Chapter 155 Special Treatment for Immigrants from Tsarist Russia
“Okay, even with your generous teachings, I won’t treat you badly, brother. I happen to know a St. Petersburg restaurant with good food. Let’s go today. "As for the two remaining meals, we will meet again next time we come to St. Petersburg." Maxim readily agreed to the agreement.
After the two people finished their work, they left the dock to eat, while the Tsarist Russian immigrants on the boat were waiting for their unknown fate in panic.
As the black smoke from the steam chimney billowed out, the ship left the dock in St. Petersburg, and the immigration instructors had already entered the ship in advance. It can be said that this is a special treatment for immigrants from Tsarist Russia.
“From today on, you will never be Slavs, forgetting your own religion and nation. I think you also know that you were sold as goods by your own lords.
So from today on, you must forget everything about Russia, otherwise you will not have a good life in the colonies. Only by becoming one of our own can we get justice. "Akhtman lectured loudly.
Akhtman is actually also a Tsarist Russian, but he is a so-called "Volga German", that is, the Germans whose ancestors moved to Tsarist Russia during the Ekaterina era. People.
By hiring these Germans living in Tsarist Russia, the Hechingen Consortium can save the effort of finding translators.
These Germans living in Tsarist Russia are attracted by Russian policies. Those who came here retained their own beliefs and culture, so many people were able to communicate bilingually in Tsarist Russia.
They were all favored by Catherine the Great. In Catherine's view, Germany. Farmers are more hard-working and more organized than Russians. Therefore, Catherine called on Germans to immigrate their families to Tsarist Russia to engage in agricultural development by providing favorable conditions.
Coincidentally, Ernst thought so too, so this was the same trick he played in East Africa. The difference was that Catherine only introduced German immigrants to Tsarist Russia.
While Ernst introduced German immigrants and other immigrants, he also had to clear out the local indigenous people.
After all, the serfs of Tsarist Russia were called gray animals, which was more than one level better than the natives of East Africa. To the serfs, gray animals were an insulting word, but to the rulers, gray animals were a wonderful word. Represents a large number of cheap and high-quality labor.
Originally, Alexander II wanted to change the status quo of Tsarist Russian society when he liberated the serfs, but he might not have thought that a fool like Ernst would set his sights on the labor force he had liberated.
It stands to reason that Ernst should give priority to the Volga Germans in Russia. After all, there are hundreds of thousands of pure Germans.
However, East Africa is not attractive to these Germans in Tsarist Russia. Affected by Ekaterina's policies, these Germans have a pretty good life in Tsarist Russia, especially since they had many privileges before, which were slowly deprived of them over the years.
It’s funny to say that Germans value principles and refuse bribes. Therefore, many high-level positions in the judicial field in Russia at that time were held by Germans.
“Don’t be unconvinced! You are just the private property of the lord. Without Emperor Alexander II, you are still serfs. There is no place for you in Russian society. You are just a talking tool. "Achtman continued to indoctrinate these serfs.
First of all, I praised Alexander II, what a monarch! Of course, it is impossible to make mistakes and is always kind, loving and sacred. After all, it is impossible for a person like Ernst to undermine himself.
The following is a reason for these Tsarist Russian serfs not to regard themselves as human beings. Do you think you are Russian? No, you are not even a human being, so don’t think about the Russian thing. Subtly distinguish your identity from Russia.
After all, Russian culture is quite good, especially in the fields of religion and customs, which retain significant characteristics and are completely different from Europe. Of course, the East African colonies of this kind of immigrants who brought their own culture had to completely erase their national characteristics, otherwise there would be disasters, especially since Tsarist Russia currently has a pretty good status in the world, just like the poor people in the slums of the British Empire. Although I am poor , but I have a strong motherland.
In this way, East Africa is also grateful to the Qing government. Those Chinese immigrants retained very few characteristics of their own nation. Of course, various superstitions are not counted. In addition, the Chinese The only knowledge that farmers have mastered is that the people should not fight with the officials and shoot the first bird with a gun. This kind of philosophy of life.
This thing cannot compete with European religion and culture at all. Wisdom in life is not culture at all. This thing is available all over the world, even in some intelligent animals.
And the poor in this era have never been the disseminators of culture. Only the nobles and rich people pay more attention to this aspect.
Compared with the Chinese, the uniqueness of Tsarist Russian immigrants was that all aspects of their lives were influenced by the Orthodox Church, so Ernst treated Tsarist Russian immigrants differently.
Akhtman stepped forward with a pointer, pointed at the smaller St. Petersburg and said to these immigrants: "See there! That is Russia, but from today on, I will be with you. It doesn't matter anymore, you will never come back in your life.
So put away your fantasy, you guarantee it. Including your descendants, they will never have anything to do with Russia. Give up everything about Russia, language, clothing and even the Orthodox Church.”
Akhtman still hopes that someone will stand up and resist. It's my own, so I can set an example, but obviously, no one dares to come out and refute myself.
Maybe Akhtman did have some truth in what he said. He was reduced to the point of being sold by the lord, and he must not have done well in Tsarist Russia.
Immigrants in this era, except for those free people who took the initiative to go to the United States to escape religion and religion, others do not have so much power to think wildly.
When they boarded the carriage of Giovanni and others, these immigrants had some guesses about their experiences.
Now Akhtman’s education is completely worthless to these Tsarist Russian immigrants. Some of them are ready to continue the life of serfs who have to be beaten or scolded. In the end, they have learned a lot of truth for the Tsarist Russian immigrants themselves. It won't work anymore.
However, the immigrants from Tsarist Russia roughly understood what Akhtman meant. Isn’t it just to separate from Russia? One word is settled, and what you ask for cannot be obtained.
Of course, regarding religion, some immigrants do have objections in their hearts, but the situation is stronger than the people, so just change it, and God will forgive you.
Anyway, after leaving the church, the right to interpret religion has returned to one's own hands. At this time, there are no priests or pastors to restrain themselves with precepts.
In fact, most people have their own understanding of religion, especially this group of serfs who have not received education and have not been exposed to books.
Once they leave the church, their understanding of religious knowledge, that is, they know that God exists, there are a few named gods, and others are basically zero.
(End of this chapter)