Chapter 154 Delivering “goods”

"Okay, just take him away!" Mikhail waved his hand and said to Giovanni.

"Okay, brother, be sure to contact me first when you have the goods next time." Giovanni shouted to Mikhail while sitting on the carriage.

Giovanilla's goods were the peasants after the bankruptcy of Tsarist Russia, although Alexander II's reforms gave freedom to the serfs.

However, the local nobles would not engage in loss-making business. They used various means to squeeze the freed peasants as much as possible.

For example, land, as part of the compromise with feudal conservative forces, naturally gave priority to ensuring the ownership of land by landlords and nobles, and also provided compensation.

After liberation, the serfs obtained allotments of land (need to pay a ransom). The area of ​​the allotments was determined according to the region. The aristocratic landowners "removed the rough and extracted the essence", leaving the fertile land and a large amount of forests and pastures, and distributed the poorest land to Serfs.

Even so, Tsarist Russia had a vast land and abundant resources. In terms of area alone, the land obtained by Tsarist Russian serfs was still considerable, but many of these lands had no value.

For example, the northern part of Tsarist Russia was a vast expanse of ice and snow, making it difficult for crops to grow. In the south, the sandy steppes of Central Asia and rotten land in other areas were also given to serfs. In the end, the serfs paid three times the market price to redeem the land. It is all desert, alpine, salty and other worthless land.

In addition to being small in area (relative to landlords' land) and of poor quality, when dividing land, landlords and nobles intentionally dispersed farmers' lands, resulting in farmers' fields being fragmented and far apart. There is no development value.

At the same time, after liberation, serfs lost the right to use corresponding production tools, such as cattle and horses, and farm tools were taken back by landlords.

In this way, although many serfs obtained land after liberation, it was difficult to develop the land, and the serfs were also saddled with a heavy debt.

However, the government also had to ensure that the finances continued to be maintained and continued to charge heavy taxes on the liberated serfs. Many serfs were worse off after liberation than before.

Of course, the reform was not ineffective. At least it cultivated a group of rich farmers. However, more farmers still went bankrupt and their land was re-annexed. In addition, the fertility rate in Tsarist Russia is very good. There are always people who want to go out and make a living. Many farmers They were forced to work in the city, or to return to farming for local landlords and nobles.

With such a surplus population, the Hechingen Consortium is naturally coveting it. Now that immigration from Germany and other places has entered a gentle stage, the surplus labor force in Tsarist Russia is just used to fill the vacancies.

What made Ernst most satisfied was that the price of women's labor in Tsarist Russia was much lower than that of men. To coordinate the population structure of East Africa, it was natural to try to allow different immigrants to intermarry with each other.

East Africa has been working hard to increase the proportion of mixed-race families, and the current results are very good. In addition to allowing Chinese immigrants to marry bought white women, white men will also marry women from Southeast Asia.

Of course, these are aimed at those populations that East Africa acquired through abnormal means. After all, East Africa exchanged them for real money or slaves.

As for whether both parties are willing, in any case, neither party has a choice in an arranged marriage. Only the East African government has the decision-making power.

The immigrants from Tsarist Russia are immigrants with low human rights. They were bought with money from East Africa, so their status in East Africa is only higher than that of immigrants from Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

The Hechingen Consortium contacted local powerful forces in Tsarist Russia through money transactions, and introduced local laborers at a price of 25 rubles per man and 17 rubles per woman.

Tsarist Russia is not Russia. There are Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic States, Belarus, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Finland...

Therefore, there are many channels to obtain people from Tsarist Russia, and as long as the money is available, it will not be a problem.

Of course, the Hechingen Consortium did not introduce Slavs to East Africa on a large scale, but controlled them within a certain range.

The most taboo thing when buying things is to be impatient, as it is easy for sellers to rip off customers. Therefore, the Hechingen Consortium plans to purchase immigrants on a small scale, so that the Hechingen Consortium can have more autonomy in terms of price and save costs.

At the same time, the staff of the Hechingen Consortium in Tsarist Russia can also have more energy to select high-quality immigrants.

It is best to come from a family of old Tsarist Russian serfs with three generations of ancestral roots. There must be no culture, only a handful of strength, and no other skills. It will be effortless to assimilate.

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St. Petersburg.

This is the entire Russian region, a transit port for immigrants from Tsarist Russia in East Africa.

In other parts of Eastern Europe, it mainly passed through other ports. For example, Poland and other places under Russian rule had their own ports.

Giovanni took the purchased laborers to St. Petersburg to deliver the goods.

"Giovanni, this time you can recruit the most people and teach the secrets to your brothers!" Maxim asked.

Giovanni didn't say anything, he just held out three fingers. Maxim immediately understood that this was their rule, but he still said with an expression of embarrassment: "Brother, three meals is too much, two meals at most."

"This is my dining experience. Three meals are cheap enough! No, you can find someone else," Giovanni said.

"Okay! But you can't trick me!"

There is no way, Maxim can only agree to Giovanni's request.

Giovanni was not stingy and began to impart his experience: "If you want to find the 'source of goods', you need to go to the countryside more often. Don't stay in the office all the time. Exchange more with the local aristocratic landowners, and If their relationship is good, they will naturally have no worries about not being able to attract people.

This man! Don't just look for it in the city. Now there are many unemployed farmers who want to go to the city to find a job. They have all gone to the city. They must have their own channels, which are nothing more than relatives and friends who can take the initiative to go to the city. , the mind must be more lively and not so easy to deceive.

Therefore, it is definitely unreliable to deceive people in the city, but it is different in the countryside. The nobles and landowners are more eloquent than us in facing the villagers.

Moreover, many villagers are in debt, and their fate is in the hands of local nobles and landlords. There are also some rural people who can survive! There are several boys in the family who have no food to eat and always have to go out to make trouble.

At this time, if we go to the countryside, we can basically attract a lot of people. Of course, there are disadvantages. It will definitely cost more to deal with the local nobles and landlords, but it will save trouble..."

Giovanni is not afraid of Maxim learning these experiences, because the two are responsible for different areas and cannot compete.

Giovanni is in charge of business near Moscow, while Maxim is active near St. Petersburg. In addition to the two of them, there are Poland, Ukraine, and the Caucasus...