Zhu Jishi picked up a stack of Skopel. The resumes of the personnel sent by William, and looked at them carefully for a while, these are the resumes of foreign devils who came to apply for the executives and engineers of the Northeast Development Joint Stock Company - yes, they are foreigners! Eighty percent of the executives of the four major foreign firms owned by Emperor Zhu were foreigners, and the rest were foreign slave compradors, and there were basically no traditional Chinese merchants. Because Zhu Jishi started all Western-style large enterprises, he did not have much energy to manage them personally, so he could only use strict management and financial systems to manage them, set up a series of Western-style enterprise management institutions such as the board of directors and the board of supervisors, and used the Western-style accounting system to conduct external audits. These systems are not well understood by traditional Chinese businessmen, so they can only use a large number of foreign executives.

Therefore, the four major banks are obviously Chinese-funded, but they are still regarded as foreign banks. The newly established Northeast Development Company is still the way of foreign firms, with executives either transferred from within the Big Four or recruited from Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Nanyang and even India. These people's management ability is okay, but their eyes are always on their foreheads, and they don't look down on Orientals. I really don't know when the new business talents in China will be able to grow......

When I was sighing, I heard a rather loud voice at the door of the imperial study: "King Yanping, the right prime minister and the secretary of the colonial department, Zheng Hong, bows to Sheng'an." Zhu Jishi raised his head and smiled in the direction of the door: "Lao Zheng, come in!" What else do you want to ask for? The door was gently pushed open, and sure enough, it was Zheng Hong, who had just returned from Guangxi and became the right prime minister, he didn't bring a secretary, he held a stack of official documents and smiled at Zhu Jishi and gave a military salute, and strode in.

Zhu Jishi pointed to a chair across his desk and smiled, "Sit." Sit down! Zheng Xiangye. Tired enough these days, right? It's not easy to sit in the prime minister's seat, right? ”

I was in a good mood to see Zhu Jishi. Zheng Hong just shook his head with a smile and said: "The emperor is too, I know that my old Zheng is a rough man and still calls me the prime minister, or let Liu Xiang come back, I will go to the royalist meeting." ”

"Liu Peng can't do the prime minister, his temperament and figure are too soft." Zhu Jishi just shook his head lightly. Prime Minister Zuo is Zuo Zongtang, who has to press anyone (except the emperor), and Liu Peng's right prime minister is a bullied little daughter-in-law, so it is better to let Zheng Hong be rude.

The two talked and laughed a few words, and then Zheng Hong looked pale: "Your Majesty." The official documents here are all about the recruitment of village households (referring to collective farm households) in the four provinces of Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, and Beizhi. There are a lot of poor people in these four provinces who have no food to eat or can't stay in their hometowns, so the applicants are extremely enthusiastic, and the quota for the first phase of immigrants has been successfully recruited. ”

The matter of immigration to the Northeast cannot be carried out in a swarm, and must be carried out in phases and batches, starting with small-scale migration and then gradually expanding. Because of the lack of local development in the Northeast at the beginning, too many immigrants went to food, clothing, housing and transportation were problems. If you want to rely on the mainland to provide it, the cost is too high.

Fortunately, there was already cooked land in Liaodong, and many military households were recruited to settle down in the early stage, and there were Koreans and Han Eight Banners available - Liaodong Town arranged for most of them to cultivate the original cooked land. Of course, not to distribute the land to them, but to make them tenants. The remainder was used for various works and wasteland development. Li Hongzhang and Peng Yulin are both very capable bureaucrats, but they have managed Liaodong in an orderly manner in a very short period of time, and the sown area of spring wheat in Liaodong this year has also increased by a lot compared with last year, and it is expected that after the autumn harvest, Liaodong will not only be able to supply itself with grain, but will also be able to save up a large amount of stocks, and this will provide extremely favorable conditions for Liaodong to receive and support immigrants from the Guannai.

