Chapter 191: Status of immigration

The detailed transaction details negotiation lasted for three days. On August 25th, the representatives of Brazil, the United States and France jointly announced the conclusion of the warship transaction plan. The Brazilian empire will purchase an ironclad ship from France and the United States respectively. Each country provided a sum of funds to support Brazil's economic reconstruction.
In the public declaration, the representatives of the three countries did not disclose the scale of the loans provided by the United States and France. However, after the envoy of the British Minister Edmund asked about it, the content of the three-party transaction was probably clarified. Million pounds of low-interest loans and a package of business transaction plans have to say that the US and French envoys have done a big business under the eyes of the British.
When the tripartite cooperation has been reached, Edmond wrote in a black London telegram frustrated: The British did not seize the favorable opportunity in the Brazilian warship transaction, which caused the commercial contract originally owned by British merchants to fall between Britain and France. After the transaction, the UK ’s business expansion in Brazil has lagged behind the United States and France for the time being. The London government should carefully discuss the opinions raised by the embassy in Brazil and grant the embassy more autonomy in commercial transactions to prevent similar issues. things happen.
Edmund's telegram to the London government has not been answered. On the Brazilian side, Lopez Jr. has given part of the contract in the commercial transaction to domestic emerging businessmen who are responsible for cooperating with the United States and France.
On the other hand, Lopez Jr. misappropriated a quarter of the funds from the first loans to strengthen military forces in areas with frequent rebellions.
The economic and military two-pronged approach, the Republican businessmen who won part of the contract chose to cooperate with Pedro II's actions under actual interests, and the rebels and rioters in various places also stopped their operations after the Brazilian army continued to go to the local alert, temporarily halted.
The shortage of funds has been effectively alleviated. Pedro II rarely had a period of stability in the Royal Palace of Rio de Janeiro. In Rio Grande do Sul, after a year of recovery, all the newly migrated Chinese immigrants have stabilized.
Outside the New Beijing City, tents and collective wooden houses built to house Cuban immigrants have all been emptied. Cuban Chinese immigrants who originally lived there have built their own Chinese-style houses.
In principle, Chinese workers who have migrated from Brazil need to complete one year of labor before they can be assigned to the land. However, under the intervention of Li Mingyuan, the treatment of Chinese workers has been modified. The new regulations on the management of Chinese immigration stipulate that After a few months, as long as the Chinese laborers do not experience negative work delays and qualified to complete the work tasks issued, they can select a piece of land with an area of ​​30 acres in advance. After the completion of one year's labor, according to the specific performance of the Chinese laborers, add different Area of ​​land.
Thirty acres of land is the minimum standard for granting land. If a Chinese worker assigns 30 acres of land and performs mediocrely during one year of labor without receiving additional land rewards, then he must rely on the 30 acres of land as a wife and child. The capital of a family.
A family of 30 acres of land on the mainland is enough for ordinary people to live on food and clothing, but in Rio Grande do Sul, the situation is very different. Rio Grande do Sul has a lot of land and a small number of men and women, and the proportion of men and women is seriously out of balance. During the period when the land represents the main wealth and status, most of the few women of appropriate age will be assigned to merit soldiers, and the remaining few women will choose Chinese people with a large area of ​​land are the objects of marriage. Those Chinese who only guard 30 acres of land are hardly able to compete with others and get a chance to start a family.
The joy of being free and allotted to 30 acres of land was quickly replaced by competition under the guidance of retired soldiers responsible for the management of Chinese labor.
It is the traditional requirement of Chinese culture to inherit the land and start a family. The Chinese workers who have just hoped for a good life naturally do not want to be left by others. They have a single life without the consequences of future generations. Therefore, the first 30 acres of land were allocated. After going down, the work efficiency of the Chinese laborers who have worked hard to improve has improved a lot. When the time passed for eight months, on August 25, most of the first batch of Cuban Chinese laborers who arrived reached over one-third of the workload. There are 123 Chinese workers who completed one year's labor tasks ahead of schedule.
It takes a lot of labor to complete a year of work in a little more than eight months. After learning about the situation from the officials who manage the labor of Li Mingyuan, on the one hand, he has a new understanding of the diligence of Chinese workers, The development of Rio Grande do Sul adds more confidence.
The Chinese workers who settled in Rio Grande do Sul are all from the bottom of the farm. They may not have as much knowledge as the scholars, but the hardworking and obedient character of Chinese workers is admired and needed by Li Mingyuan.
