The Dutch people in the city also knew that they could not resist, but they were unwilling and unable to leave South Africa.
After all, these are poor people in the Netherlands. They come to South Africa just to survive. Where else can they go?
And taking a boat also costs money. Previously, out of humanitarianism, the Chu people said that they could provide a transport ship for a fee to transport them to South America across the Atlantic Ocean, or to the central region of the west coast of Africa in the north.
But these Dutch people basically have no money, and they can't afford to take a boat if they want to.
If you can't afford the boat tickets, you can actually take a boat. All you need to do is sign a labor contract. The Chu people can transport them to South America, and then hand over the joint and several contracts to some local European plantation estate owners. Obtain freight from the owner of the plantation estate.
But these Dutch people don’t want to!
Once this labor contract is signed, you become an indentured servant again...
Many of them were indentured slaves before them. They worked hard for many years and went through untold hardships before they became free.
At the same time, many people were still indentured slaves themselves, but with the defeat of the Dutch, they were considered free.
Under such circumstances, no one would choose to become an indentured slave for the second time.
When the Dutch East India Company transported them to South Africa, they basically signed a contract with them. The Dutch East India Company did not charge them for their ship tickets, but took them to South Africa for free and provided them with food, clothing, accommodation and other expenses.
They worked for the Dutch East India Company for free for four to seven years. After the free work period expired, they were freed and received a piece of land of their own from the Dutch East India Company.
This is the type of indentured servants that is more popular among white people today. Some are voluntary, while others are forced by criminals, bankrupts, etc. There are various sources.
However, due to the relatively high cost, more and more colonists are no longer willing to use white indentured servants, but prefer to use lower-cost black lifelong slaves.
Well, the Chu people in Chu's overseas territories are an exception, because the Chu people do not use indentured servants, nor do they use life-long slaves.
It's prohibited by law, there's no other way...
However, a large number of indigenous prisoners of war were used to work in the armed trading companies in the East and West.
However, these are not people from the East-West Liangyang Trading Company, but prisoners of war from the military. The two cooperate in the form of labor dispatch...
In recent years, it is not only the Chu State's own military that has cooperated with the East and West Liangyang Trading Company in labor services. Officials from some indigenous countries/tribes have also cooperated.
The Western Armed Trading Company opened a very large rubber plantation in Malacca Province. The rubber workers in the plantation were extremely cheap labor provided by the Siamese military.
These laborers are generally various criminals, prisoners of war, bankrupts, or simply captured privately by the Siamese military dignitaries themselves. Most of them are prisoners of war. The Kingdom of Siam has been at war with the Kingdom of Burma in recent years. The fighting between the two sides resulted in a large number of prisoners of war!
Then these prisoners of war are often organized and sent to the Chu people's mines or plantations to work in Chu Yuan foreign exchange!
Of course, the Kingdom of Myanmar opposite is doing the same thing!
As for Chu State, as long as you don't resist my colonization and don't affect my business, you generally don't interfere in the wars between these vassal/puppet states.
It doesn't matter what you like, the Chu people don't care.
In fact, many wars were instigated by arms dealers from the Chu State. The Nanyang Arms Trading Company has been lobbying, sowing discord, and even secretly creating conflicts between the Kingdom of Siam and the Kingdom of Myanmar all year round.
For no other reason than to sell weapons!
Although the methods are not on the table, when it comes to attracting business, it is not shabby, as long as the business is outstanding. At least the business volume of Nanyang Arms Trading Company has increased significantly in recent years, but it has made a lot of money.
And because he expanded arms exports and contributed to the development of the domestic defense industry and employment, Song Pingxun, the former governor-general of the Nanyang Arms Trading Company, was praised as "loyal to the emperor" and has now been promoted back to his hometown. The Ministry of Trade was appointed.
Loyalty to the emperor, these four words are a very high evaluation for the officials of the Chu Empire, and it has even become an honorary title now.
These four words cannot be used casually in today's Great Chu Empire. After all, this word is already a very formal and strict evaluation of officials in the Great Chu Empire.
This kind of evaluation often requires a comprehensive assessment by the Ministry of Personnel Affairs and submission to Emperor Luo Zhixue for approval. Only then can this comment be used for an official in relevant official documents.
After all, Luo Zhixue said that you are loyal to the emperor only if you are loyal to the emperor. If you say it yourself, it doesn't matter what others say.
Generally speaking, officials with this evaluation will basically be included in the list of vigorous cultivation.