Zhu Jishi picked up the official document brought by Zheng Hong and slowly flipped through it, looked at it very carefully, and suddenly said in a deep voice: "It is a good thing that the recruitment of Zhuang households is smooth, but how to arrange them well is knowledge. According to the report, there are many areas where a large number of poor people have signed up...... When arranging in the future, we must scatter and resettle as much as possible, and do not arrange the villagers from the same place in a village. ”

Zheng Hong was a little stunned: "What's wrong with people from the same village?" Many of them are of the same clan, so it's good to have a care when they go to the Northeast, right? ”

Zhu Jishi looked at him with some incomprehension, and sighed slightly: "Lao Zheng, you have also worked hard in Nanyang for half your life, don't you know the disadvantages of relying on each other to form a gang?" If you don't use it, you don't believe in it. Those big clans of Lanfang have always only recognized the Hakka people in Jiazhou, if it weren't for the fact that I was too fierce to cross the river, and I got the support of the queen and you, and used foreign guns to fight a situation, I really don't know when I will be able to integrate a plate of loose sand Lanfang together.

Compared with Lan Fang, the relationship between the clans and townships here in the Central Plains is more complicated, and after the turmoil of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, some clans have deep grievances because of their different positions, and they will fight when they see it. In the meantime, there are also contradictions between gangs and religions, and all kinds of intertwined contradictions. Do you think you can move this relationship to the Northeast as it was? At present, there are hundreds of clan fights reported every month in the four provinces of Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, and Beizhili, and if I allow the clan conflicts to spread to the northeast through immigration, those armed collective farms will be killed by then! ”

He nodded, and there was an indescribable helplessness in his eyes: "Although our government has gone to the countryside, it is the clan that really has the final say in the countryside, and the foundation of the entire social organization is still the bloodline patriarchy, which is outdated after all, and has become an obstacle to the formation of a society under the rule of law, and it is also not conducive to foreign wars." In the mainland, we can't eradicate this root all at once, we can only change it subtly and slowly. But in the Northeast, in the new land we will conquer in the future, we must no longer allow the bloodline clan to take root and sprout, we need a more advanced and powerful way of social organization. ”

This kind of organization is of course a joint-stock collective farm—this kind of collective farm may evolve into a simple joint-stock farm in the future, but at present, it is a small society that integrates military, government and industry, which is the foundation of the future social organization in Northeast China, and also the basis for supporting Zhu Ming's external expansion. If millions or even tens of millions of emigrant families were organized in the form of collective farms, the Ming army would be able to obtain millions of reservists and sufficient logistical supplies at any time. At the same time, the newly built collective farms in the occupied areas will also be difficult to storm battle fortresses!

The reason why Zhu Jishi did not directly distribute land to individuals in Northeast China, nor did he promote joint-stock farms in Northeast China, but immediately adopted this "collective farm" system, which seems to have been proven to be a failure by later history, after Engels put forward the "collectivization plan". In fact, it is to take a fancy to its advantages of the integration of military and political forces and the efficiency of the organization - these two advantages have also been proved by later history.

Collectivization may not be much stronger than the feudal small peasant economy in terms of production, but in battle, it can definitely completely destroy the bloodline clan system, the tribal system, and the serfdom system. The super mobilization ability of the GC-ist countries in later generations can be clearly placed there! In the current era when wars are fought mainly by a sea of people and guns, China, a country with the largest population, can absolutely sweep away all opponents as long as it solves the problem of organization and mobilization.

Therefore, as the vanguard of China's colonial expansion, it can only be collectivized farms, not the feudal clan system - if the feudal clans had enough combat effectiveness, there would be no such thing as the Manchu Qing entering the customs and stealing the world!

Zhu Jishi looked at Zheng Hong, whose face was full of incomprehension expressions, and said in a solemn tone: "King Yanping, you just do what I say, I don't want a Northeast that is condensed by blood clans, I want a Northeast that is condensed by collectivization, and in the future, I will also promote the collectivized colonization method to the Northwest, to the Western Regions, to the South Seas, and to Siberia!" ”

Western Regions, South Seas, Siberia...... None of these territories can be controlled by the Ming Empire! This is going to be a fight! Zheng Hong took a breath and looked at Zhu Jishi's determined expression suspiciously, and he only nodded speechlessly. In the future, what kind of country will the Ming Empire become? (To be continued......)