While Aoxue was struggling mentally, the electric horn outside suddenly rang:
"According to the edict of the King of Dashi in the Ming Dynasty and the order of the Mengxian Industrial Park Management Office, all the male and female slaves of the Ming Dynasty who were redeemed, confiscated and sent to the country of Dashi are now to be freed from slavery and returned to good health.
“Tomorrow at 9 a.m., we will begin re-registering household registration information and confirming the future whereabouts of all deregistered slaves.
“All personnel can choose to enter a factory to become a worker, go to a farm outside the city to become a farmer, join the army to become a soldier, marry into an existing citizen family and become a wife or concubine, or work as a theatrical performer.
"Everyone has one day to think about it and a decision must be made by tomorrow morning."
The announcer who read out the order read the content three times, and the relevant personnel spread the news throughout the dormitory building.
Aoxue had been hungry all day and was already low on energy, but at this time she quickly cheered up.
The so-called theatrical performers should be the former singing and dancing girls, which can only be enjoyed by princes, nobles and wealthy businessmen.
Some of these personnel have slave status and some have civil status. The meaning of this order must be that they must be dealt with according to their national status.
As long as he becomes this kind of performer, he will definitely have the opportunity to come into contact with the upper echelons of the food country.
In fact, Aoxue knew in her heart that it was impossible for her to come into contact with a noble at the level of the Great Food King.
But at the very least, we should be able to contact people at the level of county magistrates and shopkeepers!
How could I be an ordinary worker, or even become the wife and concubine of an ordinary worker?
Not long after the broadcast stopped, the door of the confinement room where Aoxue was located opened.
Including Aoxue, more than half of the women were released and sent back to their original rooms.
Xianglan originally thought that her daughter would be in poor condition if she was hungry for a day, so she prepared food and water.
It turned out that although Aoxue was very wasteful, her mental state was very uplifting.
The face that had completely worn away the makeup still had an obvious look of joy.
Xianglan suddenly became worried:
"Xue'er, are you okay..."
Aoxue waved her hand directly:
"I'm fine. I need to eat, drink water, and have a good rest now..."
Xianglan felt that her daughter's condition was not right, but she knew she needed to eat and drink water and it should be fine.
He quickly gave her what he had prepared and watched his daughter devour the meal.
Then I immediately went to wash up, came back, changed my clothes and went to bed.
For the next whole day, Aoxue was very normal, no longer causing trouble, eating and sleeping on time.
The next morning, after everyone had breakfast, the dormitory's electric horn sounded again:
“Everyone left the dormitory in an orderly manner and lined up downstairs according to their dormitory number.
“Those who have male relatives should go to the middle of the men’s and women’s dormitories and wait to meet their families.
"There is no need to carry it with you as a salute. You can come back to pack it up after you have confirmed where you are going."
Pandan was relieved when she heard the sound.
Being able to join her husband and son, and being freed from slavery, my family can live a good life here in the future.
Aoxue ran out when she heard the sound, but Xianglan stretched out her hand to hold her back:
"What are you going to do now? Let me find your father and your brother first..."
Xianglan took her eldest daughter, who had thoughts in her mind, and her honest little daughter, and left the dormitory together.
All the slave immigrants are walking out. There are people inside and outside the dormitory building, and there are people between the two dormitory buildings.
Xianglan, mother and daughter, walked around the open space in the middle of the dormitory building for a long time before they found their husband Qingsong.
The He tribe people did not have surnames originally. When they were in the master's house, they could still use the master's surname. Now after they were released, they only had their first names.
But even this Qingsong, like Xianglan, was named by the family master.
The family was reunited again, and Xianglan was relaxed. She followed her husband and talked about the past few days, while going to apply for a new household registration together.
Several rows of desks have been set up in front of the two dormitories and in the middle of the two dormitories.
Two people sat behind each desk, and a group of guards stood around them.
After the immigrants met, they lined up under the guidance of the guards, went to the desk one by one to register, and received new identity documents.
Most of the people sitting behind these desks have just arrived here.
The servants in Zhu Jingyuan's family and several servants in the royal family, including those who were literate, were all singled out by Zhu Jingyuan.
Big Food Country lacks managers, and these people are ready-made managers.
