Liu Zhixin, Xu Minghui, and Wang Yinzhi reported to Zhu Jingyuan the overall situation in the Dashi area and explained the general situation of the oil exploration industry around the world.
Finally, Liu Zhixin, as a representative, asked a slightly sensitive question:
"Your Majesty, do we, the great food country, need to completely withdraw from the vassal? Or adjust the scale?
“When our Ming Dynasty took over Crete, Cyprus, and northern Mexico, most of the local indigenous people were handed over to the Ottomans and forcibly moved to the southwest of Mexico.
“These areas are now completely devoid of indigenous presence.
“In the East Mozhou area, especially between Daming Lake and Sangzhou (Zanzibar), within the area of more than two million square kilometers, the original Mo people have also moved to the west of the Great Rift Valley.
“There are only Ming people in the area, as well as immigrants from Korea, He, Luzon, South Vietnam, Siam, Myanmar and other places. These ethnic groups in the former border areas have now been completely naturalized.
“Even if the Cannibals and Tianzhu people from other areas are naturalized, their image is still different from that of the Ming people.
"After they are naturalized, they are no different from the Ming people, both externally and internally."
“Now there are mainly the Shuanghe River Basin, the east coast of the Great Qin Sea, the interior of the Principality of Egypt, and the inland areas of Mozhou. There are also relatively large numbers of indigenous people.
“However, these indigenous people are basically completely controlled by the local government and have gone through detailed household registration procedures.
“Most of them have been naturalized, wear Ming Dynasty clothes and speak Ming Dynasty language every day.
"A small number of diehards have long been thrown into inland mines as slave labor."
The officials of the Dashi Kingdom must consider this matter, and Zhu Jingyuan himself must also consider this matter.
The first round of large-scale withdrawal of vassals fifteen years ago did not include a complete withdrawal of vassals for most of the vassal states.
Basically, a chief envoy was established within the domain.
The Chief Envoy Department belonged to the Ming Dynasty and had jurisdiction over the immigrants and descendants of the Ming Dynasty.
The imperial court of the vassal state still remained and was responsible for managing the indigenous people within the vassal state.
It's just that most of the officials in the vassal court were directly held concurrently by officials in the Ming Dynasty.
Most of the vassal kings also left the vassal state and lived in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, or directly became chief envoy officials under the imperial court.
After this reform was completed, the local chief envoy Si Yamen and the court of the vassal state were actually one team with two names.
Within the scope of these vassal states, both the Ming people and the local indigenous people were actually managed by the same group of people.
The purpose of continuing to maintain the empty shell of the vassal court is to treat indigenous people and foreigners legally differently.
Use different laws and apply different management methods to different people.
Although these people are indigenous to this land.
Now this land has become the land of Ming Dynasty, but these people are not allowed to become legal Ming Dynasty people.
This approach was unreasonable in the 21st century of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life and in an already highly civilized society.
In order to avoid this kind of big trouble, relatively developed countries in later generations will even refuse to accept the annexation of small countries.
Officials in most departments who were not directly involved in the corresponding policies, as well as ordinary Ming people who understood the corresponding situation, took the existence of this policy for granted.
They basically felt that this plan was very reasonable, and that the people of Ming Dynasty were indeed different from the indigenous people and foreigners.
However, those who have dealt closely with Zhu Jingyuan, especially those who have participated in the specific implementation of the corresponding policies, and those who implemented the general education examination certificate system, all know that this policy is only a transitional policy.
Zhu Jingyuan's ultimate goal is to completely assimilate this group of people.
Of course, it does not apply to everyone. The natural basic strategy is still to retain the same and discard the differences.
Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while and said:
“Dashiguo does not need to be completely abolished immediately, it can be maintained for a period of time.
“But the scope of the Big Food Country can be gradually narrowed.
“If there are no indigenous people within the jurisdiction of a single province, the province can be deleted from the Big Food Country.
“For example, several provinces along the northern coast of Kezhou and Mozhou, as well as the core areas of the Dongmozhou Development Zone.
“Even the current local areas of the Big Food Country can actually be eliminated from the Big Food Country.
“The specific treatment plan depends on the number of industries in the food country, whether to choose to retain the province or convert it into an imperial village.
“For example, the northern coastal area of Mozhou has been directly constructed by the imperial court, so the province should be retained directly.
“The oil fields around the Great Lakes area of Dongmozhou and up to the coastline, and in the core areas of Dashi Country, were basically developed and constructed by Dashi Country itself, so they will be converted into Imperial Village.
