Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 233: Korean Female Immigrants to Japan Part
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The Han Dynasty's immigration work was mainly aimed at the Chinese. However, in order to take into account the impact of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the country, starting from the "Yi Si Disaster" that broke out in northern Korea in 1870, the Han Dynasty government established a trading base on Jeju Island in the Kingdom of Korea and recruited Korean female refugees from North Pyongan Province, South Pyongan Province and other places.

In the years after 1870, both Korea and the mainland suffered from a very rare famine. The Korean victims, whose farmlands had harvested nothing, could not endure the suffering of hunger. They wanted to survive rather than starve to death. They either accepted the demands of the Han Kingdom and handed over their daughters and female relatives to the Han Kingdom's caravan stationed on Jeju Island, and then transported them to the Han mainland by the fleet, or they ventured into the northeast region and survived under the threat of bandits and Qing Dynasty soldiers.

North Korean officials adopted a tacit attitude towards refugees fleeing the country because, since it was close to the north of North Korea, initially few North Korean female refugees were willing to immigrate to the Han Kingdom, tens of thousands of miles away. Later, as a large number of bandits equipped with foreign guns suddenly emerged in the northeast and carried out targeted looting of North Korean refugees, the lives of North Korean female refugees were threatened and they had no choice but to choose a safer way to survive and agreed to immigrate to South America.

The severe drought in North Korea that lasted for several years created a large number of young and middle-aged refugees. However, because the number of refugees in the mainland was even larger, Li Mingyuan was not interested in accepting North Korean male refugees and then, in the spirit of brotherly nations, spending a lot of effort to assimilate them into Han people or allow them to live in Han territory as Koreans.

North Korea's immigration operations were limited to women of childbearing age under the age of 35. Starting from the departure of the first fleet transporting North Korean female immigrants, the Han Kingdom carried out 24 batches of immigration operations in North Korea, transporting a total of about 30,000 North Korean women.

The operation of transporting Korean women was not large in scale, and the number of Korean women arriving in Han State in each batch was small. Moreover, as the drought in Korea gradually eased, the number of Korean women willing to immigrate to Han State became fewer and fewer. Therefore, compared with the large-scale Chinese female immigrants, Korean female immigrants received very little attention. Yang Guangzong, Wang Ergou and others knew very little about the content of the Korean immigration operation. Only the driver named Zeng was able to learn some details of the transportation of Korean women because he had relatives who were sailors in the fleet.

Korean women chose to immigrate to the Han Kingdom out of their survival instinct, while Japanese women went to Southeast Asia to sell their bodies as a source of financial income for the Japanese government's Meiji Restoration.

Japan has many mountains and few fertile fields, and geological disasters such as volcanoes and earthquakes occur frequently. However, Japan lacks a reborn person like Li Mingyuan who can use his foresight to bring financial support to Japan's Meiji Restoration. Therefore, in order to obtain the funds needed for the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government, on the one hand, increased taxes to squeeze the economic value of the domestic people in the name of achieving national prosperity, and on the other hand, encouraged Japanese women to sell their bodies overseas and use the money from selling their bodies to support national construction.

In the second half of the 19th century, Southeast Asia was the core area for the great powers to colonize Asia. After a large number of hard work in the early stages, most of the Chinese who went abroad to make a living had accumulated a considerable amount of capital. Stimulated by the economic benefits of the Chinese going to Southeast Asia, Japanese women controlled by businessmen quickly poured into Southeast Asia and soon became the main force of prostitutes in the region. They took advantage of the gentle and submissive characteristics of Japanese women and earned a lot of money from the Chinese workers.

When Japanese women poured into Southeast Asia on a large scale, the Han Kingdom had already completed its layout in the Southeast Asian region. The Taiping Society, a peripheral intelligence organization affiliated with the Ministry of National Defense, integrated the Chinese forces in Southeast Asia. In the Southeast Asian region, it was the most powerful force except for the powers of the great powers.

The Taiping Society not only has more than 100,000 civilian armed forces scattered across Southeast Asia, but also has a group of core armed forces numbering nearly 10,000 people due to the support of the Han mainland.

Nearly 10,000 armed militiamen, each equipped with a Han-made imitation Dresser rifle and 20 grenades, were set up in a secret warehouse deep in the jungle, hiding 200,000 rifle bullets, 100 Gatling machine guns, 35 75mm field guns, as well as medicines, canned food, artillery ammunition and other supplies. In Southeast Asia, especially in Kalimantan, there were various forces such as indigenous princes and the Lan Fang Company. Both the British and the Dutch had extremely weak control over the areas they controlled.

Originally, the Dutch relied on indigenous vassal troops to manage their colony on the island of Kalimantan. Later, the Chinese workers and businessmen in Southeast Asia, who had suffered repeated massacres by the indigenous people, united to report to the Taiping Society and asked the Taiping Society to avenge their slaughtered Chinese compatriots.

Relying on the seven or eight million Chinese in Southeast Asia, the Taiping Society, which had grown strong, launched retaliatory attacks on the indigenous tribes under the order of its leader Liang Xing.

Kuching, Sibu, Pontianak, Samarinda, Sandakan... The indigenous tribes in the twenty areas where Chinese and indigenous peoples live together on the island of Kalimantan suffered a strong attack from the Chinese armed forces. More than 3,000 indigenous peoples were killed in the conflict. Eleven local kings were killed in retaliation by the Chinese forces. Their heads were chopped off and hung on the roadside to intimidate the indigenous tribes.

Without using their stockpiled weapons, the various branches of the Taiping Society used homemade bows and arrows, forged long swords, red tasseled spears and other cold weapons to teach the natives of Southeast Asia a profound lesson. At the same time, the united Chinese also attracted the attention of the Dutch. After assessing the huge losses that might be caused by suppressing the Chinese, they gave up the strategy of provoking the natives to massacre the Chinese again, and instead reduced the oppression and exploitation of the Chinese in some aspects in an attempt to maintain the stability of the colony.

The revenge action against the indigenous people led by the Taiping Society demonstrated the strength of the Chinese in Southeast Asia. When Japanese merchants planned to send Japanese women into Southeast Asia, they first found the heads of the various subordinate branches of the Taiping Society in Southeast Asia to discuss.

The two parties reached an agreement that the Taiping Society would guarantee the safety of Japanese prostitutes controlled by Japanese businessmen, while Japanese businessmen would not prevent Japanese prostitutes from immigrating to the Han Kingdom.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Although Japanese women who sell themselves have some shortcomings, Japanese women, who are also located in East Asia, are more in line with the aesthetic standards of the Han people than Annam women. Therefore, after the two parties reached an agreement, hundreds or thousands of Japanese women immigrated to the Han country every year under the instigation of Chinese women in the Taiping Society. Among them, in addition to women who had hosted Chinese workers, there were also Japanese women who had just arrived in Southeast Asia and had not yet sold themselves, and immigrated to the Han country in South America, and then married soldiers or low-level officers in the National Defense Force.

(End of this chapter)