"This group of students is too much. They dare to question the prince of the Empire!" On the way back, Li Zhaorui was still a little angry, but Li Junwei didn't care: "I saw passion and hope in this group of people. This is what our country is now. Education is no longer the eight-legged essay to cage patriots. The more people are educated, the more ideas they have. This is precisely the internal driving force for a country's prosperity and the rise of the nation."

If there is someone in this world who understands Li Mingxun, it is Li Junwei who knows his true identity. When Li Mingxun just arrived in this world, the Ming Dynasty was in a turmoil, the country was destroyed, and the race was destroyed, and the slavery was enslaved. At that time, the biggest goal was naturally to expel the Tartars and restore China.

But when he realizes that he is really capable of doing this, his goal changes. More equality, more freedom and more happiness are the minds that a person in the world should have.

Penang's model was quickly passed on. The vast Nanyang area and even some overseas colonies carried out similar movements to protect the fruits of victory in the decades of development of the empire, and firmly grasp the land and regime in their own hands.

Li Junwei checked some records. The labor companies in Xijin area alone hired more than 7,000 workers from Penang. If other places in Nanyang are included, this number would be around 30,000. This is just a strong labor force. Xijin is different from Nanyang. In fact, according to the local regulations of Nanyang, foreign workers can only bring their families to live for a long time after working legally in the local area for three years, but Xijin allowed legal foreign workers to bring their families into the country from the beginning.

At least in helping Pei Yuanqi solve the labor problem, Li Junwei has already agreed to do it. On the surface, it is 30,000 workers, but if the family members are included, it may be more than 100,000.

Li Junwei did not take a boat back to Beijing from Penang, but went to Hwacheng via the Liangyang Highway. Large facilities and massive supplies could be seen everywhere along the way. The Liangyang Railway was being built here, but because of the rainy season and the weather was hot, the work was temporarily suspended. With the increase of such harsh work, a large number of cheap foreign workers would enter the country, and the immigration problem was destined to be completely unsolvable.

Just like Penang, when more than 100,000 illegal immigrants live in the urban area, Penang opposes it, causing xenophobic civil unrest. However, when these illegal immigrants boarded the ship in large quantities, all walks of life complained that they could not find enough personnel and the economy fell into a short-term chaos. This year, Penang will inevitably suffer economic pain for a period of time.

When he arrived in Huacheng, Li Junwei moved directly into the naval base. He left just after the ship was ready. He did not want to provoke local officials and gentry people, but in the barracks of the naval base, he saw a messy people counted by thousands of people, both men, women, young and old.

Those who are controlled in the naval base like this must be forced immigration. Li Junwei asked the naval general who was accompanying him: "What's wrong with Huacheng? Where is the immigrant from the intercepting Hu?"

Compulsory immigration is actually exiled prisoners. Some of them allow their families to go together because of the size or charges of the crime. However, Nanyang is already a wealthy place and is no longer a place for forced immigration. On the contrary, criminals in Nanyang will exile to surrounding colonies. However, due to the construction of the two-yang railway and the solution to illegal immigration in the Huacheng area, some labor shortages have been caused, so it is also possible to intercept the Husband and send immigrants to the colonies.

Moreover, rumors were flying all over the Spanish colonies in the Americas. Many people rumored that the Empire had sent 50,000 soldiers. Some people also said that the Empire had already organized an army of 100,000 people to attack Lima, along with the local Gaucho people and other Indian tribes.

In fact, after the army arrived, it did sweep the surrounding Spanish forces along the coastline and La Plata, and also took the initiative to contact the Indians, but in fact there was no decent battle. Later, because there were many swamps in the north, and the direction of Brazil was humid and hot, and the army suffered from frequent diseases, most of them retreated.

However, the Empire's military operations in South America were not only scared by the Spanish, but also the Portuguese in Brazil were also scared. He directly informed the Portuguese King Pedro II.

Pedro II was the younger brother of the previous king Alfonso VI. Although he had only been king for four years at that time, he had actually been in power for nearly twenty years. The previous king was a mentally infertile mental illness, so the king directed the divorce between his brother and his sister-in-law, then married his sister-in-law, became the regent and exiled his brother, and actually gained power.

But this King Pedro was a very capable king. During his reign, he first formed an alliance with Britain, defeated Spain several times, and then reconciled with Spain, allowing him to recognize Portugal's independence, creating a very good external environment for Portugal. Since he took power, Portugal has no longer participated in European wars and has always maintained independence.

