Chapter 2041 "0 Gold City Horse Bone"

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Marin attaches great importance to the arrival of this group of Italian migrant workers. There were not many Italian migrant workers, only 500, who came from the coastal areas of Italy on three merchant ships and docked at the port of Emden.

After they arrive in the North Sea, they will be sent to the surrounding areas of Emden to build village-level cement slab roads. It is to lay the cement board produced by the cement product factory on the compacted road foundation. Then, it was cemented by the masters of Beihai Road Construction. Among them, these unskilled Italian migrant workers are mainly engaged in the hard work of tamping the roadbed, mixing cement and moving cement slabs. In the words of later generations, they are small workers on the construction site, mainly engaged in auxiliary work.

Among them, the tamping of the roadbed is mainly repeated rolling with a huge steel cylinder filled with water from the Beihai State. Although the steel cylinders are pulled by oxen for rolling, before and after rolling, it is necessary to lay waterproof materials such as sand, gravel and lime on the road surface, which also requires manpower. Moreover, it is labor-intensive to carry sand, gravel and lime. As for mixing cement, there were no mixers in this day and age. It was purely manpower, which required physical strength and was quite laborious. Moving the heavy cement slabs to the construction road with a trolley and laying them on the ground is very similar to moving bricks in later generations.

However, unlike the high wages of moving bricks in later generations, the wages of moving cement and slabs in Beihai are not high, only 2 pfennigs per day. The road builders in Beihai who are responsible for bonding cement slabs with cement have a minimum wage of 3 Finneys per day. This is probably the difference between big workers and small workers. After all, unskilled labor is actually worthless. The reason why the wages of later generations moving bricks is high is purely because the real estate industry is booming, coupled with the fact that later generations are lazy and no one is willing to suffer, so they are fired.

Modern people are all uncles, so they naturally feel that it is hard to move bricks, and it is reasonable to get a high salary. But before the 21st century, everyone could endure hardships, and only a few people were afraid of hardships. Therefore, it is not rare to move bricks, and they will not get high wages.

Especially in this era, many people can't live happily anymore, and dare to pick and choose and dislike hard work? As long as you give money, no matter how hard it is, someone will do it. In particular, Marin's salary is really not low. The most important thing is - food and housing included!

What is the concept of food and shelter? It’s all right to live here, and I’m willing to come out to work as a migrant worker, so I don’t care about the conditions. I can use floor coverings anywhere, as long as it can provide shelter from the wind and rain. But eating, in this era in Europe, the cost is really high!

Especially in Italy, food prices are much higher than in the North Sea countries. The price of grain in the North Sea country is 1 pfennig per pound of rye, while in Italy, due to the war, the price of rye has soared to the level of two to three pfennigs per pound.

Even with a large amount of wild vegetables and wood chips, each adult labor force consumes at least 1 pound of grain per day during heavy work. According to the price of food in Italy in recent years, the value exceeds wages!

In addition to providing food and accommodation, Marin will also distribute a few sets of rough work clothes to each migrant worker. These poor work clothes are all woven from cheap, poor-quality rough wool,

But it's better than being strong and durable. After all, coarser wool has higher tensile strength than finer wool.

Moreover, Marin also studied the sand sculpture military uniforms of the Qing Dynasty and wrote with ink on the outside of the clothes. Of course, instead of writing about brave soldiers, it is about writing ABCD.

In order to save money, the rough woolen clothes distributed to the workers were not dyed, even with the cheapest dyes. Therefore, writing on it is easier to recognize.

Among them, the most low-level foreign migrant workers have a large "A" written on the front and back of their clothes, indicating that they are the lowest-level migrant workers. As for the local migrant workers in Beihai, the lowest level is "B". The skilled masters among migrant workers are divided into two grades, "C" and "D". "C" is naturally a foreign migrant worker master, and "D" is a local migrant worker master.

This is not only used to distinguish identities, but also the basis for salary. In fact, when laying cement and flagstone roads, it is not a high technical content to be responsible for bonding the cement flagstones with the mixed cement. However, for this job, the Beihai State Infrastructure Company will give priority to locals and immigrants who have obtained the "green card" of Beihai State. The so-called "getting a green card" means that the whole family moved to Beihai.

