Daming Military Empire

Chapter 626 Breaking into a New World

Zhang Yiwan is an ordinary citizen in the Nanyang Mansion of Henan Chengxuan Political Envoy. This name does not mean that his family is rich. On the contrary, his family is very poor. A younger brother and sister almost starved to death.

In the vigorous peasant uprising in the first year of Chongzheng, he had a chance to change his destiny. However, that was not a way to get rich, but a dead end. Whether it was the Chongzhen Dynasty or the Chongzheng Dynasty, their final outcome was the same, that is, being killed. Exterminate!

Many young men from the same village went to join the Peasant Uprising Army, and indeed made a small fortune at the beginning, but after the encirclement and suppression by the imperial army, few survived, and even those who survived were arrested and sent to labor. Been back for many years.

He is very glad that he did not join the Peasant Uprising Army. Although the family conditions have always been very difficult, he still brought up several younger brothers and sisters. In the past few years, the Ming Dynasty has been peaceful and the weather has been good. His family has lived a good life. The two younger sisters have found good families, and the second brother has also started a family. However, he and the third brother have been single all the time. It's not that they don't want to start a family, but mainly because they have no money.

These days, one cannot get married without owning a decent house, having a decent set of household items, throwing a banquet, and inviting relatives and friends from all over the world to have a meal.

The marriage of his second brother had exhausted the family's savings, and now the third brother has reached the age of marriage, but the family can't spend much money. A farmer like them who relies on the land for food can get rid of food, clothing and housing in a year. It would be nice if he could leave more than ten taels of silver. If his third brother wants to marry a good wife, he will have to wait at least ten years!

He can wait, but his third brother can't wait. Seeing his third brother look at his daughter-in-law with red eyes every day, and being aggrieved, he can't bear it anymore. When his parents passed away, he promised to be good. Yes, he must let his younger brothers and sisters live a good life. How can he feel at ease now that his third brother is out of his mind for a day.

Just when he was burning with anxiety, the scholars from the village came, and these scholars had nothing else to do, that is, when the court made important decisions, they would go to the four miles and eight villages to read them out to let everyone know, last time it seemed that the emperor wanted to The "Daming Chongzheng Law" has been implemented.

He respects the current emperor from the bottom of his heart, not to mention anything else, at least since the Chongzheng Dynasty, Nanyang Mansion has been suffering from drought for more than ten years, and the court has been sparing no effort to provide relief, basically there has been no starvation to death. It's not like the Tianqi Dynasty, there was only a few years of severe drought, and his parents starved to death in order to leave food for their children!
He really didn't understand the "Daming Chongzheng Law" read by a scholar last time. What the emperor has rights and responsibilities, all government affairs are handed over to the cabinet, and civilians also have rights and responsibilities. I know that the emperor is doing it for the good of the common people, and I don't know anything else.

However, this time he understood, because the meaning was simple for him, that is, Daming occupied a new territory, where money was everywhere, as long as he went to work, he could easily earn a tael of silver a day!

In addition, the Ministry of Household Affairs also issued the "New Kyushu Recruitment and Reclamation Regulations". As long as you are willing to go to farm, you can grow as much as you want, and the tax is still very low.

The whole family moved there to farm, it was really difficult to make a decision, but if he just went to work alone, there was no problem, anyway, he was a bachelor, one tael a day, and half a year could make the third brother marry a good wife, this kind of thing It was something he had never even dared to think about before.

He has never doubted the emperor's will and the court's decision-making, because for more than ten years, the court has provided disaster relief when it said relief, distributed food when it said it would give them food, and exempted it if it said tax exemption. It has never discounted, this time The imperial court said that there is money to be made in New Kyushu, so it is definitely money to be made, so he went to Lizheng to sign up without hesitation, and left everything in the family to the third brother, and he only brought a change of clothes .

How to get rich if you don't go out and make a fortune, he believes that this trip to New Kyushu will definitely earn back the money from his third brother's marriage.

From the assembly in the village to the assembly in the county and then to the assembly in the state capital, there are more and more people along the way, and the court has not treated them badly. The food is all enough, although it is simple food, for a person like him who has experienced a catastrophe and almost starved to death It's already a good deal.

There were more and more people traveling together, including those from Nanyang, Ruzhou, and Runing. Finally, they gathered in Kaifeng Prefecture and boarded the train bound for New Kyushu.

He has also heard of the train, because those scholars mentioned the train many times when they read in the village, saying that it is a means of transportation similar to a horse-drawn carriage.

This time he really saw the train and got on the train. My good guy, what kind of carriage is this? It’s just a steel monster, just like a giant centipede. It runs segment by segment, although it has no legs. Hurry up!
The train traveled all the way for more than ten days. During this journey, he saw the hugeness of the capital, the richness of Liaodong, the vastness of Nuergan, and the endlessness of New Kyushu. Finally, this afternoon, the train stopped and went with him. The officials told them, to the place.

This place belongs to New Yuzhou. Since the local officials have not yet arrived, it is temporarily under the control of the Ministry of War, and the station they arrived at is the railway station under the jurisdiction of the fifth capital of Xibo.

Zhang Yiwan was dumbfounded when he got off the train. There were people everywhere on the huge and narrow platform, and the tall pillars were covered with red paper, which was filled with large characters. The problem is that he can’t read. !
Fortunately, there are some fellow villagers who can read. Some people have gone up to ask what is written on those red papers. Those who can read read it there.

What: recruiting people, definitely one tael of silver a day;
What: one tael of silver a day, favorable treatment;

What: As long as you are willing to work, one tael a day is absolutely fine;

They have heard about this before they came. One tael a day is indeed a great temptation to them, because they basically earn one tael a day for ten days. The problem is that one tael a day is everywhere. How do people choose? Woolen cloth?
Finally, a literate villager uttered a sentence: as long as the white flour buns are enough, you can eat meat every meal!
Now the fellow villagers who were traveling with me were blown away. Naturally, they knew what white flour buns were. It was a good thing that could only be eaten during the Chinese New Year. They actually cared enough and ate meat all the time. Is there such a good thing?

Just ask and you will know, so a large group of people squeezed under the red paper pointed by the literate fellow.

At this time, the recruiting area of ​​the No. [-] Guard Center was already full of people, asking questions and everything.

"Do you really care about white flour buns?"

"Do you really eat meat every meal?"

"How much wages can you give this day?"

"What are you recruiting for?"

Luo Zongshan is so dizzy, he would have written all the wages and so on if he knew it earlier, it was too late now, he could only shout over and over again: "Our coal diggers cost a thousand and a half catties For two silver, it’s easy to dig two or three thousand catties a day, and you can eat as much white flour buns as you want, and pork is always available.”

(End of this chapter)