Hanyuan Palace Linhua Palace, elegant and exquisite palace, a man and a woman sit together, talking intimately.

"Concubine Ai is pregnant, pay more attention to safety on weekdays, if it is not necessary, try to avoid going out, if there is a boring time, let the people around you go to the front to notify you, I will take time to accompany you."

Li Mingyuan held the other party's small hand and gently instructed.

"Your Majesty Xie cares, the concubine is accompanied by Her Royal Highness the Queen and several sisters in the palace, and she is very happy and fulfilled every day, and she will not be bored."

Concubine Li Yina brushed her golden hair to her ears with her hand, and gently leaned on Li Mingyuan's arms, her clear and bright blue eyes revealed joy and happiness: "The concubine has just been diagnosed as pregnant, her belly has not yet been revealed, and her normal outdoor activities have not been affected, Your Majesty does not need to worry about the concubine's body." ”

"What Concubine Ai said is reasonable, you can maintain normal outdoor activities during the first four or five months of pregnancy, but there are some aspects to pay attention to, after all, you are pregnant with our child, you can't be careless."

"The concubines should remember Your Majesty's instructions, and when they travel in the palace in the future, they will pay more attention to safety."

Feeling the importance in Li Mingyuan's words, Concubine Li Yina put away her playful and coquettish expression and said seriously.

"After all, you are pregnant for the first time, and you have no experience in some things, and you can communicate with the queen and concubine more, and get some pregnancy maintenance experience from them, which can also make you suffer less in the next few months of pregnancy."

The four daughters of the palace concubine, Ying'er, and Xiaolan gave birth to three sons and four daughters one after another, and in this regard, Li Mingyuan gradually accumulated some experience.

"The living environment in the palace is different from that in Brazil, if you are not used to getting along with the palace maids and attendants around you, you can bring it up, and then let your father choose a few good sisters from your family who have grown up to enter the palace and accompany you for a period of time, so as not to be lonely and lonely."

"Before the concubine entered the palace, she followed the female gentleman invited by her father to learn Chinese, and after entering the palace, the concubine stayed in the country for three years, and after three years, she got used to the local way of life, and got along with the domestic women in the palace, but she didn't feel anything uncomfortable."

Being in a different environment, the palace maids and attendants I came into contact with around were all Chinese, and I said that I was adapting, but in fact, I felt different from when I lived in Brazil, but I chose to marry Li Mingyuan as my wife and live a different life from the West, even if I felt a little uncomfortable, Li Yina was reluctant to say it.

After graduating from university in his previous life, Li Mingyuan entered the French Foreign Legion and stayed with a group of foreign soldiers with different customs, and at first felt that it was difficult to adapt, but after a few years of getting along and experiencing a long run-in, the sense of discomfort will slowly disappear.

Compared with Li Mingyuan's passive integration into the rhythm of life of the French Foreign Legion in his previous life, Li Yina's situation is undoubtedly much better.

With a gentle, handsome husband, who was able to be loved and cared for in his daily life, the father and his siblings were freed from the constant fear of attacks by republican officials and black mobs during their time in the Brazilian Republic.

My father was hired as a state adviser to provide her husband and the Ministry of State Security with military and political information on the Brazilian Republic and the Brazilian Empire, while the two older brothers had just passed the entrance exams and were about to enter the Army and Navy Officers' Academy, and a widowed sister married a Chinese officer in August last year.

More than ten core members of the entire family and fifty or sixty relatives attached to the family have been completely integrated into the military, political and cultural circles of the Han State, with fewer and fewer Western imprints, and their family status and living conditions are also working day by day.

As Li Yina's husband, Li Mingyuan did his duty as much as possible, taking time to accompany each other and give him genuine care and consideration, and outside of family life, Li Mingyuan would not forget to use the advantages of Li Yina's family to provide useful information for Han's strategic expansion in Brazil.

At noon the next day, in a study room on the left side of the central hall of the former court, Li Mingyuan summoned Shen Fushan, Minister of State Security, and Silva, the state adviser, to ask them about all aspects of information about the Brazilian Republic and the Brazilian Empire.

