In the early days, there were only two sources of temporary residents. However, as time passed, Datang opened another application channel for obtaining temporary residence permits many years ago.
That is talent application.
An application channel open to special talents of foreign races.
This application channel is naturally more difficult, but although the application requirements are very high, there are no other limitations. As long as you are a real talent and are willing to sincerely join Datang and work for Datang, you can apply.
However, if you want to pass, in addition to your outstanding talent, there are many other requirements, such as you must swear allegiance to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, you must abandon your original religious beliefs and change to the Taoism of the Tang Dynasty or Taoism of the Tang Dynasty approved by the Tang Dynasty in accordance with the law.
Tang Buddhism.
These are the most basic conditions, and in different regions, there are often more stringent policies for the indigenous people in different regions.
However, even so, there are still many people who apply every year.
So far, nearly 100,000 people have obtained Datang’s temporary residence permit through the talent application channel.
Together with the original temporary residents and their descendants over the years, the number of temporary residents in Datang has exceeded 500,000.
These temporary residents can freely travel to the overseas territories of the Tang Dynasty and some overseas localized areas. They are governed and protected by the laws of the Tang Dynasty. After a certain number of years and making certain contributions to the Tang Dynasty, they can also be officially naturalized.
Become a citizen of the Tang Dynasty.
At the same time, these temporary residents were widely distributed in various embassy areas, colonies, and leased areas to provide various services to the people of the Tang Dynasty.
For example, in Ceuta today, many people working in the service industry are actually temporary residents.
Because the people from the Tang Dynasty who immigrated overseas, no matter how poor they were, still had a large piece of land. At worst, they could become farmers and farm, and their income would be very considerable in a year. There was no need to work as a worker or a waiter in some shop.
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Therefore, in the overseas territories, people in the Tang Dynasty basically did not do low-end jobs, either decent jobs, or they simply went home to farm. Don't think that farming is hard work.
Any immigrant family may own hundreds or even hundreds of acres of land. They may be called farmers, but they are actually small-scale farmers.
And there is no charge for this land, the government distributes it for free!
Otherwise, why are there so many immigrants every year? In China, where the hometown sentiment is so strong and the fallen leaves return to their roots, many people are unwilling to immigrate. Even if their lives are very hard, they are unwilling to immigrate overseas.
Therefore, in order to attract local immigrants, various overseas territories have many preferential policies.
In overseas territories, immigrants live a comfortable life and are unwilling to do low-end jobs, but someone has to do it.
You might say there are a large number of indigenous people!
But there is a law in the Tang Dynasty that is particularly nonsense.
Then no Tang Dynasty institution or individual may employ indigenous people in any name!
This law has always been strictly enforced, and its biggest purpose is to prevent foreigners from entering the living and residential areas of the Tang Dynasty and invading the working and living resources of the Tang Dynasty people.
The land of the Tang Dynasty can only feed the people of the Tang Dynasty!
Never raise aboriginals, even if the aborigines are slaves!
So you will see that the Tang government would rather have large tracts of mineral resources and waste the land in its overseas territories than capture the natives for mining and farming like the Spaniards did.
Even for several official labor companies in Datang, although everyone knows that these labor companies have a large group of indigenous workers, legally speaking, these labor companies have never hired indigenous people.
There are often indigenous people acting as agents.
These labor service companies all cooperate with labor service companies established by indigenous people, and the indigenous companies provide labor services. As for whether the indigenous companies provide labor services, the laws of the Tang Dynasty have no control over them.
Behind this seemingly nonsense law, it also gave rise to a large number of temporary resident groups in the overseas territories of the Tang Dynasty.
After all, some low-end jobs overseas always require people to do them, and people in the Tang Dynasty are extremely reluctant to go to indigenous-controlled areas, especially indigenous cities.
Because if you go there you will be infected with various diseases if you are not careful!
Therefore, a large number of people are needed to interact with the indigenous people.
These people could not be indigenous people, and most of the immigrants from the Tang Dynasty were not very willing to work. In the end, a large number of temporary residents appeared.
According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, subjects of the empire could hire temporary residents.
This is still an overseas territory, but if it is in an area controlled by indigenous people, the Tang people will be more inclined to cooperate with the indigenous people to circumvent this law.
For example, if a Datang company plans to mine coal in the UK, it will definitely need local labor, but they will never directly hire a large number of indigenous miners.
Instead, after purchasing the coal mine, they randomly recruited an indigenous person to act as an agent, and then signed a relevant contract with him. On the surface, the coal mine was handed over to the indigenous agent for management, and Datang Company was only responsible for transporting the excavated coal.
In fact, this situation is serious and violates the laws of the Tang Dynasty. However, in most cases, the Tang government will not pursue the borderline behaviors of the imperial subjects or companies in the indigenous-controlled areas.
But in the areas controlled by the Tang Dynasty, such things could not be done, which left room for temporary residents to live.
The brothers George and Johan came to Ceuta as a result of the environment of the Tang Dynasty, but these Earls of Carlton naturally didn't know that.
Although he is a country bumpkin in George's eyes, he is still an earl of the Kingdom of Denmark. Even though he has not yet moved to the new territory, he has already obtained a large fief.
I enjoyed a few days at the European Hotel and held several talks with Datang officials. In addition to finalizing the next two batches of transportation, I also placed an order for a batch of supplies to Datang on behalf of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Establish a foothold in new territory.
Afterwards, he took his men back on the boat and continued south to Africa with the fleet. This time they would arrive directly at the port of Banjul.
Then with the help of this small port city in the Tang Dynasty, they headed inland along the Gambia River to the new territory of their kingdom.
When Earl Carlton arrived at the Port of Banjul, there was no fuss. After all, the Port of Banjul was only a small port city, and it was still a small port that was not taken seriously by the Tang Dynasty.
On weekdays, even the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty traveling to and from Africa would not enter Banjul Port for supplies. Therefore, in the past few years, Banjul Port has actually remained under the jurisdiction of the Portuguese.
The only different estimates are that the sanitary conditions in the city are much better, there are fewer Portuguese people in the past, and there are more immigrants from the Tang Dynasty.
But overall, this small port city with a permanent population of just over a thousand people is just like that.
Count Carlton and the others had just been shocked in Ceuta, so naturally they would not be shocked now when they arrived at Banjul Port.
But the shock is gone, but it is full of hope, because behind the Banjul Port is their new territory of the Kingdom of Denmark!