Chapter 395: Everyone Gets What They Need (The Leader of South Street Plus 5)

Bernard was speechless, the hidden danger was greater than survival. The problems of the future, let’s talk about the future, we must pass the current disaster before we have the capital to consider these problems.

Everyone has personally felt the threat of the Russians. Property damage is only a small problem. The key is that personal safety is not guaranteed.

Gnesburg was in depression, because the Tsar's army was too bad, and he had to worry about going to the street. Who would dare to do business?

A priest suggested: "How about we discuss with the nobles in the city?"

Bishop Bernard said hurriedly: "No! Father Rennes, you should know the situation of the nobles in the city now. The Russians are staring at them. Now we send them to the door and want to leave?"

The Junkers aristocrats were still very loyal to the Kingdom of Prussia, and many of them were hot-blooded young men who were leading guerrillas behind enemy lines, which naturally attracted the attention of the Russians.

It's not that Bishop Bernard doesn't support the guerrillas. It's just that East Prussia is too small. There are 380,000 Russian troops on a mere 30,000 square kilometers of land. How can we play?

The ending is naturally self-evident, the resistance team was completely destroyed, and the people who supported the guerrillas suffered heavy losses. The Russians used tens of thousands of corpses to teach them a lesson: don't do anything.

This is also the reason why the local nobles want to gather together. They are really frightened, and they are worried that the Russian barbarians will have a convulsion in their heads, and they will also be clicked.

Everyone gathers together, even if someone wants to do something, the noble officers in the Russian army will stop it, which belongs to their common class interests.

The nobles can't protect themselves, and now they are very likely to get burned. Under normal circumstances, the Russian army would not take the initiative to join up with religious figures like them, so it is impossible to say.

James pretended to be worried and urged: "Everyone, let's make a decision earlier, the Russians won't give us that much time.

There are so many elderly and weak women and children in Gnesburg now that it is almost impossible to sign a normal employment contract. It is not so easy to convince Austrian companies to hire them. "

After listening to James' words, everyone's face changed greatly. Under normal circumstances, colonial companies employed young and young labor, and it was difficult for the elderly and the weak to find work.

It is not so simple to want to leave through the labor employment channel now.

Father Bragg asked expectantly: "Mr. James, you must have a solution to this problem, right?"

James said hesitantly: "If the number of people is small, I can still ask friends to help.

Now in the whole of Gnesburg, at least tens of thousands of people need to be transferred, most of them are old and weak. Normally, no colonial company would employ them.

The only way is that we pay the shipping ourselves, I am contacting my friends to help. These companies should issue a false employment contract based on the affection of their compatriots. "

This is the genius of James. The people who were still hesitating now involuntarily changed their positions and considered how to organize everyone to leave.

Bishop Bernard frowned and said: "This is very troublesome, there are too many people to leave in Gnesburg, most of the people can't pay the travel expenses, and our church can't come up with the money.

What's more, in the African continent, without a job, everyone's life is also a problem. "

Tens of thousands of people want to leave, and the required travel expenses and settlement expenses are not a small sum.

If the church had raised this amount of money before the war, it would be impossible now that all the banks have been looted by the Russians, and the church is left with only the property inside the church.

The most important thing in religion is faith. As long as there are believers, the money can be earned back sooner or later. With no money in his pocket, Bernard could only pass up this opportunity to consolidate his faith.

James thought for a while and said, "We can only borrow first for the travel expenses. When we get there, we can ask the local church for help, and we can also ask the German National Revival Society for help.

Although there are many elderly and weak women and children, it is not impossible for everyone to work. No matter how bad it is, you can do laundry and cook, or help the plantation owners pick cotton.

I still have many friends over there who can provide some jobs. If there are special circumstances and it is really impossible to find a job, we will apply for relief from the colonial government! "

Only in times of crisis show his true feelings. Of course James wants to make money, but after returning to Gunesburg, he really wants to help his compatriots.

Instead of staying here precariously, it is better to go to Austrian Africa to start a new life.

Like most people, James was desperate for the Berlin government, and he didn't think the Kingdom of Prussia could win the war.

The current digging operation, in James' view, is a sacred rescue operation, helping compatriots escape the clutches of the Russians.

East Prussia has long since completed assimilation, and many Poles and Lithuanians have become Germans. In the official documents of the Berlin government, the number of local Germans has exceeded seven layers.

The rest have long been accustomed to speaking and writing German, and their living habits are similar to those of Germans. When you arrive in Austrian Africa and pretend to be Germans, you just need to apply for aid, and no one will be bored to check.

Franz was very interested in population, and naturally it also affected the officials below. Perhaps in the eyes of the capitalists, the old and weak, women and children are of little value, but in the eyes of government officials they are the same population.

