The Japanese archipelago, the capital of Edo Province.

In the middle of the royal palace opposite the royal office, a signboard and electric horn were erected outside the courtyard of the household yamen.

Every quarter of an hour, the policy of recruiting immigrants from the Great Food Country is announced, and people around him have been going in to inquire about the situation and register.

This situation started in November last year, and it has not completely stopped during the Chinese New Year, and registration is still being accepted.

News of the situation spread throughout Edo Castle, the city where most of the residents of Edo Province lived.

At about ten o'clock in the morning of the twelfth day of the first month of the second year of Ankang, Hao Zhongyi, a 22-year-old young man, and his 18-year-old brother Hao Jizhi walked into the yamen of the household together.

When you enter the door, you will see a row of tables on the side of the hall, and next to it stands a sign that reads "Immigration Registration Office".

Hao Zhongyi immediately took his younger brother over, and habitually asked with a smile on his face:

"Two poor masters, we want to inquire about the Great Food Country...... What about the immigrants in the Mozhou Lake District......"

When the two officers on duty saw someone coming, especially when they heard the other party's Daming official dialect with a Shandong accent, they immediately came to the spirit, and a young officer picked up a pen to inquire about the situation and prepared a record:

"Are you from Shandong?"

Hao Zhongyi immediately said:

"My father and mother are all from Caozhou Mansion in Shandong, and I am living in this Edo Castle, but my brother and his mother are from Edo."

Before Chongzhen, the northern mansions of the Ming Dynasty were actually changed from the roads of the Yuan Dynasty, and the jurisdiction of many northern mansions was extremely huge.

There are 89 counties in Shandong, but there are only six prefectures in total.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the population in the north was small, so this setting was reasonable, and the unreasonable part was that it was not adjusted after the restoration.

It was still in this state until the year of Chongzhen.

By the time of the Renmu Dynasty, Emperor Sejo split part of the northern mansion.

The two prefectures of Yanzhou Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion were demolished into four prefectures: Caozhou Mansion, Yanzhou Mansion, Yizhou Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion.

When the two officials heard the young man say that his parents were from Caozhou, they were still interested.

Before last year, even if it was a father and mother, as long as they were not born in the Ming Dynasty, they were not considered Ming people.

But according to the latest standards, as long as his parents are Ming people, no matter where he was born, he himself is a Ming person.

The children of the Ming people and Korean women and girls are basically regarded as Ming people outside the Ming Dynasty.

Even in the Ming Dynasty, it is second only to the Ming people, and it is the highest status among all the vassal people.

The older officer on the other side asked with a smile:

"Everything that should be said on the radio, so what else do you brothers want to know?"

Hao Zhongyi immediately said:

"That's right, my family is opening a hotel in Edo Castle, and my father wants me to take my brother over and open a restaurant in the newly built immigration area, are there any special rules for this?"

The senior officer immediately introduced and asked:

"There are no special rules, there is the Great Food Country of the Ming Dynasty, and the rules are basically the same as those of Edo Country.

"But you brothers run your own restaurant, will you keep your own accounts?"

Hao Zhongyi immediately nodded and said:

"I can write and calculate, I graduated from elementary school, my brother didn't go to school, but my father and his mother taught him, and he can read the family account books."

The two officers were suddenly a little overjoyed, and the older officer said with some excitement:

"After graduating from primary school, I can write and count, or a Ming person, this is a talent, what kind of restaurant do you open? Go be a manager! ”

The young officer took out a form and a pen and handed it over:

"Fill in your situation yourself, which can be regarded as checking whether you can write, and write directly to the manager in the intention column.

"Don't look down on the manager, the current immigration area in Mozhou Lake District is run in a similar form to Huangzhuang.

"Without setting up traditional prefectures and counties, the company's treasurer and manager are equivalent to local officials, taking care of everything."

Hao Zhongyi was directly stunned:

"Being a manager? Do you still have to be an official? I won't be a ......."

The senior officer immediately said:

"I said you would, you would, can you write, will you not be an official?"

The young officer followed and reassured:

"Ordinary workers and peasants can't write, if you can write down everyone's name, how much work they have done every day, and then calculate how much they should be paid to each person, you can be an official, can you do it?"

Hao Zhongyi thought for a moment:

"Isn't this just bookkeeping, I definitely want to, but I'm going to be a manager, what about our hotel?"

The old officer said with some worry:

"Why are you just staring at your restaurant? Isn't that restaurant open yet? ”

Hao Zhongyi immediately said:

"My father asked me to go to Mozhou, so that I can carry forward our family's craftsmanship, otherwise what am I going to Mozhou for?"

The two officials looked at each other, both a little worried, but these grassroots officials were all experienced.

The old officer quickly had an idea and looked at the young man who was following Hao Zhongyi:

"Let your brother open a restaurant."

Hao Zhongyi immediately said:

"My brother hasn't finished his studies yet, he can only help me now."

The veteran officer continued:

"If you open a restaurant directly in the factory, you can also be a manager while teaching your brother to cook, and directly feed it to the workers in the factory.

"The requirements for cooking in the factory are not high, as long as the oil, salt and meat are stewed, and the chef who has not been out of the school can do it."

Hao Zhongyi finally felt that this could:

"In that, I'll go and be the manager for Ren."

The young officer didn't wait for him to hesitate, and immediately reminded Hao Zhongyi beside him:

"Hurry up and fill in the information, and then go home to prepare, and go up to nine o'clock on the seventeenth day of the first month to get on the ship and set off."

According to the officer's reminder, Hao Zhongyi filled out two forms one after another and wrote the information of five people.

