Starting from June, the Spanish Flu epidemic in Lanfang also became serious.
This place is far away from Europe, so penicillin has to be transported by ship, and the quantity each time is not too large, because the penicillin produced in Corsica is mainly supplied to Europe and the United States.
The report submitted by MacArthur worked. The U.S. government requested unlimited quantities of penicillin from the French government, and asked Qin Zhiyuan to send manpower to set up a penicillin factory in the United States for local production.
Qin Zhiyuan immediately agreed to the Americans' request, not only because of humanitarian considerations, but more importantly because the Americans showed enough sincerity. The Americans only had a large amount of money, a figure that Qin Zhiyuan could not refuse.
The same goes for the British. The demand for penicillin is worldwide, and no country is an exception. Because Qin Zhiyuan has asked Allen to apply for patent barriers in various countries, so now no matter which country in the world, as long as it is large-scale production
Penicillin must be authorized by the Corsica General Factory.
In fact, the French government has to take a cut of the patent fees collected by Corsica.
This is also a helpless matter. If he did not rely on France, Qin Zhiyuan would not be able to collect patent fees.
If the penicillin factory was born in the Republic of China, even if some countries openly infringe patent rights, would the Republic of China have the strength to help Qin Zhiyuan safeguard his interests?
The results can be imagined.
While large-scale factories were being built around the world, the Republic of China government also made demands on Qin Zhiyuan. This was not about building factories, but about finished products.
The Republic of China was already in chaos, and it was not easy to build a factory and put it into operation stably.
Qin Zhiyuan was certainly not stingy with his people, and immediately squeezed out some of the limited inventory and sent it to the Republic of China.
The result was surprising. After this batch of penicillin arrived in the Republic of China, a large part of it quickly flowed into Japan. This made Qin Zhiyuan and Lu Zhengxiang, who was responsible for this matter, extremely dissatisfied and even more disappointed with the Republic of China government.
In fact, compared to other countries, the epidemic in Lanfang is relatively mild. In Guinea, which is governed by British Malaya, the United States, the Philippines, and Australia with a larger population, the disease has spread beyond control.
The above-mentioned areas received many immigrants from Lanfang during the Lanfang War, and the number was so large that they even outnumbered the locals one to one.
The population is so dense that once an epidemic breaks out, it is impossible to control it.
In the American Philippines, where the situation was most serious, and the British Malaya region on the island of Kalimantan, more than 10,000 bodies were burned every day due to influenza.
In the British Malaya region on the island of Kalimantan, entire villages have been wiped out. Those villages are now forbidden areas. No one dares to take care of the funeral, and no one dares to search whether there are still people there.
living person.
It's summer now, and if those corpses are not disposed of in time, a plague will almost certainly break out.
As a result, white people are fleeing frantically throughout the colonial areas of Southeast Asia. The best option is to flee to Canada, where the epidemic is less severe. It is a vast and sparsely populated place. Compared with Southeast Asia, it can be said to be a wilderness.
In order to prevent the epidemic from spreading to the Lanfang-controlled area on the island of Kalimantan, Qin Zhiyuan negotiated with the British government and obtained the right to clean up the British Malaya area on the island of Kalimantan on the condition of aiding in the construction of a penicillin factory.
This is tantamount to seizing control of which areas. After the epidemic, it is difficult to say whether those areas will still belong to the UK.
The same goes for Papua and New Guinea, which are part of Australia,
Papua and New Guinea, including part of Guinea Island and the affiliated Solomon Islands. These places are now Australian territories, and some of them were German colonies occupied by Australian troops after the outbreak of World War I.
Because the governance period was still short, especially on the German colonial side, the Australians had not yet established effective rule, and were even still implementing military control.
The Spanish Flu also had an impact on Australia. Although Australia is generally vast and sparsely populated, the population is concentrated along the eastern coast, where the population density is still very high, comparable to that of the UK.
Wherever there are people, there are epidemics. The Spanish Flu is also spreading in Australia. For a country with less than 5 million people, every person is precious.
As a result, Australia is also shrinking. They almost gave up the island of Guinea and returned all Australians to the mainland to defend themselves.
On the island of Guinea, it is not just the area managed by Australians, half of it belongs to Lanfang.
The Australians can run, but Lan Fang cannot.
So for the same reason, in order to prevent the epidemic from spreading to Lanfang's territory, Huang Bohan negotiated with Australian Labor Party leader and current Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes to directly purchase the Australian territory and affiliated territories on Guinea Island for US$15 million.
of Solomon Islands.
