Rebirth of South America as King

Chapter 19: Buying and selling Chinese workers

"Vice Captain Sun, why didn't you rescue the miners after entering the city just now?" Wang Chenglin asked, walking on the streets of Arequipa.

"The commander of the platoon, our main task is to detect the military distribution of Arequipa. As for other things, we can only do it on the premise of completing the task. I hope you can distinguish the priorities of the things, and do not destroy the son of the impulse event."

Sun Qisheng stopped and said seriously.

"The reason is this principle, but I don't feel happy to see my fellow people being abused by Peruvians."

"Please give me a hug if you are not happy, and everything is the most important thing." Sun Qi Sundiment reprimanded.

King Wang Chenglin Nonuo didn't speak, and turned around a street. Sun Qisheng and his team of more than a dozen people came to a commercial street north of the city. Most of the commercial streets sold livestock. Peru ’s large planters often traded on this street.

The three Sun Qisheng walked into the commercial street. In addition to seeing the common alpaca (commonly known as *), he also found more than 300 slaves in the corner, most of whom were Chinese.

Slavery was abolished in Peru in 1854. At the same time, in order to save production costs, Peru imported a large amount of labor from China to replace the original slave labor.

When China Cooli arrives in Peru, employers will sign an 8-year labor contract with them, stipulating that they can receive a meager monthly salary (4 pesos per month), and stipulating that after the 8-year period expires, the employer has no reason to extend their labor period. .

In fact, due to the meager wages, after 8 years, China ’s coolie usually cannot afford the cost of returning home, and has to choose an employer to renew the contract or engage in other low-level labor to earn a living.

In the Spanish part of the contract, the Chinese workers are called "Asian settlers". In fact, their employers never treat them as settlers. In the eyes of the employer, the Chinese workers are coolies or slaves.

This point, it can be seen from the contract that the employer is often called the "consignor" or "owner".

苦 China ’s labor contract and Peru ’s related laws actually recognize the fact that labor is the property of the employer during the eight-year service period. In the employer ’s plantation or business, labor constitutes part of the fixed assets.

The supervisors who manage Chinese coolies are slaves who have just been liberated.

In order to control the labor, supervisors can directly adopt the methods of controlling slaves in the past, such as leather whip, sticks, fetters, confinement, and even execution.

体 Corporal punishment is common in any plantation or mine in Peru.

标题 Headlines such as "Cool Run" and "Cool Sale" can often be found in local newspapers, although according to the laws of the time, the labor was not available for sale.

"Captain, save these Chinese brothers. They have scars on their bodies. If they are bought by other plantation owners, they will definitely not survive."

The Chinese workers on Shangye Street are different from those they have seen before. They all have scars on their bodies and some have gunshot wounds.

Wang Chenglin's brother came to South America with him. One year ago, his brother was killed by a Peruvian supervisor, so he was so excited to see the Chinese laborer who suffered like him. The hatred for white people was also because of his brother's death.

"Captain, the Chinese brothers escorted by middle-aged white people need to kill the Peruvians, which may shock the Peruvian army in the city, but now we can buy them and save their lives if we pay for them. I hope the captain will consider a bit."

道 said another Chinese soldier beside him.

Sun Qisheng is the same as the soldiers who have suffered. He can also experience how they see the suffering of his fellow citizens. However, he is the commander of this unit. He needs to look at the problem from a higher angle, so Stopped Wang Chenglin's urge to rescue Chinese workers.

The current situation is different from just now. In order to cope with the Peruvian inspection, Sun Qisheng and others brought a lot of money in advance to bribe the Peruvians when they were used.

So Sun Qisheng has enough money to buy them. After much consideration, I felt that there was nothing wrong with saving these Chinese workers.

Sun Qisheng said, "I agree to save them, but let Anthony do it. Don't bother talking, lest you show your feet."

"Observe, we will pay attention." The soldier next to him whispered.

