Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1504

Lin Ming sent the buddy away, closed the door, and heaved a sigh of relief.A rare sense of relaxation enveloped his heart - ever since he set off from Foshan to join the merchant ship, he has never really been alone, and he has lived under a careful disguise all day long.

Although this room is small and crude, it is a small world with the door closed, allowing him to temporarily remove the disguise.

To be cautious, he checked the room first.There were many black shops in ancient times, and there were even black shops on thoroughfares.It is a real thing that people who put in the hotel for money, killed them, or even slaughtered them to make human meat buns - Lin Ming himself has handled such cases, and he is a person who often goes out, so he must pay attention to the safety of the hotel a bit.

Although this Weimin Hotel was opened by a gangster, it would not be a black shop, but it is also a dragon's pond and a tiger's den.You have to be very careful.

Lin Ming checked under the bed and in the closet one by one, and carefully checked the door and windows of the room, making sure that there were no peepholes or hidden dowels, and then he packed the things under the package.

In fact, there wasn’t much in the bag, just a few sets of clothes and two pairs of shoes—I brought them from Foshan. I didn’t wear shoes on the boat, so I basically didn’t need them.Then there is an ink cartridge.In order to facilitate the concealment of his identity, Lin Ming tried his best to bring as few items as possible that might reveal his identity, not even the dagger that never left his body.

He carried very little money with him, and most of it had been exchanged for negotiable notes after he landed, leaving only a few silver coins to keep close to his body for emergency use.

After tidying up, Lin Ming went to the first floor to take a shower, put on clean clothes and prepare to board the "Hai Xing Ship" to "see work" - based on his impressions along the way, he already knew how the thieves treated the "refugees" The control is extremely strict. He walked all the way from Bopu, and there was not a single beggar or street performer on the street. He also heard that people often "catch floating waves" in the street. If it is caught, it will be sent to a quarry or sand quarry to work for a few months.If you don't have a stable job, you will take great risks in Lingao activities.

The employment contract has the detailed address of the shop. The roads in Dongmen City are neat and there are many road signs to guide them.Lin Ming found a map in the hotel and looked it over a few times, and soon found the location of the Haixing.

The front of Haixing is not big, only one bay, but the signboard is very big, with big gold characters on it, which doesn't match the front of the door, it looks like a child wearing an adult's hat.

Stores in Lingao are not allowed to put up fronts - so as not to affect the traffic, so Lin Ming will not be able to see what business is being done here for a while, and only when he walks in does he find that it is a mountain goods business.The purchase prices of various mountain goods and local products are hung on the counter.

The guy came up to greet him, and he quickly explained that he was here to see the worker.Then he was taken to the counting room at the back by the clerk——only then did he realize that all the shops in Dongmen City have narrow facades and deep interiors.The shopkeeper was from Cantonese, and he could speak Cantonese mandarin, and the two of them felt very close as soon as they spoke.

Lin Ming had a good understanding of the merchants when he was in Guangzhou. From the decoration of the shop and the shopkeeper's conversation, he knew that Haixing's store business was just to maintain a facade. In fact, it was a wholesaler business.The owner of this shop should have a deep relationship with Kun Thief and Daming.

"Since I'm from a villager, I'll take care of it when I come here to ask for a living." The shopkeeper, who reported his family name as Qian, has been entrusted by his family to sell mountain products and local products in Hainan since he was young. He is considered a "Qiongzhou expert". "Since you are proficient in writing and ink, just do a copywriting in my accountant's office."

"Thank you, Shopkeeper Qian!"

"You're welcome. I think you look like Zhou Zheng. You probably used to be a student of a scholar's family. Naturally, there is a reason for being reduced to this. But here in Australia, don't ask about the past, don't talk about the past, you just need to do things well. It is not difficult to live on food and clothing.”

"Yes, it's all cultivated by the shopkeeper Qian."

"Australians have strict laws here, and the police are like a net. People who have committed crimes can't escape their grasp. You have to take care of yourself on weekdays and don't violate their laws, otherwise even the gods will not be able to save you."

"Yes, little one understands."

"Do you have a place now?"

"The little one lives in the Weimin Hotel."

"There are many people in that place. You can move here after signing the contract. We still have a few vacant houses here. It will save you some rent."

Lin Ming repeatedly agreed, and Treasurer Qian stamped the contract document, handed a copy to him, and asked him to return it to the agency as soon as possible.He also wrote the words "Hired on a certain day of a certain year" on his employment certificate, and stamped it.After it was done, a guy was called:
"Take this Mr. Lin to the police station to register for a household registration."

Checking household registration is also a system in Daming's Baojia system, so Lin Ming is no stranger to it.Now follow the buddy out.

The guy who led him was very young, he looked no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, but his face was sallow and thin, as if he had just recovered from a long illness.Lin Ming knew that this was his "colleague" from now on.For the convenience of future work, it is natural to win over.Immediately, I found a topic to chat with him.

However, the other party couldn't understand his Cantonese official dialect at all, so Lin Ming had no choice but to switch to official dialect, but the other party understood it.

