Many local official and private shipping companies are running non-stop between the Far East and South America, transporting millions of Chinese who are waiting eagerly back to South America in batches.
Time moves forward slowly in the tense and orderly transportation operation.
In mid-October 1881, in order to ensure the supply of raw materials for smokeless gunpowder, the Han Iron and Steel Consortium started construction of a second nitroglycerin production plant with the assistance of local chemical experts and more than ten German engineers.
In February 1882, Type B single-base gunpowder completed the last round of experimental verification and entered the stage of industrial production. Half a month later, the double-base smokeless gunpowder ballistite adopted an improved solution of adding 10% camphor as a stabilizer to solve the problem.
The issues of gunpowder safety and stability were addressed.
On March 1, 1882, the first batch of 105mm artillery made of picric acid was delivered to the troops. As a result, the Han Army had a new type of artillery independently developed and produced.
On March 12, 1882, the Congo colony completed its administrative planning adjustment. The total area of Congo was about 2.3 million square kilometers (including the Cabinda coastal area that was exchanged with part of the Congolese inland area for the Portuguese in the early days), excluding part of the traded inland area.
area (the total area is about 40,000 square kilometers smaller than that of later Congo), was divided into 5 independent colonial areas and a governor-general area.
Except for Kinshasa, which is the seat of the Governor-General and is directly managed by the governor appointed by the central government, each of the other five colonial jurisdictions has a number of kings and chiefs who are appointed by the emperor. The kings and chiefs have authority over their respective regions.
Partial management authority. On weekdays, it is responsible for assisting the Governor-General in recruiting indigenous labor, carrying out colonial transportation construction, mining mineral resources and other tasks. During wartime, it assembles young and strong indigenous tribes to obey the orders of middle and lower-level officers dispatched by the colonial government to jointly fight against European colonial armies.
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In order to avoid intensifying conflicts with Britain and France, the local government successively abandoned the immigration strongholds built in the Annan region of Nanyang and the east coast of Africa. After its power shrank, it removed the Samoa Islands, Polynesian Islands, Easter Island and other South Pacific islands that were operated as local territories.
Of the islands, the only colony that Han really owned was the Congo.
Congo has a vast area and rich reserves of gold, silver, copper, iron and other mineral resources. Therefore, in January 1881, the first batch of nearly 3,600 kilograms of gold sand and gravel produced from the Congo River Basin in central Congo was shipped back via ocean-going ships.
After the local refinement, the central government also paid more and more attention to the Congolese colony.
In March 1881, a group of 600 regular soldiers arrived in the Congolese colony by ship and joined the Congolese garrison in combat. In April 1881, a batch of locally obsolete primary steel smelting equipment arrived in the Congolese colony and was put into use two months later.
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In July 1881, the Congo colony received 31 military doctors and a supply of anti-tropical disease medicines worth more than 200,000 Chinese yuan...
With the continued support of the local government, since November 19, 1881, at regular intervals, a number of transport fleets carrying metal ores or precious minerals such as gold, silver, copper, iron, and diamonds have sailed along the
Atlantic route, entering home port.
A considerable amount of valuable gold sandstone, after refining, can bring much-needed gold reserves to the local area and stabilize the local monetary and financial system based on the gold standard. At the same time, as the country's financial situation improves, national life
The level and the number of annual immigrants increased year by year, and the native population also exceeded the 10 million mark in March 1882, reaching a scale of 10.26 million.
The growth in population size comes from, on the one hand, the attraction of local life to ordinary Chinese, and on the other hand, the increasingly serious discrimination and violent persecution of Chinese in Western civilized countries. As a result, Chinese living overseas have to fight for the safety of themselves and their families and relatives.
, had no choice but to give up the family business accumulated in the local area and undergo another ups and downs migration.
On February 7, 1882, more than two hundred white men used the death of three white men in Chinatown as an excuse to break into Los Angeles' Chinatown with guns. They brutally robbed and beat unsuspecting Chinese, regardless of age or weakness.
Killing.
"The thugs found eight Chinese people shivering in a corner or hiding in boxes inside the house. The Chinese knelt down and begged for mercy, but to no avail. The thugs pulled them out of the street and let the angry crowd deal with them. Among the Chinese, two
One was a child. A Chinese doctor named Dong, who was very popular and respected by white people he knew well, was hanged during this riot, and someone had his little finger cut off to get his ring."
