Japanese archipelago, capital of Edo state.
In the middle of the Guofang Yamen opposite the palace, signboards and electric speakers were erected outside the courtyard of the Hufang Yamen.
Every quarter of an hour, the policy of recruiting immigrants from Dashi Country was announced, and people from around came in one after another to inquire about the situation and register.
This situation started in November last year and did not completely stop during the Chinese New Year. Registration is still accepted.
Relevant news also spread throughout Edo City, the city where most of the residents of Edo State are located.
At around ten o'clock in the morning on the twelfth day of the first lunar month of the second year of Ankang, 22-year-old young man Hao Zhongyi and his 18-year-old brother Hao Jizhi walked into the Hufang Yamen together.
When you enter the door, you see a row of tables on the side of the hall, and a sign next to it says "Immigration Registration Office".
Hao Zhongyi immediately took his younger brother over and asked with a habitual smile:
"Two gentlemen, we would like to inquire about the immigrants from Dashi Country...the Mozhou Lake District..."
When the two officers on duty saw someone coming, especially when they heard the other person speaking Ming Dynasty Mandarin with a Shandong accent, they immediately became energetic. A young officer picked up a pen to inquire about the situation and prepare a record:
"Are you from Shandong?"
Hao Zhongyi said immediately:
"Both my parents are from Caozhou Prefecture in Shandong Province. I was born in Edo City, but my brother's mother is from Edo."
Before Chongzhen, the northern prefectures of the Ming Dynasty were actually modified from the roads of the Yuan Dynasty. Many northern prefectures had extremely large jurisdictions.
There are eighty-nine 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 reasonable. What was unreasonable was that there was no adjustment after the recovery.
It was still in this state until the Chongzhen year.
During the Renwu Dynasty, Emperor Shizu split up part of the northern palace.
The two prefectures, Yanzhou Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture, were split into four prefectures: Caozhou Prefecture, Yanzhou Prefecture, Yizhou Prefecture, and Qingzhou Prefecture.
When the two officers heard the young man say that his parents were both from Caozhou Prefecture, their interest remained undiminished.
Before last year, even if both parents were from the Ming Dynasty, as long as they were not born in the Ming Dynasty, they were not considered to be from the Ming Dynasty.
But according to the latest standards, as long as his parents are from the Ming Dynasty, no matter where he is born, he himself is a Ming Dynasty person.
The children of Ming people and Korean women and girls will basically be regarded as Ming people in places outside the mainland of Ming Dynasty.
Even in the Ming Dynasty, they are second only to the Ming people, and have the highest status among all the people in the vassal country.
The older officer on the other side asked with a smile:
"Everything has been said on the radio, so what else do you two brothers want to know?"
Hao Zhongyi said immediately:
"It's like this. My family is running a restaurant in Edo City. My father wants me to take my brother with me and open a restaurant in the newly built immigration area. Are there any special rules here?"
The senior officer immediately introduced him and asked:
"There are no special rules. It is the great food country of Ming Dynasty, and the rules are basically the same as those of Edo country.
"But you two brothers open your own restaurant. Do you know how to keep accounts and settle accounts?"
Hao Zhongyi immediately nodded and said:
"I can write and do calculations. I graduated from elementary school. My brother didn't go to school, but my father and his mother taught him, and he can also read the family's account books."
The two officers suddenly felt a little overjoyed. The older officer said excitedly:
"After graduating from elementary school, you can write and do calculations, and you are still from the Ming Dynasty. This is a talent. What kind of restaurant do you want to open? Go and be a manager!"
The young officer took out a form and a pen and handed them over:
"Filling in your situation yourself is also a check to see if you can write. Write the manager directly in the column of interest.
"Don't look down on the manager. The current immigration area in Mozhou Lake District is run in a format similar to Huangzhuang.
"Without traditional prefectures and counties, company treasurers and managers are equivalent to local officials, taking care of everything."
Hao Zhongyi was immediately stunned:
"Being a manager? Do you have to be an official? I can't be..."
The senior officer immediately said:
"I said you can do it, you can do it. If you can write and do arithmetic, can you still not be an official?"
The young officer then comforted him and said:
"Ordinary workers and farmers can't write. If you can write down everyone's name, write down how much work they did every day, and then calculate how much wages should be paid to each person, then you can become an official. Can you? Can you do it?"
Hao Zhongyi thought for a while:
"Isn't this just bookkeeping? I can definitely do this, but now that I'm a manager, what will happen to our hotel?"
The old officer said worriedly:
"Why are you just staring at your restaurant? Isn't that restaurant not open yet?"
Hao Zhongyi said immediately:
"My father asked me to go to Mozhou because he wants me to carry forward our family's craftsmanship. Otherwise, why would I go to Mozhou?"
The two officers looked at each other, both a little worried, but these grassroots officials are all experienced.
The old officer quickly came up with an idea and looked at the young man following Hao Zhongyi:
"Let your brother open a restaurant."
Hao Zhongyi immediately said:
"My brother hasn't finished his studies yet, so he can only help me now."
The old officer continued:
“If you open a restaurant directly in the factory, you can still be the manager and teach your brothers how to cook, and feed the workers directly in the factory.
"The requirements for cooking in the factory are not high. Just a lot of oil, salt and meat to stew. Even an untrained cook can do it."
