Chapter 187: A Thousand Households in Nanyang Town
Zhou Zhong was not used to the dress of the four widows, but to his surprise, many people in the Chamber of Commerce were very interested in these four widows, for example, he had just let people spread the news that he was going to give away the four widows, but not only did someone in the chamber of commerce take the initiative to ask for it, but even Ma Liang in the brocade guard also happily ran to ask for one, which made Zhou Chong have to admire the taste of these people is really special.
However, since someone is willing to ask for it, Zhou Chong will naturally not leave a few widows to waste his own food, and leaving them at home is easy to cause conflicts in his own family, so soon Zhou Chong gave away all the four widows, including Ma Liang, and the remaining three were all allocated to the people in the Chamber of Commerce, as for the others that did not get it, it didn't matter, Zhou Chong had already discussed with Jin Wenxian and Ashikaga Kazuki, and asked them to organize a group of young women from North Korea and the Wa Kingdom respectively to solve the problem of more singles in the Chamber of Commerce.
Speaking of which, many of the people in the Chamber of Commerce are singles, this is because most of them were born in poverty, otherwise they would not have taken the risk of participating in smuggling, although they earned some money after smuggling, but in the eyes of ordinary Ming women, the risk of smugglers is too great, so few are willing to marry ordinary smugglers, plus smugglers have today and no tomorrow, so many people earn as much as they spend, and the money is thrown into brothels and gambling houses, and there is no money if they want to get married.
For this situation in the Chamber of Commerce, Zhou Zhong also sees it, although others are accustomed to the living conditions of those smugglers, but Zhou Zhong thinks that this is not normal, and most of the members of the Chamber of Commerce do not have normal families, which is not conducive to the cultivation of the loyalty of the members of the Chamber of Commerce. And after having a family. The children of the members of the Chamber of Commerce can study in unison. Make them reserve members of the Chamber of Commerce. Therefore, solving the marriage problems of the members of the Chamber of Commerce is simply a multiplicity.
It is precisely because of this that when Zhou Zhong recruited members of the Chamber of Commerce a year ago, he was ready to recruit some young women from poor families to come to the island, on the one hand, to do some chores, such as sewing and mending, and on the other hand, it could also let the people in the Chamber of Commerce have more contact with these women, maybe when they can promote a few pairs.
Zhou Chong's method is very good, and it does recruit some young women at the beginning. There are even many women among the victims of the disaster, and after these women came to the port, they usually had more contact with some people in the Chamber of Commerce, and it was inevitable that they would fall in love with each other for a long time, and many of them married people in the Chamber of Commerce.
But these women are not stupid, and the people they marry are those who have a good character in the Chamber of Commerce, but many of the men who do smuggling are short-tempered, or have such and such problems, although these people have a lot of ability to operate ships. But very few women were willing to marry them, and worse. This kind of person accounts for more than half of the staff of the Chamber of Commerce, and the women brought in by Zhou Zhong from Korea and the Japanese Kingdom are also for these people who can't get wives.
Of course, Zhouzhong's approach may not be fair to those North Korean and Japanese women, but their domestic situation is also a mess, and those women who dare to come to Daming are really unable to survive in China, so they venture to the sea to find a way to live, for them, it is already a great gift to be able to eat a full meal, not to mention that they can marry and have children here, and under the care of the Chamber of Commerce, the future life must be worry-free.
On a small plain not far south of Shuangyu Port, a newly rising town has risen here, which was originally built by Zhou Zhong in order to solve the accommodation problem of the Chamber of Commerce, at the beginning there were only a few hundred households, and they are all Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, so it is called Nanyang Village, but later with the increase of the Chamber of Commerce, there are more and more residents here, plus there are manpower patrols organized by the Chamber of Commerce, it is the safest residential area in Shuangyu Port, So many people from other chambers of commerce began to build residences nearby, so the scale of Nanyang Village became larger and larger, and now there are nearly 2,000 households living here, so this place has also been renamed Nanyang Town.
In just half a year, Nanyang Town has expanded from a small village with only a few hundred households to a town, resulting in a prosperous place here every day, many people here come here every day to do business, in the morning is to sell fish, sell vegetables the most, and then there are all kinds of small traders, set up stalls in the streets of Nanyang Town to sell, attracting many residents in the town to buy, many naughty children run around in groups on the streets, but also add a bit of vitality to Nanyang Town.
But the speed of expansion of Nanyang Town is too fast, which also brings some problems to the development of the town, such as the original Nanyang Village is only Nanyang Chamber of Commerce to organize some personnel management, but now after upgrading to the town, those management personnel are seriously insufficient, although Zhou Chong later increased some management manpower, but because of the lack of management of the town of talents, so it led to some problems in the entire Nanyang Town, such as the most prominent, that is, the original good public security began to deteriorate, Fights, brawls, and even thefts and robberies began to increase.
