Aboriginal Act (Part II)

This is an era of agitation, and it is also an era of direct and crude criminal methods, simple and naked. No matter what nationality it is, it is impossible to be warm and affectionate in foreign expansion. In the classical era, a small island country like Japan expelled tribes other than the Yamato Kingdom and marched to the northeast, slaughtering and dominating the Ainu people, so the four ancient civilizations with a long history expanded even more unabashedly.

As early as 3,000 years ago in the Axial Age, the four ancient civilizations and the Greek civilization established a huge and diverse colonial system, but because Greece is located in the Mediterranean, most of the independent colonial city-states are overseas territories, which belong to a more intuitive and classic type. China's colonial system was stronger, and the Duke of Zhou devised a system of great integration to consolidate his rule in the newly conquered regions. The core of the feudal system lies in the strong cadres and weak branches, and the blood system left over from the primitive tribes builds a cohesive empire.

The clansmen of the Zhou royal family occupied the most fertile land in the alluvial fan of the Yellow River and the Central Plains, and the feudal domains were divided from generation to generation, resulting in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, when the territory directly under the royal family was so small that it was almost as small as the fief of a doctor in the Qin state. This is what Zhou Gong did not expect, and it was also what the Chinese emperors who implemented the feudal system in previous dynasties did not expect, the main line of strong trunks and weak branches is right, but if there are too many branches, it will become a shrub if it is not pruned. "Zhou Li. XIA Guan. "It is the state of the nine suits: Fang Qianli is called Wangji, its foreign 500 li is called Hou Fu, and its foreign 500 li is called Dianfu, and its foreign 500 li is called Men's Clothing, and its foreign 500 li is called Caifu. It is also called a guard for 500 miles outside, a barbarian service for 500 miles outside, and a barbarian service for 500 miles outside. It is also called the town service for 500 miles outside, and the vassal service is said to be 500 miles away. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms. WEI Zhi. He Kui's Biography": "The first king distinguished the nine costumes with the proximity of the distance, and the punishment of the three codes was made to calm the chaos. According to the essence of the feudal system, the close relatives and princes close to the royal family enjoyed the civilized life and greater feudal obligations and rights brought about by the fertile soil and advanced productive forces, while the distant vassal states were more backward and poor, and the feudal obligations and rights were naturally few. In order to make up for the great achievements of the founding fathers, the land allocated by the Duke of Zhou was quite generous. Taking Jiang Shang, the first prince of Qi State, as an example, as a prince, he should not be lightly rewarded, but as a prince with a foreign surname. He couldn't give too much power to avoid his descendants making mistakes, so he divided the land around Shandong for his son to take up the post, but after a few generations, the vassal states in the border wasteland accumulated with the diffusion of technology and population in the Central Plains. After having strong strength, the Zhou royal family sat on wax.

There are many examples of the turnaround of colonies, both ancient and modern, both Chinese and foreign. But it has rarely emerged since the era of capitalism in which wealth was the only measure of individual and organizational strength. With the exception of one country that surpasses the overlord, there are very few colonies or semi-colonies that surpass the overlord in terms of overall strength.

The power of capital is not comparable to the power of the source of power in the old era with blood, marriage and military feudalism as the cornerstone. Therefore, in terms of their attitude towards the aborigines of backward areas and the means of dealing with them, the methods of capitalists are completely different from those of slave owners and feudal owners. Slave owners and feudal lords looked at the aborigines from the perspective of the landowners and landlord class, and most of them believed that the aborigines were barbarians who were disobedient to the king's culture and enemies who hindered their access to more land and wealth, while the capitalists, especially the commercial capitalists, mostly believed that the backward aborigines were good trade objects, pioneers, thugs, and the best commodities and investment objects.

By the end of the Age of Discovery, the map of the world was almost complete. The original peace and tranquility of the indigenous peoples, tribes or slave countries around the world that have not yet entered feudalism, and the life of infighting, primitive backwardness, poverty and ignorance has been shattered. They have no ability to resist and are swept up in the tide of globalization, and have been completely reduced to pawns, vassals, servants and playthings in the resource and market game of advanced countries.

Countless indigenous people were slaughtered, plundered, enslaved, and sold like cattle to various areas in need of cheap labor, such as black slaves and Chinese piglets of various ethnic groups in various regions of Africa. This is determined by the instinct of capital for profit, and also by the characteristics of the enslaved peoples themselves. Why is there no Indian laborer who has been sold all over the world on a large scale, because they were almost wiped out by the germs that plagued the Old World for many years, such as smallpox, cholera, plague and typhoid fever, before entering the colonial era at the height of the slave trade. Those Eskimos or Inuit who live in high latitudes have a cold environment to resist infectious diseases, but the number is too small, and they can only exist as scientific research materials based on the survival ability of high latitudes, and there is really no oil and water to squeeze and be let go.

