The welcome banquet was very lively, although the reception specifications were not high, but it was more affordable.

To welcome the new 2,000 laborers, Viscount Outlet happily slaughtered 50 cows, 100 sheep, and a few chickens, plus the cook carefully prepared bread and vegetables.

No way, there are many people and they have a big appetite. As a good lord, it is natural for this kind of large banquet outlet to invite all the lords to participate.

Don't look at 50 cows seems to be a lot, but the cattle in Africa in the 19th century were all naturally fed, and they were not large, and they were not artificially modified beef cattle in later generations, so the meat yield was naturally not high.

One steak per person, 50 cows are consumed. As for the 100 sheep just for stew, if they are made for barbecue, it is obviously not enough. In contrast, the supply of chicken is much more abundant.

Of course, meat is not a luxury in Europe. Especially after the opening of Austrian Africa, the price of meat products has fallen again and again.

The African continent is vast and sparsely populated, providing a favorable foundation for the development of animal husbandry. In the territory of the outlets, for example, the population of more than 7,000 square kilometers is only a little over 10,000.

After excluding the elderly and children, the young and strong labor force is only five or six thousand, and so much land will certainly not be cultivated, and the development of animal husbandry is a good choice.

For the noble lords who have enough land, the cost of raising cattle and sheep that can grow up by eating grass is really not high. You raise me and I raise it, and if you raise more people, the price will naturally go down.

What really catches the eye is the fact that the table is full of white bread, the kind without any impurities. For laborers who are accustomed to eating brick and black bread, the impact is great.

Naturally, there is white bread on the European continent, but because the production cost of wheat is higher than that of rye, the price of white bread has also risen, and it has become the standard for the wealthy.

In an ordinary welcome banquet, the lord took out all white bread, which was beyond everyone's understanding.

Many people looked at the white bread in front of them and didn't dare to start, for fear that the chef had made a mistake and served the wrong food. Seeing that everyone around me was getting white bread, I was sure that it wasn't the chef who made a mistake.

The beautiful misunderstanding added a bit of talking point to this banquet. It's only for people who have just arrived in Africa that they feel this way, and they won't be so surprised after staying for a long time.

For no other reason, the core of the problem is that rye is cold-loving and grows in temperate regions. The African continent is like a big furnace, and even if the rye is highly productive, it will not survive.

In contrast, wheat is less demanding in terms of growing environment, adapts to a variety of climates, and naturally becomes a staple food on the table.

Looking at the unlimited supply of chicken, you can see that Viscount Outlet is a master who is not short of food. In fact, more than 99 percent of the continent's lords have experienced food overcapacity.

Due to the restrictions of the African localization agreement, overseas lords could not sell grain to the European continent to impact food prices, which directly cut off everyone's idea of grain exports.

However, in this world, only those who have starved to death due to lack of food, and there are no people who have been supported to death by food overcapacity.

The overcapacity of grain obviously does not frighten the shrewd aristocratic group. Initially, everyone cut grain production capacity and switched to cash crops.

Later, it was found that the income of cash crops was extremely unstable, and the price of one price last year and one price this year may rot next year. Although the returns are high, the ability to resist risks is too weak.

Soon someone came up with a new solution. The inability to export grain does not mean that meat products cannot be exported. Anyway, it's all about making money, and it's not bad to develop a side hustle to share risks.

Chickens and ducks with a short growth cycle, low breeding threshold, and can eat insects have become the first choice.

The focus is on "eating insects", and everyone doesn't like to immigrate to Africa In addition to the climate adaptation, the biggest problem is that there are many poisonous insects, which is unspeakably miserable.

It was discovered that after raising chickens and ducks in the settlement, the caterpillars that used to be everywhere and often crawled into the house suddenly became scarce.

Of course, that alone isn't enough to make up your mind. What really made everyone decide to raise chickens and ducks was because of the "locust plague".

Because of the arid climate, many parts of Africa are prone to locust infestations. In these years, there were no pesticides, and agricultural production was most afraid of "locust plague", and chickens and ducks were able to curb locust plagues, and with this advantage, they instantly became everyone's favorite.

Because of the mismanagement of some lords, the domestic chickens and ducks were scattered in the wild, and now they are almost flooded.

Not only are there fewer poisonous insects, the locust plague has been contained, but even epidemic diseases are not as frequent as in the past.

