I want to be emperor

Chapter 1112 John’s Marriage

In the contemporary Great Chu Empire, it is almost impossible for an indigenous person to obtain the official national status of the Great Chu Empire... Unless a Chu person marries an indigenous woman, the woman can apply to become an official citizen of the Chu State. identity.

But...the Chu people's disdain for the indigenous people these days is from the bottom of their hearts...but it is much stronger than the so-called racial discrimination in later generations. Few normal Chu men will marry indigenous women.

At the same time, if a Chu woman marries an indigenous man, the indigenous man will not be able to obtain Chu national status, and the Chu woman will also lose her Chu national status... because the Chu Empire is still a very traditional feudal imperial country. Many traditional feudal etiquette are still retained, and the emphasis is on marrying and obeying your husband...

In short, there are very few transnational marriages in the contemporary Chu Empire, and these few transnational marriages are limited to a very small number of Chu men marrying indigenous women.

Of course... this is only limited to formal marriage relationships. In overseas administrative territories and even indigenous controlled areas, how many indigenous women or men you want to sleep with is your personal matter.

It doesn't matter even if you live openly as husband and wife in these places... As long as you don't go to the empire's civil affairs agency to officially register your marriage, the empire will not officially recognize it.

In the Dachu Empire, marriage is a very important legal relationship... This involves a series of etiquette and inheritance rights. Therefore, the empire also attaches great importance to marriage. All marriages are officially registered and everything else is not. Calculate.

In addition to a very small number of indigenous women who were naturalized due to transnational marriages, there are also a small number of people who were specially granted residence registration to some indigenous people for various reasons, such as making huge contributions to the empire, or for appeasement needs, etc. .

For example, when the Nanyang countries were annexed by the empire, after the ruling classes of many Nanyang indigenous countries voluntarily gave up resistance and surrendered to the country, a very small number of people obtained the household registration of Chu.

The more part is actually the indigenous people who have made great contributions to the Chu State in various fields. For example, the indigenous people who have served the Chu State people for many years in a certain administrative territory and have outstanding performance and outstanding achievements may be able to obtain official status. Naturalization.

Occasionally, Chu people will find a few scientific research geniuses among the natives who serve them. These geniuses can produce a lot of things with just a lot of effort. Such people can also obtain Chu household registration through special application channels.

These roads are the main ways for indigenous people to obtain official household registration in Chu State... However, the total number of indigenous people is very small. The total number of indigenous people who have been naturalized in the past few decades is estimated to be only 10,000 or 20,000.

In modern times, it is estimated that only one or two hundred people can obtain official imperial household registration every year. Some of them are naturalized with their husbands based on marriage, and some of them have served for many years, made outstanding achievements, highly recognized the empire, and won the unanimous approval of surrounding Chu colleagues and local officials. Some of the recognized indigenous groups working for the people of the Chu State...and these people basically have a prerequisite status, that is, they have basically obtained the residence permit of the Chu State.

As for the direct naturalization of pure indigenous people... I'm sorry, at least in the past three to five years, there has been none. This kind of channel is usually used to annihilate the country and appease the country's rulers. But now the Dachu Empire does not like to annihilate the country, but likes The agency model was adopted, so this channel was basically abolished.

It is too difficult to be naturalized in the Dachu Empire... Therefore, most of the indigenous people who have some knowledge do not have such extravagant hopes, and most of them still hope to obtain a permanent residence permit.

But it's not easy to get a permanent residence permit... There are currently very few channels for opening residence permits in the Dachu Empire.

There are currently two mainstream channels: the first is to join the Foreign Legion, and after ten years of fighting for the Chu Empire, you can obtain a residence permit.

The second channel is to become a formal employee of Chu State Enterprise... Note that he is a formal employee, not an ordinary employee!

This formal employee needs to sign a formal labor contract with the company. This labor contract is protected by the laws of the empire to a certain extent, because permanent residents in the administrative territory are also protected by the corresponding laws of the empire...

For example, if a person from Chu kills a permanent resident... the offender also needs to bear corresponding criminal liability... but the criminal liability is not heavy, and three to five years in prison is the highest.

But workers, sorry, do not need to bear formal criminal responsibility. They are usually sentenced to community labor for one or two months, and then fined and additional compensation is enough.

To put it in the vernacular, if a Chu countryman kills a laborer, he doesn’t have to go to jail...

