Chapter 1596 I come, I see, I conquer
Education and transform the four barbarians into Xia.
Breaking the restrictions on intermarriage, especially in border areas, is also forced by the general situation. As early as a few years ago, China's expansion potential had almost reached its limit.
To put it simply, as long as you are not that lazy Chinese, who doesn’t enjoy the huge dividends of Dahua’s expansion over the years and lives a happy life without shame? Not to mention anything else, being a landlord is the minimum.
If you have a better mind and invest, it will be common to have a net worth of thousands or tens of thousands of yuan. You may even have a better family education, and you will support your children to study for the imperial examinations. In a blink of an eye, you will wash your feet and go ashore, become a family of officials and become a young gentry.
The future of the Han family is the best. Even if they fail the imperial examination, they can join the army. As long as they perform well, they will definitely be able to be promoted to a non-commissioned officer after three years of conscripts. These days, there are opportunities everywhere in the army. They are willing to work hard and promoted to an officer.
If you are lucky, you may be awarded the title of a warrior or a knight. No matter how lucky you are, it is not impossible to award the title of a baron and a viscount.
This can be said to be the best era. Most of the princes, lords and uncles in the court were from mud legs three generations ago, and even half of them were originally poor families before. Since the end of the Sui Dynasty, Tang Hua's friendship has earned a title and a fiefdom through his ability.
No matter how unreliable aspirations are, they can be a small landlord, guard the land assigned by the court, and live a middle-class life.
The Han people were the main body of Dahua, which was a national policy that had never changed. Dahua has been promoting the assimilation policy of turning razed into Xia, and more and more barbarians were incorporated into Dahua and obtained their ancestry. However, these people could not be fully integrated without several generations of time.
The most credible ones are of course the descendants of the Han people and the Han people. Even the children born by Han'er and Hu's daughter are much more credible than the second generation of the barbarians.
It is under these facts that when the Han people have expanded their potential to the end, the court introduced this policy to encourage intermarriage between Han and Hu.
In the past, ordinary people could not take concubines at will. They had to have titles, honors or official positions to take concubines, and they could take corresponding numbers of concubines according to their ranks. Or, they could only take concubines at this time when they were not old enough.
But now, the court has relaxed this restriction, and the Han people took Hu girls as concubines, which is not within this restriction. As long as Hu girls are willing to marry, it is no problem for Han people to take more Hu girls.
Even after taking Hu girls as concubines, the government gave birth to children, and the government also rewarded them. For each child, there was a reward.
The Han people are all good at calculating and very smart.
If you take a barbarian woman, you almost don’t have much capital. You can buy a few gifts and send them to Hu’s house, then set up a few tables of wine, or even order them at will, which can save you. You don’t need high bride money and don’t have to worry about it.
But taking a barbarian girl into the house means that there is an extra laborer at home to work. If you give birth to a child and a half daughter, the government will give you a reward, and even after the Hu girl enters the house, she will be able to register and divide the place in the government. Who can't calculate such a good thing?
So, now the barbarians are rushing to marry their daughters to Han people, and Han people are also rushing to accept them with a smile.
For a moment, there were joyful animals everywhere.
The Han and the Manchus are all in peace.
It is said that a son from a general from Kanto had a battalion commander in the army. He was injured and was unwilling to return to his hometown. He settled in the Caucasus and bought land and property here.
Then many chiefs fell in love with this resigned officer. Although he was discharged from the army, he had become a state in the Caucasus local government, which had a bright future.
Because there were too many chiefs who wanted to rush to marry her daughter, the chiefs even had a dispute. Finally, the lawsuit was filed into the state, and then reported it layer by layer, and even went straight to Tianting and presented it to the emperor.
The emperor who had arrived in the Caucasus saw this memorial in the palace, smiled and gave a reply.
He asked the young state to join the army and directly married all the Hu girls who were fighting to marry him.
So, this army married thirteen barbarians at once, which was a famous story for a while, which caused widespread among the Han Chinese in the Caucasus.
Many immigrants have accepted barbarian women, and those who have not accepted are also ready to accept them.
Even those men who had married wives in the Central Plains have now begun to accept barbarian women, and some have accepted more than one. It is quite common for two or three barbarian women to accept, and some have even accepted three or four.
Anyway, adding a population is just a matter of adding a pair of chopsticks, but it can also add labor to the family. When we came to the Caucasus, there were a lot of land. Although the land was not all good, the division of thousands of acres was so large that there were many lands and few people.
It is said that in order to get the man's concubines to give birth to children earlier, some men now stop doing the work in the fields, and leave the work at home to their wives and concubines, and they are busy giving birth to children all day long.