"Anthony, let the two soldiers go to the front with you and buy those Chinese back," said Sun Qisheng and handed him a dozen Peruvian banknotes,

"Okay, I'll go now." Anthony understood that the two soldiers from Sun Qisheng were watching him, so there was no nonsense, and he took the money and went forward.

"Brother Cai, this time we are in the hands of the plantation owners, I'm afraid it won't last long."

A Huagong Road tied by a rope in the fence.

Two months ago, more than 200 Chinese workers escaped from the mine and were caught by the Peruvian army and thrown into prison.

Then the Chinese Independence Army rebelled, and Arequipa's garrison released them from the prison to build fortifications. These trafficked Chinese workers were injured in the arrest, could not bear the labor of the fortifications, and were trafficked by a trafficker. The collusion guards bought it and sold it on the commercial street.

"If it wasn't for the weapons we didn't get when we escaped, we must kill all the persecuted Peruvian supervisors." The man's eyes were resentful.

"These Peruvians don't treat us as people. In order to let us work more, they lure us to opium. Many brothers die because of opium." The man who just started talking said.

秘鲁 In the plantation in Peru, the Chinese workers got up at 4:30 in the morning to call and started their long work of more than 12 hours a day. They work seven days a week, and in the evening, locked in dilapidated, dirty, rough wooden houses.

Because of the heavy exertion and the temptation of the plantation owner, some Chinese workers use an opium to anesthetize themselves.

The plantation owners seized the dependence of Chinese workers on opium, thereby threatening those Chinese workers who smoked opium and did not complete their daily labor tasks and did not release opium.

Chen Huagong managed to get real objects in exchange for opium, and the crime rate of robbery and murder rose, including suicide. Suicide is also a crime in Spanish law. Of the 1878 Chinese labor crimes registered in 1860, 900 were suicides, 203 were robberies, 210 were murders against Chinese people, 418 were deliberate murders against whites and blacks, and 72 were arson burning sugar cane or buildings 12 cases were uprisings or collective protests.

On the one hand, planters avoid oppression of large-scale resistance by the coolies through opium. On the other hand, desperate Chinese workers, except hanging, plunging into the well, and drowning in the bucket of sugar refining, are the most common and most commonly consumed opium. An easy way to commit suicide.

听说 "I heard that the people outside have launched an uprising and have occupied Moquegua. Unfortunately, I cannot join them and fight the enemy."

The two men I spoke to, one called Cai Jiu and the other called Chen Donger, were both poor farmers in Guangdong. UU read a book www.uukanshu. Com has been tricked into Peru by traffickers of the Qing Dynasty for two years, and now they have no hope of going back, only to kill the Peruvians for revenge.

"Brother Cai, you see that someone wants to buy us" Chen Donkey was a little curious,

"Everybody's dead, no fuss."

"No, the people who bought us this time are different from everyone else. He bought all of us Chinese, and you see that the two Indians around him don't look like Chinese." Chen Donkey pointed to Anthony, who had completed the transaction with the trafficker Road.

Cai Jiu looked up at the three Anthony and said, "That white man is only using two Chinese as his men, and it is not necessarily good for other Chinese workers."

Cai Jiu thought that the two Chinese people around Anthony were his men, and in order to avoid the inspection by the Peruvian garrison, he turned into an Indian.

少 A very small part of the Chinese in South America also live a good life, but most of these people gain a relatively good status by helping the Peruvians oppress other Chinese workers, as can be seen from the Chinese citizen of Southeast Asia, Jia Bidan.

British colonists appointed some Chinese as Jia Bidan, and used them to monitor and suppress the bottom Chinese, thereby maximizing the value of the Chinese.

Anthony and the traffickers completed the transaction formalities. They refused the traffickers to send someone to help him escorting the Chinese workers. They took 104 laborers to the place where Sun Qisheng and others stayed.

Originally, Anthony could not buy so many Chinese workers, but because these Chinese workers were injured, traffickers sold them to Anthony at a third cheaper price, and 104 Chinese workers also saw them in the eyes of Peruvian traffickers. It is goods that are bought and sold at will, and a Chinese worker can be bought for fifty or sixty pesos.

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