In order to fill the gap in the entire Taitung region, it is absolutely not enough to mobilize the people and government in Taixi. ← the top novel, X. Liu Xian also issued an article to Guangdong and Fujian provinces at the same time as the all-Taiwan conference. These two places are the backbone of Taiwan's immigrants, and they are also typical provinces with few lands and many people; as long as the government gives its strength and earnestly collects and publicizes it, it is completely possible to immigrate tens of thousands or even more people from the two provinces in a short period of time. Otherwise, so many people go to the South Seas every year and are sold to foreign countries as piglets, you should be fake?

It's just that these things, these things that can establish huge prestige and connections in Taiwan Province, Liu Xian only dominates one general direction, and the specific things are all handed over to Liu Dian and Xu Yanxu to do. Of course, Qin Jun's cultural management system has also been involved from beginning to end, otherwise Liu Xian couldn't believe how much of the money lent out by Minsheng Bank would have been really received by the people.

"My lord, the special envoy sent by Peru ** Lemore has arrived in Japan."

"Then inform Shi Qingyan and Bei Shanquan, and let them immediately set off for Nagasaki and escort them along the way!"

The small fleet that had just returned from Thailand was supposed to be disbanded on the spot as soon as it arrived in Guangdong, and each looked for its own mother. However, because of Li Hongzhang's sudden telegram a month ago, the six warships were stationed in Keelung as a whole. Li Hongzhang's telegram was referring to this Peruvian envoy, and the negotiations between China and Peru on Chinese labor have been going on for two years. Liu Xian, who had only heard about Li Hongzhang's incident at the beginning, really understood that the number of Chinese laborers in Peru was close to 120,000!

When Liu Xian first knew this number, he was stupid. Peru, a small country in South America. In Liu Xian's mind, there is no place for the country. If only Chile, Argentina, Brazil could still feel a little bit. Peru is such a small country, and there are as many as 120,000 Chinese workers there. It's too jb, isn't it? But that's just the way it is. Liu Xian didn't know that the era he traveled through was at all. The Chinese in Peru already account for 10 percent of the total population, close to 4.5 million. Most of them are immigrants from Guangdong and Fujian.

As everyone knows. 'My Great Qing Dynasty' does not treat overseas Chinese as its people.

However, due to China's "ban," "human traffickers" in Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, British, American, French, and other countries began to plunder and sell Chinese laborers from various coastal areas of China to work as laborers in South America, Oceania, and the Pacific Islands by various illegal and legal means, such as "piglet trafficking," "coolie trade," "coolie labor on credit," and "legal recruitment."

Many Chinese workers were brutally persecuted and oppressed, and became disguised slaves, and many died. The United States is the most famous of them, but where the national strength of the United States is, I can't afford to provoke it.

When the facts were already accomplished, the Qing government naturally changed its attitude towards Chinese laborers by allowing them to go abroad. Began to pay attention to the living conditions of overseas Chinese workers.

In 1867 and 1869, Prime Minister Yamen received letters from Chinese workers in Peru who were transferred by the American minister asking for help. But at that time, the attention of the Manchus was still in China, in the southwest and in Xinjiang, and they did not have the energy or strength to effectively handle this matter.

In the seventies of the nineteenth century, Li Hongzhang sat on the governor-general of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, and the restoration of China's national fortunes and its own strength gave the Qing government the idea of cheering up. Li Hongzhang began to pay attention to the problem of mistreatment of Chinese workers abroad. Prime Minister Zeng Jianyì sent a member of the Yamen in Nagasaki, Japan, and served as a consul to each Hong Kong to liaise with diplomatic relations and protect overseas Chinese.

11 years of Tongzhi. That is, in 1872, when he learned that a Peruvian steamer carrying Chinese laborers had been detained in Japan, he immediately angrily said that because Peru had not established diplomatic relations with China, there was no provision for the trafficking of Chinese laborers. Therefore, it is purely illegal, and the Qing government sent personnel to Japan for trial.

