Chapter 2029 Emancipation of Serfs and Industrialization

Since more than 500,000 Maozi Qingzhuang, Maomei, and Maohai were to be accepted, Marin had to make plans in advance to welcome and resettle these populations.

The initial reservation was to be placed in Jutland, but that was only a stopgap measure. The placement on the Jutland Peninsula is also because of the fear of domestic instability in the North Sea. Then, Maozi serfs were brought into the inland area in batches to replace the serfs in some manors in the inland area.

Marin was right to be worried. When he negotiated with some ministers and planned to introduce a large number of Maozi farmers, it caused resistance from some ministers of the North Sea State. Because they felt that the mixing of barbaric Slavs and Germans would cause uncontrollable dangers. Fortunately, Marin told them that they would be placed in the Jutland Peninsula, which dispelled their doubts.

In fact, not only those ministers had concerns, but even Haider, the minister of Marin's direct line, had doubts. He believes that rashly introducing a large number of Slavs will destroy the domestic population structure and cause social conflicts. He only agrees with the introduction of Maomei and Maohai. After all, women and children are nothing to worry about.

But Marin insisted on introducing Maozi. As for the reason, Marin's reason is very simple-he wants to gradually realize the industrialization of Beihai State!

Industrialization means that a large amount of labor is required to enter the factory, but the question is, who will plant the fields after the labor enters the factory? This problem is also a major problem that has plagued Europe in history.

Britain was able to complete industrialization first because it carried out the enclosure movement very early. A large number of landless farmers were forced to leave their land. In order to survive, he had to go to work in a factory. Because there are many landless farmers, they don't have to worry about finding workers. Therefore, it greatly facilitates the process of British industrialization.

The opposite is France, because the agricultural environment is too good, although the population exceeds that of the United Kingdom, industrialization is slow. In addition, France's policy towards farmers is very enlightened, encouraging self-cultivation agriculture, which makes farmers lack the motivation to go to the city to earn a living. Then, in the whole of France, there are only a few industrial cities such as Paris and Lyon. The size of Paris is particularly large.

As for Prussia's road to industrialization, in addition to its extremely rich coal resources, the rapid population growth in the 19th century was also an important driving force for the development of industrialization.

A very simple data comparison is that in 1800, the population of France was as high as 29 million, while Prussia plus other German states (excluding Austria) was only 18 million. As for Prussia itself, it was less than 10 million in 1800, not of the same order of magnitude as France.

Therefore, at the beginning of the 19th century, France relied on the demographic dividend and the mechanism of national mobilization to put the whole of Europe on the ground.

But it is a pity that the Napoleonic Wars, while overthrowing the whole of Europe, also caused France to bleed dry. In particular, the loss of the young men was extremely serious. The French army alone suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties, and counting the losses of the strong civilians, the total loss exceeded one million.

Then, the surviving French man suddenly discovered to his surprise that he was very popular with women. Because of the large number of young and strong deaths, there are too many women who are difficult to marry. Then came the spring of the French man. It was also at that time that the French began to wave...

The French, who were very martial from the beginning of the Middle Ages,

Began to indulge in games between men and women. This kind of game is called Romance by the French...

But the damn thing is, these French people are crazy, they just don't want to have more children...

Then, throughout the 19th century, the fertility rate of the French began to plummet, and the lost century of falling from the altar began.

According to statistics, at the end of the war, that is, in 1815, the population of France was as high as 30 million, and even if Prussia received a windfall and accepted Westphalia in the Rhineland region), the population would increase to about 12 million.

Since then, the two countries have taken different paths...

Speaking of it, is it also a legend that Prussia acquired the Rhineland region? It is a story of pie in the sky. After the war, Tsarist Russia was unwilling to share Poland with Prussia, so it wanted to get most of Poland, and only allowed Prussia to retain the northern coastal area of ​​Poland to connect East Prussia and the mainland. Prussia was weak and did not dare to object, so it had to ask for compensation.

Originally, Prussia's goal was to annex Saxony. But Austria is not happy, because Saxony is a buffer between the two countries. Then, the three giants of the Vienna Conference, Prussia, were just a younger brother) After discussing with Russia, Austria, and Britain, they allocated the Rhineland area that the French had just spit out to Prussia. At that time, the Three Kingdoms had evil intentions and wanted to let Prussia, which did not border France, go to the front line and withstand the rebound of the French.

But unexpectedly, Prussia has since added a super gift package - coal from the Ruhr area...

In the beginning, Prussia did not engage in industrialization either. Later, the population of Prussia grew rapidly, and population pressure appeared. And industrialization is an important means to solve the population pressure. Then, starting in the mid-19th century, Prussia began to industrialize, and then it took off...

On the French side, on the one hand, there is a lack of coal resources. On the other hand, the French only care about romance and forget the responsibility of procreation, just like the people of later generations.

Then, in 1870, the population of France was only 34 million (a rise of 4 million in 55 years). And Prussia, but Prussia itself, has grown from 12 million to 27 million, and its population has more than doubled... This is not counting the states that were eaten by Prussia. When Germany was unified in 1871, the total population was as high as 41 million, which was far behind that of France...

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Therefore, in order to industrialize a country, in addition to resources, a large amount of surplus labor is also needed. Just like why the Huaxia of later generations can take off so quickly? Because there are too many people! The government just let go of the population flow, and a large number of migrant workers flooded into the city, so that the factories did not have to worry about recruiting workers. Guangdong alone has absorbed as many as 30 million migrant workers. This is the labor force, not including the old and the weak! At that time, the population of France was only more than 60 million, almost half of the population of France!

Right now, the North Sea State, like Prussia in later generations, has obtained the treasure of coal resources in the Ruhr area. However, there is a serious shortage of labor!

The total area of ​​the North Sea State exceeds 100,000 square kilometers, almost as large as England. But the problem is that England has three to four million people, while the North Sea country has only more than two million.

Among them, about 400,000 serfs constituted the main force of the labor force. Marin, who is familiar with history, knows that if he wants to industrialize, he must first liberate the serfs!

However, this is not realistic!

If the serfs were freed, who would farm the land? Where does food come from when no one farms the land?

In addition, if you become a worker, who would be happy if your life is worse than that of a serf? Maybe there will be a worker riot...

So, after thinking about it, Marin came up with an idea-I introduced Maozi serfs to replace the German serfs to farm the land. Then, the local serfs were liberated and went to work as factory workers.

Being a worker is naturally better. Just like when Marin was a child in his previous life, he wanted the workers to feel the superiority of their status. For example, commodities should be given priority to workers, and everything should be given priority over farmers. Otherwise, in the 21st century, where does the sense of superiority of some second-hand goods in the city come from? It was not caused by the priority policy of the year...

But Marin knew that if the serfs in the country were deliberately made to live worse than the workers, if the workers were happy, the serfs would be dissatisfied and might riot.

Therefore, it is no problem to get serfs from Maozi and bully foreigners. In this way, the domestic serfs who have been transformed into workers can find a sense of superiority, reduce the possibility of riots, and ensure the stability of rural areas. After all, Maozi serfs who are outsiders are not locals, so they dare not be arrogant...

Furthermore, not all native serfs were sent to factories. It is also possible to leave some people in the farm, armed with weapons, and supervise those Maozi serfs, so as not to cause trouble...

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This is Marin's vision for the industrialization of the North Sea country - to liberate the local serfs to be workers, and let the Maozi serfs replace the local serfs to farm the land...

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