After the tragedy, a relatively neutral European newspaper recorded that "in this tragedy, 21 Chinese people were strangled to death alone, and none of them was related to the killing of white people in Chinatown."
On February 12 and March 21, 1882, white American mobs launched two armed attacks on San Francisco’s Chinatown.
More than 20 Chinese were killed in the riots. Faced with the continuous violent persecution, the U.S. government not only failed to stop it, but on May 6, it passed the Chinese Exclusion Act aimed at expelling Chinese from the United States.
Marked by the Chinese Exclusion Act on May 6, 1882, a series of anti-Chinese actions in the United States from local to federal levels gradually reached an unprecedented climax.
After the implementation of the Chinese Exclusion Law, anti-Chinese violent incidents in society were legalized. Not only did the violent incidents of expelling, persecuting, and killing Chinese people become more frequent, but they also became larger and larger in scale.
In July 1882, anti-Chinese riots in Seattle lasted for four months. Anti-Chinese elements vowed to expel Chinese from the city. Some young Chinese, organized by Han diplomatic agencies, tried their best to resist. Even so, there were still more than 100
A Chinese man was killed by white people.
Following the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries in the Americas have also enacted bills to ban Chinese from entering the country.
In August 1882, the President of Guatemala announced that China would be prohibited from continuing to immigrate to Guatemala. The following month, he ordered that all overseas Chinese living in Guatemala were allowed to obtain passports and leave the country at any time.
Anyone leaving the country and assisting others to cross the country will be punished according to the law.
In October, the Cuban colonial government ordered that "during the embargo period, it is illegal for Chinese workers to come to Cuba from ports or places in other countries", banning Chinese workers from entering Cuba.
In November 1882, the Peruvian government tore up the regulations between China and Peru regarding the free entry of Chinese people into the country, and ordered to restrict the entry of Chinese people into the country, and then ordered a ban on the entry of Chinese people.
By the end of 1882, the Canadian Federal Parliament passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which officially came into effect in 1883 with the approval of the Governor General.
Canada's "Chinese Immigration Regulations" have a total of 43 articles, the main content of which is that Chinese or people with Chinese ancestry are not allowed to enter Canada with immigration status in the future.
The family members of Chinese people currently living in Canada are not allowed to come to Canada to reside.
Chinese nationals currently living in Canada are limited to two years in leaving the country, and are not allowed to return to Canada after the expiration date;
The Chinese who returned to Canada used Vancouver as their port of entry. Ships carrying Chinese were only allowed to pick up one person for every 250 tons.
Stimulated by the rise of the Han Dynasty in South America, the United States, Canada, and Latin American countries were even more wary of the threat of Chinese immigrants. Correspondingly, they enacted more radical Chinese exclusion laws earlier than in history.
It almost completely cut off the possibility of Chinese people living there.
Due to the impact of various countries in the Americas promulgating Chinese Exclusion Acts or banning Chinese immigrants from entering the country, the number of overseas destinations for Chinese in the Far East and overseas Chinese to choose from has been greatly reduced. Looking around the world, only Nanyang is the only overseas area that can accommodate Chinese.
Two locations in South America and Han.
The countries in Southeast Asia were all under the colonial rule of Western countries such as Britain, France, and the Netherlands. They adopted an attitude of exclusion and attack on the Chinese. Chinese labor immigrants were always in a enslaved and oppressed position in the local area. Only the South American country of Han was the only one that could accept them.
them, the country that gives them equal status.
The Chinese side is temporarily unable to retaliate against the U.S. government's persecution of the Chinese. It can only go all out to mobilize all the ships that can be found and send transport ships to the United States, Canada, Australia, Peru, Cuba and other countries to bring them there.
The Chinese who had been bullied and persecuted were brought back to South America.
The undisguised discrimination and persecution of the Chinese by various countries has resulted in the death of thousands of overseas Chinese. At the same time, the white Western society is nakedly feeling the contempt and hostility towards the Chinese. Many Chinese young people who have witnessed modern civilization are
After feeling the anger and shame, they also awakened the passion hidden in their hearts, and then took the first step, choosing a path completely different from their historical destiny.
