Chapter 212 Naturalized Household Registration System
The method Gao Pragmatic taught Huang Zhiting is called the "naturalized household registration system".
The key point of this method is to "designate" some Annan people who are relatively hard-working and willing to work as one of their own.
Its main implementation method is “differentiated treatment”.
First of all, if your ancestors are Han Chinese, Tongren or other ethnic groups in the Ming Dynasty, or if your ancestors have the blood of these ethnic groups, you can apply for a change of ethnic group at the local government - the determination conditions are very simple: for example, if you can speak Chinese, you can apply for a change of ethnic group. If you are a naturalized Han Chinese and can tell fairy tales, you can apply to change your ethnicity to a naturalized child.
For naturalized people, the word "naturalized" can be removed after three generations.
The Haidong Governor's Office and its subordinate local yamen will only send people to briefly chat with the applicant in Chinese or fairy tales. As long as the communication is basically smooth, they will directly approve the application and try not to set too high a threshold.
Secondly, Annan people can become "naturalized people" by becoming Han people and servants (including women) of children. After three generations of naturalization, they will automatically transfer to the ethnic group of the family head, regardless of whether they are Han children.
Thirdly, Annan people can change their national attributes through marriage. This article is divided into two categories for men and women.
One is that as long as an Annan woman marries a Han or a child, whether as a wife or a concubine, she will automatically become a "naturalized person"; and when she gives birth to a child, whether male or female, as long as he survives and grows to fifteen years old, She will automatically become Han or Tong along with her husband. However, if she gets divorced (divorced) or is divorced and remarries, all of the above will be eliminated.
The other type is for Annan men, which is much more difficult to naturalize than women. Those who are already married must first divorce their wives and expel their concubines, and then marry a Han or Tong woman as their head wife, and they are not allowed to take concubines thereafter; those who originally had children Yes, you must go to the local government to declare, sign a pledge, and transfer all your inheritance rights to the legitimate sons and daughters born to your first wife. The previous concubines and concubines are not allowed to inherit the inheritance. Only when the above two conditions are met can it be changed. As a "naturalized person".
However, his legitimate sons and daughters will be directly regarded as Han people or children, without having to go through the "naturalized person" item.
If there is an Annan man who wants to become a naturalized person but cannot accept the condition of not taking concubines, then there is another flexible way to liberalize concubinage: paying donations.
Donating money is very expensive: only one thousand taels of silver can be donated to obtain a place for a concubine as a naturalized person.
Moreover, if you want to take more concubines, the price of the second place is two thousand taels, the third is four thousand taels, and the fourth is eight thousand taels.
This has reached the top, which is limited to four concubines.
Gao Pragmatic was still hesitant about this at first, but after thinking about it, he had to give the wealthy people in Annan a chance to sharpen their heads and become naturalized people, and at the same time give them a chance to compare, so he came up with this trick.
The most fearful thing about governance is that the people below will have no room for advancement. If the wealthy people in Annan still can't find a way to improve their status, they will eventually have no choice but to rebel.
Therefore, I give you room for improvement, and the method is simple and crude: just give money.
Oh, there is another additional condition: the concubine cannot take Han women or children, and the children born of the concubine have no inheritance rights.
Mr. Gao had a firm attitude on this point: There are still so many bachelors in the Ming Dynasty, but it is not the turn of you Annan people to take concubines and take concubines into the hands of Han people and Tong people. If you are asked to marry a Han person or Tong people, that's all. Seeing that your children will all be Han Chinese in the future, Tong Ren, you can bring your inheritance to the Ming Dynasty - after all, if ordinary Annan people want to marry a Han Chinese, Tong Ren can be the official wife, and it is impossible without some property.
But there is one of the most important questions here, which is why do the Annan people want to become Han Chinese, Tongren, and naturalized people?
Obviously, it must be profitable.
Profit lies in two things: status and wealth.
Han people and children will have many advantages in terms of social status... Well, I can't finish this at the moment. I can roughly refer to the social status of the British in India during the colonial era, and it's basically the same.
In addition, there is the issue of wealth. This issue can be summed up in one sentence: Han people and children have to pay the lowest tax rate, followed by naturalized people, and Annan natives have the highest tax rate.
How big is this gap? Probably, if the Han people need to pay one tael of silver in tax, then the naturalized people will have to pay 2 taels, while the Annan natives... I'm sorry, not three taels, you have to pay four taels.
This is no joke, four times!
Gao Pragmatic looked back and thought about it. If in his previous life, the personal income tax he had to pay was inexplicably multiplied by four, he would definitely not be able to laugh. Why not find ways to get rid of this bad identity? It is not easy for Han people to obtain the status of child. Forget it, at least you have to be a naturalized person!
Although double tax is not what they want, it is still much better than quadruple tax, right?
In addition to these, there are some other details, which Gao Pragmatic also told Huang Zhiting in detail.
After hearing this, Huang Zhiting was stunned for a while, and then she patted her chest with a look of "I'm so scared" and said: "Oh my God, how did you come up with these destructive schemes? I think the best way to do it is to follow your method. In a few decades, there will be no natives left in Annan, and they will all become Han Chinese and children!"
Gao Pragmatic laughed: "Isn't that great? They have become Han children, so why are they rebelling?"
Well, in fact, rebellion has little to do with ethnicity. It is mainly a question of whether we can survive or not.
But...independence has a lot to do with nationality - I have never heard that any of the "core territories" like the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty want to be independent, right?
We are all from the same nation. If you want to rebel if you can't survive anymore, that's understandable. But independence... what the hell is independence?
Could it be that the Han people in Shandong and Han in Shanxi are not the same Han people, and the Han people in Hunan and the Han people in Hubei are not the same Han people?
This is just like when later generations of foreigners played strategic games and played the Chinese part, they always followed their own thinking and thought it was ridiculous that Han people in different regions would have different national views.
The boards of Qin Shihuang's coffin could no longer hold it.
Therefore, if Annan implements this set of policies in the future, as long as it persists for several decades, the Annan natives will definitely disappear and turn into Han children. The children will definitely speak Chinese when they arrive in Annan, and are actually no different from the Han people.
In other words, Annan will be all Han Chinese by then. Even if they have a chance to rebel, they will not have a chance to become independent.
After decades of speaking Chinese, doesn’t the idea of unified thinking also have to penetrate into the bone marrow? This is the power of culture.
Let you first find ways to become Han Chinese, and then even if your own generation has not been seriously influenced by Han culture, those children who have considered themselves Han since childhood will also classify themselves as Han and accept Han people. After two or three generations, the Annan natives, whose culture was wiped out, naturally became Han Chinese.
What's more, everyone is of the yellow race, and Annan was originally a place where Chinese culture was seriously radiated. The imperial examinations were all in Chinese. If the assimilation is not fast enough, then it is unless the Annan people are cheating.
Huang Zhiting sighed, and suddenly said a little lonely: "Sometimes I think, how wonderful it would be if you really were Zhang Fuxu."
"Oh?" Gao Pingshi laughed and joked: "Why? You still want me to marry into your Huang family? That's not possible. Even if I am Zhang Fuxu, I am still a living member."
Huang Zhiting shook her head, not looking like she was joking, and said: "My father won Shannan, and he also won Waiqinghua when he applied for a job. I am already worthy of the Huang family. Now I have the town of Anbang. If you are Zhang Fu, I will Just... so what if I give it to you? Anyway, as a woman, no matter how big my fortune is, who can I leave it to?"
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