Berlin, Germany.

Gleiling Textile Factory.

The Gleiling Textile Factory was a small and medium-sized private textile enterprise in Germany that nearly went bankrupt in 1875 during the economic crisis.

Subsequently, in the inspection of Heixingen Bank, it was rated as a high-quality enterprise, and then received capital injection, which was able to continue to maintain.

In the 80s, it developed rapidly and became one of the high-quality textile enterprises in Berlin, and it is also an important talent training base for the Heixingen Foundation.

The important reason why the Gleiling textile factory can be favored by the Heixingen consortium is that the Gleiling family attaches great importance to technology and has a strict corporate management model.

The Gleiling family itself was a Junker landed aristocracy turned bourgeois aristocracy, so the factory was also fully militarized.

Because of the militarized management, the production procedures in the factory are in order, and the workers perform their duties.

Wells, the technical maintenance staff of the third workshop, is working on documents in the office, mostly some mechanical drawings.

Knock knock knock......

There was a knock on the door, but Wells was still buried in the papers, and he didn't look at the people carefully, he subconsciously thought that the machine was malfunctioning again.

"Mr. Wells, Mr. Glerling has asked you to come to his office, as if some big man was looking for you."

Wells put down the pen in his hand and asked, "Looking for me?" Isn't it the factory director? ”

"It looks like a stranger, but it should be a big man, and Director Gleiling is very respectful to the visitor."

Hearing this, Wells had a bottom in his heart, and the so-called big man was probably the official figure in East Africa.

Wells placed all the items on the table, picked up the bookmarks and tucked them in the unfinished papyrus, then put the pen away, put it in his pocket, and headed out for the director's office.

Glerling had been waiting here for a long time, and a man in a suit and leather shoes was already sitting on the sofa next to him.

"Wells, you're here, I remember you're from East Africa, right?" Glerling asked Wells with a smile.

"Yes, Mr. Glerling."

"How many years have you been working here?"

"It was eight years, and I went to work at the Glerling Mill in the second half of 1878, shortly after graduating from school."

"Well, this is your Mr. John Leeders from East Africa, who is also the general manager of the Berlin Mitte Street Branch of the Hashingen Bank, and he is here today mainly to arrange for you to work in East Africa, and he will talk to you about the specific situation."

John Leeders: "Hello Mr. Wells! ”

"Hello Mr. John Leeders!" Wells said politely.

John Leeders said: "Mr. Selva, who was in charge of liaison with you, has retired, so I have come to take over his work, and now the country needs you young people to contribute to the construction of the country, so we can only let you go back to China." ”

Wells has long been mentally prepared for returning to his homeland, after all, this is what has long been written in the original agreement to go abroad.

Wells: "Mr. John Leeders, I would like to know if the state wants me to go back and continue to work in the relevant profession?" ”

"Yes, there are currently three options for you to choose from, namely Nairobi, Bulawayo and Kissan, the first two of which are important textile cities in East Africa, and the last one is a city that is ready to develop a textile industry."

"Nairobi is not bad in all aspects compared with European cities, of course, I am certainly not talking about Berlin or Munich, the population of Nairobi city in Germany should be Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and other big cities, as for Bulawayo is not bad, but because of the late start, the city has a lot of room for growth, especially the textile industry is the city's key development direction."

"As for the city of Kissan, it has the weakest foundation in the textile industry, with only more than 30 textile mills, but the state is ready to focus on investing in the city of Kisang, and if you go now, there are great opportunities, and it is even possible to become a member of the management directly, at least not worse than your treatment in Germany, and the ceiling is higher."

After all, it is impossible for Wells to replace Gleiling as the factory director in Germany, and a highly educated civilian talent like Wells will become a senior worker at most, or start a business, but it is quite difficult to start a business as a mixed-race entrepreneur without any connections and funds.

Of course, this is only the idea of the East African government, and East Africa is willing to let go of talents who have developed well in Germany and are not too important.

Of course, more East African students will definitely want to return to China, after all, their families are in East Africa, unless they don't even want home, learn from those "run" people in their previous lives, this kind of people don't dare to use East Africa!

"Mr. John Leeders, I have long been mentally prepared to return to China, after all, I haven't seen my parents for several years, but I don't know if I can still live with my family when I go to East Africa?" Wells asked.

John Leeders took out a file bag from the table, handed it to Wells and said, "The situation in your family has changed a long time ago, and now you have another sister, all here, presumably your parents haven't come here yet, but now you can go back and have a look." ”

East Africa has a dedicated agency for international students, so they have a clear picture of their family situation and keep a record of it every year.

Wells opened the brown paper file bag, which focused on his personal information and family situation, and Wells's experience of studying and working in Germany was recorded in detail.

"Your parents are in good health, and they have added a sister to you this year, counting your family of six people in total, and now they are too busy taking care of a few little ones, mainly worried about how you are doing in Germany, but there are also your relatives here, I guess you have already met with them, right?"

East Africa is a population "Pixiu", as a whole only in and out, ordinary people want to go abroad in a thousand difficulties, so many immigrants to East Africa, can only contact their relatives through telegrams, Far East immigrants are even more miserable, many people are displaced or their families have long lost contact, can only survive in East Africa, the rich are not in the field, the poor have no place to stand is the true portrayal of this era.

There were small plots of land that could be used to make a living, all of which belonged to the "kulak" class, which by European standards was yeoman farmers.

For example, although there is a lot of land in East Africa, but only the right to use, and obey the state's arrangement to engage in agricultural production activities, it should be regarded as agricultural workers or "serfs", after all, East Africans are also restricted to the land by household registration, including urban and rural areas.

"After you choose a place of occupation, we can adjust your parents' work, so don't worry about related problems, and the conditions in these places are not bad, that is, the worst Kisan City, and when the Hesse Railway opens next year, Kisan City will completely end the history of no railway, and your generation can be regarded as a good time to catch up." John Leeders said.

But Wells also had to think about it, and he had heard of Nairobi, because at the time of his departure, Nairobi was one of the five major cities in East Africa, and it was the center of the textile industry in East Africa.

As for Bulawayo, and the city of Kissan, I haven't heard of it at all, but according to John Lides, these two cities should be quite important in East Africa.

In fact, these three textile industry cities, are relying on East African cotton planting and the formation of related industries, of course, these three cities are the first to get on the bus after the ticket, first East African city construction, and then there is a textile industry layout.

There are other textile centres in East Africa, but these three are the main cities for cotton textiles, such as Tanga and Tabora as the centres of hemp textiles, Port Nova Hamburg as the centre of wool textiles, and Lusaka as the centre of silk production.

The textile industry in Dar es Salaam and Mombasa also plays an important role, and other cities have some layout to a greater or lesser extent.

(End of chapter)