The Rise of the European Emperor

The total population of Beihai State is only over two million, but the area of ​​the mainland alone exceeds 100,000 square kilometers, and most of them are plains. Therefore, let alone the surplus labor force, there are simply not enough people farming. Now that food prices are so high, Marin is reluctant to liberate the precious population from the land.

Therefore, if you want to engage in infrastructure, mining, transportation and industry, you can only rely heavily on migrant workers. However, due to the issue of political standing, Marin's North Sea State is hostile to most of the German states, so don't try to get a large population from other German states. Therefore, Marin can only invest in other places to obtain migrant workers.

The first is Italy. Although there are many mountains in Italy, there is not enough arable land. However, the family has a large population. Although the area of ​​cultivated land is far less than that of Germany, there are really many people there. The entire Italian region has a population of about 11 million, almost catching up with Germany with a population of 1,200. The Kingdom of Naples alone has a population of 2 million.

Because most of the Italian states do not get involved in the internal affairs of the Holy Roman Empire (only a few northern states such as the Duchy of Milan are involved in Shinra), most Italians do not care about the team issues within Shinra, and naturally do not The North Sea country that is hostile to Marin. Therefore, it is still very easy for the Beihai country to recruit migrant workers in Italy.

It's just that I have always looked down on the cowardly Italians before, so I haven't been tempted by the Italian population. But it is different now. Marin does not want Italians to immigrate to Germany, but just wants to obtain labor and speed up the construction of the North Sea State. So it doesn't matter whether the Italians are cowardly or not. Anyway, just looking for someone to work.

Moreover, it is also convenient for Italian migrant workers to go to the North Sea country, which is even more convenient than going to the North Sea country in southern Germany. Marin only needs to send boats to pick up people at various ports on the Italian peninsula, and he can smoothly bring the migrant workers back to the mainland.

As for whether the lords of the Italian state prevented him from recruiting migrant workers, that was even less of a problem. As long as you give some benefits, those lords will never make it difficult.

Italy is very similar to Fujian in China, with more mountains and less plains. Why are there so many Hakkas immigrating overseas in Fujian and Guangdong? Is it because there is little arable land and there is no way to survive in my hometown? They can only go to other places to find food, or even go to sea to beg for a living.

The same is true in Italy. Except for a few plains such as the Milan Plain in the north, most of the rest of the area is mountainous. The locality is similar to that of Fujian, with the problem of too many people and too little land. So, the Italians had to find another way. For example, go to other places to do business, engage in sailing and so on. Otherwise, relying on those mountainous areas in Italy, it would definitely not be able to support so many people.

But not every Italian knows how to do business, or in other words, has the capital to do business. Most of the landless people in Italy still work for a small number of wealthy businessmen. Moreover, there are not necessarily enough jobs.

Just like the Republic of Venice, despite its large size, the total number of citizens in Venice does not exceed 200,000, which is the smallest among the Italian states.

However, Venice has more than 3,000 merchant ships criss-crossing the Mediterranean Sea, with a total of more than 40,000 sailors. According to normal calculations, the families of more than 40,000 sailors have a population of more than 200,000. But it is impossible for all the young and strong Venetians to become sailors, and there are still many people who become craftsmen. Therefore, most of the sailors who served Venetian merchant ships were hired by Venice from various Italian states.

After remembering the great role of migrant workers in later generations, Marin decided to send people to Italy to recruit migrant workers and go to Beihai to work as construction workers, porters, sailors and other occupations.

As for the dangerous mining industry, after thinking about it, Marin decided to go to France to try to see if he could recruit French people to mine for him.

In fact, it is better to go to France to recruit migrant workers than to go to Italy. After all, Italy's population is only 11 million, while France's population is 15 million.

But the problem is that France is not friendly to the North Sea countries. If you go to France to recruit migrant workers, you may be made things difficult and blocked. Moreover, in the future, Beihai will wantonly build houses and roads, and it will definitely use a lot of cement. If migrant workers are recruited from France as construction workers, French migrant workers will inevitably come into contact with sensitive materials such as cement. At that time, the French will mix in some spies, who may steal the secrets.

Unlike the Italian states, the Italian states are not hostile to Marin, and Italians do not like to steal other people's secrets like France. Therefore, using Italians as construction workers made Marin feel more at ease.