Many Gemies, who were too small to work in agriculture and mining, were also ignored by the slave traders. Many of the indigenous people who have lived in tropical areas ravaged by sleeping sickness and malaria for thousands of years have not died in their beds or at home, but in the harsh working conditions of slave estates, plantations, mines and workshops. Dead in the lands of the pagans in a foreign land, their existence disappeared with a mere stroke in the catalogue of the property of the sinful capitalists and large landowners.

The rules that cross the hope of the public are not the disorder and chaos caused by this naked profiteering, which will eventually be transmitted to oneself, not only the loss of reputation, but also the possibility of efficiency underground and waste of human resources. The mentality and system of dealing with the aborigines must meet the needs of capitalism to expand the market and develop, and in the process of dealing with the aborigines, the input-output ratio must be higher than the general rate of profit of the society. The high requirement of both fame and fortune is simply to realize the influence of tributary trade and the windfall profits of colonial trade at the same time, without the situation of losing money and making money or the bloody primitive accumulation of capital, which is not ordinarily difficult.

The Law Committee was almost made by this instruction that everyone wanted to hit the wall, and in the end, the big boss came forward to draw a line, distinguishing the aborigines according to the criteria of having a written word and the state, and the aborigines who did not enter the civilized society were treated as indigenous. No diplomatic treatment will be given, and they will be expelled as stateless persons, and all exchanges and trade outside the country will only be supported and protected in accordance with the principle of voluntariness and fairness. The aborigines who entered the slave countries were regarded as quasi-diplomatic countries, and their nationals in China enjoyed the treatment of foreign business travelers without diplomatic relations.

Indigenous tribal residents of newly annexed areas that have been incorporated into the empire automatically receive imperial freedman status. All treatment is the same as that of minors in the territory (free citizens have basically the same rights and duties as minors). The power of the immigration bureau was suddenly so great that it was boundless, and although most of the powerful people of Japan, South Korea, Liaojin, and Gao had obtained the status of imperial citizens, some high-level and even middle-level representatives of the pro-Chinese faction also obtained imperial titles. But the people at the lower levels were forced to get the status of a free citizen in the empire, and they had to queue up to get the status of a free citizen in the empire, let alone a citizenship that could be an official. The attitude towards the nationals of the allies is at most that of the free people, so the attitude towards the natives is naturally generally regarded as a lower class of third-class people, that is, the natives of the territory who cannot read and write, and they are called civilized people.

Even foreign nobles had to be three points shorter when they entered the empire, and the corresponding titles and treatments were basically equal to half of those of their own country. There are very few foreign dignitaries who can get Emperor Li Hao to come forward in person. In addition to a few anti-heaven scholars and allied heads of state, that is, those outstanding talents in various fields of the pro-China faction are waiting to be summoned. Anyway, the chieftain of the tribal alliance at the indigenous level will definitely not be able to see the emperor's dragon face.

In any case, natives who do not know Chinese and cannot write Chinese characters will definitely not be given citizenship treatment, and if the residents of the empire want to obtain citizenship, they must pass the citizenship assessment on the basis of free people, and meet the requirements of the imperial citizenship law in many fields such as the amount of tax, the level of education, the length of residence, the nature of work, and the performance of social life. These contents were there as early as the founding of the country. However, it became widely known when the people decided to annex the five northern kingdoms. There is no supply without demand, and when millions of inhabitants of the newly opened territories aspired to enter the empire and become citizens, newspapers and other media began to publicize the law enacted ten years ago and the newly promulgated "Native Peoples Act"

The civil law system contains a variety of provisions and contents that define national identity, rights and obligations. Among them to those outside the empire. The biggest impact is also the Imperial Immigration Act and the Indigenous Peoples Act. The latter is more applicable to the latter in these two acts. According to the estimation of the traversal people, at this time, the number of human beings in the world who did not belong to the main ethnic group of civilized (feudalized) countries and entered the Stone Age civilization was at least 100 million, of which one-third was in the Americas, one-third in the African continent, one-third in the marginal regions of Asia (Hokkaido, the eastern part of the Sunda Islands, the Tunguska region, and countless undeveloped civilizations of the hard-pressed peoples who survived on the primeval forests, plateaus, tundra, snowfields, and ice fields) The core of this law is to deal with the future. The inhabitants of the empire (whether nobles or citizens, freemen or civilized) dealt with the natives who had not passed the national examination (mastering the common knowledge of survival in the empire, such as traffic rules and the purchasing power of money, etc., almost the same as the elementary school entrance examination) at home and abroad.