This matter is very different from the 'impression' of Li Hongzhang in Liu Xian's mind. Settle things and calm people, and seek perfection. Isn't this Li Hongzhang?

But come to think of it, no one is born with a soft-footed shrimp. Those who bear the shame, the Qing Dynasty pasters are afraid that they are more helpless.

Moreover, in the matter of overseas Chinese workers, Peru is the most famous and important country for plundering and abusing Chinese workers, and the country with the weakest national strength. Li Hongzhang's tough attitude is not killing chickens to show monkeys. This is a very traditional Chinese power technique.

In October 1873, Peru's representative Guersier came to China to negotiate a treaty of commerce between the two countries, and Prime Minister Yamen asked Li Hongzhang to negotiate with Guersier, proposing that because Peru had mistreated Chinese laborers, he should be ordered to return all Chinese laborers to China, and declared that he would no longer recruit Chinese laborers, and then the two countries could discuss the issue of a treaty. Li Hongzhang judged that the requirement to recruit workers in China is the main purpose of Peru's "treaty" this time, so it is necessary to use this to strictly define the relevant regulations and "eliminate the harm to the people." He replied to Prime Minister Yamen that he would strictly abide by the instructions and "refute Peru's unreasonable and excessive demands on the basis of reason" and "stubbornly reject them both inside and outside." From late October, Li Hongzhang began negotiations with Guersier. During the negotiations, Ge flatly denied that Peru mistreated Chinese workers, saying that the rumors were untrue and the reports were wrong, but instead said that Peru has always protected Chinese workers, and proposed that China could send people to Peru to investigate. In this regard, Li Hongzhang presented all kinds of evidence, and denounced Peru as a country with "no education and no etiquette", and the abuse of Chinese workers has been well known in Western countries, which has aroused strong anger among the Chinese people. At the same time, he agreed to send people to Peru to investigate the situation of the Chinese workers, and then decide whether to sign a contract with Peru after ascertaining the situation of the Chinese workers. This move was so powerful that Guersier had to go back on his word: he objected and threatened to return home by breaking off the negotiations. Li Hongzhang's attitude is still tough, and the negotiations have reached an impasse; Since Peru was anxious to "make a treaty" with China and took the initiative to negotiate with China, Guersier secretly asked the British minister to come to Tianjin to persuade Li Hongzhang to compromise and not to allow Ge to return to China. Seeing that Li Hongzhang was unmoved, Guersier left Tianjin for Beijing in mid-December, hoping to mobilize other powers to put pressure on the prime minister's yamen. Li Hongzhang told him that according to the usual practice, after the closure of the river, he would return to Baoding, the provincial capital, to deal with the affairs of Zhili Province, and he was busy with official business, so he could only discuss the matter of making a contract when he returned to Tianjin in the spring of the following year. Negotiations between the two sides came to an end.

In the fourth lunar month of last year, Guersier returned to Tianjin to renegotiate with Li Hongzhang. After some verbal debate, the two sides finally agreed on the draft of the "Special Article on the Investigation and Handling of Chinese Workers at the Meeting". Negotiations on a treaty of commerce then began. Both sides are prepared and have their own plans. The core question is whether Peru can "share interests" like other powers, and Li Hongzhang firmly disagrees with this. Ge Shi saw that Li Hongzhang was unwavering. He also mobilized other powers to put pressure on the Prime Minister's Yamen, and under the pressure of the foreign powers, the Prime Minister's Yamen was inclined to compromise. At this time, Li Hongzhang saw that he could not get the support of the Prime Minister's Yamen, and finally signed the "Special Article on the Investigation and Handling of Chinese Workers by the Chinese Secretaries" and the "Sino-Peruvian Treaty of Friendship and Commerce" with Gersiye in early June. Both treaties had their own concessions: Peru's demand for "one piece" with the Western powers was included in the clause, which the Chinese side had not originally agreed to. However, at the insistence of the Chinese side, a series of measures to protect Chinese workers that Peru did not agree to or did not agree with were also included in the clause. For example, if China is required to send personnel to Peru to investigate the situation of Chinese workers, Chinese workers in Peru enjoy the same rights and interests as other aliens living in the country, and Chinese workers can file complaints with the local government or courts if they are mistreated by their employers, and the Peruvian government has the responsibility to protect Chinese workers and urge employers to fulfill the contracts signed with Chinese workers. At the expiration of the contract, they should be sent back to China at the expense of funds, and Peruvian ships are not allowed to lure and carry Chinese people to go overseas at Chinese ports, and violators will be severely punished.

