Regarding the Qiao family's recruitment of the two people to reclaim the wasteland, the Red Mansion, the Nicole, the Pride and Xin'an City soon learned about it through a telegram from Macau, which immediately sparked several discussions.

The reason is that the three of them also asked for instructions in the telegram that the cost of recruiting the displaced people to open up the wasteland should be paid to the recruiter according to the budget determined by Sister Xia earlier and according to the standard of two taels and five dollars of silver per person on average, including one or two silver paid to the displaced people themselves, these are all decided things, and there is nothing to ask for.

However, there is no clear way to deal with the issue of ownership of the land that has been reclaimed subsequently, and there is a lot of discussion about it.

The key is that the Qiao family did not mention these things at all, and the brothers thought that we didn't need to listen to the Qiao family's opinions on this matter, after all, we are the one who gives the money, and as long as the other party gives it to someone, it will be considered a transaction after it is completed.

But then again, the brothers were really confused about these things, and they didn't know exactly how to talk about land ownership to the homeless.

Therefore, the brother said in the telegram, please come up with a clear opinion as soon as possible, especially on the land policy, and the question of the conditions under which these displaced people should be granted the status of free people.

For this kind of thing, everyone thinks that the most vocal should be Li Junming, Barrister Li, or Zhu Beiguo, a doctor of history.

So a telegram from the Red Chamber was sent to Pride, asking Dr. Zhu, a lawyer to come up with an opinion for the plenary meeting.

And Zhu Beiguo immediately called back on the Pride and said that it was obvious that Wanshan Island was not Mornington Island, and he felt that if he followed the family's method, he treated these displaced people as "trade laborers" and promised to give land after seven or eight years, I am afraid it would be inappropriate.

First of all, because these displaced people were recruited by the Qiao family, not by the government, the recruiters are different, and the treatment of the pioneers is very different.

Zhu Beiguo further elaborated in the telegram that in history, the imperial court usually recruited displaced people to open up the wasteland, and there were usually two sets of methods: one was that the government came forward to lead the displaced people to reclaim the wasteland, in this case, the government would provide the displaced people with basic production materials such as seeds, cattle and farm tools, and at the same time, it would also promise the displaced people that the land would be owned by the landsettlers after a few years of cultivation, and in the early stage of reclamation, it was usually accompanied by preferential treatment such as exemption from labor and taxes, so that the landsettlers would eventually obtain the status of self-cultivated farmers, that is, the status of free people.

Another set of practices is to encourage large wealthy families to come forward to recruit displaced people to stabilize the place, reducing the possibility of displaced people evolving into bandits, of course, the wealthy families will collect these displaced people as their own tenants or tenant slaves, although this allows the imperial court to reduce the number of people who are organized into households, but in this way the imperial court saves money and trouble, because all the expenses are borne by the large wealthy families.

Normally, in places where the government is unable to take care of it, or in times of turmoil, the imperial court usually adopts the second model.

Obviously, the approach adopted by the Qiao family is the second model, now it is the troubled era of communication between the Ming and Qing dynasties, in the southern area of Yunnan, Guizhou and Lingnan in Sanfu, Fujian, Guizhou, and Lingnan, the government's jurisdiction over the local area and financial resources are insufficient, so the imperial court usually encourages the big wealthy to do things to collect the displaced people to stabilize the place, obviously most of these displaced people will become tenants or even slaves of the wealthy in the future, but this is also a helpless thing.

Dr. Zhu said in the telegram that it seems that the Qiao family must have been approved and even encouraged by the local government to do this, otherwise you would not have waited for these displaced people in Macau.

So Zhu Beiguo finally concluded: The reason why the Qiao family did not clearly tell you these specific circumstances is actually because they think you understand this, because in the eyes of the Qiao family, these homeless people have been handed over to you, and they are naturally tenants or tenant slaves of your brothers.

The two of you are the fast sons-in-law of the Qiao family, and you have important trade interests with us, so you will naturally take the initiative to help you.

Therefore, I suggest that it is better to maintain the status quo at present, of course, you two brothers should also know that these lands belong to everyone, because the silver belongs to everyone, and you are only two of the ninety-three shareholders, in short, it is not the exclusive property of your brothers.

As for whether to clearly inform those future displaced people, my suggestion is unnecessary, and you don't have to worry that those tenants and tenant slaves will demand that these lands belong to them, these people will not, since they have accepted the recruitment of the Qiao family, they are a group of people who are willing to be tenants for the landlord.

Because, in such troubled times, the identity of tenants and tenants is actually more secure than that of yeoman farmers, after all, there are nobles on it, not only when the bandits covet them, they have to weigh the forces behind them, even the government is sometimes beyond the reach of the whip, and may also be exempted from all kinds of taxes and labor assignments of the government, in today's troubled times, the peasants are not as willing to obtain the status of free people as you think.

Brother Zhu's analysis made everyone suddenly open, especially the brothers in Macau, who were even more reassured.

However, at present, except for the good news that the Qiao family has arranged hundreds of laborers for the brothers in advance, the brothers are facing some anxious things these days.

In this hot place of summer vacation in Lingnan, the alternating months of autumn and summer are originally the season when pests and bacteria are rampant, so with the arrival of summer and autumn, more and more people from all parties come to seek medicine, resulting in the original production scale can not meet the needs of all parties, and the supply of penicillin is often out of stock.

The biggest consumer of penicillin is the church, first Ingres asked someone to bring back the news that there is a plague in northern Guangdong, because there are relatively more churches there, and the church is not so excluded in the local area, so the Jesuit bishop of Macau believes that the church's rescue operation there should be able to achieve a better impact, so this time Ingres personally took a few grandmothers and a few cans of penicillin to go there.

However, according to the information brought back by the grandmother, because of the lack of medicine, the nuns and priests can only visit from house to house, and only after confirming that the patient is an orphan or widow or something like that, they will treat it, and the others can only be cruel for the time being.

The reason is very simple, Dai Xiaoshan clearly explained that anyone who is treated with our medicine should be brought out to us as much as possible, obviously, the people who are easy to bring out are only orphans or orphans and widows, and other patients with relatives, even if they are cured, people will not let you take people away.

But even if it is selectively treated, in the face of a huge number of patients, the medicine brought by Ingres is still a drop in the bucket.

Ingres wrote to tell Dai Xiaoshan that this kind of selective rescue was too cruel, and it was the most painful life experience she had ever experienced in her life.

Of course, Dai Xiaoshan can empathize with this, but as a doctor, he has long been accustomed to seeing birth, aging, sickness and death in the world, and in the face of this situation, he knows that that choice will cause great pain to his soul, but he is unwilling to think about it.

Selling medicine ---- still a business in the final analysis, not charity.

Our investment must be rewarded, these drugs are either exchanged for gold and silver materials, or for the population, in short, under the existing conditions, this is the principle we must follow, the key is that these opinions are also the content that the Red House telegram has been emphasizing recently, in a word, the Australian miracle medicine is not available to anyone, let alone easily obtained.

Is it cruel?

It's really cruel, because this world is also so cruel, there is a saying that there is no way to do it......