For Pei Yuanqi, he had too much work to do, mainly local development. Xijin is a direct overseas province directly under the cabinet, and Pei Yuanqi's father is the current prime minister of the empire. Xijin has undoubtedly received a lot of policy resources and financial support, but how to digest and make these resources work has already made Pei Yuanqi a little worried.

This year, the Empire supported five major projects in the Xijin area in one go, either directly providing financial funds or helping with financing loans, including the Don River embankment and the Xijin Port dredging project. As the capital of Xijin, the Xijin area has no geographical advantages, but there is no way to do this. In the area controlled by the Empire, there is only a large river like the Don River along the Black Sea coast. It is fine if the Don River can only be chosen at such an estuary. The key is that the water depth at the estuary is too shallow, and large-scale dredging is required to allow the ship to enter smoothly.

In addition, there are Xijin Shipyard, Xijin Agricultural Machinery Factory, Xijin Port, and the highway from Xijin to Zhenbeicheng. This is only the support given by the administrative system represented by the cabinet. In addition, the Navy has a Navy Shipyard, a Casting Artillery, a Penang Military-Civilian Port, and a Gun Cannon Factory, and an Ordnance Bureau. There are ten major projects in total, all of which are projects with an investment of more than 300,000 yuan.

In addition to the projects directly supported by these empires, there were also local projects. After the outbreak of the war between the Ottomans and the Holy Alliance, more projects were launched. After all, the war required not only guns, guns, ammunition, but also the Balkans were also the main grain-producing area of ​​the Ottoman Empire. Food, war horses and livestock, and a large amount of materials would be transported from Xijin and even the far-reaching areas in the hinterland.

Obviously, what Xijin lacks is not money, but people. In terms of employment, Pei Yuanqi has used almost all means, some of which are even less brilliant. For example, after the army troops arrived, he placed the army in the abandoned village of the Tatars back then? But he asked them to build barracks in designated places? And the specifications must be implemented according to the standards of the Administrative Office.

At the beginning of this year, all the barracks were completed? But at least half of them were classified as civilians? Army soldiers then discovered that the tall and wide buildings they built were not warehouses for weapons storage at all? But factories prepared for agricultural machinery factories. Of course, the comfortable barracks were employee dormitories transferred from the mainland? If a large number of troops had not been mobilized to Istanbul, the army staying in Xijin would have changed from a dormitory of ten people per room to fifteen people per room.

In addition, whether in African colonies or in the provinces of Nanyang, there are a large number of advertisements and documents for immigration and recruitment of Xijin. Even the adult citizens who arrive in Xijin will arrange work with a monthly salary of less than two yuan in imperial silver coins.

But this cannot solve the problem at all. There are too few people in Xijin area and it is too far away from the imperial population concentration area. To complete these major projects, a large number of labor must be required, and Xijin must open the door to neighboring countries.

Pei Yuanqi also had a headache about this matter for a long time. There is no shortage of people around Xijin. As long as Xijin opens the hole, it can easily pour into a population of 100,000. You should know? Isn’t Cossacks just people of all races who cannot survive? In order to survive, they can be refugees and robbers? Naturally, they can also be laborers in the Xijin area. But they grew up in the mainland of the empire since childhood? Pei Yuanqi, who is full of nationalism, is difficult to accept that Xijin, the empire, is full of alien races. From skin color, language, writing to religion, ethnic groups.

"I have integrated the immigration policies of all overseas provinces of the empire, but no city or province can be used as a template for Xijin, and none of them." Pei Yuanqi said to Li Junwei.

In Nanyang, there are many cities such as Penang, Huacheng, Manila, and Kowloon City. These were established by the Empire after conquering the local area. But it was a pioneering era. At that time, the Empire was still fighting a protracted war with the Qing Dynasty, so it immigrated to the Southeast Asian Sea on a large scale, sometimes even immigrating tens of thousands at one time. According to the data of the Imperial Immigration Bureau, before the establishment of the Empire, it had officially immigrated to Southeast Asia for more than 80,000 people for twelve consecutive years. This was just the official, and it was not counted as self-immigration.

