The Sun Never Sets In Spain

The New Year is immediately after Christmas. With the French agricultural loan of 2 million, the Spanish people finally don't have to be hungry in the New Year.

This grain worth millions of dollars was sent out as relief food, and the people received it on a per capita basis.

In areas such as Andalusia where the turmoil is not serious, food is not too scarce, at least not to the point where relief food is needed, but the government still gives it, so there is no shortage and unevenness.

The simple act of distributing grain has given the society a lot of confidence, letting them know that the government is ready to govern the country. As a result, business activities will become a lot more frequent. After the people are not short of food, they finally dare to stay. Purchasing some new year's goods on New Year's Eve instead of holding money tightly.

Seeing that the government is so generous, some businessmen also foresee that food will no longer be scarce, and hurriedly sell the food they have hoarded.

As a large amount of grain enters the market, the price of grain drops rapidly.

Grain was the vane of the market, and soon all other commodities returned to their due prices.

Alfonso was very happy to see stability in order, but with it came a new problem-the people had no money in their hands.

Without money, there is no spending power, without spending power, there is no market, and without market, there is no industry.

The solution is naturally to recruit a lot of workers.

In war-torn areas, the factory gradually resumed production. In fact, production has not stopped. It was just that it was running inefficiently before. Now the abolished workers are called back.

Of course, Spain's industrial level can only be said to be reasonable. The rural population still accounts for more than 85% of the total population. It is unrealistic to expect the factories to create many jobs.

And Alfonso did not want to send them all to the manor and plantation. Stability is stable, but the country's development is very slow.

In order to let the population no longer be confined to the fields, the Catalan farm tool rental company began to open branches in multiple regions in the east at the same time.

With the example of Catalonia, the manor owners welcomed this, especially after the government said that it could provide loans for quarterly repayment, which set off a wave of agricultural reforms.

In Spain, the concept of serf does not exist, but the land belongs to the manor, and farmers need to work for the manor in order to obtain the right to use it.

The two are employment relationships, or lease relationships, and farmers are all free people.

Even they are very grateful and dependent on this relationship, and are very satisfied with the status quo.

In the history of later generations, facing the leftists who came to liberate them during the civil war, they joined the army in large numbers, fought their lives with the liberators, and vowed to defend the rule of the manor.

It is a pity that the farmers depend on the manor, but the manor does not rely on them.

With the farm tools, the manor owner needed less labor. Naturally, how he looked at the farmers was obstructing his eyes, and he immediately asked them to pack up and get rid of them.

The poor farmers did not sign the contract at all, and did not have the protection of the labor law. They just lost the jobs they depend on for their livelihood in the light words of the manor owners.

Most desperate farmers rushed to nearby cities.

These expelled farmers accounted for about 15% of the original farm’s population. After all, the current farm tools still need people or livestock to provide power, and the efficiency is not high, and the liberated labor is not much.

But even so, these people are an unbearable burden for the city. Industrial development takes time, and there are not so many jobs available for these extra people.

Fortunately, the Spanish government has long been prepared. They have posted many recruitment announcements in the eastern cities, all of which are directed to one company, the Spanish Transport Construction Company.

This is a newly established state-owned enterprise that will gather the unemployed population in the city and deploy it reasonably.

Since railway construction takes time to agree on plans and prepare raw materials, its current main job is to build and improve nearby roads and bridges.

It didn't take two months. It only started in March 1870, and the number of employees in Xijiao reached 30,000.

They are distributed across Spain's entire Mediterranean coastline. While eating up to nearly 10,000 pounds for the company every day, they are also rapidly improving the traffic conditions along the coast.

Moreover, when they first arrived, it takes a lot of money to rent a house and feed their families. Usually, the salary is used up as soon as the salary is paid, and there is no way to save money.

This part of the circulating funds has brought a lot of vitality to the economic development along the coast, and brand-new shops and factories have opened.

All this is seen by the Spanish government, Campos and others are very pleased that things can move in the direction of the plan.

If they can, they also want to emulate this move in other places. In fact, the inland areas of the west and central are more urgently needed to improve traffic.

It is a pity that government funds are limited, and money must be spent on a knife's edge, and it is unable to launch operations across the country.

This is also the reason why the policy of farming tools and provision of agricultural tools is only promoted in the east coast. Once the population is liberated and no jobs can be provided, it will inevitably lead to a decline in public security and a decline in the economy.

Compared with the inland, it is obvious that the east coast, which has a unique geographical environment, is easier to develop.

In the government's plan, their money must be invested in the economic operation of the east by every possible means to develop the industry in the east at all costs.

If the economy of other parts of Spain is backward, it will be backward. Anyway, it is not a day or two.

As long as the eastern economy is getting better, the domestic people can come here to work, that is, the Spanish version of getting rich first leads to rich later.