v3 Chapter 277： Indigenous cheap labor in the nineteenth century

"With the opening of those railways, the traffic environment in Australia has been greatly eased, and more immigration has also been promoted. Even now, because of the war, under the propaganda of the Netherlands, many people in Europe have begun to choose To take refuge there, as for the most regretted not being in Europe, who knows.

Even in the Commonwealth of Millikin, it is said that many people are willing to immigrate there, especially in the area southeast of Sydney and Melbourne. Among them, Dutch people are the majority, accounting for more than 60%, and the number is about 100,000. "

Home Secretary Jonrell made an overview of the railways in Far East Australia at a meeting of the Dutch Privy Council.

William IV's long-term calm heart is a little boiling. This is the construction that he promoted, and now it has slowly blossomed and bears fruit. There can be no excitement there.

Australia is almost the same as his child. Watching him go from a barren continent to now inhabited by millions of Dutch people, from a wilderness trail to a railway crawling all over the ground, was completed in just a few years, almost a miracle.

When he first started planning, he thought that it would take more than ten or even twenty years to build a railway. After all, how could the current technology be as advanced as later generations.

But he was wrong, and very wrong.

Because in Jonglell's planning book, it took only about 4 years to complete the opening of these lines.

At the time, he didn't believe it, but the answer in front of him made the doubt disappear.

It was only now that I suddenly realized that it is not the future.

There is no need for land acquisition now, and there is no need for too high labor costs, especially the latter one, which is very important.

In the past life, the Australian Continental Railway was not too much. Why is the small population one reason, but the other is that many of the land was occupied by the capitalists. It is very difficult to expropriate, and the compensation can make their government pay the dao- tower.

Labor costs are sky-high. You must know that when their wages are around $10,000 per capita in the world, Australia's per capita income reaches $50,000.

If 10,000 workers are required to build a railway, then they will be paid $500 million a year, not counting other labor security benefits and other expenses. This is very stressful for finances.

But now this era is different, why, because where is the ceiling of per capita income?

is the Netherlands.

After several years of development, the Dutch have surpassed the United Kingdom. The per capita income is 90 pounds, while the United Kingdom is only 80 pounds. The Commonwealth of Millikin is less than half that of the Netherlands.

As for the aboriginal people in the Netherlands, they are slightly better, but the Dutch government is not a charitable organization, and only gives different overweights. For example, the Australian and East Indian natives give £20 a year, while the natives of Madagascar are £15.

As for the construction of railways on the African continent, it is only given an annual salary of 10 pounds.

"Your Majesty, we have recruited more than 100,000 native Africans, and over 200,000 East Indian natives and Australian natives."

Jonrell said carefully: "Aboriginal wages in Africa are around £1 million, while Australians and East Indians need another £3 million."

William IV had digested the cheap news brought by these hundreds of thousands of laborers, and couldn't help but smile.

The labor force of this era is not the kind of young master and uncle-type labor force of later generations.

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There is no 8-hour work system here. These people work for more than 12 hours every year, and they have signed a contract.

Don't think it's inhumane, it was like that in those days, even in Africa, every time you recruit, there are still many people queuing up and hoping to be selected for this beautiful job.

After all, the income of 10 pounds is only the income of the bottom-level people in many European countries. It can be said that for Africans, it is not an exaggeration to be called the upper-level salary, so there is no idea of ​​not wanting to go.

Therefore, the work attitude and spiritual bread of the workers are not rubbish. Look at the small-said that those people can understand, and even William IV thought, maybe people who lived in the 80s and 90s, can also feel it. After all, there were few black and white TV sets in those days, which belonged to the diligent work and rest style of another day.

"What is Australia's fiscal spending in a year?"

William IV asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jane von Capello next to him.

Jan von Capefall: 'Over £10m last year'

What a huge number!

You must know that the GDP of the Netherlands is only about 300 million pounds, and the fiscal revenue is more than 50 million pounds.

William IV was amused when he saw Jane von Capello's distressed look. Sure enough, no one who manages money is generous.

"What was Australia's fiscal revenue last year?"

This is the most important thing. If the expenditure is not proportional to the income, the consequences will be very serious. Just like the current UK, because of all kinds of war support, there has been a huge deficit in the finances, which is a headache for the Creston cabinet.

Not to mention the Tsarist Russian Empire. Some time ago, it also borrowed 50 million guilders (worth 2 million pounds) from the Netherlands, in order to maintain the war. William IV agreed to get an annual interest rate of 10%.

After all, the two major social forces that made fortunes in wars were arms dealers and banks.

Now the Netherlands is precisely the two areas that William IV hated most, and it is still the best in the world, which makes him feel the helplessness of life.

"I don't want to be a villain, but the environment makes me the most hated person in my heart"

Australia has entered the formal stage So the migration plan in the Netherlands can be accelerated, especially the factories on both the military and civilian sides, as well as security, and the construction can be accelerated at that time.

Looking at the map of Australia, the leaders began to plan the intensive construction of Australian military bases.

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With the rise of hot weapons in the war of the 19th century, arms negotiation has completely become a political force, affecting the decision-making of governments in Europe and the United States.

War is the result of many factors intertwined. Especially in the wrestling between major powers, and there is no accident in the wrestling, there are almost arms dealers behind them. Arms dealers are defense contractors in European and American countries. They are so-called military-industrial complexes and complexes. In some countries, the government does not In the case of not being strong enough, the war basically started because they became a scientific monster that no one could control.

These arms dealers are producing and developing various weapons like civilian industrial products every day, so they accumulate more. When the producing countries cannot sell them because of peace, they need wars and conflicts to open up the market.

The British have occupied such a large share in previous years. Although the Netherlands is second, it is still difficult to match.