Chapter 2029: The idea of liberating serfs and industrialization
Since we want to accept more than 500,000 young and strong men, Maomei and Maojia, Malin has to make plans in advance to welcome and resettle these populations.
The initial reservation was to be placed in the Jutland Peninsula, but that was just a temporary measure. The placement in the Jutland Peninsula was also afraid that instability would be caused in the North Sea. Then, the Russian serfs were brought into the mainland in batches to replace the serfs from some manors in the mainland.
Marin's concern was right. When he negotiated with some ministers and planned to introduce a large number of Russian farmers, it caused some conflicts among the ministers of the North Sea. Because they felt that the savage Slavs and Germans would cause uncontrollable dangers. Fortunately, Marin told them that they would place them in the Jutland Peninsula, which dispelled their doubts.
In fact, not only those ministers had concerns, but even the Minister of Marin's direct line, Haider had doubts. He believed that rashly introducing a large number of Slavs would destroy the domestic population structure and cause social conflicts. He only agreed with the introduction of Maomei and Mao children. After all, women and children would not worry.
But Marin insisted on introducing Russians. As for the reason, Marin's reason was very simple - he wanted to gradually realize the industrialization of the Beihai Kingdom!
Industrialization means that a large amount of labor is required to enter the factory, but the problem is, who will plant the fields after the labor force enters the factory? This question is also a major problem that has plagued Europe in history.
The first thing Britain could do to complete industrialization is that it carried out a land enclosure movement very early. A large number of landless farmers were forced to leave their land. In order to survive, they could only go to factories to work. Because there were many landless farmers, they would not have to worry about not being able to find workers, which greatly facilitated the process of industrialization in the UK.
In contrast, France is because the agricultural environment is too good, and although the population exceeds that of the UK, industrialization can be slow. In addition, France is very open-minded about farmers' policies and encourages self-cultivation to farm, which leads to farmers lacking the motivation to go to the city to make a living. Then, in the whole France, there are only a few industrial cities such as Paris and Lyon, and other vast areas are all rural... Of course, there is also the lack of coal, but in the process of industrialization of the French, the labor force is really not abundant, and the workers across the country are the size of Paris.
As for Prussia's industrialization path, in addition to its extremely rich coal resources, the rapid population growth in the 19th century was also an important driving force for industrial development.
A very simple data comparison is that in 1800, France had a population of 29 million, while Prussia and other German states (not counting in Austria), it was only 18 million. As for Prussia itself, it was only less than 10 million in 1800, which is not the same order of magnitude as France.
Therefore, in the early 19th century, France relied on the mechanism of demographic dividend and national mobilization to push the entire Europe to the ground and rub against it.
But unfortunately, while the Napoleonic Wars overturned the whole of Europe, it also caused France to shed blood. In particular, the losses of the strong men were extremely serious. The French army alone suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties. Including the losses of the strong men among the civilians, the total losses exceeded one million.
Then, the surviving French man suddenly realized that he was very popular with women. Because of the large number of young and strong deaths, too many women were left to marry. Then, the spring of French men came. It was from that time that the French began to wander...
The French, who were originally very martial, began to indulge in games between men and women. This kind of game is called romance by the French...
But what's bad is that these French people are rogue, they just refuse to have more children...
Then, throughout the 19th century, the French fertility rate began to plummet, and the lost century that fell from the altar.
According to statistics, at the end of the war, that is, in 1815, France had a population of 30 million. Even if Prussia received the Rhineland region (Westphalia), it increased to about 12 million.
Since then, the two countries have embarked on different paths...
Speaking of which, Prussia obtained the Rhineland region as a legend, and it was a story of pie falling from the sky. After the war, Tsarist Russia was unwilling to share Poland with Prussia, so if it wanted to get most of Poland, it only allowed Prussia to retain the northern coastal areas of Poland to connect East Prussia with its native land. Prussia was weak and dared not object, so it had to ask for compensation.
Originally, Prussia's goal was to annex Saxony. But Austria was not happy because Saxony was the buffer between the two countries. Then, after the three giants of the Vienna Conference (Prussia was just a younger brother), Russia, Austria and Britain discussed, they assigned the Rhineland region that the French had just spit out to Prussia. At that time, the three countries had ill-intentioned intentions and wanted to make Prussia, which was originally not bordering France, to the front line and bear the rebound of the French.
But unexpectedly, Prussia has added a super gift package - coal in Ruhr...
At the beginning, Prussia did not engage in industrialization. Later, the population of Prussia grew rapidly and population pressure appeared. Industrialization was an important means to solve population pressure. Then, from the mid-19th century, Prussia began to industrialize and then took off...
On the one hand, France lacks coal resources, and on the other hand, the French are only concerned about romance and forget the responsibility of childbirth, just like people from later generations.
Then, by 1870, France's population was only 34 million (4 million in 55 years). Prussia, but Prussia itself, grew from 12 million to 27 million, and its population doubled more than doubled... This did not include those countries eaten by Prussia. When Germany was unified in 1871, the total population was as high as 41 million, which was already far behind France...
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Therefore, if you want to industrialize the country, you not only need resources, but also a large amount of surplus labor. Just like why China in later generations took off quickly? Because there were too many people! The official just relaxed the population movement, and a large number of migrant workers flocked to the city, so that factories would not have to worry about recruiting workers. In the Guangdong province alone, the number of migrant workers was absorbed as much as 30 million. This is labor force, not including the elderly and the weak! France had a population of more than 60 million at that time, which could almost reach half of the French population!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Now, the Beihai Kingdom, like Prussia in later generations, has obtained the Ruhr area, a treasure land for coal resources. However, there is a serious lack of labor!
The total area of the North Sea Kingdom exceeds 100,000 square kilometers, almost the same as England. But the problem is that England has three or four million people, while the North Sea Kingdom only has more than two million.
Among them, the main force of labor is about 400,000 serfs. Marin, who is familiar with history, knows that if you want to industrialize, you must first liberate serfs!
But, this is not realistic!
If the serfs are liberated, who will go to farm? No one will farm, where will the food come from?
In addition, if you become a worker, if you live a worse life than a serf, who would be happy? Maybe there will be a worker riot...
So, Marin thought about it and came up with an idea - I introduced the Russian serfs to farm instead of the German serfs. Then, liberated the local serfs and worked as workers in the factory.
As a worker, you must naturally be more superior. Just like when Marin was a child in his previous life, he wanted workers to feel the superiority of their identity. For example, when commodities were given priority to supply workers, everything was given priority to farmers. Otherwise, in the 21st century, where did some of the superiority of some second-hand goods in the city come from? It was not caused by the priority policies of that year...
But Marin knew very well that if the serfs in his country were deliberately making their country live worse than the workers, the workers would be happy, and the serfs would be dissatisfied and might be rioted.
Therefore, it is no problem to get serfs from the Russians and bully foreigners. In this way, the serfs who are transformed into workers can not only find superiority, reduce the possibility of riots, but also ensure the stability of rural areas. After all, the serfs who are outsiders are not locals and dare not be arrogant...
In addition, not all local serfs were sent to factories. Some people could also be left in the farm, holding weapons, and supervising the Russian serfs to avoid chaos...
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Chapter completed!