Chapter 708 This Ming Dynasty is Different (Fourth Update, Please Subscribe)
What's wrong?
Under the bright sunshine, as Xie Richang walked forward along the circular guide railing with the crowded crowd, his heart was full of doubts.
It was not because there were so many people, but because he found himself leaving the customs building little by little, and then walking along the railing to another place, and there were barbed wire on both sides of the passage.
"Where are we going?"
Carrying the luggage in one hand and hugging something in the other, the woman followed the man nervously.
"Don't be afraid, it's okay, it's okay..."
Soon they walked along the guardrail into another large yard by the sea.
Isolation camp for new immigrants!
This is the place that every immigrant who first comes to the Ming Dynasty must enter. In fact, Xie Richang did not need to come here at all, he just entered the immigration channel.
In the compound, three-story red brick buildings were neatly arranged in rows. In the open spaces between the buildings, neatly dressed civilians lined up like foreign soldiers, marching in an army-like formation.
"Take out your change of clothes from your luggage and put it in the locker. Here is the key to the locker. Disinfect your luggage and collect it with the badge!"
At the entrance of the barbed wire, the education camp staff wearing Nanhua uniforms said.
But Xie Richang looked completely confused.
He doesn't understand!
"You're from Guangdong? You don't understand, right?"
The staff member looked at his form and said loudly.
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. I'll go take a shower later. Don't worry about your luggage. I'll steam it too..."
Disinfection and deinsectization of immigrants' luggage is an effective means to reduce infectious diseases. In fact, when new immigrants board the ship, not only do they need to take a shower and deinsect, but their luggage also needs to be disinfected at high temperature.
Xie Richang was at a loss and didn't know what to do. He just put his luggage in the locker like everyone else. Although the locker was locked, Xie Richang was more worried about the dozen or so gold bars in the suitcase. Those were all his belongings.
But he still understood the principle of not showing off one's wealth when out of the house.
"Everyone line up, men and women separate. Men go to the men's bathroom along this side, and women go to the women's bathroom from the other side! Don't worry, we'll see each other again in half an hour..."
Following the instructions of those people, Xie Richang took his eldest son's hand and walked inside along the fence walkway on one side. When they were about to part, Xie Richang saw his wife calling him nervously.
"Don't worry, it's okay, it's okay..."
While comforting the woman, Xie Richang also felt a little nervous.
It was all so strange.
"There is soap in the shower room. Remember to wash twice more with soap, including your hair. There can't be any dirt on your body! Everyone, help each other rub the dust off your body."
Someone in the locker room was reminding loudly. Whenever new immigrants entered the camp, they always reminded them like this. Of course, they had experienced all of this before.
"ah!"
When the hot water poured onto his body from the shower head, Xie Zuntai couldn't help laughing.
"Dad, it feels so good!"
"Um!"
Xie Richang, who hadn't taken a bath for more than half a month, couldn't help but let out a cry of comfort.
“It’s really comfortable!”
For a moment, the people in the shower room were talking and laughing happily. They never thought that they could take a hot shower as soon as they arrived on shore.
"Dad, this soap doesn't smell very good."
"It's not good. It smells like sulfur."
What Xie Richang didn't know was that this sulfur soap, unique to the Ming Dynasty, was widely used in official immigration camps because of its obvious bactericidal effect. It was its widespread use that kept the disease incidence and mortality rates on the Ming Dynasty's high-density immigration ships within an acceptable range.
After taking a shower in the shower room, Xie Richang was surprised by the hot air that hit his face when he opened the cabinet.
"Why is this dress so hot?"
Even the clothes were a little hot. Xie Richang didn't know that when they took a shower, the high-temperature steam would enter the wardrobe and their luggage cabinet through the steel pipe, and it would only take a dozen minutes to kill the lice and insect eggs on the clothes.
After reuniting with his wife and children and getting his luggage, Xie Richang said to his wife as if he had breathed a sigh of relief.
"It looks like this place is really nice!"
What will happen next?
Xie Richang didn't know it, but just a few hours after arriving here, he found that this place was not quite what he had imagined.
It can even be said that they are quite different.
During the next seven days of quarantine, not only did he have to undergo simple queue training like other men, but his wives also had to undergo training. Of course, women with bound feet were an exception, but they had to unbind their feet.
Because Xie Richang had a blue registration form, after the seven-day quarantine period, he did not need to take a train to other areas' "New Immigrant Education Camp" like other new immigrants. While other people were getting on the train, Xie Richang and his family registered again at the Immigration Bureau.
Although Chinese people did not need a visa to enter the Ming Dynasty and only needed to register their name and place of origin to enter the country, it was not easy to become a citizen. They had to pass a naturalization test. The content of the test was very simple and its purpose was to eliminate illiteracy. After all, all new immigrants needed literacy education and certainly could not be illiterate to become a citizen.
Because they had not yet become citizens, Xie Richang and his family of four could only register as residents. After receiving temporary residence permits, they entered the Ming Dynasty.
"Oh, is this Daming?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he was startled... A car drove past him on the road almost right next to his eyelids. Staring at the car going away, Xie Richang came to his senses after a long time and said.
"This, this car is what the foreigners call the car invented by the Ming Dynasty!"
car!
This is a machine invented by the Ming Dynasty. It is a mechanical vehicle that does not require horse pulling and does not require coal burning!
Looking at the city in front of him with clean and tidy streets and tall buildings on both sides, Xie Richang said excitedly in addition to being amazed.
"The atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty looks different from that of the Manchurian Tartars. Look at how flat and clean the land is. It's nothing like Guangzhou, which is full of garbage, feces and urine..."
Standing on the streets of New Xiamen, Xie Richang found everything fresh and new, and he admired it. It seemed that this Ming Dynasty was the Ming Dynasty he had dreamed of.
"Dad, this road is really smooth."
Xie Zuntai couldn't help but jump on the ground. If there weren't so many people, he would even want to roll on the ground.
Xie Richang thought silently in his heart.
"Da Ming... This is the place of Daming. Everything is different."
Looking at the excited father and son, the woman holding her youngest son said.
"His father, look at the way you two look, be careful not to let people think you are worldly-wise and look down on you."
The woman's jokes made Xie Richang burst into laughter.
"Even if we are laughed at, so what? This is the Ming Dynasty. This is the Ming Dynasty. No matter how big the world we have seen in the past, we have never seen the world of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Dad, look at that foreigner. He's so frightened that his mouth can't close... He's the one who has never seen the world!"
Xie Zuntai pointed at a few foreigners standing on the roadside in the distance who also seemed stunned, and spoke loudly.
(End of this chapter)
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