The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 87
Such a big fanfare to buy people, people's teeth are very happy, they are all guessing whether it will be some high-ranking official.

The people tried their best, but it's a pity that the leading young man is too difficult to serve, he is obviously a clean, white and tender young man, but he just doesn't want to buy it.

Li Dagang has followed Huang Sheng for a long time to know what the adults are thinking, and when he sees the adults picking people, he can understand what kind of person he is going to buy.

He told Huang Sheng that the Grand Canal hadn't thawed yet, and there were many trackers there who couldn't find work and lived in shacks without food and clothing.

There are more than a few thousand people there, few women and children, most of them are grown men, and the children of fifteen or sixteen that adults want must not be old or young.

Both Li Dagang and Han Kuan came from poor backgrounds. They passed by there twice on the road, so they naturally saw everything in their eyes. The reason to speak to the adults at this moment is to find a way for those people to survive.

Although they knew that the Huang family's financial resources were limited, they could always save a few people.

Of course, Huang Sheng is good at doing good things. It is meaningless to keep money. Its value can only be reflected when it is used to save people and people in dire straits. Immediately, Qiaozhen and the others bought hundreds of cooking cakes and prepared to go to Tongzhou where the trackers concentrated.

All those in power were afraid of the gathering of refugees, and it was the same in the Ming Dynasty. Especially the vicinity of the capital was more strictly guarded. Thousands of trackers were managed centrally, and they were not allowed to become blind.There is a guard of thousands of soldiers watching.

There are many such canal trackers concentrated along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. The officials are also afraid that they will not be able to find people at the critical moment of water transportation, so they will be given some food to hang them when the canal freezes, so as not to let them scatter in winter.

The so-called Cao Gang only grew up during the Qing Dynasty. There was no such a large-scale gang in the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, the gang with hundreds of thousands of laborers would make a big noise in such a chaotic world at the end of the Ming Dynasty?Why is there no historical record?

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang started his business as a cult and a gang. He knew the dangers in the world, so the whole Ming Dynasty has been fighting against them for more than 200 years. There were no legal cults and gangs in the Ming Dynasty.

All cults and gangs existed in secret, and rebelling from time to time would only destroy a few small county towns, and they did not shake the country at all like the great leader Hong Xiuquan of the Qing Dynasty.

Huang Sheng was going to let Bai Mudan and the ten of them go back, and he only took He Xiang and her two maidservants, and was escorted by five servants to Tongzhou to have a look.

Bai Mudan arranged for the sisters to go back, but she held Bai Furong's hand and couldn't get off the car. She insisted on following the master, and volunteered to say that she knew these trackers and wanted to help the master choose good ones.

Qiaozhen and Laifeng have both gone back, the car is very empty, and there are not many of them, so it is not lonely to take them for a chat along the way.Huang Sheng actually likes this thorny peony flower, and she always makes people feel a kind of attachment.

Huang Sheng went directly to the camp of the guards who managed these trackers. Daming's guards had degenerated to the point that they were almost like farmers, and the inside was messy and dirty.

Those soldiers saw a few majestic knights guarding such an imposing black car, knew that a big man was coming, and immediately reported to Li Guodong, a thousand households in charge here.

Huang Sheng knew best how to use tiger skin as a big banner, and immediately showed Li Qianhu a waist card given by the young prince of the British public a few days ago.

This is Huang Sheng telling Zhang Zhiji, if the car arrives, what should I do if I encounter unsightly civilians and generals along the way, what should I do?
The little grandpa gave him this token, telling him that in Daming, especially in Beizhili, no one would dare to touch the belongings of British Duke Zhang.

It was the first time for Huang Sheng to use this jade waist badge, and he didn't know if it was good or not. Who knew that the five-rank Qianhu would immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Huang Sheng after seeing the waist badge, regardless of whether he was just dressed as a scholar.

Seeing this token, Li Guodong thought that the British government had some important business to do, and was very nervous. He was relieved when Huang Sheng explained his intention.

He immediately ordered a hundred soldiers, surrounded by Huang Sheng's low-key luxury, and came to the canal trackers' shack.

Several teams of soldiers beat the gong and went in to publicize, and it didn't take long for many unkempt trackers to come.

There is not a single fat person here, every child is yellow and skinny and ragged, and the adults are all dull-eyed and lifeless, looking at Huang Sheng and the gorgeously dressed nobles with misty eyes with suspicion.

Li Dagang had already done such things many times, and he didn't have to wait for Huang Sheng's order to open his voice and say his son's request to choose a boy.

Then a few of them went to the crowd to recruit people. Huang Sheng asked He Xiang, Bai Mudan, and Bai Furong to talk to the children selected by Li Dagang and the others, and after making another choice, they came to his side and decided to stay or not.

"Son, what's your name? How old are you? Where are you from? Who else is there in the family?" Huang Sheng asked kindly when the first boy came to him.

"My lord, the younger one is Liu Dawan, 15 years old, from Luanzhou, Shandong Province. My hometown heard that Xiangjiao could no longer survive. My father fled here with me to stretch fiber for a living. My father died of illness in December last year. The younger one is now alone. "

"Okay, would you like to stay in Huang's family to read, read and be a housekeeper in the future?"

"The little one is willing, thank you master. The little one doesn't need to read and write, as long as the master feeds him." Huan'er and Le'er are also 15 years old. They immediately asked the child to eat pancakes and told him to slow down. , I will follow the master to eat every day.

At this moment, Liu Dawan was in a trance and felt like a dream. He regarded Huan'er and Le'er as fairies from the Nine Heavens, and Len Keke was holding the pancakes, staring at them without blinking.

Le'er giggled and said, "Little brother, don't act like this, if the master finds out and thinks you are a fool, he might change his mind and not want you!"

"Hey! Thank you sister." Liu Dawan hurriedly lowered his head and ate the pancakes.

"Master, the youngest Ma San, 16 years old, and a younger brother named Ma, 54 years old, from Qiantun, Liaodong, please accept the younger brother too, the younger one is willing to be a cow and horse for the master."

"Oh? Why wasn't your brother selected?"

"Master, my younger brother is too thin, those elder brothers look down on me."

"Okay, go and bring your brother!"

"Thank you master, thank you master, woo woo woo..." Ma San knelt on the ground, kowtowed and wept in a mess.

At first, he thought that he would spend money to buy people, but who knew that they were all selected children who had lost their families. They all had their own stories, and every story moved people to tears. Huang Sheng felt desolate in his heart.

But my own money is limited, if I want to use it to develop and do great things, I can't use it for charity at all. If I don't have the strength, I can only make sure that those who rely on the Huang family have enough food and clothing in a small area.

Such a choice is very selfish and helpless. Daming has too many poor people to help, and Huang Sheng has too little money.Only when we develop ourselves and take the path of industrial power, can we create more job opportunities and save more Ming people.

These trackers discovered the clues of Li Dagang's selection of people. Seeing the selected children eating cooking cakes, some trackers pushed their children out and told them that they were also orphans when anyone came to ask them, and they would follow that child from now on. sir let's go.

Spring is actually the most difficult time for the poor, and these parents leave hope to their children.

They all saw Master Qianhu nodding and bowing beside the master. The amiable young masters in the master's family were all kind-hearted, knowing that the master was not young, and if the children were lucky enough to follow, they should be much better off than they are now.

(End of this chapter)