Chapter 1566 Transoceanic Transportation: New Jinshan
If we say that the immigrants transported by the official organization for free are mainly agricultural immigrants who are mainly engaged in land reclamation and reclamation.
However, most of these partially self-funded or completely self-funded immigrants actually signed up on their own, and their purposes were different, but a considerable number of them went there with the mentality of getting rich overnight.
How to become rich overnight?
Gold rush!
This is not a joke, it is a fact!
What was the name of the largest colony in the North American Empire?
New Jinshan!
As the name suggests, this Xinjinshan is actually a colonial city built on a gold mine!
Before the Tang Dynasty officially established an administrative agency here and established the new Jinshan Prefecture, hundreds of Datang gold diggers gathered here!
And this is also where North American mining companies started!
The Tang Empire originally chose to establish its first formal official colony here and establish Xinjinshan Prefecture because there were gold mines here, which attracted a large number of adventurers to go gold mining.
Many people, whether they were in the past or now, go to Xinjinshan just to hunt for gold.
Of course, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is basic. In fact, most gold diggers end up with nothing. Only a few can actually find a large amount of gold and become rich overnight.
Although most people can also find gold, in fact the money they get from gold will be squandered by them.
Those who really make money are actually local mining companies, or practitioners who provide services to gold prospectors.
But even so, many people still come to Xinjin Mountain to pan for gold every year.
Well, no matter whether it is true or not, most people in the empire now believe that North America is full of gold.
Not to mention private gold diggers, even capital is still interested in North America. Mining companies will be established to organize manpower to explore and mine gold mines in North America.
Among them, the most successful and famous one, which was even used as promotional materials by the Immigration and Reclamation Department, was naturally the North American Mining Company.
This mining company is registered in Shanghai and has its headquarters in Shanghai, but its actual business is in North America. It is the first company in the Tang Empire to develop minerals in North America. It is invested by many domestic businessmen.
It was established and is now a listed company, with many institutions holding shares in the company.
Because they own a large number of mineral mining rights and exploration rights in North America, their market value is not low.
This company has gone to North America for exploration a long time ago. Now, 30% of the large and small gold deposits discovered in Xinjin Mountain are from their company's mining areas. At the same time, they are also surveying and mining gold deposits in more places.
Or silver mines.
They also need a lot of labor for this!
The empire strictly stipulates that no matter whether it is on the mainland or in a colony, as long as it is under the control of the empire, any institution or individual in the empire is not allowed to employ any indigenous people.
Regardless of whether it is a hired worker or a slave model, it is not allowed.
Of course, there are exceptions, that is, indigenous people with temporary residence permits from the Tang Dynasty are not included in the restricted ranks.
However, the number of indigenous people with temporary residence permits is very small, because their source is very single, that is, after the empire conquered a certain area, it issued temporary residence permits to some civilians or captives living there.
Remember, only some civilians or prisoners have relatively high requirements. For example, in order to avoid religious contamination, they are usually forced to change their beliefs. Domestic Buddhism and Taoism can be chosen at will, but they cannot believe in other messy religions anyway.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was no religious freedom. The only legal religions were Buddhism and Taoism recognized and reformed by the Religious Department under the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Empire. All other religions were illegal, including the original Buddhism and Taoism that had not been reformed.
The reformed legal Buddhism and Taoism are naturally different from the original so-called religions.
Because Li Xuan openly became the God Emperor and appeared in Taoist classics, what else can you expect...
Li Xuan is a staunch successor to Islamism who grew up under the red flag. He is a staunch atheist. In Li Xuan's view, religion and everything else are just feudal superstitions.
If it cannot be exterminated, it must be reformed!
How to change it?
Since you have to believe in some god, that’s fine, but you have to believe in me as a god!
To put it bluntly, if there must be a god in this world, God, then this god can only and must be Li Xuan!
Those indigenous people all have a mess of different religions, and they come from different places and believe in different religions. If they are not brainwashed, if they are put together, they will probably start a fight!
Therefore, if you want to obtain a temporary residence permit in the Tang Dynasty, you must believe in the reformed Buddhism and Taoism and believe in Li Xuan as a god!
At present, the total number of indigenous people who have obtained temporary residence permits in the Tang Dynasty totals only 10,000 people. Most of them are Portuguese, and some are Spaniards, Safis, Ottomans, um, and Tatars. Basically
They are all civilized natives, the kind who can reason!
