Chapter 166 Recruitment Advertisement
October 3, 1868.
"Stuttgart Evening News" published a job advertisement.
Urgent need for construction workers.
Requirements: skilled workers.
Familiar with various German style buildings.
Have more than five years of work experience.
Family members can go together.
Working location: Overseas.
Treatment: Allocate housing, provide free education for children, work eight hours a day, monthly salary of 3 Taylor and 5 Groschen.
Such an advertisement may be regarded as a fraud in any era, but the content is indeed very tempting to the workers in the Wurttemberg area.
Opportunities always come to the unlucky, but it is not certain whether they can be grasped. In this era when various systems are not yet perfect, workers are living in great hardship.
Especially unemployed workers who were fired by their bosses for various reasons. Fisher is a worker who was abandoned by his boss because of his age.
Fisher is actually not too old, only in his thirties, but the boss always likes those young and strong.
With the progress of European industrialization and the rise of capitalist agriculture, German farmers without land went bankrupt.
Especially in the southwestern region of Germany, the harvest has not been good these years. For farmers, it can be said that house leaks happen to rain overnight.
Many farmers were forced to leave their homes and look for a way out. The city will absorb a group of farmers to become industrial workers. Stuttgart, as a big city in southwestern Germany, naturally pours in many farmers.
The situation in the labor market is very good, and by the way, the bosses in Stuttgart have also become picky.
Cities cannot solve the livelihood problems of so many people, especially in the southwestern region of Germany, which is dominated by agriculture.
The remaining people had to find another way out. At this time, the East African colonies and the United States appeared, and the Hexingen Consortium took the initiative to create a wave of German immigrants in East Africa that lasted for half a year.
And Fisher is not a farmer. Starting from his grandfather, the family has been construction workers, relying on a meager salary to support the family.
However, Fisher's grandfather is obviously not a person with outstanding abilities, and he is relatively capable of giving birth, with four sons.
The eldest child inherited the house, the second child and the third child each received the rest of the inheritance, and Fisher's father inherited only ancestral craftsmanship from his grandfather.
Fisher's father lived up to expectations and joined the army of the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, participated in the war against Napoleon, and was lucky to catch up with the last war.
Fisher made a small fortune with the coalition forces in France and saved a fortune. After retiring from the army, he bought a small house in Stuttgart. At the same time, he married Fisher's mother, the wife of a comrade who died in the war.
Fisher's father and mother gave birth to Fisher when they were in their thirties, and Fisher's father had only one child, Fisher, so he had a good starting point compared with his father.
After the death of his parents, Fisher inherited his father's family business, a small house and a few pieces of furniture, as well as ancestral craftsmanship.
The year before last, during the Prussian-Austro-Prussian War, the situation in the entire German region was relatively tense. Fisher originally thought about whether he could copy his father's old way and rely on the war to make a small fortune to support his family.
As a result, the Austrian-Prussian War was full of wind and rain, especially in southwest Germany. There was basically no fighting, and the Austrian-Prussian War ended in two or three months.
Just entered the new barracks, Fisher, who had not received his military salary, was retired, and Fisher was completely reduced to a jobless vagrant.
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"Anna, what do you think about our development in East Africa?" Fisher asked his wife with the recruitment advertisement of the Hexingen Consortium in his hand.
"Is this reliable? We don't know what's going on in East Africa. If we're deceived, if it's fake, we can't go back to Europe on our own!" Anna said worriedly.
Fisher gently stroked his wife's hair and said, "But now that I have no job, I can't be idle all the time. Our family always has to eat."
"Is it true that I can't find a job? There is no way to work harder. After all, Europe is much better than Africa, right?"
“A few factories are recruiting people, but I heard that the working conditions there are not good, working day and night, and the boss often defaults on wages.
A friend of mine said that it is a black-hearted factory, which is to punish people to death, and even if they can get wages, it is difficult to support a family, but one can barely live alone.
But there are four people in our family, even if you go out to work an extra job, it is still not enough. said Fisher, frowning.
After Fisher finished speaking, the room fell into a brief silence.
Anna leaned in Fisher's arms and smiled bitterly: "In this case, it seems that we can only go to this East African colony to try our luck!"
Fischer hugged his wife tightly and comforted him: "Honey, don't be too pessimistic, Africa may not be what people describe, just a den of ogres.
In the past few months, many people have gone to East Africa to develop. Most of them are rural farmers. I heard that East Africa has been recruiting immigrants. I have seen several groups of farmers who want to go to East Africa near the Stuttgart station. The Germans there Should be a lot. "
Fischer has of course done research, and the East African immigrants in Württemberg naturally have to transit in big cities such as Stuttgart, so it is not uncommon to see immigrants going to East Africa in Stuttgart.
"Honey, if you really decide, I will always support you." Anna already understood what Fisher was thinking. Her husband was moved, but he still couldn't make up his mind, so she asked her own opinion.
Fisher said emotionally: "If East Africa is really what the newspapers say, I will definitely let you live a good life."
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In the blink of an eye, December.
Fisher's family arrived in the East African colony neatly. East Africa has always welcomed family immigrants, especially "high-end talents" like Fisher.
Under the guidance of the staff of the Hechingen Consortium, the Fisher family took a boat specially provided for family immigrants, and its conditions were much better than ordinary boats.
Did not encounter any strong winds and waves along the way, and arrived at the East African colony smoothly.
Fisher's work location has also been determined, in Dar es Salaam.
Ernst has never left room for some matters in East Africa, such as the indigenous issue, and he will definitely leave nothing in the end.
Similarly, since you want to colonize, you must do everything right. For the healthy development of East Africa in the future, you must destroy all the evidence of the colonial era that can be destroyed. In the future, East Africa does not want to argue with the descendants of those victims. The remains of indigenous civilizations must be destroyed.
(end of this chapter)