Although Peking University gained a great advantage in the Sino-Dutch War, Li Mingxun had to be kind to pass by here. Li Mingxun waved his hand and gave Peking University many policy conveniences. One of them was the shipyard. In the past, the shipyard only manufactured civilian ships, and the highest level of output was only Ahat ships. Li Mingxun improved the shipyard's access qualification and allowed it to make flute-shaped ships, large Garen and other ships that could conduct trans-ocean trade. In addition to high-tech civilian ships, the shipyard also authorized the shipyard to build warships. The most important thing was the Garage ship commonly used by the squadron and the Coast Guard.

In addition to shipbuilding, Li Mingxun also gave the place the mining authority, allowing it to develop all aspects of tin mining, smelting and processing, which is also part of the land reform. Since South China will eventually be part of the United States, it will enjoy the same authority as the base camp, rather than the colonists treat the colonies.

Tin is one of the hardware, and the Malay Peninsula has always been a tin mineral source. Whether it is Peking University, Penang, or the newly named Tin City, there are high-quality tin ores produced. In order to promote the development of the mining industry in the region, Li Mingxun decided to abolish the monopoly of state-owned enterprises over tin ores and hand over this lucrative industry to the private sector.

"When I entered the city, I found that Kowloon Company had already opened a branch in the city. It seems that the colonization of the Yongli lineage in the Kowloon region was very effective?" Li Mingxun signed the authorization order and asked casually.

Li Weijing said: "That is true. Kowloon Company is the largest slave provider in Peking University and has a close friendship with local merchants. Kowloon Company has established a foothold in Hexian Port and built a city at the mouth of the Mekong River, called Ningjing. It is to prepare things and go hand in hand to cut off the Jinou Peninsula. In the past two years, the strong slaves and female slaves alone have sent more than 30,000. If it weren't for them, the local plantations would not have developed so quickly."

"Didn't anyone be sent to Borneo?" Li Mingxun asked.

Li Weijing said: "At first, a thousand people were sent, but later they stopped. I heard that it was Shen Dachun and Liu Kongzhao who reached a private agreement to send people to us. Borneo to Luzon. The competition in each other has reduced the price. These Ming gentry and nobles are all hypocritical and full of benevolence and morality. They are really smart when doing business!"

"Is it because they divided the market?" Li Mingxun asked with a smile when he saw Li Weijing's emotions.

Li Weijing sighed: "It's not that you are unwise. Now the people of Yongli have already established territory in Kowloon and have reclaimed a lot of land. The land there is suitable for planting rice, which is ripe for three a year, while the rice prices in Guangdong and Guangxi have soared. They use slaves to farm, and the cost is very low, so they have made a lot of money. The south wind season transports grain to Qiongzhou and the north wind season transports locally, which has also relieved our grain shortage. The accelerated immigration in the past two years of Peking University is related to them. But starting this year, Kowloon Company has begun to promote sugarcane plantation on a large scale. They have no restrictions in Kowloon area, and the land is almost for free. Regardless of the life or death of slaves, even the immigrants brought from the mainland are desperate for their lives. Many people went to Kowloon to open sugarcane plantations, which damaged the local sugarcane industry. Yesterday, the parliament also voted to increase tariffs on sugarcane sugar in Kowloon area. Unfortunately, there was no result."

This was as expected by Li Mingxun. Many merchants from Peking University also invested in sugarcane plantations in Kowloon, so they naturally had to obstruct this matter.

"You mean, they also enslave immigrants from the mainland. Do I know about this?" Li Mingxun didn't care about the competition between the colonies and administrative regions at all. Everyone can do it based on their ability and it's fine within the rules.

"Those immigrants who were sent to the Immigration Bureau were not sent by the Immigration Bureau, but obtained by themselves. The Kowloon area is not bad. I heard that there are more Borneo, and many people have become mine slaves there directly." Li Weijing also heard from him.

