Chapter 178: Why are there so many people?
This large-scale migration from Dongjiang Town has had a great impact on Far East Company in the near future. The huge food shortage, the unstable factors brought about by the population explosion, and the drastic consumption of the company's resources have also disrupted the company's strategy of steady development and brought a certain amount of chaos to the company's recent development.
However, from the perspective of the company's long-term development, the entry of more than 100,000 immigrants has also brought great impetus to the company's development. Tens of thousands of single Liao women have alleviated the ratio of men to women in Liao. Nearly 20,000 craftsmen have been trained for a period of time, and these new industrial workers have also injected a lot of fresh blood into the basic industry, which has been making slow progress.
In addition, these Liao people in Dongjiang Town can also develop Trudovoye agricultural resources under the leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Under the leadership of the Railway Department, the railway embankment from Vladivostok to Artem was built. The company's northbound plan was shortened from three years to two years.
After returning to Vladivostok, Li Ming began to prepare for the establishment of the Ulleungdo trading post. As for the items used for trading, the company now has a huge stockpile, which includes a large number of small goods from modern society.
For example, the women's makeup series includes some delicate powder boxes, sets of eyebrow pencils, sets of lipsticks, colored soaps, eyeshadow boxes, makeup mirrors, alabaster and so on. Each item also comes in a premium box.
Women's jewelry box series, including a variety of exquisite necklaces, bracelets, earrings, bracelets, ornaments, pendants, etc., are made of artificial gemstones, zircon rhinestones, artificial pearls, acrylic and other modern industrial products. Of course, each item also comes in a sophisticated box.
There are also delicate jewelry boxes, storage boxes, shampoos, beautiful parasols, low-grade perfumes of various flavors, colored bead packets, artificial crystal ornaments, delicate sewing boxes, cosmetic bags, artificial silk handkerchiefs and much more.
In addition, there are various modern industrial products such as stainless steel tableware, artificial crystal cups, music boxes, delicate glass oil lamps, pewter ornaments, exquisite lighters and so on.
In addition, there are some commodities, the quantity is extremely huge, such as matches, soap, mosquito coils, umbrellas, eye paste toothbrushes, sanitary napkins, low-grade paper towels, disposable lighters, glasses and other daily commodities, small hardware tools, etc., these are extremely cheap things in modern society, and it is even cheaper to purchase in large quantities in the manufacturer. But in this day and age, it's definitely a straining commodity.
These commodities are purchased by the company's purchasing department, try to choose those small and lightweight, do not occupy a small space, often a container can hold a lot, and the money spent is relatively small compared with other materials, but in this era to play a role, is not small at all.
These goods are all in the compulsory small commodity market, specially customized for this era, from materials to quality requirements are relatively high. However, because the quantity required is huge, at least tens of thousands, and directly purchased from the manufacturer, eliminating the intermediate links, so the price is very low, the most expensive is only a few dozen yuan, and the cheap one is even only a few cents.
In addition to these small goods of modern society, there are also a large number of Japanese crafts such as fans, swords, lacquerware, and folding screens looted in Sakai Port. A large number of spices such as cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, and pepper were plundered from Manila, as well as sandalwood, camphor, and pewter from Southeast Asia. Fabrics and carpets from Persia and India. Silk and ceramics from the Ming Dynasty.
There were also looting items from the Dutch Merchant House in Hirado, such as sugar, deerskin, venison, antlers, and various rattan products from Taiwan. Dutch metals, medicinal herbs, European-style armor, Batavian spices, pepper, amber, linen, cotton, tin, lead, Chinese silk fabrics, porcelain and pottery.
These cargoes filled four Spanish galleons, ten Dutch merchant ships, and even three landing ships, and only a fraction of their stock. Li Ming also loaded a large amount of silver ingots, a small amount of gold, and boxes of silver coins from various countries.
As soon as they were ready, Li Ming and Song Tao boarded the ship and left Vladivostok with the special combat team and the Japanese death army brigade and sailed to Ulleungdao.
Because he went to Ulleungdo to establish a trade point and was prepared to keep it for a long time, he also brought two D-40 85mm anti-tank guns, two double-barreled 23mm anti-aircraft guns, and four 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns. Several artillery positions were established on Ulleungdo Island to prevent attacks by North Korean sailors and pirates.
The three landing ships were also loaded with an engineering team and some construction machinery from the Construction Committee, as well as construction materials such as cement and steel bars, a set of improvised floating docks, a crane, four forklifts, and four four-wheeled tractors with tow buckets. There are also some trolleys and delivery trucks. There the company will build a town with a wharf, shops, warehouses, and trading centers.
After that, Ulleungdo was a trading base for the Far East Company, where the company traded with merchants from the Ming Dynasty, Korea, and Japan. When the fleet arrived at Ulleungdo, it began to carry out intensive infrastructure work, building a 200-meter-long floating wharf, installing a large number of steel structure warehouses, and building assembly houses.
