Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 238 Pioneering immigrants
In the early morning, young Belinda got up from the bed, tucked the two cubs sleeping in her arms back into the bed, tucked them in, and then started preparing breakfast for the family.

Their family was one of the many pioneer immigrant families that followed Olive to the North. There were four members of the family, including her, her husband, and two children.

The children are still young, the older one is only nine years old, and the younger one is only five years old. Both are boys, and they are at the age when they are full of energy and chase chickens and dogs.

Their family is all from Vis. They came to Langton from the Principality of Vis during their father's generation, so strictly speaking, someone like Belinda is not so much a Vis person as she is a Langton person.

Of course, it doesn't matter where you come from, and it's not easy to become a "real" Longtonian. Even though Belinda's family all lives in Longton, they are still considered to be Weiss people. .

In addition to the conspicuous red hair, this is also related to the fact that they do not have a decent job in Longton.

Belinda's family mainly lives in a slum near the outskirts of the city in Longton. Her husband earns some hard money by selling his labor as a porter at the dock, while Belinda mainly washes clothes for others to support the family.

The two little boys at home did not go to school. Poor people cannot afford this, even for public schools with very cheap fees.

So now, of the four people in the family, only the husband, who works as a porter at the dock, can write the family's name, which is the only cultural achievement of the family.

According to the plan discussed by Belinda and her husband, they originally planned to send their two children to the factory to be apprentices when they were at least twelve years old, so that they could learn a trade and have a job in the future. Nice work.

Generally speaking, those who can be apprenticed in factories are either half-grown children, or they can find connections and have someone to speak for you.

As for themselves, they just hope that their two children can have good and stable jobs in the future, and it is enough to earn more money to live a better life.

After all, the workers needed in factories are usually skilled workers, that is, workers who can operate machines skillfully. As for newcomers? You don’t even know how to play with machines, and capitalists are not so kind as to spend money to train you.

For this reason, they even saved a small amount of money, so that when they send their children to be apprentices in the future, they can bribe the factory manager or something, so as not to embarrass the two children too much.

However, fate seemed to have made a joke, and it seemed that the goddess of luck finally smiled at them once rarely. They met the northern border recruiting pioneer immigrants.

Although workers are not a particularly respectable profession in the empire, among the poor, being able to work in a factory is already an enviable thing.

Therefore, without being able to send their children to school, Belinda and her husband could only make the best plans and plans for their children's future within their capabilities.

Under normal circumstances, factory owners are more willing to spend more money to hire experienced workers rather than raw melons and eggs.

For Belinda and her husband, the temptation to go to the North is actually not as great as imagined. After all, their life is quite stable now. Before Belinda's husband can't do it at all, , enough to raise two children.

It's just that compared to the couple, the Browns who live next door are much more enthusiastic about this matter.

The Browns had no children, the couple had been married only a few years, and Mr. Brown worked in Oliver's alchemy workshop. Therefore, after Oliver obtained the title of Pioneer Knight and prepared to move the workshop to the north, Mr. Brown, as Oliver's employee, was naturally recruited by Oliver and the promise he made.

Everyone knows that the North is an unexplored virgin land.

Although Purficott has been the Earl of the North for more than half a year and has developed the North to a certain extent, the North is still a barren land in the hearts of the people of the empire.

In fact, it is quite different. Although it cannot be said that it is completely deserted and has no traces of civilization, it is difficult for the indigenous people who are still in primitive tribes to be called a civilization that can be recognized by the empire.

Therefore, when the northern lords recruited pioneer immigrants to go to the north, and the empire also announced that it would carry out a series of northern development plans in the next two years, the Browns undoubtedly felt that their lives were not good in Langton City, and they wanted to go Most people who ventured into the northern border were similarly moved.

And not only did they move their minds, they even persuaded Belinda and his wife to come with them.

The most important thing they persuaded Belinda and his wife was that Oliver promised that they could work as workers in his alchemy workshop after arriving in the North, and their children could also be sent as apprentices.

Don't underestimate this little promise. For ordinary people like the Browns and Belindas, it is a huge temptation.

It is difficult for them to find such a good job in Langton, but this is not a problem in the North, and everything in the North is now blank, waiting for those who have the courage to open up and explore. Maybe someone will be lucky enough to make a fortune. Woolen cloth?
So in the end Belinda convinced her husband to follow the Browns on the cruise to the North.

Along the way, they were worried and hopeful. A new life was beckoning to them, but whether this new life would become better or worse, none of them knew.

However, after arriving in the North, everyone's mentality became much calmer, because when they saw the land in the North with their own eyes, got their own small piece of land, and were allowed to build houses, some of them Many people have come to believe that they will start a new life in the North and be better off.

After all, in Langton, a family often squeezed into a small room of less than ten square meters, sharing a kitchen and toilet with at least dozens of other families. Such a terrible and crowded life contrasted with the sunshine in the north. There is a huge gap between land and the permission to build your own house.

Therefore, the first job of more than 500 pioneer immigrants after arriving in the north was to build themselves a house.

Both Mr. Brown and Belinda's husbands participate in labor, while Mrs. Brown and Belinda also go to the construction site to do whatever they can.

This is the new home for all of them. In this matter, everyone is full of hope and puts all their strength into it, working hard to build their new home.

Even though they can only sleep in a warehouse at the port dock now, they are more like refugees huddled together until the house is built.

But as long as there is hope, no matter how hard life is, there is hope.

(End of this chapter)