"Your Majesty, following the first batch of evacuation of the Nanyang Legion, the Annam Chinese and Annam women set off in the middle of last month, and it is expected that the fleet has now arrived in the South Pacific waters, and the size of this transport fleet is the largest in two years, and the entire fleet is divided into four batches, with a total of about 320 large and medium-sized transport vessels, carrying about 46,000 immigrants.

Chen is worried that the port expansion project of Haizhou Yishui Port (Montt Port) has not yet been completed, and it is difficult to ensure the supply of more than 40,000 people at one time? ”

In the middle hall, the head of the household department spoke.

"What is the total number of people who need to be relocated in Annam?"

"According to the data provided by Master Mei, from mid-July this year to January 1883, a total of 600,000 Chinese people, 360,000 Annam-age women, 6,000 regular soldiers of the Nanyang Legion, 18,000 Nanyang garrison and militia, and about 800 Annam officials and their families who are willing to defect to the mainland."

"Liu Pu, how many empty ships can the ocean shipping company vacate for the Annan migrant transport operation?"

Between 1878 and 1880, the shipping capacity of the Han mainland was 390,000 to 430,000 migrants per year, and in the next two years, the local government in Annam alone would need to transport 1 million migrants, which has exceeded the upper limit of the average transportation capacity of the Han mainland in the last two years.

"There are currently 367 transport ships of various types under the name of the ocean shipping company, but because the ocean shipping company mainly takes the African route, most of the ships under the company belong to the African route area, and there are probably less than 100 ocean-going ships that can be used to transfer the South Pacific route."

"Suspend some of the African routes, transfer another 50 medium-sized transport ships, increase the number of ships of the ocean shipping companies in the South Pacific route to 150, and send a notice to the local shipping companies that tell them that the government will temporarily requisition ships with ocean shipping capabilities to rush to transport Annam migrants, and after the resettlement operation is over, the government will pay the companies employment fees according to the market standard price."

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister will do it tomorrow."

"The action of soliciting ocean-going shipping ships starts with the South Pacific Shipping Company, my father-in-law ordered 40 medium-sized ocean-going shipping ships from the local Xing, Germany, France, etc. the year before last, and now there are more than 100 large and small ships under the name of the South Pacific Shipping Company, first requisition his ships, to set an example for other local shipping companies, I believe that my father-in-law will cooperate with the government's work."

"Zhang Guozhang is well aware of the righteousness, in the past two years to support the construction of the country, he has taken the lead in investing a lot of money in various industrial industries, as long as His Majesty's order to requisition ocean-going ships is announced, Zhang Guozhang will definitely take the initiative to implement it."

"The Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Finance, and the Second Fleet of the Navy, the three departments of you should coordinate all matters related to the migration and transportation operations, and bring the Chinese stranded in the Annam area and the women of Annam who are willing to naturalize back to their homeland as soon as possible.

Although the local government signed a reconciliation agreement with the French, but the king of Annam was old and sick, and the army of the Annam government was frightened by the French colonial army in the war with the Han and France, and then withdrew from Annam with the Nanyang Army. Quang Ninh provinces left enough garrisons until early 1883, when the agreement came into force, when the last troops of the Nanyang Army were withdrawn from Annam. ”

Annam is an important transit channel for South American immigrants, and if the time of the French annexation of Annam can be delayed later, South America will be able to obtain more Chinese immigrants and women of Annam's appropriate age, and compared with ordinary Chinese male immigrants, the Annam female immigrants that the Kitasaka region can bring to the mainland are more important.

In the past ten years, Annan has sent about 500,000 working-age women to the mainland, and after these women married Chinese men, they brought two or three million newborns to the mainland, but as the dust settles in the Annan area, the 360,000 Annan school-age women reported by Mei Dongxing are the last batch of female immigrants that can be obtained from the Annan region in South America. In the future, it is almost impossible to imagine that in the Annam region, a large number of foreign female immigrants who are also of the yellow race are obtained every year.

The 360,000 Annam women account for about 20% of the total number of school-age women in Annam, and Li Mingyuan and local government officials at all levels can guess that not all of the Annan women who have migrated to the local area are voluntary, and it is easy to guess what kind of means officials at all levels in the Nanyang region and the Annan officials attached to the Nanyang Legion will take in order to solve the wishes of the local Chinese young people to get married.

However, on the other hand, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, if they can migrate to South America, their future life will definitely be much better than that of Annam under French colonial rule, and the majority of South American youth have experienced simple literacy education, and at the same time, the local laws and regulations are relatively perfect, women and children can be properly protected by the law, and there will be no arbitrary punishment of husbands and wives as in Annam.

When it comes to the topic of Annan migrant transportation and resettlement, Li Mingyuan thought of the existence of some underage girls among the relocated Annan women, so he continued to remind: "Minor girls have a worse physical resistance than adults, so for Annan girls under the age of 14, the Nanyang Corps and the navy departments in charge of migrant transportation should do a good job of hygiene and disease prevention measures, separate them from ordinary Annan adult women, and arrange a separate group of transport ships to resettle them, so as to reduce the loss rate of personnel in the transportation process as much as possible." ”

"Your Majesty, some of the Annan girls migrated to the mainland with their mothers and families, do they also want to be separated from their families?"

"Even if you have relatives and families, as for the Annam girls who travel to the home area by boat alone, it is better to separate them from ordinary transport boats."

"The minister understands what His Majesty means, and after the next dynasty, the minister will send a telegram to Governor May, asking them to take more care of the girls of Annam, and try to give them adequate safety and health guarantees."

"The issue of resettlement of migrants cannot be sloppy, especially after the arrival of Annan girls, the Ministry of Households, in coordination with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and other departments, must do a good job in the resettlement work, for the Annan girls between the ages of 8 and 14, it is absolutely not allowed to tamper with their age without permission, and illegally marry them to the local Chinese Qingzhuang, once discovered, the officials and people involved will be dealt with seriously, and the relevant government departments with poor supervision will also be held accountable."

"The minister guarantees to His Majesty, but all Annan girls who go through the naturalization procedures through the Ministry of Household Affairs will be recorded, and if there is a problem in any link, there is no need for Your Majesty to say it, the minister will immediately deal with the officials involved, and then take the initiative to resign from the post of head of the Ministry of Households."

"The Ministry of Education will carry out basic adaptation education for girls in Annam as soon as possible, and there will definitely be no incident that worries His Majesty."

The Heads of the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Education have expressed their positions one after another.

"It's a good thing to be determined, but we must also ensure that everything is done, before the local officialdom was rectified, tampering with the age of Annan girls and privately forcing Annan women to marry local youths did not happen rarely, and now although the local officialdom environment has been greatly improved, all aspects of the front-line rural areas still need to be improved."

Li Mingyuan's expression slowed down slightly, and said, "Since the establishment of the emperor, there have been many government affairs, and the matter of inspecting various regions in the local area has been repeatedly delayed, so there is nothing major happening recently, I plan to take the queen and the concubine to inspect all parts of the local area, so as to carefully contact the actual development of the local area." ”………………