Even so, Nanyang still accepted a large number of foreign immigrants in order to develop, and Huacheng has a large number of Siamese and Vietnamese people. One-quarter of Penang's population is Indian and Burmese ethnic groups. In an era of rapid economic development and prosperous foreign trade, it is inevitable.

Cape Town, Xiacheng, Junfu, Australia's Longcheng, Western Australia and other places are another way of immigration. The empire has only used the geography of these places for a long time and did not develop production on a large scale, so it does not require so many people. Later, a large number of imperial people immigrated one after another and developed slowly.

The problem with Xijin is that it has not only missed the pioneering era, but also is in an explosive and rapid development state.

Li Junwei said: "How did Huacheng treat immigrants in Penang? You can do things according to the rules, and there are also places such as Shin Kyung."

Pei Yuanqi shook his head and said bluntly: "It's useless. Many seemingly reasonable rules and regulations are completely self-deception."

The provinces in the empire had very low tolerance for foreign and foreign immigrants. After all, the population in the country grew rapidly and did not require foreign labor. For example, during the Japanese Civil War, a large number of Japanese fled to major cities such as Shinkyung and Hangzhou through sea boats. As a result, they immediately immigrated in batches, or went to the appeasement zone of Lifanyuan, or directly sent to the Nanyang area. Anyway, those places always needed people, especially King Yu's expeditions in the west. When the mainland was expanding its territory, the provinces in the country checked the illegal population in the area, especially the Japanese, North Korean, and Vietnamese, and then directly cleaned up and sent it to the remote areas. That was a routine operation.

Therefore, the immigration policies of provinces in China have no reference for Xijin, and the immigration policies of the Nanyang region are just like what Pei Yuanqi said, deceiving oneself.

Penang was supported by the empire and built large-scale projects, attracting workers from the subcontinent, Myanmar and Java. At that time, although there were many national immigrants, there were never enough workers. Penang set up a special agency to issue a bill to manage these foreign workers. According to the bill, foreign workers could work legally in the jurisdiction of Penang for five years and then have to leave.

According to the estimates of the Chief Executive of Penang that year, the major project that should be repaired had been completed in five years, and the time to unload the donkey was over. But the final result was that not only Penang, but also the areas in Nanyang have entered a period of rapid development. Not to mention dismissing these laborers who have proved that they can adapt, even those who have just arrived locally are far from enough.

Therefore, the five-year period is five years. In ten years, the laborers not only did not return to their hometown, but also called their wives and children, aunts and aunts. They could no longer go back and did not want to go back. This kind of thing was not until ten years after the empire, when the population growth caused by the first batch of immigrants broke out, the labor problem of those adults was solved, and foreign workers brought many public security and religious problems, which were restricted.

Although there has been a large number of xenophobia in the Nanyang region, abundant social resources and a rapid economic development still allow these people to survive. Therefore, the provinces and cities in Nanyang have not expelled these immigrants. Instead, they try every means to give them a legal identity to resolve opposing ethnic conflicts and the resulting public security issues.

"Compens, I don't think so much about it. The current situation is that Xijin must introduce foreigners. This is not something you can say no. Don't say you, I refuse, or the royal brother refuses, or the House of Assembly has signed a bill to refuse, it is useless. When Xijin was assigned to overseas provinces rather than the jurisdiction of the Lifanyuan, this is destined.

I think you also know that this is the general trend and cannot be changed, so you are thinking about whether you can kill donkeys when you need it. Now you need it. After using it, you can expel them in ten or twenty years to prevent outsiders from occupying too much proportion in Xijin! But the lessons of the past are Penang, Longcheng and Manila, and you cannot do better than them. So you will definitely wonder, if you can kill donkeys when you can't, then can you assimilate them.

