With this farm, I can plant crops, such as long-staple cotton, in the future, and things will get better in the future. I try to exchange the loans from my uncle and brother as soon as possible, so that this land can truly belong to me.
When John became a farmer in the desolation of Egypt with great hope.
His brother George, on the other hand, came out of the door of his newly rented apartment very early in the morning, before it was completely dark, wearing a decent velvet business attire, and sat on the car he had made an appointment with yesterday at the door of his apartment.
After waiting for a taxi, they headed towards the European Hotel.
Today, the European Hotel will usher in a grand event. As one of the many managers in the hotel, he must arrive at the hotel in advance. For this reason, he has even made an appointment for a taxi in advance.
In fact, if you live directly in the dormitory in the hotel, you don't have to go to such trouble.
But now he is no longer the lowest-level customer, but a customer manager under the lobby department. He is also the only temporary resident among more than ten middle-level managers in European hotels.
After finally getting up, he naturally needs to pay attention to his status at all times. His daily life is to be closer to the real Tang Dynasty people.
Only those who have truly experienced poverty know the rare and hard-won happiness.
George's childhood and adolescence were very typical hardships. This kind of hardship was not just an unsatisfactory life, but also a difficulty in surviving.
It was not until he came into contact with people from the Tang Dynasty, and through hard work he obtained a temporary residence permit and became a person from the Tang Dynasty that his life improved.
In the past few years since he came to Ceuta, what impressed him most was not the prosperity of Ceuta, but the fairness and freedom unique to the Tang Dynasty.
First of all, there are no serfs here, let alone slaves. Everyone is a free citizen.
This was unimaginable in medieval Europe and even other parts of the world.
What's more important is fairness.
Although Ceuta was only an overseas territory of the Tang Dynasty, it still reflected the unique fairness of the Tang Dynasty.
Everyone can go to school and study, and anyone who has enough ability can take the imperial examination, let alone compete for other jobs.
This is almost unimaginable in contemporary Europe.
Because in contemporary Europe, there is no systematic civil service system at all, and all middle- and high-level military and administrative positions are exclusively aristocratic.
But in the Tang Dynasty, even if you were born poor, as long as you have enough talent, you can enter the upper class and realize your life value.
This was true throughout the Tang Dynasty, and Ceuta was no exception.
Although George is only a temporary resident, he still deeply feels this fairness.
He used to be just a kid from a slum. When he was in Cadiz, he worked very hard, even desperately, but he still couldn't even eat enough.
But after becoming a temporary resident of Datang, he reaped rewards for his hard work. He successfully found a job, passed the night school for elementary school literature, and became a consultant at the European Hotel in Ceuta.
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However, he still did not stop studying. If there were no night schools in Ceuta, he would probably have gone to a night school to study.
It is a pity that Ceuta is only an overseas territory of the Tang Dynasty. Even though it is the largest and most prosperous overseas territory of the Tang Dynasty in Europe, it is still just an overseas territory.
According to the laws and regulations of the Tang Empire, the education system in overseas territories was limited to primary education.
Of course, immigrants in overseas territories don’t have to worry about their children not being able to go to middle school or even college.
Because they can apply directly to local middle schools, the Tang Empire directly connects with local middle schools in various states based on the number of overseas territories, etc. to ensure that students from overseas territories can successfully report and attend middle schools.
In Ceuta, like all overseas territories in Europe, immigrant students will take entrance exams after graduating from primary school, and the winners can enter South African secondary schools.
South Africa is now also a region that has adopted partial localization. Although it is only partial localization, it is still localization. Therefore, middle schools and factories can be established. Otherwise, the South African Gold Mine Railway will not be built. The local gold mines
It can't be dug out.
However, for subsequent preparatory courses and university studies, you can only study in East Asia.
Since there are not many preparatory colleges and universities in the entire empire, there is no need to count on the overseas locals.
In order to ensure that immigrants have no worries, even the boat tickets for their children's first return to their homeland are fully reimbursed. Although this cost is not small, in order to maintain the centripetal force of immigrants, Datang is still willing to spend the money.
However, Datang adopted an elite education system starting from middle school. Whether they were immigrants or locals, only a very small number of people could go to middle school, so the number was actually not that large.
Although George cannot continue to attend night school, he still maintains a state of reading and studying all year round.
Apart from his appearance, he is actually no different from a Tang Dynasty person in other aspects.
It would even be an exaggeration to say that George is more like a Tang Dynasty person than a real Tang Dynasty person.
He has a standard Jinling accent, can speak well, can also play Go, never leaves his folding fan, and is well aware of various fashion trends in Songjiang and other Jiangnan areas.
In fact, if he hadn't studied so hard, he wouldn't have been promoted to a manager.
Limited by academic qualifications and other factors, it is very difficult for a temporary resident to become a middle- or senior-level manager in a place like the European Hotel.
His peers at the same level were all real Tang people with yellow skin and black eyes. He was the only one with blue eyes and blond hair.
It is precisely because of this difficulty and knowing his own specialness that George cherishes the status quo even more.
He fully considers the people of the Tang Dynasty and lives more like a Tang Dynasty person than a person from the Tang Dynasty.
In addition, now that he is a middle-level manager after all, he naturally needs to maintain his dignity like other managers.
I can no longer live in the dormitory as before.
Because most of his Datang colleagues at the same level live outside, there is no real Datang employee who lives in the internal dormitory of the European Hotel.
So even though he was a little reluctant, he still rented an apartment in a classy community close to the hotel on the second day of his promotion. The monthly rent was four Tang Yuan.
The clothes he wears have also changed into fine woolen business attire, and the food and drink expenses are all closer to those of respectable gentry.
He even hired a young maid to take care of his daily life. This maid was an Austrian. Although she was quite beautiful, George was not very satisfied.