In the southwest of Tianzhu continent, the original Guli City of the Guli Kingdom is now the capital of the Ning Kingdom, Anning City.
After several days of sailing, Tong Yuan arrived in Ningguo very smoothly, and planned to take a short rest here, meet with King Ning before heading directly to Egypt.
Anning City was built on the basis of the original ancient city. It has a natural deep-water harbor. At the same time, because it is located in Western Tianzhu, it is on the main transportation route of the Arabian Sea.
Coupled with Prince Ning's hard work over the years, the entire Anning City is quite large. The Ming-style buildings and the original old-style buildings merged with each other to form the current Anning City.
Tong Yuan stood on the deck of the ship and looked at An Ning City in front of him.
In the huge port dock area, a ship is moored and flags are flying. The dock is extremely busy. The spacious cement roads extend towards the end of the industry, and four-wheel carriages loaded with goods are flowing continuously.
"His Royal Highness Prince Ning is truly a man of great talent and strategy. This city of Anning already has the majestic appearance of one of the great cities in the world."
Tong Yuan smiled and sighed to Li Shishi beside him.
"Haha, Mr. Tong has given me a reward."
"Compared with the cities of the Ming Dynasty, our Anning City is still lagging behind."
Li Shishi said very modestly.
Then he took the lead to get off the ship, and soon officials from Ningguo came to greet him.
Tong Yuan followed him off the boat, and beside Tong Yuan, there were many Japanese people following him. They were all bodyguards of the Shimadzu family, responsible for protecting Tong Yuan and others to safely go to Egypt.
This is the Shimadzu family's show of goodwill to Tong Yuan. Of course, the Shimadzu family will not engage in loss-making business. This time, the Shimadzu family is also preparing to expand its family business to Egypt and the Mediterranean.
I had never had the chance before. This time I happened to go to Egypt by protecting Tong Yuan. I also sent people to Egypt and the Mediterranean to see if there was any opportunity to expand my family's business.
As Li Shishi, Tong Yuan and others got off the boat, Tong Yuan looked at the dock where the boat was moored very casually.
"Prime Minister Li, there are quite a lot of barbarians in Anning City."
Tong Yuan soon discovered an interesting phenomenon. There were a lot of barbarians in Anning City. They could be seen almost everywhere. They were all dark-skinned natives of Tianzhu. At the same time, a large number of tall, fair-skinned European slaves could also be seen.
On the contrary, there were relatively few people from the Ming Dynasty. Most of them looked like stewards, hiding in shady places everywhere, eating watermelon, and having slaves fanning them.
"Our current total population in Ningguo is 3.5 million, of which there are only less than 150,000 Ming people, and the rest are all local indigenous people."
"These 3.5 million people are considered the citizens of our Ning Kingdom. In addition, there are more than two million slaves in our Ning Kingdom. Most of these slaves are sold from all over Tianzhu. There are also a small number of Kunlun slaves and
White slave."
Li Shishi thought for a while and nodded slightly, then introduced the population structure of Ningguo in detail.
"Are there too few people from Ming Dynasty?"
"With so many local indigenous people and more than two million slaves, isn't this very dangerous?"
When Tong Yuan heard this, he immediately asked anxiously.
"It's really too little~"
"So our prince has been recruiting people from the Ming Dynasty, North Korea, and the Japanese country. As long as we Ming people are willing to immigrate to our Ning country, we will directly reward you with thousands of acres of land and dozens of slaves."
"But so far we only have less than 150,000 Ming people."
Li Shishi said helplessly: "In addition to the two capitals and thirteen provinces in our country, our Ming Dynasty owns too much land overseas."
"Nanyang, Australia, Golden Island, Liaodong, Northern Grassland, Western Regions, Hezhong, Nanyun Province, plus a large number of vassal states and colonies, we have too many choices for Ming immigrants."
"Even though the conditions we have given are very generous, and the land is given directly to the slaves, there are still very few people willing to immigrate here."
"Most of these 150,000 people are composed of the prince's old troops and his accompanying families and villages in Nanchang, Jiangxi and other places."
"However, although the number of Ming people is relatively small, the rule of our Ning State is still very stable."
"People here are generally religious and the caste system is deeply rooted. They believe in the afterlife and believe that all the suffering and sins suffered in this life will be rewarded in the next life."
"So we took advantage of it, introduced Buddhism and Taoism, and preached to them that we Ming people are the noblest caste, and all castes are slaves of our Ming people. As long as they serve us Ming people, they can be reincarnated as Ming people in the next life.
