Chapter 492: Should the Great Food Country Withdraw the Domain?
Liu Zhixin, Xu Minghui, and Wang Yinzhi reported to Zhu Jingyuan on the overall situation in the Dashi area and explained the general situation of the oil exploitation industry in the world.
Finally, Liu Zhixin, as a representative, asked a slightly sensitive question:
"Your Majesty, our Great Food Country, can we completely remove the feudal domain? Or is it a little bigger?
"When we received the state of Croatia (Crete), the state of Cyprus (Cyprus), and the northern part of Mozhou, most of the local natives were handed over to the Ottomans and forcibly relocated to the southwest of Mozhou.
"These areas are now completely devoid of indigenous presence.
"In the East Mozhou region, especially between Daming Lake and Sangzhou (Zanzibar), the original Mozhou people have also moved to the west of the Great Rift Valley.
"There are only the Ming people, as well as immigrants from Korea, He, Luzon, South Vietnam, Siam, Burma and other places, and these ethnic groups in the former border areas have now been completely naturalized.
"Even if the big cannibals and Tianzhu people in other regions are naturalized, they are also different from the image of the Ming people.
"After they are naturalized, they are no different from the Ming people in terms of appearance and interior."
"Now there are mainly the two river basins, the east coast of the Great Qin Sea, the interior of the Principality of Egypt, and the inland areas of Mozhou, and there are relatively large numbers of indigenous people.
However, these natives were basically completely controlled by the local yamen, and went through detailed household registration procedures.
"Most of them have also been naturalized, wearing Ming clothes and using Ming language every day.
"A small number of diehards have long been thrown into the inland mines to work as slave laborers."
The officials of the Great Food Country have to consider this matter, and Zhu Jingyuan himself has to consider this matter.
Fifteen years ago, the first round of large-scale withdrawal of feudal domains was not a complete plan for the vast majority of feudal states.
Basically, they were all political envoys in the feudal domain.
The political envoy was subordinate to the Ming court and had jurisdiction over the immigrants and descendants of the Ming Dynasty.
The imperial court of the feudal kingdom remained and was responsible for administering the natives within the feudal territory.
It's just that most of the officials of the vassal court are directly concurrently served by the officials of the Ming court.
Most of the vassal kings of the vassal kingdom also left the vassal kingdom and lived in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, or directly became the official of the political envoy subordinate to the imperial court.
After the completion of this reform, the local political envoy Si Yamen and the court of the vassal state were actually a set of people hanging two signs.
Within the scope of these feudal states, whether it is the Ming people or the local natives, in fact, the same people are in charge.
The purpose of continuing to retain the empty shell of the vassal court was to legitimize the distinction between natives and foreigners.
Different laws are used for different people, and different management methods are applied.
Although this group of people are indigenous people who were born and raised in this land.
Now this land has become the land of the Ming Dynasty, but these people are not allowed to become legitimate Ming people.
In the 21 st century of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, this practice is unreasonable in a society that is already highly civilized.
In order to avoid this kind of big trouble, the relatively developed countries in later generations would even refuse to accept the attachment of small countries.
The vast majority of officials who are not directly involved in the corresponding policies, as well as ordinary Ming people who know the corresponding situation, also take the existence of such policies for granted.
They basically feel that this scheme is very reasonable, and the Ming people are indeed different from the indigenous and foreign races.
However, those who have dealt with Zhu Jingyuan in close proximity, especially those who have participated in the specific implementation of the corresponding policies, as well as the specific implementers of the general examination certificate system, know that this kind of policy is only a transitional policy.
Zhu Jingyuan's ultimate goal was to completely assimilate and absorb this group of people.
Of course, not for everyone, the basic strategy of nature is to leave the same and the differences.
Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while and said:
"The Great Food Country does not need to be completely revoked immediately, it can continue to be retained for a period of time.
"However, the scope of the big food country can be gradually narrowed.
"If there are no indigenous people in the jurisdiction of a single province, the province can be removed from the Great Food Country.
"For example, Kezhou and several provinces along the northern coast of Mozhou, as well as the core area of the East Mexican Development Zone.
"Even the current home area of the Big Food Country can actually be eliminated from the Big Food Country.
"The specific treatment plan, according to the number of industries in the big food country, choose to keep the province or transform it into Huangzhuang.
"For example, the northern coastal area of Mozhou has always been directly built by the imperial court, so the province will be directly retained.
"Around the Great Lakes area of East Mozhou up to the coastline, the oil fields in the core area of the Great Food Country are basically developed and built by the Great Food Country itself, so it will be transformed into Huangzhuang.
"However, this Imperial Estate was not merged into the original Imperial Zhuang system.