This is indeed possible, but it is also difficult. It is not something you think of by your head, but requires the efforts of several generations, so you don’t need to solve this problem.” Li Junwei patted Pei Yuanqi’s hand and reminded.

"What you mean, I am troubled by mediocre people, so don't worry about it. I'm burying mines for our descendants?" Pei Yuanqi frowned. Li Junwei shook his head: "Of course not. I just remind you not to be too ambitious. You can only do what you can do. There are not so many best of both worlds in this world, and there is nothing foolproof."

Pei Yuanqi shook his head, but he also knew that the only thing in Xijin was that was troubled by himself. For merchants, they did not care about religion or skin color, as long as this person could make money for themselves. For bureaucrats, if there were any problems, they would solve the problem instead of preparing for the future.

Li Junwei smiled helplessly and said, "Let's change our thinking, and I will give you some practical suggestions. How about we introduce Jews?"

"This cannot solve the problem. Jews are mostly engaged in finance, business, technology, doctors, etc., and what we need most is strong labor." Pei Yuanqi shook his head.

Li Junwei said: "Of course, Jews cannot solve the main problem, but they can also solve the problem. From port employees who need to understand languages ​​to a shoemaker, Jews can do it. I'm asking you, how are Jews as immigrants?"

Pei Yuanqi thought for a while and said, "The Jews are very suitable immigrants. They are rich and have a skill."

"But they also like to gather together, and there is a strange organization like Judaism." Li Junwei said with a smile.

Pei Yuanqi smiled and said, "When you were not in Xijin, Hussein once chatted with me and told a story that was his father, Old Copruil. When his father was in power in the Ottoman period, a Jew appeared in the territory, claiming to be a Messiah, that is, a certain god of Judaism or something. I don't know much about it. This man preached everywhere and deceived people, resulting in tens of thousands of Jews following him.

When the madman went to Istanbul, he was caught by the old Kopruli. The great Vizier gave the madman three choices: first, he was corporal punishment, second, converted to the Tianfang Cult, third, the old Kopruli arranged a thousand archers to shoot arrow rain at him. If he could survive, then he would be the Messiah.

As a result, the madman chose the second option and became a Tianfang scholar. He even persuaded 300 of his mad believers to convert together."

Li Junwei asked: "Are you going to tell me that Judaism is more secular than Tianfangism?"

Pei Yuanqi smiled and said, "Of course not, I want to tell you that Jews are easy to bully. Two hundred years ago, the Spanish king excluded the Jews and told them to either get out or convert to God. As a result, a large number of Jews left, and the Ottoman Sultan accepted 200,000. Now, the Ottoman religious policies have been tightened. After the 30 Years of War, the economic development of the German region, and the Ottoman Jews moved to Germany.

What I want to say is that from the thousands of years of history of Jews, it is easy to attract Jews, but it is easier to exclude Jews. So I completely agree with your advice and accept Jews."

"So, the Jews are just the beginning, and we can accept similar ethnic groups." Li Junwei said.

Pei Yuanqi said without hesitation: "Are you talking about a wandering gypsy?"

Li Junwei smiled: "Of course not, I am talking about the stateless people. Organizers. European countries are different from our empires now. Because of my father, we can already be considered a nation-state, but these countries in Europe are not. They are royal countries and noble countries. So there is a situation where a foreigner can be the king of his country, and his country's citizens can also join the armies of other countries to serve other countries.

But no matter what, every country still has a subject or a dominant nation, while the interests of minorities and ruled nations are not valued. And it is obvious that more and more nation-states will be born."

"You mean, we want to introduce some oppressed nations and occupy minority nations?" Pei Yuanqi asked.

Li Junwei nodded and said, "That's true. Assuming that we introduce a large number of Poles and Russians, this will have a problem. After decades, when these immigrants conflict with their nations, it will attract the attention and participation of foreign countries. Because of foreign support, ethnic relations will be more confrontational and more difficult to resolve.
Chapter completed!