"Let's see whose world is in today's domain."

Leaning on a wooden chair in the front hall of the legation, Chen Peihu, then 26-year-old Minister of Han in Paraguay, looked at the dripping rain in the courtyard, took a sip of tea, and muttered to himself.

Outside the legation, on the streets, the noise of the Paraguayan Guards searching for criminals was drowned out by the chaotic sound of rain, and the figures who were aggrieved and crying in fear could not be known to Chen Peihu because of the courtyard wall.

But being inside the embassy, the calm and picturesque scene in front of her still couldn't stop Chen Peihu's concern about what was happening outside the wall.

Outside the courtyard wall, most of the people who were arrested were ordinary ordinary people, but every time they were arrested, there were always a few acquaintances who had personally visited the legation and left an impression.

Chen Peihu sympathized with the plight of those arrested who were more or less connected to the legation, but he was not sure that he would be able to rescue these poor people from the clutches of the little López as the little king became more and more wary of the Han legation in Paraguay.

After the end of the Second Argentine War in 1879, the relationship between Han and Uruguay entered the stage of de facto cracking, and it was only because the two sides still had a little value of using each other that López Jr. did not completely tear his face with the Han side.

At the end of the Paraguayan War in 1868, the small industrial base that López Jr.'s father had accumulated for Paraguay was also destroyed by the armies of Brazil and Argentina.

In the face of the blockage of external access and the loss of the local industrial base, even if López Jr. saw through the ambitions of the Han state, he could only maintain a superficial cooperative relationship, using the weapons and industrial products imported by the Han to alleviate the shortage of materials in Paraguay.

Han and Paraguay have their own scruples and guard against each other, and as the leader responsible for the supply and trade of goods and commodities between the two sides, the Han Legation in Paraguay is naturally under the heavy surveillance of the Paraguayan government.

In the eyes of López Jr., the Han side took advantage of trade output and secretly weaved spider webs that were unfavorable to the López family all the time, while the Han Legation in Paraguay and Chen Peihu, the Minister of Han in Paraguay, played the role of the command center and the spider in the center respectively.

López Jr.'s suspicion of the Han Legation in Paraguay and his suspicion of domestic officials and military officers have restricted the Han Legation's external liaison to a certain extent, but on the other hand, López Jr.'s increasingly crazy performance has also exacerbated the speed of Paraguay's domestic disintegration, creating extremely favorable conditions for Chen Peihu to complete the tasks entrusted by the Han central government.

One after another, officials and military officers who were originally close to the López family privately transferred the looted property to the legation for safekeeping, and groups of Paraguayan businessmen, aware of the danger, fled to Han or other regions through the relationship of the legation.

Although on the surface, the Legation has fewer and fewer contacts with various people in Paraguay, but privately, there are more and more Paraguayan dignitaries who intend to establish ties with the Legation.

Sitting quietly on a chair, listening to the sound of rain in the yard,

Chen Peihu silently pondered the completion of various tasks recently.

First of all, in terms of contacting important people from all walks of life in Uruguay, Madame Lynch, López Jr.'s lover, Colonel Mariano Alonso of the Paraguayan Guard, and Baron Padre Fidel, a member of the House of Nobles............ A total of more than 200 Paraguayan dignitaries have expressed their attitude of establishing good relations with the Han side through various channels.

Secondly, in terms of intelligence collection, the legation obtained information on Paraguay's population, geography, customs, and even the location and number of garrisons by bribing Paraguayan garrison officers.

Third, in terms of public opinion, according to the information obtained by the Legation and the Han government, at the end of 1888, the total population of Paraguay was about 520,000, of which 50,000 were white Europeans and white descendants, 320,000 were mixed Indo-European races, 70,000 were Indians, 30,000 were mixed black and white races, and 50,000 were blacks.

Among the ethnic groups, the three major ethnic groups of whites, Indo-European people and Indians are the native population of Paraguay, while blacks and mulattoes are mainly the population of the newly occupied areas of Paraguay.

According to the principle of one drop of blood prevailing in European countries, the Indo-European mestizos and Indians, who make up the majority of Paraguay's population, belong to the East Asian race (the name for the yellow race in the Han side).

Taking advantage of this commonality between the civilians of the two countries, as the best of the second batch of young children studying in the United States, Chen Peihu took over the post of minister of Paraguay, and carried out a lot of propaganda in Paraguay under the banner that the people of the two countries were similar in appearance and should work together.

Public opinion propaganda is not pragmatic, but if Chen Peihu's propaganda is effective, then when the Han army appears in Paraguay as a savior, the resistance will be much lessened.

The plans are progressing smoothly, and the Negro question, the only possible obstacle to the future, has been effectively stopped by the covert intervention of the Legation.

Thinking about the black issue, Chen Peihu has some difficulty understanding the way of thinking of some native whites in South America, the Brazilian Republic abolished black slavery, gave them equal political rights with whites, and encouraged whites in the control area to intermarry with blacks.

Black people in South America are almost exclusively male, and encouraging black and white intermarriage means encouraging black men to intermarry with white women.

The number of whites in the South Brazilian Republic is lower than that of blacks, and there are fewer women in the white masses than men, but if the white women who are not many in number intermarry with black men, even if the mixed race children born are lighter than the black Africans, they are still black, and if all the white women in Brazil intermarry with black men, let alone bleaching blacks, I am afraid that all the inhabitants of the Brazilian Republic will become black.

The marriage of a woman of her own nationality to a black man, not to mention the old European powers, even the first American country to grant black national identity, did not dare to do so.

With Chen Peihu's way of thinking, it is impossible to understand why the decision-makers of the Republic of Brazil would make such a decision, and if someone in the Han Kingdom dares to make a similar proposal, it is very likely that they will not wait for the government to issue an arrest warrant, and they will be cleared up by the angry militia as a national thief and traitor.

Of course, if it weren't for the benevolent and generous former white Brazilians in the Paraguayan-occupied state of Mato Grosso do Sul advocating black-and-white marriage, Chen Peihu would not have bothered to pay attention to the officials of the Brazilian Republic who had broken heads.

After all, it is their freedom for the white people to like fraternity, but if they choose the object of fraternity in the predetermined territory of the Han Kingdom, then they will not allow the Han side to help them get rid of the scourge.

The execution by angry Paraguayan soldiers of several former Brazilian officials who had advocated for a black-and-white marriage was a concrete manifestation of Han's resolve.

Pouring out the remaining cup of tea and refilling a cup of rich tea, Chen Peihu opened a piece of information sent by the military attache of the legation, and when he saw that Xiao López was preparing to gather the Guards to rush to Mato Grosso do Sul to support the intelligence of the front line, the corners of his mouth closed slightly and smiled in an arc: "His Majesty López is seriously ill, and he has gone thousands of miles away to suppress the Indian rebels. ”

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