Li Mingxun didn't know all about it. Both colonial companies have the Ming regime as their backers. In the past two years of colonialism, they have gained a lot. Seeing that they are making money, they naturally invested without hesitation. The simplest investment is population. Whether it is Qiongfan or the governor, they are fighting with the Qing Dynasty and attacking each other. It is not difficult to obtain Dingkou. Now that there is a colony in Nanyang, they simply go ashore and directly plunder Dingkou. Sign a contract letter and become a contract slave. It is much more useful than the captured slaves. This is not the population resettlement by the Immigration Bureau, and the colony does not limit the immigration mortality rate. Therefore, it is not polite to use it. It is just like those European colonial companies that colonized in the New World using white contract slaves.

Although Li Mingxun knew this news, there was no way for Li Mingxun. The United States wanted to respect and maintain the spirit of the indentured. Although the indentured slaves were called slaves, they were always of a lifetime. Moreover, these indentured slaves were not citizens of the United States, and they could not be protected by the laws of the United States. Although the indentured slaves endured a high mortality rate and cruel environment, they were not slaves or servants under the rule of the Manchus. The United States had no resources to rescue and resettle them, so naturally they would not block their way to survive.

"This matter is indeed a bit ridiculous, but I don't have a good idea, what about you?" Li Mingxun asked.

Li Weijing looked embarrassed: "I also think it's ridiculous. After all, our laws protect foreign slaves, but they cannot protect our fellow tribes."

Li Mingxun shook his head: "The law is not wrong, it is a mistake in human understanding. The alien slaves you mentioned are state-owned assets, which are the same as the animals, machinery and materials owned by the state. They are protected by limiting the death and injury rate to avoid the abuse of state-owned assets. This has nothing to do with humanistic care. On the contrary, if you want to protect the contract slave, it is a humane behavior. We cannot classify the contract slave as a slave, make it a state-owned asset, and cannot easily grant it national status. After all, the national identity of all people in our country is obtained at a price. The so-called contract slave is just a special employment relationship. Although the contract slave itself is in a disadvantaged position, you cannot change the essence of your wishes."

As Li Mingxun said, the United States could not effectively interfere in the use of indentured slaves by the two major colonial companies, because these two companies were well aware of the laws and regulations of the United States, and were not contract slaves captured by their subordinate troops or organizations. These indentured slaves were hired from western Guangdong and Zhoushan. The Ming army was forced to leave their hometowns, and the owner of the colonial company belonged to citizens of the United States. If the intimate relationship between the Ming army and the shareholders of the colonial company was not considered, the colonial company rescued the indentured slaves from the warlords.

Li Mingxun, who gave the legal explanation, saw some reluctance on Li Weijing's face. He suddenly laughed because Li Mingxun realized that Li Weijing was not standing at the moral high ground of the same race to criticize the colonial company for using contract slaves. His starting point was to the South China Administrative Region and his throne of veterans.

The reason is simple. Both the veterans and first-level administrative regions are related to the number of national groups, but there are only two types of Chinese immigrants on the Malay Peninsula. One is self-paid immigration. Peking University is relatively low in competitiveness in this regard, far less than the newly developed Tainan and Luzon. It is only slightly better than the Yongning administrative region. The second is contractual immigration, that is, immigration accepted by the Immigration Bureau on a large scale from the war zone. The resettlement of this kind of immigration is subject to the local environment, because the Immigration Bureau has requirements for the local resettlement environment and also limits the mortality rate.

The Malay Peninsula is a humid and hot high malaria area, with a much higher mortality rate than Luzon. Although Li Weijing has undergone a major improvement after the purge, it is a fact that the immigration speed cannot keep up with Luzon. Li Weijing raised the question of indentured slaves in order to remind Li Mingxun that since colonial companies can use indentured slaves without restricting the use of indentured slaves and do not care about the lives of those people, why do we need many restrictions on the South China region that is being transformed?

Although he saw that, Li Mingxun would not point it out. All immigrants taken over by the Immigration Bureau are quasi-nationals. Although they and the contract slaves belong to the same nation, Li Mingxun cannot give up the protection of the people because of this. Otherwise, the establishment of the United States will lose its legal basis, so Li Mingxun had to pretend not to know.

"I will say hello to Song Ye and He Wenrui about the contract slaves. Since the land obtained from the colonization is also the land of the United States, then all people on the land should have the opportunity to become citizens. The owners of the colonial company and the planter are the people of the United States. The laws of the United States also have jurisdiction. At least their crimes of abuse and killing should not be ignored." Li Mingxun knocked on the table and said.

