Chapter 303: The Land of Foundations (Part II)
The carriage walked for a while, and came to a row of low houses by the city gate, and the old man shouted inside: "Little leaf, take two roads and bring in new people!"
A small window opened on the low house, and a young man who looked no more than twenty years old poked his head out and smiled at him: "Grandpa Sun, you first ask them to register the household registration documents issued by the government for me!"
"Yes, yes, look at my memory!" Sun Laohan patted his head, and said to the two behind him with a smile: "Do you two bring the household registration documents issued by the government? Keelung City is also the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and if you want to settle here, you have to be the people of the Tang Dynasty!"
"Huh?" Li Lao Er was puzzled: "I don't know where that thing has been lost!"
"This ......" Sun Laohan was puzzled: "This is a little difficult to do!"
Li Lao Er privately thought that he would understand, and when he saw that Sun Laohan was familiar with the little official at the door, he took out a piece of silver ingots from his arms and stuffed it: "Boss, a little heart!
When Sun Laohan saw it, he immediately frowned and said: "Baby, this is the first time you come back, the old man doesn't blame you, don't do this in the future!"
"There are no officials in this Keelung City, if you want to say that there are, they are all your own dolls! It's nothing if you want to put these things in other places, but they won't work here! Not only will it not work, once you are caught by the people of the General's Mansion, not only will you lose your job, but you will not be able to raise your head in front of the neighbors!"
"This is too little, right?" said Li Lao Er.
Sun Laohan smiled and said: "If you want to say less, it's really little, just you are not enough for him to pay half a month's salary!"
"What?" Li Lao Er was shocked: "Boss, you can see clearly, I have five taels of silver, ten official ingots!"
"Hehe, it's not that the old man hasn't seen it, just me, I can still have such a piece every month!" Sun Laohan said with a blank look.
"This ...... What are you going to ......" Li Lao Er wanted to say, but Wang Shuwen hurriedly stopped him with his eyes.
Seeing his appearance, Sun Laohan said again: "The people in charge of our city are all people who are soldiers in the Wuwei Army, not only the monthly money is sufficient, but the workshops in the city, the shipyards, timber mills, and mines outside the city will also give priority to hiring the families of the soldiers, especially those who have little dolls at home, and they can also go to the school opened by the General's Mansion to read and write for free!"
"What a kindness that is! You say, will we people ruin our reputation for your little money?"
Wang Shuwen's eyes narrowed slightly, and Li Lao Er froze there for a while: "I ......"
"Okay, the first time they came, they were all about the same as you, put it away, just remember it later!"
"But we really don't have a household registration!"
"This ......"
Wang Shuwen thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Is it okay for the certificate issued by the army? Our household registration has long been lost, but we have just been discharged from the army, and the general has issued a certificate for us, can we use it?"
"Yes!" Sun Laohan said with a smile: "Why didn't you say this earlier! Hurry up, register and go to change the road!"
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The two changed a road guide, and followed Sun Laohan into the city, only to see that the spacious streets were already full of all kinds of shops, and the flow of people was like weaving, and the bustle was abnormal.
"Later, you will take the road to the general's mansion in the center of the city, and after changing the household registration documents, you will completely become a resident of Keelung City. With household registration documents, each person can demarcate three acres of land outside the city, and this is also the time when there are more people and the general's mansion has been reduced, like our first group of people, each of whom has a full 50 acres of land! Not only land, but even the houses in this city used to be given for free, but now you can either go and build it yourself on your own land, or you have to spend a lot of money to hire someone to build it. It's not that expensive, though!"
"This ...... We are all rough people, we can't farm land, old man, do you think you can find some work in this city?" asked Wang Shuwen.
"Well...... Sun Laohan thought for a while and said: "There is a lot of work in the city, you look at these shops, basically every shop is short of people!"
"Those of us who have children at home as soldiers, we don't have to worry about work, and the general's mansion will make arrangements for it! When I first came here, the old man was still working in his own 100 acres of land all day long! Later, when the harvest came, I found out that I was really stupid! Those guys who handed over the land to the general's mansion to find people to breed and then went to work in the factory worked easily, and in the end they made a lot more money than mine, and they didn't know how idle they were all year round!"
"Later, the old man also figured it out, so he gave all the land to the general's mansion and asked them to help find people to plant, the harvest in a year is a little less, but you can go out to work and earn more money!"
"That's a good feeling!" Li Lao Er smiled: "There is a lot of salary, and there is wine to eat!"
"I can't say that, we all work in the industry of the General's Mansion, the wages are high, and the work is easy!" Sun Laohan shook his head and said, "But the workshops and shops run by those later merchants are not so good!"
"Because of the high wages given by the general's industry, these merchants had to raise their wages in order to recruit people. But this is also a while ago, after the rebels on the land were gone, and the sea route between the north and the south was opened again, there were many black-hearted merchants who went to the Wa Kingdom, went to Goryeo, or went to the south to sell some slaves, although the general's palace did not allow slave trading, but these Fanbang people did not have the same high status in the city as the people of the Tang Dynasty! The merchants gave them a pitiful wage, and this was because of General Xu's bodhisattva's heart, otherwise these people would have to be tortured to death!"
