Chapter 55: To East Africa
December 22, 1866.
Hungary, Doboz Town.
Arnoldsen, a German-speaking Hungarian.
As a young man, Arnosen went to Austria and eventually became a laborer in Trieste, but a mechanical failure caused Arnosen to lose his left arm forever.
Arnoldsen survived with simple medicine, but he also spent all his savings, and at the same time, Arnoldsen, who lost his left arm, also lost his ability to work.
And the black-hearted factory owner directly dismissed the valueless Arnoldson, and when Arnoldson's future was bleak, he encountered the newly listed Austrian Melade company recruiting staff.
The company's recruitment conditions are unique, no academic qualifications are required, as long as you know German and at least one dialect of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, of course, it is better if you are multilingual, and you can go to work after an interview.
With the mentality of treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor, Arnosen went to sign up, because he knew the Hungarian dialect and German, and his eloquence was good, Arnoldsen was directly admitted to the Melade company.
And Arnoldson's job is very simple, it is to go to Hungary to pull people, and the salary depends entirely on how many people Arnosen can fool to board the ship to the East African colonies.
The so-called Melade company was the new vest of the Heshingen consortium in Austria, which was in the future responsible for immigration in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
As a newcomer to the workplace of Melade Company, Arnoldsen also probably knows the business of this so-called Melade Company after learning about his work.
Arnoldsen has a bright brain, and after analyzing his own situation, Arnoldsen, who wants to get his salary quickly, decides to work in his hometown first.
Although this Melade company looks like a leather bag company, it doesn't matter to Arnoldsen, who has lost his ability to work, as long as he can pay his salary, it doesn't matter what company he is.
The reason why it is like a leather bag company is because at the time of the interview with Arnoldson, this Melade company has a total of three employees, and this company does not need to recruit students.
Arnoldsen himself has seen some small companies, most of which are engaged in the financial industry, but they recruit people with relatively high academic qualifications.
The location of this Merled's recruitment was Africa, and Melled, as a person who traveled from south to north in his early years, had heard some ocean-going sailors describe Africa.
They say that Africa is all sand, the sun is scorching, and Arab merchants wear robes and ride camels through the sand.
The Egyptians lived entirely on the Nile, a terrifying creature called a crocodile, with its bloody mouth wide open and capable of swallowing a human being in one mouthful.
These sailors had been running the Mediterranean coast all year round, so they imported their impressions of North Africa into the young Arnoldsen.
So what Arnoldsen knew about Africa was the heat, the desert, the Arab traders and the black slaves......
All in all, Africa is not a good place, but after joining Melade, Arnoldsen learned about East Africa.
After all, if you want to fool immigrants, you must blow East Africa to the sky, and the state of the East African colonies must be told to these employees.
We can't let these uneducated employees imagine a colonial scene in East Africa out of thin air.
It would be better for each staff member to take a Bible and tell the buns in the Austrian Empire that East Africa is the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve once lived.
In short, the East African colonies adapted by the Melade Company are like this, where the land is fertile, the rivers are crisscrossed, there are endless savannahs, the four seasons are like spring, the most important thing is to go to the East African colonies to work, not only to provide free ferry tickets, but also to eat and lodging, not to owe wages, and at the same time welcome the relocation of the whole family, to provide free education for children.
This is the basic template on which employees can give full play to their own initiative and exaggerate on this template!
If the immigrants go to East Africa and find that it does not match the reality, I'm sorry, it's purely the personal behavior of the employees, and they have come and gone, but you can't help it.
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Arnoldsen was selling the benefits of the East African colonies to his fellow villagers.
"Folks, hurry up and sign up now, otherwise it will be too late to regret if you miss the opportunity."
"Boy Arnoldson, you won't fool us, will you! Can such good conditions come our turn? ”
"Uncle Kari, they're all villagers, am I that kind of person? You can definitely trust my character. The difference is that the East African colonies discovered later than the United States, and now the United States is no longer so short of people, and the East African colonies are in dire need of population, so there is a chance to leave us. ”
"Then why don't you kid go to the East African colonies and fool us to go?"
"Uncle Carry, what are you calling this, I am just currently being assigned this job by the company, you look at my arm, it would be good to have a job, if I can't do it in the future, I will go to East Africa to retire, after all, there is food and shelter, and a house is allocated."
As he spoke, Arnoldsen raised his empty left sleeve and waved, his sleeve swaying from side to side in the air.
One woman said: "Yanosen, I have never heard of this East African, and the villagers dare not go to unfamiliar places to develop. ”
Another villager also said: "Yanolden, don't talk to us about East Africa, you are coming back from the big city, why don't you tell us about the work in the city, and I can let my family go out and wander." ”
"Uncle, it's not easy to mix in the city! For example, those dolls in your family, what craft do you have or have you read books? If you don't have any, you can only apprentice someone else first, or do heavy physical work, then it is better to go to East Africa to develop! ”
Arnoldsen continued: "You think, why should your family be a farmer for a few years for nothing, or do heavy physical work, that is not a human job, not to mention the salary, it is more tiring than farming. After four or five years of work, my body collapsed! ”
"It's different when you go to East Africa, what is the most important thing in East Africa? That's the land, why do so many people go out to work in our village every year, it's not that there is not enough land to plant now, since the peasants were liberated, the nobles don't need so many people to farm for them, and when they go to East Africa, they also farm for the German aristocracy, but in a different place. ”
"What's more, East Africa also provides free education for children, and there is plenty of food, so how good is it for the whole family to go to East Africa to eat and drink? And the work you do is also familiar to you, can others still deceive you about farming? ”
"Don't look at the big city where there are so many people who make money, the water is deep in it! Most people don't get any benefits when they go to the city, and those who can get rich and come back to show off are rare, one in ten thousand, do you believe you can do it? Do you have the ability and luck of a family? ”
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Port of Trieste.
was still fooled by Janossen to a bunch of villagers, after all, the countryside in Hungary is relatively childlike, and it is normal to have three or five children in the family.
With a few dozen men, Arnoldsen took them to the port of Trieste, where they were received by an Austrian soldier.
The Austrian soldier was the port manager and had been ordered to do their psychological work before they were ordered to leave for East Africa.
The means are also very simple and crude, that is, with these immigrants gathered from various regions of the Austrian Empire, it is proved that the Melade company is a regular company, so you don't have to worry, behind it is the German aristocracy with ties to the imperial family.
So you have to believe that the government will not lie to you, don't make trouble on the road, and you can come back after three or five years.
Whether he can come back is only known to the Austrian government, and they also support Ernst's activities, and they can't go straight to the end, after all, the Magyars have discovered their intentions, and it is not easy to stop.
And the influence of the Magyar aristocracy on the Hungarian region is indeed too strong, otherwise it would be their turn to be presumptuous in front of the Austrian government.
Ernst's recruitment from within the Austrian Empire actually weakened the power of the local aristocracy, although it was a drop in the bucket rather than sitting still.
At the same time, Ernst also arranged for the employment of some of the unemployed, and for the Austrian Empire, which was now experiencing rapid population growth, the value of the population was depreciating, not to mention the more rapidly growing non-German population.
Mass unemployment is not conducive to the stability of the rule in any era, and Ernst took these unemployed people away to alleviate social contradictions.
At present, the Habsburg royal family still has some credibility for these people, and it is impossible for the emperor to deceive us ordinary people!
So the relaxed immigrants obediently boarded the ship to East Africa......