The top brass was dispelled and a consensus was reached on the question of intervention in Paraguay, and the military machine of the Brazilian Republic was quickly set into action.

The garrison of 20,000 Paraná on the border with the Han State did not move, and the garrisons of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Campinas, in accordance with the orders of the republican government, marched and assembled in Uberaba and San José, preparing to adopt a conservative combat strategy, giving priority to attacking the southern regions of Gonan Mato Grosso and Yas.

On June 10, 1889, the first batch of 4,000 troops of the Brazilian Republican Army arrived in São José, and on June 17, 1889, the number of troops stationed in Uberaba increased to 11,000, and on June 20, 1889, the total number of troops of the Brazilian Republic, gathered in the southern region near Mato Grosso do Sul and Goiás, reached 32,000. At a time when the Brazilian Republic was nervously mobilizing troops to the border areas, the major war to determine the ownership of the Paraguayan regime was slowly beginting.

More than half a month ago, on June 3, 1889, after a week of rectification and repair, the commander of the Guards Cavalry Battalion, Manlieli, the commander of the Second Brigade of the Paraguayan Army, Washburn, and the commander of the Third Division of the Paraguayan Army, Sylvestre, officially announced their oath in Concepción and went south to sweep away the rebellious forces of the four Regents.

At noon on the same day, the swearing-in ceremony ended, and the three men left 1,500 soldiers to defend Concepción, and then led the remaining about 10,000 soldiers to attack in the direction of Asunción on more than 40 ships and ships that had been recently collected.

On the evening of June 4, the rebel coalition forces marched to the middle and lower reaches of the Paraguay River, and more than 300 port garrisons stationed in the port of Ivapovo surrendered without a fight, carrying weapons and ships to join the ranks of the rebel coalition forces.

On June 6, during the march, several small units of the local garrison were accepted and reorganized in turn, and the number of rebel coalition troops increased to 11,200.

On 8 June, the rebel coalition spent a short night repairing in the small town of San Pedro on the banks of the Paraguay River, and then, the following morning, a fleet of more transport ships and soldiers continued southward according to the battle plan.

At noon on June 8, in order to delay the advance of the coalition and gain more time for the entrenchment of Asunción, the four-member regency committee signed a decree on the transfer of troops, ordering the Guards and the 1st Infantry Brigade to each transfer a part of their troops, together with the 1,000 young men recruited by the Asunción government, to rush to the port of Antequera on the route of the coalition army and the town of Lynchio in the northern suburbs of Asunción to garrison the resistance, and then after completing the delay mission, the surviving troops were divided into two routes, one was led by the Guards Major Buchanlan, and returned to Asunción, The other route, led by Polk, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Brigade, turned to the back of the rebel coalition forces by land, and attacked and disrupted the logistics supply routes of the rebel coalition forces in the form of scattered attacks.

On the afternoon of 9 June 1889, a day after the order was issued, reinforcements of 1,800 troops, consisting of the 1st Guards Division, the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Brigade and 1,000 temporarily recruited soldiers, arrived in the town of Lynchio and the port of Antequera.

Twenty-one years ago, during the First Paraguayan War, Paraguayan troops led by López Jr. and the coalition forces composed of Brazil and Argentina fought a tug-of-war between the two places for 11 months.

The war 21 years earlier ended in a crushing victory for Paraguay, but 21 years later, when the two sides of the battle were replaced by the rebel coalition and the four-man regent, the intensity of the war was greatly reduced.

At noon on June 10, the first part of the rebel coalition army arrived in the port of Antequla, and immediately launched a tentative attack on the port garrison.

On 12 June, the rebel coalition joined the siege of the port of Antquera with 3,000 soldiers.

At 9 a.m. on June 15, the first section of the port garrison mutinied, and a defensive gap appeared in the high ground near the western part of the port.

At 11 a.m., more than 200 rebel coalition soldiers entered the defensive positions along the inner line of the port along the gap, and the defense system of the port of Antequera showed signs of collapse.

