Chapter 599: Imperial Citizens Are Divided into Three Classes

With the exception of extremist religious believers and important aristocratic leaders of political value, the Ming did not carry out large-scale killings in Europe and Asia.

Killing to reduce the total population is an effective way to maintain social stability and prosperity after the growth of total social wealth, the decline in per capita income levels due to population growth, and the concentration of large amounts of wealth in the hands of a few.

However, this method was a crude and wasteful method for the Ming Empire, which was in dire need of development capital, because these people were the best labor force and the lowest cost labor capacity.

Many domestic capitalists who are dressed as cultural people but actually want to have cheap labor also oppose the current imperial court to do this, believing that the Ming Dynasty is the upper kingdom of the Heavenly Empire, which is naturally not the same as those barbarian countries, and naturally there is no need to kill all of them, and these barbarians should be allowed to atone for their sins by work.

As a result, in Eurasia, a large number of people remained and became builders of public facilities and large heavy industrial enterprises.

Perhaps in the future, the Ming Dynasty will face the rise of a super-powerful feudal town and influence the rule of the central dynasty, and there will be further political demands from these remaining races, but now at least in the next few decades or even a hundred years, all people can only recognize Chinese characters, only speak Chinese, understand Chinese etiquette, and know how to put their country before themselves, so that the world will reduce the killing caused by selfishness.

The governors of all the places have been arranged, and they have all arrived in their jurisdictions to take up their posts.

As soon as these governors arrived, the first thing they had to do was to follow the instructions of the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao to eliminate the 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 are simple and rough and mild, but they are all trying their best to sinicize these places.

Qi Biaojia, a member of the Donglin Party who had always refused to cooperate with Zhu Youxiao, was over sixty years old at this time, and had been exiled outside the customs for decades, and now he was also sent by Zhu Youxiao to Francois to serve as the governor of Gibraltar.

Although the mountains are high and the road is long, this can be regarded as the first opportunity given by Zhu Youxiao to these stubborn landlord intellectuals to take charge of local real power.

Zhu Youxiao's purpose is very simple, that is, to let these so-called Qingliu people copy what they think is the ideal society in places like Franc Ji, which is also to give them an opportunity to practice.

According to the different geographical area and wealth, the official titles of the governors in various places are not consistent, and Qi Biaojia only received the title of the imperial history of the four products at this time.

As Zhu Youxiao expected, the first thing the governor Qi Biaojia did after arriving at Francois was to transform the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid into a Temple of Literature and a palace of learning.

He also erected a giant statue of Confucius in the center of the Madrid Royal Palace, which is now his current Governor's Palace, and even hung a portrait of Zhu Xi in its interior.

The ministers all knew that His Majesty the Emperor did not like Confucianism and did not like Cheng Zhu Lixue, but this Qi Biaojia did not take into account the ideas of Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and blindly wanted to turn the Buddha Lang machine into a second Qufu, forcing local children and teenagers to read the Four Books and Five Classics and memorize Confucian classics.

Zhu Youxiao was not unhappy when he learned about this, nor did he stop him Qi Biaojia's behavior, and he also pretended not to know about Qi Biaojia's misappropriation of the funds allocated to him by the imperial court to build a raw material collection factory and use it to build the academy.

Zhu Youxiao even directly ordered the governors of various localities to implement the imperial examination system locally as soon as possible, and Zhu Youxiao wanted to gradually ban the method of taking scholars by Cheng Zhu Lixue in the Ming Dynasty, but in these places he could only copy the imperial examination method with Cheng Zhu Lixue as the method of taking scholars.

Because Zhu Youxiao's purpose is to make these newly occupied people become corrupt and mediocre people who are willing to obey authority.

Zhu Youxiao did not restrict the advancement of the people in the newly annexed areas, and in consideration of the population problem, he also clearly stipulated that non-prisoners of war did not need to be castrated, but only forbade intermarriage with Han Chinese.

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

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

The household department has divided the citizens of the empire into three classes.

The first class is the original people of the Ming Dynasty and the people who accepted the Sinicization of the conquered areas in the early Ming Dynasty and the early days of the Apocalypse, both in the north and the south of the desert and outside the Guan.

The second class is the yellow people who originally belonged to the entire Han cultural circle, that is, the former vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, such as Korea, Burma, Annam, and other indigenous people.

The third class is white and black and other ethnic groups who have made special contributions, received higher education and high quality.

There is no difference between the citizens of the empire at this level, but there are slight differences in details, such as the high officials of the ministry, the cabinet and the governors of the regions can only be filled by first-class citizens, while the local magistrates can only be filled by first-class and second-class citizens, and third-class citizens can only become second-class officials, except in the academic field.

In addition, intermarriage is forbidden between citizens of different ranks, but first-class citizens can take low-class citizens as concubines, while first-class citizens cannot be concubines of low-class citizens, and once they violate it, it is directly a capital crime.

In addition to these, the welfare benefits and the right to education and the protection of private property are the same, and the specific criminal law is only that if a first-class citizen kills a second-class and third-class citizen, he does not have to pay for the life of a second-class citizen and a third-class citizen, but there will also be such a heavy punishment as exile, and of course the second-class citizen and the third-class citizen killing the first-class citizen is a joint felony.

Because of this, first-class citizens are often referred to as aristocratic citizens, and after many years, the entire earth has basically formed a pattern of three classes, and after a hundred years, with the change of geographical disparities and different distribution of power, the third class has become a fifth class.

But in the end, the citizens in the area of the original Liangjing Thirteen Political Envoys were the noblest, including the southwestern Tusi who made outstanding contributions to the Ming Dynasty in this area, such as the Tujia people of Shizhu and the Zhuang people who had made outstanding contributions in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Zhu Youxiao specially allowed them to retain their national costumes and customs.

However, with the popularization of education, they also began to gradually become indistinguishable from the Han Chinese, and even forced the Ministry of Rites to help them protect the cultural relics of their own people.

Those who were subordinate to the citizens of the empire were not privileged, their labor was not recognized, and they could be killed at will, most of them were former rulers and nobles of Eurasian countries or loyal religious believers, although they also had the opportunity to become citizens of the empire if they chose to submit.

Although 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 also restrictions, such as the fact that first-class citizens are no longer allowed to engage in prostitution, and especially not to entertain lower-class citizens with their voices.

This also leads to many entertainment venues in the empire where citizens of other classes are playing tricks.