On April 9, Wu Wenbin and others arrived in Beijing. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Prince Yixuan, the Minister of Military Aircraft, went out of the city for 10 miles to greet Wu Wenbin and others, and set up a banquet in the palace to invite Wu Wenbin and his party, the purpose was to touch the attitude of the Lanfang Kingdom towards the Qing Dynasty.

At the banquet, Wu Wenbin proposed:

met with the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, submitted his credentials, and now he has been appointed as the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Lanfang Kingdom to the Great Qing Dynasty;

An embassy will be set up in Beijing; Consulates have been set up in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing, Fengtian, Xiamen and other places;

The Lanfang Kingdom had to enjoy the most favored nation status in the Qing Dynasty;

opening of the treaty port to the Kingdom of Lanfang; Merchants of the Lanfang Kingdom could not be subject to any restrictions on doing business in the Qing Dynasty;

Those who are willing to immigrate to the Lanfang Kingdom are not restricted by the imperial court.

Yixuan felt that Wu Wenbin did not make excessive requests, so he said that he would definitely ask the emperor to meet the requirements of the Lanfang Kingdom.

Seeing Yixuan's cautious appearance, Wu Wenbin hurriedly gave him a reassurance, and said: "Lord, the king of our Lanfang Kingdom went out from our Qing Dynasty, and the ancestors of our people were also the people of the Qing Dynasty. “

Yixuan felt that the Lanfang Kingdom had no intention of invading the Qing Dynasty, so he was relieved and felt a lot better, "Ambassador Wu is too polite, then this is his own home, you are welcome to go home to worship your ancestors at any time, and it is really rare to think about your hometown after going abroad for so many years." “

"The ancestors also went abroad to work hard because they had no culture, and they suffered a lot of hardships without culture, and this time they specially arranged to go back to their hometown to build a few more schools, which can be regarded as doing a little bit for the hometown fathers."

Welcome the guests and hosts of the banquet to enjoy themselves.

Yixuan begged to see Lafayette overnight and reported the requirements of the Lanfang delegation.

Lafayette received a report from Yi Liang that the Lanfang Kingdom had no intention of attacking the Qing Dynasty, but only demanded the establishment of embassies, the opening of treaty ports, immigration, and the construction of schools.

As long as you don't attack while you're alive, it's okay, and now Lafayette is also relieved, as for those few requirements, they are nothing at all, and they have opened treaty ports to so many countries, and this one is not bad; As for the immigrants, if they are willing to go, they will go, these people will not stay with the imperial court, besides, it is also a good thing to reduce a certain number of Han Chinese, it is better to remove all those who are restless. So Lafayette ordered Yixuan that as long as the Lanfang Kingdom did not unite with the Han people to oppose the imperial court, all its conditions would be met. The current Lafayette was frightened by the Lanfang Kingdom, and even the British Empire was defeated, so it would be easier to fight the Qing Dynasty, so it would be better to wait carefully.

On April 10, Yi Liang informed Wu Wenbin that his conditions had been agreed by the imperial court, and that within two days, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would submit the approval document; It's just that now the emperor is in poor health and can't receive it for the time being, so he can transfer the credentials to His Majesty the Emperor himself.

Wu Wenbin doesn't care if he sees the emperor or not, as long as the conditions for the application are approved.

On the 14th, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs handled the approval documents, and Wu Wenbin immediately telegraphed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom that the formalities had been completed here, and it was time to start transporting grain and salt to this side, and asked the Ministry of Education to arrange teachers here, and the school could open in the second half of the year, and it was necessary to enroll students in advance.

Wu Wenbin began to arrange for people to find an address in Beijing to build an embassy, and at the same time sent people to Tianjin, Mukden, Shanghai, Wuhan, Guangzhou and other places to establish consulates, and people from the Ministry of Commerce and Finance began to prepare for the opening of stores in these places; The people of the Ministry of Education began to build middle and high schools in these places, preparing to select talents for the Lanfang Kingdom.

The embassy staff also began to contact the coastal provinces along the river, began to organize immigrants, and happened to return to the Lanfang Kingdom on a cargo ship transporting grain.

Zhang Wei's requirement is that as long as he is healthy, whether he is a student, a farmer or an orphan, whether he is a ruffian or a bully, as long as he is a Han Chinese, such a requirement makes it much more convenient for the people below.