“However, this Huangzhuang is not merged into the original Huangzhuang system.
“Instead, it will be combined with Daming Airlines, Dashi Clothing Store, Dashi Petrochemical Industrial Park, Dashiguo Oilfield and other related industries to form a new industrial group.
"This matter...Mr. Niu will record it and wait for the court's personnel adjustment to be completed, and it will be implemented after the ceremony next year.
"As for the remaining areas, there are still places with indigenous and foreign races..."
Having said this, Zhu Jingyuan paused for a moment and asked a seemingly irrelevant question:
“Are there many foreign men who have passed the general education examination in other parts of the country?
"The main thing is compared to the people of the Ming Dynasty, compared to the women of foreign races, what is the proportion of local foreign men?"
Liu Zhixin recalled the situation:
“In other places where there are foreign races, the number of foreign men who pass the general education examination is actually not that many.
“The entire Dashi region, most of it, is the battlefield of a world war.
“Most of the young and middle-aged men have died in the war, and the elderly have basically disappeared due to the destruction of the war.
“After the world war, we allowed the Ottomans to remove the local population.
“The local male religion was stronger, so the proportion of men who were driven away and handed over to the Ottomans was also higher.
"For women, the opposite is true. Young women are more likely to survive as long as they have food.
“So from the very beginning, the number of males among the foreign people we received was very small.
“At that time, only a quarter of the local men were women.
“Among the children left behind, the number of boys was far less than that of girls.
"For these brainless soldiers, girls will be able to give birth to children in the future, but boys will be of no use.
“Only immigrants with real money could raise a few boys to use as slaves.
“The local government also gives priority to girls...
“So, with the exception of Egypt, a foreign vassal, even in places where there are still indigenous people in the Great Food Country, the total number of indigenous men is less than a quarter of the Ming Dynasty men.
"On the contrary, there are more women, more than the number of women in the Ming Dynasty...
"Moreover, regardless of men or women, those who can live relatively freely in the major cities and factories of the Big Food Country have already completed their education.
“Including a 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 Ming Dynasty.
“They have all obtained the General Education Examination Certificate, and have been registered as nationals in Dashi Country. They enjoy the same treatment as people from Ming Dynasty in the factories of Dashi Country.
“Although the number of female girls directly received at the beginning was large, most of them were married to Ming men as concubines.
“Although there were few men admitted at the beginning, a large proportion of them were singles.
“Local women are not willing to marry local men as wives, they would rather be concubines to Ming men.
“Even after passing the simultaneous examination is implemented, local men will be able to get the same wages as Ming people.
“On the contrary, some Ming people who only have girls at home choose foreign boys with outstanding images to marry into their wives.
“If they had a choice, they would definitely want Ming men to marry into their wives, but now Ming men can marry normally.
“If you are willing to marry a native or have a native concubine, it would be easier.
"So it is basically impossible for men in the Ming Dynasty to get married..."
Zhu Jingyuan thought about it again:
“Then all those who have obtained the certificate of passing the examination at the same time will be issued a household registration with the right of residence in the Ming Dynasty.
“After a woman marries a Ming Dynasty man and gives birth to a child, she can further obtain the Ming Dynasty national household registration, and her children will also obtain the Ming Dynasty national household registration at the same time.
“When their children reach adulthood and obtain the general education examination certificate, they can obtain Ming Dynasty citizen household registration.
“That is to say, continue to encourage these foreign women to enter Ming people’s families.
“If the remaining foreign men marry into a Ming family, they will be treated the same as women.
"I and my children have obtained national status. After the children pass the assessment when they become adults, they can obtain the Ming Dynasty citizen household registration.
"But please note that citizens of the Ming Dynasty are not allowed to take concubines. After marrying into a married woman, you and your children must take your mother's surname.
"Foreign men and women who marry on their own, they and their children can only obtain the national household registration of Dashi Kingdom and the right of residence of the entire Ming Dynasty.
"Encourage indigenous people who cannot find a marriage partner to go elsewhere to find Ming families who only have daughters.
“The indigenous foreigners I’m talking about here refer specifically to the indigenous people in the Dashi area and nearby areas.
“For example, the Great Cannibals, Ottomans, Persians, Indians, Taixi, etc.
“Indigenous people who migrated from Korea, Japan, Luzon, South Vietnam, Siam, and the surrounding areas of the Ming Dynasty in Myanmar.
“As long as both husband and wife obtain the general education examination certificate and the children obtain the certificate again, their children will be granted Ming Dynasty citizenship.