After receiving this evaluation and being promoted as fast as a rocket, Song Pingxun, who is now the deputy director of the Nanyang Department of the Ministry of Trade, has set an example for a large number of overseas arms trading companies, and these overseas arms trading companies are also like this. If you follow this example, war will break out every day on the earth...
This also produced a large number of prisoners of war, who were then turned into dispatched laborers.
The Western Armed Trading Company does not care about where these people come from, and does not even directly manage these workers. It only assigns tasks, pays them according to the tasks, and stations armed personnel on the periphery to prevent them from escaping.
The internal management and supervision of labor were handled by the indigenous officials themselves, and the Chu people never interfered.
There are many similar situations. In recent years, this method of labor dispatch has also attracted the attention of a large number of ordinary private enterprises. They also want to introduce this kind of almost free indigenous labor.
However, the Great Chu Empire was very guarded against slavery and mutant slave labor, and was also very wary of and excluded foreign indigenous people living in overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction of the Chu State.
For this reason, Chu State has legislated many times to prohibit individuals or companies from using indigenous labor dispatch in the mainland or overseas directly-administered territories. No matter what name you use, you are not allowed to send a bunch of indigenous people to work in the mainland or overseas directly-administered territories.
As for the East and West Liangyang Trading Company, this is an exception... because these two companies are said to be companies, but in fact they are official organizations in the name of the company, and they also have a strong military nature... They have a decent attitude. The company of the Eight Classics is armed.
These two armed trading companies have characteristics that other companies do not have, so they are treated with special management... Therefore, they can use labor dispatched prisoner of war labor and indigenous official labor in overseas directly administered territories in a limited and cautious manner. However, this kind of authority also has different time limits in different regions. It is often only allowed in some overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction of immature development. Once the construction is slightly mature, this kind of authority will be revoked.
As for other companies and individuals, there is a complete ban and no opening will be left for you.
But there are many smart people. These people read the legal provisions and said that it cannot be done in the mainland and overseas directly administered territories, but they did not say that it cannot be done in those colonies with limited control!
Not to mention that Chu companies or individuals are not allowed to use these indigenous workers in indigenous control areas!
Well, slaves still can't do it.
Although in some indigenous-controlled areas beyond the reach of the official power of the Great Chu Empire, there are many Chu people who are serious slave leaders.
However, the matter of slaves is still too eye-catching, if it is too big and the impact is bad, once the authorities find out, they will have to use you to scare other monkeys... Even if you are using indigenous slaves on indigenous territory, that won't do.
After all, many laws of the Great Chu Empire are based on personal principles. As long as you are a Chu State, no matter where you are, you must abide by the laws of our Chu State, and slavery is one of them.
At the same time, this is also the reason why the Chu Empire has always emphasized extra-legal governance overseas. It is because of this personal principle.
Therefore, even in areas controlled by indigenous people, if the Chu people dare to engage in slavery blatantly, it will be quite serious and the negative impact will be very bad. If the officials find out, they will punish you.
Ever since, the labor dispatch system appeared!
In some colonies or puppet states that were not directly governed by the Chu Empire and were managed by puppets, many companies used so-called labor dispatch to obtain a large amount of extremely cheap labor for mining and planting.
It was first started by the Eastern Armed Trading Company, then introduced by the Western Trading Company, and finally adopted by other companies and even individuals operating overseas.
This overseas labor dispatch system sounds good, but its reputation is indeed not very good.
Because according to those Europeans, whether it is the Dutch, Portuguese or Spanish, they all agree that the labor dispatch system of these Chu people in the colonies and indigenous controlled areas is just taking off their pants and farting... just like those indigenous workers We are not slaves just because we are in the skin of workers... Who are we kidding?
According to those Europeans, the labor dispatch workers of the Chu people are no different from their slave workers, and many dispatch workers are even treated worse than slaves.
In fact, this is indeed the case. When the Western Arms Trading Company came up with this thing, it was purely to circumvent the relevant laws of Chu State prohibiting slaves, and they came up with the term labor outsourcing.
And they generally do not cooperate with private slave owners, but with some indigenous officials. For example, in Northeast Africa, there are some tribes that organize many workers in the name of the government to go to the mines run by the Chu people. Work in the plantations to earn valuable Chu Yuan foreign exchange, which can then be used to purchase weapons and ammunition from the Chu people to launch tribal wars, obtain more labor from hostile tribes, and then organize them to work in the mining plantations of the Chu people. .