However, it is no problem to hand over the mining work to the French. After all, mining does not have access to too many sensitive materials such as cement. Let the French migrant workers stay in the mine all day long, and they can't find out any secrets.

As for the use of advanced technologies such as steam engines and rails in the mine, Marin is not afraid of being learned by the French. why? Even if the French have learned this, there is nothing to dig in the country!

Speaking of which, the French are also sad reminders. The huge France has no mineral resources. Of course, from the perspective of future generations, France's mineral resources are not bad. Reserves of high-value mineral resources such as bauxite and uranium are still abundant. But the problem is that in this era, neither bauxite nor uranium is of any use value. The Lorraine Iron Mine, which is very important to the French in later generations, still belongs to the Principality of Lorraine of Shenluo at this time, and has nothing to do with the French.

As for coal mines, they are also very scarce. This also forced the French to find another way and concentrate on nuclear power and hydropower. There is no way. If you want to engage in thermal power, you must have enough coal...

In other words, in France right now, there is a shortage of coal and iron, so even if they learn the mining technology to avoid traps, there will be no mines to mine. Therefore, Marin tends to go to France to find miners.

And if enough miners are obtained from France, Marin can make the idea of ​​more than 30,000 coal miners in the Ruhr area...

Coal miners! That was Marshal Qi's best choice to challenge the army. The famous Qi Jiajun started his business with 4,000 miners in Yiwu!

As long as the more than 30,000 coal miners can be liberated, Marin will definitely be able to select thousands of elite soldiers from these people! After all, people who mine all day must have stronger arms than ordinary farmers, and are more suitable for fighting with cold weapons.

Moreover, if the French are used to dig coal mines, even if there is a gas explosion or something in the coal mine, the French will die, not residents of the country, and Marin will not feel distressed. Big deal, lose a sum of money chant. But compared with human life, that little money is really nothing.

Not only that, Marin also played a trick on the compensation for the miners who died underground...

According to the current rules of the North Sea country, the families of related personnel who have accidents in mines will usually receive 10 gold coins as compensation. Although it is incomparable with the compensation standards of later generations, it is less than a person's salary for a year. However, in this era, Ma Lincoln's compensation is already very conscientious. You must know that many careless mercenary generals in this era directly swallowed the commissions and compensations of their fallen subordinates.

Moreover, for the killed miners, the compensation given by Marin is not all the previous ones. In addition to the 10 gold coins, there is also land compensation-compensation for 10 acres of land!

However, it is not the 10 acres of arable land in the native land, but the 10 acres of the American colonies!

In this way, if a miner recruited from France dies in a mining accident, his family members will not only receive 10 gold coins as compensation, but also receive compensation for 10 acres of cultivated land.

There are a lot of articles in this. If the families of the victims accept the 10 acres of land, it means emigrating to the Americas. The Americas are Marin's territory, and immigrating to America is equivalent to becoming Marin's people and labor force.

Therefore, this compensation is also a hidden means to attract immigrants. If you want to cash in on these 10 acres of land, you have to immigrate to the Americas and become a labor force driven by Marin. For a poor French family who were so poor that they could only let their young and strong family dig coal, 10 acres of arable land was absolutely attractive. After all, that is 60 acres of land!

With such a large population in France, among the 15 million people, there will always be many poor families. At least, it is no problem for Marin to recruit tens of thousands of miners.

As for the possible obstruction of the French, Marin also took out his trump card-actively pay taxes!

For example, every time a miner is recruited in France, the labor export tax of 1 gold coin is voluntarily paid to the French official, and it is paid every year.

In other words, if there are 50,000 miners in France mining in the North Sea, the French court can receive a "labor export tax" of 50,000 gold coins every year. This is a pie that fell from the sky. If you don't take it, you won't take it for nothing. Taking it not only brings more money, but also solves the job problem of 50,000 poor people. It kills two birds with one stone.

Similarly, against the Italian state, Marin also decided to spend money. As long as En can recruit hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, Marin doesn't care about spending hundreds of thousands of gold coins every year. You must know that hundreds of thousands of migrant workers can create more wealth for Marin than that, at least a few million gold coins.

For the sake of gold coins, not to mention the lords of the Italian states, even the French who are hostile to the North Sea state, I am afraid it will be difficult to refuse. Besides, these migrant workers did not immigrate to Beihai, they just went abroad to work, and they can generate a lot of tax revenue every year, so why not do it?

