When night falls, the lights come on, and although the Chang'an Palace under the night is not as magnificent as the daytime, it has another quiet and peaceful beauty.

After a busy day of government affairs, he was physically and mentally tired, but thinking of a recent happy event, Li Mingyuan's mood was much better.

Concubine Xian, who entered the palace in March last year, is pregnant, and in another ten months, another baby with the blood of the Li family will come to the world, and at that time, the Han royal family will also usher in a new prince or princess.

Born into a noble family in the Brazilian Empire, her father Silva was the fourth son of the Marquis of Calavillas, the founding father of the Brazilian Empire.

In 1831, the first emperor of the Brazilian Empire, Pedro I, abdicated, and on the same day, the parliament elected the Marquis of Calaveras, represented by Campos, Lima and others, to form a regency committee to exercise temporary control over the country.

Soon after becoming a member of the Regency Council, the Marquis of Calaveras was eliminated from the Regency Council because of his opposition to the abolition of the primogeniture system and discord with the other members of the Regency Council.

In 1879, when Pedro II was deposed by republican officials and coup officers, the declining Calaveras family also changed, and the descendants moved to northern Brazil under the leadership of the new marquis to express their allegiance to Pedro II's daughter, Princess Isabella, while other members of the side family, like Silva, chose to stay in the estate in São Paulo and watch the situation in the Brazilian Republic develop.

In February 1885, in order to gain the support of the international community and alleviate the conflict between different ethnic groups in the country, the government of the Republic of Brazil promulgated the "Free Infant Law", which declared that mulattoes should be given the same political status as white infants, and encouraged intermarriage and union between whites and blacks.

The original intention of the senior officials of the Brazilian Republic government to promulgate the "Free Baby Law" is still out of discrimination against black people, but unlike the isolation and expulsion measures taken by the United States, Han and other countries, the Brazilian Republic tries to dilute the genes of black people by means of black and white marriage, and then achieve the purpose of so-called racial whitening.

Perhaps influenced by Darwin's "Origin of Species", officials in the Brazilian Republic were convinced that by doing so, black blood could be diluted, and after several generations of union, the black gene could even disappear.

The executive order issued by the government of the Brazilian Republic was unsurprisingly welcomed by the majority of black Brazilians, who numbered nearly twice as many as white Brazilians and happily celebrated the great decision of the government, while the Portuguese aristocracy, who had barely stayed and was suppressed by republican officials, chose to leave the land where they had lived for hundreds of years and moved to northern Brazil, the United States, Canada and other regions after the protests failed.

The Free Babies Act caused another wave of migration in Brazil, but unlike the large waves of migration during the two Argentine wars, where the majority of the population was the upper nobility that had lost political power, the number of migrants was less than 10,000, far from the scale of the previous migrations.

The government of the Brazilian Republic is happy to see the backward and decaying aristocracy leave, and without the control and troublemaking of the old aristocracy, the republican government is more able to carry out the so-called enlightened policy according to their wishes.

Within a year, more than 90 percent of the Portuguese aristocracy and conservative-minded elites chose to move to the Brazilian Empire and other Western countries, while a small number of others, probably more than 100 lost Portuguese families, took a small amount of property and chose a high-risk path.

In both Chinese and Western cultures, traitors are not welcomed, but compared with the stigma of betraying the original ethnic group and blending into another ethnic group, any defector who has the value of use in itself will be valued by the other party.

In the long-term competition and hostility between the Han and Brazil sides for more than 20 years, there were not only white Brazilians who could not resist the temptation of money and volunteered to act as intelligence agents and sell domestic intelligence to the Han side, but also short-sighted and fearful Chinese businessmen who defected to the Brazilian side and waged their tails and begged for mercy from the white Brazilians.

Unlike the European continent, which had suffered from a thousand years of war, which led to a weak sense of national nation, the Han state in South America, which was deeply influenced by the Zhuxia culture, treated defectors who betrayed their own nation with more stringent methods, and had a very tolerant attitude towards non-Chinese ethnic groups who defected.

In the eyes of the traditional Chinese, Zhuxia is a civilized state, surrounded by barbarians, barbarians admire the culture of the Central Plains, and defecting to the Central Plains is a reasonable and unreasonable phenomenon, and it is not worth doubting, and the Chinese betrayed the ethnic groups and defected to the barbarians, that is, betraying their ancestors and being willing to fall.

Han held this mentality, and did not treat the Brazilian down-and-out nobles who came to the country harshly, but those who could provide useful information to the government would be given different arrangements according to their abilities, of course, the Han Kingdom was a pragmatic country, and for those Portuguese nobles who were mediocre and could not provide useful information, they would not be like some monarchs and officials who loved to engage in face-saving projects, and they would be given super-national treatment.

Useful people give full play to their spare heat, contribute to the Han country's strategy against Brazil, useless people, arrange a place to stay at will, honestly accept and obey the government's orders, accept the sinicization, as for the people who come and make excessive demands, then I'm embarrassed, where did they come from and where do they go back, anyway, the population of the Han country is more than 17 million, and there are more than 150 white people in the country, and there is no need for a few useless declining white aristocrats to support the table.

After a reasonable and purposeful selection by the government, about 70 Brazilian ruined aristocrats remained to work for the government, including the virtuous concubine Elena's family.

Born in 1870, Concubine Xian, formerly known as Yelena, came to live in Han in March 1886 with more than ten family members including her father and mother.