People are born noble."
"At first, the local Brahmins and Kshatriyas were not willing to accept this, but we used butcher knives to make them understand their status, and after starting the killing spree, they slowly accepted it."
"As for those at the bottom, most of them are ignorant and ignorant. If you tell them this is the case, they are willing to believe that it is so, and even think that this is the case. We do not need to do anything. They even take the initiative to do so.
Maintain this caste system.”
When he said this, Li Shishi couldn't help laughing.
He felt ridiculous for the people here. To be honest, he had never seen such stupid and ignorant people. Just a caste system made Ningguo's rule extremely stable.
"Is there such a thing?"
Tong Yuan was a little dumbfounded. Although he had seen reports similar to this when reading newspapers before, he always felt a little unbelievable. Now when he heard Li Shishi say this, he immediately found it very unbelievable.
"Haha, don't you find it a bit unbelievable?"
"But this is the most real situation here in Tianzhu."
"At the beginning, our prince thought of giving equal treatment to these people, but he did not expect that the internal relations between these people had exploded. Those Brahmins and Kshatriyas felt that they were treated equally by the Vedras and Shudras.
The humiliation caused instability in the governance of various places."
"So we simply added these things to the caste system. Unexpectedly, they accepted them as a matter of course, and the unrest in various places quickly subsided."
"Later, we made some changes in conjunction with the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty. We told them that as long as they suffer throughout their lives without any fault, our Ningguo can upgrade his caste by one level every three generations. For example, the original chief
The Dhara caste was promoted to Veyron."
"Virvanas are promoted to Kshatriyas, and Kshatriyas are promoted to Brahmins. As for the Brahmin caste, we give them Han surnames, which is equivalent to becoming the highest caste of Ming Dynasty."
"Of course, in addition, as long as you leave a great contribution, learn Chinese characters, convert to Buddhism and Taoism, etc., you can also improve your caste level, etc."
"In short, under such a system, although we in Ning State only have 150,000 Ming people, the rule is very stable, and almost everyone is very happy to accept such a system."
"The former Brahmins are now actively assisting us. Several of them have performed well, and now they have been given Chinese surnames and changed their names by our prince."
"As for the Sudras and Veyrons at the bottom, they are full of motivation now, because as long as they work hard and actively pay taxes, they can advance to a higher level in just three generations. This is something that has never happened in the mainland of Tianzhu.
Their caste has not changed since it was passed down from their ancestors."
"A Sudra is always a Sudra, and his descendants are all Brahmins. A Brahmin is always a Brahmin, and his descendants are all Brahmins."
"Now as long as they work hard and endure hardship for three generations, they can move up a level, which makes them full of hope."
When he said this, Li Shishi couldn't help but smile proudly, because he was the one who came up with this set of things and successfully stabilized Ning Guo's rule.
"It takes three generations to improve by one level?"
After hearing this, Tong Yuan couldn't help but shake his head.
"Here in the Ming Dynasty, people from foreign tribes can be promoted to third-class citizens as long as they change their surnames to Chinese names. If they can speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, they can be promoted to second-class citizens. Are you too
A little darker."
"This is already the biggest concession. You must know that when I formulated this system, I encountered strong opposition from the local Brahmins and Kshatriyas."
"They believe that Sudras should always be Sudras, no matter how many generations they are, and should not be promoted. They can only endure hardship and atone for their sins before they can join a high caste and enjoy happiness in their next life."
"There was extreme opposition to this plan to improve caste. Later, His Highness Prince Ning overcame all objections and passed such a plan."
Li Shishi smiled and said.
These are extremely speechless things in the eyes of the people of Ming Dynasty, but here they are a matter of course.
People in the Ming Dynasty believe that princes, generals, and prime ministers should rather have seed, but people here in Tianzhu think that princes, generals, and prime ministers have seed. Lowly untouchables will always be untouchables. They are born to serve the upper castes and let the upper castes enjoy happiness.
, only in this way can you become a high caste in your next life.
There was no other way. For the sake of the rule of Ning State, King Ning and others could only formulate such a system and adjust measures to local conditions, so that the rule of Ning State could be stabilized.
The 150,000 Ming people have become the noblest caste in Ning State. They are superior and control everything here in Ning State. The original Brahmins, Kshatriyas, etc. were all servants of the highest caste Ming people and served the Ming people.
Being able to become a servant of the Ming Dynasty is still a symbol of nobility, because under the servants, there are untouchables and slaves, which are even worse.
