Chapter 166 Recruitment Advertisement
October 3, 1868.
A job advert was published in the Stuttgarter Evening News.
Construction workers are urgently needed.
Requirements: Skilled workers.
Familiar with various German-style buildings.
More than five years of work experience.
Families can go together.
Work location: Overseas.
Benefits: allocated housing, free education for children, eight hours of work per day, monthly salary of 3 thalers and 5 groschens.
Such an advertisement could be considered a scam in any era, but its content was indeed very tempting to the workers in the Württemberg region.
Opportunities always come to the unlucky, but whether they can grasp them is not certain. In this era when various systems are not yet perfect, workers live a very difficult life.
Especially the unemployed workers who were fired by their bosses for various reasons. Fisher was a worker who was abandoned by his boss because of his age.
Fisher is actually not that old, only in his thirties, but the boss always likes those who are young and strong.
As European industrialization progressed and capitalist agriculture emerged, landless German farmers went bankrupt one after another.
Especially in the southwestern region of Germany, the harvest has been poor in recent years, which can be said to be a double whammy for the farmers.
Many farmers were forced to leave their homes and find a way out. Cities would absorb a group of farmers and turn them into industrial workers. As a large city in southwestern Germany, Stuttgart naturally attracted many farmers.
The situation in the labor market is very good, and as a result, Stuttgart's bosses have become more picky.
Cities cannot solve the livelihood problems of so many people, especially in the southwestern German region which is mainly agricultural.
The remaining people could only find other ways out. At this time, the East African colonies and the United States appeared. The Hechingen Consortium took the initiative and created a wave of German immigration to East Africa that lasted for half a year.
Fisher was not a farmer. His family, starting from his grandfather, were construction workers, supporting their family with a meager salary.
However, Fisher's grandfather was obviously not a man of outstanding abilities, and he was quite fertile, with four sons.
The eldest son inherited the house, the second and third sons each got the remaining inheritance, and the only property Fisher's father inherited from his grandfather was the ancestral craftsmanship.
Fischer's father lived up to expectations and joined the army of the Kingdom of Württemberg, taking part in the war against Napoleon. Fortunately, he caught up with the last war.
Fischer made a small fortune with the Allied forces in France and saved up some money. After retiring, he bought a small house in Stuttgart and married Fischer'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. Fisher's father had only one child, so he had a good starting point compared to his father.
After his parents died, Fisher inherited his father's business, a small house, a few pieces of furniture, and ancestral craftsmanship.
Fisher was lucky enough to marry a girl from his neighbor's house, but they always lived in poverty, especially after they had a child, the family lived in even greater difficulty.
The year before last, during the Austro-Prussian War, the situation in the entire German region was quite tense. Fischer had been thinking about whether he could copy his father's old path and make a small fortune from the war to support his family.
As a result, the Austro-Prussian War was a lot of noise but little results, especially in southwestern Germany, where there was basically no fighting, and the war was over in just two or three months.
Fisher was discharged just after entering the recruit camp and before he received his military pay. He became a complete vagrant.
…
"Anna, what do you think about us going to East Africa to develop our business?" Fisher asked his wife while holding the recruitment advertisement of the Hexingen Group in his hand.
"Is this reliable? We don't know the situation in East Africa. What if we are deceived? If it is fake, we will not be able to return to Europe on our own!" Anna said worriedly.
Fisher gently stroked his wife's hair and said, "But I don't have a job now. I can't just sit there all the time. We have to eat as a family."
"Can't you really find a job? There's nothing you can do if you have to work harder. After all, Europe is much better than that place in Africa, right?"
“There are a few factories hiring, but I heard the working conditions there are bad, with people working day and night, and the bosses often delay paying their wages.
A friend of mine said that it was a black-hearted factory that tortured people to death, and even if you could get a salary, it would be difficult to support a family, but one person could barely get by.
But there are four people in our family. Even if you go out to work another job, it’s still not enough.” Fisher said with a frown.
After Fisher finished speaking, there was a brief silence in the room.
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 consoled her, "Dear, don't be too pessimistic. Africa may not be the cannibalistic den that people describe it to be.
In the past few months, many people have gone to East Africa to develop their careers. Most of them are farmers from the countryside. I heard that East Africa has been recruiting immigrants. I have seen several groups of farmers going to East Africa to develop their careers near Stuttgart Station. There should be a lot of Germans there. "
Fischer had of course done some research, and East African immigrants in Württemberg naturally had to transit through big cities like Stuttgart, so it was not uncommon to see immigrants heading to East Africa in Stuttgart.
"Honey, if you have really made up your mind, I will always support you." Anna already understood Fisher's thoughts. Her husband was moved, but he was still undecided, so he asked for her opinion.
Fisher said with emotion: "If East Africa is really like what the newspapers say, I will definitely let you live a good life."
…
It’s December in a blink of an eye.
The Fisher family arrived in the East African colony in an orderly manner. East Africa has always been very welcoming to family immigrants, especially "high-end talents" like Fisher.
Under the guidance of the staff of the Hechingen Foundation, the Fisher family boarded a ship specially provided for family immigration, whose conditions were much better than those of ordinary ships.
There were no strong storms along the way and they successfully reached the East African colony.
Fisher's work location was also confirmed, which was in Dar es Salaam.
Ernst never left any room for leniency on some issues in East Africa, such as the indigenous issue, which he would definitely leave unanswered in the end.
Similarly, if they want to colonize, they have to do it thoroughly. For the healthy development of East Africa in the future, all evidence of crimes from the colonial era that can be destroyed must be destroyed. East Africa does not want to argue with the descendants of the victims in the future. The remains of indigenous civilization in East Africa must be completely destroyed.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
