Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 951, Five Level Policy
Officials from all over the Ming Dynasty were busy going around because of the census, and Liu Jin, who was in the center of the capital, was also busy and dizzy during this period of time.

Matters related to the population are originally under the management of the Ministry of Households. Liu Jin is the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. It is reasonable to ignore Liu Jin's affairs, but the Ministry of Households is Liu Jin's old employer. Not long ago, Liu Jin was the Minister of the Ministry of Households.

In addition, Liu Jin proposed to conduct a census, so the Minister of the Ministry of Households, Zhong Zhong, also asked Emperor Hongzhi for orders, and asked Liu Jin to assist in completing the census.

Well, the census actually does not require Liu Jin to be busy with too many things. It is natural for the officials below to do the work of formulating the content of the census.

The real problem is the identity card and the division of ranks.

The first thing is about the identity card. According to Liu Jin's suggestion, after the census, every citizen of Ming Dynasty should be enthroned and issued a unified identity card.

In fact, it is almost the same as the ID card of later generations. Only with this thing can one be regarded as a truly legal Daming person, who can enjoy the rights of a Daming person and at the same time fulfill the obligations that a Daming person should perform.

But we all know that although the ID card is just a small card, the technical content contained in it is not small. In the era of Ming Dynasty, it is not an easy task to create such a thing as an ID card.

What's more, in ancient times, without the premise of photography technology, the identity card was actually not very meaningful.

However, Liu Jin believes that identity cards still need to be issued, because the census will become a regular work in the future, and a census will be conducted every ten years.

The Ming Dynasty was no longer the former Ming Dynasty. With the advent of the capitalist era and the colonial era, the population flow will become more frequent, and the exchanges between places will become more intensive.

The Ming Dynasty could no longer implement a strict household registration management system as before to limit the flow of population. Factories, workshops, commercial firms, sea ships, sea colonization, etc. all needed people. to complete.

Therefore, it is inevitable to let go of the restrictions on population movement. This identity card system is also a system that is generally prevalent in all countries in the world in later generations.

Maybe the conditions are immature and the technology is underdeveloped, but this is the trend. Since it is a trend, we must follow the trend and do it.

Having an identity card not only facilitates the flow of the population, but also facilitates the management of the floating population, and more importantly, it can distinguish between different levels.

"Now it seems that only steel can be used, and steam stamping is used to make this identity card."

In Liu Jin's office, Liu Jin pondered carefully as he looked at the plan for making ID cards proposed by the Ministry of Industry.

"Identity cards should not only have name, place of origin, age, identity number, and nationality, but also should have special anti-counterfeiting means, which cannot be easily imitated."

"Well, the most important thing is to reflect the level of citizenship, and the level should be displayed on it."

Thinking of this, Liu Jin couldn't help thinking again.

The identity card is still a trivial matter. With the steam engine, many processes that could not be done before can now be easily done. It is not difficult to make an identity card with steam stamping.

Now the thing that bothers Liu Jin the most is the matter of citizen rank. This matter was proposed by Liu Jin himself, and naturally Emperor Hongzhi asked Liu Jin to do it.

"I haven't done anything serious."

Liu Jin sighed helplessly, as if he hadn't done any serious work since he became an official.

At the beginning, when he was in the Imperial Academy, Emperor Hongzhi asked Liu Jin, a civil servant, to go to war. After the battle, he transferred himself a civil servant to the Five Armies Governor’s Mansion to be in charge of military system reform. Only when the tax reform is done, can it be regarded as having done some work.

When I arrived at the Ministry of Officials, I actually started working in the Ministry of Households again. My official examination at the end of the year in Chengdu is about to begin.

Picking up the pen, Liu Jin began to write slowly on the paper.

First-class citizens are naturally Han people, and all Han people in the Ming Dynasty are first-class citizens.

Second-class citizens are non-Han citizens who have changed their Chinese surnames and adopted Chinese names, are proficient in Ming dialect, respect Confucianism and Taoism, and can write more than [-] Chinese characters.

The third-class citizens are non-Han citizens who have changed their Chinese surnames and adopted Chinese names, and can only speak some Ming Dynasty official dialect, but are not proficient and do not know Chinese characters.

The fourth-class citizens are non-Han citizens who have not changed their Chinese surnames, have not adopted Chinese names, and cannot speak Ming Dynasty official dialect or write Chinese characters.

The fifth class is a slave...

After writing this, Liu Jin thought for a while and crossed out the fifth class. Slaves cannot be regarded as citizens of Ming Dynasty. Slaves belong to the private property of citizens of Ming Dynasty, so they cannot be regarded as citizens.

