Situ Lan is not a country woman without knowledge. Her suspicion of the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce was entirely out of concern for her husband.

Although the traffic conditions in the northwest of the empire have changed drastically than before. Departing from Lanzhou and going to the western territory is a gravel road, dispatched units such as immigration groups will not choose to leave the customs in winter, especially after leaving Yumen Pass, the population is sparse, and some areas are even uninhabited. Except for a small number of caravans, no one wants to challenge the bad weather here.

Therefore, the immigration group where Bagher is located is determined to spend the winter in Lanzhou City.

Fortunately, with the grandson as his husband, Bagel's life is not worried about loneliness. This reporter himself is a story king, and it is very fun to take Bagel around the streets and alleys to understand the people's conditions for several days.

As the Spring Festival approached, Bagher and Sun Weigong visited the immigrant village outside the city. Because Lanzhou is the only way to immigrate westward, the immigrant village here is a place where various services are provided for immigrants to the west, especially during the winter. Every household here has a large house and many houses, in order to settle for immigrants who spend the winter, especially official immigrants.

Sun Weigong wanted to come several times, but the Shanxi Merchants Hall and local officials would obstruct. Shanxi Merchants were rich merchants of the empire. The imperial merchants always paid attention to making a fortune in silence. Like the bureaucratic organization, they essentially did not like people with identities like journalists. Therefore, they did not stay in several immigration camps for long, so they were invited out for various reasons.

Sun Weigong was already skilled in this. He did not force himself into the immigration camp, but instead went to and from nearby markets. Bagel accompanied him for most of the day, but decided to go back to see his wife at night.

"Brother, why are you always observing me?" When Bagel opened the window, he saw the man wearing an apron peeking at him again.

Bagel had long noticed this man in his forties. He had been observing himself through various channels these days. At first, Bagel thought he was a spy from the Security Bureau or a dispatch from the Lifanyuan and other yamen, but after careful observation, he found that he was completely different. Bagel had dealt with those intelligence personnel, but had never seen such a person. When he met him, he looked straight and rubbed his hands with a pair of eyes.

The man smiled awkwardly again, rubbed his hands, scratched his head, bowed, and quickly left.

Situ Lan put a coat on Bagel and said to her husband: "I've inquired about it. His name is Du Cheng. He is not from the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce Hall, but he is with us."

"Why did you come from the capital? I have never seen anyone. Was it the immigration group coming to help?" Baghel asked.

Situ Lan shook her head: "I heard that she is from Xi'an. She has only arrived in the past few days. She is a chef. He also brings his wife and his teenage son. Now he is a chef in the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce Hall. Oh, by the way, his woman is the Mongolian woman who gave us dumplings last time."

Bagel was completely relieved. He had met Du Cheng's wife, a standard Mongolian lady. He had a cheerful personality, but he was careless and didn't seem to be an intelligence agent. Bagel had never seen someone with his wife and children in surveillance.

"Mr. Ba, you are Mr. Bagel, right?"

While reading newspapers in the reading room in the afternoon, Bagel met Du Cheng's son Du Feng. The thirteen-year-old child also stared at Bagel for a while, and couldn't help asking when Bagel looked at him.

"Yes, I'm Bagel." Bagel said with a smile. He sat opposite Du Feng and found that the child was not reading a newspaper, but preparing his homework. In front of him was a first-grade mathematics textbook for Imperial Middle School. The paper was full of calculation numbers. It can be seen that the child did not have much talent in mathematics and it was a bit difficult to learn.

Bagher asked: "Is your father Du Cheng? You just came from Shandong?"

Du Feng nodded: "We came from Xi'an and just joined the Lifanyuan dispatching group. My father is the chef of the dispatching group."

"Then how did you know me?"

"It was recognized by my mother. You were her benefactor. You rescued her from Taiji, Mongolia, back then." Du Feng said.

Only then did Bagher realize that no wonder Du Cheng and his wife always looked weird to them. Du Cheng respected him very much, and his wife was very enthusiastic and always provided various help to Situ Lan. It turned out that Du Cheng's wife was a rescued slave.

