The winter of the 16th year of Wanli was even colder than last year. The Jiangnan frozen again, and snow fell in Lingnan, which has always been known for its warmth.

The north is even more severe and cold, and it never rains after winter. The extremely poor people who had been hoping to slow down this year have completely lost hope. Many people rolled up their beddings just after the Chinese New Year, helped the elderly and the young, and went to the nearest county town.

The thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty had a total of 140 prefectures, 193 prefectures, and 1138 counties in the Yingtian and Shuntian prefectures. In addition, there are 493 guards and 359 offices under the jurisdiction of the provincial capitals. Among them, there are more than 1,200 cities with the Jiangnan Group Immigration Office.

Basically, except for counties with too small population and too remote areas and those garrisons that have died in name only, Jiangnan Group has set up two immigration offices and offices.

These two offices are a team and two brands. They are responsible for recruiting local people to settle overseas for a long time, and they are also responsible for connecting with local governments and contacting gentry and wealthy families. As for what else they do in secret, it is unknown.

In the eyes of the poor, these immigration offices scattered in counties across the country are their saviors in despair and their hopes when the whole family can't live.

In the past, when encountering famines, or if they cannot pay the government urge to class, they are forced to have no way out by the wealthy dogs. They either can only escape from the famine and become refugees, or they can only sell their children and daughters, and sell their bodies as slaves. No matter how they choose, they cannot escape the tragic fate of family destruction and family separation.

Now, the people really can't get through, so they go directly to the Immigration Office to register. After a simple physical examination and review, after pressing the fingerprint on the immigration contract, the Immigration Office will start to manage the meals. Naturally, no one will starve to death. There is no need to sell the child or himself...

Although I still have to leave my hometown and go to far overseas, through the publicity of the immigration officers for more than ten years, the people already know that when I go overseas, I don’t have to worry about eating anymore. I can also go to the fields, have a house to live in, and even go to school for children, and have meat at home every meal!

And most importantly, there are no more local tyrants and bad gentry or governments bullying them! This is a heavenly day! No matter where it is, it will be no matter how far it is...

Shaanxi Provincial Administration and Envoy, Lintao Prefecture, Lanzhou City.

Here is an immigration office in Jiangnan Group, currently the northwest.

On the sixth day of the 17th year of Wanli, the Lanzhou Immigration Office opened early.

There was no way. Last year, Shaanxi had a severe drought, and many places were out of stock. However, the landlords of the royal family refused to reduce the rent and delayed payment. The food tanks of ordinary people were cleaner than their faces. The whole family was so hungry that their eyes were green. How could they have to stay at home for the New Year? Many people took their families to the door of the immigration office to queue up.

First of all, the office has a porridge stand, which contains porridge twice a day, and chopsticks can be set up in the pot. During the Chinese New Year, there are also minced meat, mixed vegetables and salt in the porridge, which is simply delicious.

More importantly, immigration has quotas. On the one hand, the limited immigration capacity of the Jiangnan Group is the biggest obstacle to the royal family. Especially for this immigration point that is far away from the sphere of influence of the Jiangnan Group, even if the office is protected by local officials, it cannot afford to offend the royal family.

There are many more lawless military leaders in Shaanxi. They also regard military households as tenants who do not spend money. How can they confirm the loss of these free labor? They can do anything in a hurry.

In the 12th year of Wanli, the commander of the Pingliang Guard, Harin, instructed the troops to disguise themselves as bandits and slaughter the Pingliang Immigration Office, resulting in the beheading of four group clerks and eight security personnel. More than 100 immigrants in the Immigration Office were also brutally killed, resulting in the Pingliang tragedy that shocked the Jiangnan.

After Zhao Hao heard the news, Thunder was furious, and the consequences were naturally very serious. In the court, the three-sided governor, the governor of Shaanxi, the general of Guyuan, the deputy general, the prefect of Pingliang, and the county magistrate were all dismissed.

After the special forces investigated the culprit of the Pingliang tragedy, Harin, the newly appointed Guyuan general Magui immediately led a large army to surround Baimiao Township, Pingliang Wei, and completely erased the Ha family clan that had been entrenched in Pingliang for more than three hundred years.

It is said that General Ma did not take action personally in this battle. The army in Guyuan Town had a deep connection with the Ha family, so it was only responsible for setting up fences on the periphery.

The person who was responsible for clearing down Baimiao Township and exterminated all the thousands of Ha family members was the armed forces from Jiangnan. However, the fellow villagers in the northwest did not believe it because the Ha family had been operating in Baimiao Township for a long time, and the camps were strong. Hui Hui was also soldiers and was fierce and good at fighting. The victory and defeat of the imperial army was still unpredictable. How could a business company in Jiangnan Group have the ability to destroy the Ha family?

They would rather believe that it was because the Ha family killed the Immigrants who saved the suffering and sentient beings, angered God and punished the Ha family...

No matter what, after the fight, no one in Shaanxi dared to immigrate to a haircut. However, Jiangnan Group also learned its lesson and will announce the immigration limit for the next year in advance every twelfth lunar month.

