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 their own people.
The main implementation method is “differentiated treatment”.
First of all, if your ancestors are from Ming Dynasty ethnic groups such as Han Chinese or Tongren, or if your ancestors have the ancestry of these ethnic groups, you can apply for a change of ethnic group at the local government. The conditions for determining 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 servants of Han people and Tong people. After three generations of naturalization, they will automatically transfer to the ethnic group to which the family head belongs, regardless of Han Tong.
Thirdly, the Annamites 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, regardless of male or female, as long as he survives and grows to fifteen years old, She automatically became a Han or a child along with her husband. However, if she divorces, is divorced, or 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 concubines, and then marry a Han or Tong woman as their official wife, and are not allowed to take concubines thereafter; those who originally had children must go to the local government to declare and sign, and transfer all their inheritance rights to The legitimate sons and daughters born to the first wife after that, and the previous bastard sons and daughters were not allowed to inherit the inheritance. Only when the above two conditions are met can the person be changed to 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, there is another flexible way to liberalize concubinage: paying donations.
Donating money is very expensive: 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 reached the top, which was limited to four concubines.
Gao Pragmatic was still a little hesitant about this, 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 moth.
When it comes to governance, the biggest fear is that the people below will have no room for advancement. If the wealthy people in Annan never 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 also an additional condition: the concubine cannot take a Han woman or a child woman, and the children born of the concubine have no inheritance rights.
Mr. Gao was firm on this point: Even in the Ming Dynasty, there were still so many people who were singles, but it was not the turn of you Annan people to take concubines like the Han people and the Tong people. Let you marry a Han or Tong wife because your children will all be Han or Tong in the future and can bring your inheritance to the Ming Dynasty - after all, ordinary Annan people want to marry a Han or Tong. As a legitimate wife, it is impossible without some property.
But there is one most important question here, which is why do the Annan people want to be Han, Tong, or naturalized people?
Obviously, it has to be profitable.
Profit lies in two things: status and wealth.
Han people and Tong people 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.
Beyond that, it’s a question of wealth. This issue can be summed up in one sentence: Han Chinese and Tong people are required to bear the lowest tax rate, followed by naturalized people, and Annan natives are the highest.
How big is this gap? Probably, if the Han people need to pay one tael of silver in tax, then the naturalized people have to pay 2 taels, and 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 multiplied by four for no reason, he would definitely not be able to laugh. Shouldn't he find ways to get rid of this bad identity? Even if it’s difficult to identify as a Han or a child, at least you have to be a naturalized person!
Although twice the tax is not what they want, it is still much better than four times the 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 if you continue to do it this way, it will be the best at most." In a few decades, there will be no natives 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 one can survive.
But...independence has a lot to do with nationality - I have never heard of any place in the "core territory" of Ming Dynasty's two capitals and thirteen provinces seeking independence, right?
They 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?
Aren’t the Han people in Shandong and the Han people in Shanxi 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, in the future, if Annan implements this set of policies, as long as it persists for several decades, the Annan natives will definitely disappear and become Han children. The children will definitely speak Chinese when they arrive in Annan, and they 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 affected by Han culture, those children who have considered themselves Han since childhood will also classify themselves as Han and accept Han people. culture and traditions. After two or three generations, the Annan natives, whose culture had been wiped out, naturally became completely 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, it would be great if you were really 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 student."
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 the job. I am worthy of the Huang family. Now I own the town of Anbang. If you don't do it, 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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