The Han Dynasty was founded on the military, but among the international students sent to Western countries, military school students only accounted for one-tenth of the total number of international students, while students in applied industries such as steel metallurgy, machinery manufacturing, and chemical engineering accounted for six-tenths.
, the remaining part is invested in the research of emerging fields such as electrical and oil exploration.
Based on later generations' understanding of industrial development, Li Mingyuan planned the industrial layout of Han Dynasty step by step. In the ten years of hard work with little rest, the first sixteen-year-old boy also became a mature and steady man.
Twenty-six years old is not considered young at this time. Most of the old people who originally followed Li Mingyuan in the uprising have married and started families. He Yanliang and others who were the first to get married already have four children. The eldest son is already ten years old. In another year, he will be
I want to study in a middle school.
The primary school system of Han Dynasty is four years. Students generally start school at the age of seven, and advance to secondary schools at the age of 11 for three years. After three years, each student participates in a one-year military training.
Students with outstanding performance will enter higher education preparatory courses and military academies for further study. Those with unsatisfactory grades will either choose to enter secondary science and technology colleges or graduate to work in other industries.
Li Mingyuan was relatively satisfied with the domestic development. However, under the urging and advice of Liu Pu, Sun Bin, Zhao Yan and other subordinates, Li Mingyuan began to consider personal marriage issues while caring about the development of the country.
The unbalanced gender ratio in Han Dynasty was greatly alleviated after the expansion of the number of Chinese female immigrants. However, Li Mingyuan, who had been busy with military and government affairs, rarely had the opportunity to come into contact with women from outside. Therefore, marriages were divorced again and again.
It wasn't until Sun Bin returned to Han Dynasty that he inadvertently told Liu Pu something about the daughter of Wu Jin, the lord of Songkhla City. At the suggestion of Liu Pu and others, Li Mingyuan agreed to take photos of Wu Lingxuan. After seeing the real photos,
Then decide whether to marry the other person.
The Wu regime controlled five provinces in the central part of the Malay Peninsula, covering an area of 33,230 square kilometers and a total population of 800,000. It was no less than the two northern provinces of Annan in terms of land area and importance to Han immigrants.
Since the failure of the Franco-Prussian War, France has accelerated its expansion to the southeastern peninsula in order to recover the large amount of benefits lost in the Franco-Prussian War.
In November 1873, France sent Garnier to Beiqi to first occupy Hanoi in an attempt to further invade Vietnam. In early December, it also occupied Haiyang, Ninh Binh and Nam Dinh. At this time, the Annan court invited Sun Bin's National Defense Force Nanyang Corps to fight against the French
After Li Mingyuan learned about the situation reported by Sun Bin, he sent an additional 3,000 troops to the Nanyang region, expanded the Nanyang Army's establishment to 8,000, and allowed Sun Bin to expand the militia based on changes in the situation in Annan. After receiving the 3,000 domestic troops, Li Mingyuan
With the support of a batch of weapons, Wang Dashan combined with the Annan army to defeat the French army and killed the French army commander Garnier outside Hanoi. The attack by the Nanyang Army of the National Defense Force forced France to change its strategy of directly annexing Annan. In January 1874, France sent Ho
Daosheng went to Beiqi to discuss peace with Annan.
In February 1874, the Annan court reached an agreement with France. France agreed to return Hanoi, Hai Duong, Ninh Binh and Nam Dinh. The Annan court allowed France to explore the waterway from the Red River into China.
After the peace agreement was signed, the Annan court, under pressure from France, sent Li Jun, Nguyen Van Hiang and others in March to sign the treaty with Du Belle, the French governor of Saigon colony. The treaty stipulated that Vietnam's diplomacy is subject to French supervision; France occupies the entire Nanqi and enjoys rights in Vietnam.
Extraterritorial jurisdiction; open Honghe and the three ports of Hanoi, Hai Phong and Quy Nhon as treaty ports.
Signed by the Annan court, the French army's influence spread to Annam Haiphong and began to border Quang Ninh Province controlled by the Nanyang Corps. The French troops stationed in Haiphong and Hanoi were a dagger placed at the door of the Nanyang Corps, threatening Guangzhou at all times.
The security of Ninh and Lang Son provinces.
After that, France completed its last plan to annex the three Southeast Asian countries. After the passing of Emperor Nguyen of Annam, the French colonists would launch a full-scale war to annex the three Southeast Asian countries.
During his tenure as the Governor of Nanyang, Sun Bin repeatedly reported to Li Mingyuan the situation in the Annan region with great concern. He was always worried about the expansion of the power of the French colonists, and the National Defense Forces were far away in Han, South America. The eight thousand Nanyang troops were already the largest garrison that could be maintained in the country.
If the scale and number of people are large, it will have a negative impact on domestic development.
Li Mingyuan knew that the real purpose of the French occupation of Annan was to use Annan as a springboard to invade the southwestern region of the mainland and then establish an Asian colonial empire in Asia like India.
The combat effectiveness of the French colonial army is really unflattering. In the original history, not only did the Black Flag Army with backward equipment successfully ambush small French groups many times, but even the Qing army in Guangxi attacked the French, causing inconvenience to the French army.
Minor damage.
With the combat effectiveness of the Nanyang Army, Li Mingyuan believed that they could be on par with the French colonial army. However, once the French government sent additional reinforcements to Annan, used warships to cut off the local supply to the Annan Army, and seriously cut off Han's Far East immigration channel,
The domestic impact on Han will be more serious than losing the two northern provinces of Annan.