Of course, whether the reason for the decrease in diseases is due to the decrease in poisonous insects or the removal of virus sources is also a question of different opinions in the medical community, and there is no accurate answer for the time being.

In fact, it is not only chickens and ducks that are overflowing, but also cattle, sheep, wild boars, and rabbits in some parts of the continent.

It's not that it's a problem of invasive species, it's mainly that it's vast and sparsely populated. In addition, for the safety of the people, the noble lords wantonly hunted predators, destroying the ecological chain cycle.

Anything that is overflowing will lead to a decline in profits. Seeing that the animal husbandry industry is declining, some people have started a grain industry.

Small workshops have sprung up, the most common of which are vegetable oil refining, brewing, alcohol and jerky, and more upscale sugar, starch, flavorings, and so on.

Today, almost all of the local supporting grain processing industries have been moved. The only problem was the self-sufficient lord economic model, which constrained the development of these industries.

However, in the eyes of the parties, these are not problems. The evaluation of the "self-sufficient primitive economic model" given by the outside world is even more disdainful.

How can you make money without having fun?

Don't look at the proliferation of these small workshops, they are actually forced out. The HRE occupies more than 85 percent of the continent's land, but has a population of less than 160,000.

Although the Viennese government also built several railways on the continent, this was only the main line, and most of the noble territories were not covered.

Railways were not available, roads were also not perfect, and the main means of transportation were horse-drawn carts, ox carts, donkey carts, and camels, and automobiles were only available in the first developed areas.

In an inland territory like an outlet, all the large machinery and equipment are disassembled into parts, transported in, and then reassembled.

In this context, if you don't play decentralized small workshop processing, is it possible to still count on transporting all the grain together for processing?

As for the development of small workshops, it is not too late to consider this issue after the road is cleared. Anyway, with the advantage of more land, small workshops will be competitive for a long time in the future.

If you look at the international market, you can see that 30% of Europe's meat products come from Africa. Alcohol occupies 43% of the market share, and beer production capacity is the largest in the world......

The original restrictions on grain exports not only did not restrict Africa's economic development, but on the contrary, promoted industrial upgrading.

It is also a big step forward from the export of raw grain to the processing of small workshops. Don't look at the fact that human beings have entered the industrial age for many years, but the production mode is still dominated by small workshops.

The economic model of big factories exists only in a few countries. It was just "existing", and until the advent of the era of the big monopoly, the workshop-style factory of 180 people was the mainstream.

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It was already evening when the banquet was over, and they returned to the assigned dormitory for eight people, and because of the lack of language, everyone just said hello and fell asleep.

In order to facilitate management, the dispatched workers are scattered and distributed, and the eight people in the dormitory in front of them are from eight countries. Number Six

In this world of "ten miles of different winds, a hundred miles of different customs", even if the same country has multiple languages, workers from eight countries naturally do not understand the language.

Although on the way here, I have received language education, but there is really no way to force this thing with talent.

The vast majority of people, in more than a month of language learning, have only mastered simple everyday expressions. Some wooden fish pimples have only learned limited words such as "hello", "eating", "sleeping" and "working".

It's okay to say hello, but if you want to communicate in depth in Austrian, it is estimated that workers from Switzerland and Belgium can barely do it.

The problem is that you can't just know Austrian, you have to be able to do it yourself. Of course, if you can speak other languages at the same time, the question is whether the master who knows a foreign language will still be disappointed to live in an eight-person dormitory?

Who deserves what treatment, in this cruel world, even if it is labor dispatch, it is divided into three, six, nine and so on.

If you are a linguistic genius, you have shown it as early as when you were learning Austrian, and now you have been promoted to the role of temporary squad leader, and occasionally make a guest appearance as a translator.

Although the salary has not been improved, the accommodation treatment has gone up first, and the eight-person dormitory has become a four-person dormitory, which can be regarded as a small preferential treatment.

Suddenly coming to a strange world, normal people will feel apprehensive deep down. The lively welcome banquet only slightly eased the uneasiness in everyone's hearts.

Although Viscount Outlet has shown as approachable as possible, the aura brought by being in a high position all year round still makes everyone feel nervous.

Intimacy is even more impossible.

"Jiaolong doesn't play with fish and shrimp, and Kunpeng doesn't swim with doves."

Viscount Outlet can be approachable, but everyone can't be unscrupulous. Don't look at the number of recruits, just think that the threshold for admission does not exist.

