Chapter 98 New Residents of Beijing City
"What? We have to leave." Zhang Ming said loudly: "Why?"
A government official said loudly: "Why? The imperial court's order. Why do you want to disobey the imperial court's order? I'm not afraid to tell you that it's all floods now. Food from outside can only be transported by ship. There are too many people in the city. There is no time to transport the food. It must be Divert the victims away. If any of you have any objections, you will not need to receive the daily relief food from now on."
This yamen servant was short in stature, but very powerful. With just one sentence, the victims were speechless.
Even though Zhang Ming is tall, he is like a quail, shrinking and not daring to talk much.
It's not that he's afraid of this government official, but that he's afraid of the court.
"Do you have any other opinions?" The yamen servant said loudly: "If you don't have any opinions, just come here to register. It doesn't matter if you don't want to register. Anyway, if you don't register, you won't get food."
Zhang Ming mustered up his courage and said, "Sir, are our whole family going?"
The Yamen servant said: "Everyone goes, everyone goes. The imperial court is in charge of food."
Zhang Ming breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as the family is together, no matter what the day is, he has no complaints. But in his heart, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
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The next day, Zhang Ming took his mother and sister to the dock. Watching countless people line up to board the boat under the organization of the soldiers, and listening to these people talking about it.
Why are locals excluding outsiders? City people are crowding out outsiders.
If so, wait.
Zhang Ming was also very angry after hearing this.
It turned out that He Xi had no rules about who would stay and who would leave. But the people of the Ming Dynasty settled down and moved again. Whenever possible, I never want to leave my hometown. Even if I just moved here not many years ago, I am still my hometown.
As for Zhang Ming himself, he actually wanted to take care of his few acres of land after the flood.
Especially since the imperial court has begun providing disaster relief, the locals have no intention of leaving.
I have to admit that in the early days of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had always done a good job in disaster relief. Until the Zhengtong period, due to financial problems, disaster relief was gradually out of reach, and the gentry began to mobilize for disaster relief. Later, there was no such thing as disaster relief in the Ming Dynasty.
Although He Xi's disaster relief work was timely, in fact, He Xi's work can only be said to be good, but it cannot be regarded as outstanding.
When it comes to organizing disaster relief, the Ming Dynasty adopted a comprehensive approach. As long as officials did not intentionally commit corruption and the court was not stingy with money, the effects varied, but the difference was relatively not that big.
Therefore, Zhang’s mother believed that the court would provide disaster relief.
And the people feel that after the disaster relief, everyone's life will return to the original situation, so why should they leave?
Now I heard that all the people leaving were the people in the countryside, the people in the city and the people with connections, none of them left. Naturally, there were complaints.
Zhang Ming cursed in his heart: "It was that dog officer who came up with this idea. Don't let him fall into my hands. I will definitely cut him into pieces."
However, no matter how many complaints Zhang Ming had in his heart, he also knew that he could not act recklessly at this time and could only take his mother and sister on board the ship honestly.
This ship was originally a grain ship and had nothing on it. There was only one shed, with more than a hundred people packed in like sardine cans, and a curtain at the stern of the boat covered a place where they could relieve themselves.
After Zhang Ming got on the boat, he felt a little seasick.
Zhang Xiaomei, on the other hand, was in high spirits because the relief food had arrived and she had eaten a few hearty meals. Her original sick look suddenly disappeared. Children do not understand the sadness of adults. At this moment, she was very curious about this trip and even played with several children on the boat.
Zhang Ming, on the other hand, was leaning on the boat, motionless, and felt uncomfortable if he moved even a little bit.
A few days later, Zhang's mother pushed her son's shoulder and said, "We're here, we're here."
Zhang Mingzhao opened his eyes in a daze and looked up. But I saw a very large pier, stretching for more than ten miles, and a waterway, I don't know where it leads. There are numerous boats of all sizes parked on the pier.
Many of them are grain ships, sailing from Beijing to various places.
Now Beijing South Wharf has become one of Beijing's logistics centers, and the waterway Zhang Ming saw leads to Beijing's Nanhu. If there are too many ships, they can also directly enter Nanhu, and Nanhu is another place for ships. A mooring place.
Since Beijing moved eastward for the convenience of water transportation, He Xi naturally wanted to make full use of this convenience.
Zhang Ming grabbed his mother's hand with one hand and his sister with the other, and followed the large group of people off the boat. When he got off the boat, he saw countless people shouting below, saying: "The Puzhou Society here is recruiting people, one or two a month." The banknote includes food and accommodation.”
"Beijing Construction Society, we are the imperial government's yamen, and we earn 800 yuan a month."
For a moment, it was as lively as a vegetable market.
Zhang Ming was a little at a loss.
At this time, an official came over, looked at the directory received from the captain, and said: "Listen up, everyone. There are many people recruiting workers here. You can go directly, but you need your employer to come to the Yamen to guarantee settlement. If If you can't find the time, you can come to me. I'm at the Yamen next to the dock. The Yamen will take care of your food for a while. But if it goes on for a long time and you can't find a job, then there is no way. Liaodong, Northeast , Monan, there is a shortage of people to work in the fields. I advise you to find a job as soon as possible and settle down. "
Zhang Ming was confused for a moment, and then the official sent them a list one by one. Zhang Ming roughly read a few big characters, and after reading for a long time, he realized that there were the names of his family of three on them. I don’t know what exactly.
This is actually a special guide formulated by He Xi. If we really want to say it, it can be said to be a household registration.
Everyone who comes here will give this to them, and then use this to find a job. Then after finding a job, the employer was asked to report to the Planning Department, and the household registration was settled in Beijing. They are considered common people in Beijing.
Of course, there are so many problems with this process.
For example, is it okay not to allow these trading companies to settle down? Of course it works.
Now there are more than 10,000 officials inside and outside Beijing. But even so, it is not enough to serve the entire city of Beijing and the industrial system near Beijing. Even tens of thousands of people may not be enough.
The reason why.
There are two reasons. First, the whole system is new now.
Although ancient courts and modern governments appear to be similar in many ways, in fact they are very different. From the scope of jurisdiction, to the responsibilities and functions, to the management style, the relationship between superiors and subordinates, etc.
There are so many differences.
And He Xi has never really been inside the system, and actually doesn't know much about the operation of modern government affairs. He could only work backwards. From the government affairs functions he has been exposed to, he can infer the internal working methods and division of labor of the government.
As a result, there are many omissions in many places.
This is also normal.
In this case, more people are needed to make up for it.
The second reason is technological issues. What can be done by one person in later generations, in this era, more people are needed to do it. Not to mention, the quality of the people in this era is not high. In fact, for the issue of household registration, people can go directly to the Yamen to apply for it.
But why did He Xi let trading companies or units do it. Just because most people are illiterate, they are also confused about some of the procedures within the government. It's almost impossible for them to do it.
In fact, even in later generations, there are some people who make many very simple procedures ridiculous, let alone this era.
But a system full of loopholes is still better than the original system.
At least, He Xi proposed in the Ming Law that the people of the Ming Dynasty have the freedom to move. It has been reflected in this system and will be improved bit by bit in the future.
Zhang Ming was at a loss for these things.
He doesn't know what to do?
Let him fight ten against one, and he is still confident. But when he was asked to go through the process and find a job, he was a little confused. After all, these days, the job market relies on introductions from acquaintances and contacts. This kind of recruitment scene has never been seen before.
Because for a long time in ancient China, there was a surplus of labor and few job opportunities. There will be no such large-scale recruitment.
