Dispatching people to exterminate Sulu Shengfan, that is a later story, and in a few days on Borneo Island, Wang Xinyu took Zheng Xi and Zheng Jing to visit several factories such as glass factories, cement factories, textile factories, and food processing factories. These factories are on track and are able to generate huge profits for Nanyang every year. Wang Xinyu discovered a strange thing: not only did the Chinese who came to Nanyang to make a living in the factory, but also many local Sulu acquaintances also came to work in the factory run by the Nanyang Company.

In the sweltering heat of the factory, a thin, dark-skinned Sulu girl struggled to step on the wooden pedals of the spinning machine, sweating profusely and working nervously. On the other side, a little girl in Sulu pulls the yarn that has just been spun and uses the force of machinery to wrap the yarn around a paper tube.

The girl on the spinning machine looked no more than twelve or thirteen years old, and the wooden pedals on the heavy spinning machine were nothing short of a behemoth for her little feet! But she didn't dare to stop for a moment, for fear that as soon as she stopped, the girl on the other side would break the yarn, and that would cost money!

The little girl who stepped on the spinning machine was pronounced Kartini by the local name, and after coming here, she had a Chinese name called Ani, and the Han people and the bosses here called her Ani.

You can imagine how hard it is for a young girl of this age to do the heavy physical work of stepping on a spinning machine. But what can be done? The little girl's father had been killed in battle with other tribes, leaving only her mother, three younger brothers, two young sisters, and a paralyzed grandmother. Although my mother went to work on the plantation opened by the kind-hearted Han master, she was able to earn 300 copper plates every month, and when she came back at night, she had to fish, collect wild fruits and mushrooms, and she was busy from morning to night every day, but she still couldn't support a family of eight mouths!

Just when the mother was going to be ruthless. When the eldest daughter was sold, the head man brought good news on the eighth day of the first month: the kind-hearted Han man opened a lot of factories in the city, as long as he entered the factory to work, he had a salary of 500 copper plates every month, and the factory package was food and shelter, and he ate fish, meat and fish. It was a comfortable house to stay in. After working there for two years, half of the salary for the first three years goes to the head person on the eighth day of junior high school, and the rest of the income is all his own.

As for the body allowance, it is like this: the eighth day of the first month took Ani away from home and gave her mother five taels of silver for the body fee, which was deducted from Ani's salary.

He also said that with two days off every month, our people in the city would take them to the streets to play, and there were big houses with four or five stories and luxurious shops in the city. A carriage the size of a building, a boat as tall as a hill, and all kinds of goodies from all over the world! Life is alive, it's good to go out and see it!

After listening to the introduction of the eighth year of junior high school, not to mention Ani, even her mother was tempted, if it weren't for the fact that she still had to take care of her mother-in-law who was paralyzed in bed and five young children, she would have gone to work in the city.

So Ani became the head of the eighth day of the first month. Brought by a relative under the eighth subordinate of the first eight. On the eighth day of the first month, his relatives became foremen with workers, and these contractors. It became a money-making machine for Hachihachi and his relatives. When I arrived in the city, I learned that the so-called bread in the factory was eaten and lived, and the living conditions were not bad, all of which were lies! And the work is very tiring, and the quota tasks must be completed every day, and once it appears, it is not completed. Or if something is damaged, you will have to deduct your wages. In addition, all of her monthly salary of 500 copper plates had to be handed over to the foreman!

"Isn't it half of my own?" When Ani first arrived, she was arguing with the foreman.

The foreman slapped him: "The clothes on your body." The travel expenses that brought you here, as well as the training fees and food expenses before you became a skilled worker, are all paid for by our master! Don't you want to pay back the money? ”

Poor Ani was powerless to resist at all, so she had to endure it. She didn't know how dark her tribe's head was at the heart of Chu Ba! In fact, her monthly salary is 700 copper plates! But there was only five hundred for her in the eighth year, and the remaining two hundred were all taken away by the eighth in the first year! But even if it was her own salary, she had to be exploited by her relatives in the eighth year of junior high school, and not a single copper plate fell into her own pocket. Originally, the idea of the eighth day of the first month was to give 250 copper plates to the contractor every month, and he would get a total of 300, and 150 to his relatives. Who knew that his relatives were also dark enough, and took all the remaining two hundred and fifty from Ani, and made a net profit of four hundred for himself!