"But even so, these people are so happy that they refuse to leave! Not only that, but they also let people bring back the message and pull relatives and friends together!"
"Look!"
Sun Laohan pointed ahead, a few short and half-shaved Japanese people were happily carrying goods, and in the shop on the other side, several Korean women in long skirts were warmly greeting customers, and many dark-skinned, thin Nanyang people were soliciting work on the road in half-baked Tang dialect.
"It's a good place! There is a bit of the atmosphere of Chang'an City where all the nations are coming to court!" Wang Shuwen praised.
Li Lao Er has long been accustomed to the occasional sour and rotten anger of his companions, and he has become more and more curious about his origins, but the other party is unwilling to say it, and he will not ask.
"Yes, of course it's a good place!" Sun Laohan smiled with satisfaction: "This place was made out little by little by our own family, and this will be a place where our ancestors will stay for generations in the future!"
"By the way, if you want to work, the old man can introduce you to a few good places! Although it is not as good as the industry of the General's Mansion, the owner is not bad, and the salary is relatively high!"
"Thank you, uncle, our brothers have no intention of working for people!" Wang Shuwen refused with a smile.
"That's fine, looking at the master who doesn't want to be short of money, it's okay to do some small business yourself!" Sun Laohan smiled and said: "If you really don't want to farm, then you can sell the blank land deed you received from the general's mansion to others, there are special businessmen collecting these days, and there are dozens of acres of land!"
"Uncle, can you accept it?" or let's sell you!" Li Lao Er asked with a smile.
Old man Sun laughed and replied, "No need! We have enough land!"
"Scared! There are still people who have too much land in their own homes these years?" Li Lao Er said dumbfounded.
"Haha!" Sun Laohan smiled proudly: "You don't understand this! In the eyes of us people, the earth is really nothing!"
As he spoke, the carriage gradually drove to a compound in the center of the city.
Sun Laohan stopped the car and said to the two: "The General's Mansion has arrived! Enter through the gate, someone will guide you!"
"Thank you Lao Han for sending him all the way!" Wang Shuwen hugged his fists and said, but he couldn't get the good salary anymore, because he could see that although Sun Laohan was dressed plainly, he really didn't care about his money in his eyes!
"Remember!" Sun Laohan, who was about to leave, turned around and admonished: "Don't make money!"
"Haha, okay, won't forget!"
The two entered the compound, and their own young men welcomed them to register their household registration.
At the same time, in the backyard of this compound, Xu Chen was discussing with Liu Jin and others.
"Big Boss, these days, many wealthy families on the mainland have asked me about buying land! There are families from the north and south, and even a few families from the northwest have also come. The price of the blank land deed outside has been speculated to 50 yuan per mu! It's just that the old man won't sell it, and the newcomers don't want to sell it, so these guys have begun to fight the idea of Wu Weijun's family!" Liu Jin said.
Xu Chen took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "These people are really crazy!"
"No way! The matter of the establishment of the Ryukyu Military Town in the imperial court must have come down, and with the holy decree, people from wealthy families will follow over almost at the same time!" Lin Jin on the side sighed: "The madness of these guys about the land has long penetrated into their bones!"
"Let them go!" Xu Chen said: "The rules have been set, the household registration is transferred, one person has three acres of land, and no more points will be given!"
"Of course, if they want to open up the wasteland to the south, they will also go with them, but it is still the upper limit of fifty acres per person, and we must follow our steps!"
"If you don't want to play, you're welcome, just let them go!
"Okay!" Lin Jin nodded lightly.
Xu Chen said that he is domineering, and he also has the qualifications to be domineering, and for Lin Jin, who has a deep understanding of most of the secrets, he can naturally understand where Xu Chen's confidence is.
After finishing speaking, Xu Chen smiled at Mu Chun again: "How is it?
This person turned out to be Mu Chun, who had followed Xu Chen as early as Yuzhang but disappeared recently, and it turned out that he was sent by Xu Chen to Luzon for investigation.
"Big! It's too big! It's bigger than Ryukyu Island!" Mu Chun said excitedly: "I really didn't expect that there would be such a big island in the sea in the south, not only is it big, but the land is really fertile to death!
"Hehe, this is nothing!" Xu Chen smiled: "There is a piece of land about the same size as the land of the Tang Dynasty in the south! Now that guy Zheng Tai is preparing like crazy, thinking that he will get up and go south after a while!"
"Then the owner, you must let me follow!" Mu Chun said earnestly.
"Okay, as long as you're not afraid of seasickness, you won't be missing!" Xu Chen replied.
Lu Hao, who was sitting next to him, frowned slightly and said, "Big brother, are we going to change places again?"
Xu Chen turned his head to look at him and said with a smile: "It's early! Take one step and look at three steps, what we are doing is too dangerous, and the back road must be thought out in advance!"
"Okay......"