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Unlike the IDF, which paid a great deal for the newly occupied land, López Jr. waited for his work, occupying the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and the Argentine province of Misiones while the IDF held the Brazilian army back, nearly doubling the size of the country with only a small number of troops.

López Jr.'s actions were certainly motivated by national interests, but in the eyes of many of the Wehrmacht's generals, Paraguay not only stood by and watched the Wehrmacht's most critical moment, but took the opportunity to occupy the Argentine province of Misiones after the decisive victory of the Wehrmacht.

As the head of the Quad Alliance, López Jr. failed to fulfill his responsibilities as an ally after Brazil declared war on Rio Grande do Sul.

López Jr.'s performance in the war caused a rift in the relationship, so the Wehrmacht was not involved in the battle between the Brazilian army and the Paraguayan army in the state of Magrosso do Sul.

After the end of the melee, the South American region gradually returned to calm, and the British side was busy helping France out of the crisis after the Prussian king became emperor, and was doing various things to prevent Germany from dominating Europe.

Once again, the great victory in foreign wars, the influence of the National Defense Force has become more and more influential among overseas Chinese, and overseas Chinese such as Chen Jinzhong, Hu Yaji, and Zhang Fanglin have joined Rio Gran do Sul under the recruitment of branches of the National Defense Forces such as the Taiping Society.

Under the persuasion and arrangement of the responsible persons of the bases set up by the National Defense Forces on the mainland, Huang Naishang, Xi Zhengpu, and Wu Tiaoqing also agreed to join Rio Gran do Sul and serve the National Defense Forces in the southern concession of the mainland as foreigners.

From the end of the large-scale war in late 1870 to the proclamation of Li Mingyuan as King of Han in 1875, the domestic rubber industry and related products have always been monopolized, providing major economic support for large-scale emigration.

Since 1875, European traders have been secretly smuggling rubber seeds from Han and Brazil to Nanyang and other places, and some bicycles imitating the Han system have also begun to appear on the market.

Li Mingyuan understood that Han alone could not prevent the development of the rubber industry and the spread of bicycle technology, so Li Mingyuan used the rubber sources and bicycle patent technology under his control in exchange for the recognition of Han by various countries, and agreed to carry out economic and diplomatic cooperation with Han.

After allowing Britain, France, Germany and other countries to obtain rubber seeds from Han and transplant them to the colonies, Han's advantages in the rubber industry did not disappear in a short period of time, but because of the development of the third industrial revolution, the use of rubber was expanded, and Han's income in the rubber industry also showed a rapid upward trend.

In 1875, Li Mingyuan announced the establishment of the Han State, which was independent of Brazil, and the Chinese in South America officially had an independent national identity, while in the mainland, from the beginning of the year, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Shaanxi, and Henan successively experienced rare large-scale droughts. In the four years from 1875 to 1878, more than 10 million people starved to death due to lack of food, and more than 20 million people fled to other places. Although the poor harvest brought disaster to ordinary people, it gave officials and businessmen a higher chance of making a fortune than in a good harvest year.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters caused a catastrophe that swept half of China, and Li Mingyuan, who was far away in South America, received the news and immediately ordered the merchant ships of the ocean shipping company and the Shikoku shipping company belonging to the Han Kingdom to go to the Far East to receive refugees.

After five or six years of expansion, the original Rio Gran do Sul shipping company has reached 300 ships, more than half of which have a displacement of 1,000 tons, and can transport 100,000 migrants at a time, and thanks to the cooperation accumulated over the years with other countries, Han can hire more ships to transport refugees.

The vast fleet either departed from South America or hired a fleet of local Chinese merchants in the South Seas to transport refugees from the mainland to northern Annam or the Natuna Islands, and then another fleet transported the refugees to South America.

After the end of the nearly four-year operation to rush Chinese refugees regardless of the cost, the number of Chinese in Han surged to 5.2 million, plus about 100,000 white Argentines who were willing to naturalize, the total population of Han exceeded 5.3 million, and the population exceeded that of Argentina, which lost its northern provinces, and in the southern region of South America, the population is second only to Brazil and Peru, and it is a veritable populous country in South America.

Due to the large number of people affected by the disaster in the mainland area, in addition to the Han refugees who directly migrated to South America, a large number of refugees were also stranded in the two northern provinces of Annam and the Natuna Islands controlled by the National Defense Forces.

The total population of Quang Ninh and Lang Son provinces in the north of Annam was only more than 500,000, and after receiving refugees from the mainland, the population reached 2 million at its peak, and even if refugees were continuously sent to South America, by the beginning of 1878, the number of refugees left behind was more than 700,000, and the population of the small provinces of Quang Ninh and Lang Son exceeded 1.3 million.

