Three hundred and tenth chapter rectification three
After sailing against the current for half a day, a few security agents who had infiltrated the labor force arrived at their destination on a small steamer.
While the ship was docking, several intelligence officers from the Ministry of Security looked around to observe the surrounding environment.
To the west of the river bank are rolling mountains and dense virgin forests.
The east side is located at the edge of the virgin forest. Small patches of shrubs and weeds spread out in disorder on the flat ground. The sight extends into the distance, and the eyes are filled with rich green and hazy mist.
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The flat land on the east side of the river bank is the land they want to cultivate. If nothing unexpected happens, this group of workers will work on the land under their feet for two years until the wasteland is reclaimed into a regular plantation.
The first batch of more than two hundred workers who came ashore carried simple axes, hatchets and other tools into the forest. The lush branches and green leaves covered the sky in the upper part of the forest. No wind could pass through the blockade formed by the branches and leaves and reach the interior of the forest.
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The hot, closed primeval forest is like a big stuffy box, torturing the more than 200 workers below.
Sweat beads the size of soybeans dripped from the forehead and fell on the worn and faded coarse cloth straw sandals. The sweat gathered and even the straw sandals became wet.
The virgin forests in northern Argentina have climate conditions close to those in the tropics, and the natural environment is hotter and more humid than the Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian regions in the south of the mainland. When ordinary Chinese from mainland China first arrive here, they have to go through a six-month adaptation phase.
The bosses of Yixing Shipping Company did not have time to give their workers time to adapt. The ocean-going ships arrived in South America. After necessary health inspections and immigration registration, the Chinese immigrants who only had two days of rest had to experience two years of hired labor.
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The substantial increase in productivity brought about by the second industrial revolution changed the living conditions of ordinary people. The Chinese who fled from the mainland took transport ships to South America to seek hope of survival. They sweated like rain every day and worked in plantations like animals.
Like a puppet deprived of emotions, there is no time for rest and entertainment, no time to think about the future, and some are just trying to endure for yourself or your family to survive.
The roar of steam machinery brought technological progress and gave ordinary people an organized and fast-paced lifestyle.
However, compared with the classical agricultural society, Chinese workers have lost the pastoral pastoral style of classical rural life, the freedom to work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and in their spare time, they have lost the ability to "pick chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and see the southern mountains leisurely."
of natural tranquility.
In a certain way, industrial development based on the struggle of ordinary Chinese workers to survive is a historical setback in a specific period. It is the bloody price that must be paid to accumulate primitive capital in the early days of the country's establishment.
Relying on the people at the bottom of the country to obtain the original capital for industrial development is a last resort choice for a conscientious national leader. However, if the sacrifices of the people at the bottom are turned a blind eye, ten years after the founding of the country, the achievements of industrial construction will still be entirely attributed to the king and the National Defense Forces.
In terms of contribution, if businessmen and some meritorious people are not stopped in time from stealing the national capital accumulated by ordinary people with their hard work, and then allowing them to become the monopoly class and new vested interests, then the new ruling order will inevitably fall into the earlier
The whirlpool of history will sooner or later be overturned by the dissatisfaction and anger of the people at the bottom.
The rotten leaves and wood under the virgin forest have been accumulated for hundreds or thousands of years. The thick rotten leaves are nearly half a meter deep. When the Chinese workers walked on it, it was like stepping on layers of cotton beds.
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Unknown poisonous insects and snake ants often live in the thick layer of rotten leaves. One afternoon when the Chinese workers were working in the virgin forest, eight people were injured by poisonous insect bites.
Too many Chinese workers were injured. Continuing to order workers to work may lead to more casualties. Therefore, the supervisors responsible for supervising this group of workers temporarily suspended the reclamation tasks and gave more than 200 Chinese workers a rare rest time.
In the evening, more than a dozen bonfires burned alone near the river bank. Groups of Chinese workers who had worked hard for a long time gathered together in three or five, wearing only a pair of coarse shorts to cover their bodies, half lying in the clear water with high spirits.
