harvesters on a large scale. The cultivated land area is large and the output is high.
The grain, vegetables, and fruits produced began to be exported in large quantities.
After overcoming the initial difficulties, the South African colony ushered in a period of rapid development. Because of the single tribal structure, all of them were Ming people. Even if the proportion of mixed blood in the new generation was very large, they were still descendants of the Ming people.
It is also the culture and education of the Ming Dynasty people.
There is no complicated tribal structure, and the South African colony attaches great importance to education, science and technology, which also makes the South African colony an overseas industrial place second only to the Ming Dynasty.
What can be made in the Ming Dynasty can also be made in South Africa. Even the shipbuilding factories in South Africa are now able to make large steam ships. The steel smelted by the steel plant cannot be used up by itself, and it can also be exported to surrounding areas at high prices. Colony, vassal state.
Instead of digging for gold and silver, hunting elephants for ivory, or relying on slaves, the South African colony also achieved great success and laid a solid foundation.
The South African colony even has several roads running through major immigrant towns, and is planning to build two railways to connect several major cities.
Li Chunyang went to visit his own colony, and also went to the South African colony to meet with Taiping Marquis Du Mingen. The detailed tour of the South African colony also made him regret why he didn't copy the homework more thoroughly.
You might as well learn all aspects of the South African colony and learn from Liu Jin, otherwise your colony would not have become a useless existence now.
You said you should continue to invest money in it, but it seems to be a bottomless pit. You don't know how much money you have to invest in it, and it seems that you can't see much output yet.
The few gold mines that have been discovered cannot produce much gold in a year. They are just a drop in the bucket. The African elephants are hunted less and less. If hunting continues indiscriminately, they may become extinct by then. The South African colonies Here, they actually protect these African lions and elephants and have established a large nature reserve.
If we don't invest money in the colony, the development of this colony will be too slow. It will only take the year of the monkey and the horse to achieve something. After all, this is also the colony of my old Li family. Many shareholders are also waiting for it to be a kingdom in the future and be passed down from generation to generation. , passed down to one’s descendants.
It is tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away.
"Money is needed everywhere."
Li Chunyang sighed, there was no way, it was impossible to give up. It was not easy to get a colony. These were small independent kingdoms. Except that they could not call themselves king or emperor, they were no different from a country in other aspects.
There have been many people who wanted to be emperors since ancient times, and it is even more so now. Overseas vassal kings, colonial governors, etc., the two brothers have become the kings of Myanmar here in Myanmar. What is it like to live a small life? Reluctant to come back.
Li Chunyang also has a headache when he thinks about money. The owners of the dignified Sihai Trading Company also have to worry about money. They are all short of money. The family is big and has a big business, and there are many places to spend money.
"My boss, this is a summary of the major events that happened in the Ming Dynasty and the Beijing-Tianjin area when you were no longer in Beijing and Tianjin."
At this time, someone handed over an edited newspaper and reported to Li Chunyang the major events that occurred during this period of time in the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, because of telegrams, Li Chunyang knew basic things even overseas, but some minor matters still needed to be reported.
