Chapter 599 Imperial citizens are divided into three classes
Apart from the execution of extreme religious believers and important aristocratic leaders with political value, the Ming Dynasty did not launch a large-scale killing in Eurasia.
After the slow growth of total social wealth, the increase in population leads to a decline in per capita income level and a large amount of wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people, it is very effective to maintain social stability and prosperity, and reducing the total population through killing is a very effective way.
However, this method was a rough and wasteful method for the Ming Empire, which urgently needed to develop capital, because these people were the best labor force and the lowest labor capacity.
Many domestic capitalists who are in the face of cultural people actually want to own cheap labor also oppose the current imperial court doing this, believing that the Ming Dynasty is the supreme country of the Celestial Empire, so it is naturally not the same as those barbarian countries. Naturally, there is no need to kill them all, and these barbarians should be allowed to atone for their sins in the way of work.
As a result, in Eurasia, a large population remained and became the builders of public facilities construction and large heavy industrial enterprises.
Perhaps in the future, the Ming Dynasty will face the rise of super powerful vassal states and influence the rule of the central dynasty, and these remaining races will have further political demands. But now, at least in the next few decades or even a hundred years, everyone can only recognize Chinese characters, speak Chinese, understand Chinese etiquette, and know how to first home and country before themselves, which will reduce the killing caused by selfishness in the world.
The governors of all regions have been arranged and have arrived at their jurisdiction to take office.
The first thing these governors had to do as soon as they took office was to follow the instructions of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty and cleanse the Han elements and to reorganize the areas under their jurisdiction as soon as possible.
Perhaps the actual measures of each governor will be different, with simple and crude governance methods and moderate ones, but they are all working hard to Chineseize these places.
Qi Biaojia, a member of the Donglin Party who had been unwilling to cooperate with Zhu Youxiao, was over 60 years old at this time and had been exiled outside the pass for decades. Now he was sent by Zhu Youxiao to Folangji as the governor of Gibraltar.
Although the mountains are high and the road is far away, this is also the first opportunity Zhu Youxiao gave these stubborn landlord intellectuals to take over the real power of the local area.
Zhu Youxiao’s purpose is very simple, which is to let these so-called Qingliu people copy what they believe to be an ideal society in places like Folangji, which is also to give them a chance to practice.
Depending on the different regions and levels of wealth, the official titles of governors in various places are not consistent. At this time, Qi Biaojia only received the title of the fourth-rank assistant censor.
As Zhu Youxiao expected, the first thing that the governor Qi Biaojia, who arrived at Folangji, did was to convert the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid into a temple of consecration and academy.
A giant statue of Confucius was also erected in the center of the Madrid Palace, which is his current Governor's Office, and even a statue of Zhu Xi was hung inside it.
All the ministers knew that His Majesty the Emperor did not like Confucianism, and even more so that Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism was not the case. However, Qi Biaojia did not care about the idea of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty, and blindly wanted to turn Folangji into the second Qufu, forcing local children and young people to read the Four Books and Five Classics and memorize Confucian classics.
Zhu Youxiao was not unhappy when he learned about this, nor did he stop Qi Biaojia from his behavior. He pretended not to know about Qi Biaojia's misappropriation of funds allocated by the imperial court to him for the construction of the academy.
Zhu Youxiao even issued a direct order to allow local governors to implement the imperial examination system in the local area as soon as possible. Zhu Youxiao wanted to gradually ban the method of using Cheng and Zhu Neo-school to obtain scholars in the Ming Dynasty, but in these places, the imperial examination method of using Cheng and Zhu Neo-school as the method of using Cheng and Zhu Neo-school to obtain scholars can only be replicated.
Because Zhu Youxiao’s purpose was to make these newly occupied people turn into corrupt scholars and into doctrines of the mean who are willing to obey authority.
Zhu Youxiao did not restrict the advancement of the people in the newly entrustment area, and took into account population issues and clearly stipulated that non-prisoners of war could not be castrated, but only prohibited intermarriage with the Han people.
According to Zhu Youxiao's order, as long as they complete basic Chinese education and learn to speak Chinese, they can apply to obtain imperial citizenship.
Once you have this kind of life, you can also be an official, a scholar, and business in the Ming Dynasty.
The Ministry of Revenue has divided the imperial citizens into third-class levels.
The first class was the original Ming people in the Ming Dynasty and the conquered areas in the early stages of the Apocalypse, including the northern and southern deserts and outside the pass, as well as the people who received the sinicization in the restricted areas.
The second class is the yellow race people who originally belonged to the entire Han cultural circle, namely the original vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, such as North Korea, Myanmar, Annan and other indigenous people.
The third grade is to make special contributions to obtain higher education and high quality whites and blacks and other races.
In general, there is no difference between imperial citizens of this level, but there are slightly different details. For example, senior officials of the Ministry, the cabinet and the governors of various places can only be appointed by first-class citizens, while local officials can only be appointed by first-class and second-class citizens, and third-class citizens can only be appointed by second-class officials, except for academic fields.
In addition, intermarriage is prohibited among citizens of different levels, but first-class citizens can take low-level citizens as concubines, while first-class citizens cannot be concubines of low-level citizens. If they violate it, it will be a death penalty.
Apart from these, it is the same in terms of welfare benefits, education rights and private property protection. The specific criminal law is that if first-class citizens kill second-class and third-class citizens, they do not have to pay their lives for second-class and third-class citizens, but there will be heavy punishments such as exile. Of course, second-class citizens and third-class citizens kill first-class citizens, it is a serious crime of continuation.
Because of this, first-class citizens are usually called noble citizens. After many years, the entire earth basically formed a pattern of three-class divisions. After a hundred years, with the changes in regional gaps and different distributions of power, the third-class became five-class.
But after all, the citizens in the former Thirteenth Governor of the Two Capitals were the noblest, including the southwestern chieftains who made outstanding contributions to the Ming Dynasty in this area, such as the Tujia people in Shizhu and the Zhuang people who made outstanding contributions in the war against Japanese defence. Zhu Youxiao's special order allowed them to retain their own national costumes and customs.
However, with the popularization of education, they began to gradually become the same as the Han people, and even forced the Ministry of Rites to help them protect the cultural relics of their own nation.
People under the imperial citizens have no privileges. Their labor will not be recognized and can be killed at will. Most of them were once rulers of Eurasian countries, nobles or loyal religious believers. Of course, as long as they choose to surrender, they will have the opportunity to become imperial citizens.
Although he can only become a third-class citizen, he is better than not being regarded as a human being.
It is worth mentioning that although first-class citizens are noblest, there are restrictions. For example, first-class citizens are not allowed to engage in prostitution anymore, especially those who are not allowed to entertain inferior citizens with sensuality.
Chapter completed!