The fleet of the British, who knew nothing about the filthy relations between Liang Pengfei and other Western countries, was slowly galloping towards Manila, and Liang Pengfei had already begun to prepare for war in full swing, and during this period of time, from Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and even Jiangsu and Shandong, every month, many people who had lost their land would leave their homeland and go south by boat under the secret instigation and inducement of some people.

After completing supplies and repairs on Yonaguni Island, he headed south to the various developing islands in the South Seas.

Each homeless person will be given 100 acres of land on the southern islands, whether you want to engage in agriculture or planting, there will be professional guidance and free agricultural tools. The tax exemption period is up to five years, and if it is newly cultivated land, the tax exemption period is as high as 20 years.

In addition, the displaced people will live in a concentrated manner to form a new type of village-style production mode, which is named a rural cooperative by Liang Pengfei, a shameless traverser, and can maximize the use of limited labor to develop more land under the unified allocation of labor.

The Chinese slaves who were liberated and free under the hands of Liang Pengfei and the Chinese Federation soldiers regained their freedom, and they would work and live together with other Chinese people, and every living Chinese slave received a large amount of compensation from the slave owners.

In the face of great power, the European slave owners had only two choices: to take up arms and resist senselessly, or to free all the Chinese slaves on their plantations and give them material compensation.

But Liang Pengfei did not completely eliminate slaves on the islands of the South Seas out of political considerations, because those European manor owners are now creating wealth for him, and without these suitable laborers, many manors would be abandoned because of this, and among these European manor owners, not all of them are the kind of guys who eat people and do not spit out bones, many of them are because of the excessive exploitation of the Dutch East India Company, which makes them have to work hard to reduce their production costs, which makes the life of slaves difficult. And what Liang Pengfei needs is long-term development, not plundering like killing chickens and eggs. So those indigenous slaves were also treated slightly better than before.

Of course, there are also some stubborn manor owners who are full of hatred for Liang Pengfei and the rule of the Huaxia Federation in Nanyang, and Liang Pengfei naturally does not mind burying these people under the soil of the manor to become high-quality fertilizer.

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Although many Europeans left Liang Pengfei's ruling area, there were also many people who stayed, and in Liang Pengfei's ruled area, there were about 70,000 civilians and gold diggers from Western countries.

Even those who are left without any skills, as long as they are willing, either become mercenaries, or acquire land like the Chinese people, and use their own hands to create tomorrow.

As for the indigenous tribes on the islands, after feeling the relatively moderate way of ruling the Chinese that is completely different from the Westerners, they also began to come out of the primitive jungle, accept the repeated influence of Chinese culture, accept Confucian culture, and strive to learn to be a civilized person.

They were given a lot of jobs in exchange for enough food and necessities, such as mining, such as building roads, Liang Pengfei did not need them to engage in planting, he only needed these natives to engage in these two decades or even hundreds of years of Nanyang development work, with roads, the Chinese could build one town after another on these islands, closely link them, and be able to concentrate the army in the shortest possible time, rush to any place, to quell all unnecessary resistance and chaos.

The natives of Java and other islands in the South Seas, who were hostile to the Chinese, were greeted by more brutal battles than the Dutch, and these natives of the South Seas, who were originally greedy for life and afraid of death, wisely chose to surrender in the face of strong force.

Most of them were moved away from the islands where they lived, and were transported by ships to unfamiliar islands, such as Australia, where they worked hard and were under the supervision of the armed men to either build castles or forts, roads, or mines. Moreover, as the expedition fleet of the Chinese Federation moved southeast, every place suitable for building a port would bring in thousands or tens of thousands of natives to build supply ports and fortresses for the Chinese Federation in the coastal areas of Australia, so that Liang Pengfei could implement the southward migration strategy.

However, the displaced people from Guangxi to the south entered the territory of Annan directly under the escort of Annan's army, and whether it was the border guards or sailors of Liangguang, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places, they had long turned a blind eye to this matter under the offensive of money.

