Chapter 439: Population Policy (4) Declining Proportions
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty allowed Qing immigrants to compete with the Vietnamese for land, which would inevitably cause mutual hostility between the Vietnamese natives and the Qing immigrants. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
For example, south of Thanh Hoa, because of the high proportion of Vietnamese in the area, they were extremely hostile to Qing immigrants who gradually moved south. Violent incidents of all kinds are also on the rise.
However, they are also smart and know that these Qing immigrants are not yet Ming people who have obtained citizenship. Therefore, the degree of attention is naturally not higher than that of the Ming people. In addition, the violent and violent incidents of the target are also sporadic and not universal. Let the Ming Dynasty not use force in a big way.
However, the necessary verbal representations still put a lot of pressure on Vietnamese officials.
Of course, this has nothing to do with them.
For these matters, Nanyang Overseas Consulate has not yet received a written report. So Nanfeng, it's too late to pay attention. And he just wants to pay attention, and he doesn't have time now. Because compared with the violent incidents, the increasing number of Qing immigrants is more of a headache for him!
After all, the arrival of every immigrant will bring a lot of pressure to the material supply of Daming. Food, in particular, is the most scarce. is to drink only one bowl of millet porridge per person, and thousands of people add up, which is also massive.
What's more, there is also a shortage of food in the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, food stamps will not be issued to limit the food rations of the common people. In this case, it is simply impossible to take out more food to support the Qing immigrants.
And the person in charge of the special zone on the Vietnamese side has asked Nanfeng for food several times. This made Nanfeng so sad that he couldn't sleep at night.
Although the Ming Dynasty had adopted the principle of nearby resettlement, allowing Qing immigrants to grow grain. But this was all before the White Lotus Sect revolted. At that time, the number of immigrants sent was not large and the scale was not large. Therefore, the resettlement work is very orderly.
With only Vietnam's supplies and the food produced by immigrants, it can be coped.
However, after the White Lotus Sect raised the banner of righteousness, the number of immigrants sent by the White Lotus Sect began to increase. And with the local situation in the Qing Dynasty, it became more and more rotten. In the Yunnan-Guizhou region in the southwest, there are different degrees of drought.
As a result, many Qing people who were not in the areas controlled by the White Lotus Sect also fled to Vietnam with their pitiful belongings.
They are all Han people of the same language and species, and the Ming Dynasty will naturally not ignore them. However, this has brought great pressure to the reception and resettlement of local migrants. At present, Nanfeng has transferred many clerks in charge of immigration work in Johor Bahru, Java and other places in Nanyang.
It is to share the work pressure of the special zone of Vietnam and resettle the refugees.
At the same time, he also reported the situation here to the Ming Dynasty. It's just that until now, the charter has not been come up with over there.
So at the moment, he can only do his best to save himself.
If he could rewind the clock by a year, he would have rejoiced at the arrival of so many immigrants. After all, compared with Vietnam, the five provinces and two cities of Damingxia Prefecture, the four provinces of Andong and Anbei, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Luzon and other places need these Qing immigrants more.
Because according to the official statistics of the Ming Dynasty, among the major ethnic groups in the Ming Dynasty, the proportion of Han people is on a downward trend. This is not to say that the number of Han Chinese has declined, on the contrary, in recent years, the number of Qing immigrants accepted by the Ming Dynasty has increased year by year.
It's just that under the hedging of other immigrants, the proportion of Han Chinese has dropped a lot. From 37 percent in '94 to 34 percent in '95. In '97, it was only thirty-three percent.
This is not good news for the Ming Dynasty, which is dominated by Han people and fully sinicized.
Although the Australian aborigines who dominate the country, the decline is greater than that of the Han Chinese. In '94, it was 17 percent, and in '95, it was only 10 percent. By '96, it was only six percent.
But in the eyes of the Ming officials, this is just a trivial matter.
Because although the Australian aborigines were the largest ethnic group at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, their own population was only nearly 800,000. And because they are a native ethnic group, different from the Han Chinese, white people, and Nanyang natives, they can be replenished from overseas in a steady stream.
Therefore, as the number of other ethnic groups increases, the proportion decreases, which is inevitable.
And at the beginning of the assimilation of the Ming Dynasty, they were divided into more than 500 tribes in the vast Australian land. Not only do they not belong to each other, but they are often accompanied by bloodshed and killing.
The earliest means of assimilating them in the Ming Dynasty was also the stick in front and the radish in the back. Everywhere the civilized brigade passed, blood stained the earth, and the cry shook the sky. More than 500 tribes, more than 100, were slaughtered.
The rest, only in front of the butcher's knife, choose to surrender.
And at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, labor was so needed. So when assimilating them, it has always been a high-pressure policy. Every day, under the watchful eye of soldiers, high-intensity labor is carried out. The establishment of the three strongholds of Hope, Journey, and Linhai buried more than 50,000 natives.
It was only later, the wave of migration caused by the gold mine alleviated the labor shortage in the Ming Dynasty. The high-pressure policy towards the Australian Aborigines has also been relaxed a lot. However, a steady stream of indigenous people were still driven by the civilized brigade, like cattle and animals, to accept the education of the Ming Dynasty.
Over the years, there are actually only more than 500,000 indigenous people who have truly integrated into the Ming Dynasty. Including their descendants, it will not exceed 600,000.
It is also common sense to be pulled down from the position of the first group now.
Therefore, the Han people actually became the first ethnic group in the Ming Dynasty. However, the decline in the proportion of Han Chinese still attracted the attention of the Ming leadership.
Comparing the data, it was found that the second ethnic group was occupied by the natives of Nanyang. This division excludes the three kingdoms of Vietnam, Siam, and Burma on the Indochina Peninsula. However, the Sultanate of the Malay Peninsula belongs to the category of the indigenous people of the South Seas.
Their population accounts for 21 percent of the total population of the Ming Dynasty. From '94 to the present, it has maintained a slow growth. However, the indigenous people of Nanyang are only a general term. It also includes a large proportion of Malays, Javanese, Sundanese, Madura, and other ethnic groups with different customs, languages and cultures.
Such a hodgepodge of challenges to the legitimacy of the Han people is also close to zero. And they are not as good as the Australian Aborigines. Because of the Australian aborigines, many have obtained national qualifications and lived in the Ming Dynasty. Most of these Nanyang natives are scattered in the four major provinces of Andong and Anbei. The proportion of national qualifications is not only one-third of that of Australian Aborigines.
So even if they come up in the population, it won't have much impact.
In third place are the indigenous people of Indochina. The total population accounts for 14 percent of the total population of the Ming Dynasty. Officially, they say they are collectively referred to as Peninsula people. It includes different cultures such as Burmese, Mon, Dai, and Jing people, and even hostile ethnic groups.
Due to the scattered resettlement, it is deeply influenced by Chinese culture. Assimilation, in fact, is relatively simple.
In addition, the proportion of whites in the Ming Dynasty accounted for two percent. Officially, it refers only to white Europeans and Americans. It contains hundreds of small ethnic groups. Therefore, the unique customs and habits are difficult to retain under the Sinicization policy of the Ming Dynasty.
There are other divisions of races in Central Asia, India and other regions. Together with other ethnic groups in other regions, they make up a significant percentage.