Nanhua is the next key development place of the United States, but because Chief Executive Li Weijing is not a senator and does not have enough connections in the Senate, he hopes to get support from the head of state in some policies and strategies, which is also the reason why Li Mingxun stays here, and Li Mingxun's next stop will be Borneo.

Lee Mingxun was not going to go to the Kowloon region, where the colonization was still in its early stages. Slaughtering slaves and opening plantations were the main business. As long as the interests of the three bordering countries of Jin La and Siam were not triggered by diplomatic disputes, the colony would be in an orderly development state. On the contrary, there was a territorial dispute with the Brunei Sultanate in Borneo first, and then there was a problem of contract slaves. Lee Mingxun decided to take a look.

Taking advantage of the southwest monsoon, a sail frigate sent Li Mingxun to Borneo. Unlike the Houjiang colony that bloomed from east to west, the colony of Borneo was mainly concentrated on the southern bank of the Sarawak River. There was originally a city-state belonging to the Malay Catholicism, which was split from the Sultanate of Brunei for more than a hundred years. In this city made of fences and soil, only Malay leaders and several merchants lived in houses, and the rest were dilapidated high-legged houses. However, hundreds of years of development gave the city named Kuching a population of nearly 10,000.

The Borneo Development Company directly seized this treasure land. The lineage of the country led by Liu Kongzhao has 3,500 elite troops, and it is effortless to capture the city. After setting a foothold here, Liu Kongzhao sent conquest and exploration everywhere. Although he discovered several more suitable harbors than Kuching, he finally chose Kuching.

First of all, Kuching is located in the middle of the Sarawak River, far away from the coastline, but there are also rivers for traffic, avoiding the frequent malaria in coastal areas. Kuching has a history of hundreds of years. Malays and Iban headhunters have mastered agricultural planting techniques, but the land of Borneo is not fertile enough, so it lives a life of burning wasteland and tillage. In addition, there is a history of iron smelting, and the surrounding tropical forests have long been destroyed, giving colonists sufficient living space.

Of course, what really made Liu Kongzhao and others choose here is a gold mine called Bawu less than 30 miles upstream of the Sarawak River, which has a mining history of nearly a hundred years.

The Borneo Development Company chose Kuching as a colonial stronghold, but was very disgusted with the name of this indigenous city transliterated, so it simply changed its name to Jincheng, which also took the homonym of Jincheng.

After conquering Jincheng, only a few forts were built, but during the Sino-Dutch War, the Borneo company was worried that the United States would be defeated and Jincheng was attacked by the Dutch, so it built a Chinese-style city wall, made of rammed earth, with bricks, women's walls, warheads, city towers, and horse faces. Jincheng, with a five-mile circumference, became the largest city in Borneo. Today, Jincheng has more than 20,000 residents. In addition to free immigrants and merchants from the Ming Dynasty, most of them are relatives of employees of Borneo development companies. Some slaves in the city were from Luzon, but were purchased locally from Luzon. The reason is very simple. The Ibans who are most easily captured are cannibals. No one will feel at ease with them to be slaves in the city.

The administrative center in the city is a typical Chinese-style building. If you look closely, it is very similar to the prefectures and county governments in the south of the Yangtze River. In addition to more than 20,000 free people in the city, Li Mingxun stepped in this city full of Ming spirit. He listened to the people around him explaining everything. He realized that this quaint and historical yamen had not been used in the past. Instead, the state launched a military operation against the Qing Dynasty and attacked Xiangshan County, directly demolished the county government and brought it to Borneo for reconstruction.

In Jincheng, Li Mingxun met Liu Kongzhao, the former Ming Dynasty prince, who was free and easy at this time. When Li Mingxun arrived, he held a generous banquet. When he heard him mention the indentured slave, Liu Kongzhao was not panicked at all. After all, he had already put in the effort. The indentured slave was captured from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, signed a contract in Zhoushan, and then moved to Borneo, which was completely in line with the laws of the United States. Liu Kongzhao knew very well that as long as it complied with the law, no one could pick a stinger.
Chapter completed!