Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 574 Second Class Citizens Under the Ming Empire System
In this era, it is not just the Han people who do not have a strong national consciousness.

At this time, the Mongolian herdsmen did not have a strong national consciousness, even weaker than the Han people.

Because they are essentially the property of the Mongolian nobles, they sometimes do not know that they will be ruled by the rising tribe.

Especially after the Yuan Dynasty, the tribes of Mongolia have been very scattered.

Now that the emergence of the Ming army made them become tenant farmers and workers enslaved by the Ming business group, they were not too reactionary.

Riker is an ordinary herdsman of the Harqin tribe. Now he has become a contract worker of Fenghe Business Group in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, Qingsong County, and is also a second-class citizen in Qingsong County.

The Ming Dynasty Cabinet has revised the Ming Dynasty Citizenship System, and will no longer use physical annihilation to deal with other non-Han ethnic groups.

Instead, the citizen hierarchy is used to distinguish the original Han people from the newly assimilated Han people, that is, herdsmen like Zakir.

After all, the development of an empire needs not only land but also population.

Nowadays, after decades of war, the population has decreased a lot. As a highly developed civilized regime, it is natural to replace the brutal massacre with exploitation.

This is not the Holy Mother, but to allow the empire to have more exploiting groups and a long-term basis for exploitation.

After all, the original Han people will be upgraded from ordinary people to small capitalists, their labor prices will rise, their welfare benefits will increase, and some high-risk jobs will require a lot of cheap labor to complete.

Naturally, these cheap laborers can only be second-class citizens and even third-class citizens in the future.

The gap between first-class citizens and second-class citizens lies in life, financial security, welfare benefits, and civil rights.

Official positions above the fifth rank in the empire cannot be held by second-class citizens, which means that An Lushan can only be a sixth-rank official in Daming at most, or even a sixth-rank official.

Because except for special contributions, second-class citizens do not have the qualifications to participate in the imperial examination and join the army.

Not only these, but also other treatment that second-class citizens cannot enjoy.

Even in terms of legal protection, only between citizens of the same class and when citizens of the lower class violate the interests of citizens of the previous class have legal effect.

First-class citizens who infringe on the lives and property interests of second-class citizens shall not bear any legal responsibility, and the government will not pursue it.

There is no other reason for this. The first-class citizens have made indelible contributions to the rise of Ming Dynasty.

The second-class citizens are just that the empire, which desperately needs a lot of cheap labor, does not want an intelligent species of the same kind to become dry bones in vain.

But the empire still wanted to force the second-class citizens to assimilate into Han people, so as to completely eliminate the ideological source of their resistance.

Years later, they will forget their original history.

"Because you used to be from Xingzhou, so your surname is Xin now. You live in the east of Qingsong City, and you are named Xin Qingdong. Your son will no longer be called Qiduoyun. You have the right to rename your son. Get a name!"

Rikel, who should be called Xin Qingdong now, was taken to Qingsong County by his employer as soon as he came to the county government.

He didn't resist, he didn't pay much attention to the name, but when Qingsong County Lifang Book Office asked him to rename his son, he still thought about it seriously and expressed his meaning in Mongolian. He named his son Xin Yun.

"This is the name of you and your son. This is the last time I will speak Mongolian to you. From now on, you are a second-class citizen of my Ming Dynasty. You can only read Chinese characters in Chinese. Do you understand? If there is any violation, once found Ten lashes! You can also report other people, and you can get a silver reward!"

Qingsong County Government Lifang Book Office gave Xin Qingdong two copybooks with "Xin Qingdong" and "Xin Yun".

The burly Xin Qingdong carefully put these two pieces of paper into the short jacket he just put on. Although he is a second-class citizen in Qingsong County, he is very satisfied with his current life. He is also very excited when he still knows his new name And happy, even when he saw his son sitting on the wooden bench and reciting the Three Character Classic with other newly renamed children, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

He felt that his son might one day be able to write beautiful words like the master of the book office in the ceremony room.

Xin Qingdong likes the busy life now. Although working for the employer is very hard, he can manage at least two full meals a day. Although it is sweet potatoes with enough salt, it is already very good compared to the hungry life before. treatment.

At the end of the month, when he saw the jingling fine silver dollars handed out to him, he was so excited that he wanted to kowtow to his employer.

Because he is willing to become a citizen of Daming, he has the right to an eight-hour working system, so after the afternoon application time, he can still have a long time of free labor. He moved to various cities, and he usually didn't go home until late at night, because the way the government paid him was to do a lot more. He wanted to earn more money and buy himself a house .

Now his family is still renting in the employer's shack and has to pay one silver dollar every month, which he is not satisfied with.

However, the government does not allow any Tatar elements, and they are not allowed to wear Yuanfu or live in tents, so he can only live in a shed with his family temporarily.

In Qingsong County, there are business groups that specialize in building and selling houses. The standard apartments built by these business groups are all cement board houses, which look much more upscale than shacks. Such a bungalow.

Xin Qingdong would take his child to Qingsong School every morning, and after telling his son a few words in broken Chinese, he would go to work in the employer's territory. After lunch, he would rush to work in the county town. .

Along the way, he will meet first-class Han people farming in the fields and first-class Han people doing business in the city. He will be cautious when meeting these people, because one of his companions was arrested for robbing the belongings of a first-class Han citizen. It was only then that he realized that these seemingly docile and kind-hearted people were nobles higher than second-class Han people like himself.

Yes.

Xin Qingdong has already regarded himself as a Han citizen, and a second-class Han citizen. This is what Master Lizheng told him. He said that these people were originally expelled to the grassland by the Han people who committed crimes in the past. Now His Majesty the Emperor is coming Forgive and save them, so they will be accepted as second-class citizens of Ming Dynasty.

And the truly heinous and unforgivable original sins are those tribal nobles who are still brutally killing, those villains who should have been sent to hell.

Because of the natural class hatred of ordinary herdsmen towards tribal slave owners, and the different treatment after they came to Qingsong County, Xin Qingdong agreed with this point of view, so he insisted that he was just a Han citizen implicated by those villains.

He hated these tribal chiefs very much. In his opinion, if it wasn't for them, he could have become a first-class citizen with his own land and a government-issued house, but now he has to pay a high price for his own land and house.

Especially after a period of intensive sinicization education and the education of exposing the crimes of tribal nobles, he realized that those tribal leaders had done so many evil things.

(End of this chapter)