On May 20, the sixth year of the Era, at the dock of Guolin County, Dongyi, Beiyinzhou.
The former Isaac Roosevelt, now Luo Yi, took his whole family on board the official transport ship bound for Mozhou.
Luo Yi did not plan to enter politics when he was a boy, perhaps because he was not very interested in European, British or American politics.
After being admitted to the Dongyi Kingdom as a student and starting from the lowest level as a translator, he gradually adapted to the Ming-style yamen work.
After working as a grassroots translator for a period of time, he achieved excellent results in the assessment and obtained the rank of ninth grade official.
When officials in the Ming Dynasty obtained official status, they had to choose their future official direction.
Choose one of four directions: government affairs, criminal law, supervision, and staff.
After being selected, except for extremely special circumstances, you can only be promoted within the selected system for life.
What is a little special is the staff. After working as a staff for grassroots officials, there is an opportunity to transfer to the government affairs system in the future and become an official below the seventh-grade county magistrate.
The staff after the Renwu Dynasty were also official officials of the imperial court and were dispatched according to the floating official system.
No official can anymore hire his or her own personal staff.
After discussing with his father, Luo Yi judged that his origin as a Thai might hinder his promotion.
It is very likely that there is no chance to become a local official, and there is even less chance in the criminal law and supervision system.
The ones with the least restrictions are the staff. Although they have no actual decision-making power, they are relatively relaxed in terms of grade and salary promotion.
That's why Luo Yi chose the staff direction at the beginning, and then he took the exam every three years and was promoted step by step.
By the sixth year of Dagong, Luo Yi had already received the seventh-level treatment.
Now that the World War is over, the Ming Dynasty has begun to send the Taixi people from Yinzhou to the Mozhou colony. At the same time, it is also sending a large number of Taixi natives to Mozhou.
The entire operation requires sufficient personnel who can manage these complex immigrants according to the instructions of Ming's superior officials.
Luo Yi passed the examination as a student of Dongyi State at the age of sixteen, and then worked in Dongyi State Yamen for twenty years.
He himself is completely enlightened and is very familiar with both the Western and Ming traditions.
Such personnel are now very useful or even scarce.
In particular, they are obviously more reliable and loyal than the Thai and Western intellectuals on the mainland who have just surrendered and have just joined the Ming Dynasty system.
Therefore, Taixi officials like Luo Yi who were born in the Dongyi Kingdom now have an additional opportunity to advance.
Those who are already government affairs, criminal law, and supervisory officials can be promoted to Mozhou for promotion. They can also be directly transferred to government affairs officers if they were originally staff members.
But there is one condition, that is, you must bring your whole family to open up wasteland in the new colony of Mozhou.
The fixed assets they own in Dongyi Country can be purchased by the four major industrial groups at market prices, and they will also receive a piece of land in Mozhou as compensation.
Depending on the situation in the new colony, there is also the opportunity to obtain the lowest level of nobility, the life-long non-hereditary squires and countrymen.
Luo Yi immediately knew that this was the last chance for a Thai-Spanish official like himself.
So Luo Yi signed up directly.
There is a shortage of such officials now, and Luo Yi's application was quickly approved.
Luo Yi's final appointment was Suolun Zhizhou.
At the same time, he obtained the status of a local lifelong villager in Solon Prefecture and 10,000 acres of land.
Luo Yi was shocked when he saw the appointment letter. He was originally a seventh-level official, but when he was transferred to a political affairs officer, he could become a county magistrate at most.
As a result, he now directly became the magistrate of the sixth grade.
And titles and land...
However, after carefully reading the job description, Luo Yi knew that he really wanted to open up wasteland.
Sauron State is located in the southwest corner of western Mozhou, with a total area of about just over a thousand square kilometers. Most of it is now pure wasteland and jungle.
Of course, all of his 10,000 acres of land are undeveloped wasteland and currently have no output.
At present, the registered population of the entire Solon State is only more than 3,000...
It will take at least ten or twenty years to generate considerable profits from this 10,000 acres of land.
The reason why this ghost place is a state instead of a county is because the title of the lord here is earl, and the lowest count for an earl must be state uncle.
This is where the descendants of the original German royal family were settled.
Among the population of less than 3,000 people, in addition to former members of the German royal family, the rest are also former German nobles, bureaucrats, and military officers.
This is of course not all of the former German bureaucrats, nobles, and military officers.
But he surrendered relatively neatly, and no major evil deeds were discovered. He can be considered a good person in his own right, and he was willing to cooperate.
So now I have a semi-free status.
Apart from being unable to leave the residence, there are no major restrictions on daily activities.
As for those who were guilty of serious crimes and those who resisted during the surrender process, they were all killed during the capture process.
Those who did not resist, but were obviously emotionally conflicted and did not actively cooperate, or who had made varying degrees of faults, were also sent to other places for labor reeducation.
