Gauss found a place to live, packed his bed, left the hotel, walked on the street, and observed the surrounding situation.
The streets are relatively clean. Although there are occasional fallen leaves, there is no obvious garbage.
There were vendors pushing carts or parked on street corners, but there were no unemployed people wandering around.
Occasionally, soldiers carrying guns would pass by in formation. These soldiers were probably the main reason why there were no homeless people around.
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Gauss paid special attention to it. The soldiers were obviously divided into two types.
Some were wearing traditional Ming-style military uniforms, and some were wearing Thai and Western-style clothing.
Their numbers were roughly three to four.
Gauss soon saw the second patrol of soldiers. Gauss roughly judged the activity cycle of this patrol team and the density of the patrols.
Then I noticed again that there were not just two types of people in these teams, but actually three types of people.
Those wearing officer uniforms should be from the Ming Dynasty, and those wearing ordinary military uniforms may be from the Yin Dynasty.
There are obvious differences in the images of Ming and Yin people.
The rest of the Taishi were unmistakable.
In this case, the ratio of Ming people, Yin people, and Taixi people is probably one to two to four.
Obviously, the Ming people are all officers, the Yin people are both officers and soldiers, and the Taixi people are all soldiers.
The identities of the three of them seem to be distinct at present.
Gauss assessed these situations in his mind as he walked all the way to the end of the street.
There is a very exquisite villa area opposite.
On the street not far from the gate of the villa area, two teams of patrol soldiers stopped a convoy.
A small train stopped on the street. There were a lot of things in the carriage, and the trunk of a car was also opened.
A Thai man who looked like a businessman was explaining something to the officers of the Ming Dynasty.
Two translators wearing neo-Ming-style formal attire conveyed the message in the middle.
Gauss slowed down a little and listened to their words for a while.
As a German, Gauss is proficient in Daming Yayan, Latin, French, and English, and can understand Italian, Spanish, and Russian. In most places around the world, he will not encounter difficulties due to language issues.
The businessman explained in English:
"We are going to move my grandfather's grave and bury him again. These things are the burial objects we have prepared."
After translating to Ming Dynasty, he took the initiative to explain to the Ming Dynasty officer without waiting for him to ask directly:
"Captain, it is the custom of us Thai people to place the coffins of our ancestors directly in the church basement, or in the basement of a special family cemetery, but no matter which way it is, there are basically no valuable funerary objects left behind.
"According to legends and customs, no matter how rich and noble you are during your lifetime, you must pretend to be as humble and simple as possible in front of St. Peter who guards the gate of heaven, so that you have a greater chance of entering heaven smoothly..."
The officers of the Ming Dynasty were a little angry after hearing this, and questioned the businessman:
"Don't you Thais put coffins in churches? I haven't heard that you have the habit of being buried with them. You covered your old man's body with gold and silver jewelry, and most importantly, you also stuffed a stack of equity certificates. You also asked your old man to go to the church. Heaven?”
When the businessman heard a lot of what the translator said, he knew something bad was going to happen, and he must have revealed the tradition here.
This translation is really harmful.
But now I don’t have time to argue with the translator, so I can only hurriedly find excuses to explain:
"I...I really admire the Ming Dynasty, so I learned the customs of the Ming Dynasty and prepared a special cemetery for grandpa.
"I know that my grandfather may not go to heaven, so I want him to go to the hell of Ming Dynasty.
"Wash away your sins in hell, and then be reincarnated as a Ming Dynasty citizen!"
The surrounding Thai and Western soldiers couldn't help but laugh when they heard this, and Gauss almost laughed out loud.
This guy is so good at talking nonsense. The key is to sell his grandfather and tell him that he can't go to heaven.
After these words were translated, the Ming army officer over there also smiled:
"I want to be beautiful and reincarnate as a Ming Dynasty citizen. Do you think I'm stupid?
"Even in the Ming Dynasty, no one was buried with the equity certificate. Don't think that I don't know what you are planning.
“Take all your valuables and bury them in your grandfather’s grave as funerary objects.
“Wait until the assets review is over, then slowly take it out and pretend it is newly earned money.
"Before the imperial examination is over, and before the assets review is over, no grave relocation is allowed!
“Another reminder, if you bury unregistered assets and dig them out again, they will no longer belong to you.
"It's the same even if you bury it in your own yard!"
Under the command of the Ming Dynasty officer, a group of soldiers blocked the businessman's convoy back to the villa area.
Gauss finally understood something. Ming Dynasty was reviewing the wealth of local enemies.
It seems that those who have too much wealth may lose their hands, so these people want to hide things.
Gold, silver, jewelry and currency can still be buried, but there is no way to hide the house and land.
So those people will look for people to buy houses and land during this period.
Convert the house and land into money and bury them.
With some emotion in his heart, Gauss walked out of the residential area and came to the East River between Lin County and Manhattan, New York.
Some distance away from the river bank, I saw the notice hanging on the telephone pole.
"In order to cooperate with the review of household registration and property registration, before the registration work of the entire island is completed, no one is allowed to leave Changdao without special permission from the Dongyi Governor of the Ming Dynasty. Once found on the scene, they will be killed directly!"
