Chapter 905 War Orphans
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lingnan did not see the slightest bit of coolness.
Frost has already seen in the far northern frontier, but Wu'an Prefecture is still shirtless. The port is still a busy and lively scene, with white sails dotted and ships coming in and out constantly.
The blue sea has become the most prosperous and bustling Silk Road.
Countless merchants and goods traded on the sea, and Wu'an Taiping Port, a coastal port, was also prospering day by day.
New sailing technology is constantly spreading, and new sea-going ships are also being built, which are more conducive to long-distance soft sailboats on the ocean and sea, and suitable for hard sailboats on inshore and inland rivers.
There are more and more long and narrow three-masted or even four-masted sailing ships. They no longer rely entirely on the monsoon to sail back and forth. As long as there is wind, they can sail on the sea.
Bigger merchant ships and more advanced technology make the Maritime Silk Road busier day by day, all year round.
Countless people have joined the tide of riding the wind and waves to pan for gold. Lingnan is a remote and barbaric place, but now it is developing rapidly because of the prosperity of this sea route.
A soft sailing ship slowly sailed into Taiping Port, and a group of teenagers on the deck were curiously looking at this famous port.
The teenagers are very young, the older ones are only fourteen or five years old, and the younger ones are only seven or eight years old. Such a group of teenagers are sailors on the ship.
Officially speaking, they should be sailor apprentices. They also have another identity, barbarian orphans.
In the past, the various tribes in Lingnan often plundered and fought, and bloodshed was common, and a big war could even cause countless war orphans.
In the past, these orphans could only pray for the help and relief of their relatives, and some were terribly abandoned or trafficked.
During the last Lingnan riot, tens of thousands of orphans were born.
Many barbarians can't take care of themselves, so they can't take care of those orphans.
One day, Qin Lang received a report that the convoy was attacked. The attackers turned out to be a group of barbarian teenagers. To be precise, they were a group of barbarian beggars and orphans. In the end, forced by hunger, he became a young robber.
Of course, such a group of little beggars and robbers could not be snatched even by a small transport team, because they were young, and the transport team did not kill them and reported them as prisoners.
Qin Lang personally went to see this group of young robbers, and found that some children were not long enough for swords, they were yellow and hungry, they were just a group of hungry children.
This is no different from the Cunxiao that he stole as a sacrifice to Luo Shixin when he passed by Beiman Mountain when he went to Hebei, and he was even much thinner than Cunxiao.
After carefully understanding the experiences of these children, Qin Lang was also a little emotional.
War is merciless, and these children are even more merciless.
Later, Qin Lang put forward a suggestion that people in Wu'an prefecture adopt some orphans, and Wu'an prefecture would provide a special sum of money and food every year to give each adopting family a subsidy.
In fact, the Wu'an government paid for it, and the Wu'an immigrants came to raise it.
This plan was opposed at first, thinking that these barbarian orphans must not be well raised, and they will still be white-eyed wolves by then. But Qin Lang had a different idea. He felt that it would be cruel and inhuman for these orphans to be left alone. Most of these people would starve to death in the end, and some would survive in the end and become real robbers.
These surviving robbers will also be a factor of unrest in Wu'an Prefecture in the future.
Even because these people are lonely because of the war with Tang, these people will continue to hate Datang when they grow up.
Another way of thinking, raising these orphans, although it costs some money and food, can help these children and keep them alive. This is the kindness of the living. Furthermore, most of these children are still young. If Han immigrants raise them, let them integrate into Han families, learn to speak Chinese, recognize Han immigrants as their parents, and have brothers and sisters of Han immigrants, they can gradually change them.
This is actually cultural colonization and cultural assimilation. These children can grow into a young man and become a high-quality labor force in as short as a few years or as long as ten years. In the absence of opportunities, what is most lacking is actually labor.
So adopting these barbarian orphans actually has a lot of benefits.
It is actually easier and more effective to use money to support these orphans now than to spend more money in the future to combat and manage the thieves and rebels who have become barbarian orphans.
Qin Lang's way of thinking is indeed different from what most people think.
Under his insistence, everyone thought about it seriously. Later, he took the lead in adopting barbarian orphans, adopted a barbarian boy, and named him Cun En.
This is also Qin Lang's ninth adoptive son. Over the years, Qin Lang has taken in many orphans since he was a filial piety. Some children were left by the Turks who invaded and raped women in the Central Plains, and some died of starvation during the Guanzhong War. Orphans who lost their parents...
For these adopted adopted sons, Qin Lang is actually very good, providing them with education and letting them practice martial arts, treating them as if they had already been born.
All of them are trained well, Ru Cunxiao is now in the Habayashi Army.
With Qin Lang personally taking the lead, and with special funds from the Wu'an Governor's Mansion, the immigrants accepted this matter.
So after overcoming some of the initial concerns, the adoption plan has been implemented smoothly. Now that the plan has been implemented for nearly two years, it can be said that almost every immigrant family in Wu'an prefecture has adopted a barbarian orphan.
