142 talents

"This time, the Chinese Business Association has arranged for 117 clan descendants, which is practically sending all their collateral relatives to America.

Next year, we will recruit more people from other places, so our shortage of manpower will be resolved.

As long as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom continues to cause chaos, countless people will come to America to start a brand-new life.

We just need to provide boat tickets and some guarantees; they are willing to immigrate here," Zhu Wencong explained.

"The direct lineage really dislikes the collateral relatives, sending them all to America, so the direct lineage could be the sole authority.

Alas! I don't want to talk about these annoying matters, nor do I like such arrangements by the family," Su Yanqiao complained.

The elders in the family treat the direct lineage like flowers in a greenhouse, unwilling to let them experience the slightest hardship.