Head: "The Ukrainians are indeed more suitable. They have a large population and are bullied in Russia, which is very suitable for our immigration needs."

Li Junwei smiled: "No, you misunderstood what I mean. I suggest that accepting Ukrainians is not just limited to the present, but more about the future. The current continental situation is very beneficial to us. We no longer have territorial conflicts with neighboring countries. All countries need us, but the future is not the case.

Now we use Catholicism to balance the Ottomans of the Tianfang Cult, but you have also seen that the Ottomans, a country that is corrupt and decayed, and their national power is declining. Sooner or later, it will lose its current status and cannot occupy one side of the chessboard, but can only hide in a corner. It cannot become the side of the balance, but is just an important bargaining chip.

In addition, our best ally in the continental region, the Poli Federation is too unstable. The decline of this country is inevitable. Assuming that Poland declines or even perishes, then there will inevitably be a country that will rise because of annexation of all or part of it. Obviously, we cannot accept it, but we cannot annexation. What should we do? We must find a backup choice. Ukraine is a good choice."

The best ally of the empire on the continent is Poland. The private relationship between Li Junwei and Sobesky is only one aspect, or even a trivial aspect. The main reason is that the surrounding situation around Poland is complex. Sweden to the north, Russia to the west, and Ottoman to the south are either strong or rising rapidly. Therefore, Poland needs more forces to balance the local area. There is the Holy Roman Empire with the same religion in the east, and it is better to have an ally with the same heavyweight in the west.

But in the eyes of the imperial senior leaders, Poland is a country with no future. In the eyes of imperial politicians, there are two promising countries in European countries, one is a country like Britain and the Netherlands, and the other is a purely feudal centralized state like France and Russia.

Poland is a feudal country, but its political system is a noble republic. Was Sobesky the king elected? The authority is very limited? Such a country is easy to split, and Poland cannot be used to balance Tsarist Russia early or late? So Li Junwei thinks a long-term view? Assuming that one day Poland collapses or perishes, it cannot end with Russia's annexation of Poland? Then supporting a Ukrainian country is more promising. Then mastering part of the Ukrainian population? Subtle influence? Only when it is critical can it be used.

The same principle can also be applied to those nations on the Balkans who were enslaved by the Ottomans, and the Holy Roman Empire and Russia urgently needed to 'liberate'.

Although he knew that the management policies formulated may be the same as those in various provinces in Nanyang, Pei Yuanqi still formulated strict foreign labor use regulations.

The first is the strict religious laws? Xijin does not restrict foreign workers from believing in religion? But they restrict their spread of religion and conduct religious activities. Xijin completely refuses any religious person to enter the country. Once discovered, they will be fined immediately and repatriated to their hometown. The amount of fines is determined based on the time of arrival in Xijin and the conduct they engage in. The country to which the religious person belongs, and the church pays the fine? If they cannot get it, the priest himself will offset it through labor service? But they are not labor service in Xijin, but sent to labor service camps in faraway areas.

Considering that Xijin does not accept Catholic and Tianfang immigration? Therefore, the Religious Bureau will only establish Orthodox, Protestant and Jewish churches, and the religious people inside are arranged by the Religious Bureau? Any group religious activities must be responsible for these churches? And pay appropriate funds? Foreign workers are only allowed to conduct free religious activities between private houses and blood relatives, while any religious activities do not allow disturbing order or disturbing others.

These religious policies were strictly implemented in overseas provinces and even colonies of the Empire. They are the few policies that can prove effective. The reason is that the Empire is willing to practice them with war and blood.

The second is the strict household registration management and guarantee system, so foreign workers must have a guarantor. This guarantor can be an imperial citizen or a foreigner who has obtained long-term residence qualifications in Xijin. The guarantor is responsible for all illegal acts of foreign workers. In addition to paying for their lives, once the foreign workers flee illegally, the guarantor will be punished for them, and the household registration management will fall on the guarantor.

Foreigners also have strict requirements for obtaining imperial nationality. In addition to the necessary Mandarin and Chinese language assessment, they also need to give up their original beliefs. Moreover, the empire never accepts individual nationality to fight for nationality. If they want to obtain nationality, they must obtain it together for a family, because the empire cannot accept transnational marriages, and naturally they cannot accept that the country's nationality is full of foreigners.

Becoming a citizen and becoming a citizen are two completely different issues, because citizens have complete political power, but not all citizens.

In order to restrict foreigners from taking root in the Xijin area, Pei Yuanqi has formulated a strict tax system and property system. His pioneering provision is to restore the poll tax, which has been completely abolished within the empire. Considering that the poll tax is targeted at foreigners, it does not violate the imperial constitution.

The Xijin area protects the legal property of foreigners, but strictly restricts foreigners from obtaining real estate. Foreigners can engage in all legal commercial activities in the Xijin area, but they are different from the empire in obtaining real estate. They must obtain land use rights by leasing land instead of purchasing land.

In principle, land engaged in agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and other production activities shall not exceed ten years for a single lease period, while the single lease period for land for residential, workshops and other industries shall not exceed twenty years.

Pei Yuanqi sorted out information from Penang, Huacheng and other places, summarized the experiences and lessons from immigrant areas, and found that the biggest lesson of immigration problems in the Nanyang area is the local authority, including local councils and chief executives. Local councils are easily controlled by local industrial and commercial owners. In order to use cheap foreign workers, these people often promote bills that are beneficial to immigration. For political achievements, local chief executives will also ease conflicts by delegating power to immigrants in the face of troubles caused by immigrants.

In order to avoid similar situations occurring in the Xijin area a decade or twenty years later, Pei Yuanqi combined all bills to treat immigrants and foreign workers, and classified them into the Xijin local regulations of the Empire's Foreign-related Act, which ensured that local authority could not modify these bills. If they want to open up power to foreigners, it must be decided by the central government of Shen Jing, rather than the Xijin local authority.

