Chapter 701 The Correct Use of Japanese Labor

The California colony was different from other colonies of the Austrian Empire because the population here was growing too fast.

Although the population growth rate in East Africa was not slow, it had been developed by the Dutch and Portuguese colonies for hundreds of years and had a certain population base. Even if a large number of immigrants from the Austrian Empire arrived, it would not cause earth-shaking changes.

Secondly, when the Dalits were dumped in the Karaika region, it was no different from dumping garbage. They were transported together regardless of gender, age or age, and the original social structure did not change much.

So when the Japanese laborers in California started to make trouble, the bachelor army led by soldiers beat them inhumanely.

15,000 Japanese laborers died tragically, and their bodies were nailed from the farm to the seaside. Under the legal and religious moral constraints of the Austrian Empire, they could only vent their excess energy and dissatisfaction in this way.

The previous document said that Austria adopted an iron-fisted policy in California, a lawless place, and the local governor Archduke Ferdinand was also a cold commander.

Therefore, the number of Hispanic natives has gone from 8,000 households to 8,000 people, and the number of Indians has gone from 150,000 to less than 30,000, including those who have been supplemented by foreigners and newborns.

This is not a solution, and after this time, Franz no longer thinks that the Japanese are just a group of sheep that can be manipulated at will.

Franz thinks that the cultivated farmland in California should continue to be controlled by German immigrants who identify with Austria.

As for those Japanese workers, let them go to open up the wasteland, anyway, California has no shortage of wasteland. In addition to California, there is also land worth developing in Nevada.

However, considering the harsh environment, rampant bandits, and frequent appearances of Indians, this kind of work that requires life should be given to Japanese workers.

In addition, mines and factories need people. Normal workers work 996, but Japanese workers can work 697, 15 hours a day, all year round.

Of course, Franz will not give people hope. For example, it only takes nine years to farm to obtain the status of a free man and obtain citizenship.

It takes eight years to work in a mine, but only seven years to work in a factory. If you have made meritorious contributions, you can reduce the years, otherwise it will be increased.

However, it is usually not needed because the previous rebellion made the California government have a very bad impression of Japanese workers.

It takes less than ten years to get out of Asia and enter Europe. Fukuzawa Yukichi, the father of modern education in Japan, would have laughed to death if he knew this.

Of course, if you can save 3,000 florins by doing a side job, it will be fine. In addition, if you can find a citizen to marry, it will be fine.

Although the aesthetic gap between the East and the West at this time is huge, Japanese women can accept the situation where there are more men than women and even sheep cannot be found.

As for Japanese male workers, it is unlikely that they will have this opportunity. Not to mention that the number of female citizens in the colony is extremely rare, the huge difference in status alone makes this seem a bit far-fetched.

In addition, whether it is aesthetics, religion, or some cultural concepts, female citizens in California at this time are unlikely to find a Japanese worker to marry.

In fact, the most fundamental reason should be that they cannot be contacted. Whether it is a pioneer group or a mine, you will hardly see women, and Austrian factories are separated by gender.

Therefore, doing a side job became the best way to get rid of the identity of a laborer. After all, California had just developed and there was no entertainment industry.

Soon, Japanese laborers began to make new attempts. Even some people with conscience and integrity would soon succumb under the pressure of their parents, brothers, and even husbands.

Given the social status of Japanese women at that time, all this was almost a foregone conclusion. In fact, from the perspective of the social morality of some people at that time, it was still a win, but with the inversion of economic status.

The self-awareness of these Japanese women began to awaken, and they began to try to break away from their original social relationships. However, the traditional concepts of a nation cannot be changed in a day or two, and these people naturally became targets of attack.

Some gangs came into being. They did the kind of despicable things, while maintaining the original order and concepts, and eliminating those who broke the rules when necessary.

However, soon someone discovered that the identity of California citizens was a kind of protection for them, and a new weapon was born, that is, the law.

The traditions and families among the Japanese laborers were not worth mentioning in front of the laws of the Austrian Empire.

The so-called gangsters were even more of a joke in front of the army. Soon the last backbone of the Japanese laborers was broken, and even those gangs that originally united Japanese immigrants turned into tools for the Austrians to maintain their rule.

Those gang members stepped on the corpses of their compatriots to get the qualification of being dogs, and their loyalty was simply outrageous.

There was a reason why Japan's custom industry could be so successful in later generations, and soon Japanese style streets were blooming everywhere in California.

However, in the 19th century, there were only a few people who could marry across ethnicity and skin color. Although a large number of Japanese women got rid of the shackles of feudalism, family and tradition, it was difficult for them to raise their children.

Except for a few, most of them chose to abandon their babies. Fortunately, the church had already made arrangements with these people in advance, and the orphanage would take on the responsibility of raising them.

Raised by the church, and then instilled with the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and patriotism from an early age, under the double poisoning, these mixed-race abandoned children would be completely brainwashed into the most useful tools.

Franz will make good use of them, after all, life is precious. In fact, those who can serve as Franz's pawns are the most outstanding and can prove themselves. Most people are just trained as firewood.

As for those Japanese women, it is difficult to work for a lifetime. Unless they can integrate into the local society, their ending will not be too good.

With the increase in the number of stores and practitioners in the Japanese style street, the California colony finally ushered in a brief harmony.

In fact, although the shogunate and the various feudal domains would provide age-appropriate and healthy laborers as they promised, women's physical strength was worse in the inherent agricultural social concept, so they were relatively cheap.

The shogunate and the feudal governments were very active in this regard, and they would choose to pass off inferior products as good ones.

In addition, for Japan, which has a population of more than 30 million, 50,000, even 500,000, could not affect their population structure.

Although Japanese agriculture developed at that time, the harsh environment, unscientific planting methods and backward technology resulted in a seed output ratio of only 1:3~1:4.

This data is even worse than before the European Industrial Revolution, so they are so eager for land on land.

Although Franz's approach was somewhat cruel, it ensured the main ethnic structure of the region.

In fact, it laid the foundation for future stable development. Sacrificing Japanese workers was better than sacrificing the already small number of Germans in Austria.

In fact, Franz did not care so much about the main ethnic group, but a Western country with a group of Asian faces always seemed a bit out of place...