As for the laborers, they are not just ordinary indigenous people... Then there is no punishment of any nature in the laws of the Chu State, and no compensation is required... The laws of the Chu State are not used to protect the indigenous people, but the people of the Chu State.

According to this legal standard, if a Chu countryman is unhappy in the concession and casually kills a worker, he will then go to the community to sweep the floors for a few months, pay a fine, and pay some compensation to the family of the deceased!

Just by looking at this, you will know why those workers are trying their best to obtain a permanent residence permit. Even if they cannot obtain a residence permit, they must obtain a formal labor certificate... If they cannot obtain a labor certificate, what are you doing? In the eyes of Chu people, he is not even a human being.

In addition to these, there are many other differences, such as medical treatment... You, an ordinary worker, go to the hospital in the concession to see a doctor, but you are not qualified to have a Chu doctor treat you. You will be treated by some labor doctors... unless You have to spend a lot of money to buy a number to be registered as a Chu doctor.

However, if you are a permanent resident, you can directly call a Chu doctor to see a doctor like ordinary Chu people, without any additional cost.

In many places, only Chu people or permanent residents can enter, such as quite a few restaurants, shopping malls... It is not impossible for workers to go, but it will cost extra.

For example, when taking a train, permanent residents can buy first-class tickets at ordinary prices. The price is the same as Chu people buying tickets... But if you are a laborer or other indigenous person and want to take a first-class carriage, it is not impossible, but you need to pay. The ticket price is several times or even ten times more!

More importantly, the empire has also issued a series of laws specifically for permanent residents in the administrative territories, including labor protection laws and even minimum wage standards. To some extent, permanent residents are actually They can also be regarded as legal subjects of the Great Chu Empire...but their legal rights are far less than those of the citizens of the Chu Kingdom.

Therefore, it is also a burden for enterprises to hire permanent residents... They must sign a formal labor contract and receive all the legal benefits they should be given.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, ordinary companies will not do this... They usually hire ordinary workers, and there are no restrictions, let alone signing any formal labor contracts.

For ordinary workers, they have more restrictions. For example, the first time you apply for a labor certificate, it is only valid for three years. If you do not violate relevant regulations within three years, you can exchange for a ten-year labor certificate, which will be reviewed every ten years. At the same time, It is also not allowed to apply for corresponding labor certificates for ordinary family members, but can only apply for labor certificates for children born in the administrative territory.

However, the threshold is relatively low. In addition to employment, there are also channels to directly spend money to buy labor certificates... As long as you are willing to spend money, you can buy labor certificate status for your family.

This is why many concessions and administrative territories have many wealthy businessmen and nobles from the indigenous people... They all spent money to purchase labor certificates.

But the permanent residence permit is difficult. After all, it is not easy to be formally employed by a Chu company and become a formal employee. It requires the indigenous people to have real materials, and then let the Chu company hire you and give you Provide guarantee.

But the average Chu state company would not do such a thing when hiring ordinary indigenous employees... This is just looking for trouble, and it also involves considerable risks. Normal companies rarely do this. After all, for Chu companies operating overseas, they can just hire ordinary indigenous workers. No guarantee is required, and there is no need to even sign a formal labor contract in accordance with the law...

After all, in the administrative territory, although there are not many indigenous people with residence permits, there are many ordinary indigenous people with labor certificates.

It's ordinary physical strength, assembly line labor... Even the indigenous people with ordinary labor certificates are not needed. Just hire a group of indigenous people with temporary labor certificates.

And this was also the time when the Strait Trading Company was recruiting formal staff. Even if there were only two positions, there were still a lot of elites from the indigenous groups applying.

For nothing else, just for this residence permit.

And John Taylor was lucky enough to get one of the two positions... and then became a favorite in the eyes of many young and beautiful Aboriginal women!

A woman like Elizabeth, who only has a temporary labor certificate and cannot even freely live in the concession for a long time... Even if she is young and beautiful, she is still rushing to pay for it.

In addition, many other young and beautiful indigenous women with labor certificates rushed forward.

After John Taylor joined the Straits Trading Company, in addition to being busy with work, he also went on dates on his days off...

And there are several appointments a day!

During the date, some women were so enthusiastic that John Taylor couldn't believe it... and almost all of them were beautiful women that he had never been able to get in touch with before. As soon as they met each of them, he couldn't wait to take John to the inn.

At this moment, he was just dazzled, and when he was about to get lost in the crowd of women, his immediate boss, an uncle who was also from England, kindly reminded him: There are beautiful women everywhere, but marriage still needs to be done. Need to be careful!

