Chapter 836: The Noble Lady Becomes a Servant, This Is a Japanese Conspiracy (Second Update, Please Subscribe)
Perhaps war will change the lives of many people, but the world still goes on as normal in its own unique way.
As the world inevitably moves towards war, the vast majority of people are at a loss as to what is happening.
It should be said that in July of the seventh year of Shengde, an immigrant ship from Japan sounded its whistle and slowly sailed into Linhai Bay.
This small bay has long become the largest port of the Ming Dynasty on the Pacific coast in the past decade or so, but the navy is fading out of this port - a few years ago, the navy had already begun to build a new naval base in Cape Port in the south, formerly Port of Montt. In the future, with the opening of the Cape base, Linhai Bay will become a purely commercial port.
However, for the people who came here from thousands of miles away, they didn't need to know all this at all. The women on the immigrant ship all looked at the city on the shore with longing eyes.
"We have finally arrived at the Celestial Empire."
Like other girls on the boat, Mieko was also wearing a maid outfit. The so-called maid outfit was a modified version of the Ming-style bodice, which was a simpler version. It had a white maid headscarf and a white skirt.
All of this revealed their identities, and was also what Mieko had been wearing in the maid school for the past six months.
In fact, everyone in the Ming Dynasty knew the purpose of the so-called "maid". But there was no dispute about what skills a maid needed. A maid was to serve her master, and in the context of Japanese, there was no such thing as a husband, only "master". Of course, some people imagined it as a 19th century version of "raising a skinny horse" - listing many requirements for skill training. But this must be different according to different maid schools.
However, most maid schools are essentially training "maids". Even if they will eventually become the wives of their masters and bear children for the Ming people, their lives are still focused on housework. As for what skills she needs in bed, it is secondary. If someone needs it, they can train according to their own taste. Maid schools only provide qualified raw materials.
Therefore, the learning content of all maid schools focuses on learning Chinese so that maids can communicate with their masters in depth and effectively, and understand and meet their masters' various needs at any time.
After half a year of training, they were all accustomed to speaking Chinese. When they saw the city of Daming coming into view, they all shouted excitedly.
"Look! That's the skyscraper in the picture!"
"Oh my god, it's really higher than the sky..."
"That's right, otherwise how can it be called a skyscraper?"
The girls pointed at the buildings on the shore and laughed happily. Although they had not reached the shore yet, they had been looking forward to visiting Daming for a long time. Some girls even took out small mirrors from their aprons to check their makeup, in case they ran into their master as soon as they reached the shore.
Dress up beautifully so that you can leave a good impression when you meet your owner.
They didn't know that there was already a whole procedure for assigning maids. The employer submitted an "employment application" to the Labour Department, and then the relevant department of the Labour Department made a random assignment. Of course, in this process, the maid school would charge a certain commission, not much, probably just a few dozen yuan, and this money was advanced from the maid's wages.
The deck was filled with blue and white, blue skirts, white aprons, and the girls' expectant words.
Most of the passengers on the immigrant ship from Japan were girls, of course there were also a small number of male passengers. They were officials who came to Ming Dynasty for training and young people who came to study. Unlike the maids, they lived on the upper deck. Among these people, the most prominent one was probably the exiled Daewongun from Korea.
"They are all noble ladies. How can they be so happy even to be a maid in Ming Dynasty?"
Li Shiying stood on the top deck, looking at the Japanese women crowded on the lower deck, and said with emotion.
The reason why he made such a judgment is because it is common sense.
When he was young and wandering the streets, he knew very well that most of the maids came from poor families. Even if they had good figures and looks, their origins could be seen at a glance. Due to lack of nutrition and maintenance and excessive labor, their skin and hair were generally very poor, their hair was yellow, and their eyes were dull. They behaved clumsily and had no temperament.
But as long as you see the rosy complexions of these maids, the luster in their eyes and hair, you will know that they are definitely not from ordinary families, let alone poor families. Especially their temperament, they look like noble ladies!
In fact, Li was overthinking it. Half a year ago, these maids looked almost like this. However, in the maid school, in addition to teaching labor training such as housework, they also need to receive etiquette training. Even the posture when walking is also guided one by one, and physical training is also carried out. The maids have to do yoga and body exercises every day, walk in circles with a wooden board on their heads, do splits and bends, and have an additional hour of belly dance or tango training, and even have to learn music.
It is not certain whether six months of training can turn them into noble ladies, but there have been earth-shaking changes in their temperament, body shape and appearance.
This is also the reason why Li Shiying had this illusion. His sigh made Hong Chunmu agree with him.
"Oh, Daewon-gun, this is clear evidence of the Japanese's ill intentions!"
Hong Chunmu pointed at the happy and elegant maids on the deck and said.
"The Japanese have always been rebellious sons of the Ming Dynasty, with wolfish ambitions. They have repeatedly offended the Celestial Empire in the past and have long been disliked by the Celestial Empire. What about now? In order to please the Ming Dynasty, they are not hesitant to send their noble ladies to the Ming Dynasty to befriend it. What is their intention?"
In Hong Chunmu's opinion, this is clear evidence that the Japanese are trying to please the Ming Dynasty. Why do they want to please the Ming Dynasty? Isn't it just to win the favor of the Ming Dynasty?
"Alas, these noble ladies will definitely be sent to the mansions of the powerful people of the Ming Dynasty to serve as servants. They can be servants or concubines. They will definitely make the powerful people of the Ming Dynasty feel good about the Japanese, but my Korea..."
Listening to his subordinates' words, Li Shiying couldn't help but feel a little melancholy. He found that the world was changing too fast. Not only did Japan become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, but Japan also used noble ladies to curry favor with the Ming Dynasty. But what about Korea?
Li Shiying has no idea whether Daming is his biological father or not. Why? Because he is different from what he imagined!
But the problem is, this dad is really strong!
(End of this chapter)
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