The reason why Marin deliberately lowered the wages of foreign migrant workers was actually to stimulate their families to immigrate to Beihai. In this way, the population of Beihai State can increase rapidly. With a difference of 1 pfennig per day, it would be 365 pfennigs a year, worth 6 gold coins. Although migrant workers also have holidays every year, they will certainly not work for 365 days, but there must be a disparity of 5 gold coins. Over the years, many Italian migrant workers who have business experience in their minds will definitely have a lot of people who can't help immigrating with their families.

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Moreover, in terms of food, Marin will not treat them badly. In their own country, the bread they eat is high-grade, if half of it is flour, and most of them are mixed with a lot of wild vegetables, sawdust, and even soil. And Marin asked the Beihai State Infrastructure Company to mix the bread with up to 20% grass chaff for the foreign migrant workers. At the same time, a large amount of Chinese cabbage will be provided as seasonal vegetables. Of course, Chinese cabbage is not fried, but boiled, but there is a little oil dripping from the boiled vegetables. Then, put some salt. This is a bit like the diet recipes of later generations, but with more salt. Because people who do hard work lose more salt. It’s okay to have less oil, but with less salt, the migrant workers will have no energy.

The reason why there is less oil is not because Marin is stingy. Rather, the soybean production in North America is still relatively limited at present, the supply is insufficient, and the domestic residents have not yet popularized it. How can they give priority to supplying foreign migrant workers? Therefore, dripping some oil and floating on the top of the boiled Chinese cabbage is considered advanced.

Brown bread containing 80% flour, paired with boiled Chinese cabbage dripped with oil, may be a symbol of poverty or weight loss in later generations, but in the eyes of the war-torn poor Italians in this era, it is a very good delicacy. At least, it was much better than what they ate in their hometown. The key is, be full!

Moreover, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of foreign migrant workers. For the best batch of foreign migrant workers, Marin will also provide a salted fish as a reward every week. Sometimes, a fried dish that can only be eaten by a foreman is also rewarded, or a very German-style Thuringian sausage.

Don't underestimate these things, maybe people in the future will get tired of eating meat, salted fish and sausages are the most common foods. But for Italian migrant workers who are so poor and forced to go abroad to make a living, it is definitely a delicacy. Moreover, Beihai really has no shortage of salted fish. Due to the expansion of the fisherman team and the promotion of trawling by large fishing boats in recent years, the catch of the North Sea State has grown at an alarming rate. Now, in the manor under the name of Marin, the serfs have been able to eat salted fish every now and then, and the serfs of other noble manors can also eat salted fish from time to time. Only the poor in other countries with a shortage of salt, people will regard salted fish as a rare food.

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Out of emphasis on the first batch of Italian migrant workers, Marin personally inspected the temporary migrant worker camp outside Emden, and talked cordially with the migrant workers in the Italian he learned from Angela and Felice.

Of course, he didn't come empty-handed. The boss inspects, how embarrassing is it to come empty-handed? Moreover, the people under inspection will also accuse you of being stingy in their hearts.

No, Marin sent someone to send 1 ton of salted fish, almost 2,200 pounds, enough for 500 Italian migrant workers to eat for a few days. In addition to salted fish, Marin also sent 1 ton of Thuringian sausages and 10 barrels of dark beer, enough for these Italian migrant workers to enjoy for several days. And, this is just the first batch. In the next period of time, there will be several batches of food donations.

In fact, Marin is just in the "Qianjin City Horse Bone". He just wanted to show an attitude to the Italians—come to Beihai as a migrant worker, and you will have a good life! Very cool!

After all, it won't be long before the end of the year. These Italian migrant workers will not be able to work for two months before returning to China for Christmas and the New Year. At that time, when they return to their hometown, they will definitely tell their neighbors what they have seen and heard about Beihai. They had a good time during this period, and when they returned home, they talked about it, which would attract the poor Italians even more.

People in Beihai country who go to recruit workers brag, but no one believes it. But if the first batch of migrant workers went back and introduced their personal experience, their relatives, friends and neighbors would be easy to believe. At that time, more Italian migrant workers will be willing to come to Beihai to build bridges and pave roads. Then, some people will stay and become new immigrants from Beihai...

Moreover, Marin is not lying to them. Although the food donation activity of "Qianjin City Horse Bone" does not last long, bread and Chinese cabbage boiled in dripping oil are usually enough. As for drinks, salted fish, and sausages, you can get rewards if you make weekly progress. It’s really not possible, you can buy it with your own money for the salary of 2 Finneys per day... Not to mention that you can buy good wine and food every day, and occasionally buy some, it is completely affordable...

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