Chapter 320: Digestion

At the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, known as the era of imperialism, if you follow Li Mingyuan's intuitive impression of the four words of imperialism, that is, there are many emperors, and the monarchs of Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, the Russian Empire and other countries all wear the emperor's laurels, in 1876, Elizabeth looked at a circle of European monarchs and called the emperor and sat on the emperor, disgusted that the title of Queen of England was too low in style, and did not match the comprehensive national strength of the British Empire in the world. The crowning of the Empress of India is a matter of course, and it is also an addiction to being an emperor.

The legal system of European emperors comes from the Roman Empire, and in the countries that are called emperors, in addition to the title of Russian tsar and Eastern Rome, the titles of emperors of Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, and Germany are crowned by themselves, and there is no legal basis, and Mexico, Brazil, and the Ethiopian emperor who follow the trend of European monarchies, the title of the throne can only be in the limelight at home and out of the country, and few countries recognize it.

The emperor symbolizes the supreme power and the right to rule the vast territory, in terms of territory alone, the mainland area of the Han State is more than 340 million square kilometers, the Congo colony occupied by overseas covers an area of more than 2 million square kilometers, and the territory of the mainland plus overseas colonies covers an area of nearly 6 million square kilometers. The total number of mixed-race children is about 6 million, the number of whites in the Indians, Argentine, and Uruguayan occupation areas is more than 1.8 million, and the total population in the area under their rule is more than 8 million.

Whether to be the emperor or not has no substantial impact on the national strength of the Han State, and Li Mingyuan himself does not have too urgent desire to be the emperor, but the old brothers of the Taiping remnants who followed Li Mingyuan to fight the country, and the officers, generals and officials of the Shaozhuang faction who joined the ruling group from Nanyang, North America and other regions, all hope to be the emperor and change the yuan, and establish an independent imperial state in accordance with the oriental cultural tradition.

For this reason, in order to reward the merits of the Han ** team and boost the cohesion of all the people, Li Mingyuan changed the low-key strategy of accumulating grain and slowing down the king, and correctly announced the timetable for the reform of the emperor throughout the Han country, and held the ceremony of calling the emperor before the end of the year at the latest.

From the various costumes worn by the emperor, officials, and soldiers when the ceremony was held, to the exquisite etiquette and music, most of them were officials of the Ministry of Rites who were born in an orderly and talented manner, and carefully arranged them one by one, and selected hundreds of era names from classical books such as "Rites", "Yi", and "Spring and Autumn", and each era name was attached with a detailed meaning and submitted to Li Mingyuan for final decision.

"Yongxing, Jianwu, Zhaowu, Jianye, Longping......" A dense row of words was placed on the table, Li Mingyuan looked at it carefully, and then chose "Jianye" as the first era name after becoming emperor.

The establishment and development of the Han Kingdom is a magnificent history of development, and only the word Jianye meets Li Mingyuan's expectations and expectations for the country.

The establishment of the empire means that the country completely abandoned the influence of the Manchu court, independent of the mainland, ordinary people in the face of their own identity, the first feeling is no longer the Chinese living overseas, but the upright Han nationals, the national mentality changes with the change of living environment, at first may not be perceptible to the gap, but after a few years or a generation, and then look back and compare, The national spirit of the Han Empire in South America will be turned upside down.

Giving all Chinese and voluntarily naturalized whites and Indians as official nationals, and each household was given 5 acres of arable land free of charge, and the decree issued by the Han government was to improve the recognition and loyalty of the people to the monarchy by taking advantage of the festive atmosphere of the emperor's reform, and it was also a secret administrative means.

According to the "Agricultural Law" promulgated by the Han government, a single piece of cultivated land with superior fertility has a minimum area of 30 mu, and after each family obtains the land divided by the government, the land shall not be divided into fragments, and the cultivated land with a slightly inferior fertility and less grain production shall have a minimum area of 40 mu for a single piece of land, and the minimum area of pasture and forest land shall be 500 to 700 mu.

A small part of the 5 acres of cultivated land distributed free of charge is in the same area or next to their own land, and after obtaining the ownership of 5 acres of cultivated land, the peasants can exchange the land with other farmers on their own, or merge the two plots of land, and those plots of land distributed in the newly occupied areas.

The Chinese peasants either gave up a small plot of land of 5 acres alone, or moved to the newly occupied area, returned the original land to the government, and re-claimed another piece of land in the occupied area.

The Climatic Conditions of the Plain of La Plata and Uruguay are pleasant, the land is fertile, and the Chinese who had gathered in the two southern states of Brazil and the five northern states of Argentina in the early days naturally knew how to choose in the face of more attractive land, and through this hidden way of encouragement, the number of Chinese in the occupied areas ushered in a period of skyrocketing, and the white Argentines and Uruguayans who remained in the local area gradually lost their advantage over the Chinese in terms of numbers.

More than 90 percent of the land suitable for cultivation in the plain of La Plata has not been developed, and there is no shortage of land allocated to new immigrants in the Han Kingdom, but in order to cooperate with the country's strategic plan of attaching equal importance to industry and agriculture, even if there is enough uncultivated land, each Chinese family will be given two or three hundred acres of land for free, and the reserved land can still meet the needs of subsequent immigrants, Li Mingyuan did not do so.

The first batch of more than 100,000 Chinese laborers who followed Li Mingyuan's uprising in Peru were transferred thousands of miles, and tens of thousands of people were killed and injured on the way because of battles, diseases and other factors, and they only got 500 to 1,000 acres of land at the risk of their lives, and if the new immigrants did nothing, they could get 200 or 300 acres of land for free, and their psychology would definitely be unbalanced, and every Chinese family had hundreds of acres of land, and everyone was a small landlord. Living a good life that I couldn't even think of when I was on the mainland, who would still be willing to work as a worker in factories and enterprises, and who would still want to fight to the death.

The absolute average is the biggest unfairness, the industrial development of the Han Kingdom requires a large number of laborers, and each household has 30 acres of good arable land, which can ensure that the immigrants live a good life with enough food, and also leave them with room to continue to work hard and improve their social status. When the industrial level in the city is getting higher and higher, and more new immigrants enter the city and earn higher wages than tending to twenty or thirty acres of land, the industrial and agricultural development of the Han Kingdom will also be promoted and cycled.

The industrialization of agricultural production is the mainstream of future social development, and through the efforts of the early immigrant Chinese workers, many of them already have two or three hundred acres of arable land or two or three thousand acres of forest land and pasture.

Therefore, in South America, households with an average of 300 to 2,000 acres of land are the main force of agricultural production, and households with an average of 30 to 100 acres of land have four or five times the population of the former, but the total amount of land is only one-third of the former.

Digesting the occupied areas and resettling new immigrants is the main task of the Han government at present, and in the face of the olive branch that the British were forced to extend out, Li Mingyuan only set the bottom line of negotiations for Huyaki, who was stranded in Rio de Janeiro: on the local side, divide the territory according to the current Line of Actual Control, retain the ownership of the Congo colony and the Natuna Islands, ensure that Songkhla is not annexed by the British Malay colonial authorities, and give up the Kismayo and Mtwara strongholds if necessary, but the British and its allies must not block travel to and from Asia. The Han migrant transport fleet on the South American route stopped for repairs and received supplies on the way.