African Nationhood

Chapter 113 Immigration back to the country (Part )

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  Far East, Magic City, Hongkou Port.

A giant cruise ship flying the Union Jack flag has just entered the port. The simplified Chinese characters "Golden Hook Port" are written on the bow of this cruise ship.

The Jingougang is 158 meters long, 26 meters wide, has a total load capacity of 6800 tons, a speed of 18 knots, and a rated capacity of 1300 people.

The route from Golden Hook Port to Walvis Bay Port to Modou Port in the Far East is a new route opened by Henry Shipping Company.

As the gangway descended, the Nanhua Company recruiters on the cruise ship, who were wearing straight August 1st-style Chinese uniforms, disembarked one after another. The purpose of their return to China was naturally to recruit people.

In early April, Nanhua Company announced a recruitment order for recruiting new immigrants. The recruitment order stipulated that any employee or civilian who can recruit Chinese immigrants will receive a reward.

The reward standard is: one acre of land will be awarded for each immigrant recruited, and a maximum of 50 acres of land will be awarded to a single person.

Recruited immigrants can also recruit immigrants, in which case the recruited immigrants can also obtain up to 50 acres of land.

The first recruiter can receive an additional bonus of 10 yuan in military tickets per person, with no upper limit.

As soon as this recruitment order was announced, there was a sensation throughout Southwest Africa.

The number of applicants increased dramatically, and Nanhua Company had to arrange for recruiters to return to China in batches.

There are also those who are impatient and go to Cape Town to take a cruise back to Qing to recruit immigrants. Anyway, Nanhua Company will reimburse the travel expenses back.

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After the recruiters got off the boat, the tall and handsome Zhong Wenyao was the last one to get off the boat. He ordered the recruiters under the company to line up and not run around.

This strange scene attracted many people from the Qing Dynasty to watch, and they all speculated where these high-rollers who spoke Chinese and wore unique clothes came from.

They were also curious as to why these people, who also had yellow skin, wore clothes and looked so much better than themselves.

Zhong Wenyao has graduated. He arrived at Walvis Bay Port with several classmates in March.

There they met Ouyang Geng and the other three who had already taken on important responsibilities. After reminiscing for a while, they went to see Shi Jintang together.

Boss Shi encouraged everyone and then began to assign tasks to the new students.

As soon as they arrived in Southwest Africa, they took on important responsibilities, which made several students feel very excited.

Zhong Wenyao was honored to be appointed as the captain of the Golden Hook Harbor. When he saw this brand-new cruise ship, Zhong Wenyao was so excited that he couldn't sleep for several days because he loved studying mechanical equipment.

In the original time and space, Zhong Wenyao returned to the Qing Dynasty and served as an official of the railway system. He was also one of the first people to own a car in the Magic City.

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He brought this group of recruiters to the Port of Modou. The arrival time has been notified through Liu Jiazhao in Shantou. Someone will come to pick them up. As for who the person will be, he doesn't know yet.

The Golden Hook Harbor was too conspicuous, so it didn't take long for Zhong Wenyao to see a familiar figure, and he secretly thought it was him.

The person who came to pick up Hong Kong this time was Cao Jifu, an American student who had returned to China earlier. He studied law in the United States and later became a lawyer.

But after Shi Jintang appeared, he was recruited.

After he was ordered to return to China and released, he found a job as a handyman at the Magic Telegraph Office through his family connections. He didn't mind this at all. After all, his job was only used to temporarily hide his identity.

After receiving the notification from Liu Jiazhao, he was fully looking forward to the arrival of the new ship.

Cao Jifu was extremely excited when he saw the huge hull of the Golden Hook Harbor. This is a cruise ship in Southwest Africa, which is their own industry.

When the two old classmates met again, they felt as if they were worlds apart. So the two of them gave each other a warm hug and then laughed together.

This movement caused many people around to point fingers, but the two of them didn't care. After greetings, Zhong Wenyao took Cao Jifu on board the ship for a tour. Then the two disembarked together and began to assign personnel to lead the recruiters out of the port.

More than 500 people disembarked from the Modu side, and another group was diverted to Shantou, with a similar number of people.

Cao Jifu will take these recruiters to a warehouse he rents in Hongkou. At the same time, this warehouse will also be a temporary residence for immigrants from the mainland.

There were also 500 new men's and 20000 women's bicycles on the Golden Hook Port, 5000 boxes of cigarettes, 1000 lighters, and even Shi Jintang brought more than 1000 hard-style stand-up collar shirts and sets of men's and women's short suits.

These goods are all used to open up the largest port market in the Far East. Cao Jifu is the first manager of Nanhua Company's Magic City Commercial Store.

Cao Jifu took Zhong Wenyao out of the port, got on the carriage and drove towards the warehouse near the port.

After arriving at the warehouse, they first checked the accommodation conditions and infrastructure such as cooking stoves.

After waiting for almost an hour, many recruiters came back in neat queues. These people came on foot, so their complexions were a little dim, but they were full of energy.

Zhong Wenyao first asked everyone to disperse and rest. After dinner, he organized the recruiters and began to teach the recruiters.

The content of the class is training in recruiting immigrants. For example, when you arrive in Southwest Africa, you can not only get free land, but also find a wife.

In addition, when you get there, there are discounts such as immigration gift packages, which need to be explained clearly.

The other most important thing is how to deal with local officials.

Although these recruiters were all dressed in crisp and upright August 1st-style Chinese uniforms, their timid appearance did not look like successful people.

The task of Zhong Wenyao and Cao Jifu is to build the self-confidence of these people so that they will not be intimidated when facing the local government officials and subordinate officials.

Here we need to use the "passport" specially prepared by Shi Jintang for these people.

The entire passport contains the holder's information in English, and finally it states in English: Under the Queen's rule, the South China Company, in the name of the Queen, requests the relevant agencies of various countries not to leave the person in trouble and to provide assistance when necessary.

Having the passport of the Nanhua Company means that these recruiters are no longer Qing people, they are "foreigners" and they are protected by British law.

If they were suppressed by the Qing government, they would definitely protest through diplomatic channels. The passports in their hands were enough to intimidate local officials everywhere.

After a few days of training, most of these recruiters have built up their self-confidence.

The next step is to teach them the knowledge of traveling, and explain clearly how to take a boat and a car, etc., so that they will not be unable to find their way back.

After going back and forth, nearly ten days passed. Cao Jifu sent these recruiters to the car, horse and boat companies in batches so that they could go to their hometowns to recruit immigrants.

After sending out the recruiters, Cao Jifu focused all his energy on building the Nanhua Commercial Center.

Zhong Wenyao began to receive the families of classmates who arrived from all over the country.

Some of these family members care about their children and are moved by their children, while others want to go overseas to explore before moving.

In short, everyone is going to Southwest Africa, and there is a special passenger among the people relocating this time.

Zhong Wenyao always bowed to him as a junior when he saw him, because this special guest was a big shot in the late Qing Dynasty, and his name was Guo Songtao.

He was going to visit Southwest Africa, and at the same time he wanted to avoid bad luck.

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