At the same time, the title of Earl of Sauron was not only awarded because of the surrender of the former German royal family.
He once served as a guard for the Ming Emperor, and also served in the Ming army to gain merit, so he had the opportunity to become a semi-free lord.
Of course, only semi-freedom, not high freedom.
Therefore, the Ming court directly arranged for a magistrate to bring a large number of immigrants from Yinzhou to his territory to open up wasteland.
He had to gradually hand over at least half of the land to these new immigrants.
In the future, the civil affairs of Solon State will also be dominated by the magistrates arranged by the Ming Dynasty.
The Luo Yi family dumped their assets in Dongyi Kingdom, but they did not directly take a large amount of cash on the road.
Instead, he contacted several machinery sales firms, ordered agricultural trucks, tractors, agricultural aircraft and other machinery and equipment, and went to Solon State with the ship.
Luo Yi's fleet has three passenger ships with the same destination as Luo Yi.
The three ships carried 3,000 Yinzhou Taixi immigrants, with a total number of about 20,000.
The conditions for their move were similar to that of Luo Yi's family. They would acquire existing assets at normal prices and then give them a batch of land to be developed in Mozhou.
Ordinary immigrants do not have titles or official positions.
Compared with the Ming Dynasty people, the Taixi people are not that serious about resettlement.
Especially the descendants of immigrants who originally immigrated to Yinzhou.
Most people are willing to try this kind of transaction that can preserve the value of existing assets and obtain an additional piece of land.
Those who really don't want to try must stay in Yinzhou's new home, and Daming will not force them to leave.
This group of stubborn immigrants will be diluted by more and more Ming people after most of the same people leave.
Just like the few remaining indigenous people in the western continent.
Luo Yi's fleet sailed at sea for ten days.
On June 1st, the sixth year of the Grand Duke's reign, he arrived at the outer edge of Solon State Pier.
Luo Yi and his fellow immigrants stood on the deck or by the windows, looking at the scene on the shore.
What catches the eye is a rather large village.
But it can only be regarded as a village, because there are no brick and stone buildings, only a large number of simple new wooden houses.
There are only simple wooden fences around the village.
Outside the fence is a rather vast farmland, where rice, the favorite food of the Ming Dynasty people, is planted.
The so-called dock is just a wooden trestle, which cannot allow a 20,000-ton transport ship to dock directly.
Therefore, materials and personnel can only be slowly transferred to the dock through small boats.
William, Earl of Sauron, brought his own guards to the dock of Sauron State to welcome the new neighbors and colleagues.
William discovered a problem in the territory. The entire territory was filled with big men and there were no women at all.
It was fine when we were working hard to open up wasteland, but now that we have settled down a little, problems are likely to arise.
The Ming court did not allow anyone to enter the interior to hunt the Mo people at will, because it was tacitly acknowledged that the Mo people were theoretically under the management of the black noble system.
Even a slightly frustrated Taixi man doesn’t want to marry a Monu woman.
But William knew that if this situation lasted for a long time, the regulations prohibiting the hunting of ink slaves might be difficult to enforce.
The young and middle-aged men in the territory were anxious. Not to mention the Mo Nu women, they might not dare to use the goats.
So William wrote reports and applications to officials in Western Mexico.
William has a special status, mainly because he served as a guard for Zhu Jingyuan, and also served as an officer in the Ming Servant Army.
So his request was quickly responded to.
In addition, Ming Dynasty was transporting Yinzhou immigrants to Mozhou, so they simply arranged for a group of Mozhou immigrants to come over.
Although William's identity is special, it is only a very low-level special one.
Even the Ming court arranged for people to divide the territory that was nominally its own, and arranged for officials to manage government affairs in their own territory.
William could only accept this arrangement.
Luo Yi took several guards and first took a boat ashore. After meeting and greeting William, they showed each other their identity documents.
Then Luo Yi began to perform his duties, and together with William, directed the immigrants on the ship to disembark.
Some people set up temporary tents to live in, and some people live directly in the original wooden houses.
In the past twenty days, William has gathered the original residents as much as possible.
A number of relatively spacious wooden houses were vacated for this group of new immigrants to live temporarily.
When you get a new house in the future, you can return the borrowed house.
It turns out that the old immigrants in the camp and the former nobles of the German Kingdom had no objection to this arrangement.
On the one hand, William was their former prince and now their lord, with his own guards and the support of the Ming Dynasty.
On the one hand, when new immigrants arrive, they have the opportunity to get rid of their bachelor status and start a new family.
For the sake of their future life, most people are very cooperative.
Luo Yi is also a very experienced grassroots official, so there are no major problems with the settlement of new immigrants.
After settling down, they began to allocate land to open up wasteland and cut down trees to build houses.
During the same period of time, a large number of immigrants from the United States continued to migrate to various residential areas in western Mexico.
Their original goal shouldn't be here.