"Instead, it will be merged with Daming Airlines, Dashi Garment Company, Dashi Petrochemical Industrial Park, Dashiguo Oilfield and other related industries to form a new industrial group.
"This thing...... Mr. Niu recorded that when the personnel adjustment of the imperial court was completed, it would be implemented after the ceremony next year.
"As for the remaining areas, there are still indigenous and foreign ......"
Speaking of this, Zhu Jingyuan paused slightly and asked a seemingly unrelated question:
"In other parts of the Great Food Country, is there a large number of foreign men who have passed the general education exam?
"Mainly compared to the Ming people, compared to foreign women, what is the proportion of local foreign men?"
Liu Zhixin recalled the situation:
"In other places where there are foreigners, the number of foreign men who have passed the general education test is actually not very large.
"The entire Great Food Region, most of the region, is the battlefield of a world war.
"A large part of the young men have long since died in the war, and the old people have largely disappeared because of the devastation of the war.
"After the end of the World War, we allowed the Ottomans to move the local population.
"The local male faith was stronger, so the percentage of people who were driven out and handed over to the Ottomans was also greater.
"Women are the opposite, and young women are more likely to survive when food is available.
"So from the very beginning, the number of males in the foreign population that we received was very small.
"At that time, only a quarter of the men remained in the area.
"There are far fewer boys than girls among the children left behind.
"For the big head soldier who has no brains, girls can have children in the future, and boys are of little use.
"Only really wealthy immigrants can raise a few boys to be used as slaves.
"The local yamen's rescue is also a priority for girls......
"Therefore, except for the foreign domain of Egypt, even if there are still indigenous places in the Great Food Country, the total number of indigenous males is less than a quarter of the Ming males.
"On the contrary, there are more women, more than the number of women in the Ming Dynasty......
"Moreover, both men and women who are now able to live relatively freely in the major cities and factories of the Great Food Country have already been indoctrinated.
Including the small number of men and a large number of women who stayed at the beginning, as well as the children of foreign races who grew up in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
"They have all obtained the general education examination certificate, and the Great Food Country has registered the national household registration of the Great Food Country, and they enjoy the same treatment as the Ming people in the factories of the Great Food Country.
"Although the large number of women and girls directly accepted at the beginning was large, most of them were married to Ming men as concubines.
"Although there were few men in the beginning, a large percentage of them were bachelors.
"Local women are reluctant to marry local men, they prefer to be concubines for Ming men.
"Even after passing the examination at the same time, local men can get the same wages as the Ming people.
"On the contrary, there are some Ming people who only have girls in their families, and some of them choose foreign boys with outstanding images to join the family.
"If they can choose, they definitely want to let Ming men get rich, but now Ming men can marry normally.
"If you are willing to marry a native, or take a native, then it is even simpler.
"So it's basically impossible for a Ming man to get into ......"
Zhu Jingyuan thought about it a little again:
"Then to all those who have obtained the certificate of passing the examination at the same time, the Ming right of abode household registration will be issued.
"After a woman marries a Ming man and gives birth to children, she can further obtain the Ming national household registration, and her children will also obtain the Ming national household registration at the same time.
"When their children reach adulthood, they can obtain the household registration of Daming citizens after obtaining the general education examination certificate.
That is, to continue to encourage these foreign women to enter the family of the Ming people.
"The remaining foreign men, if they join the Ming family, will be treated the same as women.
"I and my children have obtained national status, and after the children pass the assessment when they become adults, the children can get the household registration of Daming citizens.
"But it should be noted that the Ming people cannot take concubines, and they and their children must follow their mother's surname after they enter the family.
"Foreign men and women who marry on their own, and their children can only obtain the national household registration of the Great Food Country and the right of abode in the Ming Dynasty.
"Encourage the indigenous people who can't find a marriage partner in the local area to find a Ming family with only a daughter in other places.
"When I am talking about these indigenous foreign tribes, I am referring specifically to the Great Food Region and the indigenous people in the vicinity.
"For example, the Great Cannibals, the Ottomans, the Persians, the Tianzhu people, the Tessies, etc.
"Indigenous people who moved from Korea, Japan, Luzon, South Vietnam, Siam, and the surrounding areas of the Ming Dynasty in Myanmar.
"As long as both husband and wife have obtained the general education examination certificate, and the children have obtained the certificate again, the children will be given Ming citizenship.
"Mr. Niu, pay attention to write it down and send it back to the relevant personnel."
In the past ten years, Zhu Jingyuan has promoted the implementation of the general education examination certificate system in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, trying to eliminate the concept of foreign races from the institutional level.
Now that he is the emperor, he has to gradually turn the system into a reality.
