New Ming Empire mixed in America

The information in Li Mingqi's hand read: Tsarist Russia intended to help the New Ming Empire transport immigrants from the Puppet Qing Dynasty.

A Far East Shipping Company was even specially established. This time when Tsarist Russian diplomats came to the Xinming Empire, they brought the person in charge of this company.

"This Tsarist Russia does all kinds of business in order to make money."

After Li Mingqi muttered something, he prepared to summon the diplomats from Tsarist Russia. Of course, the main person he wanted to meet was the person in charge of the immigration company.

It seemed that Tsarist Russia was very sincere. In less than a day, the diplomats and the head of the shipping company rushed from San Francisco to Jinling.

"Your Majesty, do you mean that we only need immigrants from the Far East?"

After listening to what Li Mingqi said, the diplomat asked in surprise:

"No offense intended, I think buying our serfs is the most cost-effective. After calculation, the cost of transporting immigrants from the Far East will far exceed the cost of buying our country's serfs."

The diplomat felt that Li Mingqi was somewhat abnormal. According to the other party's wishes, immigrants from the Puppet Qing Dynasty should be transported on passenger ships.

In other words, those immigrants are regarded as users who have purchased ship tickets, and they must enjoy all the rights that normal passengers should have on the ship.

Although the Xinming Empire would pay for this part of the cost, he still felt that transporting immigrants like Li Mingqi would be a bit of a disadvantage.

"That's right. Please note that I said immigrants, not workers."

Li Mingqi's answer confirmed the Tsarist Russian diplomat's idea, but before he could continue to persuade, Li Mingqi continued:

"I heard that you acquired a large piece of land in the Far East from the puppet Qing government. I believe the people on that land may not welcome you."

"If that's the case, then why not pack these people up and send them to the Xinming Empire?"

Li Mingqi did not want to see the Chinese living in the areas occupied by Tsarist Russia being oppressed by them. You must know that Tsarist Russia did not just invade the land.

In order to prevent local residents from colluding with the puppet Qing Dynasty and subverting their rule, Tsarist Russia drove away all the Chinese above.

So now that Li Mingqi said he would take over the residents above, the Tsarist Russian diplomat seemed very happy.

In this way, not only would Tsarist Russia have less trouble, but it would also make a lot of money from the Xinming Empire.

"You can discuss this matter with the person in charge of the Far East Shipping Company, but I still hope you can consider the serfs of our country."

Tsarist Russian diplomats are still obsessed with the serfs in their country, not to seek benefits for these serfs, but to use these serfs to make a lot of money.

"To be honest, I don't dare to use the serfs in your country. I heard that they have been clamoring to compete with your government, so I am worried that they will cause some trouble after they come over."

Li Mingqi expressed his worries very frankly. If these serfs were not so troublesome, Li Mingqi would still need laborers to build the Xinming Empire.

Because now the Xinming Empire needs laborers to build roads and bridges everywhere, not only for the construction of national railways, Li Mingqi also wants to build asphalt roads across the country.

There is even the expansion of Jinling and the construction of cities in various places, etc. It can be said that manpower is needed everywhere.

Li Mingqi also wanted to dredge the rivers in the Xinming Empire and turn them into canals or canals.

These rivers can no longer be allowed to fend for themselves. From time to time, rivers change their course or overflow, causing town governments everywhere to worry.

Some people of the empire have already suffered losses due to the flooding of the river. If this continues, casualties will occur sooner or later.

The Tsarist Russian diplomat was confused by Li Mingqi's straightforwardness and didn't know what to say for a while.

The serfs in Tsarist Russia were indeed as restless as Li Mingqi said, but all these people wanted was their own land and the ability to live.

But where is the system of Tsarist Russia? If the serfs are not oppressed, who will be oppressed? Should they oppress the landlords?

Now with the rise of industry, a large part of the serfs in Tsarist Russia have entered factories and become the lowest workers.

But there are still more serfs who are dependent on landlords. They can still survive by renting land from landlords. (Are you familiar with this?)

But because of some systems in Tsarist Russia (cannot write about it), more serfs were impoverished. These people could not survive and had no choice but to take the path of rebellion.

"Your country now has a huge land area. I think giving some of it to the serfs will allow them to work for you honestly, and you can also collect rent from them."

Tsarist Russian diplomats are still fighting for this deal on serfs, because that would not only relieve the pressure on Tsarist Russia, but also better implement the Tsarist reform plan.

Don’t think that Tsarist Russia’s serfs could live a good life after they started serfdom reform in 1861.

Those serfs who rented land from landlords would not support the reform, and those impoverished serfs would not receive much benefit from the reform.

But the reform would at least allow the tsar to gain huge influence. If all the serfs who had nothing could be sold to the New Ming Empire, wouldn't there be no poor people in Tsarist Russia?

Doesn’t this fulfill the promises made by the tsar during his original reforms?

Because he still had to rely on Tsarist Russia to immigrate him, Li Mingqi had to seriously consider the diplomat's words.

After thinking for a while, Li Mingqi said: "Let's do this. There are many projects in my empire that need laborers. You can organize laborers to come to work in the Xinming Empire."

"I will pay wages to the workers, and part of these wages will be used as agency fees to companies or individuals that organize labor."

Finally, Li Mingqi came up with a solution, which was labor dispatch between countries.

Some people in Tsarist Russia can be allowed to organize large and small labor service companies, and then they will be responsible for managing the workers.

The Xinming Empire was responsible for paying for these workers to build the Xinming Empire.

In this case, both parties can get some benefits, and it also gives Tsarist Russia face and steps.

"I only have one condition, and that is that before these people come to work, you must make it clear to them that they are here only to work, and they must leave after two years."

Li Mingqi thought for a while and added another one, saying:

"Two years are enough for these workers to earn enough money to live on, so we must indicate the working hours when we sign the contract. After the time is up, your country must let these people go back and then bring in a new group of people.

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Li Mingqi said this because he did not believe in the credibility of Tsarist Russia. Thinking about their various practices in later generations, it was as easy as eating and drinking.

Li Mingqi must guard against Tsarist Russia coming back and denying his credit, then wouldn't the workers he sent over be thrown into his hands?

How to arrange these workers will also be a problem.

Therefore, you can only sign once every two years, and only one group can come after one group leaves. In this way, the number of workers can be guaranteed to be within a certain range.

Moreover, the Xinming Empire also saves the trouble of managing these people. As long as it is not directly managed by the Xinming Empire, even if the workers have any complaints, they will not cause trouble to the Xinming Empire.

Just like those white workers on the construction site now, they have a very favorable impression of the Xinming Empire.

Even if they undergo some dangerous work or too heavy labor, these people will only hate the white supervisors and the Ming Xie soldiers who are responsible for the order of the construction site.

After finally getting Li Mingqi's promise, the Tsarist Russian diplomat finally showed a smile on his face, and no longer mentioned the need to talk to the person in charge of the shipping company about immigrating from the Far East.

He immediately agreed and ensured that the Chinese in the areas they occupied could come to the Xinming Empire safely and that their whole families would be reunited.

While Li Mingqi was meeting with Tsarist Russian diplomats on various matters between the two countries, Texas also received a declaration from the New Ming Empire opposing the Homestead Law.