"Slaves are also considered as human beings, and they should be managed. The number of slaves must be counted, and slave status cards must be issued at the same time. They are the lowest slaves other than the fourth class."

After thinking about it, Liu Jin also took out a pen to write down this point. In this era, the emphasis is on order, high and low, so Liu Jin thinks that there is no problem in introducing such a policy.

This is not the later generations, everyone is equal, there is no distinction between high and low.

In this era, whether it is the East, the West, or other places, people are very particular about respect and inferiority.

Of course, this is not the reason why Liu Jin proposed to implement the classification of fame and fame. Liu Jin from later generations is very clear that such a division is very likely to cause dissatisfaction among other tribes in the Ming Dynasty, and may even cause many tribes to revolt. Ming rule.

However, Liu Jin felt that it was still very necessary to introduce such a policy. The ultimate goal of this policy was to promote the gradual integration of these tribes within the Ming Dynasty into the main Han people of the Ming Dynasty.

Because to classify a person as a citizen, the main basis is to see whether the citizen has changed his Chinese surname, adopted a Chinese name, and whether he has learned Ming Dynasty Mandarin and Chinese characters.

For example, if a Nanyang native is unwilling to change his Chinese surname and adopt a Chinese name, he is a fourth-class citizen. If he is willing to change his Chinese surname, adopt a Chinese name, and speak some Ming dialect, he can immediately become a third-class citizen.

If you work a little harder, can speak a lot of Ming dialect, and can read Chinese characters at the same time, you can become a second-class citizen. As for wanting to become a first-class citizen.

"Well, it should be possible to change and circulate between different levels."

"If a second-class citizen wants to become a first-class citizen, in addition to his parents needing to be a second-class citizen, he should also have all the conditions that a second-class citizen has mastered. At the same time, he should also have a tax record. The tax payment exceeds fifty taels of silver. , or have made contributions to the country, and obtained the title of scholar or above in the imperial examination."

After thinking about it, Liu Jin also wrote here when a second-class citizen was promoted to a first-class citizen.

It must be to give people hope. It is impossible to say that first-class will always be first-class, and second-class will always be second-class. There are elites in any civilization and race. If Ming wants to be strong, it must absorb these elites.

Of course, the more important thing is to give them hope and let them have a way to rise. They may not be Han Chinese by blood, but as long as they have cultural and ideological recognition, they can also be given the status and treatment of first-class citizens.

In the final analysis, the purpose of the citizen hierarchy system is to promote ethnic integration and promote these tribes to learn Han culture. As long as they learn Han culture, they will have a sense of cultural identity and belonging.

Over time, they will naturally become an inseparable part of China. Even if the Ming Dynasty continues to change and turmoil in the future, they will still be able to maintain the current territory and territory in the end.

It is not like the Han and Tang Dynasties in history. When they were strong, they were conquered by the Quartet and had a vast territory. After their strength weakened, many places immediately lost their rule again.

This is the fundamental reason why Liu Jin formulated this system.

The territory of Ming Dynasty is really too big, and there are too many ruling tribes. If such methods and systems are not adopted, and the management is just like the previous dynasties, the final result may be disintegration and split into countless large and small small country.

This is definitely not what Liu Jin wants to see, and it is also a phenomenon that Liu Jin has been guarding against for a long time.

"Well, grades, ranks, of course, must be matched with various rights to be attractive."

"If you want to take the imperial examination, you must first obtain the status of a second-class citizen to be eligible to take the imperial examination."

"If a low-level person marries a high-level person, he can be directly promoted to a higher level, and the children born will directly obtain the status of a high-level citizen."

"If a high-level person marries a low-level person, he must be lowered by one level, and the children born are low-level citizens."

Liu Jin picked up the pen again and continued to write.

"Well, marry a chicken as a chicken and marry a dog as a dog, this must be established!"

"As for completely restricting the freedom of marriage, this is obviously very inhumane."

"Citizens of the fourth class can only move freely in the county where they are located, and are not allowed to go out of the jurisdiction of the county. There is no limit.”

"As for slaves, all slave travel must be strictly restricted, and must be accompanied by the slave master or a written statement issued by the slave master."

"Slave~ Well, slaves also need to develop a promotion channel."

"As long as a slave has worked hard for the master for more than [-] years or has made great contributions, and has no bad records, after the master's application and the local government's review, he can get out of slave status and obtain fourth-class citizenship."

Thinking of slaves, Liu Jin silently wrote down such a paragraph.

Although slaves are the property of slave owners, they are still human beings in the final analysis. Since they are human beings, they cannot be treated like livestock. Some hope must be given. With hope, there will be fewer outbreaks of slaves.

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(End of this chapter)