However, this kind of public security problem suddenly disappeared some time ago, mainly because there was a Jinyi Wei Qianhu suddenly appeared in the town, and more than 100 Jinyi guards led by Ma Liang and Wu Shi patrolled the town every day, helping the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce to manage the town, as a result, under the blow of these fierce Jinyi guards, no one dared to make trouble in the town, and the public security was greatly improved, and even exceeded the original situation when the public security was at its best.
For this situation, Zhou Chong was also very surprised, originally Ma Liang these brocade guards lived next to the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce station, every day is to eat, sleep and sleep, or the usual exercises, Zhou Chong felt that he could not raise these people in vain, just Nanyang Town was short of people, so he transferred Ma Liang these brocade guards, but he didn't expect the effect to be surprisingly good, now not only the security of Nanyang Town is good, but also the Jinyi Wei is also responsible for collecting taxes on the shops and hawkers in the town, so that the Chamber of Commerce also has one more income, although it is not a lot, but at least it can make the income and expenditure of these brocade guards equal, which is not a big surprise.
Zhou Chong received a notice from Priest Nader today, saying that he had built a cannon for testing and testing, and he was going to test the cannon today, so he invited him to come and visit, Zhou Chong was happy to come without breakfast, and found that Priest Nader was still preparing, and it was estimated that it would be noon at the earliest, so he simply came to Jinyi Wei Qianhu for breakfast.
Although the Thousand Households Office has just been established for a short time, it has become one of the landmark buildings of the entire Nanyang Town, and the surrounding streets are also very lively, gathering all kinds of vendors early in the morning, but only not selling breakfast, this is because there is a special canteen in the Thousand Households, and the food standard set by Zhou Zhong for Jinyi Wei is also very good, and no one is willing to come out to spend money to eat outside things.
After Zhou Sheng took Wangcai and other followers into the Qianhu Institute, the Jinyi guards who met him saluted him one after another, and after getting along during this time, most of the Jinyi guards had already known him, and Zhou Zhong could also call the names of many Jinyi Wei, plus he treated these Jinyi Wei very favorably, so many Jinyi Wei were very polite to him.
When Zhou Zhong came to the canteen in the Qianhu Office, he found that Ma Liang and Wu Shi and several other Jinyi Wei officers were sitting together and were about to have breakfast.
But before Zhou Zhong could chat with Ma Liang and them, he saw a young and beautiful woman in a cyan dress holding a plate with a lot of breakfast on it, and then put it beside Ma Liang with a gentle face, which made Wu Shi and the others around him look envious.
At first, Zhou Chong didn't recognize it, until the woman smiled and showed the black teeth inside, which made him suddenly remember, it turned out that this woman was the widow girl that Ma Liang asked for from him, but he didn't expect this widow to wash her face and then put on the clothes of a Ming woman, she looked very beautiful, but unfortunately the teeth were too black, and I don't know if it can turn white in the future?
"Childe, do you have any widows there, when will you send one to each of us?" At this time, a Jinyi guard captain asked Zhou Zhong with a flattering face.
"That's right, when will you get some more widows, we don't expect to be as beautiful as Sister-in-law Ma, as long as it's average, of course, it's best to have white teeth." At this time, Wu Shi, who was tall and tall, also followed up and said, when they first saw the widow brought back by Ma Liang, they all laughed at Ma Liang's heavy taste, but when Ma Liang asked the widow to wash her face, and then put on the clothes of the Ming woman, Wu Shi and these people immediately regretted it, especially this widow is extremely gentle, Ma Liang is almost at home to stretch out his hand to eat and open his mouth, which makes them even more red, and now they finally can't help but pull down their faces and ask Zhou Chong.
But before Zhou Zhong could speak, Ma Liang, who was being served by the widow and drank porridge next to him, smiled and said: "You boys are now red-eyed, and I told you that the widows are gentle and considerate, but you guys don't know the hearts of good people, but instead say that I have a heavy taste, and now I regret going!" ”
Hearing Ma Liang's ridicule, Wu Shi's gang was angry and scolded, they are all a bunch of rough people, they are used to beating and scolding, Zhou Zhong has long been accustomed to this situation, and he smiled and waited until Wu Shi and Ma Liang and others were almost scolded, and then he said: "Brother Wu Shi, don't look at Ma Baihu, I have bought some young women some time ago, and this time there are not only Japanese women, but also Korean women, if you want, you have to work hard for me, and do a good job in the security and taxation of Nanyang Town, and then who will have a great credit." , I'll let him pick first! ”
Hearing Zhou Chong's promise, Wu Shi and they stopped fighting, and patted their chests to reassure Zhou Chong, with them, the security of Nanyang Town must be bad. After breakfast, Zhou Zhong stayed in the Thousand Households until almost noon, and then left to watch Priest Nader's first test gun. (To be continued......)
PS:I'm really sorry.,I'm a little anxious to go out at noon today.,I've just come back.,Now upload the first chapter of today.,The evening update is still the same.。