When he was eight years old, the Alan Kelly family immigrated from Ireland to North America.

Although the Tang Empire had strict restrictions on immigration, the capitalists were trying to bring cheap labor from Europe.

Unlike many smuggled European migrant families, the Kelly family spent 5,000 francs on the regular immigration process.

Due to the poor business, his father, Will Kelly, decided to sell his weaving workshop and take the family to the New World, an unexplored part of the world.

In the year 290, the Kelly family left the remote town of Ireland and took a ship from Glasgow to the port of New Haizhou on the east coast of North America to join Lady Kelly's sister's family. It was the most developed port city of the Tang Empire on the east coast of North America, and it was said that it was easy to find a job there.

So Will Kelly's family, like thousands of families from poor parts of Europe, flocked to the new cities of the New World that were just beginning to develop their industries......

Under the reflection of the slanting sun, it is clothed with a layer of golden glow for the new Haizhou Port. Mrs. Kelly was visibly uneasy at a completely unfamiliar place, holding Alan's hand tightly as she followed the crowd out of the docks, for fear of losing him.

"Jenny ......"

Aunt Sandra called out her mother's name outside the station, and her uncle worked in a chemical factory, and it was clear from their outfits that her family was not doing well in Xinhaizhou.

The Kelly family lived in the basement of Aunt Sandra's house for three days.

Aunt Sandra's family, like thousands of working-class people in New Haizhou, lived in the poor neighborhoods around the city — uniform five-story red-brick buildings with blackened corridors and corridors, only two rooms and a tiny kitchen, but no toilets, which were public toilets at the end of the corridors.

The first time I saw electric lights and running water, a large family was crammed into an office-like room, with little furniture in it except for the large bunk beds. Later, in her memoirs, Allen said that she was very envious of her aunt's life at the time, and it was not until later that she learned that such houses were called "shanty towns".

In New Haizhou, a small number of wealthy people own their own detached homes, and the middle class mostly lives in high-end residential areas close to the city center, while on the edge of the city, most of them live in poor working class.

This kind of unified low-cost "shanty house" is not the right for Mrs. Allen's family to live in, and the official rule of Xinhaizhou City is that only those who have worked in the city for more than three years are eligible to apply for the purchase of this kind of "low-cost house" built with official funds, and the poor people who have just arrived in the city can only rent a house.

In the places where the immigrants who flock to the cities for work are concentrated, greedy landlords take advantage of the opportunity to extort exorbitant rents from the poor people in small apartments similar to those of Aunt Sandra's. Sometimes, in this kind of small two-room apartment, six poor families like Allen will be crowded in.

In Europe, the Tang Kingdom, which immigrated to the New World, was called "moving while it was dark", which actually meant smuggling. It is also true that nearly half of European migrants are smuggled in illegally.

Since they were regular immigrants, Kelly's family accepted the arrangement of the immigration association to go to the cotton-producing areas of southern North America after passing the Chinese proficiency test.

Allen had never understood why the Tang Empire called their language not Tang but Chinese.

The Allen family was housed in a factory in Xinlanzhou, and they rented that kind of "shantytown", a two-room building with a total of four families. There are nearly twenty people living in such a small space, and many of them spend as much time as possible in the streets or parks, except for bedtime.

In such a communal space, there is no privacy, and it is impossible not to know the neighbors who line up to cook and go to the toilet in the hallway - in such a building, everyone shares a kitchen on each floor to cook, and the door of each room is almost always open, and it is not closed at night.

However, in such a difficult environment, the neighbors were very united, and if anyone was in trouble, they would lend a helping hand to each other, and after work, the women took turns to take care of the children of several families. If there is a quarrel or a fight in someone's house, there will be a group of people who will come out and persuade each other to fight.

His father, Will, worked in a textile factory.

Unable to find work for Julie and Paul, and with Marina rules not allowing children under the age of 16 to be recruited, Paul went back to school, but struggled to learn. Julie entered a women's vocational and technical training school, and she studied electrician.

The eldest brother Coville first found work in a machine shop, then his mother, who used her craft to enter a shoe factory, while the second brother Hasakah went to a shipyard and Allen found a job as a waitress in a café. In this way, the Allen family finally settled down in Xinlanzhou first.

Compared with the loose Latin people, the Kelly family retained the hard-working tradition of the Irish, and Will first worked in a textile factory run by the Tang people, and gradually rose to the management class with his original skills. Later, when the factory owner was in trouble, Will used most of his life savings to buy the small textile factory, and by the time Allen graduated from high school, Will Kelly was already a well-known factory owner in the New Lanzhou area on the Tennessee River.

Unlike his older brothers and sisters, who have been working since childhood, Alan Kelly's choice to go to college is very indicative of his character.

He is very different from his strict and rigid father, who has always been very casual and likes to live an unrestrained life. As he grew older, he struggled to avoid anything that could lead him to work in a factory.

His academic performance was not bad, but he learned an excellent skill of idleness early on. He loves art, fine arts, music, and of course good luck. Although he looks a little thin on the outside, he is actually much stronger than he looks.

His mother often joked that he was not like a child from a rigid Irish family, but rather a standard Italian. As a result, Alan really went to the University of Sindencan, the most in Italy, but not in art, but in archaeology, in the history department.

In his second year of high school, he suddenly became interested in Renaissance history.

Will Kelly was stunned at first when he heard his choice, and after a long silence he said, "Study hard, a history teacher in middle school may be a good career......

However, Alan could tell from his expression that his father's heart should be full of deep disappointment......

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