What a perfect cycle!
However, the people of Chu state are very stubborn when speaking to the outside world and refuse to admit it.
Moreover, there is another very interesting phenomenon in this overseas labor dispatch system, that is, the cost for Chu people to use dispatched workers is lower than the cost for European colonists to use slaves...
Because Chu's overseas enterprises do not need to be responsible for the birth, old age, illness, and death of their workers, nor do they need to pay for labor procurement in one go. Instead, they can pay in installments over many years in the form of labor costs.
Even if workers can no longer work, they don’t need to pay wages, let alone receive any protection.
There is no need to spend money on treatment when they are sick, and there is no need to even feed them, just give them some salary.
Anyway, the ownership of these workers is not their own, but is officially organized by the indigenous people of various countries/tribes, so there is no need for the Chu people to worry about them.
Chu people's companies only pay according to the completed tasks. As for how the workers complete the tasks, whether they live or die, they don't care and have no right to control it. That is the matter of the labor dispatching party.
When Europeans use slaves, they first have to spend a lot of money to buy slaves. This is a lot of money. A black slave in the Americas costs dozens of yuan, and slave traders will not play with you about installment payments!
Furthermore, slaves are also your own property, and you should not go too far in using them. Otherwise, if they are worn out, you will still lose.
If the illness was not serious, the slave would have to be treated to some extent. Otherwise, if he died of illness, he would still lose his own assets.
As a result, the current life-long slaves under the European colonists actually have a better quality of life than the labor dispatch workers commissioned by the Chu State East and West Liangyang Company... Slave owners may not care about the lives of their slaves, but They will care about the safety of their assets.
As for the Chu people... they don't need to care about the safety of their workers' assets. They can keep wages as low as they can. Most of the labor dispatch agencies are doing business without capital and can accept very low prices and treat laborers. Extremely oppressive.
So much so that the attrition rate of these workers is even higher than that of slaves...
So much so that when the Spaniards in North America were dealing with the Chu people, they often used the fact that their slaves had a better quality of life than the dispatch workers under the Chu people to establish a sense of superiority...
After hearing these words, some Chu bosses who opened plantations and mines in areas controlled by indigenous Americans would often despise the Spaniards: "A bunch of European barbarians, they know nothing about cost control!"
"You're just playing on a plantation like this, go home and feed yourself!"
Whether they were slaves, indentured servants, or laborers, these Dutch immigrants didn't want to... and they couldn't get on the boat even if they wanted to leave.
Finally, after internal discussion, they decided to move north and start a new life further north in the territory that still belonged to the local indigenous people.
Soon, these Dutch immigrants took their belongings and the whole family headed north. Before leaving, they collected a sum of gold and silver and purchased a batch of matchlock guns, swords and spears from the Chu people.
Naturally, the Chu people had no objections to this, as long as they left Cape Town, the future military base. As for taking a boat to other places, or heading north deep into the interior of Africa, they didn't bother to care so much.
Not to mention selling weapons and equipment, the export version of the matchlock gun will basically be sold to anyone who comes to buy it... Even if the Dutch East India Company came over and asked to purchase the export version of the matchlock gun, the Chu people would still buy it, even if The muzzle of the matchlock gun sold later will be pointed at you.
However, as a conscientious and pursuing arms dealer, he will never refuse to sell bullets just because the bullets may hit him.
The arms dealer of the Dachu Empire was a conscientious businessman with excellent reputation and integrity.
In the eyes of many indigenous people, the arms dealers of the Dachu Empire were civilized and polite, spoke and acted in a measured manner, and the most important thing was that they did not do business with evil intentions and had a high reputation.
Many leaders of indigenous tribes will not trust their families or subordinates, but they will definitely trust the Chu weapons merchants.
As long as you give money, no matter who you are or what you are purchasing the weapons for, they will sell them as long as the weapons and equipment you want are on the export approval list.
Even if you say clearly that I purchased weapons just to fight you damn arms dealers, the arms dealers in Chu will still sell them and even recommend better weapons and equipment to you... Otherwise, you won't be able to kill me. !
The arms dealers in Chu State are not independent gangs, but are large government-run enterprises that have a monopoly on the arms market in a certain region.
When people sell weapons, they will bring a large number of armed security guards there. When the transaction is large, they will also ask overseas troops to help escort them.
If the indigenous people don't get more advanced weapons, they really can't kill these arms dealers!