According to Zhu Jingyuan's private discussions with Charlotte, it was originally planned to send the American Thais to the British mainland and the British colonies in Mexico.
It is true that Americans are now being sent back to British soil.
But the other part, which was supposed to be sent to the British colony in Southwest Mexico, was sent to the Ming Dynasty's colony in West Mexico.
Because after the executive officer tried it, he found that the operation of sending immigrants to Southwest Mozhou was simply impossible to implement.
The British colony of Southwest Mexico was probably what would later become Namibia, plus the northwest corner of South Africa and the western part of Botswana.
After the British ceded the New England area of Yinzhou to France and began to focus on the construction of Southwest Mozhou, they changed the name here to New England.
British young men and women in the Tianzhu area were moved here one after another, and a New England composed of Tianzhu people was established here.
Of course, the owners here are still traditional English people.
The vast majority of Tianzhu people were slaves of British factory owners, or indentured slaves of the British royal family and official factories of the imperial court.
A small number also became household servants of British nobles.
These are all factories and there are basically no farms.
Because this land is not a place that can feed people in the first place, most of the area is desert and arid grassland.
The British transported tens of millions of Tianzhu slaves here, and most of them became slave labor.
What they produce are relatively basic industrial products.
Such as fabrics, clothes, shoes and socks, ceramics, toys, jewelry, minerals, etc...
Most of their main rations and raw materials come from American farms, with a small number of local inland farms and mines.
The main products are sold to China and the United States.
But why do the British go to such trouble? Why not put the factory in China or the United States?
Since slavery has been abolished in the UK, this was the result of a compromise between radicals and conservatives.
At the same time, the American Congress enacted legislation prohibiting the importation of slaves in order to protect the interests of local slave owners who reproduced slaves.
At the same time, the British industrial area in Yinzhou was originally in the northern part of the United States, which was the place where Adams led the independence movement.
After the Yinzhou War, these areas were ceded to France.
At the same time, the British wanted to protect and appease slave owners and plantation owners in the South.
It is also to avoid the recurrence of independence issues, so we will not engage in industry in the United States.
America's infrastructure and a small number of basic industries were invested by Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, if British factory owners wanted to use slave labor, they could only build their factories in Southwestern Mexico.
At the same time, they also discovered that Tianzhu people are really suitable for slave labor.
If slave workers really cooperate, the cost of using them in basic industries will generally be lower than that of hired workers.
The work has no technical content, and they can work if they have enough food to eat, and they don't need to be paid.
Only when the degree of industrialization increases and the industrial technology content is relatively high will the cost of hiring workers be lower than that of slave labor.
Because when the technology content becomes high, factory owners have to spend a lot of time and money to cultivate the skills of slave workers.
On the contrary, free wage workers will take the initiative to go to school to learn knowledge and skills in order to get a job where they can make a living.
This can help factory owners save this part of the cost and replace unsuitable workers at any time.
Therefore, British factory owners placed their labor-intensive factories in the southwestern Mexico region and adopted a slave labor operation model.
This is caused by the strange political game and legal accommodation in the UK.
On this factual and legal basis, in addition to slave labor factories, the Southwest Mozhou region also developed a set of local special holiday tourism projects.
There are slave manors for entertainment purposes, as well as slave trading houses for entertainment and services.
British people who want to experience the life of a real master and have a penchant for directly enslaving others can come here to experience this life.
There are similar facilities and industries in the United States, but the slaves in the United States are all Mexicans.
But the slaves in Southwest Mozhou are from Tianzhu and are of a higher standard.
If you have more money, you can directly build a manor yourself, or buy a villa as an overseas vacation place.
If you have less money, you can go to commercial estates and amusement parks that are open to the public for a few days.
People from the Ming Dynasty who knew the situation here described it as a place of corruption, depravity, extravagance and extravagance, and an extremely evil place in the world.
After Zhu Jingyuan learned about the situation here, he felt that the situation in the main cities here might be the cyberpunk in this world...
But now it's time for all of this to change.
The Spanish-European War was over, and Britain became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
The three main parts of the UK are also being effectively split up.
The mainland is called Britain, the United States is called the United States, and the colony in Southwest Mexico was finally registered as India in the Ming Dynasty.
The economic systems of the three places will be integrated into the whole Ming Dynasty.
It is no longer a twisted cycle between the three of them.
Zhu Jingyuan and Charlotte subconsciously wanted to move the Americans to Southwest Mexico.
But after the first batch of immigrants were sent, it was discovered that ordinary free immigrants had no way to live normally here.
There are only factories that use slave labor and entertainment cities that are full of money and luxury.
So in the end, we had to change our strategy and send those who wanted to return to the mainland to the British mainland, while the others were sent to the Ming Dynasty's colony in West Mexico.
As for the future of New England composed of Indians, Zhu Jingyuan does not intend to interfere too much.
There are no plans to find another place for these Indian slave laborers.
Life will find its own way.
(End of chapter)
