Chapter 291: Indigenous Treatment Policy
The cabinet soon received the Luzon special administrative policies planned by Zhu Youxiao, and after Shen Yu and several cabinet elders read these policies together, they only felt that the Luzon natives were too unlucky.
The policy formulated by the emperor was simply to keep these natives at the bottom of the society and to live a normal life only by working hard. Those natives who are lazy and lazy will not even be able to start a family in the future.
Because the emperor first excluded the natives from commercial activities, stipulating that the natives were not allowed to engage in most commercial activities, and these commercial activities only the Han people had the entry threshold.
Preventing indigenous people from doing business is an important policy that will keep indigenous people at the bottom. Under such a policy, what kind of business can Bumiputera do?
It is permissible to sell vegetables and fish in the vegetable market, but you have to pay a market management fee, and Han Chinese owners do not need to pay money when doing this kind of small business.
Mining, lumberyards, quarries, factories, commodity trading, and all kinds of commercial activities with shops are not allowed by the indigenous people.
The natives can only be the laborers at the bottom of the society, and the government ensures that their labor income is not violated, but for those who are lazy and do not do things, the government does not care if they starve to death.
At the same time, the indigenous people were excluded from the Han education system, and a special education system was established for the indigenous people. There is no problem with the general lack of emphasis on education among indigenous peoples.
In turn, a racial monopoly was imposed on the culture, thus completely suppressing the indigenous people at the bottom of society.
However, it is not possible to educate the natives of foolishness, what the Ming needs is the natives who are willing to work and do not make trouble. If the natives refuse to work. All day long lazy to do nothing. Eventually, it will inevitably lead to a rising crime rate. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao launched an 'indigenous school' based on the education of the City God's Temple.
These indigenous schools. It is to use the set of education in the City God Temple to educate the natives, and at the same time to constantly brainwash the natives. It is equivalent to saying that this school does not teach reading and writing, nor does it teach much cultural essence. Only teach them to work hard, and let them understand that they are born to do things, and only by working hard can they have a good birth in the next life, and only by accumulating good fortune and so on, they can preach karma and reincarnation.
It is not false to persuade others to do good. It's all fake, it's easy to overturn.
In such an indigenous school, the semester is half a year. Aboriginal children enter school at the age of 10 and graduate six months after enrollment, and then work as child labourers on plantations. The Han Chinese plantation owners and the government then conduct ongoing labor assessments of these indigenous child laborers.
Those who are willing to work hard will be commended by the government to set an example of hard work. And those natives who are lazy and lazy and commit crimes will be severely punished, so as to establish negative teaching materials.
People are able to make comparisons, when all the natives are wage earners. Even if they are suppressed at the bottom of society, these natives can be compared. Let the indigenous people make a comparison. Those who have been commended have a better life than other aborigines, and naturally become the objects of envy and learning from the aborigines.
Let the natives compare with the natives, not with the Han Chinese.
Anyway, people are like this, as long as they can have a family, they can eat a mouthful of food, and they can live and be satisfied. Although the natives will be suppressed at the bottom of society, the government will still be able to give them such a life. As long as they are willing to work hard, it is impossible for them to starve to death.
Don't have a daughter-in-law?
It doesn't matter! As long as they behave well and are affirmed and recommended by the plantation owner, the government can reward them with an indigenous daughter-in-law.
In these years, the parents ordered the matchmaker to say, why can't the government exercise such power over the natives? As long as they are unmarried indigenous women, and the government asks them to marry, they must be married.
In numerology, a man is the same as his wife and wealth. Women are also the wealth of a man's life, if a man is very depressed and has a woman who is desperately following, under normal circumstances, this man is going to make a fortune. When a woman runs away with someone else, it is generally the rhythm of breaking the fortune.
Therefore, from an academic point of view, women are a very important social resource, and they are a necessary resource for society.
In order to be able to manage these natives and at the same time avoid further mixing of Han Chinese and these natives, Zhu Youxiao decided to let the government prohibit the free marriage of the natives, and the marriage of the natives would be decided by the government.
Of course, there are so many indigenous people, if the government pulls the red line, how can it be managed?
The official marriage method is to classify men and women of appropriate age, men and women are divided into three grades and nine grades, and then matched according to the rank, equal matching.
Women's rating depends on the appearance, blessing, and family background, and those with good posture and blessed appearance are rated as high-grade and high-grade, or medium-grade, and those with good posture and no blessings are rated as high-grade and inferior, and middle-grade and superior. The posture is general and the blessing is excellent, and it is rated as the upper grade and the lower grade, and the middle grade is the best grade. The posture is average, and the blessing can not be rated as medium grade, medium grade, etc. If the posture is average and the appearance is not good, it is divided into inferior and superior. Those who are ugly and blessed are rated as medium and inferior. Those who are ugly and blessed are rated as medium grades. If it looks ugly and has no good looks, it is rated as an inferior product.