Of course, these are not all the servants of Zhu Jingyuan's family and the nearby royal families.
The redemption time for slaves is ten years, and the slaves released by the emperor and the royal family are just to set an example.
It is impossible to release all the slaves at once, otherwise the palace and the royal family will be paralyzed.
Even if all the slaves were released at once, it would be impossible to transport them all to the Food Country at once.
We can only continue to recruit employees, replace slaves, and transport them to Mozhou and Yinzhou.
Qingsong and Xianglan's family, after waiting in line for less than half an hour, it was finally their turn to register.
The person who handled the formalities for this family was Zhu Jingyuan's subordinate Fuquan. When he saw these six people approaching, he asked:
"Is there anyone literate at home?"
Qingsong shook his head after hearing this. Xianglan knew a few words, but not many, and her husband was illiterate, so she didn't speak.
Seeing the whole family shaking their heads, Fuquan picked up the original registration information of Qingsong and Xianglan's family, and picked up a pen at the same time:
"Then let me ask you, have you ever farmed in Daming?"
Qingsong and Xianglan both shook their heads:
"I have never farmed, but we all do housework..."
"We used to wait on people."
Fuquan nodded slightly, wrote a few words on the message, and then continued to ask:
"Your youngest child is already fifteen, so after you are freed from slavery, your whole family can become workers.
"You are all from the He clan. From the time you entered the factory, each of you will be paid twelve silver coins per month.
"After starting to work, each person will receive seventeen silver coins per month.
“After completing the studies and starting to work on the production line, each person will receive twenty silver coins per month.
"After passing the Ming Dynasty General Education Examination, you will enjoy the treatment of Ming Dynasty people, with each person receiving twenty-five silver notes per month.
“In addition, bonuses will be distributed every month based on past and current month’s work efficiency.
"If you are a family of six, you can apply to live in a dormitory with a suite.
"The rent is three silver notes per month, which will be deducted directly from the salary of the householder, and the water and electricity bills are paid on a monthly basis."
Qingsong almost lost his mind when he heard the money.
My family of six all work, and each person earns 20 silver coins per month, which makes a total of 120 silver coins.
That’s more than a thousand a year!
Qingsong and Xianglan’s family didn’t even calculate how much more money they would have after one thousand.
The couple, Qingsong and Xianglan, probably spent more than one thousand two hundred silver coins, and the youngest, Ling Shuang, had fourteen hundred silver coins.
But everyone knows that this number must be a lot, including Aoxue.
The income of more than one thousand banknotes a year was an income that could only be earned by shopkeepers and store owners in the past.
For slaves like them, a monthly salary of one silver coin is considered a good thing, but including rewards, they will never reach three silver coins.
The family's annual income is definitely more than one hundred silver coins.
Now it has doubled directly.
Even if you can't afford food, drink, housing, or anything else, you are definitely a middle-class person who has no worries about food, clothing, and living a pretty good life.
Therefore, except for Aoxue, everyone was very satisfied. Qingsong and Xianglan nodded incessantly:
"Okay, okay, thank you, sir..."
"That's great, thank you sir..."
Fuquan smiled and said:
"Don't thank me, I'm not the master. We all have to thank our Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Dashi."
The two couples did not dare to be careless, and immediately thanked His Majesty seriously again, His Highness Prince Dashi.
But Aoxue felt a little anxious when she saw Fuquan registering and her parents completely and unconditionally agreeing.
Aoxue couldn't help but speak directly:
"I don't want to be a worker. Didn't I say that I can choose among workers, farmers, soldiers, wives, concubines, and dancers?"
Fuquan replied naturally:
“Because you are a complete family, and you have two sons and one daughter, two sons and two daughters.
"It would be most appropriate for you to work as workers or to marry yourself with other workers or families.
“Since you don’t know how to farm, you can only be workers.
"Your parents don't have any objections. Why are you, a girl, talking nonsense?"
Qingsong and Xianglan, a couple, immediately asked Fuquan to make amends, and the other to control their daughter:
"Master, please calm down, your arrangement is very good and very reasonable..."
"Girl, if you keep talking nonsense, watch me tear your mouth apart."
Fuquan originally served people, and he knew the powerful people above him very well, and he also knew the people below him very well.