At 13 o'clock in the afternoon, the number of rebel coalition soldiers who poured into the defensive positions of the inner line of the port exceeded 1,000, and the core fortress of the port was in danger of being surrounded on all sides.

At 14 o'clock in the afternoon, the commander of the third battalion of the 1st Brigade led the remnants of more than 200 soldiers to evacuate without authorization, and the defensive flank of the Guards headquarters was exposed.

At 16 o'clock in the afternoon, the white flag was raised at the fortress of the stone fort in the port of Antequera, and the major of the Guards Bucanlan and the commander of the port garrison led about 800 soldiers out of the stone fort and announced the surrender.

The Battle of Antequera lasted for six days, and of the more than 1,400 soldiers stationed in the port, excluding more than 300 who had fled, about 300 of the remaining 1,100 soldiers were killed or wounded, and about 800 surrendered and were forcibly dispersed and replenished into the rebel coalition forces.

On the fourth day after the end of the Battle of Antequera, the main forces of the Rebel Coalition arrived in the town of Lynchio.

After the fall of Port Antequla, the four-member Regency Committee sent another 500 regular troops to the town of Lynchio, in addition to the first reinforcements.

After receiving two reinforcements, the defensive strength of Lynchio Town reached 2,000 people, but there were only more than 1,200 troops with real combat effectiveness, and about 800 temporarily recruited soldiers remained, either baby soldiers who were only eleven or twelve years old, or old soldiers who were over forty-five years old.

The lack of men of appropriate age is evident in all Paraguayan forces, but compared to the armed forces controlled by the four-man regency committee, which has more than twice the regular strength of the opposing side, the situation faced by the rebel coalition is much better than that of the four-man regent.

On June 21, the battle for Lynzio began, and at the beginning of the war, the rebel coalition forces invested heavy weapons such as field mountain artillery, gunboat guns, and Gatling hand-cranked machine guns to cover the infantry to launch an attack.

On 23 June, the third night of the fighting, the defenders abandoned their positions in and around the town, armed only with rifles they had with them, and fled in the direction of Asunción.

On 24 June, more than 600 rebel soldiers entered the suburbs of Asunción along the route of Lynchio's rout.

On 26 June, after leaving a small number of troops again to maintain order in the rear supply routes, the main force of the rebel coalition, with a total strength of 10,000 men, arrived in the area of Puerto Ayes in western Asunción.

On 27 June, 4,000 rebel coalition soldiers launched an all-out offensive against Asunción from the direction of Lynchio and Puerto Ayes in the west.

On 28 June, the rebel coalition broke through the two outer lines set up by the four-member Regency Committee outside the city and approached the core of Asunción.

On June 30, the rebel coalition sent 3,000 reinforcements to the western front, and on the battlefield, the front-line combatants on the rebel coalition side reached nearly 7,000.

On 1 July, the last defensive position deployed by the four-member Regency Council outside the city fell, and the forward forces of the rebel coalition advanced to a position only 8 kilometers from the Royal Palace of Asunción.

On 3 July, the four-member Regency Council agreed that the naval fleet (in fact, the river fleet) would take on the task of counterattacking and sailing north from the lower Paraguayan region to strike at sea against the rebel coalition forces.

At 14 o'clock on the afternoon of July 4, when the main forces of the rebel coalition were assembled under the city of Asunción and were carrying out a new attack on the defenders of Asunción, the naval fleet commanded by Rear Admiral Falcon suddenly turned backwards to the port of Ayes in the west of Asunción.

Paraguay's water power was mainly in the hands of the four-man Regency Council, and the forts and river forts in Puerto Ayes had also been damaged in more than half of the previous war, so the rebel coalition side that was suddenly attacked by the water power of the four-man Regency Committee was not able to organize a strong counterattack.

At 6 p.m., the water battle in Port Ayers lasted four hours, and the convoy of the rebel coalition troops docked in nearby ports and rivers lost more than half of its condensation, and more than two-thirds of its ammunition and supplies.

