According to the cooperation agreement between the Australians and the orphanage, children over the age of five will be given to the Australian side for support, and the rest will be raised in the orphanage until the age of five.

Nowadays, the number of infants and toddlers in the orphanage is also changing at any time, this time, like last time, Dai Xiaoshan paid child support to the orphanage according to the standard of three taels of silver per person per month after counting the number of people.

In this era, the standard of payment by the Australian side is very high, because a well-off family of three to four people, a month's living expenses are about three to four taels of silver, of course, although the standard paid by Australians is relatively high, but this also includes the management fees paid to the orphanage, labor and other expenses to maintain daily operations.

Dai Xiaoshan knew that Mama Angel did use most of the silver on the children, and it can be seen from the children's faces and liveliness that the nutrition level of the children in the orphanage is much higher than in the past, and the hygiene of clothes and dormitories has also been greatly improved.

Dai Xiaoshan also carefully checked the daily work of the school staff, and found that the children's teaching materials he gave to Ingres earlier had also been used, especially some children's rhymes The teaching results were very good, probably because the children's songs paid more attention to the beginning of human nature, so there was little cultural barrier, and even the Portuguese priests who participated in the teaching also liked the songs inside.

In addition, Dai Xiaoshan agrees with Ingres's insistence on Chinese-Portuguese bilingual teaching, and the sooner the child's language ability is developed, the better, as a doctor, he has received some early childhood physiological education, and knows that every time a child masters one more language, then the child's IQ level will be a level higher.

For the people of the Red Mansion, thousands of miles away in Macau, in this kindergarten-like orphanage, the priests began to train talents for the travelers at an early age in their infancy.

Regarding the question of how many children will board the Pride every time it comes to Macao in the future, Ingres told Dai Xiaoshan very firmly that if there is no major turmoil in the mainland, there will probably not be more than 10 children per month in the future, and according to the frequency of the Pride coming almost once a month and a half, that is to say, the average number of people a year is less than 100.

Obviously, this point is obviously not enough, but under the existing conditions, it is very difficult to expand the number of adoptions, the main reason is that the development of the church in the interior is extremely limited, and no one can understand this point, after all, Catholicism is an outlier and heretical in the interior with the Confucian tradition as the mainstream social consciousness, especially very unpopular with the gentry and the government, and although the people at the bottom are not as resistant to Catholicism as the scholars and gentry elites, they are in a society under the control of family patriarchy. Most of the people at the bottom will still blindly follow the gentry, scholars and elites ideologically.

Dai Xiaoshan has studied this issue, and as a traveler from the old world, he knows this history, and he also knows very well that it is actually difficult for Catholicism to have large-scale development opportunities in the mainland, even if these churches only do some charitable work, including doing some things such as healing, giving alms, and adopting orphans, it is also very difficult.

Indeed, it is precisely these philanthropic undertakings that really touch the sensitive nerves of the imperial court.

At the end of the day, this underlying reason is simple, realistic, and brutal:

Because the backlash of the people's hearts is related to whether the ruling foundation of the court is stable or not.

Especially in the current historical period, at the beginning of today's Daqing Dynasty, the law is strict, and the imperial court's control over the local area is much more refined and strict than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, you will really be suspected of being a melon field and plum, and it is very likely that the emperor and the government will suspect your motive for doing charity.

There is no doubt that from the standpoint of the emperor and the government, the imperial court has always been very wary of spontaneous or organized charitable acts from the people, and the imperial court is very unwelcome to see these so-called charities.

What's more, there will be intentional or unintentional suppression of this kind of folk behavior, especially the founding of the Qing Dynasty several emperors, they are very vigilant in this regard, obviously these charitable acts will be regarded by the emperors as a means to compete with the imperial court for the hearts of the people, so if an emperor is relatively wise and intelligent, it is inevitable to use various excuses to restrict and suppress these folk charitable activities.

Obviously, this is also a helpless thing, in this ancient oriental continent, what has not changed for thousands of years is the imperial power, in order to maintain this imperial power, anything can happen, and anything that breaks through the bottom line of human morality will be regarded as normal, so as long as the imperial autocracy does not change in this continent, the people have no way out and hope.

After listening to Mama Angel's briefing, Dai Xiaoshan sighed with emotion, and quickly fell into deep thought, obviously he had already expected this, it seems that the number of children that the church system can provide in the future must be very limited, let alone immigrants of a certain scale, there is no way, everything still has to rely on themselves.

In this regard, he and Zhu Beiguo have had in-depth exchanges on the Pride, both of them believe that the establishment of their own control of the immigration channel is already an urgent matter, although the Macao church is a help, but with our industrial development scale is getting larger and larger, the demand for labor and talent will have an explosive increase, if our immigration cause can not keep up with this rhythm, it will inevitably affect the life and career of each of us, will become a major bottleneck for us......

Before leaving, Zhu Beiguo visited people from all walks of life in Macao and learned about the situation in all aspects, especially the situation in the interior.

However, this request was immediately vetoed by the Red Chambers, the first reason was that there was no guarantee of safety, so the opinion of the Red Mansions was: You must not act in a hurry, you Zhu Beiguo did not say hello in advance and temporarily decided to go to the mainland, this is not possible, you can go, but you must be fully prepared, and you must fully assess the risks, how can you just go?

The telegram of the Red Chamber also said that Cao Limei did not agree, and the rhetoric was basically the same, Cao Meizi said in the telegram, I know yours, you just want to come out at all, and you are not allowed to do it if you don't do enough things! Hurry up and come back honestly!

So this time, only Dai Xiaoshan Airushi and Ren Ke stayed, and Zhu Beiguo could only honestly continue to be the first mate of Li Sanduo on the Pride.

For the brothers who stayed in Macau, there were indeed a lot of things to do, so Ren Ke finally returned to the guest room of the Qiao family's compound after three days of wandering in the gentle township of Yang Qiaoqiao.

The first thing is to find a decent house as the office of the Permanent Trade Representative of the Australian Commonwealth in Macao, this matter Zhu Beiguo has done an investigation before leaving Macao, and the four Chinese businessmen also greatly assisted, a few days later, finally determined a large mansion with three entrances and three exits, half new and old, spent three hundred taels of silver, and on the whole it was a little expensive.

However, it is probably from the old world that people who are accustomed to living in the box of buildings are full of curiosity and yearning for this kind of bungalow mansion, Dai Xiaoshan They think this house is very good, this money is well spent, after all, this house is a typical Chinese traditional mansion, in the old world, if you want to live in this kind of house, it must be either rich or expensive!

The main hall, wings, walls, and door openings of the courtyard are all symmetrically distributed according to a north-south central axis, and the ponds and garden wells in the courtyard are also readily available.

And the location of the house is also good, located at the foot of Battery Hill, near the Church of Our Lady of the Snow, the environment is relatively quiet.

It's just that the orientation of the house is a little unconventional, and it actually sits west and faces east, but the brothers don't care about it, because this just makes the whole house face the sea, and it's also a sea view room.

Also because the terrain is relatively high, you can overlook the deep-water pier in the distance, looking at all sides, the field of vision is also very broad, so this house was in the eyes of the brothers at that time, and the price was not bargained, and it was bought very happily a few days later.

After all, this crossing collective can be said to lack everything, especially gold and silver.