Chapter 238 Pioneering Immigrants
In the early morning, young Belinda got up from the bed, tucked the two cubs sleeping in her arms back into the bed, and tucked them in, Only then began to prepare breakfast for the family.
Their family was one of the many pioneer immigrant families who followed Oliver to the North. There were four people in the family, including her, her husband and two children.
The children are still young, the older one is only nine years old, and the younger one is only five years old. Both are boys, at the age when they are full of energy and chase chickens and dogs.
Their family is all from Weiss. They came to Langton from the Principality of Weiss when their parents were young, so strictly speaking, someone like Belinda is not so much a Weiss person as she is a Langton. Dayton people.
Of course, it doesn't matter where you come from, and it's not easy to become a "real" Longtonian. Even though Belinda's family all lives in Longton, they are still considered to be Weiss people. .
In addition to the conspicuous red hair, this is also related to the fact that they do not have a decent job in Langton.
Belinda's family mainly lives in Langton in a slum near the outskirts of the city. Her husband makes some hard money by selling his labor as a porter at the dock, while Belinda mainly washes clothes for others to support the family.
The two little boys at home did not go to school. Poor people cannot afford this, even in public schools with very cheap fees.
So now, among the four people in the family, only the husband, who works as a porter at the dock, can write the family's name, which is the only cultural achievement of the family.
According to the plan discussed by Belinda and her husband, they originally planned to send their two children to the factory to be apprentices when they were at least twelve years old, so that they could learn a trade and have a job in the future. Not a bad job.
Although workers are not a particularly respectable profession in the empire, among the poor, being able to work in a factory is already an enviable thing.
After all, the workers needed in factories are usually skilled workers, that is, workers who can operate machines skillfully. As for newcomers? You don’t even know how to play with machines, and capitalists are not so kind as to spend money to train you.
Generally speaking, those who can be apprenticed in factories are either half-grown children, or they can find connections and have someone to speak for you.
Under normal circumstances, factory owners are more willing to spend more money to hire experienced workers instead of raw melons and eggs.
Therefore, without being able to send their children to school, Belinda and her husband could only make the best plans and plans for their children's future within their capabilities.
For this reason, they even saved a small amount of money from their mouths, so that when they send their children to be apprentices in the future, they can bribe the factory manager or something, so as not to embarrass the two children too much.
As for themselves, they only hope that their two children will have good and stable jobs in the future, and it will be enough to earn more money to live a better life.
However, fate seemed to have made a joke, and it seemed that the goddess of luck finally smiled at them once rarely. They met the northern border recruiting immigrants.
For Belinda and her husband, the temptation to go to the North is not as great as they imagined. After all, their life is quite stable now. It was enough to raise the two children before the husband could no longer do it.
It's just that compared to the couple, the Browns who live next door are much more enthusiastic about this matter.
The Browns had no children, the couple had only been married for a few years, and Mr. Brown worked in Oliver's alchemy workshop. Therefore, after Oliver obtained the title of Pioneer Knight and prepared to move the workshop to the north, Mr. Brown, as Oliver's employee, was naturally recruited by Oliver and the promise he made.
The North is an unexplored virgin land, everyone knows this.
Although Purficott has been the Earl of the North for more than half a year and has developed the North to a certain extent, the North is still a barren land in the hearts of the people of the empire.
In fact, it is quite different. Although it cannot be said that it is completely deserted and has no traces of civilization, it is difficult for the indigenous people who are still in primitive tribes to be called a civilization that can be recognized by the empire.
So, when the northern lords recruited pioneer immigrants to go to the north, and the empire also announced that it would carry out a series of northern development plans in the next two years, the Browns undoubtedly felt that they were living a good life in Langton City. No, most people who want to go to the north are also tempted.
And not only did they move their minds, they even persuaded Belinda and his wife to come along.
The most important thing they persuaded Belinda and his wife was that Oliver promised that they could work as workers in his alchemy workshop after arriving in the North, and their children could also be sent as apprentices.
Don’t underestimate this little promise. For ordinary people like the Browns and Belindas, it is a great temptation.
It is difficult for them to find such a good job in Langton, but this is not a problem in the North, and everything in the North is now blank, waiting for those who have the courage to open up and explore. Maybe someone will be lucky enough to make a fortune. Woolen cloth?
So in the end Belinda convinced her husband and followed the Browns on the cruise to the North.
They were anxious and hopeful along the way. A new life was beckoning to them, but whether this new life would become better or worse, none of them knew.
However, after arriving in the North, everyone's mentality became much calmer, because they saw the land in the North with their own eyes, got their own small piece of land, and were allowed to build houses. By that time, many of them had already believed that they would start a new life in the north and live a better life.
After all, in Langton, a family often squeezed into a small room of less than ten square meters, sharing a kitchen and toilet with at least dozens of other families. It was such a terrible and crowded life. Comparing the land in the northern sun with the permission to build your own home, the gap is stark.
Therefore, the first job of more than 500 pioneer immigrants after arriving in the north was to build themselves a house.
Mr. Brown and Belinda’s husbands both participate in labor, while Mrs. Brown and Belinda will also go to the construction site to do whatever they can.
This is the new home for all of them. In this matter, everyone is full of hope and puts all their strength into it, working hard to build their new home.
Even though they can only sleep in a warehouse at the port dock now, before the house is built, they are more like refugees huddled together.
But as long as there is hope, there is hope no matter how hard life is.
(End of this chapter)