Chapter 1030 Taking Great Pains
In terms of immigration, a large number of Indian immigrants arrived in South Africa, Egypt, and the east coast of Africa during this time.
Dahua is accelerating its penetration into Africa and preparing to regain Africa in the future.
A large number of immigrants from the Central Plains arrived in the Ganges Plain, greatly increasing the proportion of the Chinese population in the local area.
The overall ratio reached one to ten, and it could be even higher in some areas.
This ratio can already complete the actual control of the Ganges Plain.
In fact, the Chinese nation is the best at relying on immigration to achieve effective rule, and has done it the most.
It is precisely because of the large number of immigrants that the places south of Lingnan can firmly become a part of China, because the people living there are basically Han Chinese and have a natural sense of identification with China.
The same is true today. Those overseas places conquered by Dahua, without exception, have a high level of recognition for Dahua.
Because the dominant people in those places have become Han Chinese.
Coupled with cultural invasion, the indigenous people also began to learn, accept, and identify with the Central Plains culture. If you identify with this culture, you will naturally identify with Dahua's rule.
Moreover, for them, there is nothing wrong with being ruled by Dahua. After all, Dahua is now the most powerful country.
Being a Chinese, at least you don’t have to pay a poll tax to compensate like the English. The level of oppression and exploitation is also far lower than in Europe and other places.
Moreover, Dahua's advanced agricultural technology and industrial technology have made the local indigenous people live better than before.
Dahua's global strategy is immigration rather than colonization, and there is a big difference between the two.
Colonization is simply blood-sucking, not blood-making.
The immigrants from Dahua bring advanced technology and culture to guide the locals to improve productivity and achieve common prosperity.
Although the locals have to pay a lot of taxes to Dahua, after they pay the taxes, they will find that what is left to them is actually more than what they gained before.
No one knows whether their descendants will be dissatisfied because they have to pay taxes, but the current generation of indigenous people still like Dahua's rule very much.
While in Ceuta, Wu Changqing also signed a decree allowing people in India to change their names to Chinese surnames.
This is an important measure to promote Chinese characters. If you want to change Chinese surnames to Chinese names, it is inevitable to learn Chinese.
After learning Chinese, it is natural and inevitable to learn Chinese culture.
In the past, people in India were not allowed to change their surname easily. After all, the surname was the most important basis for distinguishing castes.
As for distinguishing by skin color, I feel that the whiter the skin, the higher the caste, is too rough and inaccurate. In other words, it only applies to Uttar Pradesh in the Ganges plain.
In the southern region, which is less affected by foreign invasions, many people with non-white skin also belong to high castes.
Moreover, some low-caste people with non-white skin can also rise in caste after becoming rich due to hard work or luck.
In addition, with the increase in exchanges between the north and the south, people come and go frequently. If you want to determine whether a person is of a high caste or a low caste, you can only judge it by his name, not his skin color.
Those in higher castes would definitely not be happy with changing their names. Their surnames are the source of their sense of superiority and a symbol of status and power.
But it doesn't matter, Dahua's target is not them, but those of lower castes.
Those people are the majority.
With the support of these people, Dahua's rule in India will be strong enough. And those high-caste people are precisely the ones Dahua needs to suppress secretly.
They did not change their names, but it made it easier for Dahua to suppress them accurately.
For the lower castes, changing their name has no harm at all. Regardless of changing their names, they will always be of lower caste and will be bullied by people of higher caste.
Now, you only need to change your name to change your identity, and most people are willing to do so.
Change their names, and in a generation or two, no one will know they were once a lower caste person.
Of course, changing their names only smooths the gap between them and high-caste people, but it does not mean that they can enjoy the same treatment as Han people.
Dahua’s household registration system will clearly record their ethnicity to distinguish them from the Han people.
Relatively speaking, the household registration system is relatively obscure, while the caste system is relatively naked.
Allowing Indians to change their names is a great way to assimilate them.
As for the effect, Wu Changqing is not sure.
However, you won’t know until you try to cross the river. Only through practice can the truth come out. If you find that the effect is not good in the future, you can change it. Anyway, it is all a matter of his words.
Wu Changqing also worked hard on how to put the Chinese nation in a leadership position and have permanent dominance over the world.
Although the Chinese nation is making a lot of noise now, what about in the future?
Will there be internal killings of each other, allowing other ethnic groups to take the opportunity to rise?
In the vast history, who can guarantee that other nations will not stand up in the future?
During the Civil War, black people stood up.
After World War II, Africa turned over.
At that time, the white people who were fighting among themselves did whatever it took to win the victory in front of them, and even made some decisions that they would regret for generations.
Wu Changqing would not treat people of other ethnic groups as cattle, but he would never allow other ethnic groups to one day achieve equal status with the Chinese nation.
Not to mention black people, even white people, and even Indians who are also of yellow race, Wu Changqing does not
Will allow them to dominate one day.
And how to ensure this?
Wu Changqing feels that this is difficult, but also very easy.
The easy part is that it is enough to make the population of the Chinese nation large enough.
If the Chinese nation accounts for 80% of the world's population, plus it already controls political power, and can be overturned by other nations, then it deserves it.
The difficulty is that Wu Changqing does not want to massacre other ethnic groups, but wants to use a civilized way to increase the Chinese population and reduce the population growth of other ethnic groups.
Wu Changqing has actually been doing this kind of thing secretly. For example, the children of the Chinese nation are given food subsidies and various subsidies to encourage them to have children.
This kind of policy is not available to other ethnic groups.
At least, the Fusang and Annamese people cannot enjoy it, nor can the natives of Southeast Asia, India and other places. Koreans do, because they are the most thoroughly assimilated.
It can even be said that there are no Koreans in Dahua now. They all believe that their ancestors are Han, so they are also Han.
They have tried so hard to integrate into the Han nationality, and Dahua officials have also given affirmation. In the household registration, Koreans are allowed to register their ethnic group as Han.
Through encouragement and suppression, Dahua is controlling the population growth rate of different ethnic groups.
However, this is far from enough.