Dongyi country, Zuo Changshi Mansion, Linxian wharf.

A large passenger ship from the mainland of Tessy is parked at the pier, and the passengers on board are disembarking in turn.

On the inside of each exit of the ship, two long tables are placed.

Behind each table sat two people, all dressed in the same standard of Xinming-style formal attire, with a sign of the Dongyi Kingdom Zuo Changshi Mansion hanging on their chests.

Next to each table is a hanging notice.

On either side of the doorway out of the cabin, there were two Dongyi militiamen, apparently disembarking with permission.

This restriction is actually very overbearing and strict, and at the same time a bit of a waste of manpower.

For people who do not have documents and have problems, the vast majority of ports actually allow disembarkation, but not departure.

Handle all kinds of people in the dock in a unified manner, instead of arranging people to go on the ship for inspection.

At the same time, passengers who are unable to enter the country are allowed to transfer ships in the dock and leave.

However, the Linn County Pier is facing Manhattan, New York, and there is no way to get off the boat in Manhattan.

A twenty-eight-nine-year-old passenger, carrying a suitcase, came to the door and glanced at the sign near the table inside.

"All baggage items must be checked before they can be brought into the port."

The passenger placed his box on the table with the words "Check" written on it, and opened it to reveal only a few secretaries and clothes.

Behind the inspection table were two men in their twenties, one instructing the bus to display the items, and the other being in charge of registration.

After the check-in was completed, the registrar took a form to the passenger and motioned for him to go to another table.

The passenger came to the left side next to him, and again looked at the sign next to the table.

Before she could read the content carefully, a female translator behind the desk said directly in Da Ming Yayan:

"Read it again."

The passenger was obviously stunned for a moment, but looking at the first rule on the notice, he guessed the other party's purpose from the music.

So the passenger opened his mouth quite seriously, and read in a somewhat German accent:

"First, before the first imperial examination of the Dongyi Kingdom is over, the whole territory of the Dongyi Kingdom will only accept the foreign Taixi people who come to participate in the imperial examination, and the others should go ashore in New York with the ship.

"Second, all Taixi people entering the Dongyi Kingdom are required to go through the registration procedures when they disembark, and after the registration is completed, the Dongyi Kingdom will only accept the information provided by the entrants at the time of registration.

"Third, anyone in the territory of Dongyi Kingdom needs to abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty and the laws of the Dongyi Kingdom, and any illegal and criminal acts shall be dealt with in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty and the laws of the Dongyi Kingdom.

"Fourth, any fixed assets and large-value transactions need to be registered with the Changshi Mansion in order to receive the protection of the Ming law. Assets that have not passed the review and valuation and confirmed ownership cannot be registered.

"Fifth, anyone who has not obtained the fame and national status of Dongyi State should not buy land, real estate and any high-value items in Dongyi State, otherwise they may not be protected and recognized by the Ming Dongyi State.

"Sixth, all those who remain in the territory of Dongyi can only hold property worth 10,000 silver banknotes, and when they leave Dongyi Kingdom, they can only carry property worth 1,000 silver banknotes, including cash, bonds, stocks, land and property ownership."

After the passenger finished reading, the female translator behind the desk spoke again:

"Your preliminary examination has passed, are you sure that you want to enter the country to take the imperial examination?"

The car nodded quite seriously and said:

"I'm sure I'm going to take it, I'm coming from Europa just for this exam."

The female translator picked up the pen in her hand and began to ask and fill out the form:

"The name must be the name of the Ming Yayan."

The passenger hesitated for a little three seconds, picked the last stanza from his name, and transliterated it:

"Gauss, noble Gao, Si is a burrow, but Wu Dexin's Si."

The female officer wrote the word Gauss, and then continued to ask:

"Origin, that is, the place of birth or hometown."

Gauss immediately replied:

"Europa, Germany, Braunschweig."

The female translator wrote down these words and continued to ask:

"Education?"

"University, Gögentine University."

The female translator was a little surprised when she heard this.

There are many people who come to participate in the imperial examination, but not many can have a more serious university diploma.

The female translator wrote down the registration information, and then handed the piece of paper in her hand to Gauss:

"During this exam, your identity certificate in Dongyi Country must not be lost, at least remember the number.

"Don't just buy properties and properties that others have recommended to you, the things they want to sell may not be legal."

Gauss hurriedly took it:

"Thanks for the reminder."

Gauss carefully put away the note and walked to the exit with his suitcase.

An elderly man in his fifties in the back followed, was inspected for his belongings, and read the notice aloud as well.

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Asked by the interpreter, sure that he wanted to stay for the test, he gave his name:

"Goethe, from Frankfurt."

Goethe finished registering the information and disembarked with a salute, followed by three teenagers.

"My name is Faraday ......"

"My name is Babbage."

"My name is Byron......"

Gauss left the passenger ship, passed through the central area of the dock, and showed the registration form to the relevant personnel before leaving the terminal.

As soon as I came out of the gate, I found a large crowd of people outside.

Many people held signs in their hands, which were basically written in Da Ming characters, and some were written in English or French.

Someone else shouted at this side at the top of their lungs:

"Sir, do you need to stay in a hotel, we still have a few beds in our hotel!"

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"High-class hotel, with single rooms, hot water, and bathing."

"Family hotel, long-term rental, starting from January."

"The latest Ming-style formal wear, Ming-style traditional clothing, leave a good impression on the examiner!"

Gauss's brain swelled slightly, but he quickly sorted out the information contained in it.

