Two days later, in the prefect's palace, the prefect He Guangqi looked forward with a surprised look, "What did you say? My Donglai County is far away from the county, and more than 200 young and middle-aged sailors, artillery and musketeers suddenly appeared in the Lu Kingdom?"

"They said they encountered a storm while sailing on the sea and accidentally drifted to our Donglai County?"

Accompanied by Taishou He's inquiry, a young man in the audience hurriedly smiled bitterly, "Report to the prefect, although the matter is a bit incredible, I have confirmed from many sources that they are indeed various members required for long-distance merchant ships such as Lu's sailors, artillerymen, musketeers."

This young man was sent by the county magistrate of Lixian to report the news to Prefect He. The young man also knew why Prefect He was so surprised.

Where is Lu?

In the southwest of Zhao State, about three months' voyage, it is thousands of miles away. Where is Zhao State? In the southwest of Qi State, about two or three months' voyage, it is thousands of miles away.

In other words, it is almost a thousand miles away from Lu to Qi!

This is not the most critical. The most critical is that if a merchant ship sets out from Lu and heads northeast, it will also reach the western coast of Qi after spanning nearly ten thousand miles.

Donglai County is located on the eastern coast of Qi State.

According to the words of the sailors of Lu, what an exaggerated and bizarre ocean storm would it be that they could cross thousands of miles in a daze and appear in Donglai County, Qi for no reason?

But no matter how ridiculous or nonsense it is, the people of the county have discovered that the young and strong one after another, and after the county magistrate knows it, they will contact and investigate as soon as possible.

After all, there were more than 200 young and middle-aged people with unknown origins. In the coastal villages, it was also a force that could cause turmoil in the small villages. Therefore, after investigations and summary of all aspects, it was confirmed that there were more than 200 people from Shandong in the county.

Even during the investigation, the people from Li County found that the young and strong people were often covered up when answering questions, and some people were hesitant and dared not say in detail, but this was certain.

He Guangqi remained silent. After more than a dozen breaths, He prefect laughed and said, "No matter how they came from, I ask you, what is the mentality of these young and strong people in Lu? Do you want to stay in our Qi State and become a member of our Great Qi State, or do you want to use the merchant ships to return to Lu State?"

They are just more than 200 ordinary young and middle-aged people. The Qi State also has a population of millions and 200,000 elite soldiers. Is this a small population short of?

They were willing to stay, and Prefect He would welcome them to become part of the Daqi, just like welcoming the people who fled from Ren Wei and Zhou, but it doesn't matter if the other party wants to leave, it doesn't matter, whether it's giving away some money and letting them leave.

It doesn’t matter if those guys are self-reliant and borrow merchant ships from work instead of pay to return to Lu. It doesn’t matter if those guys just let their own choices.

Workers instead of salary? Aren’t the more than 200 young and strong men all experienced men running to the sea? They passed by the merchant ships in Qi and had so many caravans. They just joined a fleet as sailors and used their work ability to take advantage of the route and boat trips. They were just working as workers instead of salary.

It's just a country of Lu...

Qi is the overlord of many island countries in the ocean, and Lu is just a younger brother. In addition, they are too far away from each other, so they see off when they want to leave. After a little bit of a matter, Taishou He really felt that there was no need to say anything more about this after his initial shock.

After this, a young man smiled, "Return to the prefect, I have initial contact. There are more than 150 sailors from Lu in private and are willing to join our Great Qi and become a commoner in Qi."

"Most of them are just slaves and servants of the gentry of Lu. Even if they travel on boats all year round, they have no savings. Today they are lucky to be swept by the storm to arrive in Qi State, which is really their fortune."

In just two days, in Luohai, Zhang Xiaoliu and others came into contact with the backward villages along the coast of Donglai County. The living conditions of ordinary people in those villages were already the beauty they dreamed of.

In the past, those lives were only possessed in dreams in the minds of Luo Hai and others. Besides, even if they were from Lu, Lu and Qi were nearly ten thousand miles apart, but they were all marine island countries. In modern times where maritime trade was extremely developed, who had never heard of the rumors about Qi?

Previous rumors, plus two days of close contact, and observation, it was normal for more than 100 people to abandon their identity as a Lu person and join Qi.

Among the more than 200 young and strong people, only the eldest mate Liu, or the captain's brother-in-law Zhang Han, etc., the middle-level member who has a certain status and power in the Xiao family of Lu State would still want to return to Lu State.

Taishou He laughed in silence, "Then do it like this. If you are willing to stay, apply for your household registration for them, then settle in my Donglai County. If you want to leave, if there is a caravan going to Qinglong Port one day, you can just send it along the way."

Qinglong Port is the largest port in Qi State. In the north of Qi State, Donglai County is also a coastal city, and its commercial roads are also well developed. Caravans follow the near-sea route and run the Qinglong Port channel very frequently.

No matter what the people of Lu go or not, this is a trivial matter. If it weren't for the identity of Lu, it would have come a bit strange. Such trivial matters would not be the turn of the prefect of a county to pay attention to it.

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Another day later, I left the county.

In the prosperous county town, after the county yamen made public the prefect and the imperial edicts of the county government, more than 200 Xiao family sailors gathered together immediately caused a sensation.

"Thank you, sir, we will apply for household registration immediately. Haha, we have finally escaped from the sea of ​​suffering and become part of Qi!"

"Incredible, we will become Qi people one day, haha."

"Qi Kingdom, I dreamed of coming to see it before, but I didn't expect it to arrive in this way."

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The number of Xiao family sailors who stayed in Li County and were willing to join Qi State has exceeded 200.

There are only more than a dozen middle-level sailors who have a marriage relationship with the middle and senior management of the Xiao family fleet, and they are still thinking about returning to Shandong.

All the remaining ones chose to betray their own country.

It’s not that more than 200 betrayals are forgetting their righteousness when they see profit. In Lu, they are too oppressed and exploited, and there is basically no hope for their life prospects. Just say that Zhang Xiaoliu has not married yet at the age of 25 and is still saving money. This was a feudal era, and most people got married at the fifteenth and sixteenth.

Zhang Xiaoliu's fifth brother Luo Hai is already 28 years old. Luo Hai actually saved some money. If he really wants to get married and have children in Lu State, he can use his remaining money to buy a small business. The problem is that as a small skilled sailor in the Xiao family fleet, the Xiao family will not let anyone go.

The Xiao family still needs a sailor like him. They have been traveling around the world for the Xiao family and making money for the Xiao family. They don’t let anyone go and can’t go ashore. Luohai dares not buy a property to get married and have children, so they can only continue to run around the ocean.

The same goes for the same sentence, it will take as long as six or seven months to travel to the country of Lu to Rome. He is a civilian sailor, how dare he get married? He always leaves home for more than half a year, aren’t he afraid of the green grassland? Are he not afraid of the cheaper Lao Wang next door?
Chapter completed!