The Act was enacted, and the four estates of the empire and the world were established, with the nobility of the empire and the high-ranking nobility of other civilized nations at the top of the pyramid, the citizens or middle class of the empire and other civilized nations in the middle (kulaks, workshop-owners, military officers, and wealthy merchants in other countries), and the vast number of illiterate peasants and freedmen (including underage quasi-citizens) at the bottom. As for the uncivilized indigenous peoples, they can only play a marginal role. I became a victim of the protection that the bill called protection.

The Act explicitly provided for the establishment of permanent colonial posts in areas beyond the borders of which no sovereign state claimed jurisdiction. The region automatically became a third-class territory, and the natives living within it automatically became the lowest fourth-class nationals of the empire, and their rights to property, life, health, and freedom of movement enjoyed the protection of the empire, which was guaranteed by the civil legal persons who established the base and the nearest imperial garrison. The person in charge of the establishment of the base is responsible for managing the use and distribution arrangements.

In other words, without spending a penny, the empire could make countless civil society groups that had pioneered overseas to expand their territory. After these teams have obtained the Empire's third-level territorial jurisdiction certificate, they can legitimately recruit troops in the stronghold, establish order, and transplant the Empire's institutional rules to assimilate the land.

Funds raised through the issuance of construction bonds and shares similar to those of the East India Company are also regulated by the Imperial Government and independent accounting firms, and all Indigenous people who have worked in the Tertiary Territory for one year can be qualified for the Enlightened Citizen Examination after issuing a work certificate, and their employers will also receive commendations and awards from the Imperial Government after passing the Indigenous Nationality Examination to become Enlightened Citizens.

Due to restrictions on the wages and benefits of the work of the civilized, the aborigines hired in the newly built colonies, which often require a large amount of labor, are paid more than the civilized. The indiscriminate aborigines have little interest in joining the ranks of the Enlightened people in the exam, and they only feel that it is more advantageous to stay in the fourth class of aborigines, and they permanently miss the opportunity to improve.

Because the third-level land was upgraded to the second-class land (according to the land management law, the first-class land is limited to the territory inherited from the former Song Dynasty when the founding of the country, and the second-level land is the land that has been incorporated into the empire for 5 years, with an urbanization rate of more than 10%, a literacy rate of more than 20%, and a per capita annual income of more than 2,400 yuan. Level 3 is the area where the new occupation has been less than 5 years or more but other indicators are not met) The test discount for adult aborigines in the Indigenous Peoples Act is limited to the third level of the territory, and after being promoted to the second level of the territory, the preferential treatment will become civilized people. All newly added overseas land will be nationalized after it has been allocated to the third level of national territory, and then the public land will be set aside for future planning and construction for public auction privatization, and each indigenous tribe settled in the newly classified third level of land will receive half of the proceeds from the auction.

This crucial appropriation of the legal high ground was a huge sum for the natives, and almost all of it was converted into salt, tobacco, sugar, wine, and iron products and was divided among the tribes. According to later generations, the aborigines were defrauded by the idea that the glass beads worth a few dollars in exchange for tens of thousands of acres of land were systematically eliminated, and the land occupied by private development groups in the third-level land was only in the name of leased land, which belonged to the land leased by the aborigines, but after the auction, it became private or state-owned, after all, the new owner paid the aborigines. The representatives of the indigenous peoples at the auction were also selected at random and there was no fraud. The price is determined entirely by the strength and enthusiasm of the bidders, and those strongholds that could develop into important ports and industrialized cities in the future are sure to fetch high prices, as representatives of the crossers bid for industrial and commercial land on the spot. In those agricultural cities, there are only a handful of plantation owners or large landowners bidding, which is naturally different from those in those areas that will increase in value thousands of times in the future. The aboriginal tribes who received huge sums of money had no other way but to deposit the money in the banks opened by the empire, and generally in exchange for enough materials for the tribe to survive for several years, 90% of the land sale money left could only be the original sin of provoking the aborigines outside the third-level territory. Even if it were a brotherly alliance, it would be impossible for the indigenous tribes not to come and rob these lucky brother tribes.

For a time, the pressure of overseas colonial movements was greatly reduced, and the orders for special goods such as cold weapons and bows and crossbows for export increased significantly. Those who are aware of the high-level methods of the empire (the head of the contracting team is usually with the title of governor of an overseas territory, or the title of mayor of a municipality or the president of a city council in such and such an overseas territory) cannot but admire the height of the decision-making level.

The money was actually just in the hands of the natives and back into the hands of the merchants of the empire, which received not only land and loyalty, but also huge overseas purchasing power and capital export gains. The core purpose of the Indigenous Peoples Act was basically achieved, and the Crossing of Fame and Fortune was once again a great success. (To be continued......)