"Mr. Niu, please note it down and send it back to the relevant personnel."
In the past ten years, Zhu Jingyuan promoted the implementation of the general education examination certificate system in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, trying to eliminate the concept of foreigners from the institutional level.
Now that he is the emperor, he must gradually turn the system into reality.
Niu Jian quickly agreed, and the typewriter in his hand never stopped.
Niu Jian is already a bachelor, and simply taking minutes of meetings should not be his job.
It should be done by the ordinary book office below.
But Niu Jian is willing to do this job. He thinks this job is very important...
So he recorded one copy himself and asked the book office to record two copies.
Unless Zhu Jingyuan explicitly states that he does not want to record, there will still be direct recordings preserved.
Then after the meeting, I will work with the book office to listen to the recording and review it, 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 three people's appointment decrees and asked them to go back and prepare to take office.
Zhu Jingyuan continued to read various information.
Two days later, on the morning of the fifteenth year of Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan made his first morning court appearance since he ascended the throne.
The location is still in the lobby of the new Fengtian Hall.
Of course, the number of people attending the meeting was much smaller than the capital relocation ceremony three days ago.
Mainly the original Jiuqing ministers and ministers of various ministries, and all the same-level officials in the governor's office, consortium, and imperial estates in Beijing.
As well as the new and incoming personnel of the same level who have arrived in Beijing.
Zhu Jingyuan sat on the stage, and other main officials, generals, stewards, and shopkeepers sat below.
Niu Jian announced the start of the morning dynasty, and all personnel formally saluted and congratulated the new emperor again.
Then Niu Jian began to announce the seal on the veteran's resignation memorial approved by Zhu Jingyuan.
These veterans collectively stood up again and bowed to the emperor to thank him.
Next, Niu Jian announced the new appointments that had been planned.
The newly-appointed officials who were originally in the capital and who had arrived in the capital stood up collectively to salute and express their gratitude.
Then the actual business begins.
First, Zhu Jingyuan appointed the eldest uncle Shen Fu as the director of preparations for the enthronement hall and officially began preparations for the enthronement ceremony.
Then Yang Yuchun, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army Governor's Office and the army commander, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the military parade.
Since Yang Yuchun had not yet arrived to take office, the former army commander was temporarily in charge.
Chen Huacheng and Guan Tianpei were appointed as the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the ship review.
Finally, it’s time to deal with the real day-to-day stuff.
Before the enthronement ceremony and before the personnel adjustments were completed, Zhu Jingyuan was not prepared to make a big move in government affairs.
So the rest of the time is spent responding and making decisions on some daily matters.
At around ten o'clock in the morning, Zhu Jingyuan's first morning meeting officially ended.
Zhu Jingyuan left his eldest uncle Shen Fu, the new Shaofu Ruan Yuan, the new Sikong Liu Ruizhi, the new Minister of Works Wang Lai, and the new Minister of Ordnance Department Li Rui to accompany him to the office building of Qintian Prison.
Shen Fu knew that Zhu Jingyuan wanted to study the calendar, and this job was from Qin Tianjian.
But Shen Fu was surprised. Why did Zhu Jingyuan go to Qin Tian Jian in person? Shouldn't he have called the young master and Qin Tian Jian to the Wenhua Hall and directly assigned them the work?
Moreover, if you go to Qintian Prison to discuss the calendar, why would you call people from the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Ordnance?
But no matter how confused he was, Shen Fu knew that he would definitely understand it after arriving at Qintian Prison, so he didn't ask any more questions.
Zhu Jingyuan and several court officials took a bus to the office building of Qintian Prison.
In the highest conference room in the Qintianjian office building, Shaofu Ruan Yuan and the former Taifu convened the main personnel of Qintianjian.
After everyone saluted and said hello to Zhu Jingyuan, they sat down one by one on both sides of Zhu Jingyuan.
Zhu Jingyuan asked Shen Fu to explain the calendar concept he had drawn up and send it to Shaofu Ruan Yuan and several main persons in charge of Qin Tianjian.
At the same time, Zhu Jingyuan sat on top and directly ordered:
"This is a new set of calendar revision ideas that I conceived based on the calculation data of Qin Tianjian.
“Qintian Supervisor organized manpower as soon as possible to complete the actual specific data verification and create an implementable plan.
“Then organize a special meeting again to discuss, add and revise details or implement them directly.
“Today I came to Qintian Prison specially, and also called people from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Ordnance.
"It is to prepare to start engineering research related to space exploration."
(End of chapter)