The factory recruits Han people to eat and live, and the Han people come to work, live in the factory dormitory, and are full of miscellaneous grains every day, with vegetables and soy products, and occasionally meat. However, in order to save expenses, the factory director recruited a large number of local indigenous acquaintances to be workers, and the cost of food and accommodation was contracted to the head chief of the indigenous people. The salary of the Han people is one tael of silver to five taels of silver, and the aborigines are seven hundred copper plates to one and a half taels of silver, and they do not have to pay for food and accommodation. Working hours are also different, Han people work five hours a day, and indigenous people work seven hours a day.

In order to save money, Ani had fifty or sixty contractors crowded into the downstairs of a house, and his own relatives lived upstairs.

The food is also paid for by the head person, so it can be saved as much as possible, and the rice eaten is porridge made of rice bran, wheat bran and bean dregs, and the vegetables are leftovers eaten by the foreman and the rotten vegetable leaves picked out when washing vegetables.

Wang Xinyu is too lazy to care about the various bad deeds of the cruel exploitation of the locals by the "Indonesian jian" in the eighth year of the first month, and he doesn't want to care, who let those people be Indonesians? Except for Indonesians like Chu Ba, who are loyal to the Han people as dogs, other Indonesians have never been a good thing, and it is also appropriate to let them suffer a little.

In addition to girl workers like Ani, there are also many boy workers. What surprised Wang Xinyu the most was that the largest number of bonded workers was not these child laborers, but a large number of adult indigenous men! The indigenous men, under the whip of the foreman, worked hard to do the hardest and most tiring work such as drilling mines, carrying heavy loads, and working on plantations under the scorching sun.

"How do you manage to make these big men listen to you honestly and not resist?" Wang Xinyu was surprised and asked Dressed in a silk Hanfu, with his hair tied up on his head and a headscarf, his appearance was a little ugly except for the black spots on his skin. In other respects, it is no different from the Han people.

"Boss, it's like this, these men are from other tribes, and they were defeated by us! So they became my slaves! I left them in my tribe, and I don't have so much to do, so I might as well send them here to work!" It's more merciful than killing them! Chu Hachi nodded. He replied with a humble face. Ever since he took refuge with the Han Chinese, from whom he received sophisticated swords and guns, sturdy armor, long-range and powerful bows and crossbows, and even a few fire-breathing iron pipes, his tribe's combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, and the surrounding tribes are no match at all.

The tribe of the eighth year of the first month used the sophisticated weapons purchased from the Nanyang Company to wash the nearby tribal villages in blood, and those who resisted were killed by him. The men who surrendered became his slaves, and the women and children were taken by their tribes.

There are too many slaves to use up, and the income from hunting and farming in the mountains is not as high as working in a Han factory. So the eighth day of the first month came up with this immoral method of contract labor, allowing slaves to work in factories, mines, and plantations run by Han Chinese. Later, all the surrounding tribes surrendered, and there was no place to capture prisoners in the eighth year, so he set his sights on the women and children of his tribe. As a result, there are wrappers like Ani.

After listening to the introduction of the eighth year of junior high school, Wang Xinyu patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "Good job!" It's just that you still have too few slaves! You should get more people to work for you! ”

Chu Hachi said helplessly: "But boss." A little farther away, we don't know each other! Entering the primeval forest, I don't know the way, it's difficult to even get out, let alone go to war! Those hateful cannibals are hiding in the deep mountains and old forests. Our people went and could not find them. ”

Wang Xinyu smiled and gave Chu Ba a poisonous plan: "I have a way, you can take your people to build roads in the deep mountains and old forests, and use the roads to divide the forest into pieces." If you don't have enough manpower, you can spend money and ask Nanyang to hire a guard. Let's call it a mercenary! You hire them to help you build trenches and obstacles, and garrison the roads you have opened, so that you don't divide the cannibals and narrow their range of activities, so it will be much easier for you to catch slaves! ”

Zheng Xi and Zheng Jing immediately asked people to take out pen and paper and record Wang Xinyu's method of using the local indigenous leaders to recruit slaves for themselves. In the future, when they go to the Americas and Australia, they will do the same. However, after Zheng Jing went to the Americas, he found that the Indians were not very useful, because the Indians did not have any immunity to smallpox, and as a result, they died in large numbers after being exposed to the virus, causing Zheng Jing to lose a large number of slaves. In fact, the Han people have a certain immunity to smallpox, and the Han people had pox technology back then, so smallpox did not have a great impact on the Han people.

