Chapter 424: untitled

As night falls, the lanterns are at the beginning, and although the Chang'an Palace under the night is not as magnificent as the day, it has another quiet and peaceful beauty.
After a busy day of government affairs, both mental and physical are exhausted, but thinking of a recent happy event, Li Mingyuan's mood is much better.
The concubine who entered the palace last March was pregnant, and another ten months later, another baby with the blood of the Li family will come to the world. At that time, the Han royal family will also welcome a new prince or princess.
The concubine was born in the noble family of the Brazilian Empire. His father, Silva, was the fourth son of the Marquis of Calaveras, the founding father of the Brazilian Empire.
In 1831, the first emperor of the Brazilian Empire, Pedro I, abdicated. On the same day, the parliament elected the Marquis of Calaveras, Campos, Lima and others as representatives to form a regent committee to exercise temporary control of the country.
Shortly after becoming a member of the Regency Committee, the Marquis of Calaveras was eliminated because of opposition to the abolition of the eldest son's heir system and discord with other members of the Regency Committee. Since then, the Marquis of Calaveras has been continuously suppressed by emerging forces and family politics. Status plummeted.
In 1879, when Pedro II was ousted by Republican officials and coup officers, the declining Calaveras family also changed. Members of the family moved to northern Brazil under the leadership of the new marquis. Dro II's daughter, Princess Isabella, showed allegiance, while other members of the family, like Silva, chose to stay in the estate in the state of São Paulo to watch the situation in the Republic of Brazil.
In February 1885, in order to gain support from the international community and alleviate conflicts between different ethnic groups in the country, the Government of the Republic of Brazil promulgated the "Free Baby Law", proclaiming to give mulattos the same political status as white babies, and encourage whites and blacks to marry and combine.
The original intention of the senior government of the Republic of Brazil to promulgate the Free Baby Law is still to discriminate against black people. However, unlike the isolation and deportation measures adopted by the United States and the Republic of China, the Republic of Brazil attempts to dilute black people by black and white marriage. Genes to achieve the purpose of so-called racial whitening,
Perhaps influenced by Darwin's Origin of Species, government officials in the Republic of Brazil are convinced that by doing so, they can dilute black bloodlines, and after several generations of integration, black genes can even disappear.
The executive order issued by the government of the Republic of Brazil was unsurprisingly welcomed by the vast number of black Brazilians. The total number of blacks, nearly two times the number of white Brazilians, celebrated the great decision of the government happily, but reluctantly stayed and received Republican officials. The suppressed Portuguese aristocrats, after the failure of the protests, mostly chose to leave the land where they lived for hundreds of years and migrate to northern Brazil, the United States, Canada and other regions.
The Free Baby Act caused another wave of migration in Brazil, but unlike the large wave of migration during the two Argentine wars, because the main force of the latter was the upper nobility who lost political power, the number of migrants was less than one. Ten thousand people are far from the scale of previous population migration.
The government of the Republic of Brazil is happy to see the backward and decaying aristocrats leave, without the containment and disruption of the old nobles, the Republican government can implement the so-called enlightened policy in accordance with their wishes.
The third wave of domestic migration in Brazil continued for one year. Within a year, more than 90% of Portuguese nobles and upper-class elites with a conservative mindset chose to move to the Brazilian Empire and other western countries. And a very small part, probably more than a hundred of the Portuguese family with a loss, chose a high-risk path with a small amount of property.
In both Chinese and Western cultures, traitors are not seen, but compared with the stigma of betraying the original ethnic group and integrating into another ethnic group, any defector who has its own use value will be valued by the other party.
Han and Brazil have fought for more than 20 years. In the long-term competition and hostility, there are both Brazilian whites who can't stand the temptation of money, volunteer to serve as intelligence agents, and sell domestic intelligence to the Han country. Tiger's Chinese businessmen defected to the Brazilian side, begging for white Brazilians.
Different from the thousand years of melee in the European continent, the national consciousness of the people is different. The South American Han country, which is deeply influenced by the cultures of the summers, treats the defectors who betray their own nations with more stringent methods, and treats the non-Chinese ethnic groups who have defected. Great tolerance.
The reason why the two are treated differently is that since the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods, the Zhuxia have formed a crushing advantage over the known surrounding ethnic groups. In the eyes of traditional Chinese, the Zhuxia are a state of civilization and the surroundings are barbaric and barbaric. Admiring the Central Plains culture, it is not unreasonable to go to the Central Plains, and it is not doubtful. The Chinese betrayed their ethnic groups and went to barbarism, that is, betrayal of their ancestors and self-destruction, and naturally they cannot be softhearted.
The Han state holds this mentality from top to bottom, and it does not treat harshly the noble nobles who come to Brazil. Anyone who can provide useful information to the government will be given different arrangements according to their capabilities. Of course, the Han state is a pragmatic country. Portuguese aristocrats who are mediocre and unable to provide useful information will not give up and give them super-national treatment like some monarchs and officials who love face projects.
Useful people make use of their residual heat and contribute to Han's strategy for Brazil. Those who are useless will arrange for a place to stay. They will honestly accept orders from the government and accept localization. As for the people who come up and ask too much, I am embarrassed, wherever I come from, where to go, anyway, the Han population is more than 17 million, and there are more than 1.5 million white people in the country. There is no need for a few useless white noble supporters.
After a reasonable and purposeful selection by the government, more than 70 Brazilian nobles left to serve the government, including the concubine Elena.
The original concubine was named Elena, born in 1870. In March 1886, she followed her father, mother, and more than ten family members to live in Han.
