Chapter 338 The Mastermind
The Italian gangs are recruiting people at the dock. For ordinary people, if they really become a member of a gang, they might be a good friend. Although it is a little dangerous, the treatment of gang members is not bad. They can also use their identity to bully some ordinary people and have a sense of vanity. However, how can the Italian gangs possibly absorb such a large number of Italian immigrants!
At this time, the Italian mafia showed what professionalism was. The United States was currently building new railways and developing the western region. What it lacked was manpower, but what it had was demand. The Italian mafia took this opportunity to begin participating in various projects.
It is generally easy for Italians to take over the project. If you don't let us do it, you can forget about starting the work normally. I will send people to disrupt it every few days to see who can't hold on first.
There is no way. Most bosses choose to keep quiet. However, they can give the work to you, but you have to do it well. If they make you angry, they will still find someone to deal with you.
It is impossible for Italian gangs to create people out of thin air, so it is extremely important to recruit people to Italy. This is also the reason why Italian gangs are willing to pay for the immigrants' boat fare.
After the Civil War, half of all steel produced in the United States was used to make railroad tracks, ushering in the golden age of American railroads. New York seized this opportunity and developed rapidly.
New York, or New Town in the United States, was discovered relatively late, so its development also started relatively late. In 1524, Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano, with the support of the King of France, discovered the New York Harbor. He entered the New York Harbor area on the Dauphiné, declared the place to be owned by France, and named it New Angoulême. He became the first European to visit New York in history, so the relationship between Italians and New York has a long history.
After the independence of the United States, New York developed rapidly. In 1790, New York surpassed Philadelphia to become the largest city in the United States. In 1800, only about 9% of foreign goods entered the United States through the Port of New York. In 1825, the Erie Canal was opened to navigation, and New York became a commodity distribution center. By 1860, the proportion of foreign goods had jumped to 62%. At the same time, New York's population exceeded one million, and New York became the largest emerging city in the world's history. Now New York has caught up with the railway development boom and is expected to develop further.
New York's Grand Central Station is one of the representative symbols of New York's railway development. New York's Grand Central Station was funded and built by railway tycoon Vanderbilt.
He inherited his father's estate in 1877 and then expanded the New York Central Railroad network on a large scale, purchasing the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, the Chicago, New York and St. Louis Railroad, and the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad. The Grand Central Station was one of his masterpieces.
The construction of Grand Central Station is a microcosm of the expansion of American railways. After completion, it can accommodate 15,000 passengers. After completion, New York Grand Central Station will be a landmark building in Manhattan and the largest single building in North America.
The Italians made great contributions to the construction of the Grand Central Station. Currently, Italy is the largest source of immigrants to the United States. Although the overall number and quality of immigrants in the United States are far less than in the past, they are not too inferior. Italians and Slavs have filled the vacancies left by the Germans.
The objective description of American Germans in the German region by the newspapers bought by the Hechingen Consortium dissuaded most German immigrants from going to the United States and instead chose East Africa.
Although they also didn't know much about East Africa, they understood the ways of the nobility. The appeal of the Hechingen royal nobles was obvious and could not be compared with that of the American nouveau riche.
Of course, as a warm land, the United States is still attractive to many rebellious Germans. These people, like those who insist on making a fortune in northern Myanmar, sneer at the Hei Xingen Group's objective description of the United States.
What "hell on earth"? I didn't go there. I went to the United States. I could make a fortune with the "skills" I learned in Germany. I heard that the rich people in the United States are all generous "good people". If we kidnapped a few people, wouldn't we make a fortune and return home in glory?
If you ask them how they know, they will say that the people from my village have become rich now, but I didn't go when they asked me to go, and now my thighs are almost blue.
These ungrateful people only believe in their own "reliable gossip". Just let them go. No one will stop them anyway. It is even a question whether they can make a living in the United States. After all, their predecessors have blocked the way for them, and they obviously do not have the unity of the Italians.
The Italians who came to North America included both revolutionaries and gangsters, and their organizational capabilities were much stronger than those of the Germans.
They set up various engineering companies and then recruited people to work as "workers", providing paid cheap labor services to American individuals and businesses, which is outsourcing.
The Grand Central Station under construction in New York this year employs a large number of Italian workers. The status of Italians in the United States is only slightly higher than that of Chinese, Indians and blacks. Apart from the relatively large number of blacks, Italians have the largest number of people, so the status of Italians is extremely limited. After arriving in the United States, most Italians can only engage in low-end jobs recognized by American society, such as chefs, carpenters and construction workers.
There are no human rights anyway, and most people use violence to kill them. If you want to resist, you must first get through the gangs. As partners of the capitalists, gang members will help manage their compatriots and prevent them from causing trouble.
Although there is always the risk of sudden death under high-intensity work, it is better than starving to death in Italy. Even if working conditions in Europe may not be better than those in the United States and the social status may be a little lower, most Italians are used to it. Besides, there are no creatures like black people in Europe to set off themselves. As long as there are people living a worse life than me, then at least I will have some comfort in my heart.
In general, Italian immigrants are satisfied with life in the United States, and Italian gangs are even more satisfied, as they can make endless money. American companies and capitalists are also satisfied, as Italians are cheap and the gangs are in control so they won't cause trouble. Italians themselves are also more hardworking than Indians and blacks, and have lower management costs. Who wouldn't like such a workforce?
Moreover, the Italians do not have a strong motherland to back them up. Italy is now in a state of disunity again, so it is naturally impossible for their status to rise. It is only because of the Europeans that their status is slightly higher than that of the Chinese, Indians and blacks.
In fact, the status of immigrants who first came to Italy was relatively high, and they were accepted by American society. At that time, Italian immigrants were mainly small vendors, and the number of laborers was less than one-seventh.
However, in recent years, especially in the past two years, a large number of Italians have poured into the country. Most of them are ordinary people with no skills. Even if they are given opportunities, they can only do low-end jobs. In addition, Italian gangs have set up offices in the United States, causing a significant decline in social security in the United States and a surge in crime rates. Italian immigrant communities are even slums within slums. All of this has greatly lowered the image and status of the Italian immigrant group in the United States.
The instigators were actually the five forces of the US government, Italian mafia, Italian kingdom, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Ernst. It was the joint efforts of all of them that led to this situation.
According to normal immigration procedures, even if a war broke out, Italian immigrants to the United States should not have been in such a bad situation. However, Ernst had selected many high-quality immigrants to East Africa and Paraguay in advance. It would be strange if Italian immigrants to the United States would have any good situation.
(End of this chapter)
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