After hearing this, John Taylor's mind came to his senses... He was originally a very rational and smart person, otherwise he would not have been able to fight his way out among hundreds of indigenous elites and get this official position... ...I couldn't accept it all at once, so I was dizzy. Now that I was reminded, I instantly regained my sanity.

My boss is right, there are beautiful women everywhere, but you must be careful about your marriage...either you are a good match, or you can bring great help to yourself.

For example, those small aristocrats mixed into the ordinary working families in the concession... With no money and no status, these women are of no use if they marry... These people still hope to rely on John Taylor to blend into the circle of residents in the concession...

As a result, John Taylor stopped talking to these random women and began to think about finding a woman who met the requirements, or a woman with a decent status, such as a daughter from a resident family... Well, in the concession, this kind of family conditions Generally speaking, it's not bad, and he also has sufficient personal connections, which can help John better integrate into the social circle of the concession and bring greater help to his work!

Many resident families who have been in the concession for a long time are often an elite group who have worked for the Chu people for many years, and many of them have close relationships with the Chu people.

And in a place like the London Concession... the people of Chu are the sky, and the people of Chu are the earth. Having a good relationship with the people of Chu is a major matter for the future and destiny!

Therefore, it is most preferred to marry the daughter of a senior resident family who has close relations with the Chu people...so that you can use their personal connections to build connections with the Chu people.

If this doesn't work, then you can only settle for the second best... You can only go for money. There are many wealthy businessmen and aristocratic families from other places in the London Concession... Some of them have money, but no social status, and they are often With ordinary labor certificates, which are still temporary, they do not have the right to travel to other administrative territories, and there are many other restrictions... They can't even enter the top hotels in the London Concession... They don't provide them with services at all!

These families with money but no status urgently need to change their social status... Even if they cannot change their own, they must try their best to change their children's... Therefore, if they have the opportunity, they will be happy to pay a generous sum of money. A dowry allows the daughter to marry a formal resident and then obtain a formal residence permit through marriage.

These two kinds of women are the candidates for John Taylor's future wife...

But he is not an unfeeling person. Although he cannot marry Elizabeth, he still wants to give Elizabeth everything except marriage...

But Elizabeth gave him a big slap and left angrily...

A few days later, John heard that Elizabeth was hooking up with a permanent resident who had just returned from the Foreign Legion!

Seeing this, the desire to cross social classes through marriage was still not extinguished. John was unreliable, so he turned around and found someone else.

A few days later, John heard that Elizabeth had actually married the veteran... Within just a few days, he was completely fascinated by the retired foreign legionnaire and started to get the certificate directly!

I don’t know if the veteran will regret it when he comes back to his senses... You know, if the veteran hesitates for a while, a lot of wealthy working families who got the news will come to propose marriage, and the dowry is quite large. rich……

After learning the news, John couldn't help but sigh, Elizabeth still has some tricks up her sleeves...maybe even her kung fu has improved.

So, he went to make an appointment with Elizabeth, who had been married for only three days, and discussed whether Elizabeth's kung fu had improved!

After this actual battle proved that John felt that Elizabeth had indeed made great progress... but when he wanted to verify it again the next day, Elizabeth told him that she was pregnant...

The first time Elizabeth and her husband had sex was on their wedding night... that was five days ago. Before that, she and John spent the night together for almost three days...

Some time later, Elizabeth got divorced... Her husband was not a fool, and he knew that the child in her belly was not his even if he calculated the time... He divorced her directly, and then turned around and went to find those wealthy businessmen...

After this period of adaptation, people also know the value of their own identity.

Facing the divorce, Elizabeth was not depressed at all. Instead, she was very happy... When she met John, she held a brand new permanent residence permit in one hand and a divorce certificate in the other and looked at him with a smile.

John looked at it with a gloomy look on his face. He held it in for a long time before saying: "Tomorrow we will go get the marriage license!"

He couldn't let his child become an illegitimate child. Before his belly got bigger and the child was born, he could cover it up by getting married as soon as possible.

However, Elizabeth shook her head and rejected him: "Marriage? No, I am here today just to remind you to remember to pay child support in the future..."

John Taylor looked at her leaving figure and didn't speak for a long time... This matter was not in line with his expectations!

Is this being manipulated?

It doesn't look like it... In the legal system of the Dachu Empire, illegitimate children are not recognized... It is absolutely impossible for Elizabeth to get any child support from John Taylor through legal channels...