Chapter 1598 The sought-after Tang temporary residence permit
Even those Fusang people who had changed their place of origin, adopted Chinese names and wore Hanfu in accordance with the policies of the Tang Dynasty, their children could only attend the government-run primary schools established by the Tang Dynasty and receive the most orthodox Chinese education.
Even they themselves do not regard themselves as indigenous people, but as people of the Tang Dynasty, and they try their best to fully integrate into the people of the Tang Dynasty.
However, in the minds of many people in the Tang Dynasty, these people who changed their nationality were still Fusang people and a foreign race. They only became subjects of the empire after being conquered by the empire, and they did not accept them from the bottom of their hearts.
There is no way. From ancient times to the present, Chinese people have been so proud and exclusive. If you want them to accept foreigners as one of their own, there are not many ways. Generally speaking, there are only two ways:
One is to conquer a foreign race, carry out a large number of immigrants, and then use the population advantage to integrate the foreign race!
The other is that foreigners completely conquered the Chinese region, then actively abandoned their own cultural customs, regarded themselves as Chinese, and actively integrated into it.
In the end, these two can actually be combined, that is, fusion!
Looking through history for thousands of years, the Chinese region's foreign conquests or conquests basically followed these two words.
Some foreign races wanted to rely on military conquest or other means to maintain their rule in China, but also wanted to maintain the independence or detachment of the nation, such as the Mongolian Yuan and the Manchu Qing, but in the end they were all exposed.
turn.
Otherwise, it is basically impossible to accept foreigners as one of our own.
Now, the localization policy implemented by the Tang Dynasty in some areas is actually an advanced version of the integration policy, relying on its own huge population advantage to turn them into Chinese people.
In Beihai Province, the localization policy is also progressing steadily, but the time is still a little short, and it is still a little short of complete localization, so this is why the import and export controls have been delayed.
But I guess it won't be used for a few years.
Compared with other provinces in Nanyang, Beihai Province is much more convenient. Just like the Korean Peninsula before, everyone belongs to the same Chinese civilization circle. The locals have a deeper identification with Chinese civilization, and it is much more convenient to integrate.
Today's Fusang people are just like the Korean people of the past. Now if you ask what kind of Fusang people they are, they can talk to you in bird language: I am obviously from the Tang Dynasty, so don't accuse someone of their innocence out of thin air!
The identity of a Tang Dynasty person is still very attractive to contemporary people, much more so than Americans of later generations!
I don’t know how many foreigners wanted to be naturalized in the Tang Dynasty and became citizens of the Tang Dynasty, but they couldn’t.
Many people cannot become citizens of the Tang Dynasty, so they find ways to become temporary residents and obtain a temporary residence permit.
Nowadays, foreigners working in many colonies of the Tang Dynasty, especially Spanish, Portuguese, Indians, West Asians, etc., all have temporary residence permits, and more people are trying their best to get this temporary residence permit.
Today’s Datang Temporary Residence Permit is still very popular.
However, there are not many ways. The most feasible is to obtain a temporary residence permit through marriage and parents' attachment.
Specifically, if a foreign woman marries a Tang person, she can obtain a temporary residence permit, and after a certain number of years, she can apply for Tang nationality. After becoming a subject of the empire, she can bring her parents over and take refuge with her parents.
Ways to help parents obtain temporary residence permits.
Many foreign women try their best to marry a Tang Dynasty person, then become a temporary resident of the Tang Dynasty, or even finally become a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, and then help their parents obtain a temporary residence permit.
As for men of foreign races, don't expect it. Even if you find a Tang Dynasty woman to marry, once a Tang Dynasty woman marries a foreigner, she will automatically lose her Tang Dynasty nationality.
After all, this is a patriarchal society, and the inheritance of bloodline is based on the paternal line, and the social atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty does not allow it.
At the same time, this policy is only open to specific ethnic groups in certain specific areas. Foreign ethnic groups in some areas are not able to obtain this policy.
This is not a prejudice that Li Xuan brought from later generations, but that the Chinese people of this era are so sloppy!
Based on their pride in their own culture, the Chinese people have regarded other people as barbarians or savages for thousands of years!
Under the dual influence of culture and aesthetics, the people of the Tang Dynasty were also very repulsive to many foreign races.
In fact, there are not many foreign races that can be accepted nowadays.
At present, the only foreign races that can be fully accepted are those with similar looks and whose culture has been greatly influenced by our own, such as the Fusang people and the Korean people.
This is also the reason why the localization of the above two places can be so fast, because the people of the Tang Dynasty have a relatively high degree of acceptance of them and the integration is relatively smooth.
There are also some ethnic groups for which the Tang Dynasty maintains a neutral attitude, such as some ethnic groups in the Nanyang Peninsula, and then some ethnic groups in the Western Regions, Central Asia, and West Asia. It is worth mentioning that the appearance of some women in the above-mentioned West Asia region is quite consistent.
In terms of Chinese aesthetics, Persian beauties have long been called Persian beauties.
Many people in the Tang Dynasty may hate men from West Asia, but generally they don't hate women from West Asia.
