Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 551
The next day, Bai Mingxiu attended a dinner party in Dhaka. Wu Min invited celebrities from Bangladesh to attend the dinner. Those who were lucky enough to attend could be said to be prominent figures who could meet the emperor. Your Majesty, you are extremely excited.

Ming’s dinners are eaten differently from Europeans’ dinners. Dozens of large round tables are placed in the venue. The emperor and the newly promoted Meng Wang Wu Min are at the head. Basically, Chinese food and local Bangladeshi dishes are the main ones.Well-dressed waiters serve every table, and the entire banquet hall is quite resplendent.

It is customary for His Majesty the Emperor to speak before the banquet. Naturally, it is impossible to have the tradition of knocking wine glasses like the Europeans. In fact, because the venue was too large, with hundreds of people participating, Bai Mingxiu had to speak to those present with the help of a microphone.

"...I believe that those who came to this dinner today are all the mainstays of Bangladeshi society in the Ming Dynasty. Among you are civil servants, business people, education people, and representatives of the vassal army. I would like to thank you for your service to Bangladesh. Daming has made great contributions, and Daming is becoming better because of your efforts.”

The applause of the people present was quite warm, and many local celebrities flushed with excitement.Getting the emperor's affirmation is no small matter. Although these people are the supporters of Daming and have vested interests, it is obviously better to be able to receive the affirmation and exist as an upright Ming person than to be a second-class person in the colony a lot of.

At least on a large scale, from a legal point of view, Ming Dynasty is a country that pursues the equality of all ethnic groups and opposes discrimination.Although this country is still a nation with Han people as the main body, Daming uses the title of "Chinese nation" to cover all people in terms of national logic.Emphasis on inclusiveness, tolerance and diversity, and more emphasis on the unity of Ming Dynasty, these things are completely transcendent in this era.

At the dinner, Bai Mingxiu chatted with many people from Xuanwei Department.

"Why is the language everyone speaks Chinese?" Bai Mingxiu chatted with several people, listened to several tables, and asked such a question.

Wu Min replied naturally: "Because in Bangladesh, not everyone speaks Bengali. We also have people who speak Hindi, Urdu, and Maithili. They all popularize Chinese education, and if the civil servants in our office want to be promoted from the grassroots level to the fifth grade or above, they must pass the Chinese B-level exam.”

Wu Min is still a little proud of this matter, because Wu Min has put a lot of effort into promoting Chinese in Bangladesh and Myanmar.He specially allocated funds to invite domestic graduates to come to Bangladesh for teaching support, and then return to the mainland after one year of teaching.Those who are willing to come to Bangladesh will receive very considerable financial subsidies.

Although various local languages ​​are still widely used among the people of Bangladesh, Chinese is used very frequently in schools, shopping malls and workplaces.As for the ones in today's dinner, it is the worst that they can communicate in simple Chinese.As a local, a high level of Chinese means a great advantage. Whether it is entering the government office or doing other jobs, it means winning at the starting line.

While chatting, there were several Bangladeshi military officers who were working very hard to express themselves. Wu Min smiled and said: "Before the Ministry of War promoted Ayela Khan, the deputy commander of the Fan Army, to join the regular army of the Ming Dynasty. Everyone thinks that there is more hope. The Bangladesh Army has fought many battles over the years, and some of them have made great achievements in battle. It would be great if they could become regular soldiers of the Empire."

Bai Mingxiu didn't even know that the Ministry of War had promoted someone from the Fan Army to work in the Ministry of War.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty has promoted many people from other ethnic groups to work in the Council of Liberal Affairs over the years, and even in the Republic of the Ming Dynasty, each Department of Propaganda and Consolation has a fixed Senate.

At least in terms of posture, Daming is doing well.Although it was only a very small proportion, people from other ethnic groups in the Xuanwei Division could enter the Council of Governors and control part of the power of the empire, but in fact these people were of relatively low rank and had no real power.Bai Mingxiu knew clearly that the existence of such ethnic minorities entering the center of the empire was completely a show put on by the Legislative Yuan and put on display as mascots.But mascots also exist. At least in the eyes of many people, Ming Dynasty is an empire common to all ethnic groups, and Emperor Guangfu is the emperor of all people.

The concept of India does not exist in the psychology of Bengalis. They have always been ruled by external dynasties, and now they are very accepting of the rule of Ming Dynasty.

Bai Mingxiu was listening to several Bangladeshi celebrities discussing the current situation in India.

"...The Mughals are really getting worse and worse. After the Marathas raised their troops, they couldn't stop it."

"It was said that the British sent troops to help the Marathas."

"The British are not good birds either, they are here to intervene in the business of Nan Xia (Asia)."

"They're all inferior people, they can't get on the stage."

Bai Mingxiu was also taken aback when he heard that, and asked Wu Min, "So, have people in Bangladesh developed a sense of superiority over Indians?"

Wu Min said: "It's almost like this, especially when the overall living conditions in Bangladesh are better and the level of civilization has increased, Bangladeshis even look down on Indians. They feel that they are civilized, rich and powerful, and it has something to do with our Ming Dynasty behind them." .Many Bangladeshis are doing business in India, so they look down on the Mughals and Maratha forces next to them, and feel that they are better."

Wu Min added: "Actually, quite a proportion of Bangladeshis, especially the upper class, have accepted this secularized way, and they will also imitate our Han people. Some original noble families no longer go to the Onion Temple. What? I don’t even worship God anymore, and I force my children to study hard, hoping to get into a local university.”

Bai Mingxiu smiled widely: "This is a good sign."

"In fact, there are many ethnic groups in the South Xia subcontinent. We will give them commonality - the identity of the Ming people, our mainstream culture and values, and then highlight their characteristics, such as the language of the Bengalis and the language of the Tamils. Language and so on, so they will think that they are very different from Indians, Mughal Turks and so on, and there will be no degree of integration, but they all recognize their identity as Ming people, so in society On the cultural axis, our work in the subcontinent has succeeded."

(End of this chapter)