Niu Jian hurriedly agreed, and the typewriter in his hand never stopped.
Niu Jian is already a university scholar, and simple meeting minutes should not be his job.
It should be done by the following ordinary bookstore.
But Niu Jian is willing to do this work, he feels that this work is very important......
So he recorded one for himself, and asked the clerks to record two copies at the same time.
Unless Zhu Jingyuan explicitly states that he does not want to record, there will be direct recordings that will be preserved.
Then, after the meeting, I will listen to the recording and check it with the scrivener, and finally organize it into a file for archiving.
Zhu Jingyuan's discussion with Wang Yinzhi, Liu Zhixin, and Xu Minghui basically ended here.
The main thing is to arrange the future of the big food country.
Then Zhu Jingyuan asked Lin Zexu to bring the appointment decree of the three and let them go back to prepare for their appointment.
Zhu Jingyuan continued to read all kinds of information.
Two days later, that is, on the morning of the fifteenth year of Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan ascended the throne for the first time.
The location is still in the lobby of the new Mukden Temple.
Of course, the number of people attending the meeting was much smaller than the ceremony of moving the capital three days ago.
It is mainly the original ministers of Jiuqing and the secretaries of various ministries, and all the personnel of the governor's office, consortium and Huangzhuang at the same level in Beijing.
and the incoming incoming personnel of the same level who have already arrived in Beijing.
Zhu Jingyuan sat on the stage, and other principal officials, generals, stewards, and shopkeepers sat below.
Niu Jian announced the beginning of the early dynasty, and all the personnel officially saluted the new emperor again at the same time.
Then Niu Jian began to announce Zhu Jingyuan's approval of the old minister's resignation.
These old ministers collectively stood up again and bowed to the emperor in thanks.
Next, Niu Jian read out the new appointments that had been proposed.
The new officials who were originally in Beijing and had already arrived in Beijing collectively stood up and saluted in thanks.
After that, the actual official business is handled.
First of all, Zhu Jingyuan appointed Shen Fu, the great uncle, as the director of the preparation of the enthronement hall, and officially began to prepare for the enthronement ceremony.
Then Yang Yuchun, the governor of the Chinese Military Governor's Office and the army governor, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the parade.
Since Yang Yuchun had not yet arrived to take office, he was temporarily presided over by the former army governor.
Chen Huacheng and Guan Tianpei were appointed as commanders-in-chief and deputy commanders of the parade.
Finally, it's time to take care of the real day-to-day business.
Before the enthronement ceremony, and before the personnel adjustment was complete, Zhu Jingyuan was not ready to make a big move in the government.
So the rest of the time, it's all about responding and making decisions about some day-to-day matters.
At about ten o'clock in the morning, Zhu Jingyuan's first morning dynasty officially ended.
Zhu Jingyuan left behind Shen Fu, the new young master Ruan Yuan, the new Sikong Liu Ruzhi, the new Shangshu Wang Lai of the Ministry of Industry, and Li Rui, the new Shangshu of the Ordnance Department, to accompany him to the office building of Qin Tianjian.
Shen Fu knew that Zhu Jingyuan was going to repair the calendar, and this job was from Qin Tianjian.
But Shen Fu was very surprised, why did Zhu Jingyuan go to Qin Tianjian in person, shouldn't he call the young master and Qin Tianjian to Wenhua Hall and directly arrange the work for them to do?
Moreover, if you go to Qintianjian to discuss the calendar, why do you call the people from the Ministry of Engineering and the Ordnance Department?
However, no matter how doubtful he was, Shen Fu knew that he would definitely understand after arriving at Qin Tianjian, so he didn't ask too much.
Zhu Jingyuan and several court officials took a car to the office building of Qin Tianjian together.
In the highest conference room of the Qin Tianjian office building, Young Fu Ruan Yuan and the former Taifu gathered the main personnel of the Qin Tianjian.
After everyone saluted Zhu Jingyuan together, they sat down in turn under both sides of Zhu Jingyuan.
Zhu Jingyuan asked Shen Fu to explain the plan he had drawn up for revising the calendar and send it to Young Fu Ruan Yuan and several main responsible persons of Qin Tianjian.
At the same time, Zhu Jingyuan sat on it and commanded directly:
"This is a new set of ideas for revising the calendar that I conceived on the basis of the measurement data of the Qin Heavenly Prison.
"Qin Tianjian organized manpower as soon as possible to complete the verification of actual specific data and make a plan that can be implemented.
"Then organize a special meeting again to discuss, add and revise the details or implement them directly.
"Today, I specially came to Qin Tianjian and called people from the Ministry of Industry and the Ordnance Department.
"It's about starting engineering research related to space exploration."
(End of chapter)