Chapter 1654: National Treatment
It is really not easy for foreigners to be naturalized as a Ming Dynasty household registration.
Maybe it wasn't difficult before, but everything has become difficult since Tang Shangxian improved the household registration system of the Ming Empire.
Especially now, the Ming Empire is fighting in the east and west, and is blooming from all directions. It can almost be considered an invincible battle in the world. The domestic economic situation is also rising rapidly, and everything is moving in a good direction.
Obviously, the lives of the people in the Ming Dynasty were getting better and better, which directly led to the continuous increase in the preciousness of the Ming Dynasty household registration.
Especially with the rising national strength of the Ming Empire, even the stupidest man understood that the rise of the Ming Empire was unstoppable.
Even if the exclusive benefits were not given to the people of the Ming Empire, there must be many people crying and shouting that they wanted to be naturalized in the Ming Empire. What's more, while the Ming Empire is gradually making efforts, they also give various benefits to the people in the country?
This set of rules for national welfare benefits was created by the National Normal University, and it was not supported by the country at first. Even if the emperor trusted him, he still disagreed with this huge change.
However, as more and more feudal states were enfeoffed, the emperor and the cabinet finally realized that it would be impossible not to improve national treatment.
When the various vassal states were enfeoffed, of course, it was impossible that only their own people would simply pack up their parcels and leave. They needed people from all walks of life to go out to the bribery with them, otherwise wouldn’t it be a joke?
Each vassal state has its own plan, and the difficulty of establishing a country is not just a word.
All classes of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce must be said, and they cannot do without having enough staff. Although the Shenji Camp has basically eliminated the armed forces of the enemy countries around, who can know when new enemies will appear?
If the country wants to operate normally, it must establish basically complete functional departments.
Even if the vassal states do not need to be omnipotent, the minimum foundation should always be established, right? In the areas where the sea and feudal areas were initially opened, except for the Fusang people who worked hard and worked hard, most of the natives in Southeast Asia were extremely lazy.
These countries in Southeast Asia were all established by these natives, but very few of them could truly be called countries.
To put it bluntly, most countries are simply copycats of natives. If they are mixed in the Ming Dynasty, they may be as good as chieftains.
Because the local climate conditions are very good, even if you don’t work hard, you can’t starve to death. Therefore, most people in these places are lazy.
The vassal states that had been granted the feudal in the past rushed to the fiefdom with great enthusiasm, but they never expected to encounter such an end - they could not recruit suitable personnel to complete any work.
In addition to these people brought back from China, the local natives were simply a disaster.
Any country without the support of the people will definitely become a castle on the beach. However, the transformation of these natives will not be effective in a short while. The best way is to recruit people from the country to enfeoff vassal states as national democratic forces.
However, the difficulty of trying to make Chinese people who are used to the strong local complexes go away to make a living can be imagined.
Fortunately, all the vassals and kings who were enfeoffed were wealthy families, either kings or dukes. After all, it was not long since its founding, and most of the wealthy families were rich and powerful, and they had not been exhausted by their relatives.
So he scattered a lot of gold and silver, and immediately recruited enough people.
The Chinese people have a strong local complex and will not leave their hometown easily, but if they are really for the sake of sufficient benefits, they are not completely stubborn.
Under the absolute money offensive and the looming force deterrence, a large number of people were taken out by various enfeoffed princes to gain a foothold. This large amount of money was spread out, and it also contributed to the domestic economy and activated many markets.
After all, if you go to a bribery country, you can’t take anything without bringing anything, right? All kinds of material purchases are bulk trade, including tools, good varieties, medicinal materials, cloth, grain, livestock, etc. Every family wants to buy them all before leaving.
Fortunately, the country has made rapid progress under the reform of Tang Shangxian in recent years, and various materials have been prepared for production early. Otherwise, it would be possible to catch things in this situation, and it would be uncommon to buy things with a large sum of gold and silver.
Now the grassland is under the control of the court, and the transaction of various livestock is not much more convenient before.
In particular, the caravan formed by Tang Shangxian cleverly connects the economic complementarity between the Central Plains and the Great Wall, benefiting the people of both sides a lot. In just 3 or 2 years, the lives of the people of the world have made great strides forward, almost a leap forward.
This internal productivity has spilled out with the scattered vassals, pushing the domestic economic output to an incredible level. Chinese civilization has never been as powerful as it is today, and its radiation power is basically spread across the two oceans.
By the time the King of Han was enfeoffed from the North American continent, the entire Ming Dynasty had reached a peak of its throne.
As the people who came back from the New World praised what they saw and heard, no one doubted the future prospects of the Ming Empire.
