On June 27, Pride sent a telegram:

"Our ship arrived in Macao smoothly, and business is going on normally."

However, no one is very sure whether this telegram can be received in time by the Red Mansion, and the effective communication range of the radio communication equipment on the Pride is theoretically 3,500 kilometers, and it is obvious that the radio signals can barely be received in Xin'ancheng, which is more than 3,600 kilometers away, after all, there is very little radio communication interference in this era, except for sunspot eruptions, giant ocean storms and violent and occasional geological disasters, under normal circumstances, if the weather conditions are good, Communication is still possible at this distance.

But it is indeed very unstable, so the communication between the Pride and the Red Mansion requires a radio relay, and usually it is the Nicole who is on the voyage to take on this task, especially when the Nicole is near the port of Holo, the communication between the two ships and three places has a more reliable guarantee.

Obviously, as far as Zhu Beiguo is concerned, the current communication situation cannot meet the needs, and since the first task at present is to establish our own immigration channels, timely and smooth radio communication is a must, and for this reason Zhu Beiguo is considering establishing a communication station.

This radio station is planned to be in Porto Holo or in Manado, and once completed, the radio communication from Macao to the Red House will be much smoother.

However, this plan is still only in the planning stage, and Zhu Beiguo currently has neither the personnel nor the budget to do this.

Three days later, the Pride left the port of Macau, the business side of things went smoothly, for the Portuguese businessmen and Chinese businessmen stationed in Macau, now the business with the Australians has been completely on the road, whether it is buying and selling basically there are pre-arrangements, the supply list provided by the Australians has been roughly finalized in the last trade, and the same is true of the purchase list, so when the Pride arrives at the dock in Macau, the buyer and seller only need to check and pay according to these documents step by step, The amount of tax payment is also calculated in accordance with the provisions in advance, and there is no need to negotiate with the terminal tax officials temporarily, so the transaction between the two parties can be said to be smooth without resistance and high work efficiency.

Of course, this is true for business, not necessarily for other things.

For example, the original plan to use the church to establish immigration channels in the interior seems to have become very unrealistic, and the Qing court has now begun to limit the number of churches, and Ingres told Zhu Beiguo Dai Xiaoshan that judging from the information from various places, the number of churches has been decreasing, mainly due to the obstruction of the local gentry and magistrates, so that the church is often in an unsustainable situation.

Although Tang Ruowang and others at this time were deeply respected by Shunzhi, it was nothing more than that, this Shunzhi Emperor was very clever - including his son Emperor Kangxi.

Neither of these emperors allowed these missionaries to come into contact with Han Chinese scholars, nor did they allow Han scholars to learn the Western calendar, but the emperors greatly encouraged Han Chinese scholars to devote themselves to the study of the Four Books and the Five Classics, and to control the missionaries around them for their own use.

In other words, the current practice of the Qing Dynasty is to allow Catholicism to enter the upper echelons, but not to allow Catholicism to enter the bottom, to allow the clergy to surround themselves, but not to allow the Han people to learn everything Western from the clergy.

This consideration is quite clever, after all, the remnants of the Ming Dynasty are now deeply connected with the church, and the Qing court is obviously unwilling to push this force to its own enemies, so the court needs to win over the church, especially in the south.

This strategy of the Qing court proved to be very successful, as evidenced by the letters of the Eastern Jesuit priests to the Holy See in this era, as evidenced by the wise and tolerant praise of Shunzhi and Kangxi, but at the local level, the traditional power of the gentry was used to vigorously crowd out the church.

Therefore, the gradual decline of the church's power in the interior is the general trend.

At present, the most uncertain future is the operation of Mama Angels's orphanage in the mainland.

During this period, every time the Pride arrived in Macao, the number of orphans in the orphanage who could get on the Pride became smaller and smaller, and it fluctuated greatly, for example, this time, the number of people was greatly reduced to the extent that there were only six children, and the four women and two men on the Pride were all about five years old, and they had just been sent from the mainland for just over a month.