From June 1886, under the guidance of his father, he began to learn Chinese. In March 1888, he was introduced to the palace by several local officials whom he had met with his father and became Li Mingyuan's fifth concubine.
Elena is slender and fair-skinned, and her facial features are delicate and soft. It has the advantages of western women's fair-skinned and slender figure, as well as Chinese traditional aesthetic concepts. Therefore, when she entered the palace, she soon received the favor of Li Mingyuan. The degree of favor in the palace is second only to the queen and concubine.
Love rivers and mountains and love beautiful people, Li Mingyuan also wants to collect all kinds of beautiful people from the world to be included in the harem, but the times are different after all, and it is about to enter the 20th century. In the future, Li Mingyuan will still try to curb his desire and control the number of concubines and concubines to five.
The first meeting was purely because of her love for Elena, and it was the intuitive factor that prompted Li Mingyuan to include her in the harem. On the other hand, the Calaveras family is an old noble family in Brazil. For hundreds of years, family members have been spread in the Brazilian Empire, the Republic of Brazil, and Portugal. Although it is now declining, it still has a certain influence in Brazil.
Considering the factors of solidarity and integration of more than 1.5 million whites in the country and the future expansion of the territory towards the Brazilian Republic, it is also necessary to accept a white-born woman as a consort.
Pour it in peach and report it in pear. Li Mingyuan married Elena Nana as a concubine, and it turned out to be an option that outweighed the disadvantages. Affected by this incident, the resistance of white people in the local area to the government-led Hanization and integration policy was further reduced. From 1888 to 1889 At the beginning of the year, the proportion of intermarriage between local Chinese and white women increased by 3%. About 1.8 white women of the right age married Chinese in this year, while fewer than 100 Chinese women married white men. .
In addition to the influence of traditional concepts, government-oriented propaganda has also played an important role.
"Han women marry, Han children marry Hu Nu", continuing the folk tradition in the Han and Tang dynasties, the government encourages Chinese men to marry white and Indian women as wives, but there are many cases of intermarriage between Han women and non-Chinese ethnic groups. obstacle,
First of all, a small number of black people that originally existed in the northern part of the mainland have been relocated to the Congolese colony. The possibility of intermarriage between Han women and black people is not only legally blocked, but it is also impossible in practice.
Secondly, about 70% of the Indian tribes who originally lived in various parts of the country disappeared for various reasons, and less than 30% remained. Of the total about 270,000 Indians, about Half of them are descendants of Indian and white mixed races. They are scattered and scattered in the mainland, and have gradually integrated into the Chinese ethnic group. The remaining 100,000 Indians are mainly distributed in the virgin forest in the north and the Patagonian wasteland in the south. Remote, with little chance of contact with the Chinese, the probability of Han women marrying Indians is extremely small.
In the end, white males, scattered in major cities in China, have the best chance to contact Chinese women. However, under the influence of traditional culture, few Chinese women dare to break through ethnic barriers, regardless of their parents' opposition to marrying white males.
And even if the family's problems are solved, it is impossible for Chinese women to marry white men if they can't get past the obstacles set by the government.
This apparently biased policy in the Han country has aroused the dissatisfaction of many white men. Originally, hundreds of thousands of white women were lured by the government to marry Chinese men. The white ethnic group also faces an imbalance between the ratio of men and women. Then the government set up obstacles. Although there was no clear legislation prohibiting Chinese women from intermarriage with white men, it was secretly implemented in accordance with this idea.
The vast number of white bachelors are not fools. Of course, they can see the bad intentions of the government, but they can see what they can do. The riots and rebellions do not have the courage. Hundreds of thousands of white bachelors have the courage to bet their lives. In addition to complaining from time to time, what they can do is to obey government orders, accelerate the speed of Chinese integration, and quickly transform themselves into a Chinese with a white face. According to the trendy saying, White Chinese.
He then expected to perform well, receive government awards, and marry a white daughter-in-law to get rid of his bachelor status.
However, the reality is cruel. The phenomenon of more males and fewer females in the local area will exist for a long time. Not to mention white males, even many Chinese males are also facing the dilemma of finding no daughter-in-law.
Being able to marry a Chinese woman as a concubine has a very low probability among the local white male group. Only a few aristocratic families, such as the Calaveras family, can be found within the Han government. They are fortunate to find a Chinese group for future generations. Female wife.
The Silva family belongs to the Calaveras family. As the head of the family, Silva did not inherit the marquis of the family. During the period of the Brazilian Empire, he achieved the highest military career ~ EbookFREE.me ~. The Major General of the Brazilian Army and the troops under his control are also armed in some weak places. However, after the family moved to the South American and Han countries, Silva was decisively rare among Western aristocratic classes, completely cut off the connection with the past, and abandoned the Christian faith The whole family converted to Taiyi Religion, forcing family members to learn Chinese, and eating, traveling, and dressing were all based on local Chinese.
Faced with a major decision, for the first time Silva chose to stay in the Republic of Brazil to live a full career, but when he saw the Brazilian Republican government fainted and had a gloomy future, he chose to devote himself to the South American Han country and fully cover the Han country. The royal family intends to rebuild the country in an East Asian-dominated country.
From the perspective of Silva, it is not difficult to understand his choice. During the medieval period in Europe, Christians who worked for Ottomans were inexhaustible. They changed their original beliefs and were in the minority of European white families in the arms of Ottomans.
Among the Ottomans and later Turkish nationals, Greeks with Greek descent, or originally converted, were common in Constantinople.
Moreover, the Portuguese and the Spanish are not considered pure whites in the eyes of Europeans, so they abandon the white identity and take the initiative to integrate into another South American country with a long civilization and vibrant spirit, in exchange for glory and status for their families and individuals. Why not?