Even many commercial companies and companies are actively adopting them. To put it bluntly, it is beneficial.
These barbarian orphans are usually sent to a centralized orphanage to study for a period of time. They will be supplemented with nutrition, checked and recuperated, and then taught Chinese, etc., and then arranged for foster families.
After they arrive at the foster home, they will worship their adoptive parents, change their adoptive father’s surname, get a new Chinese name, and then live in the new family.
The Metropolitan Government has also set up a corresponding agency to track and manage orphan-related affairs, including regular allocation of funds, and track the growth of these orphans during home visits.
As long as these children are not abused.
Today, nearly ten thousand barbarian children live in the families of Han immigrants in Wu'an Prefecture, forming a special landscape.
Even in many trade caravans, there are many such orphans.
Just like on this ship, there are ten barbarian orphans. They were adopted by the Chamber of Commerce where this merchant ship was located, and were brought on board to become sailor apprentices.
Generally, the children who are sent to the chamber of commerce are mostly older, rebellious and undisciplined children. The families of these children are usually out of touch, and they are afraid that they will not be well disciplined. They will be picked and left behind. In the end, he was sent to the chamber of commerce as an apprentice.
It is definitely not as good as adopting in the family in the chamber of commerce.
Most of the rebellious children will eventually be trained after they arrive at the chamber of commerce. After all, the chamber of commerce is a place with many people and many rules. tame.
The group of teenagers on the ship were like this. They were very uncooperative at the beginning, but the caravan is already well-defined and has many rules, let alone on the ship. The ranks on the ship are clearer, there are more rules, and no one will be spoiled.
Even ordinary sailors are honestly disciplined, let alone the lowest-level apprentices, and these apprentices who are orphans of the barbarians are not used to it.
It is lonely on a merchant ship. I don’t see people all the year round, let alone women, so they are generally very straightforward. If you don’t obey, you will be beaten, scolded and punished.
Scrub decks, do laundry, even look up the mast.
In short, the young barbarian orphans here have a hard time and will eventually be tamed.
"This is Taiping Port, Wu'an Prefecture, so prosperous!"
"really big!"
The barbarian teenagers stared at the port in amazement. They came from various tribes of the barbarians, but now they all speak the official Mandarin of the Tang Dynasty. Although it is not standard, it is already quite smooth.
On the boat, they were forbidden to speak barbaric language, otherwise they would be punished, ranging from hard work to whipping.
"Look at that boat, it's so big!"
"It seems to be a battleship of the Nanyang Navy!"
"It's the Ning Yuan, the flagship of the Nanyang Navy!"
The teenagers have been on the ship for some time, and they have always been in awe of the overlord Nanyang Navy in the South China Sea. This awe comes from the daily performance of the captain and sailors, making them know that in the South China Sea, they are the representatives of the Great Tang Empire. It is all those who dare not offend those who sail at sea, and even their ship itself is a naval reserve ship registered in the Nanyang Navy.
"The Nanyang Navy is also coming to Taiping Port to replenish?"
A tall sailor came over naked, still chewing betel nuts, looked at the amazement of these little guys, looked at the flagship and said, "You guys also got **** luck today, and you actually touched it as soon as you came here. Here comes a respected personage, this is the person who saved your life. Our Minister of Lingnan Nine Mansions, Governor Wei Guogong of Guangzhou, today the Admiral Niu of the Nanyang Navy came to pick Wei Gong back to Guangzhou in person. Seeing that scene The battle is over, half the fleet of the Nanyang Navy is here!"
The envoy of Xuanfu Jinglue of the Nine Mansions of Lingnan, the envoy and governor of Guangzhou Zhujun, the governor of Guangzhou, the governor of Wu'an Prefecture, Qin Lang, the Duke of Wei, in Lingnan, this is an existence that everyone knows now.
The gazes of the teenagers looking at the boat suddenly became hot and respectful. If it wasn't for this person, they would have died in some wild mountain and became the prey of wild beasts.
But it was also this one who led the Tang army to break through one barbarian village after another, leaving them homeless and orphans without parents.
"Qin Cun'en is also on that boat?" A boy asked.
"He must be serving Duke Wei."
The teenagers were very envious of the barbarian boy named Qin Cun'en. He was also a barbarian orphan, but he was one of the lucky ones who could be adopted by Duke Wei.
"This guy followed Wei Gong to Guangzhou!"
"I will go to Chang'an in the future!"
A sailor chewing betel nuts slapped a boy on the back of the head, "Working and working, this is life, both barbarians, he has become the righteous son of Wei Gong, and you have become sailor apprentices, just like me and Wei Guo!" Both of you are born as concubines, but Duke Wei is the God of War respected by everyone in the world, the prime minister of the political affairs hall, the emperor's son-in-law and the prince's teacher, and the chief official guarding southern Lingnan, but I am just leading you a group of salted fish Merchant sailors!"
"This **** thing is fate, if you don't believe it, you won't do it!"
(end of this chapter)