"Your Majesty, according to the intelligence provided by a group of Brazilian businessmen who have been bought by the country, the Brazilian Republican Government is preparing a plan to relocate 200,000 black people from the central and inland regions to the southern states of São Paulo and Paraná."

Minister of National Security Shen Fushan said: "The dispersion and relocation of blacks from the inland and central regions to the coastal areas is an important part of the population laundering plan implemented by the Brazilian Republican Government, and he believes that the relocation of 200,000 blacks is just the beginning, and when the resettlement of 200,000 blacks is completed, the Brazilian Republican government will formulate a larger plan to continue to move more blacks to other parts of Brazil." ”

"The forcible relocation and evacuation of blacks requires a lot of financial money, and the Brazilian Republican government can come up with this money?"

Li Mingyuan is not convinced that the Brazilian republican government is willing to spend precious financial money just to whitewash the indigenous blacks.

"At the beginning, the incumbent also thought that the source of the intelligence was wrong, but after comparing and verifying the information from many aspects, the incumbent believed that this matter was true and credible nine times out of ten."

Shen Fushan explained: "In the later period of the Brazilian Empire, because of the collapse of the country's finances, the financial, industrial and other fields were on the verge of bankruptcy, and the financial strength and power of the emerging bourgeoisie in Brazil suffered a major blow, and when the republican forces and the big capitalist class joined forces to oust Pedro II from power, the republican government completely abolished all kinds of restrictions on blacks on the basis of Pedro II's abolition of black slaves, and tried to use the released black labor force to drive the development of the frustrated financial industry and light industry. However, the policies of the Brazilian republican government did not achieve the desired effect, completely getting rid of slavery, and in the political field, after obtaining the same right to vote as adult whites, blacks took advantage of their numerical superiority to win elections in the central and inland regions where the population was overwhelmingly dominant, and many blacks from the lower classes became government officials and began to meddle and manipulate local government affairs.

Under the influence of freedom, democracy and republicanism, since the establishment of the Brazilian Republican Government, in the past ten years, black forces have gradually penetrated into the army, government, agriculture, plantation and other fields, especially in several provinces in the central and inland regions, and black forces have quickly replaced local whites and controlled the main local political and military power. …………

The black power was difficult to control, and the plantation economy of coffee, sugar, etc., which was originally built on cheap labor, suffered the same fate as the financial industry and light industry because of the slave emancipation policy.

Without the support of finance and light industry, the coffee farming industry became the main source of finance in the areas controlled by the Brazilian Republican Government, so in order to save the coffee farming economy in recession and solve the problem of black concentration in the central and inland areas, the Brazilian Republican Government was willing to pay a huge financial price to implement the black migration plan. ”

"In this way, the question of blackness has become the top problem of the Brazilian republican government."

Li Mingyuan nodded, and had a general idea of the predicament that the Brazilian republican government was currently facing.

Brazil's industrialization was interrupted by the defeat of the Paraguayan War, and the booming light industry and the financial industry, which depended on new industries, were also affected by the Paraguayan War and the subsequent Argentine War and the Brazilian Civil War.

In addition to light industry and finance, coffee cultivation and sugar cultivation are the main sources of financial revenue in Brazil, sugar cultivation is concentrated in the Brazilian Empire headed by Princess Isabella, and the rest of the coffee cultivation industry is distributed in the central and inland provinces.

In the past 20 years, Brazil has not only lost the population import of about 800,000 white immigrants in the same period of history, but also reduced the total population by about 1 million due to the war.

Among the reduced population, mainly the outflow of native whites, there is no white immigration import, plus the internal outflow of white people, the proportion of black whites in the Brazilian Republic and the Brazilian Empire has reached an extraordinary limit, in the later generations after more than 100 years of continuous immigration imports, the Brazilian government increased the proportion of non-blacks to 50% of the total number, and this also includes mixed race children with black blood, if according to the principle of one drop of blood, as long as there is black blood are classified as black people, Then the proportion of blacks in Brazil is at least 80 percent of the total population.

In reality, at the end of 1888, the population of the Brazilian Republic was about 6.6 million, and the ratio of blacks to whites was 2.6 to 1.

