Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 612 Illegal Immigrants
As the emperor of the empire, when Bai Mingxiu came to Jun'an, he was very quiet. He didn't ask the local government office and residents to organize any welcome ceremony, and he didn't disclose the itinerary in advance, and he didn't even ask the governor Bu'an to pick him up.It was already late at night when the train arrived at the Jun'an Mansion Railway Station, and Bai Mingxiu directly took the special car prepared by his superior supervisor and headed for the "Xinggong".

Although it is said to be a palace, it is actually a villa that is not an exaggeration.The area is only about [-] square meters, and the front and rear gardens add up to more than one mu of land, which is not even considered fortified. The houses do not have high courtyard walls, and they are all very sentimental small fences.

Such ceremonial supervisors have been set up in many places in Daming, and they are actually residential houses at all.In fact, it is impossible for Bai Mingxiu to live in each of the palaces. Sometimes the senior staff of the Supervisor of Rituals may borrow to live in the palaces when they go on business trips to these places, but they will not live in the master bedroom used by the emperor himself.

This is the first time for Bai Mingxiu to live in this palace. There is no special name here, and the only identification symbol is the house number No. 151, Guangming Road.

Bai Mingxiu traveled alone, and he didn't pay too much attention. When he arrived at the palace, he just washed up. After finishing his work, he felt a little hungry, and he didn't ask the service staff to make him a supper. Instead, he went to the refrigerator to find something to eat.

He occasionally enjoys this very ordinary, unfettered feeling of life.Bai Mingxiu felt that one of the best decisions he had made in his life was not to be a power grabbing emperor, but to choose to have his own life.He is not the kind of shopkeeper who throws his hands away, but relies more on a system. He just does what he should do. Other than that, he doesn't need to call to the level of the company commander.

The next day, Bai Mingxiu got up and was going to go for a walk in the street.

Jun'an is a very young city. Different from many local cities of Ming Dynasty with a strong historical color, all the buildings here are brand new. Many high-rise buildings have been built on Jun'an Island. own business.There are many pedestrians on the street, and it feels that there are some differences with the local area.

What interested Bai Mingxiu was that many jobs in Jun'an Mansion were actually done by European immigrants, such as street sanitation workers, postmen, restaurant dishwashers, and some European immigrants opened their own small shops.Bai Mingxiu bought some fresh bouquets from a small flower shop on a street not far from the palace, and the owner was an Italian.

The Chinese of many European immigrants is not good, so they often speak with gestures.There are several large recruitment walls at the intersection, and a group of European immigrants who look poor in clothes but are still somewhat clean are struggling to read the advertisements.Several Chinese stood there speaking various European languages, as if explaining to them.

Bai Mingxiu asked Deng Shan, a member of the Rites Supervisor stationed in Jun'an Mansion who accompanied him, "Are these people from the Municipal Office?"

Deng Shan smiled and said, "How could it be? They are from employment agencies. There have been a lot of them in the past few years. At the beginning, a group of Cantonese were doing it. Later, some Fujianese and Henan people were also doing it. There are all kinds of them. They came here Introduce job opportunities to European immigrants. These European immigrants often do not even know the language of their own country. If the employment agency understands foreign languages, they will translate for them. They introduce these European immigrants to work in different places, and they can get employment bosses European immigrants will also pay them a little money. But sometimes they are also very black, and they have done a lot of tricks and abductions. Later, the governor personally took the lead in managing some of them and caught many criminals. Job agency, it’s a bit more peaceful now.”

Bai Mingxiu asked again: "Do they have legal status?"

Deng Shandao: "It's hard to say, maybe more than half of them don't have the legal right of residence. They stay here because even if they do the most humble jobs in Jun'an or other cities in the North American overseas territory of Ming Dynasty, they can support them far beyond Living better in Europe or other colonies, we are a civilized society after all, with abundant commodities, a safe environment, and advanced medical care.”

Bai Mingxiu pondered for a moment, then sighed: "This is still a troublesome matter for the overseas territories of North America. For the small bosses of Chinese immigrants, they hired labor cheaply, but these illegal European immigrants will also All kinds of problems arise, which affect social security, breed crime, and their children's schooling is also a problem, which is not good overall."

Deng Shan smiled and said, "Your majesty, you are a benevolent king. How can ordinary people think about these things. After all, they are barbarians, so it is impossible to treat them the same way we treat our Ming citizens."

Bai Mingxiu is not the Holy Mother, but an ordinary person, with a little compassion at most.The situation in front of him happened to be the opposite of the world before he traveled. Many third world countries and even Chinese people went to the United States, doing low-income jobs with low income, and living in the United States as black households.Now the black Europeans are living overseas in Daming North America in order to get a better life.

Starting from his established logic, he does not want a large number of European immigrants to enter North America and occupy the living space of the Chinese, although from this point of time there is no phenomenon of crowding out.

Society is not really a black and white place. These illegal immigrants on the street usually live in Junan like ordinary people. They will only run away when the police with batons appear.Ordinary people are also used to dealing with these illegal immigrants, as if it is a part of their lives.

"Has this group of illegal immigrants increased recently?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. Isn't there a war in Europe, so it seems that more black households have appeared recently. I heard that some European smugglers are doing these things, collecting money from these black households, and then smuggling them to Come to our side. In the past, most of the European immigrants on our side were immigrants who signed a labor agreement with our company, and there were also allowed Confederate nationals such as Italians and Basques. A very small number of Europeans can also It is illegal to obtain identity through application. A few years ago, these immigrants from England and Scotland crossed the border from their colonies to our side to seek a living. Later, there were more from other countries. Now Jun'an Mansion In addition to the population of 80, there must be 5 to [-] illegal immigrants. The governor seems to be trying to figure out a way to deal with this matter, and the final regulations have not yet been determined.”

(End of this chapter)