Zheng Jing, who suffered heavy losses, later found that the resistance of the blacks was much stronger, so he joined forces with the Westerners to import a large number of black slaves from Africa to serve as slaves for himself. Of course, that was all later.

"That's a good idea! Or the boss is amazing! Chu Ba complimented in fluent Chinese.

In fact, this method was really not thought up by Wang Xinyu himself, but by the Tuwang of Banshilan on Luzon Island. Wang Xinyu's construction in Dingguo Bay required a large number of slaves, and the captives brought from the mainland were no longer enough, and many of the captives had to be turned into regulars, either as yeoman farmers or into real Ming troops. There was a gap in the workforce, and it was up to the indigenous people of Sulu to fill the gap.

The king of Banshilan, who had submitted to the Ming Dynasty very early, also went on a campaign to conquer other tribes and take prisoners as slaves. But soon he also faces the same problems as the eighth hath of the first month: the surrounding tribes have been conquered, and the farther away, they are unfamiliar with the land, and the opponents use the primeval forest to deal with them. Once the army of the earth kings was killed, the small tribes scattered in circles in the jungle; When the army of the earth king was broken into pieces and sent people to search the mountains, the people of these small tribes killed a horse gun and ate many of the earth king's men and horses.

Inspired by the Ming army's cutting down of forests near Yanping City to build roads, the Tuwang of Banshilan was inspired by the Ming army's cutting down of forests near Yanping City to build roads, so he opened roads in the jungle and used roads to divide the disobedient small tribes and limit their mobility, and then the Tuwang sent his own army to annihilate these small tribes that were surrounded.

More than 300 years later, Western human rights activists wrote in their book: The cruel and tyrannical Han colonial rulers colluded with the local chiefs to brutally exploit slaves and workers, injecting fresh blood into the revival of the Ming Kingdom.

Whatever future generations of human rights activists may say, the current development on the island of Borneo is exciting. Factories have sprung up in the western part of Borneo, mines have been developed, and the plains are dotted with plantations. The life of the Han Chinese on the island of Borneo has also been greatly improved, and the farmers and military reclamation households who have come here have developed a large amount of farmland, planted rice, mulberry, sugar cane and other crops, and a large number of farms have provided enough meat.

There is another good news, that is, Wang Xinyu sent a clipper ship to the Americas to return, bringing back rubber tree seeds and a boatload of gum from the Americas.

Upon hearing the news of the return of the rubber tree seeds, Wang Xinyu immediately ordered the plantations of the Nanyang Company to plant a large number of such plants, and at the same time he also took the shipload of tree rubber back to Dongfan Island to conduct vulcanization experiments in the laboratory there.

As long as the ship's rubber can be successfully vulcanized to create a batch of finished products, then a new type of mass killing: the mortar can be successfully developed. This weapon has a high rate of fire and great power, and is a great weapon for all infantry and cavalry. It's just that sulfurization requires the use of chlorine, which is difficult to obtain sulfuric acid in this era, and chlorine is even more difficult to obtain. Before the advent of power generation technology, chlorine gas could only be produced from sulfuric acid and salt, and the production was extremely low, so mortar shells could not be produced in large quantities.

To truly mass produce rubber products, it needs to enter the industrial era to achieve this.

On the island of Borneo, the last news that excites Wang Xinyu is the emergence of a food processing factory.

Food processing plants, in fact, have a very important military significance. Ancient warfare was particularly dependent on grain and grass, because it was impossible for individual soldiers to carry too much rations, and the transportation of grain and grass was very vulnerable to threats from the other side. With the food processing industry, it is possible to create individual rations that can be stored for a long time, as well as meat products that can be stored for a long time.

After listening to the introduction of Zhao Changhui, who accompanied him, Wang Xinyu immediately proposed to visit the food processing factory, and proposed that the food processing technology should be applied to the military aspect.

"My lord, please come with your humble position, let's go to the food processing factory together!" Zhao Changhui said. (To be continued.) )

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