Without any effort, Billy Hughes agreed to Huang Bohan's suggestion.
The Australians suffered heavy losses in the world war, and they have been maintaining an army of 300,000 people in Europe. This is an extremely heavy burden for the Australian government, which has not yet developed the mining industry.
Someone was willing to pay for a piece of baggage, and Billy Hughes was happy to throw it away.
The concept of national territory in the early 20th century was far less strong than in the 21st century, and Europeans did not care about it. What they cared about was the industrial consumption capacity within the territory, because all colonies were not the inherent territory of Europeans. In many cases,
In people's eyes, those lands, including the people on the land, are commodities that can be sold.
Of course, when the Australians left, they did not forget to take away those who were not infected with the Spanish flu. These people were laborers, and it was impossible for the Australians to give up.
Even in the 21st century, land development in Australia is still in its infancy. When even the fields were used by hard-working farmers in the Republic of China, there were still enough wastelands in Australia that were not cultivated. This was not because
Australians are lazy because they lack human resources.
This is not just the case in Australia, it is the same situation in Canada and Siberia.
After the Australians evacuated, Lanfang randomly organized people to enter the original Australian territory, gradually clearing out the no-man's land caused by the epidemic, and initially established a village-level governance structure.
After the end of the world war, someone made a statistics about Southeast Asia. Because of the Spanish Flu, nearly half of the population in Southeast Asia was reduced. It is estimated that 5 to 8 million people died from this disaster.
This number is much higher than the original historical number. On the one hand, it is because the war in Lanfang greatly increased the population density of the countries surrounding Lanfang, so when the epidemic broke out, it was particularly violent. On the other hand, the British and
The selfish behavior of Americans when disaster strikes is also one of the reasons for the local anarchy and management chaos.
Lanfang showed a strong sense of responsibility in this disaster. Even in the no-man's land caused by the serious epidemic, Lanfang's troops would take the initiative to clean up, working tirelessly and not being afraid of the virus.
These efforts were not in vain. In the British Malaya region on the island of Kalimantan, many locals formed organizations similar to self-rescue societies to protect themselves. When Lanfang's troops arrived in these areas,
Almost all the locals were grateful to Lanfang, and many people immediately expressed their willingness to join Lanfang. Even if the British come back after the epidemic, they will no longer recognize British rule.
In fact, in the entire Southeast Asia, British Malaya has the largest number of Chinese people except Siam. There are currently about 1.2 million people in the entire British Malaya region, of which those on the Malay Peninsula are concentrated in the Lion City, and the rest
Most of them are in Kalimantan.
Compared with Westerners and aborigines, the Chinese have the highest level of hygiene and the epidemic is certainly the least severe.
Even in the original history, the losses of the Chinese in this global catastrophe were not significant. In this disaster, the number of deaths in Asia accounted for more than 70% of the total number of deaths, of which Indians accounted for 80% of this number.
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By the end of June, Lanfang's territory had increased to include Australian Guinea and the affiliated Solomon Islands. The actual occupied land included the British Malaya region on Kalimantan, as well as the American islands of Palawan and Mindanao in the Philippines.
a part of.
This vast area includes most of Southeast Asia in the traditional sense and part of Oceania, making it truly the largest country in Southeast Asia.
Of course, in this land, there are now overwhelmingly Chinese, Javanese, Malay, Sundanese, Madurese and even French people living in this land. They now all have a name: Lanfang people.
Qin Zhiyuan did not artificially divide races, but forcibly classified everyone as a unified Lanfang people. Whether they are Chinese, Javanese, French or anyone else, as long as they live in the land of Lanfang, they must
Recognize that you are from Lanfang, otherwise it will be against the law.
Yes, Lanfang has formulated its own constitution, which marks that Lanfang has officially entered the era of rule of law.
According to the Constitution, Chinese is the official language in Lanfang. All official documents and publications in Lanfang, signs with text information, etc., wherever words are used, must be written in Chinese.
In people's daily life, Chinese has also begun to be popularized. Citizens who do not speak Chinese must enter language schools to strengthen their studies. All facilities and institutions in Lanfang can refuse to provide services to people who do not speak Chinese.
This is the most cruel move. From now on, if you don't know Chinese in Lanfang, you won't be able to guarantee your daily life.
What Qin Zhiyuan wants is assimilation, and it is different from the assimilation promoted by the French in Algeria. This is forced and unconditional assimilation.
