"It hurts!" Evelin covered her buttocks and looked at Sheffield pitifully. The latter retracted his hand and pretended to be angry, "Why are you talking to the boss? I am the one who pays your salary. This relationship should be made clear."

"I am the one who sleeps with you!" Evelin muttered in a low voice, and a feeling of regret arose in her heart.

"Aunt Dais has resigned as warden. Although she manages a women's prison, her ability is the most powerful among the three wardens. Now that Guantanamo Bay is being built, Manila is more important." Xie

Field put away his frivolous tone, "I heard that the prison in Manila can hold 10,000 prisoners, so that's fine. There is no need to expand. I estimate that the maximum capacity can hold 40,000 prisoners, but considering the upcoming military operations,

One prison is not enough. To suppress the Philippine resistance, countless people will definitely be imprisoned, so the current idea is to build another one."

When it comes to operating prisons, Sheffield can be said to have taken cost savings to the extreme. He will deal with it if he can. Only if he can't deal with it will he want to build a new one. If possible, he would like to try the prison built by the Spanish to see if it can reach its limit.

Walking in the Manila jail, Sheffield seemed to have come to the back garden of his home. He covered his nose with a handkerchief and entered the cell. He also put forward a series of suggestions for improvement. "To save space, the floor bunks should be eliminated and the prisoners should be given a bed."

The bed must not be omitted. Lying on the floor takes up too much space, which is not conducive to the use of space. This height can be used effectively!"

Sheffield stretched out his hand to measure and then gestured, "Filipinos are relatively short, so with this distance of eighteen inches, I think this cell can be converted into four floors. Maybe the prisoners on the top floor will suffer a little bit. This is okay.

Overcome, who is a good person who enters here? They all come in because they deserve it."

"Prison management order is the most important. If the prisoners are disobedient, everything they say will be false. So take this set of regulations!" Sheffield took out the regulations copied from a private prison in Texas and said,

He pinched his waist and said confidently, "No one in this world is fearless. Most people are afraid of death, so prisoners must be treated harshly without any sympathy. Especially these Filipino natives, who oppose the US occupation

If you are against civilization, don't be polite."

"Currently, the prison management in Spain is all retained. Inform the Chinese workers who signed the contract with us to come over and renovate the prison!" Sheffield ordered while taking out his pocket watch to check the time, "That's it for today. I have other things in the afternoon.

The itinerary, as there are few prisoners in the prison during this period, we will start immediately."

Perhaps feeling the urgency of Manifest Destiny, Sheffield lived up to the ease of being in Hawaii, because he understood that the federal government might make a very difficult decision like the one in Hawaii at any time.

After meeting with the military and former Spanish colonists, he took stock of Manila's basic conditions as if they were his own assets. A rough idea has appeared in Sheffield's mind. Once you have an idea, you need manpower to realize it.

Half a month after arriving in Manila, he felt it was time to meet with the Chinese leaders.

The Chinese workers employed by the United Company are currently gathered in the northern suburbs. These Chinese workers were lured here with high wages. Sheffield did this unreasonably and fooled them with a yin and yang contract. But he did not feel that he had done anything wrong to save costs.

It is necessary. Although the salary has dropped to eight dollars a month, it is still a huge expense.

This is Sheffield. If it were another person, the Chinese workers would not even be able to get this salary. You must know that the Irish newspapers are eyeing the United Company. This is almost becoming a major crime of the United Company.

Since the Irish were mentioned, Sheffield didn't know until he arrived in the Philippines that the founding father of the Philippines, Rizal, who was shot by the Spaniards two years ago, married an Irish girl in the execution ground, which moved many Filipinos who were inspired to resist.

How can I put this into perspective? The Irish are also ostracized by the citizens of the United States because the male-female ratio of Chinese workers is horribly imbalanced. Therefore, many years ago, when the Chinese wanted to find a partner, only Irish women would agree. Perhaps this is why the Irish in the United States are most hostile to the Chinese.

reason.

Ten percent of the Filipino Chinese have ancestors from southern Fujian, with Quanzhou being the most common. Among all Filipino Chinese, regardless of whether they have been Filipinos or not, 80% to 90% are of southern Fujian descent; the remaining approximately 100%

Of the ten, most are from Guangdong, with few from other provinces. Hokkien is the lingua franca of the Filipino-Chinese community.

The Chinese community is mainly located near Manila, but Sheffield in this province is looking for it. The only obstacle is that Sheffield does not understand Hokkien. If he can sing the song "Gong Xiami", he can still understand it.