From June 1886, under the intentional guidance of his father, he began to learn Chinese, and in March 1888, he was introduced by several local officials who had been friends with his father and entered the palace and became Li Mingyuan's fifth concubine.

Yelena has a slender figure, fair skin, delicate and soft facial features, which not only has the advantages of fair skin and slender body of Western women, but also conforms to the traditional Chinese aesthetic concept, so when she entered the palace, she quickly got Li Mingyuan's favor, and her degree of favor in the palace is second only to the queen and the concubine.

Love the country and love the beauty, Li Mingyuan also wants to collect all kinds of beauties from all over the world to be included in the harem, but the times are different after all, and they are about to enter the twentieth century, even if the traditional concept of the nation is deep-rooted and does not exclude the monarch's seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six courts, but considering the impact of the future, Li Mingyuan still tried his best to curb his desires and controlled the number of concubines to five.

The first meeting, purely out of liking for Yelena, was the intuitive factor that prompted Li Mingyuan to include her in the harem, and on the other hand, the Calaveras family is an old aristocratic family in Brazil, which has taken root in Brazil for nearly three hundred years, and its family members are all over the Brazilian Empire, the Brazilian Republic, and Portugal.

Considering the unity and integration of the more than 1.5 million white people in the country, as well as the future expansion of territory in the direction of the Brazilian Republic, it is also necessary to marry a woman of white origin as a concubine.

Cast it with a peach, repay it with a pear. From 1888 to the beginning of 1889, the proportion of local Chinese intermarriage with white women increased by three percent, and about 1.8 white women of working age married Chinese as wives within this year, while there were less than 100 cases of Chinese women marrying white men.

In addition to the influence of traditional beliefs, government-oriented propaganda also plays an important role in this phenomenon.

"Han women do not marry outside, Han children marry Hu girls", continuing the folk customs of the Han and Tang dynasties, the government encouraged Chinese men to marry white and Indian women as wives, but in the case of Han women and non-Chinese ethnic groups, many obstacles were set up.

First of all, the small number of blacks who originally existed in the northern part of the country have all been relocated to the Congolese colony, and the possibility of Han women intermarrying with blacks is not only blocked legally, but also impossible in practice.

Secondly, about 70 percent of the Indian tribes that originally lived in various parts of the country have disappeared for various reasons, leaving less than 30 percent, and about half of the total 270,000 Indians are Indians and white mixed descendants, who are scattered throughout the country and have gradually integrated into the Chinese ethnic group, while the remaining more than 100,000 Indians are mainly distributed in the primeval forests in the north of the country and the Patagonia wilderness in the south, with a remote geographical location and few opportunities for contact with the Chinese. The probability of a Han woman marrying an Indian is extremely small.

Finally, white men, who live in major cities in the country, have the best chance of coming into contact with Chinese women, but under the influence of traditional culture, very few Chinese women dare to break through the ethnic barrier and marry white men despite their parents' objections.

And even if the family's problems are solved, it is impossible for a Chinese woman to marry a white man if she cannot overcome the obstacles set up by the government.

Hundreds of thousands of white women were induced by the government to marry Chinese men, and the white community was also faced with an imbalance in the gender ratio of men and women.

The vast number of white singles are not fools, of course, they can see the bad intentions of the government, but what can they do, riots, rebellions and don't have that courage, the tragedy that happened because of the riots and rebellions in the past few years is vivid, and they don't have the courage to gamble with their lives, hundreds of thousands of white singles in addition to complaining from time to time, what they can do is to obey the government's orders, speed up the integration of Sinicization, and evolve themselves into a Chinese with a white face as soon as possible, according to the trendy saying, that is, the white Chinese.

Then expect to perform well and get rewarded by the government, and then marry a white daughter-in-law and get rid of the status of a bachelor.

However, the reality is cruel, the phenomenon of more men and fewer women in the local area will exist for a long time, not to mention white men, even many Chinese men are also facing the dilemma of not being able to find a daughter-in-law.

The probability of being able to marry a Chinese woman as a daughter-in-law is very low among the local white male group, and only a few aristocratic families like the Calaveras family, which are mixed within the Han government, are fortunate enough to find a Chinese woman as a wife for their descendants.

Silva's family belongs to the Caraveras family, as the head of the family, Silva did not inherit the family's marquisate title, he was in the Brazilian Empire, the highest achievement in his military career, but also to become a major general of the Brazilian Army, and the troops under his command are also some weak local armed forces, but after the family moved to South America, Silva was rare in the Western aristocracy, completely cut off the connection with the past, gave up the Christian faith, the whole family converted to Taiyi Christianity, and forced family members to learn Chinese, food, Travel and dress are all based on local Chinese.

When faced with a major choice, Silva chose to stay in the Republic of Brazil for the first time to live a good life, and when he saw that the Brazilian Republican government was in a dazzle and had no future, he chose to defect to the Han Kingdom in South America, fully clinging to the Han royal family, intending to reorganize his family in a country dominated by East Asian races.

From Silva's point of view, it is not difficult to understand his choice, in the European Middle Ages, there were not many Christians who worked for the Ottomans, and there were not a few white European families who changed their original beliefs and threw themselves into the arms of the Ottomans.

Greeks of Greek ancestry or conversion were prevalent in the Constantinople area among the Ottomans and later among the Turkish people.

Moreover, the Portuguese and Spaniards are not pure white in the eyes of Europeans, so why not abandon their white identity and take the initiative to integrate into another large South American country with a long civilization and at the same time vigorous, in exchange for glory and status for their families and individuals?