As for the uncivilized natives, the Tang Dynasty did not regard them as human beings, and they still wanted temporary residence permits. This is too much!
There are only tens of thousands of temporary residents, which means that companies developing business overseas cannot employ a large number of indigenous people.
There was no way, there were no natives in the area controlled by the Tang Dynasty, so naturally there was no employment.
The Tang Dynasty these days was more xenophobic than any other country in human history.
The Tang Dynasty officials maintained such a tough and even seemingly unreasonable ethnic protection policy. In fact, this can be seen from many policies of the Tang Dynasty.
And these similar policies are generally extended from concepts such as the right to survival!
For example, the army of the empire wants to obtain the land for the people of the empire to survive!
If you bring a lot of natives to the land that the empire has worked so hard to acquire, is this land still considered the people of the empire?
The Tang Dynasty worked tirelessly to colonize North America, hiring or even enslaving a large group of local natives to work for them, and it seemed that they were making money.
But you still have to feed them before they can work. Even slaves have to live to work!
However, even if the food they eat is grown by themselves, it still uses the land of the Tang Dynasty.
It’s nonsense to use the land of the Tang Dynasty to feed a group of alien natives!
Therefore, the empire prohibited any institution or individual from employing indigenous people in any way, including slaves.
Organizations and individuals that want to develop business overseas can only hire citizens or temporary residents of their own country.
Although the cost will be very high, which will make many companies developing business overseas miserable, the empire has no plans to let go of this. Anyone caught hiring indigenous people will be severely fined, and the first offender will be even more severely punished.
will be sentenced to death.
The punishment is much greater than hiring illegal immigrants in future generations.
However, in fact, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below!
Imperial institutions and individuals cannot hire natives within the control areas of the Tang Dynasty, but they can hire them outside the control areas!
For example, many trading companies will set up trading stations, trading houses, and other offices in foreign cities. These overseas institutions also employ many local indigenous people.
Of course, the laws of the Tang Dynasty obviously did not care about matters on foreign lands. Even those lands theoretically belonged to the Tang Empire and the Holy Emperor.
But now it’s not because the empire is too busy, let the natives take care of these lands first!
Therefore, the official empire does not care about matters outside the control area.
Speaking of the North American Mining Company, some of the many minerals they discovered on the western coast of North America are located within the Datang control area, and some are not within the Datang control area. As for the minerals outside these control areas, North American Mining
The service company hires local indigenous people to mine!
In the mining areas within the control area, you cannot hire indigenous people. If you want to mine, you can only immigrate from the country. Although mining is a very dangerous and hard work, the empire is free to hire and no one is forcing it.
You are not going to mine.
This time, there were actually about 300 employees of the North American Mining Company on board the Pacific. They were all hired by the North American Mining Company at a high cost, and they were going to be brought to North America for mining. They had to give them a home.
Fees, wages must be paid.
However, even if these three hundred people are employees of the North American Mining Company, they are the same to the Immigration and Reclamation Division.
The Immigration and Reclamation Department has always been very welcoming and even encourages companies to hire employees to work overseas, and will also provide certain subsidies to reduce the company's costs.
For these three hundred people, the Immigration and Reclamation Division also provided boat ticket subsidies!
Anyway, as long as people come there, the Immigration and Reclamation Department will welcome you and give you subsidies no matter who you are or what you did in the past.
The Pacific carried more than 2,600 people this time, not including the crew!
In addition, it also carries nearly a thousand tons of additional cargo, some of which are various types of food, fresh water and other supplies, and some of which are ordinary cargo.
Although the Pacific is a passenger ship, its cargo hold is actually very large and can carry a large amount of cargo.
And this time the voyage was not limited to the Pacific, there were also five other ships!
Although the other five ships are all ocean-going ships of over 1,000 tons, they are completely incomparable to the Pacific, which has a full load displacement of more than 5,000 tons.
The other thousand-ton ships nearby, in front of the Pacific, are like the huge difference between children and adults.
After the people were loaded onto the ship and the cargo was loaded, Captain Sun began to order the ship to set sail!
However, it is naturally impossible for a huge ship to leave the dock by relying on its own power. It requires several steam tugboats to push it away from the dock. Then the huge steam engine on the Pacific begins to drive the propeller, slowly pushing the Pacific towards the center of the river.
Then it headed towards the Yangtze River.
At this time, the Pacific Ocean had officially begun its first transoceanic voyage!