The next day, it was the traditional Chinese New Year. On this day, Sun Lin, Fang Qiyi, Hou Fangyu and others brought mercenaries to the gold mine where Ruan Liu and the others were.

"The bonus is issued! The bonus is based on this year's profit and the comprehensive rating method of killing ogres!" Sun Lin stood on a high platform in the gold mine and shouted loudly.

When Ruan Liu, a miner from Annan, received his red envelope, he turned around and went to an uninhabited place, and couldn't wait to open the red envelope. He saw a ten-dollar and a five-dollar gold coin, three-dollar silver dollar, a total of eighteen yuan. This was the year-end bonus he paid for five months after he arrived at the gold mine.

In the red envelope, there was a note lying on it, which read: The year-end performance award is 10 yuan, the enemy killing prize is 6 yuan, and the head is 6 yuan; the full attendance award is 2 yuan.

Ruan Liu has been here for a total of eight months. After deducting the first three months of military training, he worked in the mine for a total of five months, and he still had a salary of two yuan per month. He saved 1.5 cents a month. Anyway, this place is for food and accommodation, and he doesn't need money. Except for spending 50 cents a month to buy cigarettes, he saves everything else.

The gold mine has now reached a certain scale. In the city, apart from dormitories, small shops and restaurants have been opened. You can buy cigarettes and alcohol in small shops. Of course, Ruan Liu is reluctant to smoke the best cigarettes. He doesn't drink alcohol. He has no other expenses a month except for buying low-end cigarettes for 50 cents.

During the Chinese New Year, the gold mine was on vacation for one month. Ruan Liu decided to use this time to go home to visit relatives. He took twenty-five yuan and five cents to embark on a journey home.

The An Nanjing people actually have the same habits as those of the Han people. They also have the habit of celebrating the Lunar New Year and returning home in glory.

Ruan Liu first took a raft from the mine to the small town at Kunjiangkou. After not coming for nearly half a year, this small town at Kunjiangkou has changed a lot. There are many buildings and factories next to the dock. The huge fortresses were built at the riverkou. The sun and moon flags hung on the forts declared to the ships that the Ming Dynasty's vassal territory was sacred and inviolable.

The cheapest passenger ticket to Tokyo from Annan is one dollar, and it is hard to get a ticket. Calculate the travel fee, it costs two dollars to go back and forth. With the food and drink on the boat, the round trip fee is three dollars, which costs Ruan Six and a half months’ salary. But he still gritted his teeth and bought a ticket to go home.

Two days later, the day after the ship was started, Ruan Liu boarded the Cowherd Starship, a large flying scissors passenger and cargo ship with a displacement of up to 2,000 tons. The ship was very large, with restaurants, taverns, libraries, shops, theaters and other facilities, as well as luxurious first-class cabins. However, all this had nothing to do with Ruan Liu who bought the unified cabin, because passengers who bought the unified cabin tickets could only live in the lower cabin. After the ship sailed, the stairway door leading to the lower cabin was locked, and passengers who were in charge of the unified cabin could not go up at will.

There are also public bathrooms in the unified cabin. When it comes to meal time, the crew on the ship will deliver meals to the unified cabin for sale. If you spend five cents, you can have lunch or dinner, and breakfast only costs two cents.

There are also beds in the unified cabin. There are not a large space where there are 150 three-story pavilions. There are three such unified cabins, which means there are 1,350 people who have purchased unified cabin tickets. In fact, there are far more than that, because many people have bought tickets for the unified cabin without ship seats, so they can only find a place to build a floor.

The Cowherd Asterisk carried more than 2,000 people, set sail from Kunjiang Port and headed towards Tokyo Port in Jiaozhi, Annan. Although the cabin where Ruan Liu was riding was stuffy and hot, fortunately, the Cowherd Asterisk was extremely fast and it took only three days and three nights to return to Tokyo Bay in Jiaozhi.

When he returned to his hometown in Tokyo, Ruan Liu had 23 yuan left. Except for leaving three yuan to travel back to the gold mine after the New Year, he gave all the money to his family.

Twenty dollars were not a small amount for the Annan people back then. One tael of silver in the Ming Dynasty was equivalent to eight hundred yuan in the 21st century, but the purchasing power was far more than one tael of silver in the Ming Dynasty. One tael of silver could allow a farmer to live for a year, so based on purchasing power, it was at least equivalent to four thousand to five thousand yuan in later generations.

The twenty yuan brought back by Ruan Liu is almost equivalent to the 100,000 yuan in later generations, which is a huge fortune in Annan.

"Lao Liu is back from wealth!" The news of Ruan Liu's return home spread throughout the village, and neighbors rushed over.

After hearing Ruan Liu talk about his work in the gold mine, many Annan people were ready to go to Borneo to dig gold after the New Year. As long as they work there for a few years, they will become rich people when they return to Annan.

But what these Annan people did not expect was that after several years, most of them not only did not return to Annan, but instead brought their families out. The Annan people not only settled their homes in Borneo, but also many went to Australia, and some even traveled across the ocean to North America, where they joined the new countries established by the Han people.

With the development of gold mining and industrial and mining, a large number of young and middle-aged people in Annan left their hometowns and came overseas. When they brought their families overseas, their identities were no longer from Annan, but from Ming people.

Many years later, the rulers of Annan discovered that the large loss of young and middle-aged people in Annan led to a large reduction in the population of Annan's production, and it reached the point where there were no young and middle-aged people joining the army. So they began to restrict the outflow of people at this time, but did whatever they wanted.

The Zheng family and the Ruan family in Annan were no longer able to control the country. Even though the population was restricted, the Tiandihe and other social organizations formed by the Zheng family of the Ming Dynasty were secretly engaged in population transactions. A large number of young men and women in Annan were sold overseas, and their population dropped sharply. In the end, they could only accept immigrants moved from the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia, Manchuria and North Korea. In the end, Annan completely disappeared and completely became the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The natives on the Borneo island, those who refused to naturalize, were not only killed, but also became slaves. After the children of local natives who were willing to deal with the Han people, their thoughts began to change and gradually no longer considered themselves local natives, but Han people. They were proud of themselves as Han people.

After the descendants of the indigenous people on Borneo fully accepted the Han culture, their identities became Han people. After that, they followed the Han army to all over the world, and a large number of people gained a firm foothold in the North American continent. Zhao Peng established a Han country in the North American continent, and fought fiercely with the United States and Canada established by the Anglo-Saxons on the North American continent for years. No one could conquer anyone.

When the United States marched towards Mexico, the Han countries on the North American continent gave Mexico strong aid, resulting in a crushing defeat in Mexico.

Later, the Han people took advantage of the loss of both the United States and Mexico, sent troops to Mexico, seized land such as Northern Mexico, and became the most powerful country on the North American continent.

In this time and space, because there is a powerful neighbor next to the United States, America is no longer a chosen country. It cannot take advantage of the opportunity of the world war to hide on the other side of the two oceans and concentrate on development. Finally, it came out to pick peaches. Instead, it was involved in the world war from the beginning and was weakened with other Western powers.
Chapter completed!