Of course, there are people who want to buy young girls. In fact, their family was targeted soon after they settled in the temple. First, a few people asked people to come to Guan to tell them. Some said that rich families wanted to take concubines, and some said that they wanted to live in wealthy families.
The girl who wanted to buy a maid was worth a lot of money. She was moved by what she said to the Lu family - instead of a family like this dying, it would be better to give her daughter a way out in exchange for some money. But Lu Bai had some insight and struggled after hearing this.
It is said that it is absolutely impossible.
"Any serious family who wants to take a concubine or a maid does not need a guarantee before entering the house - at least it must be a local person who knows the basics," he gasped, "We are immigrants, and we don't have a guarantee, so we can't just buy it if we say so."
You are not a good person, you must hold on and don’t let your daughter fall into the fire pit!" After saying that he couldn’t breathe, he rolled his eyes again. The family cried, shouted and massaged, and at least Lu Bai was able to breathe again.
Come on.
Renyazi saw that the Lu family was unwilling to sell, so in addition to lobbying in every possible way, he also hired several scoundrels who specialized in seducing women to seduce Lu Cheng. Fortunately, Lu Cheng had been used to this kind of thing since he was a child and was not moved by his sweet words.
, Lu Shouye also kept a close watch on him.
But the problem of livelihood has never been solved - he wants his son to find a place to work as a waiter, but no one is willing to take him in without insurance, so he has to do some casual labor to make ends meet. Lu Shouye is no better than a boy from a farmer's family. He can't do manual labor and can't earn a few bucks.
money.
When the family was at the end of their rope, people from Cihui Hall appeared and took them into the hall without much effort.
Cihuitang is a specialized charity hall run by Guangzhou Station. The reason is that the behavior of the refugees admitted by Guangzhou Station has become noticeable. Not only are the number of refugees they accommodated large, but they also last for a long time, making it difficult to cover up for a long time.
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The Qiwei Escort Bureau is currently handling the matter of accepting refugees. However, many people know that the Qiwei Escort Bureau is sent by Zichengji to handle this matter. Such a large number of refugees are admitted, and the refugees who are admitted have no where to go, and they sell Australian goods.
Background. Rumors like this naturally appeared in Guangzhou: Zichengji was trafficking people to Australia. Some people even described their behavior of taking in orphans as using boys and girls to refine the "Australian secret medicine". Crystal Mirror
It is made with this drug.
Although the Ming government does not care much about the life and death of its own people, it still has to deal with matters such as being trafficked overseas, which "undermines the power of God and humiliates the country." Fortunately, Guangzhou Station is doing enough to take care of everything on weekdays, and there are high officials and
Liang Cunhou and others said that the matter did not become a big deal.
But this incident also sounded the alarm for them. It is dangerous to continue this pattern. Even if the government does not care, they will not be able to bear it if they are incited by people with ulterior motives and the people rise up and cause trouble. When foreign missionaries came to China to preach, they had to deal with
This is a lesson from the fact that charities that take in orphans and abandoned babies are often suspected by the public and trigger “lesson plans”.
Zhang Xin, who presided over this matter, also had another hidden worry: taking in a large number of refugees, which in ancient times was highly suspected of rebellion. Therefore, Zhang Xin felt that he must find a cover for the actions of the Guangzhou Station as soon as possible.
After Zhang Xin discussed it with everyone, he decided to bring Liang Cunhou into the group to organize a public charity event, and not to use Qiwei Escort to come forward anymore - it was too suspicious for Qiwei to do this in his capacity as an escort.
Mr. Liang usually cares about the elderly and the poor, and is very enthusiastic about charity. As a son of an official, it is only appropriate for him to provide a protective umbrella for the immigration work.
At that time, Guo Yi prepared a gift and went to see Liang Cunhou and put forward his own suggestions. Liang Cunhou was indeed very interested in this. Not only did he agree to serve as the director of the shantang, he also donated a thousand taels of silver. The cooperation model was a typical collusion between government and businessmen: Liang
Cunhou was mainly famous, and Zichengji was responsible for providing the money. Guo Yi also recruited a group of officials' children whom Gao Ju and Pei Lixiu met at Ziminglou: Wu Zhixiang, Dong Jizhong and others to serve as directors of the charity. These officials' children were originally
He was not interested in charity, but he couldn't stand Pei Lixiu's hard work, and he heard that there was no need to spend money, it was just a name, so he accepted it. Guo Yi was willing to spend money again, and spent a large sum of money to leave.
In order to gain access to the governor's concubine, he even made an inscription by Wang Zunde to show off.
The charity hall was named "Ci Hui Hall". The specific personnel handling it were still the original team of the Qiwei Escort Bureau. Zhang Xin transferred them individually to establish this team, which was directly under his control. Later, he joined Lin Gaogao
A number of reliable indigenous cadres came to strengthen the team.
Zhang Xin learned his lesson and not only made a fuss about taking in refugees, but also carried out common charity activities such as distributing medicines and tea in summer, donating cotton-padded clothes in winter, and donating coffins on weekdays. From time to time, he also conducted charity activities in two counties of Guangzhou City.
