The New Year will not end until the Shangyuan Festival, and the new year will begin, but since the people in the north learned that the Andong Protectorate allocated overseas fields, they can't wait to spend the New Year at home for up to 16 days. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the Weihe ferry in the north of Chang'an and the Yellow River in the north of Luoyang began to gather more and more. Take a boat to an overseas treasure island that has long been rumored to be a dreamlike fairyland, hoping to get a share of the fertile land from the government where the family can live and live.

Compared with these poor people who were penniless and could only go overseas by taking refuge in the Anton Pioneer Group, the powerful and wealthy merchants of the two capitals were much more comfortable, and they only needed to spend a little money to find enough ships and manpower, and they could select competent people from the prefecture to lead the people.

No, at the crossing of the two rivers, a large number of poor people lined up to get on the other side of the boat amid the shouting and scolding of the guards of the Anton Pioneer Regiment. The ships belonging to the powerful and wealthy merchants loaded their personnel and supplies early, and set off together after the fleet of the Andong Pioneer Group had finished loading the poor people.

The directors of each family in charge of overseas development already knew each other, and took advantage of this free time to sit together and talk about how to make a big difference overseas and create a rich estate for their family.

The principals of the powerful and wealthy businessmen sent this time are their own blood brothers, otherwise it is difficult to carry so much money and food overseas and hand it over to outsiders.

Zhang Chengqi found an excuse to fool his grandfather Zhang Wenqian and sent his third brother Zhang Chengxuan out.

Former Prime Minister Lu Chengqing's sons Lu Jingzuo and Lu Jingyu brothers had no worries because they had no official status, so their brothers went into battle together. Because they were born in a top family like Fanyang Lu, they could get 5,000 acres of land, and the two brothers raised a lot of money and grain for this purpose, recruited 100 people, and bought two big boats.

Interestingly, the Prime Minister of the Andong Pioneer Mission, who was in charge of transporting the immigrants to Taiwan, inspected the fleets of powerful and wealthy merchants to see if they were responsible for the relocation of immigrants according to the land certificates they had obtained at the Overseas Field Consultation Center. It was found that each of their migrant families that needed to be organized according to the requirements was either a down-and-out child of their own family or a down-and-out family with the same surname. (Prime Minister, also under the title of Governor)

For example, in the Qinghe Zhang clan fleet led by Zhang Chengxu, according to the 3,000 mu of land voucher obtained by him, the eighteen households whose families were responsible for organizing the relocation were all children from the Qinghe Zhang clan and the middle of the road without exception.

In addition, the fleet of Boling Cui, Fan Yang Lu, Jingzhao Du, and Yingchuan Chen are all from the wealthy families. It is also that those rich businessmen can't be as capricious as these wealthy families, and can find a large number of poor relatives in the county where their family is located, so they can only pull some poor households with the same surname to make up the number.

The Weihe Ferry was originally a busy place for business travel, and the business-minded Hu people on both sides of the avenue opened many orchid restaurants. Dressed in a beautiful orchid with her shoulders and delicate waist, she stood in front of the wine shop, waving the Xiu Pa in her hand, and smiling at the passing man to come into the store to taste wine.

In an orchid restaurant, Song He sat at five tables with more than a dozen of his brothers.

Because he is about to leave Guanzhong for overseas, if the overseas development goes well, I don't know if I can return to Guanzhong in the Year of the Monkey.

The sorrow of leaving home looked extremely incongruous on the rough faces of more than a dozen men who had been hovering on the verge of life and death all year round.

Thinking that it might take a long time to leave his hometown this time, Song He took the initiative and asked the shopkeeper of the wine store to serve the best wine and food in the store and drink it with the brothers before leaving Guanzhong.

Seeing that the brothers were depressed, Song He knocked on the table and said with a smile: "They are all seven-foot men, what's the matter, everyone who left their hometown this time is like having no mother-in-law." ”

"Leader, look at those people who are dragging their families, let's just take our families with us!"

