Chapter 154: Delivery
"Okay, take the person away!" Mikhail waved his hand and said to Giovanni.
"Okay, brother, next time you have goods, you must contact me first." Giovanni shouted to Mikhail while sitting in the carriage.
Giovannila's goods were the peasants after the bankruptcy of Tsarist Russia, although Alexander II's reforms gave serfs freedom.
However, the local nobles would not do business at a loss. They used various means to exploit the freed peasants as much as possible.
For example, land. As part of the compromise with feudal conservative forces, it is natural to prioritize the ownership of land by landlords and nobles, and to provide compensation.
After liberation, the serfs received shares of land (which required a ransom to be paid). The area of the shares was determined according to the region. The noble landlords "selected the best from the dross", leaving behind the fertile land, large amounts of forests and grasslands, and gave the poorest land to the serfs.
Even so, Tsarist Russia was vast and rich in resources. In terms of area alone, the land obtained by the Tsarist serfs was still considerable, but much of this land was of no value.
For example, the northern part of Tsarist Russia was a vast expanse of ice and snow, making it difficult for crops to grow. The sandy steppes in southern Central Asia and rotten land in other areas were also distributed to serfs. In the end, the land that the serfs bought at three times the market price was all desert, high-altitude, saline-alkali and other worthless land.
In addition to being small in area (relative to the landlords' land) and poor in quality, when dividing the land, the landlords and nobles intentionally dispersed the peasants' land, causing the peasants' fields to be divided into fragments and very far apart, and many of them had no development value.
At the same time, after liberation, serfs lost the right to use corresponding production tools, such as cattle and horses, and farm tools were taken back by the landlords.
In this way, although many serfs obtained land after liberation, these lands were difficult to develop and the serfs were also burdened with heavy debts.
However, the government had to ensure that its finances continued to be maintained and it continued to collect heavy taxes from the liberated serfs. As a result, many serfs lived worse after liberation than before.
Of course, the reform was not without effect. At least it cultivated a group of rich peasants. However, more peasants still went bankrupt. The land was re-annexed. In addition, the current fertility rate in Tsarist Russia was very good, and there were always people who wanted to go out and make a living. Many peasants were forced to work in the city or return to farm with local landlords and nobles.
With so many surplus population, the Hexingen Consortium naturally coveted them. Now that immigration from Germany and other places had entered a stable phase, the surplus labor force of Tsarist Russia was just right to fill the gap.
What made Ernst most satisfied was that the price of Russian women's labor was much lower than that of men. To reconcile the population structure of East Africa, it was natural to allow different immigrants to intermarry as much as possible.
East Africa has been committed to increasing the proportion of mixed-race families, and the results are very good so far. In addition to allowing Chinese immigrants to marry bought white women, white men will also marry women from Southeast Asia.
Of course, these are aimed at those people that East Africa has obtained through abnormal means. After all, they were exchanged for real gold and silver or slaves by East Africa.
As for whether both parties are willing, anyway, in an arranged marriage, neither party has a choice, and only the East African government has the final say.
The immigrants from Tsarist Russia were low-human rights immigrants who were bought by East Africa with money, so their status in East Africa was only higher than that of immigrants from Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
The Hexingen Consortium contacted local powerful forces in Tsarist Russia through monetary transactions and introduced laborers from the local area at a price of 25 rubles per man and 17 rubles per woman.
Tsarist Russia is not Russia. Under it are Poland, Ukraine, the three Baltic countries, Belarus, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Finland...
Therefore, there are many channels to obtain population from Tsarist Russia, and as long as the money is in place, there will be no problem.
Of course, the Hexingen Consortium did not introduce Slavs to East Africa on a large scale, but controlled it within a certain range.
The worst thing to do when buying things is to be impatient, as this can easily lead to sellers ripping you off, so the Heixingen Group purchased immigrants on a small scale in a planned manner, so that the Heixingen Group could have more autonomy over pricing and save costs.
At the same time, the staff of the Hexingen Consortium in Tsarist Russia could also devote more energy to selecting high-quality immigrants.
The best one is one who comes from an old Tsarist serf family with three generations of good family background. He definitely has no culture, but only a lot of strength and nothing else, so it will be effortless for him to assimilate.
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St. Petersburg.
This is the transit port for Tsarist Russian immigrants from all over Russia heading to East Africa.
In other parts of Eastern Europe, transportation mainly comes through other ports. For example, Poland under Russian rule has its own ports.
Giovanni brought the purchased laborers to St. Petersburg to ship the goods.
"Giovanni, you have attracted the most people this time. Can you teach your brothers the secret?" Maxim asked.
Giovanni said nothing, but held up three fingers. Maxim immediately understood that this was their rule, but he still said with difficulty: "Brother, three meals are too much, two at most."
"This is my dining experience. Three meals are cheap enough! No, you go find someone else," said Giovanni.
"Okay! But you can't lie to me!"
There was no way out, Maxime could only agree to Giovanni's request.
Giovanni was not stingy and began to impart his experience: "If you want to find the 'source of goods', you should go to the countryside more often, don't stay in the office all the time, communicate more with the local nobles and landlords, and have a good relationship with them, then you will naturally have no worries about not being able to attract people.
This guy! You don't just look for him in the city. There are many unemployed farmers who want to find work in the city. If he has come to the city, he must have his own channels, which are nothing more than relatives and friends. Moreover, people who can take the initiative to come to the city must be more active and not so easy to deceive.
So it is definitely unreliable to try to fool people in the city, but it is different in the countryside. Those nobles and landlords are more eloquent than us when facing the villagers.
Moreover, many villagers were in debt, and their fate was in the hands of local nobles and landlords. Some of them were also very fertile! A family with several children had no food to eat, so they always had to go out and make a living.
If we go to the countryside at this time, we will be able to attract a lot of people. Of course, there are disadvantages. It will cost more money to deal with local nobles and landlords, but it will save trouble..."
Giovanni was not afraid that Maxime would learn these experiences because the two were in charge of different areas and there was no competition between them.
Giovanni is in charge of the business near Moscow, while Maxim is in charge of the business near St. Petersburg. Besides them, there are also Poland, Ukraine, Caucasus...
(End of this chapter)
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