Then there are the European ethnic groups. In fact, most Chinese people don't like them very much. They think they look like ghosts. However, with the increase of overseas trade and more contact with Europeans, they gradually learned that although these barbarians
He doesn't look very good, but he is still a human being and not an evil spirit, so he has gradually been accepted over the years.
But the most important point is that people in the Tang Dynasty are quite optimistic about young women from the European ethnic group. If they are washed clean, they still look pretty good, their skin is fair enough, and their figure is good, although the pores are a bit larger and there is more hair.
Some, but the golden retriever and red hair are also quite exotic when played with.
Of course, it is limited to women. As for men in Europe, most people in the Tang Dynasty still regard them as monsters and monsters...
Generally speaking, the acceptance of foreign races by the people of the Tang Dynasty is a combination of aesthetics and culture. Basically, as long as it is a civilized country and the women are not too ugly, the people of the Tang Dynasty will at most hate or not hate them, but at least they will
Treat them as human beings.
As for people in some areas, the people of the Tang Dynasty did not regard them as human beings!
For example, many indigenous people in Nanyang!
For example, the indigenous people of Africa!
For example, most of the indigenous people in India!
For example, the Native Americans!
Most people in the Tang Dynasty didn't regard them as human beings!
This kind of spontaneous attitude among the people cannot be changed even by Li Xuan. Of course, Li Xuan is too lazy to take care of it.
Besides, there are also many foreign women in his harem, and the classification and number of these foreign women are actually roughly the same as the acceptance of foreigners by ordinary Tang people today.
And basically they all have one basic characteristic, that is, they are beautiful and fair-skinned!
There is no way, the Chinese people's aesthetics are like this, Li Xuan is like this, and the ordinary people of the Tang Dynasty are also like this.
There is not much difference in aesthetics between an emperor and a beggar.
The Tang people had another attitude towards the Tatars.
Because this is the enemy!
As for the enemy, it is natural not to say that we hate or like it, but that we need to destroy it.
For thousands of years, China has been hostile to the nomadic peoples of the northern grasslands, not because of issues such as aesthetics and other preferences, but because of issues of survival resources.
Now even if the Tatars have fled to Central Asia and Europe, the Tang people still don't want to let them go.
That’s right!
Cut off the roots!
Of course, this was also related to the fact that the Tatars blocked the Tang Dynasty's westward expansion.
If the Tang Dynasty wanted to expand westward, it had to kill the Tatars. This was another conflict of interests and was basically irreconcilable.
Therefore, when spring arrived in the ninth year of Xuanping's 20th year and the weather became warm in the Western Regions, the Tang Dynasty's Western Expedition Army couldn't wait to embark on the Western Expedition again.
It's still the same as before, working steadily and building the railway forward.
As for the Western Expeditionary Army of the Tang Dynasty, which did nothing else and only focused on building roads, the Tatars were helpless.
In May, under the instigation of Ulihan, the Tatars stationed in the Turpan area mobilized in large numbers and sent more than 30,000 cavalry to prepare for the Tang Dynasty's Western Expedition.
This does not mean that they want to confront the Tang Dynasty's Western Expeditionary Army, but that they want to destroy the Tang Dynasty's railway lines and destroy the Tang Dynasty's supply lines.
Because they knew that if they did nothing and waited for the Tang Dynasty to build the railway to Turpan, the old incident in Hami would definitely happen again, so this time, they chose to take the initiative.
But Lu Yuzhi, the commander-in-chief of the Western Expeditionary Army, had long been on guard against them.
The two cavalry corps, plus other cavalry units, were tightly fortified. They did not rashly choose to engage in large-scale cavalry confrontations with the Tatars, but still chose to focus on guarding the railway line.
No large-scale cavalry decisive battle broke out, but medium-sized battles were fought three times in a row!
In these three medium-sized battles, the Tatars did not suffer too much from a tactical perspective. At most, they suffered relatively large losses.
But strategically speaking, the Tatars completely failed.
Because their more than 30,000 cavalry were restrained by almost the same number of cavalry from the Tang Dynasty, there was no chance to destroy the railway.
The result is still the same as before, we can only watch the Tang Dynasty build the railway.
At the end, Wulihan became fierce and prepared to launch a direct attack. He risked being flanked by Tang Dynasty cavalry and lost several thousand cavalry. He successfully destroyed more than ten kilometers of railway and even destroyed a train station.
However, just when he thought that he had cut off the Tang Dynasty's railway line and could at least paralyze the Northwest Railway Extension Line for a few months.
However, the scouts reported that after the railway was damaged, it only took the Tang Dynasty people ten days to complete all the repairs!
After hearing the news, Wulihan looked up to the sky and sighed!
He really has no choice!
You can't beat it head-on!
The railway line has been destroyed but cannot be destroyed, what else can they do next?
They really have no choice!
But they were unwilling to retreat like this. When they retreated from Hami, they could still retreat to Turpan, but if they retreat from Turpan now, they will have no city to defend and can only retreat all the way to Central Asia.
This also means that the entire Western Region will be handed over!