Songkhla Port is located at the mouth of Lake Luang on the northeast coast of the Malay Peninsula in southern Thailand, bordering the southwest side of the Gulf of Thailand, and is the main trading port in the central region of the Malay Peninsula.

The port of Songkhla was established earlier as a result of the boom in tin mining. The port has a tropical monsoon climate, with a prevailing southwest wind in summer and a northeast wind in winter, with an average annual rainfall of about 2200mm.

There are 3 main berths in the port area, with a coastline length of 510 meters, which can guarantee the docking of more than 10 medium-sized transport ships at the same time, and the anchorage of large ships is on the east side of Miao Island, with a water depth of about 10m. It mainly relies on the transshipment of goods from South America, the mainland and the South Seas to collect taxes.

With the increase of support from the Han Kingdom and the planning and construction of the port and wharf by the lord of Songkhla City, a number of commercial organizations engaged in entrepot trade have emerged in the Songkhla region, such as commercial groups that are specifically responsible for direct trade with the Han mainland in South America, including Heqin Commercial Bank, Xie'an Commercial Bank, Jintai Commercial Bank and other commercial companies with relatively large capital, these commercial companies import cloth, cotton yarn, frozen beef and mutton, sea cucumber, tuna, flour, matches and other commodities from South America, and then through the Songkhla transit distribution channel. Then sell the goods and materials to the mainland, Annam, Thailand and other places.

The goods imported from the Han Kingdom to Songkhla were industrially manufactured, and rubber shoes, bicycles, matches and other goods made of rubber were very popular and respected by the local Chinese in Songkhla and other parts of the South Seas because of their cheap and practical advantages.

The second is the merchant group engaged in the transshipment of goods in Hong Kong and the Jiangnan region, they purchase silk, brocade, cloth and other commodities produced in the Han Kingdom from Songkhla, and then import them into the mainland from Hong Kong, Shanghai, Xiamen and other treaty ports.

In addition to the trading houses specializing in import and export trade and transportation, a number of trading houses engaged in specific commodities have also set up commercial warehouses in Songkhla.

For example, tea merchants from southern Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions of the mainland are responsible for purchasing tea produced in the Jiangnan region, and then shipping the newly picked tea to Songkhla, where the tea is resold to ocean shipping merchants to supply the local areas of South America, and the Chinese demand for tea.

The second is the group engaged in trade with North Korea, mainly Changcheng, Kuncheng, and Yuanfa. Merchant groups such as Faxiang, Fumi, Hengcheng Yuancheng, and Fukuoka Takashi exported iron pots, iron tea boxes, linen and other commodities to North Korea, and then purchased ginseng, animal skins, Toshiba and other agricultural products from North Korea. Finally, there are medicinal herb firms engaged in the import of medicinal materials, and the trade names that belong to the medicinal herb shops are Taichang, Yimei, and Yuanrong. Chongyi, Changmei Yuanyi, Yuanfa. There are more than 10 companies such as Longcheng, Jiaocheng, Jebsen, etc.,

The medicinal materials purchased and sold are cinnamon, bezoar, angelica, wolfberry, rhubarb, astragalus, assarium, schisandra, codonopsis, rehmannia, hyssop, yam, chrysanthemum, etc.

At the end of 1878, there were more than 70 trading houses registered in Songkhla, and the number of merchants in the entire Songkhla region exceeded 200, and the income from entrepot trade reached 170,000 silver dollars, which was 70 percent more than the revenue of Songkhla in 1877.

At the beginning of 1879, affected by the British blockade, the volume of Songkhla's import and export transshipment trade fell by half, and a large number of medicinal herbs, cloth merchants, and ocean shipping merchants who came and went to South America had to stay in Songkhla to wait for the news of the end of the Argentine War because the goods in their hands were not sold or the migration transportation tasks undertaken were not completed.

At the beginning of October 1879, British warships carrying out blockade missions withdrew from the coastal areas of Natuna and Songkhla, and the port of Songkhla, where normal trade and transportation was resumed, ushered in an outbreak of trade transactions.

At the port of Songkhla, the shopkeepers and men of fifty or sixty large and small merchant groups were blocked out of the wharf, and the anxious shopkeepers of the merchant groups sent their men to the wharf every few minutes to check the situation, for fear that after the anchorage of the wharf was vacated, it would be robbed by other merchant groups, delaying the transportation time of their own goods.

From the inside to the outside, more than 30 large transport ships are lined up in the three pier anchorages, and groups of Chinese families stranded in Songkhla are queuing up to board the ships.

The procession of Chinese immigrants lined up from the wharf to the streets and open spaces outside the port, and the three long lines stretched for nearly three or four miles.

During the blockade of South America for half a year, about 100,000 Chinese immigrants stayed in Songkhla, 100,000 Chinese with their families and poor and white Chinese brought great pressure to Songkhla, and the cost of providing 100,000 mouths to eat every day was a huge amount of expenses, and then counting the expenses of providing them with accommodation, clothing and medical treatment for the sick Chinese old and young, the lord of Songkla had pasted a financial surplus for three and a half years, but the financial surplus of more than 100,000 silver dollars was not in vain, and the Argentine war finally ended with the complete victory of the Han State, He was in a hurry to go to the hospital and married his daughter to Li Mingyuan, the king of Han, intending to use the power of the Nanyang Army to stabilize the crisis in the Songkhla region, but now it seems that an adventurous political speculation a year ago brought huge returns, and the Han annexed Argentina and Uruguay, and obtained an outlet to the sea with an area of more than 100,000 square kilometers on the Pacific coast, and almost the entire Pampas Plain fell into the control of the Han State.