In this way, if the local royal family, big family, and military head feel that there are too many people, they can come to the office to discuss. If the negotiations are good, maybe some of the quotas will be reduced in the coming year.

This wave is called creating agenda. No one knows better than Boss Zhao, how to create something out of nothing and create bargaining chips.

After publishing the quota for several consecutive years, they will be accustomed to taking so many people out of their lives every year as a matter of course. The rebound will naturally be much smaller.

Moreover, the immigration quota in the northwest is already small. Class C immigration offices like Lanzhou originally had 700 quotas per year.

In the 16th year of Wanli, Jiangnan Group increased the immigrant population to three million per year, and the quota of Lanzhou Immigration Office has just exceeded 1,000.

In less than March last year, the immigration quota was stolen. The remaining nine months of people who wanted to immigrate could only look forward to it and hope that this year would pass quickly.

Because after New Year’s Eve, the immigration quota was cleared. From the first day of the first lunar month, the quota for the new year was calculated!

So the common people came to queue up in the twelfth lunar month last year, fearing that the quota would be filled again at the beginning of the year.

Fortunately, there were a total of seven or eight hundred people queuing up on the sixth day of the lunar month, and the quota for this year was 1,200, so all of them were all.

Their emotions are naturally stable and the team is in order... They queued up in the porridge factory every day before and knew that people in immigration offices hate those who are not disciplined and bullied people the most.

Security guards who maintain order will immediately cross out when encountering such thorns and directly disqualify them from applying for the application.

Of course, it is inevitable that children cry and children make trouble in the team. Security guards are not unkind, and immigrants usually take care of their families.

This is normal. The old ones in the family are young and the small ones, and the burden is heavy, so life is easy to be difficult. Fortunately, Jiangnan Group not only doesn’t care, but also welcomes such family immigrants.

On the contrary, men who apply for immigration alone are easily rejected. It is not that the group discriminates against single dogs, but that young people are uncertain, without family burden, and are prone to running away without hard work. Moreover, most of the detailed works found come from this group.

So the brothers Li Shouzhong and Li Shouxiao, who were in the middle of the line, were a little nervous.

Because they are two single dogs, and they are just fine...

In fact, they are not brothers. It is true that Li Shouzhong calls Li Shouzhong, but Li Shouxiao is not Li Shouxiao. He is actually called Gundam, and he is Li Shouzhong's brother-in-law and brother-in-law.

The two are from Li Jiqianzhai, Mizhi Huaiyuan Fortress, Yulin, Shaanxi, and both are military families.

Li Shouzhong's family had five generations of single generations, and the pressure of passing on the family line was quite high, so he secretly got along with Gundam's sister. Gundam happened to fall in love with Li Shouzhong's sister. In the poor northern Shaanxi, changing marriages was a basic operation. The two families were so poor that they naturally planned to marry my sister. I would marry your sister, and the bride price was exempted from two brides.

However, the marriage can only be exempted from the bride price, and the banquet in the sedan chair cannot be avoided. Who doesn’t want to be glorious in a big event in a lifetime? But the years have not been good in recent years, and both families can’t make it out and they can’t even pay for the bride price.

At this critical moment, someone introduced them to an errand, saying that an official wanted to hire someone to do a job and had to go out for a long trip. A year round and forth, each person received twenty taels of silver.

The two of them have never seen what money they look like in their lives. In Mizhi, they are twenty taels, and they can buy a cow and build a five-bedroom house. Naturally, they are too busy to agree and say goodbye.

However, people said that not everyone in the government wants it. They have to choose, only if they choose it.

Now the two of them believed it even more, said hello to their homes and followed them to the provincial capital.

As a result, I was taken aback and then stayed...

The two were very proud at the time and thought that Mr. Shen was really good at it.

Little did they know that Shen Yingkui was looking for Hanhan...

Last year, after receiving the full support of the factory, Shen Yingkui began to secretly select hundreds of honest, loyal and reliable people from all over the country to train them as hidden stakes sent overseas.

He concentrated these people in several isolated villages in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan for special training. In addition to teaching necessary spy skills, the key point was to polish them exactly the same as ordinary old farmers.

Shen Yingkui's solution was to force them to work hard day after day, and to serve them with a whip when they slacked off. They only gave them crumbs and vegetables, and they couldn't finish their work and didn't give them food.

The poor fools complained, wanting to withdraw, but there was no way to escape? They caught them and beat them to death. Those who could not catch them were arrested and their parents were arrested...

The spy knows human nature best and knows that people who are free from worries are not good at being undercover. Therefore, the people Shen Yingkui looks for are all those whose parents are alive, or who get married and have children. Because there is a hostage in hand, they can be unscrupulous to knead them.

After working hard for several months, poor Li Shouzhong and Gundam's skin became dark, their backs were hunched, their hands, feet, and shoulders were all called out, their expressions became numb, and their eyes became dim... The only harvest was that they became veterans in farm work.

He is completely an old farmer who is crushed by life. Now he tells people that he is a spy from the East Factory and will be laughed at by laughing.

After the special training was over, only one hundred people were left who passed the final assessment. The rest died of unlawful deaths...
Chapter completed!