Men are rated for their willingness to work hard, to be law-abiding, and to be helpful. For example, if an indigenous man enters the plantation and behaves very well and is very motivated, he will be rated as medium and inferior. If the man has done any touching deeds, the government can raise the level according to the degree of his behavior, which can be promoted to medium grade or high grade.
Such an assessment will be carried out by the Han plantation owners. The Han plantation owners naturally also hope that these natives will work hard, so the starting point of interests is consistent with the government's evaluation.
After the evaluation of men and women of appropriate age, the same grade is matched with the same level, and the men and women of inferior grade are not married, and they are allowed to play singles. When it comes to specific pairings, you can draw lots! For those Aboriginal men who have behaved particularly well, they can be given the freedom to choose first.
At the same time, this system is not intended to be applied to all natives, but to the natives within the Han employment system. That is, those natives who worked in the plantations of the Han Chinese, as well as the natives in the towns, specifically practiced this system. Indigenous farmers, who are scattered in rural areas, do not implement this system.
But in the future, the government will support the Han Chinese in their high-level land annexation activities in the Philippines, and will incorporate a large number of indigenous people into the plantations, so as to provide sufficient labor for the plantations.
The economy of the tropics will inevitably require a large number of cheap labor to be able to develop. Otherwise, if you let the Han people cross the ocean to do the kind of labor-intensive but tedious work on the plantations, it is simply impossible. If the natives were not suppressed at the bottom of society, the Ming would not have had enough labor to develop plantations in Luzon.
Within this system, Han Chinese and natives will also be prohibited from intermarrying. Han Chinese men who want to marry indigenous women can only apply to the government. Every year, the government can give a portion of the high-grade indigenous women to Han men, and Han men have to pay a bride price.
To put it nicely, it is the bride price, but in fact, it is to screen out the high-quality resources of indigenous women and sell them. However, in order to ensure the normal reproduction of the indigenous people under this system, women, a necessary social resource, cannot be moved too much. At the same time, the bloodlines are too mixed, and it is difficult to manage.
Indigenous women who join the Han family can also enjoy the treatment of the Han people.
For those natives of Han Chinese descent in the current Luzon region, the government adopts an assessment system. Those who have a good grasp of Chinese are registered as Han Chinese. If you don't have a good grasp of Chinese, it proves that you have been indigenous, and you will be classified as indigenous, but the grade will be higher.
The level of grade also affects the treatment of indigenous people.
Higher-ranking natives not only enjoy better resources for marriage, but also have access to better houses and higher wages, as well as better health care and social security benefits.
In this way, a social environment is constructed in which the natives can work hard and improve their grades without worry.
Again, this will solve the problem of labor shortage. If there is a shortage of labor, it is enough to let those natives have more children, especially those who are not ugly-looking. And those natives who are too crooked and lazy have implemented a policy of prohibiting marriage and childbearing.
This is also improving the ancestry of the natives!
When there is a shortage of labor, it is not a problem for these natives to have seven or eight children, and when the time comes, the government will pay to help them raise them to the age of working.
For those who commit crimes, they are demoted. If it is a vicious crime against the Han people, it will be directly demoted to the inferior class and punished.
These policies of Zhu Youxiao will constitute a division of labor in Luzon society in which indigenous people are only engaged in agriculture, service industry, and ordinary workers. The Han Chinese, on the other hand, were engaged in the organization of commerce and production, as well as the division of skilled trades. Of course, it is impossible for every Ming common person to mix so well, and there are some Han people who will mix very ordinary, but they are engaged in ordinary work in Luzon, and they are all indigenous. If indigenous can be substituted, it is clear that employers prefer to use low-cost indigenous workers.
Every Han person in the Nanyang region has the most direct way to make a fortune. That is to open up a plantation, as long as you are willing to endure hardships and open a plantation, you can become a plantation owner.
Within this system, there is a clear distinction between the Han and the natives, and the treatment is completely different. And between the aborigines and the natives, it is also clear whether to obey the king or not.
Those who obey the king are included in this system, and those who do not obey the king are conscripted, and then the population of those indigenous tribes is scattered into the system.
In the end, it is to rely on time to use the three-grade and nine-class system to carry out 'survival of the fittest', so that those natives who are willing to work with peace of mind can marry daughters-in-law and live a stable life, and encourage them to have more children and more children, so as to provide more cheap labor for the Ming Dynasty. For those who are lazy and disobedient, the number of groups is controlled by policies that restrict fertility or even do not allow marriage and childbearing.
After educating the previous generations in this way, these natives will be very obedient, and the lazy habits of the later natives will be much improved under the words and deeds of their parents.
In addition to these policies, Zhu Youxiao also established a policy of promoting the official Chinese language among the indigenous people and increasing the propaganda of education. (To be continued.) )