After the successful acquisition of the San Javier iron ore mine, the war between Paraguay and Argentina had little to do with Rio Gran do Sul, and Li Mingyuan also set his sights more on domestic development.

The rubber industry is the pillar industry in the planning, and after the discovery of wild rubber trees, some laborers with experience in plantations are selected to take care of the rubber forests scattered in various places, and select suitable fields in the area near the discovery of rubber trees as a base for artificial transplanting of rubber trees.

The development of the rubber industry is a gradual process, Li Mingyuan first planned to introduce wild rubber trees, and carry out large-scale artificial planting within two years to form a dense rubber planting area, replace Brazil's monopoly position, and make Rio Gran do Sul a major supplier of rubber raw materials in the world. Then, while introducing rubber industry technology from Europe, it also trained its own rubber industry technicians in Rio Gran do Sul, established an independent rubber industry system, and made various types of industrial products through the upgrading of rubber raw materials to obtain greater economic profits.

After two months of hard work by the Chinese, most of the industrial equipment purchased from Prussia is in the stage of factory construction and installation, and some of the light industrial machinery and equipment involved in the production of daily life products have been properly installed and started to produce products due to their relatively low technical requirements.

Rio Grande do Sul is in a state of construction in full swing, and the transportation of Cuban Chinese workers is also coming to an end, and on February 4, the last group of Chinese workers departed from the island of Youth in Cuba, which means that the transportation operation has come to an end.

The transport operation lasted more than three months, employing more than 270 ships of various types, plus more than 120 ships with a tonnage of more than 500 tons dispatched from Rio Gran do Sul, using more than 400 ships, transporting $7 million and transporting 120,000 Chinese laborers.

From the end of the 16th century, when the first batch of Chinese set sail from the Philippines to the American continent, by February 1869, more than 700,000 Chinese laborers were transported to the Americas, and more than 300,000 Chinese laborers survived due to factors such as death during the voyage and death from overwork.

The total number of Chinese laborers rescued from Peru was 150,000, about 20,000 were killed in previous battles, 120,000 Cuban Chinese laborers arrived in Rio Grande do Sul, and 500 Caribbean Chinese voluntarily emigrated to Rio Grande do Sul.

The number of Chinese workers in Cuba is more than 120,000, and due to various factors, more than 20,000 Chinese workers are still in the local area, some of whom are involved in the armed rebels, hoping to overthrow the colonial rule of the Spaniards, and then the Cubans will give the Chinese normal national status.

Some of them were free Chinese who were responsible for the Spanish colonizers, who had previously suppressed their own people in exchange for the appointment of the Spaniards, fearing that they would be settled after the fall when they came to Rio Grande do Sul, and generally speaking, people like them had a lot of land wealth in the local area, and the thirty to one hundred acres of land opened up by Rio Gran do Sul could not impress them.

The third group was the most numerous, and their experience was the most miserable, in Cuba, some plantation and farm owners regarded their Chinese as slaves for private wealth, and they were unwilling to let the Chinese leave, so many Chinese had to stay in Cuba and continue to live as slaves.

Life is not only bright but also dark side, and for the whole society in the second half of the nineteenth century, interests are the most valued things in European countries, Africans, Asians are just lowly races in their eyes, killing them does not need legal trial, and as white Europeans, people of different nationalities will also be treated differently, Ireland is part of the British Empire, but the Irish do not enjoy the benefits of the prosperity of the British Empire.

From 1845 to 1850, there was a great famine in Ireland, Britain did not help the hungry Irish civilians in the case of abundant food, and sat back and watched more than one million people starve to death in Ireland.

Heavy labor overwhelmed Chinese and Irish workers, and tens of thousands of Irish workers died on the railroad tracks.

During this period, although the status of the white people was higher than that of the Chinese, as railway workers, the Irish workers and the Chinese laborers did the same amount of labor.

