Section 505 Taipei (4)
Young Master Huang Yusheng is a native of Sanming, Fujian.
Sanming is a mountainous area, so the Huang family is a small clan from the ravine.
Previously, with years of natural disasters, droughts, and the increasingly strict exploitation of the government, the Huang people, who felt that they couldn't live a life, started the idea of escaping the famine collectively.
This kind of collective escape was very common in ancient times. Especially in the northern region, every time there is a great disaster and military turmoil, there will be a large number of Han people collectively moving south - the Western Jin Dynasty, the end of the Tang Dynasty, the end of the Song Dynasty, the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, these five Han people migrated south, creating Hakka groups in various parts of the south in later generations.
What is different from the past is that this time the Huang family has a new choice: Tainan.
Fujian and Tainan are separated by a sea, coupled with Xiong Wencan's "reform" attitude, so Fujian is the most seriously infiltrated Ming province by the crossers.
The process of the Huang family's migration this time was very simple: they only needed to go to any coastal city, find the "labor recruitment points" opened by Cao Dashuai in various downtown areas, consult with the clerks about the conditions, and then set off with the clan.
After the refugees set off, as long as they take the voucher issued here, they can find a special reception point in any county along the way, and all food, drink and accommodation will be reimbursed.
So the Huang family came to Tainan like this, so easy that it didn't look like an escape at all, and the time was at the beginning of last year.
After that, the treatment received by everyone was also quite satisfactory. Not only did they live in beautiful wooden apartments, but they also had a canteen where they could eat a lot of food.
Of course, the premise of all this is to pay off the debts for Cao Dashuai.
However, Huang Yusheng's family was treated differently. In the early morning half a month after arriving in Tainan, the family of four was selected separately and ordered to pack softly, and without saying a word, they were sent to the ship to Taipei, and they were not even given a chance to say goodbye to their clansmen.
When the family arrived in Taipei in fear, they were initially terrified. Especially Father Huang, he judged very firmly: his family is going to be eaten and wiped clean by the surname Cao...... After all, there are also rich abbots in the poor temple, and the Huang family, as the patriarch, still brought a lot of silver in the soft at the beginning.
Although these silver were forcibly exchanged for banknotes before, the banknotes are now deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and everyone knows that this thing is equivalent to silver in Tainan.
It turned out that Huang's father thought too much. Although the environment in Taipei is a little harsh, its social outlook is no different from that of Tainan, it is still in a period of rapid development, and there is no government to extort his family's money.
The real reason, Father Huang soon knew: it turned out that this was the exile place of the clan's dignitaries!
After learning that the neighbors living in the simple house were all suffering the same thing, Huang's father finally found the real reason. However, at this time, it was too late to say anything, and the information in Taipei was a one-sided inflow, and outsiders did not know the slightest bit about the situation here.
In this way, after being beaten back to his original form and losing the clansmen he could rely on in the past, Huang's father, who was accustomed to power, couldn't bear the psychological gap and soon fell ill and died.
But as the saying goes: one dragon gives birth to nine sons.
Huang Yusheng, the theoretical young patriarch, is naturally optimistic, which is different from his father, who values authority very much.
In Yusheng's opinion, since everyone has already wiped their faces and defected to Cao Dashuai, then life and death are naturally handled by people, not to mention being dispersed?
Besides, as far as the situation they saw in Tainan, their own clansmen must be living well now, so don't worry about that heart, let's take care of each family.
So, after the patriarch's father died, the official head of the family, Young Master Yusheng, took out his savings in time and bought a newly built two-story building facing the street in Sulphur Harbor Town.
At this time, due to the new development and poor environment in Sulfur Harbor Town, there are many people who wait and see, and there are not many people who are willing to spend their old money to set up an industry.
So Huang Yusheng picked up a bargain: a new brick and concrete building cost only half of his family's savings.
After having an estate, the family lived on the second floor, rented out two rooms by the way, and opened a grocery store on the first floor, so Huang Yusheng settled his mother and little sister.
And he himself signed up to work as a financial supervisor/supervisor in the second construction company in the middle of the day in Sulphur Town.
Huang Yusheng's two choices are virtually in line with the "trend" of current development.
First of all, with the arrival of a large number of resources and slaves, the town of Sulphur Harbor has become more and more prosperous, and after just one year, it is impossible to spend that little money to buy a small building.
Secondly, after working in the second construction company, which is equivalent to a state-owned enterprise, Huang Yusheng obtained far more information than ordinary people, so he gradually recognized the hidden power of the Dashuai Mansion, and gradually integrated into the new system through daily work. Coupled with the speed at which young people accept new ideas, today's Young Master Yusheng has become a qualified middle and lower-level manager needed by an emerging regime.
In this process, Yusheng also got to know a lot of characters, among which the one who had the most appetite for the young master was the reckless Wu Sanye.
Wu Sanye is undoubtedly a person with a story. In addition, on the construction site full of dangers, Wu Sanye saved the life of Young Master Yusheng twice, which cannot be ignored.
So two people with completely different backgrounds and identities formed a year-old friendship and struggled together in this land where vitality and crisis coexisted.
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After the lunch break that day, Wu Sanye and the others sent away the boat transporting the corpses, and then took turns to wash their hands and eat, and then stayed on the construction site until the evening before organizing the team to get off work.
After a few years of exploration, the Travelers are now quite experienced in how to manage a slave camp.
On this isolated desert island, Wu Sanye and his overseers are relatively loose in their care of slaves - if they want to run away, they can go as long as they can, and the fugitive slaves can survive for three days in the primeval forest of Taipei in the 17th century.
Therefore, after the slaves got off work, they all consciously lined up and returned to the slave camp under the escort of guards with guns.
Due to the constant relocation of the construction section, the so-called slave camp was actually a camp made of tents and makeshift straw huts.
At this point, the slaves' day's work was finished. The big steaming iron pot had enough calories ready to feed them.
The main food was brown rice and trash fish, and in the later stage, it was replaced by potatoes and fish. As for vegetables, it is not a problem at all in Taipei, where the climate is mild, and a few vegetable gardens can be opened to ensure the food needs of the section.
After eating, the slaves were given time to relax completely. Of course, there is still one more ghost gate to pass before this: temperature checks.
Malaria is not the only disease that can cause mass attrition. In this era of East and West, there are at least dozens of infectious diseases that threaten social humans at all times.
Therefore, temperature detection has become the single most effective means of detection: any slave who shows signs of elevated body temperature will be isolated and observed. Once this person continues to have a fever in the next few days, then I'm sorry, Wu Sanye's youth hammer will be knocked down...... This was true even for a simple cold, as there was no medicine to treat a cold in the slave camps, and it was impossible to tell if it was a cold.
After such a hard day, that night, a company clerk who came to the slave camp out of breath brought Wu Sanye and Yusheng a shocking document: a new department, the "Pioneer Army", was now being transferred from all over the place, and the Second Construction Company had also received an official letter.