"Why are your family immigrating to Xijin?" Bagel and Du Feng started chatting while drinking hot tea.

"My father said that it was for a better life. He lived a hard life in Yantai." Du Feng said.

"Don't you and your mother feel that the hardships of his life are hard?" Bagel heard something wrong.

Du Feng shook his head: "I don't feel bitter, but I feel that when I stay in my hometown, my parents always quarrel."

In fact, Ducheng lived a pretty good life. He was born and raised in Xi'an. In the past, he was an old man in a business group. This business group formed by the Xixiang Party traveled between Xi'an and Xining. Xi'an was the earliest industrial zone in the northwest of the empire. The textile industry and the printing and dyeing industry were developed. The business group sold the textiles produced in Xi'an to Liaodong. The farthest commercial road can be Xining and Lhasa. Ducheng has walked this inland commercial road many times and is also relied on. Not only did he marry a Mongolian wife by chance during the process of business, but his income was also very high.

But the problem with Du Cheng is that he is the eldest in the family. When he was seventeen years old, his parents died of illness one after another. Du Cheng raised his three younger brothers and two younger sisters alone. After they got married, he married his own children. If he was in the village, this was also a good story, but what he got was not a friend and respectful brother. His younger brother relied on Du Cheng since he was a child, which made everyone not active. After Du Cheng got married, he also had to help his brothers, which made the Du Cheng family not harmonious.

After several consecutive years of unstable family, Du Cheng thought of completely splitting up the family. Because he had been doing business outside the pass for many years, Du Cheng simply wanted to bring his family to Hami and completely separate from his brothers.

But it caused bad consequences. A younger brother sued Du Cheng in court, saying that he embezzled all the property left by his parents.

However, after court trial, it was found that it was all false. In the end, the complainant younger brother was imprisoned for defamation. After the case was reviewed by the Supreme Court of the Empire, Du Cheng's younger brother was considered a typical ungrateful person and was severely sentenced to go to Cod Island (Alaska) to serve hard labor for fifteen years.

At this point, although there was already evil retribution, Du Cheng did not get any benefits. Because of the long-term lawsuit, the original business group lost its job, and there was no contact with his brothers again, and even the money he had accumulated for many years was spent. Du Cheng finally chose to go to the west entrance and go to Hami.

However, after learning about Du Cheng, the inspector of the Imperial Court introduced him to a new way to Xijin.

When going to Harbin, it is a private immigration in Ducheng. It is not a key construction area for the empire outside the empire, so the empire's immigration policy for it is at most relaxed and there is no preferential treatment. But going to Xijin is different, with various preferential treatments.

Because he has been between Xi'an and Tibet for so many years, Du Cheng is a honest and honest Du Cheng is a versatile person who is skilled in dealing with people from all walks of life and also makes good dishes. The same is true for his wife, who is used to traveling around the world. His son Du Feng has grown up and is strong, so he is suitable for long distances.

The inspector was the emperor's dispatch in various parts of the empire, so he was very proud. He soon found a job for Du Cheng in the Lifanyuan dispatch team, which was to accompany the chef. When he arrived in Xijin, Du Cheng could become a chef in the canteen of an official institution and a person in the system. If he was unwilling to do it, he would also get some funds to open a restaurant in Xijin, which was also Du Cheng's life plan that originally wanted to go to Hami.

What really touched Du Cheng was the arrangements made by the inspector for his son.

Du Feng's learning ability has been average since childhood, neither good nor bad, but he is a person who loves to study. He often is in the top ten in elementary school, but not very good either. It's just that because of his efforts, Du Feng could enter a key middle school in Xi'an. Unfortunately, the lawsuit with his uncle's family broke all this. This lawsuit affected Du Feng's studies and performed poorly in the primary school entrance examination and could only enter the most ordinary middle school. This is what Du Cheng has always felt guilty about.

As long as the family goes to Xijin, Du Feng can automatically obtain the admission qualification of the best middle school in Xijin, which made Du Cheng determined.

Along the way, Baghel has felt the empire's emphasis on Xijin, especially immigration. Nowadays, immigration policies are becoming more and more refined, and sometimes, there can even be special policies for some people. For example, those in the dispatched team, let alone immigrating to Xijin, are willing to work in Xijin for ten years, and have various special preferential treatments.