Hao Zhongyi is married and has children, and his wife is also the daughter of a Ming immigrant couple.

His younger brother Hao Jizhi has also just gotten married, and his wife is also the daughter of other Ming immigrants and concubines.

This is also a typical marriage habit in many areas where there are many immigrants in the Ming Dynasty.

As much as possible, pure-blooded children are matched with pure-blood children, so that the descendants are still Ming people, and then they will be mixed blood or native concubines.

Only when there are really no conditions will pure-blood children be allowed to marry mixed-race or indigenous children.

The two forms of the two families were filled out by Hao Zhongyi.

The handwriting is not very good-looking, but it is relatively neat, and there are no typos.

It shows that his level of primary school graduation is basically devoid of water.

After filling out the form, the two brothers each left a copy and went home to prepare their luggage.

The two officers were very happy when they looked at the two pieces of information in their hands.

directly fished out two immigrant families, a manager who could be a Ming man, and a Japanese cook.

The son of the restaurant owner and chef in charge of the chef has been exposed to and trained since he was a child, and he must be better than ordinary people who directly become cooks.

Moreover, the other party is still of mixed Ming and He blood, which can be directly used as his own people in the mixed immigration area in the eastern part of Mozhou.

This cook may be able to mix with the canteen manager in the future.

After the two brothers Hao Zhongyi went home, they reported the situation to their parents, and their parents were of course happier.

But there were no surprises.

This kind of small manager of the feudal king's village is probably equivalent to the lowest level of the clerk and secretary, and it is not a high-status status.

The overseas immigrants of the Ming Dynasty have a certain understanding of the world, but also have certain misunderstandings.

They knew that Mozhou was the hometown of the Mo people, and most of the eastern part of Mozhou should be undeveloped mountain and forest wasteland.

I guess the situation there should be similar to that of the South Seas, a hot and humid miasma land, full of uncivilized savages.

If it weren't for the fact that Da Ming now had a special medicine for cold and fever, he wouldn't dare to let his son go.

Hao Zhongyi himself has almost this kind of cognition, so he didn't show much interest in the so-called "being an official" proposed by the two officials.

Hao Zhongyi originally had four brothers, whose names were Uncle Bo Zhong, Ji Jiaren, Yi, Lizhi.

Hao Zhongyi is the second, and Hao Jizhi is the fourth.

originally thought that Hao Jizhi was the youngest, but it turned out that his father had a son and gave birth to a fifth.

There is only a small restaurant at home, and there is no other industry, and after the old man is gone, each child will not have much to share.

Let the middle son go out to break through, and if he can earn an industry by himself, he can get less points.

So Hao Zhongyi's father arranged for their brother to go to Mozhou.

Hao Zhongyi is not a manager, which will not affect the arrangement of the two brothers to go to Mozhou.

So on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the brothers Hao Zhongyi and Hao Jizhi led their mother-in-law and children to say goodbye to their parents and went to the dock with their luggage.

Because Hao Zhongyi has a primary school diploma, and can write and calculate, and the words are good, he was archived separately after registration.

In addition, I am a "Shandong man" who looks relatively stable, and I have a job before I get on the ship.

The immigration officer appointed Hao Zhongyi as the manager on the spot, responsible for the registration and management of 16 immigrants.

Brother Hao Jizhi served as his second brother's deputy.

The two brothers have been helping out in the restaurant since they were children, and it is still easy to deal with more than a dozen people.

When Hao Zhongyi took the list to confirm the name and person, he found that he was the only one who was a pure Ming person.

More than half of the others are mixed-race, and the rest are pure indigenous and human.

Most of the Ming people in the vassal kingdoms didn't want to go out to open up the wasteland, and they were more inclined to let the half-blood concubines go out to work hard.

Most of the natives and people tend to go to sea to work, but they are no longer dominant in the number of groups in the Japanese archipelago, so the total number of immigrants who come out is also not the majority.

The identities and status of the Ming, the mestizos, the indigenous and the human, there is a potential phenomenon of class differentiation.

As a pure-blooded Ming man, Hao Zhongyi naturally became the manager of this small group, and no one else had any opinions.

At the very least, until Hao Zhongyi made an obviously unfair distribution, he would not feel that there was a problem with this arrangement.

Hao Zhongyi, the little manager, lined up with sixteen immigrants, registered, boarded the ship, and assigned cabins.

In the process, Hao Zhongyi discovered that these immigrants were not from the same place.

Some also said that they had a companion from the town, but was dispersed by Ming officials.

After leaving the port, the ship sailed south around the island of Honshu and docked again in Nagasaki, where a group of immigrants boarded.

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The person in charge of the ship felt that Hao Zhongyi had done a good job, so he added twenty-four more people to Hao Zhongyi.

When Hao Zhongyi registered for comparison, he found that only six of the 24 people were recruited locally in Nagasaki.

Fourteen others were transferred from Goryeo and Silla, and two young couples were transferred from the Ryukyu Kingdom.

When Hao Zhongyi inquired about the situation, he found that they were all specially dispersed by Ming officials.

Only the closest family, including parents and nieces, two brothers, and husband and wife, will not be separated.

In other words, the more than 40 people managed by Hao Zhongyi now are all from different places and do not know each other.

Hao Zhongyi didn't understand at first what was the use of the Ming officials doing this.

But as the voyage became longer, when the manager took care of more things, and dealt with several brothers, husbands and wives, and father-son combinations more often, Hao Zhongyi slowly discovered the benefits of doing so.

Separate families and immigrants who don't know each other are better managed than brothers and father-son combinations.

If these forty people are all from the same village, or even from the same family, I will definitely not be able to control them.