Chapter 114: Arrangements Before Leaving (4)
After sending away the first returning fleet and the ships from the Netherlands to open a shopping mall in Hirado, Chen Jian sorted out the things he discussed with all parties these days and submitted them to the organization, but concealed the unknown cruel acts he had done to Dutch merchant ships.
The interns who arrived here on Dutch Indian Company ships were placed in the fleet of newly established Maritime Merchant Company. A batch of letters sent from the organization about the "March of Dignity" in the domestic operation were circulated internally and caused a huge discussion.
The demands of these petty-bearing socialists are half apart, but are verified by the long-standing ideas and practices such as suppression of annexes that have been implemented in the Ming Dynasty and previous dynasties. In this ancient empire that broke the aristocratic feudalism and serf binding systems just after the popularization of iron farm tools, this demand is easy to understand and easily arise. The steps taken two thousand years ago were too big and irrelevant to a logical system, but they have their own insight into all this.
To a certain extent, the transformation of the old and new eras two thousand years ago burst out with many ideas. Due to the lack of productivity, it spontaneously tried feudal monk socialism or romantic moral socialism of petty bourgeois people to preserve the laws of nature and eliminate human desires, suppress the merger of annexation and slow business, patriarchal agriculture under free leasing and selling land, the grassroots local genius relying on morality, the crude absolute egalitarian slogans shouted before each uprising, etc., and practice proves that these things cannot bypass the cyclical laws.
These things are combined with feudalism to maintain the stability and optimal solution of the "world" when productivity is insufficient, but they are vulnerable under the impact of large machines and factories.
It is precisely because the Communists praised capitalism but preferred these heresy. These things under the banner of ideal society are always closely linked to the feudal world, because they were born in an era of insufficient productivity and were destined to have small peasants and handicraft economy as the blueprint in the design of ideal society.
This is a transitional stage that will inevitably occur after the disintegration of feudalism. It is just that the rapid development of technology in the era of large factories did not become mainstream elsewhere, and was ruthlessly crushed by the times but was popular for one or two hundred years. It was united by the big capitalists and Communists to oppose and mock it. However, the transition time was a little longer because the productivity level did not reach it too early.
The letters sent from there can be reflected on each other, so as to understand according to local conditions what to oppose, support, who is the alliance, and who is the enemy. Don’t go fast or go wrong.
It’s time for Chen Jian to leave. In this case, Wangbei City’s future construction, goals and plans must be determined, and an expanded meeting is inevitable.
Everything has just begun, and everything is thriving. Young people who have been training in Minjun, Nan'an and Dahuang City for several years have also had the ability to stand alone. After all, the population of Wangbei City is not too large, so there is no problem with controlling it.
In this meeting, there were both members of the original organization and a new group of six or seven young people along the coast of Fujian who had gradually accepted new ideas in Wangbei City.
For example, the woman who had her face cut and just wanted freedom changed her name to Luo Chou, and Lin Zigui, who had problems with her thoughts.
There are not many local people for the time being, but Chen Jian believes that with the construction and education here, the number of people will continue to increase when a new group of people grows up.
The main issue of this meeting is to complete the handover of rights here, which is nominated internally. After discussion and voting by everyone, the general person in charge of the organization and the heads of various departments are selected, as well as the goals for the next few years.
Whether a political party organization is successful depends on whether the rights can be handed over smoothly when sent in the future. If you don’t even do this, even the joint-stock companies in the Netherlands and the UK are not as good as those in the Netherlands and the UK, and you still have this confidence.
Lin Zigui and Luo Chou were extremely excited about attending such a conference. They did not understand many things, but they highly agree with those here on some issues, and they could see the best wishes.
For Lin Zigui, two years ago, he was just a crazy man full of complaints, dissatisfied everywhere, and was influenced by a lot of Confucian heresy, and was depressed and confused.
But now, he is sitting among such a group of people and becoming one of them, and can express his own opinions on the survival and life of tens of thousands of people. Although he can't think of any opinions, he at least has this qualification.
At the meeting, financial personnel from accounting first made a report on income and expenditure in the previous years and made an estimate of the income and expenditure in the next few years.
After this person finished speaking, Chen Jian concluded: "It can be seen that maritime trade still accounts for a large share of income. This situation will become larger as we invest in trading companies in the form of collective shares, and the sources of some income must be clearly distinguished."