This is a bit of a slap in the face for a person who claims to know everything. He can only find Chinese people who can speak Mandarin as intermediaries to communicate with these Fujian people.

If the Chinese in California had not communicated in advance, Sheffield brought the Alamo Company to visit, which would have frightened these Chinese. Contrary to their expectations, Sheffield did not have a condescending attitude. Sheffield even visited a Chinese cemetery.

, look at the history of the Chinese in the Philippines.

"The sixth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty and the seventeenth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty!" The words on some tombstones can still be identified, recording the history of migration. Those who can leave tombstones are families with some assets, and more people

There's no way to leave a tombstone.

The immigration of Chinese people is still continuing, because Sheffield saw two people with braids, indicating that some people have not been in the Philippines for a long time and must have arrived in the Philippines in recent years.

"Boss!" Gu Cheng spoke softly and pointed to the waiting local Chinese in the Philippines. He was the leader of the Chinese laborers transported by the United Company, so he naturally knew that Sheffield could speak Mandarin.

"Then let's talk. The cemetery is not suitable. Find a place where you can see it." Sheffield nodded and completed the inspection. At present, there are a lot of people in the Philippines who still maintain Chinese habits, enough for 400,000. As for mixed-race marriages

Yes, but it can no longer be seen whether the population is Chinese or not, and no one knows how many there are.

As he walked, he asked, "Are many workers dissatisfied with the decrease in wages? We should not dare to riot, but no one wants to see a decrease in wages."

"Huh? Boss, it's easy to hide it from other people, but you can't hide it. You know us!" Gu Cheng, who was following him, showed a wry smile and said, "How can you not be dissatisfied? The salary has been reduced so much.

many."

"You have to take a long-term view. Some things cannot be reflected by wages. You have to know that in the United States, the status of Chinese workers is fixed and it is impossible to buy any piece of land, but the Philippines can. And the United States has a strong mainstream culture, no matter what you do

Whatever you do, you have to bear the responsibility of being crushed. The Philippines is more primitive and more suitable for you to be self-reliant." Sheffield did not deny that he lowered wages to trick Chinese workers. He did this himself. "I am a person who pursues profits.

, as long as you can make the joint company develop and grow, I will never lose you."

Otherwise, why would Sheffield go all the way to the Pacific Ocean? To benefit the Filipino people? He came here specifically to scrape the land. After all, this is a place of 7.8 million square kilometers and a population of nearly 10 million. If the United Company can be here

Occupying a dominant position is a huge driving force for expansion.

Without this motivation, how could Sheffield have the intention to follow the US military wherever it goes? Do you really think he is so patriotic?

Whoever can make the United Company the controller of the Philippines will be Sheffield's friend. He will devour the Philippines as quickly and cheaply as possible, and keep the cost as low as possible. This is him, a pure businessman.

purpose.

Gu Cheng took Sheffield to a place that could be called a manor, and introduced, "The owner here is named Hong, and his name is Hong Shijun. He has been in the Philippines for two hundred years."

"Oh? There are many talented people under Hongwu's sect?" Sheffield chuckled upon hearing this, which made Gu Cheng swallow secretly. He had never seen it, but he heard Zhang Deqing talk about it. When the United Company heard about the Chinese community, there were

The association once said this after extorting wages from Chinese workers.

Later, those associations in the name of protecting the Chinese disappeared. This thing was done by Sheffield. Gangs are gangs, always under the guise of protecting the interests of the Chinese, which is a bit shameful. When we cleaned up the Chinese gangs, everything went smoothly.

, this greatly disappointed him as the boss. Until the end, he did not see how these garbage protected the Chinese.

"My employees are paid by me. This is very normal, but no one can take away my salary. An employee cannot have two bosses!" Feeling that Gu Cheng was silent all of a sudden, Sheffield knew what the problem was.

, must have been frightened.

Entering the residence of this local Chinese leader, Sheffield officially launched a strategy to deal with the local Chinese. Before that, he had already dealt with the US military and the former Spanish colonizers. Now he only needed a construction force.

There is no shortage of minerals in a geological environment like the Philippines, but Sheffield doesn’t know where they are, but he is planning to hire an exploration team to search for them. But the situation is unclear now, which requires armed forces to protect the exploration team. If they find it, they need to build a railway to transport it.

After all, building railways also requires labor, and many industries are related. This is why many giants in a single industry began to penetrate into related industries after gaining a dominant position.

"I only pursue interests. As long as I achieve my goals, you are free to do whatever the Chinese want." Sheffield set out his own conditions and also reminded, "For the local indigenous people, we Americans
Chapter completed!