Chapter 234: Female Immigrants from Japan and Korea II
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Han immigration was mainly aimed at the Chinese, but in consideration of the imbalance between men and women in the country, the Han government began to recruit Korean female refugees from North and South Pyongan provinces by establishing a trading base on Tamna Island in the Korean kingdom in 1870.
In the next few years from 1870, both Korea and the mainland suffered a very rare famine, and the Korean victims who had no harvest in the farmland could not survive the suffering of hunger, and held the desire to survive rather than starve to death, either accept the request of the Han State, hand over their daughters and female relatives to the Han caravan on Tamna Island, and then transport them to the Han mainland by the fleet, or venture into the northeast region to survive under the threat of bandits and Qing Dynasty officers and soldiers.
North Korean officials have taken a tacit attitude towards refugees fleeing their home countries, because of the proximity to the north of North Korea, at first few North Korean female refugees were willing to emigrate to the Han country, which is tens of thousands of miles away, and later, as a large number of bandits armed with foreign guns suddenly appeared in the northeast region to carry out targeted looting of North Korean refugees, North Korean female refugees whose lives were threatened were forced to choose a safer way to survive and agreed to emigrate to South America.
The severe drought in North Korea, which lasted for several years, created a large number of young and strong refugees, but because the number of refugees in the mainland was even larger, Li Mingyuan was not interested in receiving male North Korean refugees, and then exerting the spirit of brotherhood and family, spending a lot of energy to assimilate them into Han or allow them to live in Han China as Koreans.
North Korea's immigration operations were limited to women under the age of 35 who were able to give birth, and from the time the first fleet of Korean female immigrants departed, Han carried out 24 batches of immigration operations in Korea, transporting a total of about 30,000 Korean women.
The scale of the operation to transport North Korean women is not large, the number of North Korean women who arrive in Han in each batch is small, and as the drought in North Korea gradually eases, the number of North Korean women willing to immigrate to Han is getting smaller and smaller, so compared with the large scale of Chinese female immigrants, the attention of North Korean female immigrants is very low, Yang Guangzong and Wang Ergou and others know very little about the content of North Korean immigration actions, only the coachman surnamed Zeng was able to understand some details of the transportation of North Korean women because he had relatives who worked as sailors in the fleet.
Korean women chose to immigrate to Han out of survival instinct, and Japanese women went to Nanyang to sell themselves as a source of income for the Japanese government to obtain reform reforms.
Japan is mountainous and has few fertile fields, and geological disasters such as volcanoes and earthquakes erupt frequently, and because Japan lacks a reborn like Li Mingyuan, he can use the advantage of foresight to bring wealth support to Japan's reform reform, therefore, in order to obtain the funds needed for the reform reform, the Japanese government on the one hand raised taxes to squeeze the economic value of the domestic people in the name of realizing the country's prosperity and strength, and on the other hand, encouraged Japanese women to sell themselves overseas and use the money obtained from selling their bodies to support national construction.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Nanyang was the core area of Asia colonized by foreign powers, and a large number of Chinese who went abroad to seek a living accumulated a considerable amount of money after hard work in the early stage, and under the stimulation of the economic interests of the Chinese in Nanyang, Japanese women controlled by merchants quickly poured into Nanyang, and soon became the main force of women selling themselves in Nanyang, and used the characteristics of gentle and obedient Japanese women to earn a lot of money from Chinese workers.
When Japanese women poured into Nanyang on a large scale, the Han State had already completed the layout of the Nanyang region, and the Taiping Society, a peripheral intelligence organization subordinate to the Ministry of National Defense, unified the Nanyang Chinese forces, and in the Nanyang region, it was the most powerful force except for the great powers.
Not only did the Taiping Society have more than 100,000 civilian armed forces scattered throughout Nanyang, but also because of the support of the Han Dynasty itself, the Taiping Society also had a core armed force with a number of nearly 10,000 people.
Nearly 10,000 armed militiamen, each armed with a Han Chinese-made imitation Dreiser rifle and 20 grenades, set up in a secret warehouse deep in the jungle, containing 200,000 rounds of rifle ammunition, 100 Gatling machine guns, 35 75-mm field guns, medicine, canned food, artillery ammunition and other supply equipment.
In the South Seas, especially on the island of Kalimantan, there was a mixture of indigenous princes, Lanfang companies, and other forces, and both the British and Dutch had extremely weak control over the areas under their control.
Originally, the Dutch relied on the indigenous servant army to manage the colony in Kalimantan, but later, the Chinese workers and merchants in Nanyang, who had been massacred by the natives many times, united to report to the Taiping Society, asking the Taiping Society to avenge the Chinese compatriots who were brutally killed.
As a result, relying on seven or eight million Nanyang Chinese, the branches of the Taiping Society, which had grown and grown, launched a retaliatory attack on the indigenous tribes under the orders of the principal Liang Xing.
Kuching, Simu, Pontianak, Sammarinda, Sandakan...... More than 3,000 indigenous tribes were killed in the conflict, and 11 local kings were killed by the Chinese forces in retaliation, and their heads were cut off and hung on the roadside to deter the indigenous tribes.
In the case of not using the stockpile of weapons, the subordinate distribution of the Taiping Society used homemade bows and arrows, long knives, red tassel guns and other cold weapons to give a profound lesson to the natives of Nanyang, and at the same time, the united Chinese also attracted the attention of the Dutch, who, after assessing the huge losses that might be brought by the suppression of the Chinese, gave up the strategy of provoking the natives to massacre the Chinese again, but reduced the oppression and exploitation of the Chinese in some aspects, in order to maintain the stability of the colony.
When the Japanese merchants wanted to send Japanese women into the Nanyang area, they first consulted with the principals of the various subordinate branches of the Taiping Society in the Nanyang area, and finally after consultation.
The two parties reached an agreement that the Taiping Society would guarantee the safety of Japanese women who sold themselves under the control of Japanese merchants, and that Japanese merchants would not prevent Japanese women from immigrating to Han.
No matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat, although there are some shortcomings of Japanese women who sell themselves, but Japanese women who are also located in East Asia are more in line with the aesthetics of the Han people than Annam women, so after the two parties reached an agreement, hundreds of Japanese women immigrated to Han every year under the encouragement of Chinese women in the Taiping Society, including women who had received Chinese workers, and there were also Japanese women who had just arrived in Nanyang and had not yet sold their bodies to immigrate to Han in South America, and then marry soldiers or low-level officers in the Wehrmacht.