Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 175 Civil servants and progressive white slaves
Jilong Mountain in the northern part of Yizhou Island, the Jinguashi mining area, the place where Zheng Kezang, King Yanping of the Ming Dynasty, personally swung his pick in the newspaper.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, Lin Xiaocong, the administrator of the Jinguashi mining area, got up to wash up and started a busy day of work.

This gold mine should have been discovered only in the Guangxu year, and Zheng Kezang, who loved the spoiler, dug it out first!

Lin Xiaocong, he is a noble civil servant in the palace. He receives a salary of three taels of silver every month, plus a performance award at the end of the year, which is very comfortable.

Some people may say that this civil servant is comfortable, and the treatment is almost the same as that of the guards who were born and died.

That would be very wrong.

With Zheng Kezang's continuous victories in foreign wars, the monthly salary of ordinary soldiers in the Guards has risen to six taels of silver, and they have meat for three meals a day!

More importantly, the soldiers of the Guards will be allocated fertile land in Yizhou Island and Luzon according to their meritorious service.

The income from this field is not lower than the monthly salary!
Plus all kinds of benefits, there is an income of nearly 100 taels a year.

Basically, as long as you directly enter the sequence of the Guards, you will not be able to escape the Rong Lu for a lifetime.

Of course, Lin Xiaocong had no pursuits. He was just a worker in a textile factory. Thanks to his active learning in literacy classes, he had this opportunity.

In Zheng Kezang's first civil service examination, the subjects of the examination were ideology, morality and law.

For the subject of ideology and morality, as long as you read Dongning Daily regularly, you are guaranteed to get a high score.

The law is a little more difficult, but the daily newspaper is popular occasionally!

Lin Xiaocong was the one who ate the first wave of crabs.

It was the first time to take the exam, and everyone didn't understand the routines of the questions, so he could stand out!

In addition, his position was far away from home, so few people applied for it!

Sure enough, the most important thing in the public examination is to choose a position. You must choose the right position with few masters. No, Lin Xiaocong went ashore.

Adding the year-end performance award, Lin Xiaocong expects his annual income to reach more than 40 taels this year.

Although this income level is only about half of the average annual income of one hundred silver for the guards.

But after all, my job does not require hard training every day, food and clothing, and no risk of sudden death in battle. It is very suitable for Buddhist youths like Lin Xiaocong.

Lin Xiaocong is a refugee from Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province. He remembers that his brother-in-law served as a soldier in the Green Camp of Guangdong Province for food, and said that he received one or two taels of silver per month.

But in fact, from time to time, you have to be filial to the superior, and there are various deductions. If you can really get it in your own hands, after a year, I'm afraid it would be good to have ten taels.

That's it, when my brother-in-law saw him still with his nostrils upturned, when I was a child, the biggest impression I had of him was the two big nostrils.

"It's really funny. I don't know why I'm so proud of being a dog for the Tartars for less than ten taels of silver a year!"

Lin Xiaocong couldn't help shaking his head while washing up. He didn't expect that he, who was down and out when he was a child, actually regarded Luying's brother-in-law as a big boss.

Thanks to the subsequent war, I was separated from my family, and I was able to come to the paradise-like Yizhou Island.

I don't know if I will see my family in the future. If they know that they are promising now, they will be very relieved!

He felt that his parents and sister would definitely see each other again, but not brother-in-law Luying.

Lin Xiaocong was full of confidence in the guards, and estimated that his arrogant brother-in-law would probably be taken care of by the guards.

When King Yanping regains Guangdong, he must apply to be a civil servant in Guangdong and return home in good clothes!

It's time to find a good brother-in-law for my sister again!

It seems that we should hook up with the men of the Guards earlier and look for them!
However, all of this can only be realized if the king fights Guangdong earlier.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiaocong patted his cheek vigorously, pulled himself together, and decided to work hard today with full energy.

Make your own insignificant contribution to King Yanping's revival of the Ming Dynasty, and pray that such a good king as Zheng Kezang will live a long life!

Lin Xiaocong doesn't have much culture, but he also knows who he eats!

"Master Lin, it's time for breakfast!"

Say dinner and come!
At this moment, a red-haired man in a black sweatshirt ran over panting.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a Spaniard, speaking Chinese with a perfect accent.

This person is Leon, the supervisor of the white slave miners in the Jinguashi mining area.

Leon is the second son of a down-and-out Spanish nobleman. He came to Manila to pursue wealth.

Unexpectedly, nothing was caught, and Manila was breached by the Guards.

Fortunately, Leon did not kill the Chinese to post a record, otherwise he would have been shot.

Although he survived, he became a white slave and was escorted to Yizhou Island for mining.

As the saying goes, gold always shines.

Due to his outstanding language talent, Leon's fate changed.

Many people have a misunderstanding that Chinese is the most difficult language in the world for foreigners.

In fact, Chinese is not that difficult to learn, especially just getting started.

The characters of most countries in the world are phonetic characters, while Chinese characters are ideographic characters.

This makes the logic of learning Chinese different from that of learning other languages.

But this does not mean that Chinese is more difficult to learn, but the way of learning is different.

The languages ​​that are really difficult to learn in this world are often indigenous languages ​​that retain various morphemes, rather than progressive languages ​​with simplified morphemes like English and Chinese.

Therefore, Wang Yang, the third guard of the guards, is really strong, and he can actually be proficient in the native language of Yizhou Island!

Leon, a Spaniard, also has a good language talent. It took only half a year to speak Chinese, which is a decent Hokkien dialect.

After being able to speak, he was still not satisfied. He also studied Chinese characters in depth. Up to now, Leon has been able to fluently read newspapers written in vernacular like "Dongning Daily"!

There was an issue of "Dongning Daily" which specially published Leon, an enlightened and progressive white slave, and encouraged him greatly, saying that if every white slave could learn from Leon, sooner or later he would be able to get out of slavery!
In order for the white slaves to learn from him, Zheng Kezang revoked Leon's slave status with a wave of his hand, and made him a white slave supervisor in the mining area!

Since Lin Xiaocong came as a civil servant, he has added another job, which is to deliver breakfast to Lin Xiaocong.

Don't underestimate this job. Master Lin of his family has a relatively small appetite and doesn't eat much. As long as Leon is diligent and eats desserts, he can often be rewarded with half a steamed bun or something by Master Lin.

The two came to the mine while eating.

Lin Xiaocong came over briefly to look at the work of the white slaves.

It was already six o'clock in the morning when they came here, and these white slaves had already been working for an hour!
Clap!
Leon raised his whip and slammed a tall Dutchman, leaving a deep bloodstain.

Leon said in his Chinese dialect: "You cunning lowland Dutchman, even the donkeys in the production team dare not be as lazy as you!"

(End of this chapter)