African Nationhood

Chapter 31 The Daily Life of Immigrants

In the blink of an eye, it was August and Ye Rong was already considered an old man in Walvis Bay. She was extremely familiar with every nook and cranny of this town.

Master Shi has divided the town into port area, residential area, quarantine area, and factory area.

The port area is the original Walvis Bay Port plus a small area near the port. Most of them are the port's handling of cargo and the commercial area near the port.

There are a lot of delicious food and fun places in the business district, and some people have set up gambling and magic booths there.

New immigrants like them like to hang out in the port business district in their spare time. Even if they have no money, they still like to go there to enjoy themselves.

The residential area is where the people of Walvis Bay originally lived, but it is separated from the port area and factory area.

They say they want to prevent pollution, but I don’t know what pollution means. They should sound very powerful.

As the name suggests, the quarantine area is an area specially designated for immigrants. After these immigrants get off the ship, there are specialized people to manage them.

On the men's side, they had to shave their heads, take off their clothes, and take a shower. The men were so frightened that they cried when they heard about the shave, but they couldn't resist Master Shi's whip, so they finally shaved their heads obediently.

For girls, they get their hair cut, take off their clothes, and take a shower.

The people assigned by Mr. Shi to control them were all foreign women, not only white ones but also black ones.

They were very aggressive when cutting the girls' hair and taking off their clothes, especially when taking a bath. They scrubbed each girl so hard that their skin was almost broken.

Many girls cried when they were rubbed, but they were scolded by those foreign women in unintelligible words. They had no other choice but to endure it.

After arriving in the quarantine area, you must take a shower every day, otherwise you will be punished.

Not only does the foreign woman treat people harshly, but she also doesn't allow her to speak freely. Any violation will result in a slap in the face.

Some girls' hands were beaten to pieces and they were put into solitary confinement, which was a small dark room with no one talking and no lights.

But when it comes to food, Ye Rong feels that Mr. Shi is really good.

They are never short of three meals a day, and they are never given any work arrangements.

Breakfast is dried sardines, polenta and bread, lunch is pan-fried sturgeon and bread, and dinner is braised meat with bread.

As for the kind of animal meat, it depends on what the hunting team hunts. Most of the time it is seal meat and pelican meat.

These meals are excellent, but I am not used to eating bread. It would be better if I could eat some steamed buns every day.

In addition, the immigrants also have a strict order that they are not allowed to drink raw water at any time, they must drink boiled water.

Once a violation is made, in addition to the slap on the hand, the health regulations must be copied 50 times.

As for the health regulations, they are very comprehensive and the requirements are particularly strict.

The guards also required immigrants to report each other, and in addition to being punished, those who were reported had to help the reporter do laundry.

In addition to food and clothing, the clothes of these immigrants are all uniform, divided into upper and lower garments. The upper garment is a pullover style and the lower garment is trousers.

The men wear cotton shirts and blue jackets, and the girls wear cotton shirts and red jackets. Each person wears two sets, which they wear in rotation.

There is no requirement for shoes, but you cannot go barefoot.

These clothes are all clean and soft, but the size is the same. Therefore, many girls are too small to hold up the clothes, which makes people laugh and is inconvenient.

But this is not a problem for the girls. Ye Rong herself is also a female celebrity, so she is often asked by the girls to help change their clothes.

In addition to food, clothing and study, the courses arranged by Mr. Shi are very new to immigrants. It is said that these textbooks were compiled by Mr. Shi.

Mathematics was taught by Mr. Shi himself. Everyone fell in love with his class, especially since he was so handsome and very kind to others.

Girls are very willing to get close to him. Ye Rong knows that Master Shi treats her differently than they do, so she is very serious in every class. Whether it is reading or doing math, her grades are the best.

After one month, she not only knew nearly a hundred simplified Chinese characters, but she could also quickly complete addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within a hundred.

Apart from these, the rest is training, and the men's side is military training.

There were two instructors, one explaining and the other translating. Their training was very difficult, and some men were often trained so hard that they couldn't get out of bed.

They also often shoot guns, which makes people feel frightened when they hear the crackling sound.

After shooting, it was time to train on horseback riding. Men often fell off their horses and were sent to the port medical office for treatment.

The girls are divided into four groups, and the content of each group is different. Those with good academic performance like Ye Rong were put into a separate group.

The ones with careful craftsmanship will be grouped separately, those with strong bodies will be grouped into another group, and the rest will be grouped together.

The daily routines of the four groups will be different. For example, the girls in Ye Rong's group will be taught new content. In addition to literacy and arithmetic, they will also be taught English reading and writing and financial knowledge.

Girls who are good at craftsmanship are taught sewing and tailoring knowledge.

The able-bodied girls were taught medical knowledge and were taught how to bandage wounds and how to quickly treat them.

The girls in the medical team practiced their skills on male immigrants who were injured while riding horses and shooting guns.

At first, everyone was not used to it, but as time went by, everyone let go.

The remaining girls were taught things like handling chores and writing official documents.

This knowledge is very new to them, and the teachers are relatively mixed, mostly foreigners from the port.

There will be an interpreter for every class, which is very tedious but very fulfilling.

In a short period of time, each of these immigrants has undergone a radical change.

Everyone's mentality and vision have become broader, and they are no longer the people at the bottom who focus all their thoughts on how to have enough to eat.

Now they have a clearer and deeper understanding of the world, and they have more self-esteem and self-love.

After talking about the quarantine area, only the factory area is left.

The factory area is far away from the town, about five or six miles, and it is also located downwind and at the sewer entrance of the port town.

These are all requested by Mr. Shi. He said that this can effectively avoid pollution.

The factory area is currently just an empty factory area, but Mr. Shi has planned a canning factory, an oil pressing factory, a garment factory and a glass factory.

It is said that Mr. Shi spent a lot of money to introduce machines and technicians. Many people arrive at Walvis Bay Port every day, and a large amount of goods are unloaded.

As more and more people arrived, Mr. Shi's brows became more and more frowned.

Ye Rong heard him say that new settlements must be opened as soon as possible.

He also said that the new settlement was specially used to isolate and train new immigrants. Ye Rong had seen foreigners at the port escorting groups of black slaves to build roads north along the desert.

It is said that there is a big river dozens of miles to the north, where a new settlement will be established.

The black slaves were very docile and rarely resisted, but the foreigners treated them like livestock.

Whenever she saw foreigners disciplining black slaves, Ye Rong couldn't bear it.

But I heard that those black slaves offended Mr. Shi's prospecting team and killed and injured many prospecting experts.

She also felt that those black slaves deserved what they deserved. Mr. Shi was such a good person, but they were so bold in attacking his men. They were really ignorant.

I heard that part of the men's daily training is to capture black slaves. In addition to building new settlements, these black slaves are also required to go mining farther away.

The excavated ore is said to be able to produce gold, and some people say that golden beans and gold sand can also be dug out of that gold mine.

Master Shi relied on these golden beans and gold sand to feed them. After hearing this, Ye Rong felt even more sorry for Master Shi.

People like them are not worth spending so much money, as long as they have enough to eat, anything more is a waste.

But she could only suppress her thoughts in her heart and dare not tell Master Shi. After all, Master Shi was so powerful, and he might have more and further plans.

If he said it, he would definitely look down on him.

So Ye Rong swore in her heart that when she gets older and knows more, she should be able to understand Master Shi's layout and be able to talk to him.

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