In fact, those who can be selected here are all those who have been beaten by society and accepted the reality of life. Unruly and pretentious, that is rejected early.

As an ordinary person, Yamani, who lives in a room of eight people, has insomnia tonight.

Although Viscount Outlet seems to be very kind, like a benevolent lord; However, according to past workplace experience, the more friendly the leader is, the more vicious the stewards below will be.

Thinking of the difficulties that may lie ahead, Armani has trouble sleeping. I can't help but think of all kinds of difficult scenes, as well as the ways to deal with them.

There is no way, the money is not easy to make.

There is an economic crisis in the country, and now the family has to support themselves, and this relatively well-paid job must be kept.

What's more, they have all come, and even if they want to leave, Armani doesn't know which way to go.

The domestic officials in charge of labor export sent them on the ship and said goodbye. The so-called governments of various countries send people to jointly track and manage, there is a high probability that there will be no more.

From the moment they leave their homeland, they become rootless. If you lose your job, you won't know what to eat next.

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The next day, the sun was shining, and it was a good time to work. Yamani, who had dark circles under his eyes, naturally joined the labor force.

Want to "rest", no problem. However, according to the contract, when you start working, you will start to calculate your salary.

You must know that nearly two months have passed since the departure from China. Except for arriving on the African continent for a week's rest, the rest of the time was on the road, boats, trains, cars, and horse-drawn carriages.

Although physically and mentally exhausted, the pressure of life makes it impossible for everyone to choose. As a migrant worker, you have to pay for all your expenses after arriving at your destination, including your own daily living expenses.

The vast majority of people have empty pockets, and if they don't go to work and mix a working meal, they will go hungry immediately.

There is no need for someone to urge, one by one to get up early and wait for the work arrangement. I'm afraid that I won't be late and delay my work for the day.

Armani admits that he doesn't love work so much, waking up early to queue up, being afraid of being late is only one thing, but more importantly, he is afraid of missing breakfast.

Only those who have been hungry know the value of three meals a day, despite the fact that it is already the industrial age, in fact, two-thirds of the world's population cannot be full.

Even in Europe, the most economically developed country, many people still only have two meals a day. Especially after the outbreak of the economic crisis, starvation is a common phenomenon in the lower classes.

A piece of bread + a glass of milk + an egg + a few vegetable leaves + jam is a hearty breakfast for Armani and others.

On the European continent, food that only the middle class can enjoy every day has become an ordinary working meal.

There is a serious shortage of labor in the territory, and the Viscount of Outlets, who could have been the mayor, was sadly reduced to the mayor of the town.

The food is all produced in the territory, all of which are pure natural green food without chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and even the seeds are kept by themselves, and the production mode of extensive planting and thin harvest is not high.

In order to buy people's hearts, Viscount Outlet naturally does not save on food. One of the most important reasons why many European workers choose to stay in Africa is because of the good food.

The effect is very obvious, looking at the expressions of enjoyment on everyone's faces, you can know that everyone is still very satisfied with the breakfast.

At least the capitalists in Europe are reluctant to provide such a sumptuous "free" breakfast to ordinary workers.

The work was very simple, except for a small number of skilled workers who were taken away and arranged separately, the work of all laborers, including Armani, was the same: building roads and digging canals.

Unlike in the past, everyone's work here is quantitative.

For every sixteen members of the group, a team leader is appointed. The management personnel divide the construction section, and each team draws lots to decide the construction section. It's all done in plain sight, and it all depends on whether God blesses you or not.

The working hours still follow the oldest "sunrise and sunset".

The salary is determined by the completion of the project, and you can feel free to get paid if you don't want to. If the individual performance is bad, after more than three-quarters of the team members vote, they can be reported to the management to apply for kickout.

Kicked out of the team and grouped separately, and again behaved poorly - expelled.

Hearing the word "expelled", Armani shuddered. This is the African continent, and once you are fired, it is not as simple as being unemployed.

Although there is a serious shortage of labor in the realm, once you are expelled from the lord's mansion, you should not want to find a job in the town again. As for leaving, you have to make sure you have the money to pay for it.

Don't even think about making trouble, although the town is small, it is also full of organs.

Viscount Outlet also served as the mayor of the town, judge, police chief, militia chief and a series of other positions, in short, everything in the territory was up to him.