Capítulo 304: Chapter 53: Strategic Immigration

In the midst of the economic crisis, probably the busiest had to be the Immigration Bureau under the Colonial Department. From the end of 1857 to the beginning of 1859, in just over a year, the achievements of the Immigration Bureau surpassed the total of the past few years.

Faced with survival, many people had no choice but to abandon their hometowns. The majority of immigrants went to the Balkan Peninsula, accounting for forty percent of the total number of immigrants.

This was still a result of deliberate government control; otherwise, more than eighty percent of the immigrants would have chosen to go to the Balkan Peninsula.

There were only two kinds of people who volunteered to go to the African Colonies: those ambitious to make a fortune and those poor as church mice, struggling to survive, who had to go out of necessity.