At 19 o'clock in the afternoon, when the naval fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Falcon had withdrawn for half an hour, some units equipped with large artillery arrived on the battlefield.

After the battle of Port Ayes, the imbalance between the water forces in the hands of the rebel coalition and the four-man regency committee was further widened.

In the days following 4 July, Rear Admiral Falcon commanded a naval fleet to frequently attack and detour the lines of communication on the water controlled by the rebelling coalition forces.

The combination of unfavorable factors such as the attack on the sea transport and supply routes, the loss of more than two-thirds of the ammunition and supplies initially stockpiled, forced the rebel side to reduce the intensity of the offensive on the front line and delay the final timetable for the occupation of Asunción.

The war in Paraguay has entered a white-hot phase, and the two sides of the rebel coalition and the four-member regency committee continue to fight fiercely under the city of Asunción, and the situation is deadlocked, while the Brazilian Republic sees the opportunity of the Paraguayan civil war and is busy mobilizing troops to make final preparations for the official dispatch of troops to Paraguay.

In the face of the impact of the changes in Paraguay, the Han State only paid close attention to the military, intelligence, and diplomacy.

In other respects, normal construction activities are still carried out in accordance with the development strategy formulated earlier.

On June 2, 1889, Tesla arrived in South America, and in order to express his importance to Tesla, Li Mingyuan sent several local scholars who served in the Academy of Sciences to Songjiang Port to greet him in person on his behalf.

On June 3, 1889, the Han Academy of Sciences issued a letter of appointment, officially appointing Tesla as an academician of the Physics Branch of the Han Academy of Sciences.

In the field of science and academics, in addition to inviting Tesla to work in the local area, the Academy of Chemical Sciences also adheres to Li Mingyuan's instructions.

Taking advantage of Hanguo's first-mover advantage and academic influence in the international chemical community, it openly invites academic exchanges to the chemical circles of all countries in the world.

On June 5th, at the age of 34, the young chemist Richard ?? Sigmundi (b. 1865) was the first to accept the invitation.

On June 6, the German scholar Emile?? Fisher (born in 1852), German expert in organic chemistry Adolf ?? Feng?? Beyer and the two announced that they would accept the invitation of the Han Academy of Chemical Sciences.

On June 9, the number of people who announced that they had accepted the invitation had expanded to more than 60 people, among whom William would be the future winner of the Nobel Chemist Prize. Vastwald (b. 1853, German), Otto?? Wallach (b. 1847, German), Arrhenius (b. 1850, Swede), Emile?? Filsie and eleven others.

The number of scholars who accepted the invitation of the Han Academy of Sciences continued to increase, and during the same period, the Han Navy's plan to purchase ships also quickly came to fruition.

On June 15, 1889, the Han Navy signed a formal ship purchase agreement with the British Pembroke Shipyard, which stipulated that the Han Navy would purchase two Orlando-class armored cruisers from the British Pembroke Shipyard, one of which would be built in London, England, and the other would be constructed at the Xinjing Shipyard by experts and technicians dispatched by the Pembroke Shipyard to assist the personnel transferred from the three major local shipyards.

Of the two armored cruisers, the cost of the warships built in London was calculated at £210,000 each. The Orlando-class armored cruisers built in the country will be equipped with design drawings, technology transfer, training of technicians, subsidies for British experts and technicians, etc., and the total cost is initially estimated to be about 400,000 pounds. It's twice the price of an ordinary warship.

Learning and absorbing the shipbuilding technology of European powers while purchasing from abroad is the basic guiding principle for the development of local ship technology. Therefore, although it was necessary to pay the price of an extra armored cruiser, the Han side agreed to sign a contract for the purchase of the ship at the price proposed by Pembroke Shipyard.

The issue of inviting European chemists and signing the ship purchase contract was resolved one after another, and on the fifth day after the signing of the ship purchase contract,

Another bill involving the interests of all strata of the people in the country has been enacted.