In this era, Li Mingyuan tried his best to help the Chinese workers in the Americas, but some places that were out of reach of Rio Gran do Sul could only be put on hold for the time being, leaving them to help the Chinese workers there in the future when the country was strong.

The demographic work was ongoing, and after Sun Bin returned from Prussia, Liu Pu, Zhao Yan, and Sun Bin were responsible for managing the migration while dealing with other matters.

In the study in the backyard of the castle, Liu Pu and the three took out more than a dozen record books, one by one and placed them on the desk.

"After the Rio Grande do Sul sweep operation, the subordinates arranged for men to continue to absorb women of working age from Paraguay, and before the outbreak of the conflict in Misiones, 2,000 women of working age were recruited, and in December, after our army reached an agreement with Paraguay on the exchange of weapons for the population, the speed of recruiting the population was rapidly accelerated, and as of two days ago, from December to the beginning of February, a total of 11,000 Paraguayan women of working age were recruited, and 1.7 million silver dollars and 300 tons of grain were paid."

Zhao Yan opened a notebook with dense numbers and said.

"Little López has received the weapons and ammunition we delivered, and another batch of silver dollars and food, it seems that they can hold out a little longer in Misiones." Li Mingyuan thought secretly.

"The prince misunderstood, 1.7 million silver dollars and 300 tons of grain are compensation paid to Paraguayan women, and they will not fall into the hands of López Jr." Zhao Yan explained.

"That's not necessarily, the Paraguayans are fighting in the province of Misiones, they need a lot of money and food support, 1.7 million silver dollars is not a small amount, and López Jr. is likely to be eyeing this money and taking advantage of it."

The Chinese recruited Paraguayan women on the condition of paying 150 silver dollars and a month's grain, which was usually worthless, but in Paraguay after the war, a month's grain could help them survive the critical period of food shortage until the new grain harvest, and 150 silver dollars could provide the common people with ten years of living and make them live a good life.

In order to attract Paraguayan women to marry Chinese, Rio Gran do Sul offers a very good price and attractive living conditions.

When Paraguayan women agree to emigrate, food is distributed to their families as soon as possible, and silver dollars are personally distributed to them for their own disposal.

With 150 silver dollars, most Paraguayan women keep the money for their families and keep some of it for themselves.

In Rio Grande do Sul, the Chinese who were able to marry their wives were generally meritorious soldiers and officers, and they generally owned a large amount of land, so the Chinese recruited in Paraguay often used the land as a sign to attract Paraguayan female immigrants, promising that they could become landowners after marrying the Chinese, without worrying about being oppressed by the big landowners in their hometowns.

The use of land to attract Paraguayan women did not have much effect at first, they did not believe that there would be more than 300 acres of land after marrying Chinese, but with the first batch of Paraguayan women who married Chinese to return home to visit relatives, their real life in Rio Gran do Sul was also known to other Paraguayans, so more and more women of working age chose to immigrate in order to eat enough to not starve to death and to obtain a large amount of land.

Li Mingyuan is concerned about the high enough women who have emigrated to balance the gender ratio in the country, and whether López Jr. will annex the silver dollars and food that Paraguayan women leave to their families is none of his business.

The call for a monarchy in Paraguay is getting louder and louder, and for the sake of fame, López Jr. may not take advantage of the "selling money" of Paraguayan women under his rule. But ordinary Paraguayan officials will not do nothing in the face of a group of civilians who have been poor for a long time.

"Paraguay's comprehensive strength is not comparable to Argentina's, even if López Jr. loots the silver dollars we handed over to the Paraguayan women's families, at most he will maintain the offensive of the troops for a period of time, and he will not be able to change the overall situation."

Li Mingyuan said softly, put his gaze back on the thin book on the desk, glanced at it a few times, felt a little strange, and asked, "There are 15,000 naturalized women in the early stage, plus the number of immigrants this time, it should be 28,700, the data recorded in the book is 34,000, what is the matter with the extra 5,000?" ”

"That's right, after the occupation of Santa Catarina, the vast majority of the captured Brazilian army was composed of locals, and when exchanging prisoners with Brazil, they were sent out of Rio Gran do Sul by us like other captives, reducing more than 4,000 local young men, and the number of white women in Santa Catarina far exceeded that of white men, so many white women chose to marry Chinese as wives, and the number of naturalized women also increased a lot."

