Volume 18 Chapter 8 (Part I)
Zhang 10,000 is an ordinary person in Nanyang Mansion, the political envoy of Henan Chengxuan, this name does not mean that his family has a lot of property, on the contrary, his family is very poor, his parents starved to death when there was a drought in the year of the Apocalypse, leaving four younger brothers and sisters almost starved to death.
The vigorous peasant uprising in the first year of Chongzheng, he had a chance to change his fate, but it was not the way to get rich, but the way to death, whether it was the Chongzhen Dynasty or the Chongzheng Dynasty, their final outcome was the same, that is, they were exterminated!
Many young men in the same township went to join the peasant rebel army, and they did make a small fortune at the beginning, but after the encirclement and suppression of the imperial army, few survived, and even those who survived were arrested and sent to serve hard labor, and they served for many years before returning.
He is very glad that he did not participate in the peasant rebel army, although the family conditions have been very hard, but he still pulled several younger brothers and sisters to grow up, in recent years, the Ming Dynasty has risen to peace, the wind and rain are smooth, his family is also living a good life, the two sisters have found a good family, the second brother has also started a family, but, he and the third brother have been single, not that they don't want to start a family, the main thing is that there is no money.
In these years, if you get married, you can't have a decent house, a decent set of household goods, and then set up a banquet, invite relatives and friends from all over the country to have a meal, and you can't hold it without hundreds of taels of silver.
His second brother's marriage has spent all the family's savings, and now the third brother has reached the age of marriage, but the family can't come up with much money, like them, a farmer who relies on the land to plan, can leave more than ten taels of silver a year in addition to food, clothing and housing, and his third brother has to wait at least ten years if he wants to marry a good daughter-in-law!
He can wait, but his third brother can't wait, seeing the third brother looking at other people's daughter-in-law day by day, his face is red and hot, and he is unbearable, he is also uncomfortable, when his parents died, he promised to be good, he must let his younger brothers and sisters live a good life, and now he sees that the third brother is not giving up for a day, how can he rest assured.
Just when he was anxious, the Xiucai in the township came, and these Xiucai had nothing else to do, that is, when the court had a major decision, they would go to Sili and Baxiang to read it, so that everyone knew that last time it seemed that the emperor was going to implement the "Daming Chongzheng Law".
He has reverence for the current emperor in his heart, not to mention anything else, at least since the beginning of the Chongzheng Dynasty, Nanyang Mansion has lasted for more than ten years of drought, and the imperial court has been sparing no effort to provide relief, basically there has never been a situation of starvation to death, which is like the Apocalypse Dynasty, only a few years of drought, his father and mother starved to death in order to leave food for their children!
He really didn't understand the "Ming Chongzheng Law" read out by Xiucai last time, what emperor has the right and responsibility, all government affairs are handed over to the cabinet to handle, and the common people also have rights and responsibilities, he listened to the clouds, he only knew that the emperor was for the good of the people, and he didn't know anything else.
However, this time he understood, because the meaning was simple, that is, the Ming Dynasty occupied a new territory, where money was everywhere, as long as he went to work, he could earn a tael of silver a day!
In addition, the Ministry of Household also issued the "New Kyushu Reclamation Regulations", as long as you are willing to farm in the past, you can plant as much as you want, and the tax is very low.
The whole family moved over to farm, which is a bit difficult to choose, but there is no problem if he just works alone, anyway, he is single, one or two silver a day, and he can let the third brother marry a good daughter-in-law in half a year, this kind of thing is simply something he couldn't think of before.
He has never doubted the emperor's will and the decision-making of the imperial court, because in the past ten years, the imperial court said that disaster relief will be disaster relief, said that they will send food to them, and said that tax exemption is tax exemption, and has never been discounted.
How to make a fortune if he doesn't go out, he believes that he will definitely be able to earn back the money from his third brother's marriage on this trip to New Kyushu.
From the township to the county and then to the state capital, there were more and more people along the way, and the court did not treat them badly, and the meals were all enough, although it was coarse tea and light rice, it was already a good treatment for a person like him who had experienced a catastrophe and almost starved to death.
There were more and more people traveling with them, including those from Nanyang, Ruzhou, and Runing, and finally, they gathered in Kaifeng Prefecture and embarked on the train to New Kyushu.
He had also heard of the train, because when those Xiucai read it out in the township, they mentioned the train many times, saying that it was a means of transportation similar to a horse-drawn carriage.
This time he really saw the train, and got on the train, good guy, what kind of carriage is this, it's a steel monster, like a huge centipede, section by section, although it has no legs, it runs fast!
The train flew all the way for more than ten days, and along the way he saw the enormity of the capital, the richness of Liaodong, the vastness of Nuergan, and the boundlessness of New Kyushu.
It belongs to Xinyu Prefecture, and because the local officials have not yet arrived, it is temporarily under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and the station they went to is the railway station under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Capital Division of Xibo.
Zhang Yiwan got off the train and was directly dumbfounded, the huge and narrow platform was full of people, and the tall pillars were also covered with red paper, which was full of columns of big characters, question, he didn't know the words!
Fortunately, there are people who know how to read and write, and someone has already gone up to ask what is written on those red papers, and the people who know words are reading there.
What: Recruit people, absolutely one or two silver a day;
What: One tael of silver a day, preferential treatment;
What: As long as you are willing to work, one or two silver a day is absolutely fine;
They had heard of these before they came, and the temptation of one tael of silver a day was indeed great for them, because they were basically the masters who could only earn one tael of silver in ten days, and the problem was that one tael of silver a day was everywhere, so how could people choose?
Finally, a literate fellow read out a sentence: There are enough white flour buns, and you can eat meat every meal!
Now the fellow fellows are all blowing up the pot, they naturally know what the white bread is, it is a good thing that can only be eaten during the New Year, it is enough, and they eat meat every meal, is there such a good thing?
Just ask, so a large number of people squeezed under the red paper under the fingers of the literate fellow.
At this time, the recruitment area of the 101st Guard Office was already crowded with people, and there were all kinds of gossips.
"Are you really enough for white bread?"
"Do you really have meat to eat all of you?"
"How much can you pay for a day?"
"What are you recruiting?"
Luo Zongshan was so dizzy, he had known that he would write all the wages and everything, but it was too late at this time, he could only open his voice and shout over and over again: "We are digging coal, one thousand and a half catties of silver, it is very easy to dig two or three thousand catties a day, and you can eat as many white buns as you want, and you have pork all at once." “