The official even taught them a calculation method to calculate the most suitable pregnancy date for their wives, so that they will not work in vain.
This prescription is very effective because it was said that it was the invention of the emperor, and it is well known to everyone that the emperor has many children and grandchildren, so the people are deeply convinced and heard that it is also very effective. After using this method, the chances of the barbarians' pregnancy increased greatly.
Although the barbarian daughter was taken as a concubine, it was inconvenient to communicate at the beginning because of language, habits, etc., but human nature is inherently good. After getting along for a long time, Chinese immigrants gradually became accustomed to and accepted these new family members.
They are all very hardworking, generous and enthusiastic than Han girls. Especially, they are generally stronger than Han girls and are really good at working. Whether it is at home or in the fields, they can be just like a man. Moreover, these barbarian women often have many brothers and sisters in their parents' homes, and most of them are not in good condition.
Because of backward technology, there is no harvest even if you farm.
After many Han people took over the barbarian girls, they simply took these barbarian father-in-laws and brother-in-law to work together, and then gave them wages, and their lives were much better than they did.
The Han immigrated a lot of strong labor, which solved the problem of insufficient manpower, and the barbarians suddenly entered a well-off life and a win-win situation.
Now the barbarians have changed their hair and dressed up in Han people's clothes and changed into Han people's hairstyles, and sent their children to study in Han people's schools and learn Chinese characters. Because there are subsidies to send their children to school and are compulsory, they will be fined if they don't give away, so the barbarians are willing to send their children to elementary school for six years.
The Caucasus is very big, and there are many tribes in the mountains that refuse to surrender, but it doesn’t matter. The Chinese army hired Khasa people as vanguards and recruited many Caucasian barbarians as guides to sweep and sort them out over and over again.
Every day, those barbaric tribes that are ignorant of the sky and earth are captured, and then grouped out of the mountains and sent to the prisoner camp. After a period of identification and sorting, these prisoners are broken up and sent to various places to be slaves, which is also a benefit for the Han immigrants.
The government sent slaves to them to help farm and solve the problem of insufficient labor.
"Your Majesty, the intermarriage policy is implemented well here. Now through this intermarriage, a large number of barbarian women marry into Han immigrant families, which makes the relationship between our new immigrants and local barbarians less tense."
"This policy must be adhered to. As long as the barbarian girl is willing to marry, there is no need to care about how many barbarian girl concubines a Han immigrant will take, and let them take as much as they can. In principle, those over fifty years old can't take concubines again unless they have no descendants."
Adding this article is to avoid wasting resources.
In Zhang Chao's eyes, population has always been the most important resource. A young man takes a few more barbarian concubines and gives birth to more children. Although these are mixed races, China has always been dominated by patriarchal bloodlines. The father is Han, and of course his son is Han.
I received the Han family education since I was a child. Even if I have a different appearance when I grow up, it doesn’t matter, I am still a Han person.
But the number of barbarian women is also limited. If the Han people are over fifty years old, the fertility rate of taking concubines will be low, which would be a waste of this precious resource.
It is better to let young Han people take more concubines and have more children.
"Many barbarians want to join the army."
"This hole cannot be opened easily. We must also appropriately absorb some indigenous barbarians to join the army, but this must be limited in number. The main thing is to attract them to serve in labor and work in engineering. In terms of being a soldier and fighting, it is enough to recruit some as reconnaissance guides. You cannot let too many barbarians enter our army. You must not be able to use the Dahua army stationed in the Western Regions at that time. Most of them will become barbarians, which is very dangerous."
"Your Majesty is far-sighted and worried."
Zhang Chaowei was still the mistakes made by the Tang Dynasty in history. The overly open policy led to a large number of Hu soldiers in the Tang army. Not only were there a large number of Hu people in the top military, but there were also a large number of Hu people in the soldiers of each army. Especially among the border troops in various places, the final big problem that arises in this situation is the rebellion of An Lushan. Although the rebellion is still dominated by Han people, the number of Hu people is quite large.
There is also Li Keyong, a famous person in the late Tang Dynasty. He was a group of Shatu people of the Turks. The Shatu people were quite famous in the history of the late Tang and Five Dynasties, and several dynasties were established. There are also the Dangxiang Qiang people in the northwest, which is the same.
The Caucasus is mountainous, and most of the Caucasus tribes live in various valleys, and their traffic is blocked, which leads to their independence.
They mainly hunt nomadicly and also engage in some farming, but their production technology is relatively backward.
The Khasa people occupied this place, but it did not change much.
But when the Han people came, it was different.
Dahua now has the most advanced technology in the world, whether it is industrial manufacturing or agricultural production, which is not comparable to these Caucasian barbarians who are still in the primitive stage.
Chapter completed!