Lu Ming

Chapter 505 Taipei ([-])

Master Huang Yusheng is from Sanming, Fujian.

Sanming is a mountainous area, so the Huang family is a small clan from the valley.

Accompanied by successive years of natural disasters, severe drought, and increasingly severe exploitation by the government, the Huang people felt that life was really difficult, so they came up with the idea of ​​fleeing famine collectively.

This kind of collective fleeing from famine was very common in ancient times.Especially in the northern region, whenever there is a catastrophe and a military turmoil, a large number of Han people will collectively migrate south——Western Jin Dynasty, the end of Tang Dynasty, the end of Song Dynasty, the end of Ming Dynasty, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Hakka groups from all over the world.

What is different from the past is that this time the Huang family has a new choice for collective escape: Tainan.

Fujian and Tainan are separated by a sea, and Xiong Wencan's attitude of "reopening" makes Fujian the province of Ming that is most heavily infiltrated by cross-travelers.

The process of the Huang family's migration this time is very simple: just go to any coastal city, find the "labor recruitment points" opened by Marshal Cao in various downtown areas, consult with the clerk about the conditions, and then the whole family can set off.

After the refugees set off, as long as they hold the certificate issued here, they can find a special reception point in any county along the way, and all food, drink and accommodation will be reimbursed.

So the Huang family came to Tainan in this way, and it was so easy that it didn't look like an escape from famine. The time was at the beginning of last year.

After that, the treatment everyone received was quite satisfactory.Not only did everyone live in a beautiful wooden apartment, but there was also a cafeteria where they could eat their fill.

Of course, the premise of all this is to pay back the debt for Dashuai Cao.

However, Huang Yusheng's family was treated differently.One morning, half a month after arriving in Tainan, the family of four was singled out again, ordered to be packed, and sent to the boat to Taipei without a word, without even being given a chance to say goodbye to the family.

After the family arrived in Taipei in fear, they were apprehensive at first.Especially Huang's father, he judged very firmly: his family will be wiped out by the surname Cao. After all, there are rich abbots in poor temples.

Although these silvers were forcibly exchanged into banknotes before, banknotes are now deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Everyone knows that this thing is equivalent to silver in Tainan.

Facts have proved that Huang's father thought too much.Although the environment in Taipei is a bit harsh, the social outlook is no different from that of Tainan. It is still in a period of rapid development, and there is no government to blackmail his family's money.

Father Huang found out the real reason soon after: it turned out that this was the place where the dignitaries of the clan were exiled!

After learning that the neighbors living in the simple house had the same experience, Huang's father finally found out the real reason.However, it was too late to say anything at this time. The information about Taipei flowed in unilaterally, and outsiders didn't know the slightest bit of the situation here.

In this way, after being beaten back to his original form and losing the people he could rely on in the past, Huang's father, who was used to power, couldn't bear the psychological gap, and soon died of illness.

But as the saying goes: a dragon begets nine sons.

Huang Yusheng, the theoretical young patriarch, was born with an optimistic temperament, which was different from his father who valued authority very much.

From Yusheng's point of view, since everyone has already put down their faces and defected to Marshal Cao, life and death are naturally in the hands of manpower, let alone being scattered and resettled?
Besides, based on the situation they saw in Tainan, the people of their own family must be living well now, so don't worry about it, let's take care of each other.

Therefore, after the patriarch's old father died, the official head of the family, Yusheng, took out his savings in time to buy a newly built two-story building facing the street in Huanggang Town.

At this time, due to the new development of Huanggang Town, the environment is harsh, so there are many people waiting and watching, but not many people are willing to spend their money to buy properties.

So Huang Yusheng picked up a bargain: a new small brick-concrete building cost only half of his family's savings.

After owning the property, his family lived on the second floor, rented out two rooms by the way, and opened a grocery store on the first floor. In this way, Huang Yusheng settled his mother and younger sister.

As for himself, he signed up to work as a financial supervisor/supervisor of the second construction company that is currently in full swing in Huanggang Town.

Huang Yusheng's two choices are virtually in line with the current "trend" of development.

First of all, with the arrival of a large number of resources and slaves, Huanggang Town is becoming more and more prosperous. After just one year, it is impossible to spend that little money to buy a small building now.

Secondly, after working in the second construction company equivalent to a state-owned enterprise, Huang Yusheng obtained far more information than ordinary people, so he gradually recognized the hidden power of the Marshal's Mansion, and gradually integrated into the new system through daily work.Coupled with the fact that young people accept new ideas quickly, so today's Young Master Yusheng has become a qualified middle and lower level managerial personnel needed by an emerging regime.

During this process, Yusheng also got to know many people, among which the most appetizing young master is the reckless Third Master Wu.

Wu Sanye is undoubtedly a man with a story.In addition, on the dangerous construction site, Wu Sanye saved the life of Master Yusheng twice, which cannot be ignored.

As a result, two people with completely different backgrounds and identities formed a year-end friendship in this way, struggling together in this land where vitality and crisis coexist.

After the noon break that day, Mr. Wu and the others sent off the boat that transported the corpses, took turns to wash their hands, and after eating, they stayed on the construction site until the evening before organizing a team to leave work.

After several years of groping, the traversers are now quite experienced in how to manage slave camps.

On this deserted island isolated from the world, Wu Sanye and his supervisors have relatively loose supervision of the slaves—if they want to run away, they can just go, escaped slaves can live in the primeval forest of Taipei in the 17th century After three days, you will be able to do it.

Therefore, after the slaves got off work, they all consciously lined up and returned to the slave camp under the escort of guards with guns.

Due to the continuous relocation of the construction section, the so-called slave camp is actually a camp made of tents and temporary straw sheds.

Here, the slaves' day's work is considered complete.The steaming big iron pot has prepared enough calories to feed them.

The main food is brown rice and miscellaneous fish, which were replaced by potatoes and fish later.As for vegetables, it is not a problem at all in Taipei, where the climate is mild. Just a few vegetable gardens can guarantee the food needs of the workshop.

After eating, the slaves had time to completely relax.Of course, there is still a ghost gate to pass before this: temperature detection.

Malaria is not the only disease that can cause mass attrition.In this era where the East and the West blend, there are at least dozens of infectious diseases that threaten the human population living in groups at all times.

Therefore, temperature detection has become the only most effective detection method: any slave who shows signs of elevated body temperature will be isolated and observed separately.Once this person continues to have a fever in the next few days, then I'm sorry, Wu Sanye's big hammer of youth will be knocked off. This will happen even if it is a simple cold, because there is no medicine to treat colds in the slave camp, and it is impossible to judge whether it is a cold or a cold. Not a cold.

After such a difficult day, that night, a company clerk came to the slave camp out of breath and brought a shocking document to Wu Sanye and Yusheng: a new department "Pioneering Army" is currently recruiting people everywhere. The second construction company also received the official letter.

(End of this chapter)