After a few seconds of hesitation, Gauss walked up to a man who was shouting for the hotel:

"How much does it cost to stay in a single room in your family hotel a month?"

The man said with some absent-mindedness:

"Twenty Ming silver banknotes a month."

Goldston was taken aback:

"So expensive!"

The man seemed impatient and said:

"Expensive? You are too expensive for me, I am still too expensive, how can there be a house to rent in Lin County at this time, this is originally our own house, and we rent out a few directly. ”

Gauss pondered for a moment, looked at the surrounding situation, and estimated that there were a lot of people who had come to Dongyi Country to take the exam recently, otherwise this person would not have been able to rent a house so expensive:

"Is twenty silver bills all the money to be paid? You don't need to call utility bills, do you? Do you take care of the food? ”

The man immediately said:

"The water and electricity bills are calculated separately, regardless of the meal, if you have to take care of the food, then give extra money. You can't live it. ”

Twenty yuan in silver bills is already a bit more than I can afford, not to mention the extra payment of water, electricity and food.

Gauss hesitated for a moment:

"I'll go somewhere else and ask ...... first"

But immediately the man said,

"You dare to ask, the special hotel can only be more expensive than our family, but if you want to come back to me, this room will not be reserved for you, and the people behind will come out......"

Gauss subconsciously turned around, and Byron and Faraday had already come out.

But I still don't want to accept my fate, so I go to other places to ask for the price.

It soon turned out that the guy had lied, but he wasn't completely lying.

Other inns don't get cheap private rooms.

But they can have four to eight people in the same room.

If there are four people in a room, each person will have seven silver bills.

For eight people, each person only needs four dollars in silver bills.

Of course, bathing and eating are all separately charged.

Gauss hesitated for a short time and decided to go to a four-room hotel first.

The guy at the hotel was reluctant to take Gauss alone.

Instead, he continued to wait for a while, gathered a total of eight people who were interested in staying at the hotel, and asked his companion to take them to see the house.

A group of people walked down the streets of Linxian County, and the crowd soon saw some hotel signs.

The guy who led a group of people forward didn't stop.

So one of the passengers couldn't help but slow down and whispered to the other passengers around him:

"Shouldn't we go to the hotel on the street first, instead of following this guy to theirs......

The man's discussion was immediately heard by the fellow, who directly clasped his arms in his hands and said:

"You might as well ask, I'll wait here ......"

A few passengers hesitated for a few seconds, but three of them left the group and went to the hotel on the side of the road to ask for the price.

The high speed thought about it for a few seconds, and finally did not follow in, but waited on the side of the road.

The three men soon returned, their expressions a little complicated.

"The monthly rent for a single room is 30 silver bills, including water and electricity, bathing, laundry and food."

"There are single rooms with one bed and there are two beds, and the price is the same."

"The rooms were all good, but very expensive."

The group could only reluctantly follow the guy and continue walking.

After crossing almost the entire street, in a low residential area, I found a modest inn.

In the front hall of the hotel, there are already a few obvious foreign tourists, who are going through the formalities at the front desk.

The guy who led Gauss and his party, I don't know if it was intentional, shouted at the top of his voice when he entered the door:

"Look at the house - see the house!"

Another guy immediately ran out of the front desk, took all the passengers directly from this guy, and took Gauss and his party into the room, and the original guy stayed in the front hall.

Gauss vaguely felt that this was not right, and the others seemed to find out about it.

One of them couldn't help but whisper to his side:

"The guy who brought us here might be a tooth......"

The others reacted immediately:

"He called someone at the pier, brought him over to live in the store, and took a commission from the store......"

Gauss shook his head helplessly:

"It would be nice if he didn't ask us for a commission.

"Most of us came here on our own, and most of our friends are here without useful friends, right?

"I don't know the place well, and I don't have much money, so I can only come to this kind of place."

With mixed feelings, the group went to see the remaining rooms together.

The situation is similar in each room, with four single beds, or four bunk beds.

The bathroom and washing place are all in the corridor outside, and if you want to take a bath, you have to go downstairs to the yard.

The conditions are not good, but the place is not particularly dirty.

Gauss and the others hesitated for a long time, and then decided to live here first.

Everyone came out of the room, went back to the front hall to go through the registration formalities, and was about to return to the room again, but was stopped:

"Would you like to buy a house? A two-room house in a row costs only 360 silver bills for a quick throw, and a three-room house only needs cash. ”

The price is a bit outrageous.

Although Gauss and others are more embarrassed now, it is only the matter of the imperial examination in Dongyi Kingdom that has caused inflation in the rental market in Linxian County.

But those who are literate and literate and know how to speak are middle-class.

When Tessie had a formal job, it was normal for her to earn a monthly income of more than a dozen silver bills per month.

Three hundred and sixty silver bills is only two years' income, and a house now costs twenty or thirty silver bills a month's rent.

Some of them have more than that balance in their deposits.

Some people were immediately a little moved, but Gauss remembered the rules he had seen on the dock and the reminder given by the translator.

Don't buy houses and land, your current status is not eligible to buy.

The point is that most of the other party is not qualified to sell normally.

So Gauss subconsciously asked:

"Can you go to the Yamen of the Changshi Mansion to go through the registration procedures for your house?"

The other party's expression was obviously a little embarrassed, but he immediately covered it up and said with a smile:

"It depends on the situation, I have to go to the yamen to ask ......"

Gauss knew that this meant that there was a high probability that it would not be possible, and this was obviously someone from outside the pit.

Gauss packed up his things and went upstairs, ignoring the man anymore.