In the garden of the backyard of the Lord's Mansion of Songkhla, a girl of about sixteen or seventeen years old was curiously watching around a cabinet camera.

The girl wears a narrow pink shirt and a white embroidered skirt.

She has a Ming-style hair style with a penny bun, and her silky hair hangs naturally over her shoulders. A pair of black pure eyes stared at the Chinese woman fiddling with the camera, and her cheerful face showed the girl's beauty and cuteness.

"Miss Six, you are almost ready on the veranda, they are going to take pictures!" The maid beside him reminded.

"Well, right away." The girl was in a very happy mood as if she had developed a new and interesting toy, and after a few reminders from the maid, she reluctantly sat upright on the balcony and looked at the lens of the cabinet camera.

After a few soft sounds, the Chinese woman took five or six photos of the girl in a row, and then left the backyard under the guidance of the guards of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Miss, miss." Seeing off a few Chinese women, the maid trotted back and shouted urgently.

"I heard it, I heard it." The girl glanced at the maid who was eager to come back, and asked, "Xiaolan, have you heard any news about those women?" ”

"I heard." The maid Xiaolan paused to take a breath, and then said, "Those three Chinese women are not from our Songkhla, they seem to have come from some South American Han country. ”

"South America? Was it the country that the father invited to garrison troops in Kelantan? ”

"Yes, yes, that's them." The maid paused for a while, and said with a serious expression on her face, "Miss, I heard from a few guards that the Han people asked the city lord about the situation of the young lady, and they seemed to be interested in choosing the young lady as the king of Han. ”

"What, what you said is true?" The girl's face changed, and a look of surprise was written on her face.

"The slave didn't dare to make fun of the young lady, Xiaohong, the maid under the second son, was serving a general of the Han Kingdom in the hall at the time, and what the slave and maid just said was all known from Xiaohong's mouth, and there was no fraud." The maid Xiaolan was willing to speak and promised.

"The order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker. My father agreed to let the three Han women take pictures and send them back to the Han Kingdom in South America, presumably my father has already agreed to their request, what can I do as a little girl. ”

After listening to the words of the maid Xiaolan, the girl felt that her father's marriage future had been decided by her father in just half a day, and a sense of helplessness welled up in her heart, and the youthful and lively expression on her face was quickly replaced by loss and worry.

"Miss doesn't need to be sad, if Miss marries the king of the Han Kingdom, it will also be a king, it is better than being married to the Thais by the city lord or the Malays in Tao Gong, Pattani and other places."

In order to maintain the rule of the Goh clan, the lord of the Goh clan often married his daughter to the children of the Thai royal family as wives and concubines or to pagan Malays, in exchange for the stability of the political situation in Songkhla.

Born in the Wu family, under the protection of the family carefree spent sixteen years of girlhood, although Wu Lingxuan has a young girl's beautiful fantasy of the future Langjun in her heart, but in the grim situation faced by Songkhla, she still needs to sacrifice personal happiness for the stability of the family, obey the fate arranged for her by her father.

"Yes, it is better to marry the king of the Han Kingdom than to marry the uncivilized Malay natives." The girl remembered the fate of two aunts in the family who were married to the Malay king, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, glad that her marriage partner was not a Malay.

"Miss, the Chinese businessmen who do business in Songkhla say that the king of Han is a great hero and a good man, I heard that in South America, the king of Han defeated several foreign countries and established a country dozens of times the size of Songkhla, and the king of Han treated ordinary Chinese people very well, and the soldiers and people in South America loved him very much."

After saying the good words of Li Mingyuan that he heard from other people, the maid Xiaolan saw that there was no one around, so she sat in front of her own young lady with a sharp action, and said with a smile: "Miss, you are naturally beautiful, the king of Han must be very fond of you when he sees you, and he will definitely not disrespect Miss like the king of Pattani, miss, you don't have to worry, if you marry the king of Han, you will definitely not be wronged." ”

"Dead girl, say so well to the king of Han, do you want me to report to my father and give you to the king of Han as a dowry girl."

After the persuasion of the maid Xiaolan, the girl's mood was much better, and she took the initiative to make a joke about the other party.

"Xiaolan has been a young lady all her life. Wherever the young lady marries, Xiaolan follows there. The maid Xiaolan said righteously.

"Don't be shy, kill your little girl with a spring?" Looking at the maid's serious and cute appearance, the girl couldn't help laughing out loud and started to play with each other. ……

Tens of thousands of miles away, after nearly a decade of development after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many changes have taken place in the Han country in South America.

In terms of land area, after two wars against Brazil and Argentina, the land area has been expanded to 1.117 million square kilometers, and five provincial-level administrative regions have been replanned on the basis of the original one capital and five counties.

1 Jujuy and Salta provinces merged to form Sanyang Province (combined area of 207,900 square kilometers)

2 The departments of Chaco, Formosa and Santiago del Estero were merged into the province of Anfón (308,000 km²). ）

3 The province of Corrientes and the northern part of Santa Fe, occupied by the Han State, were merged to form the Xinxing Province (area of 138,200 square kilometers. ）

4 Rio Gran do Sul and the area seized from Uruguay were merged into the province of Yangzhou (area of 340,000 square kilometers. ）

5 Santa Catarina Prefecture was renamed Gangdong Province (area of 95,400 square kilometers. ）

Each province has five to ten provinces with a population of between 700,000 and 1.5 million.

In terms of education, three universities of higher learning and two specialized military academies have been established in Xinjing.

Among the three universities, one is Shinkyo University, a comprehensive university that attaches equal importance to economics, business management, diplomacy, politics, and mechanical engineering, one is the Royal Hanguo University of Technology, which is biased towards science and engineering, and the other is the Hanguo Medical University, which specializes in drug development.

Among the two military academies, one is the Han Army Military Academy and the other is the Han Navy Military School.

The Han Dynasty has a population of more than 5 million, and the population of European countries is about the same as that of the Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, and other countries, but although the Han State vigorously introduced Chinese scholars in the 10 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country's talent base is still not as good as that of Western countries.

Compared with higher universities and secondary technical colleges, primary education in Han has developed rapidly.

There are more than 30 prefectures and more than 140 counties in the five provinces and one capital of the Han Kingdom, and each county has four primary schools and two intermediate schools in each prefecture. There are more than 500 primary and secondary schools. The total number of school-age Chinese children and teenagers exceeds 100,000.

The primary and intermediate schools teach students the basic knowledge, and most of the teachers in the schools are ordinary scholars recruited from the mainland, Nanyang and other places, and the number gap has been filled after ten years of development.

Most of the professional teachers needed by colleges and universities and intermediate technical colleges are foreign teachers hired from the West, and a small number are international students who have returned from overseas.

In February 1870, four years after Japan issued a government decree openly encouraging its citizens to study in the West, Li Mingyuan realized the importance of sending students and the urgency of time, and set aside part of the funds from the tight preparation finance to support Han students to study in the West.

After the formal implementation of the study abroad plan, affected by the war against Argentina, in 1871 did not send foreign students, the end of the war, the country's political and economic return to normal, Han gradually expanded the number of international students with a frequency of one batch per year, until 1878, Han sent a total of 6,572 students to study in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the United Kingdom, France, through cooperation with Western colleges and universities, the introduction and translation of iron and steel metallurgy, mechanical manufacturing, chemical engineering, physics, mathematics and other more than 10 kinds of basic subject textbooks, It provides a pedagogical basis for the implementation of higher education in China.