After more than ten days of busy work, the construction of the floating wharf and trestle bridge was completed, and a piece of land was cleared and leveled, and the long stone slab bricks produced by the building materials center were paved, and a 100-meter-long and 20-meter-wide street was made, and there were two rows of assembled houses on both sides of the street. Not far behind the side street are two steel structure warehouses.
The entire trade point was fenced with barbed wire, and four concealed gun emplacements were set up on both sides of the wharf, as well as two sea outposts, to ensure the security of the trade point. On the side of the pier pier, there is also a row of assembly houses, which serves as a resting place for traders who come here.
After completing the infrastructure work at the Trade Point, landing ships No. 1 and No. 2 and a dozen sailboats returned, leaving only landing ships No. 3 and two landing craft responsible for maritime security here.
Two days later, the first Ming Dynasty fleet appeared, the owner of this fleet was not Song Shiping, and I didn't know how to inquire about the company's need for women, and pulled more than a dozen boats of female babies, ranging from seven or eight years old to thirteen or fourteen years old, more than three hundred. Li Ming asked Liu Handong to find a girl to ask, and found that most of these children were from Henan, and many of them were from Shanxi.
Li Ming is very happy about the opening of this business, and now he is buying horse bones, and he must make a name for himself as a trading point in Ulleungdo. So he deliberately took out a batch of relatively high-end Japanese crafts to check out.
The owner of the ship was happy, the deal was definitely worth it, and it should be said that it took a big advantage. When the shipowner left, Li Ming grabbed the shipowner's hand and said with tears in his eyes: "Brother, don't pull people here next time, we need food, a lot of food." ”
The shipowner immediately frowned, and said in embarrassment: "Brother, it's not that my brother doesn't help you with this, I don't get close to here, I will lose a boatload of grain transported to you, if I pull a boatload of grain from Huguang, I can sell it out before I leave Songjiang." Why bother to come to you, not to mention the hard work, that thing is not worth much. ”
Li Ming grabbed the shipowner's hand, led him to a assembly room, lifted a curtain on the counter, took out a few things from modern society, and then said with a smile: "Brother, if you pull grain, we will exchange this thing with you, what do you think of these things?" ”
The shipowner didn't understand it for a while, but he saw Li Ming take out a wooden stick from a small box and gently stroke it on the edge of the box, and the head of the wooden stick suddenly ignited a flame.
The owner of the ship was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground, but his eyes lit up immediately. After Li Ming repeated the teaching a few times, he trembled and stroked a few times, and finally drew a flame.
He stared blankly at the flame in his hand, and felt so excited that he threw it away in pain until the match burned to his hand. Before he could calm down, Li Ming demonstrated for him modern goods such as soap, soap, mosquito coils, umbrellas, disposable lighters, and glasses. The shipowner was stunned by the array of things.
This time, he grabbed Li Ming's hand and said excitedly: "Brother, I brought the grain over, can I really exchange it for this thing?" ”
Li Ming nodded with a smile and said: "Of course, how much you want to change, it depends on how much grain you can pull, what we have for this thing, how much we can change." But apart from food, we don't exchange gold. ”
The shipowner laughed and said, "Brother, you can say that I will go back to fetch grain." That's right, brother...... Can I take a few samples first? Yes...... I'll give money ......"
Li Ming happily took out ten boxes of matches, and each of the other commodities was stuffed into his hand, and said with a smile: "Brother, you just look down on me, you have drifted all the way here, can I still ask you for money, take it...... Take it ......"
The owner of the boat was so happy that he took the boat away, Li Ming looked at the sail shadow in the distance, turned his head and said to Song Tao: "I hope he can bring more food back, if we can't get enough food, then I have to go out and find a way." ”
Song Tao also smiled bitterly: "Yes, if we really don't have enough food at that time, we will have to rob it." Even if you grab Emperor Chongzhen's Jinluan Palace, you have to make up the food. Paralyzed, the company now has more than 200,000 people, how much food is this? ”
Just when Li Ming and Song Tao were worried about the company's food, the fleet of the Ming shipowners began to arrive at Ulleungdao one after another. But all the people they pulled were women, and in a few days, they brought more than 2,000 people. And there are fleets arriving one after another, all pretending to be women.
Li Ming looked at the women on the island without tears, turned his head to Song Tao and said, "Brother, if I saw so many women last year, I would have to die of happiness, but when I saw them this year, I suddenly wanted to cry......
At this time, a report from the sentry post came from his headset: "Li Ming, a large fleet of ships has appeared in the distance. ”
When Li Ming heard this, his heart suddenly cooled.
"Let the two landing craft go up and ask, it is estimated that Song Shiping is here."
After he finished speaking, he prayed in his heart, big brother, don't pull people here, if you pull people again...... I...... I hit my head and died...... R1152