Chapter 1277 Song Wanzi, who pursues happiness and freedom
Song Wanzi was one of the two thousand Fusang women who went to the Tang Empire.
The name doesn't look like a Fusang girl. That's because her surname was temporarily chosen by officials of the Tang Dynasty when she signed up for a blind date.
In order to facilitate management, the empire will temporarily give these Fuso women a surname. If they don't have a name, they will also be given a name, so that they can be better managed.
However, Song Wanzi had a surname before, but she hid it!
Song Wanzi was standing on the deck at this time, looking at the waves on the sea. She didn't know whether her choice was right or wrong!
She is different from most of the Fuso women on the ship who are girls from poor families. She comes from an upper class background, and her father is a great name. Although this great name is not a great name in Fuso, and his army only has a few hundred people, but
After all, he is a famous person and a serious member of the ruling class.
As a member of the ruling class, she knew her fate early on. She would be used as a political bargaining chip to marry other daimyo, or simply as a gift to those powerful daimyo.
When she was a child, she didn't think there was anything wrong with this, but a year ago, when she followed her father to Osaka's Datang Business District, her worldview changed dramatically.
The Osaka Datang Trade Zone was actually the colony of the Datang Empire in Osaka. It was just a sign of a trade zone. Most of the empire's colonies, especially the small and medium-sized colonies acquired through purchases, concessions, etc., were basically
It is to use the brand of the business zone to establish the business zone office and become a country within a foreign country.
In Osaka's business district, she saw prosperity for the first time. A mere business district was so prosperous. One can imagine how prosperous the Tang Dynasty itself was.
However, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that she accidentally saw a book that basically introduced the style of the Tang Empire, and the content written on it shocked her extremely.
Such introductory books specifically for Fuso people naturally only select good ones, saying that in the empire everyone has land and everyone has a house. More importantly, the empire guarantees personal freedom, freedom of marriage, prohibits human trafficking, and prohibits slavery.
Wait for a series of protective measures.
These things allowed Song Wanzi to have an initial impact on the Tang Empire: strong, prosperous, and free!
These three words are Song Wanzi, and they are also the first impression most Fusang people have of the Tang Dynasty!
These impressions had a huge impact on her.
These influences were constantly fermenting in her mind, so when she learned that this year her family would marry her to a nearby daimyo, and that daimyo was already over fifty years old, and more importantly, that daimyo
He already has a wife and even more than a dozen concubines.
At that time, she just thought that the Tang Empire was a country with freedom of marriage. If she went to the Tang Dynasty, she would be able to freely choose her husband, instead of having to follow her family's arrangements to marry like now.
An old man becomes a concubine.
After this thought came into being, she could not extinguish it. Finally, one night when she was about to get married, she entered the Datang Business District alone!
After arriving in the business district, she felt that her life had changed. Here, no one could force her to do something she didn't want to do.
Of course, she was just in a hurry when she ran away, and she didn't carry much gold and silver. Moreover, after arriving at the business area, she was attacked by a thief again, and all her money was gone, which made it impossible for her to smoothly carry out the next step of her plan, which was to purchase
Ferry ticket to Datang.
At this time, I happened to learn that Datang was recruiting young women to go to Datang for blind dates, and promised that everything would be done on a voluntary basis, even if they didn't want to go on a blind date after arriving in Datang.
So, she directly signed up for the blind date!
Naturally, her real purpose was not to go on a blind date, she just wanted to go to Datang, so she did not get on the boat to Shanghai, but got on the boat to Busan.
Those who take the boat to Shanghai are determined to find someone to marry as soon as they get off the boat, because only by marrying someone can they pay off the ticket in time.
Song Wanzi chose to go to Busan. She was not willing to find anyone to marry. After arriving in Busan, she planned to work for a period of time, then raise money to pay off the ticket, and then start a new life of her own!
Song Wanzi is a rather special Fuso woman on this ship. She originally had a surname and had very clear plans and expectations for the future, plus she was the daughter of a daimyo.
This situation is rare
Most of the other Fuso women come from the middle and lower classes of society, but they don't really have surnames, and many of them don't even have names.
In contemporary Fusang, most people do not have surnames. Those with surnames are usually high-ranking officials, while ordinary people do not have surnames. However, these Fusang women who are preparing to go to the Tang Empire have already signed up.
She broke away from her identity as a Fusang woman and became a woman from the Tang Empire.
As one of its policies, the Tang Empire made quite a number of detailed measures to deal with Fusang women's coming to China.