What is the Pampas Plain, I learned from the telegram sent by my daughter that the Pampas Plain is equivalent to the Jiangnan region of the mainland, with fertile land and beautiful environment, and compared with the mountainous and hilly Jiangnan, the Pampas is an endless plain, and the land that has just been reclaimed by the Spaniards is far more fertile than the Jiangnan.

In her letters, her daughter often mentioned the details of Li Mingyuan taking her and another Nanyang girl to play outside Chang'an City, such as Li Mingyuan one day after handling official business, riding a high-headed horse to teach her and Zhang Baoyi to learn to ride a horse, or under the protection of a group of guards, a group of people went to the Paraná River to enjoy the coastal customs, Wu Lingxuan's reply, although the main content is how the Han King is approachable and polite, not as rude and barbaric as the impression of the martial arts, but handsome, tall and handsome, and kind to people, Treat her carefully and gently, she is very happy and happy in her days in South America, and she doesn't have a little girl mentality like her father's care, but her daughter's understatement of the environment during the game still makes Wu Jian, the lord of Songkhla, have a comparison in his heart.

Han today is different from the past, the north and south have thousands of miles of land, the army is strong, the leader is wise, the only population shortcomings that limit the development of the country, within 20 years, it will be supplemented and alleviated because of the explosive influx of Chinese immigrants, if before the Second Argentine War, when the land area of Han has not expanded to more than 340 square kilometers, Wu Jin still has a trace of worry about his daughter's future fate, then now, he is no longer worried about the overthrow of the Han country in South America, and the fate of his daughter is worrying. On the contrary, he was glad that he insisted on not marrying his daughter to the barbaric Malay indigenous chieftain, but to the Han king Li Mingyuan, who had just shown his edge.

Ten years of savings, soaring to the sky, Li Mingyuan will ascend the throne on December 26 The news has just come from the Nanyang Army, and his daughter will also officially marry Li Mingyuan on the second day of the emperor ceremony and become the queen of the Han Kingdom.

The father is noble with his daughter, and his daughter became the queen of the Han Kingdom, and he became Li Mingyuan's father-in-law, resting in the previous dynasty, his own father-in-law will also give the title of a hereditary marquis, although the Han State determined that it was not a great merit and would not be awarded, but the baby daughter born to him married the new emperor, out of concern for the purpose of rewarding the queen's relatives, it is not too much to grant himself a title, as far as the public is concerned, Songkhla is a transit point for immigrants in South America and the mainland, and he is dedicated to assisting the Han State in dealing with immigration affairs, and he also paid out of his own pocket to take the financial surplus of Songkhla for three years, It is also reasonable to confer knighthood on Lungong.

At noon on the second day of the communication with the South American mainland, Li Wencai came to the city lord's mansion to pay a visit, that is, to congratulate himself on his promotion to the throne, but also said that His Royal Highness the King of Han is very interested in the cooperation with Songkhla, although the Han garrison will evacuate Songkhla, but the support for Songkhla has not wavered, after the withdrawal of 1,500 troops stationed in Songkhla, the Han side will secretly send a group of outstanding officers to assist them in training the new Songkhla army, and at the same time, before the garrison withdraws, part of the Nanyang Army troops will be mobilized into the central part of the Malay Peninsula. A thorough purge of the separatist forces in Songkhla was carried out in order to resolve the chaos of armed forces in Songkhla and unify the military and government in Songkhla.

At the end of the chat, Li Wencai also consulted his own opinion on the issue of the title, and at that time the excitement and the mixed with the idea of hugging the thigh of the Han State and showing his determination to his son-in-law, he agreed that he was willing to accept the title granted by the Han side, but in retrospect, after all, Songkhla is nominally under the jurisdiction of Thailand, and privately accepting the titles of other countries will leave a handle for the Thai side.

This kind of worry entangled Wu Jin all night, but this morning, on the way to Songkhla Port to meet the high-ranking officials of the Nanyang Army, Wu Jin also figured it out, in troubled times, strength is the first, and when the Han army exterminated the separatist forces in Songkhla and showed the military strength of Songkhla to the Thai side, will the Thai king still embarrass himself with the matter of accepting the title of other country?

The ceremonial frame symbolizing the symbol of the city lord came to Songkhla Port, and the emigrant procession on the periphery of the port consciously gave way to Wu Jin and others.

Stepping down from the four-wheeled carriage, a group of more than 2,000 immigrants slowly walked towards the port, and many of them were single women with three or four children.

In the Central Plains under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the wave of migration caused by the Ding Wuqi famine has not yet ended, and many families who have fled have their fathers or mothers died halfway, and only the surviving relatives and surviving children can continue to move towards the immigration recruitment points set up in the coastal areas.

The last group of 2,000 immigrants was obviously not the one who had been stranded in Songkhla earlier, and many of them were still wearing the shabby cloth clothes of autumn in the northern part of the mainland, and although the weather in the South Seas was scorching, they were penniless, and the shabby cloth clothes they had been wearing on their bodies were probably the only possession, and few Chinese were willing to abandon their last possessions until the hunger crisis was resolved.

A thin woman with five children passed in front of the carriage, a family of six, only two children aged seven or eight years old wore straw sandals with exposed feet, the middle-aged woman and the remaining three older children all walked barefoot, there were not a few Chinese like them, Wu Jin couldn't stand it, and ordered the people around him, "Go, take my warrant, go to the port rice shop to borrow a batch of grain to cook porridge, let them eat a meal first and then wait in line." ”

"Yes, the little ones will do it."