"Brother Zhao, you are confused, can those people who rushed to the Deng'an Dong Pioneer Group compare with us? Those are all people who have been affected by the disaster and can't survive, and they have no choice before dragging their families with them. We only learned about the overseas situation from the Royal Weekly and "Overseas Stories" under King Yan. If it's not as beautiful as it is in the newspapers, take the whole family with you, isn't this taking them to jump into the fire pit? ”

"It's not too late to take over when we're settled overseas!"

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More than a dozen people began to talk nonsense, and finally argued about whether they should charter a ship to go south by themselves or sign up for the Anton Pioneer Group and take their ship to the south.

Song He stuffed a piece of roast beef into his mouth and said while chewing: "Let's forget about signing up for the Anton Pioneer Group, although our brothers are not rich and expensive, they still have a little money to go south." What's more, if the Anton Pioneer Group goes to overseas islands, each person can only share 100 acres of land and be exempt from tax for two years. There are 300 acres of land to go to adults on their own, and the tax exemption is three years, which is too different. ”

"But the cost of renting a boat to go to sea is not low, the boats in this Wei River are only inland river boats, and those who can't enter the sea have to rent a boat twice."

"Those powerful and wealthy businessmen who organized their own fleets to explore overseas planned to set off with the fleet of the Anton Pioneer Group, so as not to lose their way at sea. If we rent a ship, we have to sail with the Anton Pioneer Group. ”

More than a dozen brothers were babbling about their own suggestions and inquiring about the situation.

The shopkeeper of the Hu people put a bottle of fine Western Regions red wine ordered by Song He on a table in Song He, and listened to them talk about how to go overseas, and couldn't help but smile and remind: "Ladies and gentlemen, you are too lonely and unheard!" The Anton Pioneer Group has long announced that it can provide passenger ferry services to those who go to overseas Tuntian but do not want to join the Anton Pioneer Group, and the whole journey will be a consistent fee per person, and the young ones will be 500 yuan. ”

"And this?"

"Shopkeeper, don't you lie?"

Many customers in the wine store heard the reputation, and one by one they seemed to be anxious to ask if the news of the wine store was true?

"Of course it's true, a certain person has opened a wine shop at this Weihe ferry for seventeen or eighteen years, how can he tell you? Haven't you read the last few days of Royal Weekly? The news was published in the newspaper. ”

"Look, what is written in black and white?" The shopkeeper Hu Ren was not ambiguous, and directly took out a newspaper issued by the Royal Weekly three days ago from the counter, pointed to the first page and read it to the hotels.

Looking at the group of Tang people and leopards in surprise, they didn't dare to look at themselves confidently and read loudly, the Hu people's shopkeeper was happy in his heart, and this group of Tang people who looked down on themselves arrogantly and looked up to themselves also had times. silently threw a contemptuous look at this group of Tang native leopards.

How could Song He and the others, who had been guarding the treacherous businessmen all the year round, not see the contempt that this Hu man shopkeeper had just given them, but they were illiterate, and they lacked confidence in their hearts, so they couldn't turn their faces, so as not to be laughed at by this lowly Hu man again.

Many drinkers in the wine shop were speechless after hearing the news from the Hu people's shopkeeper read the news, they used to be either guards or for the rich and noble families to be nurses, servants, small traders in the market or something, how to read the newspaper if they didn't know a few big characters?

In this era, private schools and academies were not as prosperous among the people as they were in the Song and Ming dynasties.

Most of the knowledge is still in the hands of those wealthy families with a long heritage, followed by middle-class and wealthy families with wealth.

"Hey, I really should let that kid from Qingjiang come along, otherwise I wouldn't have looked at the news published in the newspaper and my eyes were dark."

Several of Song He's brothers sighed, ashamed that they had a good skill, but they couldn't read, so they made this Hu man laugh shamefully. I feel that as an authentic citizen of the Tang Dynasty, I have lost face to the Tang Dynasty at this time.