The Han Dynasty was founded on military affairs, but among the students sent to Western countries, military cadets accounted for only one-tenth of the total number of international students, while students in applied industries such as iron and steel metallurgy, machinery manufacturing, and chemical industry accounted for six tenths, and the rest were devoted to the study of emerging fields such as electrical and petroleum exploitation.

According to the understanding of industrial development in later generations, Li Mingyuan planned the industrial layout of the Han Kingdom step by step, and in the ten years of hard work with few stops, the first sixteen-year-old boy also became a mature and stable prime of life.

Twenty-six years old is not young at this time, most of the old people who originally followed Li Mingyuan's uprising have started a family, like He Yanliang and others, who first got married, have already had four children, and the eldest son is already ten years old, and he will enter the middle school in another year.

The primary school system of the Han Kingdom is four years, students generally start enrollment at the age of seven, and enter the secondary school at the age of eleven to study for three years, after three years, each student participates in a one-year military training, and then according to the student's graduation results and performance in military training, students with excellent grades will enter the preparatory department of higher education and military colleges and universities, and those with unsatisfactory grades either choose to enter secondary science and technology colleges to study, or graduate to work in other industries.

Li Mingyuan was relatively satisfied with the development of the country, but under the urging and advice of Liu Pu, Sun Bin, Zhao Yan and other subordinates, Li Mingyuan not only cared about the development of the country, but also began to consider personal marriage issues.

The imbalance between men and women in the Han Kingdom was greatly alleviated after the expansion of the number of Chinese female immigrants, but Li Mingyuan, who had been busy with military and government affairs, rarely had the opportunity to contact women outside, so the marriage was taken off again and again, until Sun Bin returned to the Han Kingdom and inadvertently told Liu Pu some information about the daughter of Wu Jin, the lord of Songkla City, and at the suggestion of Liu Pu and others, Li Mingyuan agreed to take a photo of Wu Lingxuan, and then decided whether to marry the other party after seeing the real photos.

The Goh regime controlled the five provinces of the central Malay Peninsula, covering an area of 33,230 square kilometers and a total population of 800,000, which was no less important than the northern provinces of Annam in terms of land size and importance to Han immigrants.

Since the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War, France has accelerated its expansion into the southeastern peninsula in order to recover the large number of benefits lost in the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War.

In November 1873, the French sent Garnier to Pak Ki to occupy Hanoi in an attempt to further invade Vietnam. At the beginning of December, it occupied Haiyang, Ninh Binh and Nam Ding. At this time, the Annan court invited Sun Bin's National Defense Army Nanyang Legion to resist the French invasion, and after Li Mingyuan learned of Sun Bin's report, he sent an additional 3,000 troops to the Nanyang area, expanding the Nanyang Legion to 8,000 people, and allowed Sun Bin to expand the militia according to the changes in the situation in Annan. After receiving 3,000 troops and a batch of weapons from home, Wang Dashan and the Annam army defeated the French army and killed the French army commander Garnier outside the city of Hanoi. The attack of the Wehrmacht Nanyang Corps forced France to change its strategy of directly annexing Annam, and in January 1874 the French sent Huo Daosheng to Beiqi to negotiate peace with Annam.

In February 1874, the Annam court reached an agreement with France, in which the French agreed to return Hanoi, Hai Duong, Ninh Binh and Nam Dinh, and the Annam court allowed the French to explore the waterways that entered China from the Red River.

After the peace agreement was signed, under pressure from France, the Annam Imperial Court sent Le Thuan and Nguyen Van Xiang to sign the Second Saigon Treaty with Du Bailei, the governor of the French colony of Saigon, in March, which stipulated that Vietnam's diplomacy was under French supervision; France occupies the whole of Nam Chi and enjoys extraterritoriality in Vietnam; The three ports of the Red River and Hanoi, Haiphong and Quy Nhon were opened as treaty ports.

The Treaty of Saigon was signed by the Annam court, and the French army's influence spread to Annam and began to border Quang Ninh Province controlled by the Nanyang Legion, while the French troops stationed in Haiphong and Hanoi were a dagger placed at the gate of the Nanyang Legion, threatening the security of Quang Ninh and Lang Son provinces at all times.

After the Second Treaty of Saigon, France completed the final plan to annex the three Southeast Asian countries, and after the death of Emperor Annam Nguyen, the French colonists would launch a war to fully annex the three Southeast Asian countries.

During his tenure as governor of Nanyang, Sun Bin repeatedly reported to Li Mingyuan about the situation in the Annam region, and he was always worried about the expansion of the French colonialists' power, and the Wehrmacht was far away in the Han Kingdom of South America, and the 8,000 Nanyang troops were already the largest garrison that could be maintained in the country, and any more people would adversely affect the development of the country.

Li Mingyuan knew that the real purpose of the French occupation of Annam was to use Annam as a springboard to invade the southwest of the mainland, and then establish an Asian colonial empire like India in Asia.

The combat effectiveness of the French colonial army is really not flattering, in the original history, not only the poorly equipped Black Flag Army successfully ambushed a small group of French many times, but even the Qing army in Guangxi fought the attack of the French, causing a lot of damage to the French army.

