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   Chapter 596 593 [Three Imperial Edicts]

   "Your Majesty, please take a look!"

  Jiao Xu took out a book and handed it to the female official to present to the emperor.

  Jiao Xu belongs to the former minister of the Ming Dynasty and the author of "Fire Attack". In addition to the knowledge of firearms, the book also introduces European city defense techniques and explains in detail how to use bastions to defend the city. The person he asked for advice when writing the book was Tang Ruowang.

  This gentleman’s hometown is Anhui. After Chongzhen hanged himself, he left Beijing in a hurry. Bringing the manuscript of firearms to contribute, Zhao Han personally tested and taught him knowledge, and found that he was still a scientific talent, so he was directly recruited to work in the Ministry of Industry, and then transferred to the Ministry of War as Yuanwailang.

  At this moment, the "Fire Attack" in Zhao Han's hand has richer and more detailed content. It records the firearm patterns of the Datong Army, as well as the manufacture, storage, and transportation of firearms and ammunition. It involves metal smelting, machinery manufacturing, mathematical knowledge, as well as the Datong Army's firearm use formation, and even includes actual war case analysis.

  Reading carefully for a while, Zhao Han praised: "This book is very good, Jiao Qing has worked hard."

  Jiao Xu hurriedly cupped his hands: "It is a matter of being loyal to the emperor."

   There was no monetary reward, so Zhao Han sent Jiao Xu to leave after a few words of verbal praise. The real reward, of course, is a promotion, which can be the next military arsenal doctor.

  After Jiao Xu left, only Tang Ruowang remained.

  Zhao Han smiled and said: "Tang Qing has also worked hard, and contributed a lot to this book."

  Tang Ruowang quickly said: "I dare not call it hard work for His Majesty."

   Laughing, Zhao Han suddenly became serious: "How many slaves are there in Macau? How many slaves are there in the name of the Society of Jesus?"

  Tang Ruowang replied: "There are probably thousands of slaves in Macau, about half of which belong to the Society of Jesus. In the past two years, many have been sold, and I don't know how many are left."

   "You and other high-ranking Jesuit priests must have been given a lot of money?" Zhao Han asked again.

  Tang Ruowang didn't dare to hide anything, and replied, "We've shared some."

  Zhao Han sarcastically said: "Is this how your religion saves the world?"

  Tang Ruowang couldn't answer. He could give countless explanations in Europe, but those answers in front of Zhao Han were all farts.

  As the emperor of China, Zhao Han has not yet reached the Holy Mother to manage the life and death of foreign slaves, but he should pay attention to the negative impact it will bring to China.

  In Macau, it has long been stipulated that all employees must be registered.

  Even if you are a Portuguese, if you live for more than one year, you have to register for easy management.

  However, slaves in Macau have been neglected for a long time, and local officials did not treat slaves as human beings. This is a management loophole that has been exploited for several years and led to the prosperity of the slave trade in China.

  Zhao Han said: "Do you know that the three martial arts destroy Buddha?"

   "I have heard a little bit about it." Tang Ruowang replied.

Zhao Han said: "During the Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism was introduced to China for a short time. At that time, monks could marry wives, eat meat, and keep slaves. They even occupied land and hid the population. Some monks even thought of soldiers. The rebellion fought for the world and wanted to turn China into a Buddhist country on earth. Therefore, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty exterminated Buddhism, Emperor Wudi of the Northern Zhou Dynasty exterminated Buddhism, and Emperor Wuzong of Tang Dynasty also exterminated Buddhism. Buddhist monks finally became honest. Until the time of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, they were not allowed Monks marry wives, monks are not allowed to eat meat, and Chinese monks have become what they are today."

   Tang Ruowang's heart was beating wildly, and fear arose spontaneously.

  Zhao Han asked: "Do you understand what I mean?"

   Tang Ruowang knelt down suddenly: "I understand."

Zhao Hansheng was afraid that he didn't understand, so he directly pointed out: "Land and population are the foundation of the imperial court. Regardless of Buddhism, Taoism, or Christianity, whoever dares to touch is a dead end. Remember this sentence and tell all missionaries !"

   "Minister, obey the order!" Tang Ruowang quickly kowtowed.

  Tang Ruowang was terrified. The emperor's tone was terrifying. It seemed that he really wanted to order the missionaries to be killed just now.

  Three cabinet ministers were called in, and Zhao Han asked about foreign races.

   Li Banghua replied: "Your Majesty, there are not as many foreign races in China today as there were in the early Ming Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, foreign races were everywhere, and they were still assimilated by China. Just use the old policies of Ming Taizu."

   "How did Ming Taizu do it?" Zhao Han asked.

  Li Banghua said: "For people of different races, same-race marriage is prohibited!"

  Zhao Han laughed immediately: "Good way."

   Intermarriage of the same race is prohibited, and the scope of this "clan" is very wide. All white people are regarded as "colorful race", and white people are forbidden to marry white people.

  The Yuan Dynasty left countless white people in China, and they were all assimilated by Zhu Yuanzhang's marriage ban for more than two hundred years. Those descendants of mixed races of white people all regarded themselves as Han people, and even their appearances were not much different, and many of them passed the imperial examination and became officials of the Ming Dynasty.

  China has a population of tens of millions or hundreds of millions, even if there are tens of millions of aliens, they will be assimilated quickly under the marriage ban.

  Zhao Han said: "Draft the decree!"

  Pang Chunlai didn't move, his eyes were not good.

  Li Banghua immediately stepped forward and picked up a brush to draft the imperial decree.

