Chapter 266 Talents who graduated from primary school

Japan Islands, capital of Edo State.

In the middle of the Wangguo Yamen Office 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 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 period. Registration is still accepted.

Relevant news also spread throughout Edo City, the city where most residents of Edo Country live.

At around ten o'clock in the morning on the twelfth day of the first lunar month in the second year of Ankang, Hao Zhongyi, a 22-year-old young man, walked into the Hufang Yamen together with his 18-year-old brother Hao Jizhi.

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 Ming Dynasty, the population in the north was small, so this setting was reasonable. What was unreasonable was that it was not adjusted after the restoration.

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 was born, he himself is a Ming Dynasty person.

The children of Ming people, Korean women, and girls will basically be regarded as Ming people in places outside the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.

Even in the Ming Dynasty itself, they were second only to the Ming people, and had the highest status among all the people from 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 Castle. 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 the Ming Dynasty, and the rules are basically the same as those of Edo country.

"But if 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 math. I graduated from elementary school. My younger 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 arithmetic, 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 directly to the manager 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 won't be..."

The senior officer immediately said:

"I said you can do it, you can do it. If you can write and do arithmetic, you still can't be an official?"

The young officer followed up and said:

"Ordinary workers and farmers can't write. If you can write down everyone's name, write down how much work they did each 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 low-level officials are all experienced.

The old officer quickly had 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 you."

The young officer didn't wait for him to hesitate and immediately reminded Hao Zhongyi:

"Hurry up and fill out 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 is also the daughter of another Ming Dynasty 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.

Both 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.

This shows that he has basically no qualifications 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 from a young age, will definitely do better than ordinary people who directly become cooks.

Moreover, the opponent is a mixture of Ming and He people. In the mixed immigration area in the east of Mozhou, he can be directly used as one of his 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 secretary, and is not a high-status status.

The overseas immigrants in the Ming Dynasty all had a certain understanding of the world, but 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 had not now had a special medicine to treat cold and fever, he would not 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.
To be continued...