"Before investing in the establishment of a company, the rice, deer skin, etc. on the island can be regarded as direct income. However, with the establishment of the company, we must realize that we have a share in the company's profit, but Wangbeicheng does not belong to the company, but to everyone on the island. We occupy 50% of the equity in the company, which is helpless, but Wangbeicheng and the entire island must ensure that they cannot be intervened by the company and must be firmly controlled in our own hands."
"Why should we distinguish it so clearly? Because for us, profit is not the goal, it is just a means to achieve our goal. If the island is controlled by the company, profit is the ultimate goal, and all means will be for profit."
"The 30,000 light and strong immigrants on the island now adopt a large-scale employing plantations and workshops. They are now extremely profitable because they have just endured the threat of disasters and the despair of death, and have signed a four-year labor contract."
"But, can this kind of contract be executed indefinitely? If I say it, it is not possible, even if it is forced by extreme measures."
"There are still a lot of plain land on the island, and it is impossible for us to continue to implement it in this way of hiring, because we do not have enough cadres."
"In a four-year cycle, four years later, the people who planted the plantations here became familiar with the law, and after we got to know each other's organizational form, they would let them reclaim other lands through collective migration."
"According to a group of hundreds or ten households, we will continue to divide a wasteland in a collective way, and give oxen and iron tools. We will open up farmland or collective plantations in a collective way. We will no longer manage them except for normal common taxes. We can only ensure a certain amount of rice planting every year, and don't be so strict."
"But the grassroots organizations in the village must be established, including various women's organizations, production organizations, militia training organizations, etc. Large-scale tracts of land and plantations can save labor costs, and collective villages with hundreds of people are easier to resist risks."
"Our main income comes from monopoly maritime trade, nourishing agriculture with commercial income, ensuring the grain of large workshops with agricultural production, and returning income from large workshops and mines to be built in the future. This method can be used here, but it may not be used elsewhere, because there is no monopoly maritime trade income elsewhere, which must be clarified in the future."
"In the short term, in addition to the dividends of trading companies, the island's trade income mainly has two aspects."
"One is deer skin. The indigenous deer skin trade must be monopolized by us. We cannot let others interfere. Trading companies are prohibited from directly purchasing. Deer skin is the material used by the Japanese to make armor, and they need a large amount of deer skin."
"The other is sugar cane. It can be predicted that the price of sugar cane will steadily increase in recent years. In China, the amount of sugar cane in the archipelago near the Spanish Governor's District cannot meet domestic demand, let alone Europe. With the spread of tea and coffee, as long as there is no war, the price of sugar cane will increase step by step. Many of you will have an impression of this. The teeth of those British people before were all black because they liked to eat sugar too much."
"The plantation scale of sugarcane remains at this level. According to a four-year cycle, we will gather refugees and poor people in Fujian, so that they can spend four years familiar with the plantation work and the organizational model here. The remaining collectively reclaimed land allows them to plant sugarcane normally as the income of small village workshops, but a certain amount of rice must be guaranteed."
"Let me put it this way, part of the annual sugarcane income should be used to hoard rice purchased from Thailand, Vietnam and other places. You must have enough food reserves to prepare for more disaster victims and immigrants."
Speaking of this, someone raised his hand and said after getting approval: "If so, the price of sugar will indeed gradually increase. Then three years later, the first group of people who went out to cultivate collectively will gain enough freedom and will no longer be forced workers. They will definitely choose to grow sugarcane."
Chen Jian nodded and said, "Yes, under the conditions of sufficient labor and sufficient technology, they will of course choose to plant sugarcane. However, after the establishment of grassroots organizations, they can choose administrative coercive means and persuasion to ensure a certain amount of rice planting. This cannot be too free. As for sugar, the unified purchase and sale of cane sugar can be adjusted appropriately, or the prices of other iron, cotton or other commodities we can produce can be increased, and the prices are regulated by price."
"This place can be cooked three times a year, and with the large amount of good struvite fertilizers on the nearby islands that are rarely visited, the food problems can still be guaranteed as long as there is no big famine. But it cannot only ensure the survival of the island. We must understand the purpose of building this island, immigration and reclamation, and training soldiers."
Chapter completed!