October 3, 1868.

The Stuttgart Evening News ran a job advertisement.

Construction workers are urgently needed.

Requirements: Skilled workers.

Familiar with all kinds of German-style architecture.

More than five years of work experience.

Families can go together.

Location: Overseas.

Treatment: allocation of housing, free education for children, eight hours of work a day, monthly salary of 3 taylor and 5 groschen.

Such an advertisement could be considered a scam in any era, but the content is very tempting for the workers of the Württemberg area.

And opportunities always patronize the unlucky, but whether they can grasp it or not is not certain, in this era when the system is not perfect, the workers are living in great difficulty.

Especially unemployed workers who were fired by their bosses for various reasons, Fisher was a worker who was abandoned by his boss because he was old.

Fisher is actually not very old, only in his thirties, but the boss always likes those who are young and strong.

With the industrialization of Europe and the rise of capitalist agriculture, the landless German peasants went bankrupt.

Especially in the southwest of Germany, the harvest has not been good in recent years, and for the peasant group, it can be said that the house leak coincided with overnight rain.

Many peasants were forced to leave their homes in search of a way out, and the cities would absorb a group of peasants into industrial workers, and Stuttgart, as a large city in southwestern Germany, naturally had an influx of peasants.

The labor market is doing well, and the bosses in Stuttgart are starting to get picky.

Cities do not solve the livelihood problems of so many people, especially in southwestern Germany, which is dominated by agriculture.

At this time, the East African colonies and the United States appeared, and the Heixingen consortium took the initiative to create a wave of German immigrants in East Africa that lasted for half a year.

Fisher, on the other hand, was not a farmer, and his family, starting with his grandfather, was a construction worker, supporting the family on a meager salary.

However, Fisher's grandfather was obviously not a man of outstanding ability, and he was relatively capable of giving birth, having four sons.

The eldest inherited the house, the second and third children each got the rest of the inheritance, and Fisher's father inherited the family property from his grandfather only ancestral craftsmanship.

Fischer's father lived up to expectations and joined the army of the Kingdom of Württemberg, participated in the war against Napoleon, and was lucky enough to catch the last war.

Fisher made a small fortune in France with the Allied forces, saved a sum of money, and after retiring from the army, bought a small house in Stuttgart, and married Fisher's mother, the wife of a comrade who died in the war.

Fisher's father and mother gave birth to Fisher in their thirties, and Fisher's father had only one child, so he had a good starting point compared to 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.

And Fisher was lucky, married to the girl next door, but life has been very poor, especially after giving birth to a child, the family has lived a more difficult life.

The year before last, during the Austro-Prussian War, the situation in the entire German region was relatively tense, and Fisher originally thought that he could copy his father's old path and rely on the war to make a small fortune to support his family.

As a result, the Austro-Prussian War was loud and rainy, especially in southwest Germany, there was basically no war, and the Austro-Prussian War ended in two or three months.

Before entering the boot camp, Fisher, who had not yet received his salary, was discharged, and Fisher was completely reduced to a jobless vagrant.

……

"Anna, how about we go to East Africa for development?" Fisher asked his wife about the job advertisement for the Black Singen Consortium in his hand.

"Is this reliable? We don't know what the situation is in East Africa, and if we are deceived, if it is fake, there is no way to return 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." ”

"Can't really find a job? There's no way to work harder, after all, Europe is much stronger than that place in Africa, right? ”

"There are a few factories that recruit people, but I've heard that the working conditions there are not good, they work day and night, and the boss often defaults on wages.

I have a friend who said that it is a black-hearted factory, which is to put people to death, and even if you can get a salary, it is difficult to feed a family, and one person can barely make a living.

But we have a family of four, and even if you go out and work an extra job, it's still not enough. Fisher said with a frown.

Fisher spoke, and the room fell silent for a moment.

Anna leaned on Fisher's arms and smiled bitterly: "In this case, it seems that we can only try our luck in this East African colony!" ”

Fisher hugged his wife and comforted: "Don't be too pessimistic, my dear, Africa may not be what people describe, it is a man-eating cave.

In the past few months, many people have gone to East Africa to develop, most of them are farmers in the countryside, I heard that East Africa has been recruiting immigrants, and I have seen several groups of farmers who are going to East Africa near the Stuttgart station, and there must be many Germans there. ”

Fisher, of course, did his research, and East African immigrants in Württemberg naturally had to transit in large cities such as Stuttgart, so it was not uncommon to see immigrants to East Africa in Stuttgart.

"My dear, if you really decide, I will always support you." Anna had already understood Fisher's thoughts, and her husband was moved, but he couldn't make up his mind, so he asked for his opinion.

Fisher said with emotion: "If East Africa is really what the newspaper says, I will definitely let you live a good life." ”

……

In the blink of an eye, December.

Fisher's family arrived in the East African colonies neatly, and East Africa has always been very welcoming to family immigrants, especially Fisher's "high-end talents".

Under the guidance of the staff of the Heichengen Foundation, the Fisher family took a boat for family immigrants, and the conditions were far better than ordinary boats.

Along the way, there were no strong winds and waves, and they reached the East African colony without any problems.

Fisher's place of work has also been determined, in Dar es Salaam.

Ernst has never left room for some matters in East Africa, such as the indigenous question, which must have been left behind in the end.

In the same way, since we want to engage in colonization, we must do everything we can, and for the sake of the healthy development of East Africa in the future, we must destroy all the evidence that can be destroyed in the colonial era, and in the future, East Africa does not want to have a relationship with the descendants of those victims, and the relics of indigenous civilization that exist in East Africa must be destroyed.

(End of chapter)