One of the major items is to naturalize these Fuso women.
The Tang Empire has already implemented a complete household registration system. Regardless of whether they are men or women, they need to register their household registration at the patrol department. When going out, they need household registration certificates, so that they can pass many interrogations, check into inns, etc.
These Fusang women are going to the Tang Empire. Without a legal identity, it is impossible to manage the black accounts. It is too troublesome to manage them.
Therefore, after it was determined that these Fuso women came to Datang voluntarily, they would be given household registration immediately, and the place of registration would be unified into Osumi County. Once naturalized, these Fuso women would become subjects of the empire and be protected by law.
In this way, a lot of trouble will be avoided!
For example, if their family members suddenly come to the door and want to take them back by force, the law of the Tang Empire protects any citizen of the Tang Dynasty, regardless of whether the citizen of the Tang Dynasty was a Fusang person before.
Basically, as long as this Fusang woman enters the Fusang colonies under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, her basic personal safety can be guaranteed, because the laws of the Tang Dynasty stipulate that the subjects of the empire enjoy personal freedom.
This is just basic. Once they officially register and become subjects of the empire, they will be protected by the empire. Let alone their family members, even if the Emperor of Japan comes and wants to take them back, the empire will
Provide protection for it!
Registering these Fusang women as citizens and allowing them to become members of the empire's citizens is one of the more important measures.
In addition, this can also avoid human trafficking!
Imperial law strictly prohibits human trafficking, but this kind of thing is not allowed to happen in the areas ruled by the empire.
Not even foreigners, let alone subjects of the empire.
However, imperial household registration is not so easy to obtain. Over the years, it has been very unlikely for foreigners to naturalize in the empire.
Large-scale naturalization has only occurred twice before, once when it annexed the Koryo Peninsula and once when it annexed the Ryukyu Kingdom. The empire directly recognized the people in the above two places as subjects of the empire.
It is more difficult for natives in other areas to naturalize in the Tang Empire, especially men. There are many foreigners living in the Tang Empire, including quite a few Portuguese and Spanish. However, naturalization is difficult.
There were not many foreign men in the Tang Empire, just over a hundred in total, and the most famous among them was Gerdes.
The Tang Empire had very strict regulations regarding the naturalization of these male foreigners. First, it stipulated that they must make outstanding contributions to the empire before they would be allowed to apply. After receiving the application, they had to hold a specific ceremony to declare their allegiance to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and their allegiance to the emperor.
empire, and renounce their original nationality and allegiance.
At the same time, you must give up your original religious beliefs. You can convert to domestic Buddhism or Taoism. Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't believe it. Anyway, your original religious beliefs must be given up.
As for the naturalization of foreign women, it has been relaxed a lot. As long as you marry a man from the Tang Dynasty, well, it must be a legal couple, lover, concubine, etc. After getting married, you can apply for a ten-year residence permit.
You can then apply for naturalization, which will usually be approved.
To put it simply, the empire strictly prohibits the naturalization of foreign men, but does not impose much obstacles on the naturalization of foreign women.
Not only for naturalization, in fact, the empire still prohibits foreigners from traveling to various parts of the empire on a large scale. Otherwise, there would be no specific administrative areas like business zones.
In the empire itself, foreigners can only live, live and do business in the business zone and cannot go outside the business zone!
If you want to travel to other places, you must apply for a special pass and be accompanied by official personnel to travel to other parts of the empire. Those who want to apply for such a special pass are usually foreign official diplomats or big businessmen.
, ordinary foreigners basically do not have this opportunity.
It can also be seen here that the general outline of the empire's population or ethnic policy is to ensure the purity of blood and prevent large-scale aliens from appearing in the country.
The empire does not welcome large-scale foreign immigrants to live and settle in the empire!
Opening this door to Fuso women now is also a continuation of the empire's established policy. Accepting a large number of Fuso women will not cause any harm to the empire's national structure.
Because after these Fusang women married and had children with Tang men, their offspring would still be subjects of the empire, and there would be no difference in appearance.
But if a large number of Fuso and other foreign men are allowed to enter the empire, there will be big trouble.
Song Wanzi and more than 1,500 other Fuso women took several ships and sailed at sea for many days before finally landing at the Busan Port of Dongjiang Prefecture on the Korean Peninsula in Liaodong Province, the empire's homeland.
When Song Wanzi set foot on the land of the port, he felt that this place was completely different from Fusang!