Daming 1805

Chapter 266 Talents who graduated from elementary school

The Japanese archipelago, the capital of Edo.

In the middle of the Kingdom Office opposite the palace, signboards and electric horns were erected outside the courtyard of the household office.

Every quarter of an hour, the Dashiguo's policy of recruiting immigrants was read out, and people from around came in one after another to inquire about the situation and register.

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

Relevant news has also gradually spread throughout Edo Castle, the city where most of the residents of Edo Kingdom are located.

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

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

Hao Zhongyi immediately took his younger brother over, and asked with a habitual smile:

"Two servants, we want to inquire about the Great Food Kingdom... about the immigrants from the Mozhou Lake District..."

When the two officers on duty saw someone coming, especially when they heard the other party speaking Daming Mandarin with a Shandong accent, they immediately regained their energy. A young officer picked up a pen to inquire about the situation and prepared to record:

"Are you from Shandong?"

Hao Zhongyi immediately said:

"My parents are from Caozhou Prefecture, Shandong Province, and I myself was born in Edo City, but my brother and his mother are from Edo."

Before Chongzhen, the northern mansions of the Ming Dynasty were actually transformed from the roads of the Yuan Dynasty, and many northern mansions had extremely large jurisdictions.

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 considered reasonable. What was unreasonable was that it was not adjusted after restoration.

It was still in this state until the Chongzhen year.

In the Renwu Dynasty, Emperor Shizu split part of the northern mansion.

The two prefectures of Yanzhou Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion were dismantled into four mansions of Caozhou Mansion, Yanzhou Mansion, Yizhou Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion.

When the two officers heard the young man say that both his parents were from Caozhou Prefecture, they still remained interested.

Before last year, even if parents were from Daming, as long as they were not born in Daming, they were not considered as Daming.

But according to the latest standards, as long as his parents are from Daming, no matter where he was born, he himself is from Daming.

The children of Daming people and Korean women and girls will basically be regarded as Ming people in places outside the mainland of Ming Dynasty.

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

The older officer on the other side smiled and asked:
"Everything that needs to be said on the radio has been said, so what else do you brothers want to know?"

Hao Zhongyi immediately said:

"That's how it is. My family runs a restaurant in Edo Castle. My father wants me to take my brother with me to open a restaurant in the newly built immigration area. Are there any special rules here?"

The senior officer immediately introduced and asked at the same time:
"There are no special rules. Over there is the Great Food Kingdom of Ming Dynasty, and the rules are basically the same as those of Edo Kingdom.

"But you two brothers open a restaurant by yourself, will you keep accounts and settle accounts?"

Hao Zhongyi immediately nodded and said:

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

The two officers immediately felt a little overjoyed, and the older officer said excitedly:
"Graduated from elementary school, can write and count, and is still from Daming. This is a talent. Why do you still open a restaurant? Go and be a manager!"

The young officer took out a form and a pen and handed it over:
"Fill in your situation by yourself, which can be regarded as checking whether you can write or not, and directly write the manager in the intention column.

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

"Without the establishment of traditional prefectures and counties, the treasurer and manager of the company are equivalent to local officials, ensuring everything."

Hao Zhongyi was immediately stunned:

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

The senior officer immediately said:
"I said you know it, you know it, can you write and count, but you can't be an official?"

The young officer followed up with consolation and said:
"Ordinary workers and farmers can't write. If you can write down everyone's name and how much work they do each day, and then figure out how much each person should be paid, you can be an official. Can you Can you do it?"

Hao Zhongyi thought for a while:
"Isn't this just bookkeeping? I'm sure I will, but I'm going to be a manager. What about our restaurant?"

The old secretary said a little worriedly:
"Why are you staring at your restaurant? Isn't that restaurant open yet?"

Hao Zhongyi immediately said:

"My father asked me to go to Mozhou to let me carry forward our family's craftsmanship, otherwise what would I do in Mozhou?"

The two officers looked at each other, both a little worried, but these low-level officials are all experienced.

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

"Let your brother run a restaurant."

Hao Zhongyi immediately said:
"My brother hasn't learned yet, he can only help me now."

The old secretary continued:

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

"The requirements for cooking in the factory are not high. Just stew meat with a lot of oil and salt. Even a cook who has not been a master can do it."

Hao Zhongyi finally felt that this would work:
"In that case, I'll be Yee's manager."