Moreover, if those displaced people who have lost their land wander or stay in the local area, it will also cause chaos in public order, and even become one of the root causes of the Xiangma bandits, so the magistrate has also adopted a silent attitude towards this, as long as it is not too much, as for those gentry, they will either sing all day long, or show their extraordinary talent and grace in the restaurant, where do they have time to care about the people's livelihood and suffering, unless they become officials, Occasionally, he hummed a couple of sentences to show how much he loved his profession and the people under his rule, and that's it.

But now, Liang Pengfei has issued a new order, and the southbound refugees will be led to Annam first, after all, now the British have come with guns, cannons, and battleships, and he doesn't want his compatriots to lose their lives for a new hope of life.

Anyway, Annan is in the hands of Liang Pengfei, and besides, increasing the proportion of Han nationality in Annan is something that Liang Pengfei is happy to see. Anyway, there are many Chinese, you know, Liang Pengfei just learned the news from the Di newspaper a few days ago, and now, the population of the world is more than 37,467,200, and this is just an official number.

Therefore, Liang Pengfei is very ambitious, the Chinese nation has far surpassed those Western countries just by relying on the number of population, and Nanyang happens to be a very good place to digest the population, more than 300 million people, even if it is a tenth of it, that is more than 30 million people, in this era, this population has surpassed France, the most powerful and most populous country in Europe.

But now, it is only the early stage of immigration, and the number of immigrants every month is not much, 20,000 when there is more, more than 10,000 when there is less, but Liang Pengfei is not worried, because, in a short time, a White Lotus Sect uprising of unprecedented scale will be launched vigorously throughout the six provinces of Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, Gansu, and Hunan, involving a total of 204 prefectures, prefectures, counties, departments, and guards.

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In order to quell this uprising, the Manchu rulers requisitioned troops from 16 provinces across the country, and spent 20,000 taels of silver, which was equivalent to the financial revenue of the Qing government axe for five years at that time, and this uprising also greatly weakened the strength of the Qing army, causing the Qing army to lose more than 20 senior generals of the first and second grades, and more than 400 officers below the rank of deputy general and staff general.

This uprising, which lasted for nine years and four months, became an important pause in the decline of the Qing Dynasty, and the arrival of Liang Pengfei will make the direction of this history full of countless variables.

At that time, Liang Pengfei believed that more, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people would flee their homes, and at that time, Liang Pengfei believed that it was not a dream that Nanyang would become the backyard of the Chinese nation, but a realistic prospect.

Now, Liang Pengfei began to consciously spread the news that the British were going to attack the mainland, of course, with those maritime merchants as the main body, spreading rumors in Liangguang, Fujian, Zhejiang, and even Shandong and Zhili, saying that the British were very dissatisfied with the court's rejection of their demands, and decided to use force to force the court to agree to their demands.

Of course, in the era when the top of the ruling class in the whole country was busy vying for power and profit, the middle and lower class officials were busy scraping the ground, and the big guys were chanting in unison to sing and dance to promote peace, the rumors that the barbarians wanted to invade our glorious Celestial Empire would only become a joke for these officials and gentry after dinner.

Although these rumors are used as a laughing stock, but the rumors are still spreading and continuing, and some people are curious, are those British so stupid that they dare to do it?

As a result, some people began to pick up the books and newspapers about the West that they had thought were heresies and went back to studying, and some people may have gained something, while others have nothing to gain, and they only regard it as a boasting act by Westerners.

What's more, a person even specially took out an article describing the first-class battleships of the West at a gathering in the Qinglou in front of a literary giant who was in the process of making a notebook. was actually ridiculed by his erudite and well-informed, astronomical and all-knowing poetry and books as gods and monster novelists like the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Fengshen List.

Only a few people, like Zhao Yi, who are wise enough to understand the strength of Western countries, have realized the seriousness of the problem, but there is nothing they can do, and they can only show their close attention and concern about the current rumors when they exchange letters with friends, but all they can reach is this.

(To be continued)