King Pedro also maintained a good relationship with the empire, because European regions generally pursue trade protectionism and many countries have their own East India companies, so it is difficult for the imperial merchant ships to carry goods to European countries. However, Lisbon is completely open to the empire. The trade fleets that arrive every year are Lisbon's carnival, which is also a distribution center for Eastern commodities, allowing Portugal to make a lot of money.

Aligning with the strong is Pedro's foreign strategy. To form an alliance with maritime powers such as Britain in Europe can safeguard local interests, and to form an alliance with the empire overseas can safeguard overseas colonies.

Therefore, after learning that the empire had its own colony in South America, he immediately found the empire's all-European envoy stationed in Lisbon and took the initiative to negotiate the matter.

Pedro II's idea was to turn crisis into opportunity. In his opinion, the empire's revenge on Spain was fake, and it was true to expand overseas colonies. Even an idiot knew that the Imperial Army crossed the Andes to attack Lima, Spain, was not as cheap as the Brazilian colonies of Portugal along the coastline.

Overseas, Portugal had no substitute, and was enemies of the empire. All colonies in India and East Africa were lost. In Europe, China had substitutes. Genoa and Venice in Italy invited the imperial trade fleet to go there countless times.

Pedro's method is also simple, imitating his father, giving up some of the interests, and then binding the two countries together.

During the IV of King Joao, the relationship between the empire and Portugal was very good. The key was the integration of interests. In order to please the empire that rose strongly in the eastern oceans, King Joao gave all the colonies east of Macau, Timor-Leste and the Spice Islands to the empire in exchange for national treatment for trade within the empire. Until now, Portuguese merchant ships flying the Portuguese flag can freely enter and exit any harbor in the empire.

As the empire expanded to India and Africa, King Joao re-used his old tricks and gave up some of the colonies he could not occupy to the empire. The two sides divided their spheres of influence, protected each other, and developed their own development. Therefore, in eastern Africa, the Imperial African Development Company helped the Portuguese expel the Muscat fleet, and eventually the two sides cooperated to destroy the Muscat Sultanate, and also took care of each other in India, defeating the land power Mughal dynasty.

Although Portugal's colonies no longer expand, profits are growing, which is the best choice for Portugal, which has been weak for hundreds of years.

Now that the Chinese have arrived in the Americas, it is natural to cooperate again.

The Portuguese colonies in Brazil were not stable. France, the Netherlands, Britain, and Spain all wanted to make a move, especially the sugarcane and cotton plantations scattered on the northeastern coast and east coast of Brazil, which were even more convenient. The empire has made great achievements in South Africa and its strength can radiate to Brazil. Therefore, Pedro allowed some imperial merchants to participate in Brazil's trade and land management more than a decade ago, in order to tie them together.

The reward for these measures is that almost every year, the empire's South African squadron will go to some coastal ports such as El Salvador, the capital of the Brazilian colony, and the colonial governor will also warmly entertain, conduct exercises, cruises and other activities.

After discussing with officials of the Indian and other local affairs committees, Pedro served as the advisor of the colony's governor and several large merchants, he believed that part of the colony could be given to the empire and signed a permanent treaty to ensure the security of the colony and friendly relations with China.

This suggestion was also recognized by most people. After asking about Brazil, Brazil even more supported it, because there were rumors that the empire's 100,000 troops went north to destroy the Catholic Church.

At that time, Li Junwei was still in the Xijin area, and he was also the greatest authority in the imperial diplomatic affairs. However, after the Minister to Europe sent the news, Li Junwei, who was busy with Ottoman affairs, had no time to take care of it. He only reminded the minister that Brazilian land was not worth much, and the other party rushed forward again, worked hard and put forward several suggestions.

Facts have proved that the empire did have a big talk, and the final distribution was very simple and rough, based on the 20th latitude of the south, the empire belonging to the south, and the Portugal belonging to the north. Both sides established an offensive and defensive alliance on South American colonies to maintain the existing colonial sphere of influence.

However, Pedro put forward two conditions to make the Lisbon Treaty unequal to China. One is the inequality of status. Once a war occurs in the two colonies of South America, the empire must provide support to the best of its ability. However, if a war occurs in the imperial colonies, the Portuguese will not send troops. This is to prevent the local people from being involved in the war.

Another unequal clause is that the empire must protect all the power of the Portuguese in the South American colonies of the empire. This is because there were already Portuguese immigrants in the ceded areas, and their beliefs and property must be guaranteed. The empire also agreed to this point. Anyway, there were not many people, not even a thousand people.
Chapter completed!