In July 1883, Emperor Su De of the Annan court passed away. The French army would take advantage of the leaderless Annan court to annex Annam. There were still five years to go before 1883. Before there was no effective way to prevent the French army from annexing Annam, they would support the Songkhla Wu family.
regime, it is very important to build Songkhla into another immigration base for the National Defense Forces in the Nanyang region.
Wu Lingxuan is the daughter of Wu Jin, the lord of Songkhla City. In an era where well-matched families are important, she is the most suitable marriage partner for Li Mingyuan.
Therefore, even without seeing Wu Lingxuan's photos, Li Mingyuan understood that marriage with the Songkhla Wu family was an inevitable result.
In the newly built small palace in Xinjing, when Li Mingyuan was thinking about his relationship with the Songkhla Wu regime, a personal guard came in and handed over a telegram document: "Your Highness, this is the fifth batch of international students who are about to return to China.
Please take a look at the list."
"Well, you go down first. I'll call you in if anything happens."
Li Mingyuan took the telegram and sent the guards out casually.
His eyes turned to the telegram in his hand. After reading it carefully, Li Mingyuan found several familiar names on the list.
"He Linshu, Yang Jiannian, Chen Binshi, Wang Jinyong, Chen Shituan, Chen Shiyi, Chen Shiding."
Li Mingyuan read out the seven names in a low voice one after another, recalling the scene when he sent them to study abroad three years ago, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
He Linshu is the youngest among the seven. He was only 14 years old when he went to study abroad three years ago. He is the youngest among the 500 to 600 overseas students.
He Linshu was originally supposed to continue working as an apprentice for foreigners in the Malay Peninsula. When the Han Dynasty recruited Chinese immigrants in Nanyang in 1874, He Linshu immigrated to America with a nearby Chinese family, and was soon selected to go to Germany.
Students studying abroad.
Yang Jiannian and Chen Binshi are the sons of Chinese businessmen in Singapore. Chen Binshi's father, Chen Jinzhong, is a famous Chinese wealthy businessman in Singapore. After Chen Binshi's grandfather, Chen Tock Seng, established the foundation in Singapore, the Chen family has gradually become the richest Chinese in Singapore after two generations of development, and has been recommended by the local Chinese.
For leaders.
Chen and his son were enthusiastic about helping the Chinese. In 1844, they established a Western-style hospital in Singapore to serve the Chinese. It was the first Western-style hospital in Singapore.
In 1873, Chen Jinzhong immigrated to Han at the invitation of Li Mingyuan and served as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Commerce of Han. At the same time, accepting Li Mingyuan's invitation were also well-known Singaporean Chinese such as Hu Yaji, a Singaporean Chinese who spoke English, French and Dutch, and Juren Zhang Fanglin.
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Three brothers, Chen Shituan, Chen Shiyi, and Chen Shiding, were Mingxiang people from central Annan. Mingxiang people were descendants of the Ming people who were unwilling to accept the rule of the Qing Dynasty. There were about 30,000 people in Annan. The signing of the 1874 Agreement sealed the fate of Annan's subjugation.
, dissatisfied with the corruption of the Nguyen court in Annam, and in order to avoid the exploitation of the French colonialists, more than 20,000 Minhxiang people, with the assistance of the Nanyang Legion, left the southern part of Annam controlled by France and immigrated to Han in South America or to areas controlled by the National Defense Forces.
Shan and Quang Ninh provinces.
The people of Mingxiang retain Ming-style clothes and pay homage to the emperors of the Ming Dynasty every year. Moreover, because the people of Mingxiang have maintained the tradition of passing down poems and calligraphy to their families, talents have repeatedly appeared in the Annan imperial examinations. Among the people of Mingxiang who defected to the Han Dynasty,
There are more than a dozen officials who have served in the Annan court, such as Zhu Jishan, a doctor in the Ministry of War, Zheng Qiru, the former prefect of Fulong, Zhang Guanghai, the former additional secretary of Guanglu Temple, Zheng Huaiyi, a former doctor in the Ministry of Industry, and Zheng Huaiyi, the former prefect of Hongzhi.
- Wang Jin, the former magistrate of Guangtian County - Zhang Huaijin, the former magistrate of Jianhe County - Mei Rui and others. As for the Mingxiang people who did not serve in the Annan court and had achieved scholarly and scholarly honors, there were more than thirty people from Mingxiang.
Compared with the above-mentioned Mingxiang officials who defected to the Han Kingdom, the family of the three Chen Shituan brothers is more famous. The three Chen brothers are the ninth generation descendants of Chen Yangchun, a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. Chen Shituan's father, Chen Shen, once served as the minister of the Ministry of Works and is currently the Han Dynasty.
The minister of the Ministry of Industry, his grandfather Chen Jiancheng, was appointed to the third place in the Wuxu Section in the 19th year of his Ming Dynasty. He was born as a Jinshi, and later became the Minister of the Ministry of War.
The Chen family immigrated to Han. The three brothers Chen Shituan participated in the selection of overseas students under the guidance of their father. After being selected, they chose the metallurgical major as their study direction.
Three years passed by in a blink of an eye. A group of enthusiastic and enterprising young people were about to return home after studying abroad. Li Mingyuan was eager to see the changes they would bring to Han after returning from studying abroad.