Chapter 2040 Italian Migrant Workers Arrive
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When it comes to the glass processing industry, Marin finds it very interesting. The current glass processing is all manual processing, so it depends on personal skills. As for the processing technology of glass, besides the most common grinding and engraving, there are also lost-wax casting and blowing of glass containers. The hot rolling process for producing large sheets of flat glass is currently only state-owned in Beihai, and it was naturally brought by the traverser Marin.
Engraving and grinding, lost wax method and hot rolling method are actually nothing to say, they are all common crafts. The blowing of glass containers is a very interesting job. Of course, it looks fun to outsiders, not to glassblowers.
Blowing bottles is a technical job, but also a physical job. The person who blows the bottle has high requirements on the breath, and requires the breath to be long-lasting and not intermittent. After all, the job of bottle blowing is to use a metal tube with softened hot glass at the head. If you want to blow softened hot glass into a more rounded shape, the requirements are not low. If you change to someone with shortness of breath or asthma, you will definitely not be able to blow out the desired shape. Because, after the glass is out of the furnace, it will quickly cool and harden. Therefore, the bottle blowing work must be completed in a short period of time. Therefore, bottle blowers not only require a long breath, but also must have explosive power. Otherwise, the blowing force is insufficient and it is difficult to blow into shape in a short time.
Therefore, when bottle blowers select apprentices, they often ask them to blow the pipe for a long time without stopping to inhale. The other end of the pipe is facing several cloth strips for testing the wind force. The master craftsman stared at the cloth, the harder the cloth was blown and the longer it took, the easier it was to be recruited as a glassblowing apprentice.
What makes Marin very interesting is that those veteran bottle blowers have been blowing glass for a long time, and the end of the glass bottle is closed. Therefore, the reaction force of the gas is also quite large for long-term bottle blowing. As for the reaction force of the gas, the result is that the blower has been working for a long time, and the cheeks are generally bulging, as if there is something in the mouth, which looks very happy.
All the craftsmen stood together, and Marin could recognize the bottle blowing craftsmen at a glance. Because most of these people are bulging cheeks. But bulging cheeks is not an occupational disease, but a professional characteristic, and it is also a kind of honor. Often, the big cheeks can better reflect that this is a master bottle blower.
Of course, Huaxia also has a profession similar to that of a blow bottle craftsman, and it is also a bulging cheek. This kind of profession is playing suona. When a suona player blows hard, his cheeks will also puff up. But no bottle blowing craftsman is so strong. After all, blowing suona is not a day-to-day, nor is it every day. Marin has seen the drum bands for funerals in rural areas in later generations, and those who play the suona will switch with those who play the erhu and those who beat the gongs and drums, so as not to be too tired. Later, I just got lazy and played mourning music directly with speakers. There is actually not much time to play. If you blow it from morning to night, it is really too hard, and it is also very good.
But bottle blowers are different, bottle blowing is their job for a living. In order to earn more wages, they must blow as many bottles as possible in exchange for more wages. Therefore, as long as they can hold on, they must keep blowing.
You want to make a long note with the old bottle blower, it's better to admit defeat as soon as possible. Of course, the bottle blowing here is not the bottle blowing of beer in later generations. It's not a pouty gangster, I'm ashamed to say that I have done bottle blowing work...
Therefore, some tasks cannot be solved with hard work, and require a little talent. In addition to the talent of long breath required for bottle blowing, the work of polishing and engraving also requires talent, artistic talent. Otherwise, if you carve out an extremely ugly thing, how can you sell it.
It is precisely because of this trouble that Marin simply outsourced the production of glass products in large quantities. In this way, it also saves the trouble of selecting talented seedlings and cultivating them for a few more years.
And when it comes to craftsmen who make exquisite handicrafts, in this era, I am afraid that no country in Europe can compare with Italy. Frankly speaking, the Italians may not be very good at fighting, but the craftsmanship of craftsmen, whether it is now or later generations, is very good.
Whether it is Venice, Milan, Florence, or even Rome, there are a large number of excellent craftsmen who can produce exquisite handicrafts.
This probably has a lot to do with the existence of Catholicism, because the headquarters of the church is in Rome, so the church has had a profound impact on Italian handicrafts. In terms of sculpture and painting alone, the Church had a profound influence on Italy. Especially the sculptor Michelangelo, who spent most of his time in Rome creating relief murals of religious themes for the Holy See. And it was these jobs that honed his craft and made him great. And Raphael and Da Vinci are also often employed by the church to create works. For example, Raphael created a large number of statues of the Virgin, and Da Vinci also created religious paintings such as "The Last Supper".
It can be said that the existence of the Holy See has made Italians attach great importance to sculpture and painting, and many excellent artists have been born, as well as many excellent art craftsmen.
These craftsmen may be far inferior to masters like Michelangelo, but their craftsmanship far exceeds that of other European countries. In fact, many artists and handicraft producers in Germany also emerged under the support of the church.
Therefore, it is just right to outsource the order of beautiful handicrafts to Italian craftsmen with artistic talents, which is a reasonable use of resources. If you want to train craftsmen with a sense of art in Beihai, a rough country, it is indeed a bit embarrassing.
After all, the social environment is different. The Germanic rough man, at this stage, is more about seeking survival than pursuing art. After all, from the perspective of the agricultural era, the climate conditions in the German region are not very good, and everyone has difficulty in surviving, so how can they have the heart to play art?
Italy is different, because of the warm climate and advanced irrigation technology, people's survival pressure is much lower than that of Germany. Moreover, the church and wealthy businessmen here also vigorously support the development of art, resulting in a very strong artistic atmosphere in Italy. Even craftsmen like to make some artistic handicraft products.
Therefore, in the face of reality, Marin was too lazy to cultivate the artistic cells of the Germans in Beihai. The big deal is to outsource it to the Italians.
Of course, Marin still wants to introduce a group of Italian craftsmen with better artistic talents to Beihai. After all, Marin himself boasted that he was the favored of the gods. Out of the need to beautify himself and fool the public, he definitely needed a lot of statues to show his bravery and invincibility and destiny. Therefore, a large number of master sculptors will be introduced to Beihai by Marin. Then, they will carve their own statues in squares and in front of churches everywhere, so that people all over the country can admire their heroic appearance from time to time...
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However, before Marin waited for Italian artisans, he waited for the first batch of Italian migrant workers...
Due to the wars in Italy these years, the lives of ordinary people are very difficult. Just like Marin took the opportunity to take a large number of Italian girls from the Kingdom of Naples before, and sent them to soldiers as wives.
Later, under the impetus of Felice, Marin also began to recruit immigrants in Italy, and went to Uruguay to develop the local area. In the future, he will become a subject of Giuliano.
However, most Italians are still family-loving. If it is not really impossible to get along, very few people are willing to move their families overseas. In particular, when recruiting people to Uruguay, Marin couldn't let his men tell the Italians how good Uruguay is. Because that would attract coveted by other countries. Therefore, the current job of recruiting immigrants is actually not easy to do. Only desperate Italians would emigrate to Uruguay.
But being a migrant worker is not the same as being an immigrant. Although being a migrant worker means leaving your hometown, you have not left the "civilized world" of Europe after all. Germany is not far away from Italy. Thousands of kilometers are naturally thousands of miles for an individual in this era Difficult. But the person Marin sent to Italy to recruit workers said that they could organize migrant workers to go back and forth every year, and the toll was exempted, which was naturally attractive.
Therefore, the first batch of bold Italian poor people took risks and followed Beihai to recruit workers. They came to Beihai to prepare for infrastructure work... To put it more bluntly, they are road construction...
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