Liu Pu explained.

"Well, that's good." Li Mingyuan nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "The men of the Han family are no worse than white people, and it is a wise choice for them to take the initiative to marry their brothers."

Sun Bin, you are responsible for publicizing the advantages of our Han people to our neighboring countries, and encouraging more school-age women from other countries to marry Han Chinese. ”

"I understand." Sun Bin stood aside and responded with his hand, but his expression seemed unnatural.

"Sun Bin, you haven't spoken in the study, is there something wrong?" Li Mingyuan noticed his abnormality and asked directly.

"Shizi, I have a question in my heart, and I haven't dared to ask Shizi."

"It doesn't hurt to say anything." Li Mingyuan waved his hand.

"The number of Chinese and naturalized women in Rio Gran do Sul is 285,000, and the number of non-naturalized Brazilians is 30,000. The total population is larger than that of Paraguay, which is considered a large country in the region of La Plata. However, the population of Rio Grande do Sul is overwhelmingly Chinese immigrants from other regions, and we lack a base here, and the purchase of machinery and equipment to transport Cuban Chinese consumes a lot of gold reserves, and the 120,000 Chinese workers of the new immigrants need to spend a lot of money to resettle.

His Majesty believed that the current population size of Rio Gran do Sul had reached its limit, and implored the prince to postpone his immigration plan from the mainland and the South Seas for the time being. ”

"The mainland and the South Seas are far away from Rio Grande do Sul, and the cost of transporting Chinese is much higher than the cost of traveling from Cuba to Rio Grande do Sul, so your worries are not unreasonable."

Li Mingyuan closed the notebook, his tone was gentle, and he slowly explained: "Rio Grande do Sul is limited, and a large number of immigrants regardless of national strength will lead to national financial bankruptcy and national turmoil.

The problem of the imbalance in the sex ratio between men and women in Rio Gran do Sul is still very serious, and the action to obtain female immigrants from outside cannot be suspended, after the Cuban immigration, the immigration from the South Seas and the mainland will be dominated by female immigrants, and in view of the current situation of tight gold reserves, the scale of the mainland and Nanyang immigrants has been cut by half, and the first batch of mainland and Nanyang immigrants will be postponed until a month later. ”

After ending the Cuban immigration, sending a fleet to the mainland to transport immigrants was a plan made before the founding of the People's Republic of China, but the atmosphere that had just emerged in Rio Grande do Sul to fight back to the mainland with the help of transporting mainland immigrants made Sun Bin feel dangerous.

Less than five years after the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Hunan Army, the Huai Army, and other troops equipped with Western weapons, which started by destroying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, were large in number and powerful, and were far from being provoked by the current National Defense Force.

Large-scale transportation of Chinese laborers from the mainland is not only unbearable for the national strength of Rio Grande do Sul, but also may cause the vigilance of the Manchu court in advance, Rio Grande do South is far away from the mainland, and the Qing army cannot fight over, but for the sake of immigration, the Wehrmacht fights with the Qing army in the mainland area but the harm is huge, far away from Rio Grande do Sul, the Wehrmacht cannot get effective supplies, and the Western powers regard the mainland as an economic colony, and they certainly do not want the Wehrmacht to crisis the rule of their good house slaves, so that The probability of victory of the Wehrmacht in the battle against the Qing army on the mainland is extremely low.

The establishment of a country by the Chinese in Rio Gran do Sul was a matter of danger and victory, and now that they had a base to settle down, Sun Bin did not want to take the risk of causing Rio Gran do Sul to face the danger of losing his country.

Li Mingyuan was glad to hear Sun Bin's suggestion, but after the conversation, he was left alone.