Chapter 135: Protecting Overseas Chinese (6)

There is a good saying, a slap also has to give a date.

Although at least two or three hundred thousand innocent Uighurs were killed during the counterinsurgency war, what should be done with the remaining Uighurs after the war was over?

The Great Xia Dynasty still sacrificed their sharpest three-plate axe.

First of all, a wave of loyal Uighurs was honored with great fanfare, including many soldiers in the army who stood firmly on the side of the kingdom and made contributions to the counterinsurgency war, and even the little girl Gulandam was awarded a medal of honor for her contribution to the kingdom on the recommendation of Lord Huang Taiji.

In addition, they also won a special honor, that is, they were changed to a household registration by the Ministry of Households, and became a "naturalized Han nationality", and in the Great Xia Kingdom, they also followed the distinction policy of 369 and so on, and the highest level was the royal family - as the name suggests, it was composed of the Xia King and his relatives. The second class is the Chinese people, including the earliest party nobles who moved westward, the Hanchen family, and the royal family of the original Buddhist countries in the Western Regions. In the third estate were the populous common Han Chinese (including naturalized Han Chinese), who were small and medium-sized landowners, well-to-do merchants, scholars, and owners of workshops, and were the most important pillars of the Bactrian Kingdom. Those of this rank had the privilege of taking the imperial examination to enter the imperial court, and those below the third rank could only be promoted to the upper class after obtaining Han nationality through military merit or other means. In the same way as joining the army, those below the third rank can only be rewarded as non-commissioned officers, and can never become officers, let alone senior officers—which is why the army has always stood firmly on the side of the imperial court in this rebellion, and has failed to cause the disaster of the Anshi Rebellion.

The second axe is migration and differentiation. For those who had an obscure attitude and tried to watch the wind, the imperial court issued a migration order, dividing each tribe with a population of more than 10,000 into small tribes of about 1,000 people, some of whom were sent to the Kazakh steppes to blow the white hairy wind, and some were sent to the desert area of the Hindu Kush Mountains to eat sand.

For those diehards, in addition to those who have been punished on the battlefield by the royal army, there are also about 20,000 or 30,000 strong men who have surrendered, and they happen to be dragged to the plateau to build roads and dig iron mines, according to the budget of the Ministry of Resources, these people are estimated to be "consumed" in three to five years. As for the families of the rebels, the old ones are directly dug and buried, and the younger ones can be resold several times in the international population market - don't look at the rebellion they set off for the great cause of the Heavenly Sect, but the biggest intermediaries in the transnational human trade are the Arabs, these second-hand traders in the Indian Ocean, pulling boatloads of slaves from various regions to the South Seas and China, never caring whether the slaves have faith or something.

In addition to the punishments suffered by the Uighurs who directly participated in the rebel wars, the Uighurs who settled in the towns were also implicated. After all, both the Great Liao and the Great Song Dynasty suffered certain losses in this "unwarranted disaster", and the industries of many overseas Chinese were destroyed, and even the lives of some overseas Chinese were threatened. Both great powers made requests for consular protection to the court of the Great Xia Kingdom and made a detailed list of compensation. The Great Xia Kingdom could only choose a soft pinch of persimmons, and confiscated the property of many "suspects" to appease the emotions of its neighbors who were stronger than itself. In this process, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes, but it is also something that everyone tacitly avoids and does not talk about.

After all, only a strong motherland can have human rights that can be guaranteed.

For a time, there were many incidents of robbery in various parts of the Xia Kingdom, and the officials responsible for screening the "suspects" got up and down, and when they saw that the Uighur people had a rich property and a beautiful inner house, they put a note on the door of the house saying "collaborating with the enemy", and if the master could not satisfy the appetite of these officials, then it was inevitable that the family would be ruined.

According to a list compiled by Xia Guojin Yiwei, in Dalak, Kashmir State, local officials extorted "100,000 gold" from a wealthy Uighur family as a "loyal donation." After selling most of his family property and not being able to collect such a large sum of money within the specified time, the officials threatened him: "If he fails to donate by the 15th of this month, he will be regarded as a collaborator, and his entire family property will be nationalized, his wife and concubine will be the soldiers of the kingdom, and his brothers and nephews will be forced to serve for life, and they will not see the light of day." ”

Under such intimidation, the rich family had no choice but to "pay 50 gold for one wife and concubine, 100 gold for his daughter, and all his sons and nephews." ”

By the end of that year, officials in various localities had collected a total of 650 million yuan in so-called "loyal donations", of which 450 million yuan was used for post-war reconstruction, the distribution of relief funds and pensions, and 100 million yuan was used to compensate for the losses of the Song and Liao countries.

In addition, more than 30,000 men and more than 70,000 women were collected. The Dali Monastery of the Xia Kingdom issued a special ruling that if the Uighurs were not redeemed by their families within six months, they would be auctioned off, and the proceeds would be used to reward the meritorious soldiers of the war. Or meritorious soldiers can directly receive a reward from them according to the size of their merits.

These news were continuously transmitted back to the Great Song Dynasty by Cheng Qi and them from the Xia Kingdom through the train post system. Some people believe that selling the wives and concubines of their enemies into slavery was a tradition from the Shang and Zhou dynasties until the Tang and Song dynasties, while others believe that these Uighurs were Xia people's own people, and that selling their own people into slavery was simply a reckless move.

Naturally, the voices of this argument are loud. And as time went on, the idea that the Xia people's actions were nothing more than blood revenge and revenge was slowly fading, and the voices condemning slavery were getting louder.

"Bianliang Daily News" published an article saying that slavery is a remnant that should have been withdrawn from the stage of history for a long time. As early as the republican revolution, the people of the Great Song Dynasty spoke out - all men are created equal in heaven and earth. There should be no discrimination on the basis of race, color, education or otherwise. But to this day, discrimination is still everywhere, the propertied discriminate against the proletarian, the high-ranking officials discriminate against the officials, the students discriminate against the illiterate, the workers discriminate against the apprentices, the men discriminate against the women, the good citizens discriminate against the untouchables, the robbers discriminate against the thieves, the thieves discriminate against the prostitutes, even if a person lives at the bottom of the society, he can still spit on a passing black man and scold the "". Is such a system a healthy system? Is such a society a normal one? We claim to be a country of gentlemen, but we live in an all-encompassing circle of discrimination. In fact, what can we do without those who are discriminated against by us? The rickshaws we made were pulled by the blacks, the roads we walked were built by Indian laborers, the food we ate was harvested by the slaves of the South Seas plantations, the clothes we wore were changed from the cotton planted by the slaves in Australia, the sheep that grazed the sheep, and everything we had was given to us by the slaves and slaves, not to mention the people of all colors who provided us with all kinds of conveniences in other ubiquitous places.

The article concludes with a passionate call to everyone, it's time to let slavery completely withdraw from this world! Make all people equal!

Apparently this article was supported by many young people, especially young students, who went to the House of Representatives and submitted a petition demanding that the legislature put an end to slavery once and for all, at least in the Song Empire itself.