Construction of bridges and roads was carried out. When it came to accepting refugees, they no longer just focused on immigrants. They also successively opened traditional charity facilities such as "Orphan Homes", "nursing homes" and "Qingjie Hall" to accommodate the local lost labor force.
of poor people.
These measures greatly diluted the original large-scale search for manpower at Guangzhou Station. However, Zhang Xin never heard of the search for refugees for a moment. He ordered Cihui Hall to organize a special reception team to walk through the streets and alleys and visit various temples every day.
Take in foreign refugees. As long as they are suitable, they will be taken away immediately with coaxing and deception.
Guo Yi was not stingy with money in this regard. He bribed all the officials from Panyu and Nanhai counties as well as Guangzhou Prefecture, Dian Shi and other minor officials. In addition, he also had the support of Liang Cunhou, a young man from an aristocratic family, to collect the population.
It has been going very smoothly.
Although the Lu family looked poor, they didn't appear to be farmers with mud-legged backgrounds. The people in the reception team knew that Australians were very interested in "city people", especially the fact that there were young girls in this family. They didn't spend much time talking.
The Lu family was taken into custody, and the rest of the process was out of their hands. First they were "purified", then they signed a deed of betrayal, and finally they went directly to Lingao.
Lu Bai was carried into the dedicated medical center of the quarantine camp, which was isolated. This place was specially designed to accommodate and treat sick refugees. On the one hand, it was to avoid human losses and infection; on the other hand, it was for doctors to practice their skills. Ministry of Health
Using this place as a designated internship unit, doctors, nurse trainees, and various new drugs from pharmaceutical factories are trained here to gain experience.
Patients who were able to survive the combined abuse of Mongolian doctors, inexperienced nurses, and various new drugs with no known efficacy, toxic and side effects were cured, and those who could not survive were doomed. Of course, many people died, but Many lives were saved. It was here that the first batch of crude sulfa manufactured by the Coal Coking Complex proved its effectiveness, side effects and the dosage required to be effective without killing the patient.
Lu Bai once again proved that he was a person with great vitality. Although he was very thin when he was discharged from the hospital, he still survived and recovered. After a month of rest, he was even able to participate in the basic military training that every refugee must undergo.
After the quarantine period, the Lu family was resettled to the newly established Calais commune. Before the resettlement, several people in blue cloth were in charge of the whole family and asked them all about the affairs of the Lu family, no matter how big or small. After they came out, they even thoroughly interrogated Lu Cheng about the affairs of her husband's family, whom Lu Cheng failed to marry.
The Calais Commune is the fourth commune established by the Civil Affairs Committee, focusing on agricultural development. It is also the second agricultural development of Wu Nanhai's Agricultural Committee after the development of the United States and Taiwan. About 3,000 immigrants were resettled in the newly built five-year-old village here. in a settlement.
The Lu family once again has their own house - although the area is not large, at least it is their own. As for the mortgage loan to buy the house, it can be repaid in 20 years. To them, it is nothing.
In addition to houses, the commune also distributed basic daily necessities and enough clothes to everyone. At first, they ate in the canteen, but later they changed to wages. The Lu family made a fire to cook by themselves. The family sat around the table for the first time. I couldn't help crying while eating, feeling as if I was having a nightmare.
After being homeless for several months, I finally moved into a clean house again, protected from the sun and rain, and could eat hot meals normally every day. For the ordinary citizens in the past, it really felt like crawling out of hell. But Australia The leader is the Bodhisattva with great mercy and compassion who saves all living beings.
Life gradually became stable, and the surprise of many new things seen in daily life gradually subsided. In the blink of an eye, the Lu family has been in Lingao for eight months. In these eight months, life has been smooth and quiet, and the Lu family is a small family. Businessmen, the Lu family father and son knew nothing about farm work, but they both knew some writing and abacus. After simple training, they worked as clerks and accountants in the commune.
Even though he is a small cadre, Lu Bai is very satisfied with the current situation. He is planning to arrange marriages for his children. However, it is not easy to arrange marriages - there are more men than women in Lingao, and the large number of immigrants have also Most of them are men. The price of betrothal gifts is astonishingly high.
In order to earn enough for the betrothal gift and pay off the monthly mortgage, the Lu family and his son did some extra physical work to earn a few work points after work. Lu Cheng's mother signed up to work in a textile factory, and after work, she grew a vegetable at home. I have a small piece of private land and raised a few chickens on credit from the Tiandi Society to supplement my family income.
However, such subsidies were still a drop in the bucket in terms of the amount of betrothal gifts. After doing some calculation, Lu Bai realized that even if the price of betrothal gifts stopped rising, he would still have to work like this for five years to raise the cost of marrying his son - and this did not include future payments. The down payment required for a son-in-law to buy a house. According to the rules set by Wu De: the first house for immigrants requires zero down payment, and the second house must be paid 30% in advance. This is not a small amount!
Lu Cheng felt that she had to do her part to help her brother get a wife. After thinking about it, her current income was too small based on the work points she was assigned to do every day. It was more cost-effective to work in a factory and get paid as an employee.