The enfeoffed princes of the Ming Empire have spread across Southeast Asia and North America, and are heading towards South Asia and South America. All the warships of the Ming Empire are sailing on the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Such large-scale colonial acts have a stimulus to the domestic economy far beyond the imagination of the emperor and the cabinet.
The Ming Empire showed an indescribable prosperity, and almost all domestic scholars were in a bit of madness and could not extricate themselves. They wrote countless magnificent poems and songs to praise this prosperous dynasty.
The birth of peak art works is always closely related to the comprehensive national strength.
The reason why the Tang and Song dynasties were able to produce countless exquisite artistic treasures and great artists such as Tang poetry and Song lyrics is essentially inseparable from the brilliant national strength at that time. The more developed or powerful the country is, it will have an inside-out artistic influence.
Art is an important by-product of civilization. Only people who have no worries about food and clothing will consider ideological art. Otherwise, the problems people first ask for solving are often the satisfaction of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
When the flag of the Ming Empire flies high beyond the world, the people of the world live and work in peace and contentment, culture and education suddenly become a necessity for the people of the world.
Among all kinds of art works, the emperor and the ministers of the cabinet all appeared in an unimaginable wise and magical posture, and the immortal Tang even showed up in a detached and determined manner.
Various praises came out, which further boosted the current status of the Tang Shangxian and almost became a symbol of the Ming Empire.
At first glance, no conclusion has been drawn from all the deeds that Tang Shangxian had done over the years. However, as time goes on, you will find that even a very inconspicuous small thing will become the lubricant for the success of major events in the world.
So everyone agreed with what Tang Shangxian made, and had no intention or action to oppose it.
Even though the ministers in the court felt that the development of Confucianism had declined in the past two years, they could not have any rebelliousness towards the immortal Tang. No matter how stubborn everyone is, they could not deny that the core of the prosperity of the Ming Empire was the National Master.
The people even completely deified the immortals of the Tang Dynasty and worshipped them. The Heavenly Palace Immortal Saint Sect has become the fastest-growing organization in recent years. According to incomplete statistics, the proportion of people in the country who believe in the Heavenly Palace Immortal Saint Sect has reached an astonishing 95%.
Only a few steadfast religious people still follow their respective traditional worship of gods and ignore the Immortal Saints of Heavenly Palace.
However, the Heavenly Palace Immortal Saint Sect is not actually like an organization with a strong religious atmosphere, but rather like a political entity. Many Tang Shangxian’s corresponding political measures like to be implemented through the Heavenly Palace Immortal Saint Sect.
As it turns out, it is quite good to complete. The cloak of religion is often more effective than politics, and the power of faith is far superior to others.
As the efforts to enfeoff princes abroad increased year by year, the domestic economy took off to an expected height. In order to ensure that the main ethnic group in the country remained unwavering, the court began to promote national treatment policies under the request of the Tang Shangxian.
In general, it starts with many people's livelihood projects such as medical care, education, and taxation to improve the lives of the people all over the world.
At the same time, many soldiers captured from foreign enemy countries were put on the market in the form of slaves and popularized the world. Many construction and work to improve people's livelihood were all handed over to this group of people to be responsible for the work.
At the same time, in order to ensure the centripetal force of this group of people, Tang Shangxian issued a normal upward channel to give everyone hope to move towards the future.
The relevant conditions for naturalization in the Ming Empire were born like this: special language exams, Chinese history exams, and various classics assessments... The classification is very detailed - it is always necessary to ensure that all naturalized people are useful talents to the Ming Dynasty!
If you cannot pass these assessments and can only engage in corresponding overseas working life, many national welfare that people envied will not be imposed on everyone.
In fact, Tang Shaozhe's strategy is to create a level model for human appearance, which is actually difficult to avoid.
Without this step-by-step classification, it is impossible to guarantee that everyone will enjoy the same treatment.
He knew very well that the material world could never be equal. Perhaps everyone in the spiritual world could be equal, but the material conditions must be divided into the corresponding amount of acquisition.
At any time, material creation in the world cannot satisfy all people. When you meet 100 people, you will find that 100 people can continue to grow into 1,000 people; when you meet 1,000 people, you will find that 1,000 people can grow into 10,000 people.
Since humans are living things, they will inevitably reproduce without limitations, but material growth cannot be endless forever.
This will inevitably lead to some people obtaining a material majority, while some people obtaining a material minority. The biological world will automatically adjust, and this will not be transferred by anyone's will.
A large number of foreigners existed, in Tang Shaozhe's vision, to create surplus value for the Chinese people.
The only part they can enjoy is a small number, and the vast majority should be left to the Chinese people. The prey of the weak in the biological world is often so simple.
Since the Ming Empire is now extremely powerful, the Chinese people should obtain more resource allocation!
Chapter completed!