Seeing Aoxue like this, Fuquan remembered His Highness's instructions, so he reminded Qingsong and his wife:
“I want to say something special, His Highness specifically issued a decree.
"For those of us who were originally slaves and were freed from slavery by His Highness' grace.
“If someone disobeys discipline three times or deliberately damages factory facilities and supplies, he will be demoted to slavery again.
“At that time, what we have to do is no longer waiting on people, but working in mines and factories until we die.
“If slave workers continue to disobey discipline, they can be punished arbitrarily, or even directly executed.
"Someone will explain these regulations to you later, so I won't go into details."
Qingsong and Xianglan were shocked when they heard this, and quickly confessed to Fuquan again, promising that they would never dare to cause trouble.
Aoxue herself was shocked.
I originally thought that since the Food King supported the abolition of slavery and liberated slaves collectively, he should be an extremely kind person.
There are similar people among the local nobles.
Even a slight jump should not be punished too severely.
But I never thought that after depriving myself of citizenship, I might be demoted to slavery again.
And it is the lowest level of slave labor.
Because abolition of slavery was not Zhu Jingyuan's goal at all, but a means.
It is through the abolition of slavery that we achieve our goals, rather than the abolition of slavery as our goal.
Zhu Jingyuan will never be stingy with thunderous means for those who mess around and those who sabotage his own plans.
While Aoxue was stunned, Qingsong received the family's new household registration book from Fuquan.
Then Xianglan took her daughter and left the registration site in fear.
New immigrants with families were grouped into groups of sixteen. After completing the formalities, a guard would take them to their accommodation.
Today is a day off, or it may be a specially chosen day.
So after leaving the transit dormitory area, you can see people coming and going in other dormitory areas.
Some were two parents with their children, and some were young couples.
There were also a few men, or a few women, talking and laughing while going out or going home.
The Qingsong family subconsciously observed these people, and immediately discovered that many of them were wearing silk and satin clothes.
There are also many that do not look like satin, but are clearly not cotton or linen, a very light fabric.
This strange material probably won't be cheap.
No matter what material they are made of, they are all in bright colors and quite soothing and loose styles.
To be more specific, it looks like they are the clothes of the wealthy class in the past.
Most of them are long clothes, and there are almost no short shirts.
Even those wearing short shirts are not made of linen or cotton.
The material seems to be made of satin or that special light fabric.
This makes people feel even more incredible.
The people here look rosy and in good spirits, and they don't look like people who do hard work.
But his words and gestures are not like those of the rich and wealthy local people.
He walks and speaks in a casual manner, which can even be said to be a bit vulgar.
Aoxue observed many people, and the more he looked, the more strange this place became.
Finally, I couldn't help it anymore and went to the front to ask the guard leading the way:
"Hello, Master Jun, who are the people living around here? Are they all wealthy families from Meng County?"
The guard glanced at Aoxue. The girl was quite decent-looking, and replied with a smile:
"What kind of rich family? These are workers' dormitories, and of course workers live around them.
"At most, they are line leaders, squad leaders, team leaders, and the like, with the workshop director at the top."
Aoxue was stunned:
"But...but...I think most of them are dressed in silk and satin..."
The guard seemed to have seen this problem many times, and said with some pride:
"What happened to the silk? Is the silk valuable? It only costs a few dollars per piece.
“The price is similar to the rayon from our factory, but the key is that satin doesn’t have the elasticity of our rayon.
"Girl, if you are also a worker in the future, you can earn twenty silver coins a month if you work hard, right?
"If you spend a few dollars to buy a piece of silk, it will be enough for you to wear several outfits for a year."
Aoxue has grown up in the compound all her life and rarely has contact with the outside world. When she does, she always looks on with a cold eye.
Moreover, what Aoxue saw in the years when he was just sensible was the state of the Ming Dynasty's bottom class when it was at its most miserable.
The level of misery even filled this woman's heart with fear of the outside world.
I would rather work as a horse for the wealthy class than go outside.
The world has changed tremendously in the past two years, and the situation outside is completely different from two years ago.
Now that this information fell into Aoxue's ears, she instinctively felt that it was unreal.
But I remembered that when my parents registered before, I heard the registration manager say that if my family members worked as workers, they could indeed earn more than ten or even twenty yuan.
