Chapter 384: Exclusion and Awakening

Many local official and non-governmental shipping companies have been traveling non-stop between the Far East and South America, transporting the millions of Chinese who have been waiting for them back to South America in batches.

Time is slowly moving forward in the tense and orderly transportation action.

In mid-October 1881, in order to ensure the supply of raw materials for smokeless gunpowder, the Hanguo Iron and Steel Consortium, with the assistance of local chemical experts and more than ten German engineers, started the construction of a second nitroglycerin production plant.

In February 1882, B-type single-base gunpowder completed the last round of experimental verification and entered the stage of industrial production.

On March 1, 1882, the first batch of 105 mm guns made of picric acid was delivered to the troops, and as a result, the Han Army had a new type of artillery independently developed and produced.

On March 12, 1882, the Congo colony completed the adjustment of administrative planning, with a total area of about 2.3 million square kilometers of Congo (including the coastal area of Cabinda, which was exchanged with the Portuguese with part of the interior of the Congo in the early days, excluding some of the inland areas that were traded, and the total area was about 40,000 square kilometers less than that of the later Congo). ), which were divided into 5 independent colonial districts and a governor's territory.

In addition to Kinshasa, as the seat of the Governor's Palace, which is under the direct management of the Governor General sent by the central government, the other five colonial districts, each administrative region has a number of local kings and chiefs appointed by the emperor, and the local kings and chiefs have part of the management rights of the subordinate areas, and are responsible for assisting the Governor's Office in recruiting indigenous labor, carrying out tasks such as colonial transportation construction and mining resources.

In order to avoid intensifying the conflict with Britain and France, the local government successively abandoned the settlement bases built in the Annam region of the South Seas and the east coast of Africa, and after the shrinkage of its power, except for the South Pacific islands such as Samoa, Polynesia, and Easter Island, which were operated as mainland territories, only one colony really owned by the Han State was the Congo.

Congo has a vast area and rich reserves of gold, silver, copper, iron and other mineral resources, so when the first batch of nearly 3,600 kilograms of gold and gravel from the Congo River basin in central Congo was transported back to the country for refining in January 1881, the central government's attitude towards the Congolese colonies became more and more important.

In March 1881, a group of 600 regular troops arrived in the Congolese colony by ship to join the Congolese garrison in battle, and in April 1881, a batch of homegrown primary steel smelting equipment arrived in the Congolese colony, which was put into service two months later.

In July 1881, the Congolese colony was replenished with 31 military doctors and anti-tropical diseases worth more than 200,000 Han yuan. …………

With the continued support of the local government, from November 19, 1881, at regular intervals, a fleet of ships carrying metallic ores such as gold, silver, copper, iron, and diamonds or precious minerals entered the ports of the homeland along the Atlantic route.

At the same time, with the improvement of the country's financial situation, the national living standard and the number of annual immigrants increased year by year, the local population also exceeded the 10 million mark in March 1882, reaching a scale of 10.26 million.

On the one hand, the growth of the population is due to the attraction of local life to ordinary Chinese, and on the other hand, it is also due to the increasingly serious discrimination and violent persecution of Chinese in Western civilized countries.

On February 7, 1882, under the pretext that three white men had died in Chinatown, more than 200 white men broke into the Chinese town of Los Angeles at gunpoint, and brutally robbed, beaten, and killed the unsuspecting Chinese, regardless of the old or the weak.

"The mob found eight Chinese in the house huddled in a corner, or hiding in a box, and the Chinese knelt down to plead for mercy, to no avail. The mob dragged them out of the street and left them at the disposal of the enraged crowd, two of Chinese whom were children. A Chinese doctor, surnamed Dong, was so popular that he was well respected by a well-known white man who hanged himself during the riots, and his little finger was removed to take his ring. “

After the massacre, a relatively neutral European newspaper reported that "in this massacre, 21 Chinese were strangled to death, and none of them were related to the killing of white people in Chinatown." “

On February 12 and March 21, 1882, white American thugs launched two armed attacks on San Francisco's Chinatown

In the face of the continuous violent persecution, the U.S. government not only did not stop it, but on May 6, passed a Chinese exclusion bill aimed at expelling Chinese from the United States.

Marked by the Chinese Exclusion Act of May 6, 1882, a series of anti-Chinese acts in the United States, from the local to the federal, gradually reached an unprecedented climax.

After the implementation of the Chinese Exclusion Law, anti-Chinese violence in society was legalized, and not only the violent incidents of expulsion, persecution, and killing of Chinese became more frequent, but also larger and larger.

In July 1882, anti-Chinese riots in Seattle lasted for four months, and anti-Chinese elements vowed to expel the Chinese from the city. Some Chinese youths were organized by the Han diplomatic institutions and tried their best to resist. Even so, more than 100 Chinese were killed by whites.

Following the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries in the Americas have also enacted laws to ban Chinese nationals.

In August 1882, the President of Guatemala declared that it was forbidden for China to continue to emigrate to Guatemala, and the following month he ordered that all overseas Chinese residing in Guatemala should be allowed to obtain their passports and leave the country at any time, and they were not allowed to re-enter the country after leaving the country.

In October, the Cuban colonial government issued an order prohibiting Chinese workers from entering Cuba from ports or places in other countries during the ban period.

In November 1882, the Peruvian government tore up the regulations of Han and Peru that Chinese could enter the country freely, and ordered restrictions on the entry of Chinese.

By the end of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by the Federal Parliament of Canada, which came into force in 1883 with the approval of the Governor-General.

There are a total of 43 articles in Canada's "Chinese Immigration Regulations", the main content of which is that Chinese or people with Chinese descent are not allowed to enter Canada as immigrants in the future.

Chinese living in Canada are not allowed to come to Canada for their family members to reside.

Chinese who are currently living in Canada are allowed to leave the country for a maximum of two years, and are not allowed to return to Canada after the deadline;

Chinese returning to Canada are allowed to carry only one person per 250 tons of Chinese ships at Vancouver's border crossing. …………

Because of the stimulus of the rise of the Han Kingdom in South America, the United States, Canada, and Latin American countries were more afraid of the threat of Chinese emigration.

Due to the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act or the ban on Chinese immigrants in various countries in the Americas, the number of destinations for Chinese in the Far East and overseas Chinese to choose from has been greatly reduced.

The Nanyang countries are all under the colonial rule of Britain, France, the Netherlands and other Western countries, and they adopt an attitude of exclusion and attack on the Chinese, and the Chinese workers and immigrants have always been in a position of enslavement and oppression in the local area, and only the South American Han is the only country that can accept them and give them equal status.

For the time being, the Han side was unable to fight back against the persecution of the Chinese by the US government, so it could only go all out and dispatch all the ships that could be searched and send transport ships to the United States, Canada, Australia, Peru, Cuba and other countries to bring the Chinese who had been humiliated and persecuted there back to South America.

At the same time, they nakedly felt the contempt and hostility of the Western white society against the Chinese, and many Chinese young people who had seen modern civilization also awakened the blood hidden in their hearts after feeling the anger and shame, and then took the first step and chose a path completely different from their historical destiny.