Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 573 Three Classes of Imperial Citizens

Except for the execution of extreme religious believers and important aristocratic leaders with political value, Ming Dynasty did not carry out large-scale massacres in Eurasia.

After the growth rate of total social wealth is slow, the increase in population leads to a decline in per capita income, and a large amount of wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people, to maintain social stability and prosperity, reducing the total population by killing is a very effective way.

But this method is a crude and wasteful method for the Ming Empire, which desperately needs to develop capital, because these people are the best labor force, and they are also the labor capacity with the lowest cost.

Many domestic capitalists who pretend to be cultural people are actually wanting to have cheap labor. They also oppose the current imperial court's doing this. They think that Ming Dynasty is the kingdom of heaven. The way of working atones for sin.

Therefore, in the Eurasian region, a large number of people stayed and became the builders of public facilities and large heavy industrial enterprises.

Perhaps in the future, the Ming Dynasty will face the rise of super-powerful feudal towns 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, all people can be made They all only know Chinese characters, they can only speak Chinese, they have to understand Chinese etiquette, and they all know how to put their family and country before themselves, so that the world will reduce the killings caused by selfishness.

The governors of various places have been arranged, and they have all arrived in the places under their jurisdiction to take up their duties.

The first thing these governors have to do when they take office is to follow the instructions of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty to eliminate non-Han elements and Sinicize the areas under their jurisdiction as soon as possible.

Perhaps the actual measures of each governor will be different, and the administrative methods may be simple and rude or moderate, but they are all trying their best to Sinicize these places.

Qi Biaojia, a member of the Donglin Party who has been unwilling to cooperate with Zhu Youxiao, is over [-] years old at this time and has been exiled outside the customs for decades. Now he is also sent by Zhu Youxiao to Frangji 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 control of local real power.

Zhu Youxiao's purpose is very simple, it is to let these so-called Qingliu people copy what they think of as an ideal society in places like Frangji, which is also to give them a chance to practice.

According to the difference in geographical area and wealth, the official titles of governors in different places are not the same. At this time, Qi Biaojia only received the title of Sipin Qindu Yushi.

As expected by Zhu Youxiao, the first thing Governor Qi Biaojia did after arriving in Franji was to convert the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid into a Confucian temple and a school.

A colossal statue of Confucius was also erected in the center of the Royal Palace of Madrid, which is his current Governor's Mansion, and a portrait of Zhu Xi was even hung inside it.

All the ministers knew that His Majesty the Emperor didn't like Confucianism, let alone Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, but this Qi Biaojia just ignored the idea of ​​Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao, and blindly wanted to turn Flangji into a second Qufu, forcing Make local children and teenagers read the Four Books and Five Classics, and recite Confucian classics.

Zhu Youxiao was not unhappy when he found out about this, and he didn't stop Qi Biaojia's behavior. He also pretended not to know that Qi Biaojia embezzled the funds allocated to him by the court to build a raw material collection factory and used it to build an academy.

Zhu Youxiao even directly ordered the governors of various regions to implement the imperial examination system as soon as possible. Zhu Youxiao wanted to gradually abolish the method of selecting scholars based on Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty, but in these places, they could only copy Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism as the basis. The imperial examination method of obtaining scholars.

Because Zhu Youxiao's purpose is to turn these newly occupied people into corrupt Confucians and moderate people who are willing to obey authority.

Zhu Youxiao did not limit the advancement of the people in the newly attached areas, and considering the population issue, he also clearly stipulated that non-prisoners of war do not need to be castrated, but only prohibits intermarriage with Han people.

According to Zhu Youxiao's decree, they can apply for imperial citizenship as long as they have completed basic Sinicization education and learned to speak Chinese.

Once you get this kind of life, you can also be an official, learn and do business in Daming.

The Ministry of Households has divided the citizens of the empire into three classes.

The first class is the original people of the Ming Dynasty in the conquered areas of the Ming Dynasty and the early days of the Apocalypse, including the original people of the Ming Dynasty and the people in the Jimi area who received Sinicization.

The second category is the natives of the yellow race who originally belonged to the entire Han cultural circle, that is, the original vassal state of Ming Dynasty, such as Korean, Burma, Annan and other aborigines.

The third category is whites, blacks and other races who have made special contributions to obtain higher education and high quality.

In general, there is no difference between imperial citizens at this level, but there are slight differences in details. For example, high-ranking ministers, cabinets, and governors of various places can only be appointed by first-class citizens, and local officials can only be appointed by first-class officials. And the second-class citizens serve as officials, and the third-class citizens can only become second-class officials, except in the academic field.

In addition, intermarriage between citizens of different classes is prohibited, but first-class citizens can take low-class citizens as concubines, but first-class citizens cannot be concubines of low-class citizens.

Apart from these, the welfare benefits, the right to education and the protection of private property are all the same. The specific criminal law is only for the first-class citizens. Citizens only pay their lives, but there will also be severe punishments such as exile. Of course, if second-class citizens and third-class citizens kill first-class citizens, it is a felony.

Because of this, the first-class citizens are usually called aristocratic citizens. After many years, the whole earth basically formed a pattern of dividing people into three classes. After a hundred years, with the changes in geographical gaps and power distribution, the third class became Ranked five.

But in the end, the citizens of the former two capitals and thirteen chief envoys are the most noble, including the southwestern chieftains who have made outstanding contributions to the Ming Dynasty in this area, such as the Tujia people in Shizhu and those who once fought in the war against Japan. For Zhuang people who have made outstanding contributions, Zhu Youxiao specially allowed them to keep their national costumes and customs.

However, with the popularization of education, they have gradually become no different from the Han people, and even forced the Ministry of Rites to help them protect the cultural relics of their own nation.

People under the citizens of the empire have no privileges. Their labor will not be recognized and can be killed arbitrarily. Most of these were former rulers and nobles of Eurasian countries or loyal religious believers. Surrender also has the opportunity to become a citizen of the empire.

Even if you can only be a third-class citizen, it is better than not being treated as a human being.

It is worth mentioning that although first-class citizens are the most noble, there are restrictions. For example, first-class citizens are not allowed to engage in prostitution, especially not to entertain lower-class citizens with sensuality.

This also led to many entertainment venues in the empire being ostentatiously displayed by citizens of other ranks.

(End of this chapter)