The total population of the Brazilian Empire was about 2.3 million, with a ratio of 4.2 to 1 black to white.

There is a great difference in the total population and the proportion of blacks and whites between the Brazilian Republic and the Brazilian Empire, and the reason for this difference is related to the distribution of blacks in Brazil.

Brazil's two southern states (excluding Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, which were occupied by the Han Dynasty) are mainly ethnic descendants of white European immigrants, with blacks making up less than 10 percent of the population.

In central and inland areas such as Rio de Janeiro, Miras Gis Goiás, and Bahia, the number of blacks is about two to three times that of whites.

In the north-central Amazon rainforest, the main population is indigenous Indians, and the number of whites and blacks is relatively small.

The central and northern coastal regions, that is, the provinces of Pernambuco, have always been the main importers of African slaves, and the number of blacks is much higher than that of whites and Indians combined.

The Brazilian Republic and the Brazilian Empire are also faced with the problem of a disproportionate proportion of blacks, and compared with the Brazilian Republic, the total population of the Brazilian Empire is smaller, and the proportion of black people in Brazil is higher, but the current situation in the Brazilian Empire is better than that of the Brazilian Republic because of the suppression of the black rebellion that broke out earlier in the north-central coastal areas by Pedro II, and the local black rebel armed forces have been greatly weakened.

If the essence of the ethnic conflict cannot be resolved, even if the Han side abandons its expansion strategy, it will be difficult for the Republic of Brazil and the Brazilian Empire to become regional powers.

Of course, it is impossible for the Han side to give up the strategy of expanding its sphere of influence on the Brazilian side, and for the sake of the country's future health and stability, the black problems left over from the Republic of Brazil and the Brazilian Empire also need to be dealt with by Li Mingyuan in advance.

"The fact that the Brazilian republican government has not yet officially announced the implementation of the black relocation plan shows that they themselves have doubts about this plan, so in this case, the local side can add fuel to the fire for them, and let our people walk out with a little modification and change to see how the blacks in the Brazilian Republic and the whites in the south will react."

If the Brazilian republican government really moved 200,000 or more blacks to the southern region, it would undoubtedly have a serious negative impact on the Han expansion strategy, so it was necessary to intervene in advance and engage in sabotage in order to prevent the Brazilian republican government's actions.

"The Calavillas still have some good friends in the state of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and it must have worked well to reveal to them the republican government's plans to relocate blacks."

After Li Mingyuan gave instructions, Silva took the initiative to take on the next part of the task in Chinese with a Western accent.

"It's good that the Calaveras family is able to serve their country."

Li Mingyuan was happy to see Silva take the initiative to play his role, and praised: "The Calaveras family is a family with a long history, although you belong to the side branch, but, as an example of defection to the empire, I hope you can set a better example for the local white community." ”

"Both the white and the Chinese are part of the Han nation, and the ministers are willing to make greater efforts and sacrifices for the development of the empire."

"I don't need you to sacrifice, as long as you can do a few things that have been done to you, even if it is a great achievement, in the future, the virtuous concubine will give birth to an heir, and with your merits, maybe you will be able to earn a hereditary title for the family and restore the glory of the Calaveras family."

"Your Majesty, please command, and the minister promises to complete the task assigned by His Majesty."

Silva was also neat, and he didn't ask Li Mingyuan what task he delivered, and directly agreed.

"I heard that the new commander of the Brazilian Empire's navy, Count Deu, is related to the Calaveras family by marriage, and I want you to go to the Brazilian Empire in person, and use your family's relationship with Count D'u to explain his support for the cooperation between the Brazilian Empire and the Han Kingdom."

"Although the Brazilian Empire had had an unpleasant experience with the Empire before, under the pressure of the republican military forces, the minister believed that the Count de Eu and Empress Isabella would clear the situation and accept the olive branch extended by His Majesty."

Count Deu is the prince of the Orense family and the uncle of Empress Isabella, relying on the previous relationship between the Calaveras family and the Orlens family, as well as the practical needs of the Brazilian Empire, to persuade Count Deu, and then through the relationship of Count Deu, to persuade Empress Isabella to agree to conclude military cooperation between the two sides, in Silva's eyes, it is not very difficult. …………