Guangning and Lang Son are the bridgeheads and Nanyang immigration bases for obtaining immigrants from the mainland, and a large number of refugees gathered in the local areas have attracted the attention of the Qing government, and the news of the emergence of a new Chinese country in South America has also reached the ears of the Manchu high-level through various channels, and the Han State has been obstructed by many Manchu governments in the process of accepting refugees, if it were not for the serious corruption of Qing government officials, the bribery of those responsible for the Han in the mainland and the fear that tens of millions of refugees will accumulate in the country, Triggering a Taiping-style uprising again, the Han State was unable to obtain such a large number of immigrants in four years.

In order to transport refugees from the Far East to South America, Li Mingyuan not only exhausted the wealth accumulated over the past 10 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, but also issued a treasury bond to Chinese businessmen at home and abroad to complete the transportation and resettlement of refugees.

If the Han Kingdom in South America wants to develop and grow, it needs to obtain a steady stream of population from the Far East, so although the Han Kingdom in South America cannot digest the excess population at this stage, Li Mingyuan does not intend to give up the plan to recruit Chinese, according to careful consideration, Li Mingyuan ordered Mei Dongxing, who succeeded Sun Bin in charge of the affairs of the two northern provinces of Annam, to transfer the excess population in the control area to Songkhla, Yela, Pattani, Kelantan and other places in the Central Malay Peninsula to increase the proportion of Chinese there.

Mei Dongxing and Long Hongbang are the same as the leaders of the Chinese workers gang from Australia, after choosing to defect to Li Mingyuan, Mei Dongxing and his other friend Huang Wenzhu did not choose to join the army, but started from a low-level civilian official, assisted Long Hongbang in dealing with the immigration affairs of Chinese workers, and was later transferred to the Annan area to accept the jurisdiction of Sun Bin, because Mei Dongxing performed well in the Annan area, he was promoted to Sun Bin's deputy step by step, after Sun Bin left Annam in 1877, recommended Mei Dongxing as the governor of Nanyang and was recognized by Li Mingyuan, And Mei Dongxing also became the fastest promoted one of the factions within the Han State that did not follow Li Mingyuan's uprising.

When Mei Dongxing first came to the throne, he did not dare to slack off after accepting Li Mingyuan's order, and while sending people to communicate with Wu Jin, the lord of Songkhla, he carefully studied the situation in the Sino-Malay Peninsula.

Although the central part of the Malay Peninsula is nominally under Thai jurisdiction, it is in fact ruled by the Goh clan.

Since the reign of the ancestor Wu Rang in Songkhla in 1775, the scope of the Wu clan has continued to expand, and at the height of its rule,

The Wu clan ruled not only in Songkhla, but also in the three provinces of Pattani, Tao Kong, and Yala in present-day Thailand, as well as the four states of Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah, and Perlis in Malaysia, all of which were also controlled.

By 1878, Goh had lost control of Kedah, Perlis, and Terengganu, and the remaining areas such as Kelantan and Pattani were also under threat of force from the British colonists.

The small size of the Goh regime and its subsequent division by Britain and Thailand were not only because Britain and Thailand had reached an agreement on the division of power between the two countries on the Malay Peninsula, but also because of the weakness of the Goh regime itself.

Like other Chinese regimes in Nanyang, the Wu regime was not supported and protected by the mainland mother country, and its nominal suzerain, Thailand, had always wanted to remove the independence and secession of the Wu regime, and the Wu regime lacked talented and ambitious successors, so it could only survive in the cracks of the great powers, and was finally divided and annexed by other countries.

The Nanyang Chinese regimes such as Ha Xian, Dai Yan, and Shun Ta perished one after another, and the only two remaining Chinese regimes, the Wu regime, were in danger, and the Lanfang Company, which had taken refuge in the Dutch, had lost its independence, and it was easy to be wiped out by the Dutch without the intervention of foreign forces.

Wu Jin, the current lord of the Wu regime, was one of the more capable city lords of Songkhla, so after seeing the dangerous situation facing the Wu regime, Wu Jin has been looking for support from outside forces, initially bribing several Qing officials to seek protection from the Manchu court through them, but never getting a reply, and his attempts to improve relations with the Thai government have not been successful.

Just after Wu Jin sought protection from other forces everywhere and to no avail, Sun Bin sent people to get in touch with him, and then a few years passed, the South American Han State behind Sun Bin gradually developed, and the military, intelligence and other forces of the National Defense Force in Nanyang steadily improved, this change made Wu Jin see the hope of maintaining the survival of the regime, so on the basis of the initial commercial cooperation between the two parties, Wu Jin continued to increase cooperation with Sun Bin, not only allowing the South American Han Kingdom to expand the scale of the business in Songkhla and other places, in 1876, The two sides also signed a military agreement whereby the National Defense Forces stationed 1,500 troops in Kelantan, under the administration of the Wu regime, to guard against the expansion of British colonial powers, and to maintain the safety of the shipping lanes of the Han ocean-going fleet, and to provide another supply point and transit base for the migrant fleet in the South Seas.

It took about two days for the messengers to sail by boat from Jinpu, the garrison of the Nanyang Governor of the Wehrmacht, to deliver the card, and after sending the messenger, Mei Dongxing soon received the news that Li Wencai, the former general of the Taiping Army, had arrived in Jinpu.