Hao Zhongyi finally thought this was okay:
"Then, I'll be the manager for Ren."
The young officer didn't wait for him to hesitate and immediately reminded Hao Zhongyi:
"Hurry up and fill in the information, then go home and prepare. We will board the ship at nine o'clock on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month and set off."
Hao Zhongyi followed the clerk's reminder and filled out two forms one after another, writing down the information of five people.
Hao Zhongyi is already married and has children. His wife is also the daughter of a couple who immigrated from Ming Dynasty.
His younger brother Hao Jizhi also just got married, and his wife was also the daughter of another Ming immigrant and a concubine.
This is also a typical marriage habit in many areas where there are many Ming immigrants.
As much as possible, mate pure-blood children with pure-blood children, so that the offspring will still be from the Ming Dynasty, and then they will have mixed-blood or native concubines.
Only when there are really no conditions, pure-blood children will be allowed to marry mixed-race or native children.
The two forms for the two families were filled out by Hao Zhongyi.
The writing is not very beautiful, but it is relatively neat and there are no typos.
It shows that he has basically no water at the level of a primary school graduate.
After filling out the form, the two brothers each kept a copy and went home to prepare their luggage.
The two officers were very happy looking at the two pieces of information in their hands.
Two immigrant families were directly acquired, a Ming man was able to serve as the manager, and a He ethnic minority cook was also attached.
A cook who is not a chef is also a cook. The son of a restaurant owner who is also a chef, who has been exposed to and trained since childhood, will definitely do better than ordinary people who directly become cooks.
Moreover, the other party is a mixture of Ming and He people. In the mixed immigration area in the east of Mozhou, they can be directly used as one of their own.
This cook might also be able to work as a canteen manager in the future.
After the Hao Zhongyi brothers returned home, they reported the situation to their parents. Of course, their parents were relatively happy.
But it wasn't too surprising.
This kind of small manager of the feudal king's village is probably equivalent to the lowest-level clerk and clerk, and is not a high-status status.
The overseas immigrants in the Ming Dynasty all had a certain understanding of the world, and they also had 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.
I guess the situation there should be similar to that of Nanyang, a hot and humid miasma land filled with uncivilized savages.
If Ming Dynasty didn't have a special medicine to treat cold and fever, he wouldn't have dared to let his son go.
Hao Zhongyi himself had almost the same understanding, so he didn't show much interest in the so-called "being an official" proposed by the two officers.
Hao Zhongyi originally had four brothers, their names were Bo Zhong Shu Ji Jia Ren Yi Li Zhi.
Hao Zhongyi is the second eldest child, and Hao Jizhi is the fourth eldest child.
I originally thought that Hao Jizhi was the youngest, but it turned out that his father had always had children and gave birth to a fifth child.
The family only has a small restaurant and no other property. After the old man is gone, each child will not be able to share much.
Let the middle son go out to work in the capital, and if he can earn his own share of the industry, he will get less points.
So Hao Zhongyi's father arranged for their brothers to go to Mozhou.
Whether Hao Zhongyi is the manager or not does not affect the brothers' arrangements 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 say goodbye to their parents, and took their luggage to the dock.
Because Hao Zhongyi had a primary school diploma and could write and do math well, he was archived separately after registration.
In addition, I am a "Shandong man" who seems to be relatively stable, but I have a job before I even get on 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 serves as his second brother's deputy.
The two brothers have been helping in the restaurant since they were young, and they can easily handle a dozen people.
When Hao Zhongyi took the list to confirm the names and people, he found that he was the only one who was purely from the Ming Dynasty.
More than half of the others are mixed race, and the remaining half are pure indigenous people.
Most of the Ming people in the vassal states did not want to go out to open up wasteland, and they were more inclined to let the mixed-race bastards go out to work hard.
Most of the indigenous 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 constitute the majority.
There is a potential class differentiation among the identities and statuses of Ming people, mixed-race people, and indigenous people.
As a pure-blooded Ming man, 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 would not think there was anything wrong with this arrangement.
Hao Zhongyi, a young manager, led sixteen immigrants to line up, register, board the ship, and allocate 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 they were dispersed by Ming officials.
After the immigration ship left the port, it sailed south around Honshu Island and docked at Nagasaki, where it boarded a group of immigrants.
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The person in charge on the ship felt that Hao Zhongyi did a good job, so he added twenty-four more people to Hao Zhongyi.
During the registration comparison, Hao Zhongyi found that only six of the twenty-four people were recruited from Nagasaki.
Another fourteen were transferred from Goryeo and Silla, and two young couples were transferred from Ryukyu Kingdom.
When Hao Zhongyi asked about the situation, he found that they were all specially dispersed by Ming officials.
Only the closest family members, including parents and nieces, two biological brothers, and husband and wife will not be separated.
In other words, the more than 40 people currently managed by Hao Zhongyi are all from different places and do not know each other.
At the beginning, Hao Zhongyi didn't understand the purpose of what Ming officials did.
But as the voyage took longer, and as the manager took on more things and dealt with several brothers, couples, and father-son combinations more often, Hao Zhongyi slowly discovered the benefits of doing so.
Separate families and immigrants who don't know each other are better managed than brothers and father-son combinations.
If these forty people were all from the same village, or even from the same family, I would never be able to control them.