On June 20, 1889, in order to further promote the growth of the local population, the Han government enacted a more detailed law to encourage fertility.

The specific contents of the bill include: 1. Raise the standard of birth incentives, and increase the reward standards for each child born and raised from 5 acres of land to 8 acres for free!

Encourage every woman of school age to have 6 children! For families with more than 6 children, additional policy guarantees in terms of land and tax exemption will be given!

Second, intensify the construction of medical and health care and education systems!

It is mandatory for each state to establish at least one medical school, and the funds for the establishment and maintenance of medical schools are shared by the central government and local state governments.

It stipulates that the teaching mode of the state medical colleges is mainly clinical medicine, and the investment in childbirth, infant and child treatment, etc., must account for more than one-third of the total financial allocation.

Third, the entry procedures for women of appropriate age will be simplified, and local residents will be encouraged to intermarry with overseas women.

Naturalization is in principle permitted for women of appropriate age imported from coastal areas of the Indian Ocean, as long as they meet the entry criteria. (Han transport ships pass through the waters of the Indian Ocean, bringing with them a group of local women every time they return.) ）

The population issue involved the future development of the Han Dynasty, and the implementation of the policy of encouraging childbirth, and the use of a large amount of state-owned land as a policy reward to distribute to the families who had children, although the price was much higher than that of indiscriminating and unprincipled acceptance of various ethnic groups, but after suffering the great losses left by their ancestors, Li Mingyuan and his officers and soldiers would not choose such a way to increase the population.

In addition, the Han side not only did not relax the requirements on the policy of introducing other ethnic groups, but also tightened the entry threshold for Europeans because some Europeans carried out illegal activities in their own country under the guise of investment.

After 1885, the economic development of the Han Kingdom entered the second peak period, and the demand for capital on the local side increased.

In order to use overseas funds to accelerate local infrastructure and industrial development,

The local government not only relaxed the restrictions on European capital, but also gave certain preferential policies to foreign capital investing in the fields of basic transportation and industrial construction. After the policy of encouraging foreign investment was issued, a large amount of capital from Germany, France, the United Kingdom and other countries poured into the Han mainland, and among these overseas capitals, in addition to the formal enterprises that really made commercial investments, there were also some teams of swindlers composed of hooligans, ruffians and even wanted criminals.

When such people arrive at the port of inspection on the home coast, more than 80 percent of them will be exposed on the spot and then sent back to the ship.

A small number of adventurers who can speak Spanish and Portuguese, and are clever and willing to take money to do things, after screening, have the opportunity to be placed as intelligence agents in Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and other countries as part of the intelligence construction source of the Han country, collecting intelligence for the Han government in different aspects.

The other part of the opportunistic whites who were physically qualified and capable of fighting were recruited into the Foreign Legion as part of the second-line military forces of the Han State, and were scattered and placed in various areas of the Congolese colony, responsible for assisting the Congolese colonial governorate in maintaining local order.

In addition to the above three groups of people, there are also a very small number of people who are lucky enough to escape inspection, enter the territory of the Han Kingdom, and then rely on clever and cunning means to take advantage of some loopholes in the local foreign law to carry out some activities that violate the law.

The economic development of the Han Kingdom has maintained a trend of rapid growth, although only a very small number of whites have escaped inspection and entered the local area, but in order to strengthen the management of public security and eliminate the possibility of white Europeans infiltrating the territory to steal all aspects of intelligence,

On June 24, 1889, on June 24, 1889, the Han government deliberated and passed the Economic Investment Management Act, which clearly defined the criteria for outsiders to be allowed to invest in the country, raised the entry threshold, and increased the punishment for illegal entrants and unfavorable officials.

The promulgation of the "Management Act" is part of the policy improvement and refinement in the rapid development of the Han economy, and with the further development and improvement of the Han economy, comprehensive national strength, international status and other aspects in the future, more perfect and detailed bills will also be promulgated and implemented.