Taking in the old and the weak can buy people’s hearts, and the Vienna government has no shortage of food; not to mention women and children, women are also laborers, and children can grow up, all of which are valuable.

Young and young means good management. Immigrants with family and family are the best immigrants. Once settled locally, none of these people can leave.

Borrowing tolls is nothing more than setting

A threshold to leave, extending their time in the colony.

After three or five years, whether the Russians occupy East Prussia or the Kingdom of Prussia regains its homeland, there will be new residents in these places, and it will be difficult for the immigrants to survive if they want to go back.

The only way to survive is for everyone to refuse. The members of the church are not all vicious villains, the black sheep are only a few, and the ordinary people are greedy for money at most, and their private life is disorderly.

In the face of the life and death of tens of thousands of people, everyone still knows how to choose.

This is a characteristic of European society. To organize the people to leave, as long as two groups have such influence: the nobility and the church.

To fool the Junkers nobles to leave, James doesn't think he has the ability. What the Kingdom of Prussia can give them, Austria can never give.

So from the beginning, the local aristocracy was placed under house arrest. The outside world thought it was the work of the Russians. In fact, it happened after James bribed the Russian officers.

The tsarist government also had no shortage of people, and keeping a group of people who could turn into guerrillas at any time was completely asking for trouble. It would be better to use the waste and sell it to Austria.

With the intentional cooperation of the Russians, the immigration activities organized by James went very smoothly. The Russian army didn't seem to see anything, and let them organize a series.

Colonel Nicholas stationed in Gnesburg, looking at the employment contract submitted by James, he didn't bother to read the dense name on it, and threw it aside.

"Mr. James, according to the laws of the Russian Empire, you need to pay an employment tax of 5 rubles for every employee you hire, which is 448,000 rubles in total."

James was shocked and said with a smile on his face: "Your Excellency Lieutenant Colonel, we only hired 12,000 people, and the rest are the accompanying family members."

Colonel Nikolai said with a sneer: "Unfortunately, it's a war time, and the situation is a bit special. We still have to investigate spies, and these family members can't leave for the time being."

James, who reacted, immediately handed over a check for 5,000 Aegis. This is a cheque issued by the Royal Bank and can be cashed in major European cities.

After looking at the numbers and carefully identifying the true and false, Colonel Nikolai's expression softened a little, and he put it away as if nothing had happened.

Tear off the tax stamp in his hand, re-issued a tax stamp of 60,000 rubles, and handed it to James.

This is a benefit during the war. Almost everything that Gnesburg can rob has been robbed. There is no taxation at all. Naturally, the Tsarist government will not send a tax officer.

Colonel Nicholas made things difficult for James, of course, to make a fortune. Don't look at the fact that James has organized so many immigrants, but there are less than 6,000 real young people.

Fill in the employment of 12,000 people, mainly because it is necessary to ensure that each household employs one person before they can legally leave with their family members. In order not to make extraneous problems, James did not dare to save this money.

After getting the approval note, James breathed a sigh of relief. The Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also has offices in East Prussia. With this legal procedure, he can let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs intervene.

After sending James away, a young officer asked suspiciously, "Uncle, I didn't promise to extort them, so why should I let him go?"

Tax collection, have you seen any military tax collection? Moreover, this is still a newly occupied area, and there is no concept of tax at all.

From the beginning to the end, it was the temporary tax bureau that Colonel Nicholas and others wanted to extort a sum of money.

"Boris, you're still too young. If I really want to blackmail me, I don't think I can get the last ruble, and I'll have to go home early for retirement. Do you remember the telegram you received last night?"

Boris responded and said, "You mean that the Austrian Foreign Ministry has intervened?"

Colonel Nikolai nodded. The money from this human transaction has been collected by the St. Petersburg government long ago, and it is included in the Russian-Austrian loan.

Now it is the civilian businessman James who has dared to extort a sum of money. If the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is changed, the situation will be different.

Most of the logistics of the Russian army were provided by Austria. If a dispute between the two countries is provoked at this time and the war is affected, the perpetrators will never have good fruit to eat.

The tsarist government was indeed corrupt, but that did not mean that Alexander II wanted to see the government corrupt. If they jumped out at this time, they might be killed as an example.

Gnesburg is just an index, the whole East Prussia area is full of immigrant merchants, everyone is working hard to evacuate East Prussia.

No, it should be said that everyone is working hard to save their compatriots. Freeing your compatriots from the Russians is the official answer from Austria.

Believe it or not, the participants believed it anyway. The people of East Prussia who chose to leave also believed it.

This is the cooperation of the Russian army, and their performances in their own right have frightened the local people.

No one has ever thought about the precarious days. Recruiting young soldiers to fight against their own country makes them emotionally unacceptable.