Zhang Wei's promise to these people is that those who want to farm land will have 20 acres per person, and those who want to work will go to different factories according to their craft, and the salary will definitely support a family of more than 5 people; Orphans are raised by the government until they are 18 years old, and the country that wants to go to school can eat and drink, and they can get scholarships, and they don't need to learn foreign languages, and teachers in the Lanfang Kingdom teach in Chinese, and at the age of 70, they will be supported by the kingdom.

The Lanfang Kingdom asked for immigration, and as soon as the conditions were announced, the local governments immediately took action, first arresting beggars, orphans, bullies without a background, etc., as long as they were arrested, they began to concentrate on the ports or wharves specified by the Lanfang Kingdom, and handed over to the clerks of the Lanfang Kingdom even if they were handed over, and the clerks of the Lanfang Kingdom would also give different amounts of red envelopes according to the number of people delivered, so that these officials felt that the number of people sent this time was too small, and they went back to continue to work hard and catch more to send them. In the Qing Dynasty, everything else was lacking, but the beggars, orphans, and homeless people were never lacking.

Lanfang staff made detailed records of the origins of these people, and then went to get a haircut, take a bath, and change clothes; Seeing the tall and mighty soldiers of the Lanfang Kingdom who were loaded with guns and ammunition at the gate, all the people who were escorted here obediently closed their mouths and obeyed the arrangements of the staff here.

When they were caught by the officials, these people were scared to death, but now after being gathered, they are eating, drinking, and entertaining, these people feel that they are not eating a severed meal, and then several meals in a row are like this, it seems that it is not a severed meal, but I always feel unsteady in my heart. And more and more people are coming, everyone comes to get a haircut, take a bath, change clothes, and then take a meal.

After all the houses are full, the person in charge comes and tells everyone that everyone will not be the people of the Qing Dynasty in the future, and everyone will become the people of the Lanfang Kingdom in the future, and they must be loyal to the king, and now the food and clothing are bought by the king with money, and when they arrive in the Lanfang Kingdom, each person who is willing to farm will be divided into 20 acres of land, and if they are lucky, they can also share a daughter-in-law, and they can also be soldiers, and they can also be officials if they are educated. In a few days, I will come to the boat to pick everyone up and go to the Lanfang Kingdom, and I will live here for the next few days, and I am not allowed to make trouble and fight.

"They won't sell us into slavery, will they?"

"As long as you can sell as many catties as you have hair and bones, you won't be sold if you want to."

"If they sell us, they will change our clothes and feed us?"

"Let's cut off the head."

"Have you ever seen a severed head meal that has been eaten for so long? It's worth eating the severed head rice for so many days in a row, I haven't eaten such a full meal since I was a child, and I haven't eaten so well. ”

"It's worth it."

"When you're well fed and dressed, it's worth it even if you die."

"The beauty you think, if you let us die, just throw it away in the river to feed the fish, why bother taking a bath and changing clothes and eating and drinking hospitality? Who would be so stupid? Maybe we've met a good king. ”

As newspaper advertisements entered the inland provinces along with the newspapers, the governors and prefects of the inland provinces actively guided the displaced people to migrate to the coastal ports.

Now that the inward fight is being made, the land is constantly concentrated, the people who have lost their land are getting bigger and bigger, and natural and man-made disasters continue year after year, resulting in a large number of displaced people every year.

Now that the local government is very pure-minded, there are no more beggars, homeless people, ruffians, etc., and the streets immediately look much better, there are fewer fights and brawls, and there are fewer worries. The merchants were also very satisfied with the current environment, there were no ruffians to make trouble, no beggars and homeless people to worry about.

The officials are also very happy, after inviting these chaotic people away, they have less to do, and they can also get a part of the monetary subsidy, the best of both worlds.

In order to speed up immigration, Geng Yunfei had people from the Ministry of Commerce and Finance hire merchant ships from other countries.

Migrants transported by merchant ships from other countries first disembark on the east coast of Pontianak and are diverted here. Those who are willing to farm land will be distributed to different cities and counties by boat; Those who are willing to work will be assigned to factories in different places; Those who are willing to join the army will be trained in the first division in Pontianak, and after the training is completed, they will be assigned to the pirate regiment or mercenary army, or form a separate mercenary squad, and those with academic qualifications or moral integrity will be assigned to the police force or local garrison; Orphans will be sent to orphanages; If there is a disease, the disease is treated first, and then it is assigned according to the will.

Migrants brought back by ships carrying grain go directly to Shangjing and then diverted.

For the whole of May, an estimated 100,000 people could migrate.

Zhang Wei is very satisfied with the speed of immigration.