In the early days of the South China Uprising, more than 100,000 people, regardless of their strengths and weaknesses, were incorporated into the army, and the proportion of soldiers and civilians reached 100%. Even in the first half of the Rio Grande South, by absorbing the construction of railways from the western United States, South Rioge The number of Lanhuas and naturalized women has reached 300,000. The National Defense Force still maintains a regular field army of 38,000 and a guard force of 20,000. It is not a half-military militias, and the proportion of military and civilians in Rio Grande do Sul has also reached nearly Five to one scale.
In the mainland area, due to the interference of local gentry forces, Li Mingyuan could not find 50,000 soldiers from 30 people in any case, but in Rio Grande do Sul, it is different. There is no complicated local power relationship here. Chinese workers who came to different regions With a simple status and high obedience, Li Mingyuan can direct all Chinese under his plan to set industrial development plans set in the same white paper as South Rio Grande.
The centralization of power in the early days of power is conducive to concentrating forces against external enemies. At the same time, in order to maintain stability and competitiveness within the Chinese, Li Mingyuan intends to take advantage of South Rio Grande's development for more than half a year to publicly recognize Chinese workers who have performed outstandingly in labor.
The scope of recognition of Chinese workers is not limited to Cuban Chinese workers, but also includes Chinese workers who have been introduced from the Americas such as the United States and Canada since the end of Cuban immigration.
Mainland Chinese workers went to the United States to mainly engage in railway construction. In March 1869, when the US Pacific Railway was about to be completed, Li Mingyuan ordered Wang Youtian, who was stationed in the Caribbean, to go to the United States, and was responsible for guiding the Chinese workers to migrate to Rio Grande do Sul.
After receiving the order, Wang Youtian gave Torti Island affairs to the deputy, and then took two armed merchant ships to the United States in advance.
On May 3, three days before the completion of the U.S. Pacific Railroad, Wang Youtian and the Americans reached an agreement that stipulated that South Rio Grande needed to pay Pacific American construction companies an immigration fee of $ 30 for the beauty, and South Rio Grande On the other hand, the company does not investigate the issue of wage arrears of Pacific companies. ...
There are only a few contents in the agreement. Among them, the dispute between the two companies is about the wage arrears of the Pacific Company. When the construction of the railway was about to be completed, the Americans reduced and detained the wages of Chinese workers in various ways. After Wang Youtian visited the Chinese workers, According to the reason, they strived to fight for the legitimate interests of Chinese workers, but the Americans have not let up. In the end, Li Mingyuan sent a telegram in person and decided to give up the recovery of Chinese workers' arrears and reach an agreement to introduce Chinese workers as soon as possible.
The situation is at a disadvantage. Wang Youtian had no choice but to compromise. After announcing the waiver of wages of Chinese workers, Americans also reduced their immigration requirements. Each Chinese worker willing to immigrate to Rio Grande do Sul charged only $ 30.
After the introduction of the U.S.-China Works Agreement, one hundred vessels affiliated to Ocean Shipping Company immediately set off for the United States. After more than three months of transportation, a total of 20,000 Hua-China workers were transported to Rio Grande do Sul.
The total number of Chinese in the United States is about 50,000, with the exception of a small number of local families, most of whom are still alone. In the United States in 1869, a trend of excluding Chinese people had emerged. The situation of Chinese people in the United States was not good. However, because they were not familiar with Rio Grande do Sul, most people chose to wait and see. Make a decision before getting the exact message.
Few Chinese workers who come to the United States to live in the United States choose to return to the mainland because, although the Chinese are discriminated against in the United States, they receive more than three times as much wages in the same job as the mainland. The cost of 30 US dollars paid by South Rio Grande to Americans is one month's wages for ordinary Chinese workers, and Chinese people earn a small amount of 30 US dollars a month, not only suffering from American deductions, but also UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com also To suffer from their white-eye discrimination, in the original history, they could only choose to tolerate, and now the existence of Rio Grande do Sul has given Chinese Americans a new choice. When they really ca n’t live, they have another A viable way forward.
The labor intensity of railway workers is greater than that of Cuban Chinese workers engaged in agricultural production. Therefore, in the list of 300 outstanding Chinese workers sorted out by Liu Pu, American Chinese workers accounted for 62, and Cuban Chinese workers had 200. Over 30 people are Chinese workers from Canada, the Caribbean and other places.
Chinese American workers arrived in Rio Grande do Sul late, and it was a good thing to have 62 people who were outstanding in their work.
After reviewing the list of three hundred people, Li Mingyuan signed his name on the order of issuing land awards. As a result, three hundred Chinese workers will end their one-year labor in advance and they will receive a reward of one hundred acres of land per person. .
The list of rewards was announced. After one hundred acres of land was allocated to the outstanding Chinese workers, other Chinese workers looked envious and jealous in their eyes. Many people secretly encouraged at the same time:
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