Chapter 440: Population Policy (5) The helplessness of the Ming Dynasty
Of course, this statistic will not be released to the public. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Because the Ming Dynasty has always been, it is strictly forbidden for the people of the Ming Dynasty to identify themselves by ethnic groups. At the legal level, it must be elevated to the level of castial, ethnic, and discriminatory.
If it is investigated, the fine will be small, but the labor reform will be large. Therefore, among the people, the people of the Ming Dynasty generally avoided the topic of race and race. Even if it is forced to do so, it will be replaced by a certain area. Like the people of Rakhine in Myanmar, they say that they are from Rakhine to the outside world. The Marats of India say that they are from Marats.
As for remarks such as 'who am I?' I would never dare to say them casually.
Maybe others listen and don't know where they are talking. But that's okay! Anyway, the people of the Ming Dynasty have yellow, white, black, brown, all races. The range is spread across all continents and seas. There are many new places, all unheard of and unseen.
So the first time I heard about it, I should open my eyes and see it for a long time.
It is in this environment of forbidden, talking about race, and race that all ethnic groups in the Ming Dynasty get along relatively well. For example, Johor Bahru, a large immigrant town, rarely has ethnic conflicts. It was also the Ming Dynasty that tried its best to break up the immigrants of the same ethnic group when they were relocating immigrants. So that the proportion of the same ethnic group in a given village or block will not exceed 30%.
At the same time, let their individual interests not rise to the interests of the entire race/group. Thus curbing the root causes of the conflict.
The implementation of these measures is cumbersome and cumbersome. However, in order to prevent the race from tearing apart and causing turmoil and unrest. The high-level of the Ming Dynasty still insisted on implementing it.
But to tell you the truth, if there is another choice, the Ming high-level is not willing to choose such a troublesome method. This is because the culture, customs, and languages of each ethnic group are all different. Trying to turn them into a unified ethnic group that speaks Han and wears Hanfu is another very time-consuming process.
It took more than 100 years for the American people and clans to slowly merge. And this is only a community of interests! In terms of language and culture, it has a strong British color. So, it's not a real, independent race.
Although the Ming Dynasty did not create a new race, in the process of practice, it was in line with this goal. Because the Han nation preached by the Ming Dynasty is actually very different from the Han people in the Qing Dynasty. For example, in terms of text, simplified Chinese characters are implemented. Language, it is also a unified Daming official dialect.
Although it is close to the dialects of Beijing and other places, there are great differences in tone, embellishment, and modification. It is a vocabulary, and it also has strong Ming characteristics.
There are also obvious differences in customs and cultural etiquette. Practices such as kneeling and bowing, beating a thousand rituals, and wrapping the feet of Han women were denounced by the Ming Dynasty as stereotypes, rules, and bad habits. In all parts of the Ming Dynasty, it is completely forbidden to pass.
Some books of etiquette have also been greatly deleted. For example, the "Ceremony" which talks about customs, the "Rites and Fortunes" that talks about food and housing, the "Internal Rules" that records family etiquette, the "Jade Bath" that records the clothing system, the "Xueji" that discusses the relationship between teachers and students, and the "University" that teaches people to "cultivate oneself, work together as a family, govern the country, and level the world" all take the essence of the content and remove the dross.
What is left behind are all etiquette that is suitable for the development of the Ming society and promotes the goodness of the people.
In addition, there are also very specific regulations on national public holidays. Like the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, all of which have been unified in time. The specific content of the festival is also very different from that of the Qing Dynasty.
In this, there is both the content that the Ming Dynasty brought from modern society. There are also various overseas immigrants, subtle influence. Take eating, for example! The Han people of the Ming Dynasty, combined with the local ingredients of the Ming Dynasty and the eating habits of different ethnic groups, invented many new dishes. In addition to the previously fixed Shandong cuisine, Su cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, and Cantonese cuisine, a new 'Ming cuisine' has been added.
It's just that if you talk about the biggest difference, it should be the clothing. After all, Hanfu, since Qianlong recovered Taiwan, officially left the field of vision of the Han people. The new style of Hanfu implemented by the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as a formal separation of the Qing Han and the Ming Han people.
Some of these differences have already been realized, some are still in progress, and some are still only in planning. So that only for the Han people of the same language and species, the Ming Dynasty took a lot of effort.
And in the entire Ming Dynasty, the Han people did not account for the vast majority of the population. Therefore, relying on them to assimilate the alien race and turn it into a new Han nation is a very long and arduous process.
But the leadership of the Ming Dynasty had no choice.
Because the era in which they appeared, the Central Plains was neither a chaotic era in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and turbulent times, nor was it a humiliating era of the Opium War and the chaos of foreigners. It was a totalitarian era of feudalism and construction when imperial power was extremely strong and the sea ban was very strict.
Although the people are living in hardship, they are not starving to death. The social order is also relatively stable. So ideologically, people don't want to emigrate overseas. If the Ming Dynasty wanted to introduce immigrants from the Qing State on a large scale, the difficulty can be imagined.
What's more, at the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the whole country was like a family. What you want to eat is not eaten, what you want to wear is not worn. The people are also thousands of people who have crossed over. If you can't support yourself, how can you have the energy to bring in immigrants from the Qing Dynasty.
Now when I think about the days when I fought with the heavens and the earth, I feel cold and sore.
In addition, the Australia they crossed over was too far away from the Central Plains. When there are no airplanes and no ships, where will the Qing immigrants be caused? And when Australia was undeveloped, although it was not a poor mountain and bad water, it could not be called a paradise.
What poisonous snakes, scorpions and other poisons, it is really everywhere. In the early days of looking for food, many people were bitten by poison. If it weren't for the train, the high-speed rail, there would be some medicines. It is estimated that those who were bitten were either dead or useless.
In the end, there was no way, so I took advantage of the Australian aborigines who were not smart. Help the traversers and fight for living space.
But in order to gain a foothold in Australia, they have to connect with the outside world. Because they are poor and have nothing, and they cannot produce anything. Therefore, the sword can only go sideways, triggering the first round of 'gold rush'. So that immigrants from all over the world can take the initiative to come to Australia for the use of the Ming Dynasty.
They are also immigrants from Europe and Southeast Asia, and they are much more civilized than the Australian aborigines. When you use it, you will naturally get twice the result with half the effort.
Later, the development of the Ming Dynasty became better and better. However, it is still difficult to form a scale for immigrants from the Qing Dynasty. After all, the temperament of the Han people is generally more content with the status quo. As long as there is a way to live, no matter how hard and tired you are, you will endure it.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty can only recruit immigrants from the nearest Nanyang first.
Although there is an old saying: 'If you are not of my race, your heart will be different', but the traversers really can't help it. Therefore, we can only absorb and assimilate the indigenous people step by step. It has made Daming a veritable country of immigrants.
This development has led to the current scale. The immigration threshold of Daming has only just risen.