African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 55 To East Africa
1866 12 Month 22 Day.

Hungary, the town of Dopoci.

Janossen, a Hungarian who speaks German.

As a young man, Jannosen traveled to Austria and eventually became a laborer in Trieste, but a mechanical failure caused Jannosen to permanently lose his left arm.

The fateful Yanuosen survived with simple medicine, but he also spent all his savings. At the same time, Yanuosen, who lost his left arm, also lost the ability to work.

And the unscrupulous factory owner directly fired Yanuosen, who had lost his value. Just when Yanuosen's future was bleak, he met the newly listed Austrian Merede Company to recruit staff.

This company has unique requirements for recruiting people. It does not require academic qualifications, as long as they can master German and at least one dialect in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Of course, it would be better if they can speak multiple languages.

With the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, Janossen applied for the application. Because he can speak Hungarian dialects and German, and his eloquence is good, Janossen was directly admitted by Meleder.

And Janossen's job is very simple, that is, to pull people in Hungary, and his salary depends entirely on how many people Janossen can fool to board the ship to the East African colony.

This so-called Meleder Company is the new vest of the Hechingen Consortium in Austria, and will be responsible for the immigration business in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the future.

As a newcomer in the workplace of Melled Company, Yanuosen, after learning about his own work, also probably knew about the business of this so-called Melled Company.

Yanuosen has a bright mind. After analyzing his own situation, Yanuosen wanted to get his salary quickly, so he decided to start working in his hometown first.

Although this Meled company looks like a leather bag company, it doesn't matter to Yanuosen who has lost the ability to work, as long as he can pay himself wages, it doesn't matter what company he is.

The reason why I say it is like a leather bag company is that when Janossen interviewed, there were only three employees in this Meled company, and this company did not require a degree to recruit workers.

Janosson himself has seen some small companies, most of which are engaged in the financial industry, but they all recruit people with relatively high education background.

The place where the Merede company recruits workers is Africa. As a person who traveled far and wide in his early years, Mereder has heard the descriptions of Africa by some ocean-going sailors.

They say that Africa is full of sand, the sun is scorching, and Arab merchants wear robes and ride camels through the sand.

The Egyptians lived entirely by the Nile River, and in the Nile River lived a terrifying creature called a crocodile, which opened its mouth so wide that it could swallow a person in one gulp.

These sailors have been running the routes along the Mediterranean Sea all year round, so they input their impressions of North Africa into the young Janosen.

So the Africa that Arnosen knew was hot, desert, Arab merchants and black slaves...

All in all, Africa is not a good place, but after joining Meleder, Janosson still got to know East Africa.

After all, if you want to fool the immigrants, you must make a lot of hype about East Africa, and you must tell these employees about the state of the East African colonies.

It is impossible for these uneducated employees to imagine a scene of East African colonies out of thin air.

It would be better if each staff member directly took a Bible and told those bumpkins in the Austrian Empire that East Africa was the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve lived.

In short, the East African colony after the reorganization of the Meled company is like this, where the land is fertile, the rivers are criss-cross, there are endless prairie, and the seasons are like spring. The most important thing is to go to the East African colony to work now. Food and housing are included, and wages are not in arrears. At the same time, the whole family is welcome to relocate, and free education is provided for children.

This is the basic template, and employees can give full play to their subjective initiative and exaggerate on this template!

If the immigrants go to East Africa and find that it is not in line with the reality, I'm sorry, it's purely an employee's personal behavior, and it's all here, so you can't help it.

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Yano Sen is selling the benefits of the East African colony to the folks.

"Folks, sign up now, or it will be too late to regret if you miss the opportunity."

"Boy Yanossen, you won't fool us, will you! Can such a good condition be our turn?"

"Uncle Cary, they are all from the village. Am I that kind of person? You can definitely trust my character. This recruitment is of the same nature as those who went to the United States to make a fortune. The difference is that the comparison found in the East African colonies The United States is late, and now the United States is no longer so short of people, but the East African colonies are in urgent need of people, so we have the opportunity to leave it to us."

"Then why didn't you kid go to the East African colony and fool us?"

"Uncle Cary, what do you call that? I'm currently assigned this job by the company. Look at my arm. It would be nice 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 housing are included, and a house is also allocated.”

As he spoke, Arnosen raised his empty left sleeve and waved it, the sleeve swaying left and right in the air.

A woman said: "Yanuosen, I have never heard of this East Africa, and the villagers dare not go to strange places to develop."

Another villager also said: "Yanuosen, don't tell us about East Africa, you came back from a big city, why don't you tell us how the work in the city is, so that I can let my family go out for a living wandering."

"Uncle, it's not easy to mess around in the city! For example, those dolls in your family, do they have any skills or have read books? If they don't have any, they can only be apprentices to others first, or do heavy physical work. Going to develop in East Africa!"

Yanuosen went on to say: "Think about it, your family has been a farmer for generations, why bother to work for others for nothing, or do heavy physical work, that is not a job done by humans, not to mention the salary, it is better than farming Tired. After working for four or five years, my body will break down!"

"But going to East Africa is different. What is the most indispensable thing in East Africa? That is land. Why do so many people in our village go out to work every year? It's not that the land is not enough now. Since the peasants were liberated, the nobles don't need so much. Many people planted land for them, and when they arrived in East Africa, they also planted land for the German nobles, but they just changed places."

"What's more, East Africa also provides free education for children, and there is enough food. It would be great if the whole family goes to East Africa to eat and drink together? And the work is familiar to me. Can others lie to you about farming? ?”

"Don't look at the large number of people who make money in big cities, the water inside is deep! Most people go to the city and don't get any benefits, and those who can make a fortune and come back to show off are rare, one in ten thousand, this chance Do you believe you can do it? Do you have that ability and luck?"

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Port of Trieste.

I was still fooled by Janossen into a bunch of folks. After all, rural areas in Hungary are relatively fertile. It is normal to have three or five children in a family. The eldest will inherit the family business, and the rest of the young will naturally come out to make a living.

Janossen took dozens of people and brought them to the port of Trieste, where an Austrian soldier received them.

This Austrian soldier is the manager of the port, and he was ordered to do psychological work on these immigrants before they were arranged to go to East Africa today.

The method is also very simple and rude, which is to prove to these immigrants summoned from various regions in the Austrian Empire that Meleder Company is a regular company, so don’t worry, there are big German nobles who have connections with the royal family behind them.

So you have to believe that the government will not lie to you, don't cause trouble on the road, and you can come back after three to five years if you get out of the way.

Only the Austrian government knows whether they can come back. They also support Ernst's activities, and they can't just end it.

And the influence of the Magyar nobles on Hungary is indeed too strong, otherwise they will be presumptuous in front of the Austrian government.

Ernst recruited workers from the Austrian Empire, which actually weakened the power of these local nobles. Although it tastes like a drop in the bucket, it is better than sitting still.

At the same time, Ernst is equivalent to arranging the employment of some unemployed people. For the Austrian Empire with a rapidly growing population, the value of the population is depreciating, not to mention the faster-growing non-German population.

Unemployment of the masses is not conducive to the stability of the rule in any era. Ernst took away these unemployed people, which can be regarded as alleviating social conflicts.

At present, the Habsburg royal family still has some credibility for these people. The emperor can't lie to ordinary people like us!

So the relieved immigrants obediently boarded the ship to East Africa...

(End of this chapter)