On the boundless sea, more than a dozen Dafu ships lined up, the deck of the ship was crowded, the voices of people were boiling, and various dialects were mixed in it, and the Fujian sailors on the ship looked at this large group of foreign visitors dumbfounded, listening to them talk like listening to the book of heaven, looking at their excited and curious expressions were even more puzzled, isn't it the sea? What's there to be excited about? They are tired of watching it every day, what a bunch of outsiders who have never seen the world!

This is the first batch of inland immigrants recruited by Zhang Cheng from the inland, with a total of more than 10,000 people, including more than 3,000 people from Hunan, more than 2,000 people from Shandong, more than 2,000 people from Guangxi, and more than 3,000 immigrants from other local provinces.

In order to recruit these immigrants, Zhang Cheng has tried his best, first of all, the issue of trust, although Zhang Cheng holds the official documents of the imperial court, but people in this era have a natural fear of leaving their hometown in the background, not that life is really unbearable, who wants to leave their hometown? Moreover, people are also a little suspicious of the generous immigration conditions offered by Zhang Cheng, and the land is divided and exempted from taxes, where is such a good thing? Aren't they human traffickers?

Zhang Cheng first explained bitterly, detailing the situation in Dongfan, but with little success, and there were few responders, and finally he thought of a way, built a huge factory tent, and filled the purchased grain in it, and then erected a propaganda board, writing on it the preferential conditions for recruiting immigrants, as long as he signed the voluntary recruitment paperwork, he could immediately receive a small bag of rice, and at the same time send a string of copper coins for settling-in expenses.

Rich rice is moving, especially at this time the impact of the climate of the Xiaoice River is getting bigger and bigger, the grain production in various places is seriously reduced, many people have not enough to eat, especially those who have lost their land and can only live by working long hours for the landlord's local tycoons, life is even more difficult, even gruel can not drink, looking at the mountain of grain how can not be hot, slowly some people have the courage to sign the recruitment documents, and find that they can really receive food and settlement fees, which dispelled their worries, one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and more and more immigrants came to apply.

But even if the immigrants are recruited, it is not easy to bring such a large number of immigrants to Dongfan, the transportation in this era is backward, and it will not be possible to reach Dongfan in a few months, and it will definitely not work by land, and if you take so many people by land together, the local government will definitely interfere and cause civil unrest. Therefore, you can only take the waterway, although the detour takes a little longer, but you can avoid the obstruction of the local government, as long as you get on the boat.

Fortunately, the intelligence network has been rolled out, and there are flying pigeons between the intelligence outlets, as long as the time consumed on the road is estimated, according to the agreed time order, select the nearest sea outlet to go to sea in accordance with the agreed time order, first gather the immigrants recruited from all over the country to the sea through river transportation, and then transfer to Xiamen by sea boat.

Guo Zhiyuan has now tied all the influential maritime merchants along the coast of Fujian to his warships, and can use their resources to cooperate in all aspects, and the heads of the intelligence stations in various places selected by Zhang Cheng are also capable people, so that such a huge immigration project can be carried out without major problems.

The only trouble is that most of these inland immigrants have not been to sea, there are many people who are seasick, and at the same time, the space on the ship is crowded, and there are many people who are unwell. So along the way, there was no epidemic, and there was no large-scale attrition.

On a fortune ship at the forefront, a middle-aged man in a long robe was standing on the bow deck looking out at the sea, he didn't look forward to a new life in Dongfan like other immigrants, he just stood silently, his eyes flashing, not knowing what he was thinking.

This person's name is Zeng Qisheng, a native of Xiangyin, Hunan, he is also one of the few scholars with fame among these immigrants, Zeng Qisheng was born in a family of cultivation and reading, and his family background can only be regarded as average, but Zeng Qisheng has shown different ambitions since he was a child.

The family had no money for him to go to school, so he went to the private school run by the landlord in the village to eavesdrop, for which he was often beaten by the landlord's son and his face was swollen, but he never gave up, as long as he had the opportunity to run to eavesdrop, the private school Mr. saw that he was so studious, so he exempted him from tuition and allowed him to enter the private school to observe.

Although his father is just an ordinary farmer, he is still very supportive of his son's love of reading, and uses all the family's savings to buy books for him, but Zeng Qisheng's road to the imperial examination is not smooth, and the articles he writes are often considered absurd by the examiner to be absurd and weird, and he has failed many times, and the family's savings have been lost, and the family is becoming poorer and poorer, and his father died of illness when he was twenty years old, Zeng Qisheng has become a local joke, and the locals have taken Zeng Qisheng as a negative example to educate the younger generations, thinks that he has low eyes and is a complete loser.

However, Zeng Qisheng ignored the gossip of his neighbors, after his father's death, he picked up the burden of the family, while farming and studying, at the age of twenty-five, he finally won Xiucai, and Xiucai in the countryside can be regarded as the number one person, the landlord in the village even intended to recruit him as a son-in-law, but he refused, saying that he wanted to take the exam, and had no intention of starting a family, the landlord was angry and angry, and took back the land rented to his family for farming, and now he even became a problem with his livelihood, and he couldn't stay in his hometown.

Zeng Qisheng did not give in, he left his hometown and came to Changsha as a private school teacher, while teaching, while studying, the emperor lived up to his wishes, at the age of thirty Zeng Qisheng finally passed the examination, and he could be an official if he won the lift, Zeng Qisheng became the history of the household house of Changsha County.

In the position of the history of the household house, Zeng Qisheng also showed his talent, took care of the household in an orderly manner, and his performance was excellent every year, but Zeng Qisheng was too arrogant and unsociable, and he liked to speak wildly, saying that he wanted to be a famous minister in the world, and he was unwilling to go along with his colleagues, so Zeng Qisheng also got the nickname of "Zeng Madman"!