With the combat effectiveness of the Nanyang Army, Li Mingyuan believed that they could compete with the French colonial army, but once the French government sent reinforcements to Annam, cut off the supply of the mainland to the Annam Army with warships, and cut off the Han country's Far East migration routes, the impact on the Han country would be more serious than the loss of the two northern provinces of Annam.

In July 1883, after the death of Emperor Dede, the heir of the Annam court, the French army would take advantage of the opportunity of the leaderless Annam court to annex Annam, and there were still five years to go before 1883, and it was very important to support the Songkhla Wu regime and make Songkhla another immigration base for the Wehrmacht in the Nanyang region before there was no effective way to avoid the annexation of Annam.

Wu Lingxuan is the daughter of Wu Jin, the lord of Songkhla City, and in the era of paying attention to the right family, she is the most suitable partner for Li Mingyuan.

Therefore, even if he did not see the photo of Wu Lingxuan, Li Mingyuan understood that the marriage with the Wu clan of Songkhla was an inevitable result.

In the newly built small royal palace in Xinjing, when Li Mingyuan was thinking about his relationship with the Wu regime in Songkhla and was distracted, a personal guard walked in and handed over a telegram document: "Your Highness, this is the list of the fifth batch of students who are about to return to China, please take a look." ”

"Well, you go down first, and I'll call you in when there's something."

Li Mingyuan took the telegram and sent the guards out.

Turning his gaze to the telegram in his hand, after reading it carefully, Li Mingyuan found several familiar names on the list.

"He Linshu, Yang Jiannian, Chen Binshi, Wang Jinyong, Chen Shituan, Chen Shiyi, Chen Shiding."

Li Mingyuan whispered out seven names in turn, recalling the scene of sending them to study abroad three years ago, and couldn't help but feel a trace of emotion.

He Linshu was the youngest of the seven, only 14 years old when he went to study abroad three years ago, and he was the youngest among the 5600 international students.

He was supposed to continue to work as an apprentice to foreigners in the Malay Peninsula, but in 1874, when the Han Kingdom recruited Chinese immigrants in Nanyang, He Linshu immigrated to the Americas with a nearby Chinese family, and was soon selected as a student to study in Germany.

Yang Jiannian and Chen Binshi are the children of Chinese businessmen in Singapore, among which Chen Binshi's father Chen Jinzhong is a well-known Chinese businessman in Singapore, and the Chen family has gradually become the richest Chinese in Singapore after two generations of development, and was elected as a leader by the local Chinese.

Tan and his son were enthusiastic about helping the Chinese, and in 1844 they established a Western-style hospital in Xinjiapo to serve the Chinese, which was the first Western-style hospital in Singapore.

In 1873, Chen Jinzhong immigrated to Han at the invitation of Li Mingyuan and served as the vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce of the Han Kingdom, and at the same time, Li Mingyuan's invitation was also accepted by Li Mingyuan, Singaporean Chinese Hu Yaji, who spoke English, French and Dutch Chinese, and Zhang Fanglin, a juren Zhang Fanglin.

Chen Shituan, Chen Shiyi, and Chen Shiding are three brothers, and they are from Mingxiang in central Annan. The Ming people were descendants of the Ming people who were unwilling to accept the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and there were about 30,000 people in Annam. In 1874, the Second Treaty of Saigon was signed, and the end of Annam's demise was decided, dissatisfied with the corruption of the Nguyen court in Annam, and at the same time in order to escape the exploitation of the French colonialists, more than 20,000 Minh Thanh people, with the assistance of the Nanyang Army, left the southern part of Annam under French control and emigrated to the Han State in South America or the provinces of Lang Son and Quang Ninh, which were controlled by the National Defense Forces.

Mingxiang people retain Ming-style clothes, pay tribute to the emperors of the Ming Dynasty every year, and Mingxiang people because of maintaining the tradition of poetry and book heirlooms, in the Annan imperial examination, there are many talents, in the Ming people who defected to the Han State, there are more than ten officials who have served in the Annan court, such as the military department Langzhong - Zhu Jishan, the former Fulong prefect - Zheng Qiru, the former Guanglu Temple additional secretary - Zhang Guanghai, the former Ministry of Industry Langzhong - Zheng Huaiyan, the former Hongzhi prefect - Wang Jin, the former Guangtian Zhixian - Zhang Huaijin, the former Jianhe Zhixian - Mei Rui and others, As for the people who did not serve in the Annan Imperial Court, there were more than 30 Mingxiang people who had achieved talent and fame.

Compared with some of the above Ming officials who defected to the Han State, the family of the three brothers of Chen Shituan is more famous, the three brothers of the Chen family are the ninth descendants of Chen Yangchun, the father of Chen Shituan, Chen Shen, once served as a waiter in the Ministry of Labor, and is currently the Minister of Industry of the Han Dynasty, his grandfather Chen Jiancheng, in the nineteenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1838), he was born in the third class of the Wuxu Branch and the Jinshi, and later became the official of the Ministry of War.

The Chen family immigrated to the Han Kingdom, and the three Chen Shituan brothers participated in the selection of overseas students under the guidance of their father, and chose metallurgy as their study direction after being selected.

Three years have passed in a flash, and when a group of enthusiastic young people are about to return to China, Li Mingyuan is looking forward to seeing the changes they bring to the Han Kingdom after returning from studying abroad.