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 and prepare. On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, go to the boat at nine o'clock."

Hao Zhongyi followed the secretary's reminder and filled out two forms one after another, writing the information of five people.

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

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

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

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

Only when there are really no conditions, will the pure-blood children be married to the mixed-race or native children.

Both 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 moisture.

After filling out the form, the brothers each kept a copy and went home to pack their bags.

The two officers were very happy looking at the two pieces of information in their hands.

They directly recruited two immigrant families, a Daming man who could be the manager, and a cook from the He family.

A cook who has never been a teacher is also a cook. The son of a restaurant owner and a chef who is in charge of cooking is definitely better than ordinary people who are directly trained as a cook.

Moreover, the other party is of mixed blood from the Ming Dynasty and the He clan. In the mixed immigrant area in the east of Mozhou, he can be directly used as his own.

This cook might be able to work as a canteen manager in the future.

After Hao Zhongyi's two brothers returned home, they reported the situation to their parents. Of course, their parents were relatively happy.

But not too surprised.

The small manager of this kind of vassal king's estate is probably equivalent to the bottom-level secretary and book office, not a high-status status.

Ming's overseas immigrants have a certain understanding of the world, but also have certain misunderstandings.

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

It is guessed that the situation there should be similar to Nanyang, which belongs to the hot and humid miasma land, full of uncivilized savages.

If it weren't for Daming's special medicine to treat cold and fever, he wouldn't dare to let his son go.

Hao Zhongyi himself had almost the same understanding, so he didn't show much interest in the so-called "becoming an official" matter proposed by the two officers.

Hao Zhongyi originally had four brothers, named Uncle Ji Jiaren, Yi Lizhi.

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

Originally thought that Hao Jizhi was the youngest, but it turned out that his father was always there and gave birth to a fifth child.

There is only a small restaurant at home, and there is no other property. After the old man is gone, each child can't share much.

Let the son in the middle go out and make a fortune, so that he can earn a share of the property by himself, so he can get less points.

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

Whether Hao Zhongyi is the manager or not doesn't affect their brothers' arrangement to go to Mozhou.

So on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, brothers Hao Zhongyi and Hao Jizhi took their mother-in-law and children to bid farewell to their parents and went to the pier with their luggage.

Because Hao Zhongyi has a primary school diploma, can write and count, and writes well, he was archived separately after signing up.

In addition, I am a "Shandong man" who seems to be relatively stable, but I have a job before I even board the ship.

The officer in charge of immigration appointed Hao Zhongyi as the manager on the spot, responsible for registering and managing sixteen immigrants.

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

The two brothers helped out in the restaurant since they were young, and it was easy to deal with 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 pure Ming.

More than half of the others are of mixed race, and the remaining half are pure indigenous people.

Most of the Daming people in the vassal state do not want to go out to open up wasteland, and they are more inclined to let the mixed-race bastards go out to work hard.

Most of the aborigines and people tend to go to sea to work hard, but their number in the Japanese archipelago is no longer dominant, so the total number of immigrants who come out also does not account for the majority.

The identities and statuses of Ming people, mixed-race children, indigenous people, and people have a potential class differentiation phenomenon.

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

At least until Hao Zhongyi made an obviously unfair distribution, he didn't feel that there was any problem with this arrangement.

Hao Zhongyi, a small manager, led sixteen immigrants to line up, register, board the ship, and assign cabins.

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

Some people also said that they originally had a companion from the town, but were dispersed by officials of Daming.

After the immigrant ship left the port, it sailed south around Honshu Island and docked at Nagasaki, where a group of immigrants boarded.

The person in charge of the ship felt that Hao Zhongyi had done a good job, so he added another 24 people to Hao Zhongyi.

Hao Zhongyi discovered during registration and comparison that only six of the 24 people were recruited locally in Nagasaki.

Another fourteen 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 also specially dispersed by the Ming officials.

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

In other words, the more than 40 people under Hao Zhongyi's management are all from different places and do not know each other.

Hao Zhongyi didn't understand at the beginning, what is the use of Ming officials doing this.

But as the sailing time got longer, when the manager took care of more things, and dealt with several brothers, husband and wife, and father-son combinations more often, Hao Zhongyi gradually discovered the benefits of doing so.

Separate families and immigrants who don't know each other are easier to manage than brothers and father-son groups.

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

(End of this chapter)