For Kansu II, the amount of wages is actually irrelevant. The key is to be able to provide three meals a day, which is very important.
Now there are a large number of refugees in Egypt who have lost their land. They have no jobs and no food, so that peasant uprisings have occurred one after another.
Now Tong Yuan only recruits 20,000 people in the first batch, and can solve the work of 20,000 people at once. Counting the families behind these 20,000 people, it is possible that hundreds of thousands or more than 200,000 people can be solved in this instant.
livelihood issues.
This is extremely important for stabilizing the situation in Egypt.
When the money from the Ming Dynasty arrives, more people can be recruited. If 100,000 or 200,000 people can be recruited, there will be no idle refugees in Egypt.
So he agreed readily, even though he knew that the wages were very low for people in the Ming Dynasty, but here in Egypt, the wages were still very considerable.
With three meals a day and twenty cents a day, you can get almost one tael of silver after working for two months. This is a very good wage.
"Dang~dang~"
"We're hiring~ We're hiring~"
"The Ming Dynasty and Egypt built canals and recruited people to dig the canals."
"Twenty Wen Da Ming coins a day is almost equivalent to getting one Da Ming silver dollar in two months. It includes three meals a day. It requires a strong body and the ability to endure hardships and stand hard work."
Soon, in the streets and alleys of Cairo, Egyptian officials accompanied Tong Yuan's officials, and they began to shout while beating gongs and drums.
The news spread quickly.
For 20 Ming coins a day, if you work for two months, you can get almost one Ming silver dollar. It will be given directly as silver, not as copper coins from the Ming Dynasty.
This good thing, including three meals a day for work, was like pie in the sky and exploded among the ordinary people in Egypt.
"Is it true?"
"These nobles and officials often deceive us. None of what they say is trustworthy."
The common people of Egypt were first to express doubts.
The Mamluk Kingdom of Egypt has ruled here for more than two hundred years. The rule is extremely decadent. The decadent nobles and lords are desperately squeezing the people at the bottom.
This makes the people at the bottom live a life of dire straits and at the same time lacks trust in them.
"This should be true. I've seen it all, and there are people from Ming Dynasty following it."
"I heard that we in Egypt and the Ming Dynasty jointly dug the canal. The Ming Dynasty people were responsible for the funds. They raised 20 million taels of silver to dig the canal."
"I heard that too."
"The people of Ming Dynasty are very rich. Twenty million taels of silver. This is such a huge number. They can easily take it out."
"If it's from the Ming Dynasty, I think it's credible. Why don't you give it a try?"
"We must give it a try. If we don't find a job again, our family will starve to death."
"Let's go, let's go try it together~"
They are actually the same as the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty. There is nothing special about the Egyptians.
Under such favorable recruitment conditions, thousands of people quickly gathered here at the recruitment office. They all urgently needed such a job to fill their stomachs and earn money to buy food and support for their families.
money required.
"Everyone, line up~"
“If you don’t line up, don’t let anyone go~”
"First come to me to register and get your identity card. From now on, whether you eat or receive wages, everything will be done according to your identity card."
In an empty flat land, Tong Yuan's officials looked at the scurrying Egyptians in front of them and couldn't help but give instructions to the Egyptian officials around them.
When the other party heard this, he quickly imitated the Ming Dynasty people and started roaring angrily with a tin trumpet.
"Listen up, everyone, queue up. Anyone who jumps in line will be executed!"
Compared to the people of the Ming Dynasty, these Egyptian officials were much more cruel to these ordinary people.
The common people in Egypt were also very afraid of these Egyptian officials, and they quickly formed a long queue, which was huge and stretched like a big snake.
Alia looked at the long queue in front of her and looked very anxious.
He needs such a job very much, because the family is almost running out of money. He is a porter at the dock. He works hard to move goods all day long, and the income he earns is not enough to even feed himself.
Now that he heard that the Ming Dynasty was recruiting people to dig canals on a large scale, he immediately came here in a hurry, hoping to get such a job.
He knew the people of Ming Dynasty and had seen many of them.
Every Ming Dynasty person is very rich, and is surrounded by many slaves and bodyguards. There are also trading houses run by Ming Dynasty people in Cairo. The goods sold in them are very expensive, and only the upper class nobles can receive them and the merchants can afford them.
He also carried goods for the people of Ming Dynasty. Ming Dynasty kept his word and acted with integrity.
So he believed in the promises made by the people of Ming Dynasty.
"Alia, do you think the Ming people keep their word?"
Beside Alya, Sreif looked at the long dragon in front of him and said.
"What the people of Ming Dynasty say is definitely more meaningful than what those nobles and lords say."
Aliya said with certainty, they were both at the lowest level, worked as porters together, and now they are applying for the job together.
"I think it's a bit suspense~"
"Maybe they are like those hateful nobles, who specialize in breaking bones and sucking out the marrow, and desperately squeezing us people."
Sreif said in a skeptical tone.
"Remember the last time we carried cargo to the slave ship of the Ming Dynasty?"
"Do you know what the Ming Dynasty gave those slaves to eat?"
"It's steamed buns, white steamed buns. Each bun is as big as a fist and fragrant. Such good food, they Ming people actually gave it to these slaves."
Aliya thought for a while but didn't know how to refute Sreev, and then he suddenly remembered the Ming Dynasty he met last time, so he said excitedly.
"Steamed bun?"
"Is that the kind of food that comes from the Ming Dynasty?"
When Sirif heard this, he was slightly shocked and said.
"Yes, that's the kind of food."
"All the slaves of the Ming Dynasty can eat good steamed buns, which are much better than what those slaves had in their hometown. Therefore, few slaves of the Ming Dynasty escape, and they are even unwilling to leave."
"Because the people of Ming Dynasty treat them quite well. When working for people of Ming Dynasty, the last thing you don't need to worry about is food."
Alia nodded solemnly, and at the same time licked her dry lips slightly and said, "I don't know if the people of Ming Dynasty will give us steamed buns. If we can eat steamed buns for three meals a day, I will be willing to do it no matter how tired I am."
“I wish I had steamed buns to eat~”
Sirif also touched his slightly rumbling stomach and said.
The long queue was moving forward slowly.
Recruitment is actually very simple. The main thing is to see whether you are tall or not, and there is a stone next to you. As long as you can lift the stone, you are qualified.
"This is your identity card. Take it, but don't lose it."
"In the future, when you go to the construction site to eat or receive wages, you will have to rely on this ID tag. Without an ID tag, you will not get food or wages."
Aliyah and Sirif passed the recruitment very smoothly, holding a small ID card in their hands with a series of numbers and some large characters that they could not understand.
"Everyone who has obtained the identity card, come and gather here. There are some things that I need to explain clearly to you. You can go home to explain things first today, and we will start working tomorrow."
"What you need to do is to obey the command, obey the management, and accept the arrangements. If you are unwilling, you can stand up now and leave immediately."
"..."
Recruitment is in full swing, and the first phase of the recruitment plan for 20,000 people was successfully completed in just one day.