Zhao Hannian said: "In Datong China, except for my Huaxia ethnicity, all others are regarded as foreign races. Marriage between foreign races is not allowed, and should be married with Huaxia ethnicity. Foreign races and Huaxia ethnicity marry and have children. After three generations, the descendants can be seen. They are of Chinese ethnicity, so they can marry freely at that time."

   That’s probably what it means. The specific content of the imperial decree needs to be polished by Li Banghua.

   Not long after, an imperial decree was written, Zhao Han signed it after reviewing it, and handed it over to the imperial edict room to write the real imperial edict.

Zhao Han continued: "The second decree is that all Portuguese in Macau must be naturalized in China within this year. Those who die loyal to the Portuguese king will be expelled from the country. Those who do not want to leave the country or become naturalized must register as temporary foreigners. Residents pay a temporary residence fee of 30 silver dollars per year. People who are naturalized are regarded as nationals and as foreign nationals in the country, and foreign nationals are not allowed to marry."

  This decree is to force the Portuguese to make a choice, either to be loyal to the Chinese emperor or to the Portuguese king. Forcing those Portuguese to intermarry and assimilate with the Chinese. At the same time, Macau was completely taken back, and all officials in Macau were selected by the imperial court.

  The reason for doing this is purely because the Portuguese have no use value.

  Portugal lost the Japanese market and lost the Strait of Malacca. It became independent from Spain again, and Spanish American silver no longer passed to Macau through Portugal. In this way, what use is Macau to Zhao Han?

"The third imperial decree states that all slaves sold to China from foreign countries, regardless of gender, are regarded as foreign laborers, and all of them must be reported to the government for registration. Foreign laborers must pay poll tax every year, and foreign laborers are not allowed to marry each other. As for The head tax is based on the local rice price in March of the year. For a foreign employee, the head tax is 30 catties of polished white rice converted into silver."

  The price of rice in March is the highest in a year, which coincides with the shortage of crops.

  Zhao Han did not completely block the foreign slaves, because the brothels everywhere needed people, and the big households everywhere also needed people.

  Flesh business cannot be banned. Throughout the ages, no country can completely ban it. When the central government is strong, it can be banned for decades at most.

   But this kind of industry must never be legalized.

  Ethics is only one of the factors, more for security considerations. The legalization of the **** industry will inevitably bring vicious crimes, such as kidnapping, imprisonment, beating, killing, and human trafficking.

   It cannot be prohibited, nor can it be legal. The best way to deal with it is to keep it in a gray area.

   Neither black nor white, black or white.

   Whether it is black or white, the court has the final say, depending on the situation. The most important point is that the imperial court must always have the ability to control, so Zhao Han ordered all practitioners to register.

  There are also lands of large households in various places. Due to the division of fields and immigration, it is difficult to recruit enough tenants.

  In the new dynasty of Datong, it has long been divided into mu, and the grain tax is calculated according to the land property. This has led to big households and honorable households losing money as they have more land. Many lands are idle every year, and they have to pay taxes to the government if they don’t grow food.

   A very miraculous phenomenon has already appeared. Some large households in the southern provinces, due to the lack of commercial profit supplements, the more land they have, the more they can make ends meet, so they donate their idle land to the court on their own initiative.

   Such a situation, don’t be surprised, is the result of a strong government.

  Take Zhu Yuanzhang’s time as an example, a large number of self-cultivating farmers and even small landlords in the Jiangnan area donated their private land to the state as official land, and then the whole family changed from farmers to tenants attached to the official land. Because in doing so, not only can corvee be exempted, but also exorbitant taxes can be paid less.

  This practice of offering land to vote for officials caused a series of bad results in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, which was one of the main reasons for Zhang Juzheng's reform.

  The "migrant workers" from outside cannot be banned, otherwise the big households will not be able to farm the land, and sooner or later all the idle land will be donated to the imperial court. Fortunately, the big family said that for the Xungui who fought for Zhao Han, the land rewards became a joke. The more land that was given to Xungui, the more food and taxes Xungui had to pay, and he could only go out and not in, because recruiting Less than tenant farming.

  Giving the field becomes a kind of punishment!

  Zhao Han can guess what's going on when he thinks on his knees. The duke and marquis in the court counted as one, and the hometown must have bought slaves to farm, otherwise they would have started a quarrel.

  Zhao Han can only turn slaves into foreign hired labor, so that the land of nobles and big families can continue to cultivate and harvest. At the same time, poll taxes were collected from these slave workers to curb the number of slave workers.

   After 20 or 30 years, the population of each province will increase, and the large households and farmers will have more children and grandchildren, and the per capita land area will inevitably be diluted.

   At that time, there will be more farmers who are willing to farm and farm, and there will be no need to buy slaves from abroad to farm.

   After all, whether it is Nanyang or Indian aborigines, the farming technology is definitely not as good as that of Chinese farmers. In addition, there is a poll tax, which is far less cost-effective than recruiting local tenants, and the phenomenon of buying slaves for farming will gradually disappear.

  When that time comes, the landlords will be forced to release the slaves and hired laborers, and they will be scattered and moved to various places. After one or two generations, they will be able to assimilate into Chinese.

  Francistan, that kind of situation will not happen in China.

  The greening and blackening of France are mainly due to the two world wars, and too many people died in the country. After World War II, the reconstruction of the country required a lot of cheap labor, so blacks had to be introduced from the colonies to supplement the population.

  As for China, it is estimated that Zhao Han's population has doubled before he died. The country has a lot of people and a little land, so it can only emigrate and expand. How can we allow foreigners to come to the country to stir up trouble?

   Now is a special situation in special times!

  (end of this chapter)