This time, through hard persuasion, there were four adult women and two old couples who had been working in the orphanage for a long time, the age of the adult women was not too old, they were two orphans and widows, the mother was in her thirties, and the daughter was less than fifteen, and the so-called old couple, in fact, were only in their early fifties, and they were a couple who fled from the mainland to Macao in the early years to seek refuge with their children, but in this troubled world, the children were no longer in Macao, so the old couple was separated from their children. Later, when the two elderly people were living on the streets of Macau, they were taken into an orphanage by Ingres.

Before boarding the ship, these people were all doing odd jobs in the orphanage, and Dai Xiaoshan was more familiar with the old couple, having met when they were fighting the plague at the orphanage last year.

The reason why Dai Xiaoshan wants to let these people get on the boat is because he knows that there is a shortage of manpower in Zhuyuan and Sunflower Schools now, and now teachers are working in positions such as school workers, especially in Zhuyuan Public School, Han Yu is almost a bare principal, in addition to being a teacher in class, he also serves as a cook, doorman and bell ringer, of course, he is also the head teacher, so he has to go to the executive committee from time to time to pull people to help, Dai Xiaoshan was once pulled by Han Yu, saying that you have also been a cook on the ship, taking advantage of the days at home, You can help me cook for a few days......

Therefore, Dai Xiaoshan can also be regarded as empathetic, Han Yu is a character with a beard and eyebrows in Zhuyuan Public School, and he needs someone to help him do chores.

As for the situation of Sunflower Girls' School, the teachers are actually not very loose, and Xia Xiaoou, the principal, also wears many hats, but she has Tao Tao and Haidong to help full-time in the school, so that the principal Xia can still take a breath.

Obviously, the Red Mansion side is currently unable to send labor to school, and going to school to take care of children is not a job that anyone can do, so the only solution is to import it from the outside.

When Times Xiaoshan through Ingres, did some mobilization and persuasion work on the people working in the orphanage, hoping that some people would go to Nanyang on the Pride Number, after all, there are many lonely female adults in the orphanage doing school work, in Dai Xiaoshan's eyes, these people have experience in taking care of children, and they are all converted to Christ believers, Dai Xiaoshang has seen all kinds of people in the old world, he believes that this kind of believers have faith, have a relatively bottom line, and have a more reliable character.

Dai Xiaoshan explained in a telegram to the Red Mansion that for these people, the work is basically familiar, and they do not need to start training from scratch, and they know the roots, so if these people can be mobilized to work in Zhuyuan and Sunflower schools, it will definitely greatly ease the employment pressure of these two schools.

For Dai Xiaoshan's suggestion, the Red Mansion called back to express his very much agreement, saying that the demand for school workers here is indeed very large, how much to come, and not to be rigid about what age and gender, if you are willing to come, try to bring it, in short, the more the merrier, as for the treatment, rest assured, it must be much better than the treatment of the Macau orphanage.

Obviously, it is not easy to let these people go to a strange place, Mama Angel and the substitute doctor mobilized in the orphanage for two days, and only four of the more than 30 orphaned women and widows were willing to get on the boat, and it was because these people were too poor, after all, the wages promised by Australians were twice as high as in the orphanage in Macau, and it was obvious that if you work for Australians, you must be good in terms of food.

As for the old couple, it was completely because of Dai Xiaoshan's face that they agreed, the two of them didn't care about the salary and food, the old people's ideas were very real, and now there was no news of their children, and they couldn't count on it, so the two old people completely believed in the words of the dai divine doctor, and said that you will have no worries about food and clothing in your life, and you will not only be able to live for a long time over there, but you will retire at the age of sixty-five, and you will also have a pension, and you can also be reimbursed for medical expenses if you are sick.

Of course, these promises are true, and without consulting the Red Mansion in advance, Dai Xiaoshan did not dare to make such promises.