Chapter Ninety-Eight: The New Residents of the City of Beijing

"What? We have to go. Zhang Ming said loudly: "Why? ”

One of the officials said in a loud voice, "Why? The order of the imperial court, how do you want to disobey the order of the imperial court. I'm not afraid to tell you, but now it's all floods, and the grain outside can only be transported by boat, and there are too many people in the city. There was no time to transport food, and the victims had to be diverted. If any of you have any opinions, you will not need to receive the daily relief food from now on. ”

This official is short in stature, but he has a great momentum, and in a word, these victims dare not say much.

Even though Zhang Ming is tall, he is like a quail, shrinking his head and not daring to say much.

It's not that I'm afraid of this servant, but I'm afraid of the court.

"Any other comments?" The official said loudly: "If you don't have any opinions, you can come here to register, if you don't want to register, it's okay, anyway, if you don't register, there will be no food." ”

Zhang Ming plucked up his courage and said, "My lord, are we all going as a family?" ”

The official said, "All go, all go." The court is in charge of the food. ”

Zhang Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as the family is together, no matter what kind of day it is, he has no complaints. It's just that in my heart, I can't help but have a trace of apprehension.

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On the second day, Zhang Ming took his mother and sister to the dock. Watching hundreds of people line up to board the boat under the organization of the soldiers, while listening to these people talking.

What locals are crowding out outsiders? The people of the city have crowded out the people outside the city.

If yes, etc.

Zhang Ming was also very angry when he heard this.

It turned out that He Xi did not stipulate who left and who stayed. But the people of the Ming Dynasty relocated to their land. As long as possible, I don't want to leave my hometown, even if I have just migrated for not many years, but I still have my hometown.

As far as Zhang Ming himself is concerned, he actually wants to wait for the flood to over, and he will add to the few acres of fields that he will take care of.

In particular, the imperial court has begun to provide disaster relief, and the locals have no intention of leaving.

I have to admit that in the early stage of the Ming Dynasty, it has always done a good job in disaster relief. Until the orthodox years, because of financial problems, disaster relief, gradually beyond the reach of the gentry, began to launch gentry relief, and later, there was no such thing as disaster relief in the Ming Dynasty.

He Xi's disaster relief this time is timely, but in fact, He Xi can only say that he has done well, but it can never be regarded as brilliant.

In organizing disaster relief, the Ming Dynasty has a complete set of methods, as long as the officials do not deliberately embezzle, the court does not skimp on money, and the effect is uneven, but there is relatively no big difference.

Therefore, Zhang's mother believes that the imperial court will definitely provide disaster relief.

And the people feel that after the disaster relief, everyone's life will return to the original situation, why should they leave?

Now I heard that all the people who walked were from the countryside, the people in the state and cities, and the people who had a relationship with them, none of them left. Naturally, there are many complaints.

Zhang Ming secretly scolded in his heart: "It's that dog officer who came up with this idea, don't let him fall into my hands, I will definitely cut him with a thousand knives." ”

It's just that no matter how many complaints Zhang Ming has in his heart, he also knows that he can't mess around at this time, so he can only honestly take his mother and sister on the boat.

This ship was supposed to be a grain ship, and there was nothing on it. There was only one shed, and more than a hundred people were crammed into it like canned sardines, and there was a curtain at the stern of the ship to cover one place, which was the place to untie their hands.

After Zhang Ming got on the boat, there was some seasickness.

But Zhang Xiaomei is very energetic, because the disaster relief food came, she ate a few full meals, and her original sick appearance suddenly disappeared. Children don't understand the sadness of adults, and at this moment, she is very curious about this trip, and she plays with a few children on the boat.

However, Zhang Ming leaned on the boat and did not move, and it was difficult to be tightened if he moved slightly.

However, a few days later, Zhang's mother pushed her son's shoulder and said, "It's here, it's here." ”

Zhang Mingcai opened his eyes in a daze and looked up. But I saw a very large wharf, stretching for more than ten miles, and there was a waterway, and I didn't know where it led. The docks are densely packed with large and small boats.

Many of them are grain ships that are being sent from Beijing to various places.

Now Beijing South Wharf has become one of the logistics centers in Beijing, and the waterway that Zhang Ming saw is leading to Beijing's South Lake, if there are too many ships, they can also directly enter the South Lake, and the South Lake is another berthing place for ships.

Since Beijing's eastward relocation is for the convenience of water transportation, He Xi naturally wants to give full play to this convenience.

Zhang Ming grabbed his mother's hand with one hand, grabbed his sister with the other, and followed the team of people off the boat. ”

"Beijing Construction Society, we are the yamen of the imperial court, eight hundred yuan a month."

For a while, it was like a vegetable market.

Zhang Ming was a little overwhelmed.

At this time, a clerk came over, looked at the list he had received from the captain, and said, "Listen, everybody." There are a lot of people recruiting workers here, you can go directly, but you need the unit to go to the yamen to guarantee the settlement. If you can't find it for a while, you can come to me. I'm right at the yamen by the dock. During this period of time, the yamen will take care of your meals. But after a long time, I can't get a job, so there's no way. Liaodong, Northeast, and Monan are all short of people in Tuntian. I advise you to find a job and settle down as soon as possible. ”

Zhang Ming was in a daze for a while, and then the clerk sent them a list one by one. Zhang Ming knew a few big characters, and after reading them for a long time, he found that there were the names of their family of three on it. I don't know what it is.

This is actually a special road guide formulated by He Xi, if you really want to say it, it can be said to be a household registration.

Everybody who comes over, they send this, and then take this to find a job. Then after finding a job, I asked the work unit to report to the Planning Department, so that this hukou fell in Beijing. It is the people of Beijing.

Of course, there are too many problems with this process.

For example, these trading companies or something, is it okay not to settle down? Yes, of course.

Today, there are more than 10,000 officials inside and outside Beijing. But even so, it is not enough to serve the entire city of Beijing and the industrial system near the city. Even tens of thousands of people may not be enough.

The reason for this.

There are two reasons for this: first, the whole system is now new.

Although the ancient court and the modern government seem to be the same in many places, in fact, the difference is too great. From the scope of jurisdiction, to the responsibility function, to the management style, the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and so on.

There are so many differences.

And He Xi has never really been to the system, and he actually doesn't know much about the operation of modern government affairs. He could only work backwards. From the government functions he has been exposed to, the internal working methods and division of labor and cooperation within the government are inferred.

As a result, there are many omissions in many places.

This is also quite normal.

In this case, more people are needed to compensate.

The second reason is the problem of technology. What a person can do in the future, in this era, more people are needed to do it. Not to mention, the quality of the people in this era is not high, in fact, on the issue of household registration, the people can go directly to the yamen to do it.

But why did He Xi let the trading company or unit do it? It is because most of the people are illiterate that they are also at a loss about some of the internal processes with the government. It's almost impossible to get them to do it.

In fact, even in later generations, there are some individuals who have made a lot of ridiculous mistakes in many very simple processes, let alone this era.

But the system, which is full of loopholes, is also better than the original system.

At least, He Xi proposed that the people of the Ming Dynasty had the freedom to move in the Ming Law. In this system, it is reflected and will be improved little by little in the future.

It's just these things, Zhang Ming is at a loss.

He didn't know what to do?

Let him fight ten at a time, he is still sure. But let him run the process, let him go to find a job, he was a little dazed. After all, in these years, the job market relies on the introduction of acquaintances and tooth people, and this kind of recruitment scene has never been seen.

Because, for a long time in ancient China, there was a surplus of labor and few job opportunities. There will be no such mass recruitment.