In fact, it was not until this moment that Aoyue seriously recalled and paid attention to the workers' wages.
It had been automatically ignored by her brain before.
Before, I instinctively felt that how much money a worker could make, and that he could barely make ends meet by working from dawn to dusk all day long.
Now I suddenly realize that things don’t seem to be like that anymore:
"Twenty silver coins a month and three yuan can buy a piece of silk and satin, and one piece of silk can make three or four sets of clothes.
"In this case, doesn't it mean that these workers can wear silk and satin all year round?
"This is the life that only those ladies and ladies could have in the past..."
Qingsong and Xianglan's family who followed Aoxue, as well as the other slave immigrants around them, were all a little stunned when they heard these words, and felt as if their worldview had been subverted.
They are sensitive to money, but when they heard about wages before, they just thought that they would be rich in the future.
I didn't immediately realize what kind of life this money could bring, which was equivalent to the life of some previous class.
Now I realize it, but if I can really earn twenty silver coins a month, I can indeed wear silk all year round.
It is indeed the lifestyle of those wealthy families in the past.
The guard nodded with a smile and said:
"Who says it's not? According to our king, the more we produce, the more we earn, and the more everyone enjoys."
After Aoxue was stunned for a few seconds, she seemed to realize another problem:
"That's not right. These workers earn so much money, why don't they go to work? Why are they all hanging out here?"
The guard continued to explain:
"They have a day off today. The Ming court stipulated two years ago that all Ming workers should work a maximum of twelve hours a day and be able to take at least two days off a month.
“Our king’s rule in the Big Food Country is that you can work up to ten hours a day and you can take four days off every month.
“According to our king’s words, we have time to rest, time to go shopping, and time to spend money to buy things for enjoyment. Only the things we produce while working can be sold.
"This is what is called a cycle. In short, it continues like this, allowing money and goods to flow.
“We all have money and can enjoy the life of rich people in the past. Except for lazy people, there are no poor people.
"These are what the loudspeakers say all day long, and you will hear them often in the future..."
Aoxue half understood what the guards said.
This content has opened a new door for her.
The kind of life the guard mentioned was something she could and was willing to accept, and it was even a life she longed for.
Make money, spend it, and enjoy it, just like the ladies and ladies of old.
The reason why Aoxue only wanted to cling to the powerful, almost without any bottom line, was because she could not imagine any other way to make her life more refined.
At the same time, there is also a visceral fear of the difficult lifestyle at the bottom.
Now there is another way in front of me, and it seems to be a very feasible way.
In the past, if you worked as a plaything for the powerful and lost your personal freedom and even basic dignity, you might not be able to get a life. Now you can get it by working in a factory, and you may even live a better life.
At the same time, it also has great freedom and high security, which was completely unimaginable before.
In Aoxue's heart, a new thought swelled uncontrollably:
I want to make money, I want to live like those ladies, I want silks and satins, I want delicacies...
Aoxue's mind was already boiling. She almost ignored the outside environment and began to think about her future life.
And the team of more than a dozen families also continues to move forward.
They followed the guards through a dormitory area, and then began to disperse.
It seems that every family has been assigned to a different dormitory building.
Zhu Jingyuan originally gave instructions to disrupt the immigrants who came to the food country, and the management below naturally expanded and implemented it.
We never fill up a dormitory building at once. At most, half of it is filled first, and then new immigrants are arranged to move into several dormitories each time.
As a result, in addition to slightly increasing management costs, it also significantly accelerated the integration of new immigrants.
Aoxue followed her parents into an apartment building with a simple structure. People came in and out of the corridor from time to time.
Since the distance was very close, Aoxue could already hear their words,
"The store on the corner has a new batch of silk fabrics today. Let's go and have a look after lunch..."
"I want to look at the jewelry first, and then I want to sell a hairpin."
"Then let's go look at the jewelry first, then go to dinner, and look at the cloth in the afternoon..."
"Let's go listen to a play before dinner. I heard there's a new story about it."
Aoxue tilted her ears and listened carefully to what these people said. Listening to these contents, her heart was filled with excitement:
"The life of making new jewelry, looking at new silks, and listening to new operas, isn't this the life of those ladies..."
"Isn't this the life I want? It's almost over now!"