However, in this world, all policies have loopholes. Pei Yuanqi also knows that the most fundamental thing is that large-scale immigration in China is needed to become the main ethnic group in the Xijin area. This is not something he can do. Xijin is the farthest end of the imperial continental strategy and the farthest end of the maritime strategy. There is a shortage of people everywhere you pass, and Xijin is destined to face more challenges.

Pei Yuanqi spent half a month with a group of legal officials to formulate a bill on Xijin's treatment of foreign workers and immigration. He handed it over to Li Junwei. Li Junwei glanced at the cover and immediately smiled: "Since I left the school, I have never read such a thick book, unless it was a novel, which is really boring to me."

Seeing Pei Yuanqi in a dilemma, Li Junwei said: "Don't worry, Yuanqi, I have found a suitable person for you and will come soon."

After waiting for half an hour, a man in a long gown walked in under the guidance of the attendant. He was nearly fifty years old, and he could tell from his outfit that he was a Jew. Pei Yuanqi thought about it and remembered the name of this man, Joseph.

In Pei Yuanqi's memory, Joseph was a Jew from Penang. He had been in the empire for more than fifteen years. He was a senior manager of Xijin Import and Export Company and a famous financial tycoon in Penang. The reason why Pei Yuanqi was impressed by him was because Joseph had a beautiful daughter, and he always wanted to introduce that beautiful daughter to King Yu. Now it seems that this guy succeeded. Pei Yuanqi couldn't help looking at Li Junwei. Li Junwei shrugged and looked proud, but Pei Yuanqi looked down and looked at Li Junwei's crotch. Li Junwei spread his hands and became even more proud.

The Jews were not allowed to marry people without circumcision, but it seemed that this was not a problem here.

"Mr. Joseph, please sit down and help me see this." Li Junwei did not ask Joseph to show his reproachable etiquette, but directly clicked the bill on the table.

After Joseph still greeted the two, he carefully picked up the bill and looked carefully. He frowned quickly, but disappeared without a trace in an instant. Joseph browsed very quickly and had a high understanding ability. This is the typical characteristic of Jews who deal with the empire. In addition to language, mathematics and politics, they must master the law, especially the law of the empire.

After he finished reading it, Li Junwei pushed the coffee handed to him by the waiter to Joseph, and asked directly: "Do you think this bill will affect Jewish immigration to Xijin?"

"Of course, the influence is mainly the wealthy Jews. As for the poor Jews, I think they will come." Joseph said seriously.

Pei Yuanqi asked: "Why is this happening? Why are the wealthy Jews unwilling to come?"

When introducing Ukrainians and Romanians as laborers, they are also very important to introduce the finance represented by Jews, and management levels are also very important. Pei Yuanqi still wants to have both.

Joseph said: "The richer the Jews, the more conservative they are, they cannot live without churches and cannot accept life without religious activities. In fact, these bills are to put Xijin's foreign-related policies in place and directly transition to the existing level in Penang.

For those wealthy Jews, especially those in Ottoman, Germany, Portugal and other places, they will definitely come to Xijin after getting the news and confirmation, and spend money to rent land here, build a manor, learn about Xijin's banking and industry and commerce, deposit their wealth into the banks of the empire, or invest in industry and commerce, and then return to their place of residence.

In their opinion, Xijin can only be considered a way out. They will come to Xijin only when the current country cannot survive."

"You said they would put money in?" Pei Yuanqi asked. This was what he cared about the most. He didn't care much about the Jewish rich businessman, but he cared about the Jewish money.

Joseph smiled: "Of course, of course. In this world, the most friendly country to Jews is the Netherlands, followed by England and France. In the Netherlands, one-third of the business activities are controlled by the Jews, and Jews are not excluded there. On the contrary, Amsterdam is also called Jerusalem in the Netherlands. England and France are in a time when we need our Jews, so we give us a lot of privileges and autonomy.

Later there are the German region, Ottoman, and Poland. Jews can survive and have commercial space, but they are always worried about their lives. Whether they live or not depends on the ruling class. However, Jews still have the freedom of faith and the power of settlement, and Jews who have integrated into various countries are willing to live there. However, they are still full of fear of the future, so they will use Xizin as a backup.

What the empire was most satisfied with was the perfect law to protect property and life rights by the rich Jewish class. A few years ago, there was an xenophobic trend in Penang, but even so, a large number of immigrants were still protected, and only some criminals and illegal stranders were expelled. The protection of this law is more effective than the promises of the nobles, so the Jews were willing to borrow these protected property."

Li Junwei asked: "Where are the poor Jews?"

"The poor Jews don't have so many choices. They want to survive. Any place where they like is safe. For places like the empire, where the law is perfectly protected by life and property and there are plenty of job opportunities, there will never be any Jews rejecting it. The Jews in Western Europe will not come, but the Jews in Central and Eastern Europe will definitely not be able to handle the temptation.

The noble His Highness, Prince Yu, and the respected Lord Pei, actually, the Jews and you Chinese have one thing in common, that is, you can find room for survival and development under any rules. Even if this rule is discriminatory to us, what we are most worried about is not to follow the rules.

So for the entire Jewish ethnic group, an empire with rules is a choice far beyond ordinary countries. Although there are a lot of restrictions on religion, property and taxation, this is also a rule. Except for places like the Republic of the Netherlands, where we Jews can participate in formulating rules, I can't think of any country that can be more suitable for Jews than empires.

In fact, did the Jews leave after the xenophobia in Penang? All they left were wealthy Jews and some rabbis. Ordinary Jews were still willing to live there. The world was too chaotic and not very friendly to us. The empire's policies were considered good.
Chapter completed!