Gauss was startled by this reminder.
Gauss had absolutely no doubt about the seriousness of this warning.
The Taixi people are more serious than the Ming people, and they are worse than the Hu people. If you say they will be killed, they will definitely be killed.
Gauss looked around nervously and found that there was almost no one on the river bank.
The density of patrolling soldiers was significantly doubled compared to that in the urban area.
Watching Gauss approaching the river bank, several soldiers stared here and touched their guns at the same time.
Gauss hesitated for a while, but did not continue to approach, so he observed the surrounding situation from a distance.
The dividing line between Guolin County in Dongyi, Ming Dynasty, and Manhattan, New York, USA is called the East River.
Now you can clearly see that there are many small boats moving on the New York side of the river.
But near Lin County, except for the large ships entering and leaving the port, there are basically no local boats.
Moreover, every once in a while, a destroyer or smaller patrol boat flying the flag of the Ming Dynasty would sail slowly through the center of the river.
Gauss roughly estimated that the distance between the two patrolling destroyers and small boats was about five hundred meters.
The width of the East River is about four hundred to one thousand meters.
With such a high density of patrol boats on guard, it was basically impossible for any ship to suddenly escape to the other side.
It's even more impossible to swim away. The soldiers on the shore can kill such people directly.
Rather than taking risks in a place like this, it is better to go to other areas of Long Island and get out in a small boat in the wilderness.
However, Gauss believed that there must be patrol boats off other coastlines.
The density may be lower, but the distance there from the United States is also farther.
As long as the two ships are separated by ten kilometers, dozens of small boats can circle the entire Long Island.
When Gauss was observing and thinking on the street, he seemed to be in a complete daze to outsiders.
At this time, a middle-aged man walking passed by him, followed his gaze, and immediately shook his head and reminded:
"Young people, don't think about going to New York. Ming Dynasty's laws are pretty good now. Except for those people with tens of thousands of silver coins, or people who want to get rich quickly, it's better to stay here than go to New York..."
Gauss was stunned for a moment, then shook his head subconsciously and said:
"No, no, no, I don't want to go to New York, I'm here to take the imperial examination. I'm observing the river now, just calculating how many ships are needed to siege Long Island, how far apart each ship is to have the best effect, and The most suitable cruising speed, how to coordinate among multiple ships, etc..."
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then smiled and shook his head:
"I'm too sensitive..."
The middle-aged man was about to leave as he spoke.
Gauss continued to ask a question:
"So what will happen to people with tens of thousands of dollars worth of money?"
The middle-aged man stopped, shook his head again, and said with a melancholy expression:
"It's not going to happen. Assets exceeding 10,000 silver notes will be confiscated directly.
"But at the same time, the poorest local workers will get extra wealth.
“As long as Changdao was handed over to the Ming Dynasty, people who belonged to Changdao were all allocated a small piece of land that was enough to support themselves.
“You can rent a house for your family at a very low price.
“The Ming Dynasty also limited the minimum labor remuneration and stipulated the maximum working hours, and manufacturers that did not meet the standards would be punished.
"It's really nice for ordinary people here, but it's just not nice for people with huge wealth."
Gauss digested the information provided by the middle-aged man, and then asked curiously:
"So, sir, you are the one with assets of tens of thousands of banknotes, right?"
The middle-aged man's expression became even more melancholy:
“Most of the entire Brooklyn, which is now Linn County, was originally my family’s farm.
“We broke it into smaller pieces and slowly sold some of it, but there’s still a lot left.
"And by turning the farm into a residential complex, I became the largest real estate businessman in Brooklyn."
Gauss was shocked. He didn't expect to meet a super rich man at the joint:
"So...you suffered heavy losses in this delivery? Did Ming not give you any compensation?"
The real estate businessman sighed for a lifetime and said:
"It can't be said that it's not possible. Changshi Mansion allowed me to disperse a large amount of my land and properties and give them to the homeless.
“I was allowed to use them to offset all of my loans, and I was allowed to continue as head of the company responsible for disposing of these properties.
“It was a company owned by the Dongyi Kingdom, and I was able to get the highest labor remuneration among the middle class.
“I will have no debt from now on, but my wealth in Brooklyn will be reduced to ten thousand silver coins.
"I'm going to get a lot of honors and priorities in a lot of places.
"If I don't care about the wealth I'm about to lose, I can live very comfortably here in the future..."
Gauss's lips moved:
"But...normal people shouldn't be able to give up the wealth they once had..."
The real estate businessman nodded sadly, then took out a business card and handed it to Gauss:
"If you can pass the exam, you will be qualified to become a resident and civil servant of Lin County. Then you can come to me and I can give you a single-family house and a small piece of land..."
Gauss hesitated for a few seconds, but finally failed to resist the temptation and took the business card:
"Thank you for your kindness."
The man smiled bitterly and shook his head:
"I can't keep it anyway. Now I just see a young man with sleepy eyes and give him a gift. It feels pretty good..."