But they didn't know that Marin had also planted another foreshadowing - when those foreign migrant workers were working in Beihai, they would definitely lure their families to immigrate to Beihai. Even if you can't recruit all of them, it can be cost-effective to attract some people to immigrate.

Moreover, including the use of land as compensation for the miners who died, it is also a potential means of attracting French immigrants, but they are all relatively hidden.

What's more, even if the salary of French migrant workers is paid, Marin can't spend much...

According to the salary level of the workers in Beihai, Marin plans to pay the migrant workers a salary of 2 Finneys per day, plus food and lodging, and work clothes...

The salary doesn't seem high, but the room and board package is very good. After all, in this era, food prices in Europe are extremely expensive. A salary of 2 pfennigs a day is only enough to buy two pounds of rye, not enough to feed a family. Therefore, except for the people of Beihai, the bread eaten by common people in other European countries in this era was mixed with wild vegetables, wood chips and even soil in large quantities, in order to make up enough food for the whole family. Generally speaking, half of the bread is flour, which is not bad.

Migrant workers are provided with food and housing, as well as work clothes, which means that they don’t need to spend much, and can save most of their money to take home. This is terrible, 2 Finneys per day, at least 720 Finneys a year (there will be a few days off, let the workers go back to celebrate Christmas and New Years, and at the same time, bring their wages home). 720 Finney, that is 12 gold coins!

Even though ordinary people can earn so much money a year, because the price of food in Europe is so expensive, even if they can earn 12 gold coins a year, after the expenses of food, drink and scavenging are taken into account, the average family has no money left at all. What's more, many poor people have worked hard all their lives and have never seen any gold coins.

And working as a migrant worker in Beihai country can save almost half of the salary every year and take it home, which will definitely make life much easier for the family. At least, can get rid of poverty.

In fact, within the North Sea country, the current salary of miners is actually 3 Finneys per day. After all, miners are relatively dangerous occupations, and no one is willing to do them without a higher salary.

But Marin deliberately gave the migrant workers 2 Finney's ordinary daily salary, and wanted to get the same salary as the local miners in Beihai, that is, the salary was increased by half? Okay, immigrate! Get a green card from Beihai, and your salary will increase by half immediately!

People in this era don't have much ethnic conception, and if they just want to raise their wages by half, there will be many migrant workers who want to immigrate. In this way, the population of Beihai State will increase significantly.

In short, as long as the money is enough, countries with bad relations will allow him to introduce migrant workers. For the sake of money, it is easy for those foreign migrant workers to immigrate for the same high salary as the locals, increasing the population of Beihai.

The most evil thing is that when paying the salaries of French migrant workers, Marin can also use the fake French Denier silver coins cast out of nickel and nickel to pay the wages. In this way, a lot of expenses can be saved.

There is a huge difference in the cost of nickel-nickel-nickel copper and real silver coins, which is equivalent to Marin hiring a large number of French labor to help him make money at a very low cost. Moreover, it is still the most dangerous mining work.

Thinking of the low cost of hiring French migrant workers, Marin suddenly thought about whether to hire tens of thousands more French migrant workers and let them help dig the canal...

In this era without excavators, the excavation of canals can only be done by manpower, which is very costly and the progress of the project is very slow. Although Marin can use the slack time to conscript farmers to dig. However, once the busy farming starts, these people can only withdraw and delay the project.

If tens of thousands of French migrant workers can be hired for a long time to dig canals and irrigation canals in Beihai, it will be of great benefit to Beihai. Not to mention the benefits to the agriculture and transportation industries, just the fact that fake French "silver coins" can be used to pay wages can save Marin a lot of costs.

After making up his mind, Marin immediately sent people to form a labor service company. Then, they were dispatched to Italy and France to contact the local government to discuss the recruitment of migrant workers.

Marin believes that as long as the "money ability" is sacrificed, no one can refuse in front of gold coins! Especially, in this era, there are many nobles who are in debt. As long as you give money, there are plenty of lords and nobles who are willing to cooperate. Even the French couldn't resist. After all, even the king of France would be tempted by the income of 1 gold coin per year for each migrant worker. If you send 200,000 migrant workers to Beihai, you can get 200,000 gold coins in tax every year...

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