In this era, it's not just the Han people who don't have a strong sense of nationality.

At this time, the Mongolian herdsmen did not have too strong a sense of ethnic unity, and they were even weaker than the Han people.

Because they were essentially the property of the Mongol nobility, they sometimes had no idea that they would be ruled by that rising tribe.

Especially after the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian tribes have been very scattered.

Now that the emergence of the Ming army has made them tenant farmers and workers enslaved by the Ming merchant group, there is not much reaction.

Ricker is an ordinary herdsman of the Karaqin tribe, and now he has become a contract worker in the Fenghe merchant group in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, Qingsong County, and a second-class citizen in Qingsong County.

The Ming Cabinet has revised the Ming citizenship system to no longer address other non-Han groups by means of physical extermination.

Rather, it is a civic hierarchy to distinguish the original Hermes-Epitek from the newly assimilated Hermes-Epitek, that is, the current herdsmen like Zakir.

After all, it is not only land but also population that is needed most for the development of the empire.

Now, with decades of war and a much smaller population, it is only natural for a highly developed civilized regime to replace brutal slaughter with exploitation.

This is not the Virgin, but the Empire has more exploitative groups and a long-term exploitative base.

After all, the original Hermes-Epitek will be upgraded from ordinary people to small capitalists, their labor prices will rise, their welfare benefits will increase, and some high-risk jobs will require a large amount of cheap labor to complete.

Naturally, these cheap laborers can only be second-class citizens, and there will even be third-class citizens in the future.

The gap between first-class citizens and second-class citizens lies in life, finance, security and welfare, and civil rights.

The official positions above the fifth rank of the empire cannot be held by second-class citizens, which means that An Lushan can only be a sixth-rank official at most in the Ming Dynasty, not even a sixth-rank official.

Because except for special contributions, second-class citizens are not eligible to participate in the imperial examination and join the army.

Not only these, but there are other treatments that second-class citizens cannot enjoy.

Even in terms of legal protection, it has legal effect only when the interests of the higher class citizen are infringed upon by equal citizens and by the next class citizen.

First-class citizens who infringe on the life and property interests of second-class citizens do not bear any legal responsibility, and the government will not pursue them.

The reason for this is that there is no other reason, first-class citizens have made indelible contributions to the rise of the Ming Dynasty.

Second-class citizens, on the other hand, are just empires that are in desperate need of a lot of cheap labor, and they don't want an intelligent species of their kind to be turned into dry bones for nothing.

However, the empire still had to force second-class citizens to assimilate into the Han people, so as to completely eliminate the ideological source of their rebellion.

Years later, they will forget their original history.

"Because you used to be from Xingzhou, your surname is Xin now, you now live in the east of Qingsong City, and your name is Xin Qingdong, and your son will no longer be called Qiduoyun, you have the right to rename your son, take the name quickly!"

Ricker, who should be called Xin Qingdong now, was led by his employer to the county seat as soon as he came to Qingsong County, and the subordinate of the ceremonial house of the county government changed his name and surname.

He didn't resist, he didn't take the name so seriously, but when the Lifang Bookstore in Qingsong County asked him to name his son a new name, he still thought about it seriously and expressed his meaning in Mongolian, and he chose a name for his son called Xin Yun.

"This is the name of you and your son, this is the last time this official will speak Mongolian to you, from now on, you are a second-class citizen of my Ming Dynasty, can you only understand Chinese characters in Chinese, if you violate it, you will be whipped ten times once you are found! You can also report other people and get a silver prize! ”

The Qingsong County Yalifang Bookstore gave Xin Qingdong two copybooks with "Xin Qingdong" and "Xin Yun" written on them.

The burly Xin Qingdong carefully put the two pieces of paper into the short clothes he had just changed, although he was a second-class citizen of Qingsong County, he was very satisfied with his current life, and now he knew the words of his new name, he was also very excited and happy, and even when he saw his son sitting on a wooden bench and reciting the three-character scripture with other newly renamed children, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

He felt that his son might one day be as high as the clerk in the courtroom, and could write beautiful words.

Xin Qingdong likes this busy life very much, although it is very hard to work for his employer, but at least he can manage two full meals a day, although it is sweet potatoes with enough salt, but compared to the previous hungry life, it is already a good treatment.

At the end of the month, when he saw the tinkling of delicate silver dollars being distributed to him, he even excitedly wanted to kowtow to his employer.

Because he is willing to become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, he has the right to work eight hours, so after the afternoon after the application time, he can still have a long time to work freely, he applied for the work of the government to build the city wall, and every day he needs to carry a bag of a hundred pounds to the city, he usually has to go home late at night, because the government gives a salary method to do more, he wants to earn more money, buy a house for himself.

Now his family still lives in his employer's shack and has to pay one silver dollar a month, which he is very unhappy with.

However, the government did not allow any Tatar elements, and he was not allowed to wear Yuan clothes and live in tents, so he could only live in a shack with his family for the time being.

The standard apartments built by these business groups are all cement board houses, which look much more upscale than shacks, and the key is to block the wind, sand, rain and snow, so he now dreams of getting such a bungalow.

Xin Qingdong now takes his children to Qingsong School every morning, and after explaining a few words to his son in the broken Chinese he has learned, he will go to work in the employer's territory, and after eating lunch, he will feel anxious to feel that the county is working.

Along the way, he would meet first-class Hermes-Epitek who was farming in the fields and Hermes-Epitek who was doing business in the city, and he would be more cautious when he met them, because one of his companions had been beheaded for robbing the property of a first-class Hermes-Min, and it was only then that he realized that these seemingly docile and kind people were nobles of the second class who were higher than his own.

Yes.

Xin Qingdong has already regarded himself as a Han people, and he is a second-class Han people, which is also what Master Li Zheng told him, saying that they were driven to the grassland by the Han people who committed crimes in the past, and now His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is here to forgive and rescue them, so he will accept them to become second-class citizens of the Ming Dynasty.

And the real heinous and unforgivable original sin is the tribal nobles who are still brutally killing, those who should have been sent to hell.

Because of the natural class hatred of ordinary herdsmen towards tribal slave owners, coupled with the different treatment after coming to Qingsong County, Xin Qingdong agreed with this view, so he insisted that he was just a Han people who were implicated by those villains.

He hated these tribal leaders, and it seemed to him that if it weren't for them, he could have become a first-class citizen, with his own land and a communal house, and now he would have to pay a high price to have his own land and house.

Especially after being educated in Sinicization and exposing the sins of the tribal nobles for a period of time, he realized that those tribal leaders had done so many evil things.

(End of chapter)