Under the bright sunshine, Xie Richang's heart was filled with doubts as he walked along the round-shaped diversion railings with the crowds of people.
It was not because there were many people, but because he found himself leaving the customs building little by little, and then walked along the railings to another place, and there were barbed wire fences on both sides of the passage.
"I, where are we going?"
Carrying luggage in one hand and holding it in the other, the woman followed the man nervously.
"Don't be afraid, it's okay, it's okay..."
Soon they entered another large yard by the sea along the guardrail.
Isolation camp for new immigrants!
This is a place that every immigrant who first came to Ming Dynasty must enter. In fact, Xie Richang did not need to come here at all, he just entered the immigration channel.
Three-story red brick buildings are arranged neatly in rows in the compound. In the open space between the buildings, neatly dressed people are lining up like foreign soldiers, walking in a queue like an army.
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"Take out your change of clothes from your luggage and put your luggage into the cabinet. This is the key to the cabinet. After disinfecting the luggage, collect it with the card!"
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At the entrance of the barbed wire fence, the education camp staff wearing Nanhua uniforms said.
But Xie Richang looked completely confused.
He doesn’t understand!
"Cantonese? 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'm going to take a shower later. Don't worry about your luggage. It needs to be steamed too..."
Disinfecting and deworming immigrants' luggage is an effective way to reduce infectious diseases. In fact, when new immigrants board the ship, not only do individuals need to take a bath and deworm, but their luggage also needs high-temperature disinfection.
Xie Richang was at a loss and didn't know what to do. He just put his luggage in the cabinet like everyone else. Although the cabinet was locked, Xie Richang was more worried about the dozens of gold bars in the suitcase. Those were his
All the belongings were lost.
But he still understands the principle of not revealing your wealth when you are away from home.
"Everyone, line up and separate men and women. Men enter the men's bathroom along this side, and women enter the women's bathroom from the other side! Don't worry, everyone, we can meet again in half an hour..."
Following the instructions of those people, Xie Richang took his eldest son's hand and walked in along the fence walkway. Before leaving, 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's all too strange.
"There is soap in the shower room. Remember to wash your hair twice more with soap when the time comes. There should be no more dirt on your body! Let's help each other rub the dust off our bodies."
Someone in the changing room was loudly reminding the new immigrants. They always remind these new immigrants every time they enter the camp. Of course, they have also experienced all this.
"ah!"
When some hot water poured from the shower head onto his body, Xie Zuantai couldn't help but laugh.
"Dad, it feels so comfortable!"
"Um!"
Xie Richang, who hadn't taken a shower for more than half a month, couldn't help but scream in comfort.
“Really comfortable!”
For a moment, people in the shower room couldn't stop talking and laughing happily. They didn't expect to take a hot shower as soon as they landed.
"Dad, this foreign sauce doesn't smell very good."
"It's not good, it smells like sulfur."
What Xie Richang didn't know was that this kind of 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 caused the disease incidence rate on the high-density immigration ships of the Ming Dynasty to rise.
The mortality rate has been controlled within acceptable limits.
After taking a bath in the shower room, Xie Richang was surprised by the heat that hit his face when he opened the cabinet.
"Why are these clothes so hot?"
Even the clothes were a little hot to the touch. Little did Xie Richang know that when they were taking a shower, high-temperature steam would enter the wardrobe and their suitcases through the steel pipes. It would only take ten minutes to kill the lice and insect eggs on the clothes.
When he reunited with his wife and children and got their luggage, Xie Richang said to his wife with a sigh of relief.
"It looks like this place is really good!"
What else will happen next?
Xie Richang didn't know it, but just a few hours after arriving here, he discovered that this place was different from what he imagined.
It can even be said to be quite different.
During the next seven days of isolation, not only will he, like other men, have to undergo simple queue training, but even his wife will also have to undergo training. Of course, there is an exception for bound feet, but they have to take it easy.
Because Xie Richang got a blue registration form, after the seven-day quarantine period, he did not need to take a train to the "New Immigrant Education Camp" in other areas like other new immigrants.
At that time, Xie Richang's family registered again with the Immigration Department.
Although Chinese people do not need a visa to enter the Ming Dynasty, they only need to register their name and place of origin to enter, but it is not easy to become a naturalized person. They need to pass a naturalization exam. The content of the exam is very simple, and its purpose is to eliminate illiteracy.
, after all, all new immigrants need literacy education, and of course they cannot be illiterate when naturalized.
Because they have not yet been naturalized, Xie Richang's family of four can only register as residents. After receiving the temporary residence permit, they will enter Daming.
"Oh, is this the Ming Dynasty?"
When he finished speaking, he was startled... A car passed by on the road almost right in front of his eyes. He stared at the car going away. It took Xie Richang a long time to come back to his senses and said.
"This, this car is what 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 horses or coal!
Looking at the city in front of him with clean and tidy streets and tall buildings on both sides, Xie Richang said excitedly while being astonished.
"The weather in the Ming Dynasty looks different from that of the Tatars in Manchuria. Damn it, look at how flat and clean this place is. It's nothing like Guangzhou. It's full of garbage, shit and urine..."
Standing on the streets of Xin Xiamen, Xie Richang found a place where everything in front of him was new and admirable. It seemed that this Ming Dynasty was the Ming Dynasty in his dream.
"Dad, this road is really smooth."
Xie Zuantai couldn't help but jump on the ground. If it weren't for too 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 younger son said.
"Dad, look at you two, be careful not to be looked down upon as someone who has never seen the world."
The woman's jokes made Xie Richang burst out laughing.
"It doesn't matter if you are laughed at. This is the Ming Dynasty. This is the Ming Dynasty. No matter how great the world we have seen in the past, we have never seen the world of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Dad, look at that foreigner, look at his shocked face from ear to ear... He has never seen the world!"
Xie Zuantai pointed at a few foreigners standing on the roadside in the distance who seemed to be stunned, and said loudly.