In the river, the cool water washes away the sweat and fatigue on your body.
The river near the flat ground is a rare place to cool down and rest in the virgin forest. Not only the Chinese workers lay in the water to escape the heat, but even several stewards and clerks from Yixing Company chose a good place to go into the river to cool down and escape the heat.
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The Chinese workers stayed in the river for about half an hour. It was about time for dinner. Everyone left the river one after another, put on their coats and prepared to eat.
"Everyone, please be quiet. I have something to tell you before we start dinner."
More than two hundred Chinese workers came up from the water. A steward stood among the crowd and said, "There were a few minor accidents when we started working today. Eight workers were injured. For everyone's safety, we gave you a half-day rest."
, but the progress of reclaiming the plantation cannot be slowed down. I just discussed it with several stewards and decided to start setting fire to the wasteland tomorrow morning. First, burn the few bushes on the periphery of the forest, and then gradually open up wasteland deeper into the forest.
, everyone, have a full meal tonight, have a good night's rest, and be energetic enough to work tomorrow morning. As long as you all work hard and work hard, we can reclaim the wasteland in front of us and plant sugar cane, rubber, and cocoa.
After two years, not only will you be able to repay the money you owe your employer, but you will also be able to save a sum of private money to marry a wife..."
The steward of Yixing Company loudly outlined a better future life for the Chinese workers in front of the bonfire. Most of the Chinese workers who had just arrived in South America and did not understand the actual situation of Yixing Company were attracted by his words and stared at the steward of Yixing Company with eyes filled with laughter.
Revealing beautiful hopes for future life.
"Brother, you don't seem to agree with what the steward said?"
On the periphery of the crowd, the intelligence officer noticed a man with shaggy and messy hair and a gentle appearance. While everyone else was listening carefully to the steward's speech, he was the only one with a dull expression and didn't care at all about what the steward said.
"I don't know how many times I have listened to his nonsense, and my ears get calloused every time I hear it."
The man curled his lips disdainfully and said, "I arrived in South America two years ago. Because I was weak and couldn't do heavy work, I worked as a coolie on a plantation owned by Yixing Company for two years. I didn't pay back the original boat trip.
No, they arranged for me to work with you again."
"Guan Xiongtai behaves like a scholar. How did he end up working as a coolie in a plantation like us?"
"A poor and failed scholar is not much of a scholar."
The gentle man mocked himself and said, "It was a common practice in the Manchu government to sell officials and titles. Even if I spend money on promoting people to be scholars, I may not be able to buy a county magistrate who is in short supply, let alone a poor scholar like me."
"Brother, I am also a poor man. I heard that under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the disasters continued for several years without improvement. Five provinces including Zhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu were all affected by disasters. People in the affected provinces wandered to other provinces to survive, and some fled from the provinces.
There are nearly 10 million people, and we don’t know when this disaster will end.”
"The Qing Dynasty's court was ruthless and the people were angry. If there was no way to survive in the Central Plains, the next poor scholar would not take his wife, children, and children to abandon their ancestral property and go to South America to find a way to survive."
The Dingwu Famine that broke out in 1874 affected a vast area and lasted for a long time. From 1874, the famine only appeared in a few small places. By the end of 1879, about 20 million people died in various places under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Due to the impact of the famine,
Similar children, scholars and other low-level scholars are also in poverty, and there are many people who live overseas to survive. However, the Han Dynasty is developing rapidly and there is no longer a shortage of low-level scholars like it was ten years ago. Therefore, some people travel through private transport ships.
The lower-class scholars who join the military or smuggled to South America have no chance of directly entering government jobs...
The intelligence agents from the Security Department sent by Sun Bin dispersed and infiltrated into Yixing Company disguised as laborers, businessmen, etc., and then relied on their skilled intelligence skills and experience to continuously summarize the information they found in Sun Bin's hands, and then forwarded it to
The central government will make a personal review and decision made by Li Mingyuan.
