Wanli 1592

389 Three Years

Burma Town, Bagu City, Zhennanhou Mansion.

In the afternoon, when it was quiet, a burst of hurried footsteps broke the tranquility of Zhennan Hou Mansion.

"Master Hou! Master Hou! Here we come! Here we come!"

A burst of calling made Xiao Ruxun, who was holding a book and reading leisurely, quite dissatisfied.

At noon, the family members were all sleeping, especially the two little ancestors, who had been making a fuss all morning. After finally sleeping well and giving him some time to rest, this man rushed in. If he woke up the two little ancestors Ancestor, open your mouth and start crying, what should you do?
Xiao Ruxun put a spoon full of uneaten sweet corn to his mouth and put it back into the bowl, stood up and put down the book, shook the big cattail fan, walked out of his study room, and immediately saw Ma Wei coming from outside the yard He ran over, waved his hands and shouted at Xiao Ruxun: "Master Hou! Master Hou! They're here! They're back!"

Xiao Ruxun waved his cattail fan and yelled softly: "Shut up! It's noon! Everyone is resting! You're yelling, do you want everyone to rest?"

Ma Wei immediately shrank his head, slowed down his pace and trotted over, and said softly: "Master Chen, Mr. Chen and Mr. Li have returned from the West, and brought back the Western firearms craftsmen you want, more than 100 people!"

"More than 100? Hehe, not bad, I thought I could bring back 50 or more than 100 people at most. It seems that those Western firearms craftsmen are having a hard time! Go and tell Chen Longzheng and Matteo Ricci , let him settle those Westerners, and then come and report to me."

"promise!"

Ma Wei promised, and hurried away.

Xiao Ruxun smiled and shook his head.

This young man is good at everything, but has a quick temper. He is not at all like his two elder brothers, Ma Hu and Mayong.

But this kid has only been in Burma Town for three months, and it's not easy for him to do this. By the way, does Magui plan to move his family?

In the past few years, I have sent all the good youngsters of the Ma family here to practice for myself, not to mention Ma Hu and Ma Yong. In the current Zhennan Army, they are all senior officers. In charge of 5000 people, the rest of the Ma family boys are also low-level military officers such as centurion commanders and commanders. Now there is a 16-year-old Ma Wei, a tiger-headed tiger-headed, stupefied one.

However, it is good to be the commander-in-chief of the Zhennan Hou Mansion and be responsible for the safety of the Hou Mansion. The stupid boy is not good at brains, but he is hardworking and willing to work. He has nowhere to use his strength. Xiao Ruxun just needs such a stupid and strong man The silly boy runs errands, no, he runs more happily than anyone else.

However, the errands between Chen Longzheng and Matteo Ricci are still good. I thought it would be good to recruit 100 to [-] artisans from the West who are willing to come to the East for adventure. Now it’s good, more than [-] craftsmen who made rifled flints came in one breath. Craftsmen with experience in shooting guns, this time, the production line of their own rifled flintlock guns will be further expanded and consolidated, and the guns held by soldiers will be more or less accurate, and the bullets will not fly randomly when fired.

Raising her head and looking at the blue sky, Xiao Ruxun slapped her cattail fan heavily several times.

It's been three years, three years here, and I'm already 26 years old.

I have to say that the past three years have passed quickly, at least when I realized it, it was already my 26th birthday party.

Xiao Ruxun really worked like a sweatshop to develop the impoverished Myanmar town from 130 Han people to the current population of more than [-] million, from chaos and disorder to the current orderly and well-organized life.

Since three years ago, the Ming Dynasty seems to have entered a period of frequent natural disasters. The population of peasant households who lost their land through massacres, deceit and rebellion in the past also has a new export window, which is to go to the sparsely populated Burmese town. .

Landless peasants will not rebel because they have no way out, and the court will not be worried about the increase in refugees. Both parties regard Myanmar Town as a garbage disposal station. As long as there are refugees, they will all be thrown into Myanmar Town. .

Anyway, from their point of view, Burma Town is always a place of alienation, a shelter for refugees and untouchables, and it can't develop anyway. Xiao Ruxun can only barely deal with the problems of the victims, but can't better develop the local economy in Myanmar. This place is always just a garbage disposal station, and it will be fine after the disposal is over, and all the dross inside Daming will be driven out, so that what remains in Daming will be the essence.

This is how it is viewed from the cabinet down to local states and counties.

In order to appease Xiao Ruxun, the cabinet even extended the tax exemption period for another three years. It seems that in their eyes, Myanmar Town is just a garbage dump, and a little tax is better than nothing. The governor of Yunnan has changed twice, and none of them have visited Myanmar Town , refused to move their noble footsteps one step beyond the border of Yunnan. In their view, Burma Town still did not belong to Huaxia, but a foreign vassal. Xiao Ruxun, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty at the time, had also become the king of a foreign country in their view.

The elders don’t pay attention to how many ships come and go at the port of Yangon in the town of Myanmar every year, how many businessmen from various countries come to Yangon to do business, and how many floating people wander back and forth in Yangon. They only know that this is a garbage disposal station. Ship after ship, in just three years, nearly 100 million refugees and Han people who migrated voluntarily came to settle in Myanmar Town, got land grants, and lived a stable life.

Such rumors spread in the vast coastal areas, and landless peasants and unemployed manual laborers who could not live on continued to go to Myanmar towns to try their luck. Facts have proved that their luck is very good.

When they came to Myanmar, they first had to do something called "physical examination", which should be to check whether the body has any symptoms, whether there are infectious diseases, etc., and then the doctor there explained the precautions for living in Myanmar, etc., and then went to similar The agency of the household department registers the name and place of origin, asks if any family members stay in Daming, whether they would like to come to Myanmar together, etc. After the registration is completed, they can receive the land grant, title deed, and residence, etc. After arriving there, You can also get rations and farm tools.

For farmers, it is a dream life.

The handicraftsmen will be asked what skills they know and whether their skills are exquisite, and then they will be arranged to live in the city, allocated houses and jobs, the amount of money and food per month, and so on.

Some special craftsmen were also arranged to be interrogated in further military camps, and then sent directly to the northern military area, where they received higher treatment and stricter control, but their lives were also carefree.

Will they be dissatisfied with such a life?

(End of this chapter)