"Brother, you have been to Tibet, right?" After dinner in the evening, Sun Weigong, who came back, heard what Bagher had heard about today and immediately went to Du Cheng.

Seeing that Sun Weigong was Bagher's friend, Du Cheng was very enthusiastic and said, "Yes, Mr. Sun."

"Then can you tell me about Tibet? What I am talking about is not the appeasement zone of the empire, but the real Tibet." Sun Weigong said.

Du Cheng's eyes changed and he said, "Actually, if it weren't for the arrangement of Lord Sun, I wouldn't know where to go. My wife said she was going to Hami, which was a commercial road, and there were many people coming and going, so we were so happy. Actually, I wanted to go to Tibet, and I had a good time there, but I was worried that my son would not be able to withstand the pain of the plateau......"

Sun Weigong listened for a while and said, "No, Brother Du, I didn't ask you to talk about Tibet now, because after the Chinese New Year, I will go to see it myself. I heard that you have been there for thirty years and have been to Tibet before you founded the country?"

"Of course, Mr. Sun, you don't know that Lao Du went to many places when he was young. It was during the Qing Dynasty that Master went from Tibet to Beijing and returned to Tibet, Lao Du led his horse." Du Cheng's wife said, and Du Cheng stabbed an elbow and said, "If I knew the virtue of the Buddha, I would never lead the horse to that thing after death."

Sun Weigong was surprised. After he came to Lanzhou, he found that the influence of the Yellow Sect was actually not limited to Mongol lands and Tibet, and also had a great influence in the empire Gansu. Although the local Han people may not believe in the Yellow Sect, they still believe in all kinds of religious people and will never be as good as Du Cheng.

Du Cheng said: "In the early years, when there was no Lord Ozil in Tibet, it was really dark, and the people there were not like humans. Let's put it this way, when everyone saw nobles and monks, they would answer loudly when they heard their orders. Yes, Lord, it would not be enough if the voice was low, and they would have to do this..."

Du Cheng said, making an action of sticking out his tongue, and he vomited as much as possible. He said, "This is the etiquette of Tibetans. When facing noble people, you must do this, sticking out your tongue and talking loudly. Only in this way can you respect it.

At that time, the people in Tibet were bullied very much, and the serfs lived directly with the animals, without even a roof, and rarely ran away. First, they could not escape, and they would chop their hands and feet. Second, they believed that this was fate and felt that the more suffering they suffered in this life, the better they could be reincarnated in the next life.

When I was young, I was ignorant and thought that was right. Later I realized that it was wrong. Why do people have different levels of life? Although we are also oppressed, it is different from Tibet. There are really three major levels and nine minor levels."

Sun Weigong and Bagel became more and more angry as Du Cheng spoke. They smiled at each other and gave thumbs up. They did not expect that such a small businessman was so enlightened and said such great truths.

Sun Weigong even asked for advice on this matter directly. To be honest, Du Cheng's equality and the enlightenment of the rule of law came from the younger brother who had just been sent to Cod Island. His younger brother was a good student and was sent to the school by Du Cheng since he was a child. The things he learned naturally affected his brother.

However, more theories come from the liberation of serfs in Tibet after the reform of Ozil in Tibet. However, Ozil is not just a material liberation, just a piece of cattle and sheep pasture. Instead, we need to do ideological liberation and carry out large-scale propaganda work. The reason is that the people in Tibet have been fooled by religion for hundreds of years, and they dare not even have the freedom they have obtained. Only ideological progress can achieve true freedom.

Du Cheng also got a lot of opportunities to listen to classes because the climate in Tibet is very harsh. Sometimes, when you go to Lhasa to go to Lhasa for a business trip, if you don’t know the time well, you have to spend a winter in Tibet. There are no entertainment programs there to pass the time. Du Cheng likes to follow the class. At first, he just likes people to publicly denounce those arrogant guys because this is something he wanted to do but dared not do when he was a child. Later, he felt that what others said was more and more reasonable, otherwise he would not have the idea of ​​immigrating to Tibet.
Chapter completed!