Everything in the country is unfolding in an orderly manner, the first batch of the Construction Corps has begun to be stationed in major cities in Siberia, and the follow-up construction Corps and resettlement work are also actively unfolding.

Just when Prime Minister Chen Kejie thought that he could finally sleep well, something happened in the south again.

Vietnam, the country that made Lin Hong feel big, although the current Vietnam is a vassal state of the Chinese Empire, is the younger brother, but Nguyen Phuc Anh, the founder of the Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam, established the Nguyen Dynasty itself, relying on the military assistance of France to govern merchants in India.

As early as 1847, the French gunboat "Victory" bombarded a Vietnamese warship in the name of protecting missionaries. In August 1858, the combined fleet of France and Spain invaded Toulon (now Da Nang), and in February 1859, Saigon. This barbaric act of gunboat aggression was met with resolute resistance from the Vietnamese army. In March 1860, the invading coalition withdrew from Toulon and Saigon. In 1861, the French army invaded the three provinces of Jiading, Bianhe and Dingxiang. In order to suppress the people's resistance, the invading army destroyed dozens of villages, killing the elderly, women and children in them. In 1862, the Nguyen Dynasty signed the first Treaty of Saigon with France and Spain. According to the treaty, Vietnam ceded Bien Hoa, Gia Dinh, Dinh Thanh and Kunlun Island to France, and stipulated that the cession of land to other countries in the future would be subject to France's consent; Within 10 years, Vietnam paid 4 million piastes to France and Spain; opening up the three ports of Toulon, Barat and Quang An and the Mekong River and its tributaries; Guarantee freedom of trade for the French.

Now the strong rise of the Chinese Empire has completely changed the situation in the East, France and Spain did not invade Toulon and Saigon or launch an armed invasion, but the French infiltration of Vietnam has not stopped, France has been strengthening the colonization process of Vietnam, but the empire can not sit idly by, to Vietnam, a country that has not had its own script has been using Chinese characters, the Chinese Empire promulgated the "Proposal on Cultural Development and Transformation" in 1840, On the surface, this document is about the policy of pinyin reform and annotation of Chinese characters in China, but in fact, the biggest advantage of this document is that the cultural aggression of the subject countries, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, these subject countries must use Chinese characters in the documents of exchanges with the suzerainty and foreign countries, especially Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries do not have their own scripts, and now they are popular in their domestic use of Chinese language and sinology.

On New Year's Day 1858, Emperor Nguyen Phu Dinh of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam and France signed the Treaty of Saigon in Saigon, which was largely the same as in history, except that it did not cede Bien Hoa, Gia Dinh, Dinh Huh, and Kunlun Islands (these three islands were assigned to the empire when it established territorial waters in the South China Sea).

Vietnam is rich in natural resources and has a wide variety of wildlife. Due to its tropical monsoon climate, it has a large crop yield and a forest area of 10 million hectares. Vietnam is also a traditional agricultural country, with an agricultural population accounting for about 75% of the total population, arable land and forest land accounting for 60% of the total area, food crops include rice, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and cassava, etc., and cash crops mainly include coffee, rubber, cashew nuts, tea, peanuts, silk, etc. Its mineral resources are also very rich, mainly oil and gas, coal, iron, titanium, manganese, chromium, aluminum, tin, phosphorus, etc., of which coal, iron, aluminum reserves are large. Because of the sea, the marine resources are very abundant, including more than 2,000 species of fish, more than 300 species of crabs, more than 300 species of shellfish, and more than 70 species of shrimp. Lin Hong may not value agricultural resources, but Lin Hong can imagine the huge reserves of iron, titanium, manganese, chromium, aluminum, tin and other mineral resources.

Although the French have been operating in Vietnam for a long time, China is the suzerain. On January 2, 1858, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire formally protested to the French government, demanding the abolition of the unequal "Saigon Treaty", and the empire would not recognize the "Saigon Treaty" without the ratification and participation of the suzerain, and the empire once again reaffirmed that Vietnam has always been a vassal state of our country, which is beyond doubt, and if France ignores historical facts, the empire will launch a series of economic sanctions against France.

The sanctions here are not a big deal, you must know that most of France's clothing production, catering industry and some important industries needed by civilians are under the control of Chinese businessmen, in addition, the Zhejiang consortium, which first intervened in the European continent, also holds nearly 80 million national bonds plus 130 million French national bonds paid by the government. If China sells these bonds or announces economic sanctions, the French economy will first face an endless fiscal deficit, then lose all markets in the Far East, and finally face the discontent of its citizens because of the decline in living standards, and then the French economy will face a total collapse. (This person doesn't know much about finance and just makes it up, everyone knows what it means, don't blame it!) In fact, in that arms race, the empire also lent money to Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia, and the imperial merchants and capitalists threw money into it like fools. As a result, the Reich is now a huge creditor of Europe.

In early February 1858, the Chinese and French diplomatic ambassadors began formal negotiations in Singapore to resolve the Vietnamese question. The negotiations took only three days, and the two countries signed the Singapore Treaty in the city of Singapore, under which France was willing to give up all its interests in Vietnam in exchange for giving France 5% of China's stake in the Suez Canal Company. In fact, this is what Lin Hong and the cabinet meant, as the hub of the two worlds, if most of the shares of the Suez Canal are in the hands of China, it is easy to attract European unease, appropriately increase the weight of France, strengthen the internationalization of the Suez Canal, so that it is easier to ensure the interests of the empire on this canal. The French side was also very satisfied, after all, they did not pay much, but they received a stake in the most important Suez Canal.

On March 10, 1858, Emperor Nguyen Phuc Dinh felt incapable of governing the country.

On March 11, 1858, His Majesty the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, Emperor Lin Hong Santui, formally accepted Nguyen Phuc Dinh's request and announced the incorporation of Vietnam into the imperial territory, and subsequently conferred the title of King of South Vietnam and allowed him to reside in Beijing.

At the end of March 1858, the Cabinet established North Vietnam and South Vietnam provinces in Vietnam, which were governed by officials dispatched by the central government. In addition to North and South Vietnam, the benefit of annexing Vietnam was to bring a Cambodian government, and the cabinet set up the Khmer province in Cambodia to send officials to directly manage it.

Swallowing Vietnam is equivalent to adding a huge farm and mine, which will definitely not lose money, and can also relieve the pressure on domestic agriculture, although it will take some time to govern Vietnam