At the end of May this year, Peru again sent a special envoy to China to exchange the treaty. Li Hongzhang did a good job in this matter, and if the Peruvians kept the contract, then it would be like this. Liu Xian will not 'exert' his nationalism either, and will hold the small country of Peru in his heart, waiting for a later reckoning. For example, during the saltpeter war in South America, he supported Chile.

However, before that, Li Hongzhang had already sent Chen Lanbin and Rong Hong, the chief and deputy superintendents of studying in the United States, to Cuba and Peru to secretly investigate the situation of Chinese laborers. At this time, Cuba still belonged to Spain. Because the Philippines is on China's lips, because of the defeat of the French in Vietnam, and because of the shock caused by the Lan Fang incident this year, Spain is already working to change the treatment of local Chinese workers. Although the Chinese in Cuba have also been full of bitterness in the past 20 years. And what about Peru? What about Peru after the treaty with China? Chinese workers continue to be brutally persecuted in Peru. The situation has not changed in the slightest.

Li Hongzhang was naturally angry. In a telegram sent to Liu Xian, he wrote angrily: "Since Chen and Rong went to investigate in detail, they have learned that the country abuses Chinese laborers more than dogs and horses, and the number of people who commit suicide every day is unknown. Whoever has flesh and blood. Don't cut your teeth. He asked Liu Xian to organize a fleet ready to arrive in Nagasaki at any time, when the Peruvian envoy arrived in Nagasaki. Show force, 'escort' to calm their morale.

"Clearly. Even if it is ambiguous and exchange with it, it means that the Chinese workers who used to be in the past cannot live, and the Chinese workers who will return will die again, and the hundreds of thousands of people who have been waiting for help in the fire and water have no hope of coming to Suzhou. ”

Of course, Liu Xian agreed. Zuo Zongtang even said that if necessary, the shipmaster should do his best to help.

Nagasaki, Japan.

When a Japanese steamer from Osaka had just arrived in Nagasaki, the ** Lemo standing on the side of the ship saw at a glance the six ** ships flying the triangular dragon flag in Nagasaki Port. "God, is this a Chinese warship?"

On the docks, Qing officials in Nagasaki, Japan, were already waiting. Among the six warships, the Yangwei will be the first ship of Lemoer to Tianjin. ** Lemo knew in his heart that the Chinese had already used threats, which showed China's anger. As a Peruvian official, of course, he knew that after the signing of the agreement between the two countries, the treatment and status of Chinese workers in Peru were not guaranteed at all, but the retaliation was even worse. He was also angry in his heart, Peru is a white country, the descendants left by the Spaniards, and Caucasians and mestizos are the mainstream of South American countries. From the bottom of his heart, he looks down on China and people of color. But today he could not help but bear this insult, because the Peruvian navy, two small ironclads of British origin, launched in 1865, was no match for the Yangwei and Zhenwei.

The Peruvian Navy's most important ship, the Huaasca, now has a displacement of only 1,130 tons, and its guns are manually rotated, and the main guns are two 10-inch front-loading cannons with a slow rate of fire. The ship was equipped with a 40-pounder secondary gun on the side of the hull and a 12-pounder gun on the tail, but it did not pose a threat to the enemy who was also an ironclad ship in naval warfare. And the other ** ironclad ship is not even as good as the Huaasca. (To be continued......) R640