Probably bored in the store all day long, but the young man was very talkative, and soon Lin Ming knew his name was Wang Xinglong.He just joined Haixing last year as a buddy.

"Brother Wang can speak official language, so he's not from Guangdong."

Wang Xinglong's face suddenly darkened: "To be honest, I am from Laizhou Prefecture, Shandong Province."

"Laizhou?" Originally, Lin Ming only knew that there was a place called Shandong in the province of the world. As for Laizhou, he had no idea at all.However, when news of the chaos in Denglai came out more than two years ago, the place name Laizhou was deeply imprinted in his mind.

"that is not……"

"Exactly, the place where there was a riot two years ago." Wang Xinglong let out a deep breath, "It's too miserable!"

"I'm in the mansion newspaper..." Lin Ming realized that this was inappropriate. He waited for the idle people in the city to see nothing about it, so he quickly changed his words, "I heard that there were a lot of news in the mansion newspaper. The whole province of Shandong was poisoned, but fortunately, Sun Yuanhua, the former governor of Denglai, led the gentry to defend Laizhou..."

"It's Mrs. Sun, without Australians, Laizhou is already finished." Wang Xinglong curled his lips.

These words immediately aroused Lin Ming's interest. Sun Yuanhua began to stick to Laizhou, and later assisted in suppressing the rebellion. He made a great contribution.It is said that someone in his court assisted in the activities, so although the rebellion happened while he was in office, the subsequent punishment was very light, and he was only dismissed from office.And he still stayed in Dengzhou to "assistantly handle Liaodong military affairs".

Unexpectedly, Sun Yuanhua was involved in this mutiny!Jin Yiwei's political sense made his whole body excited immediately.He deliberately said:

"It's thousands of miles away from Dengzhou and Laizhou. How can the Australians help Mr. Sun? Besides, Mr. Sun is an official of the imperial court, how can he have a private relationship with the Australians? This...this...it's unbelievable..."

"You don't know about this." Wang Xinglong is young, how could he know that this gentle and elegant "copywriter" is a guard in brocade clothes, and he said openly, "Australians set up a stockade on a deserted island by the sea of ​​Laizhou, specifically to contain soldiers and rioters." The victims of the disaster, the rebels who besieged Laizhou went to attack, and they were beaten to pieces by the Australians, tens of thousands of casualties, and many warriors died, and even the cannons they got from Dengzhou were confiscated by the Australians—if it wasn’t for this How can Laizhou survive a big battle?"

Lin Ming nodded: "So that's how it is." He was a little disappointed: He thought he would get important news about Sun Yuanhua's secret collusion with the Kun thief from this young man, but he didn't expect it to be nothing more than that.

However, the news is still very shocking.It turns out that the tentacles of the thieves are far from being in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian!Denglai is not a rich place, and the bandit Kun even stretched out his hand there, and even set up a stockade to recruit exiles—his heart is to blame!
Sun Yuanhua, as the governor of Denglai, could not have been ignorant of their establishment of the village, and when the rebels were besieging Laizhou, they would divide their troops to attack the Kun thief's village... Even if there was no collusion between the two parties, there was some kind of tacit understanding.Thinking of Sun Yuanhua's ability to slip past——Lin Ming felt a chill running down his back. Could it be that the thief's hand had already reached the capital and penetrated into the court hall? !
"Fortunately, the Australians set up this stockade, so many people in Shandong survived!" Wang Xinglong sighed, "Even though leaving home, it's better than filling ditches!"

"Oh? Doesn't it mean that there are a lot of Denglai people here?" Lin Ming asked.

"To say the least, there are more than [-] people. They were all transported here in big Australian ships. There was a sea of ​​people on the pier..."

More than one hundred thousand!This number once again shocked Lin Ming. What did the Australians do with over [-] Shandong people?
During the conversation, Lin Ming knew that Wang Xinglong was the only one this year.It was originally a middle-level merchant in Laizhou Prefecture.He has read books and studied contemporary literature, and he always ranks among the best in the county's boys' exams, and he is a popular candidate for a scholar.The family is quite thin.However, the Denglai Mutiny turned all this into ashes.Although Laizhou did not break down the city, most of his family's shop properties were outside the city, and all their property was wiped out in the fierce offensive and defensive battles.His parents and family were dead and scattered, and he was the only one left to escape with his cousin.

He didn't go to Lingao by boat, but fled all the way west from Laizhou to Jinan Mansion - Jinan has his father's relatives, who are also business partners, who did not expect this relative to see his whole family ruined. He ignored it.

Seeing that his relatives were unreliable, Wang Xinglong thought of the few businessmen he had contacted who had been to Lingao. When he heard that he was very interested in "Australian miscellaneous studies" and "Australian goods", he once suggested that he go to Lingao to have a look.

Since the Australians set up a stronghold in Longkou to accommodate refugees going south, it is obvious that there is an urgent need for population.Now that I have lost my family, in Daming I can only die from cold and hunger, so I might as well go south to die—I heard that Lingao is a peaceful place, whether it is doing business or working as a clerk, I can always support myself and my cousin.

(End of this chapter)