Expedition to Europe

Since June, the "Spanish Flu" epidemic in Lan Fang has also become serious.

This place is far away from Europe, and penicillin can only be transported by ship, and the quantity each time is not much, because the penicillin produced in Corsica is mainly supplied to Europe and the United States.

The report submitted by MacArthur worked. The US government asked the French government to purchase unlimited amounts of penicillin, and asked Qin Zhiyuan to send manpower to set up a penicillin factory in the United States for local production.

Qin Zhiyuan immediately agreed to the Americans' request, because it was not only out of humanitarian considerations, but more importantly, the Americans showed enough sincerity. The Americans had a large sum of money, a number that Qin Zhiyuan could not refuse.

The British were the same. The demand for penicillin was global, and no country could be an exception, because Qin Zhiyuan had asked Allen to apply for patent barriers in various countries, so now no matter which country in the world, as long as it wanted to mass-produce penicillin, it must obtain authorization from the Corsica General Factory.

In fact, the French government would take a cut of the patent fees collected by Corsica.

This was also helpless. If Qin Zhiyuan did not rely on France, he would not be able to collect patent fees.

If the penicillin factory was born in the Republic of China, even if some countries tore their faces and blatantly infringed on the patent rights, would the Republic of China have the strength to help Qin Zhiyuan safeguard his interests?

The result is imaginable.

While the world was building factories on a large scale, the government of the Republic of China also made a request to Qin Zhiyuan. This was not to build a factory, but to ask for finished products.

The Republic of China was already in a mess, and it was not easy to build a factory and put it into production steadily.

Qin Zhiyuan was certainly not stingy with his own people, and immediately squeezed out a part of the limited inventory to send to the Republic of China.

The result was very surprising. After this batch of penicillin arrived in the Republic of China, a considerable part of it soon flowed into Japan, which made Qin Zhiyuan and Lu Zhengxiang, who operated this matter, extremely dissatisfied and even more disappointed with the government of the Republic of China.

In fact, compared with other countries, the epidemic in Lan Fang was relatively mild. In the more populous British Malaya, the American Philippines, and Guinea under the management of Australia, the disease had spread to the point of being out of control.

These areas accepted many immigrants from the Lan Fang area during the Lan Fang War, and the number was even so large that it had reached a one-to-one ratio with the locals.

With such a dense population, once an epidemic breaks out, it is simply impossible to control it.

In the most serious American Philippines and British Malaya on Kalimantan, more than 10,000 bodies of people who died of influenza are burned every day.

In British Malaya on Kalimantan, entire villages have been wiped out. Those villages have now become forbidden areas. No one dares to deal with the aftermath, and no one dares to search for survivors.

It is summer now. If those bodies are not handled in time, the plague will almost certainly break out.

So the white people in the entire Southeast Asian colonial region are fleeing frantically. The best choice is to flee to Canada, where the epidemic is less severe. There are vast land and sparse population, which can almost be said to be a wild land compared to Southeast Asia.

In order to prevent the epidemic from spreading to the Lan Fang-controlled area on Kalimantan, Qin Zhiyuan negotiated with the British government and obtained the right to go to the British Malaya area on Kalimantan to clean up on the condition of helping to build a penicillin factory. This is equivalent to seizing control of which areas. After the epidemic, it is hard to say which places still belong to Britain.

The same is true for Papua and New Guinea, which belong to Australia.

Papua and New Guinea include part of Guinea Island and the affiliated Solomon Islands. These places are now Australian territories, some of which were German colonies occupied by Australia after the outbreak of World War I.

Because the governance time is still short, especially on the German colony side, the Australians have not established effective rule, and are even still implementing martial law.

The "Spanish Flu" also has an impact on Australia. Although Australia is generally sparsely populated, the population is concentrated in the eastern coastal area, where the population density is still very high, comparable to the UK mainland.

Where there are people, there is an epidemic. The "Spanish Flu" is now spreading in Australia. For a country with less than 5 million people, everyone is precious.

So Australia is also shrinking. They almost gave up Guinea Island and withdrew all Australians back to the mainland for strict defense.

On Guinea Island, it is not just an area managed by Australians, but half of it belongs to Lan Fang.

Australians can run, but Lan Fang cannot.

So for the same reason, in order to prevent the epidemic from spreading to Lan Fang's territory, Huang Bohan negotiated with the leader of the Australian Labor Party and the current Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes to directly buy the Australian territory on Guinea Island and the affiliated Solomon Islands at a cost of 15 million US dollars.

Without much effort, Billy Hughes agreed to Huang Bohan's suggestion.

The Australians suffered heavy losses in the world war. They have been maintaining an army of 300,000 in Europe, which is an extremely heavy burden for the Australian government that has not yet developed the mining industry.

If someone is willing to pay for a burden, Billy Hughes is happy to throw it out.

The concept of national territory in the early 20th century was far less strong than that in the 21st century. Europeans did not care about it. What they cared about was the industrial consumption capacity in the territory, because all colonies were not the inherent territory of Europeans. In the eyes of many people, those lands, including the people on the land, were commodities that could be sold.

Of course, when the Australians left, they did not forget to take away those who were not infected with the "Spanish Flu". These people were all labor, and the Australians could not give up.

Even in the 21st century, Australia's land development was still in its infancy. When the Republic of China had already been used by hardworking farmers in the fields, Australia still had enough wasteland that had not been reclaimed. This was not because the Australians were lazy, but because they lacked human resources.

This was not only the case in Australia, but also in Canada and Siberia.

After the Australians withdrew, Lan Fang randomly organized people to enter the original Australian territory, gradually clearing the "no man's land" caused by the epidemic, and initially established a village-level ruling organization.

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After the end of the World War, someone did a statistics on Southeast Asia. Because of the "Spanish Flu", nearly half of the population in Southeast Asia decreased, and it is estimated that 5 to 8 million people died in this disaster.

This number is much higher than the original historical figures. On the one hand, the war in Lan Fang greatly increased the population density of countries in the surrounding areas of Lan Fang, so when the epidemic broke out, it was particularly fierce. On the other hand, the selfish behavior of the British and Americans when the disaster came, which led to the local anarchy and chaotic management, was also one of the reasons.

Lan Fang showed a strong sense of responsibility in this disaster. Even those uninhabited areas caused by the serious epidemic, Lan Fang's troops would take the initiative to clean up, work hard, and not fear the virus.

These works were not done in vain. In the British Malaya area on the island of Kalimantan, many locals formed an organization similar to the "Self-Help Association" to carry out self-help in order to protect themselves. When Lan Fang's troops arrived in these areas, almost all the locals were grateful to Lan Fang, and many people immediately expressed their willingness to join Lan Fang. Even if the British came back after the epidemic, they would no longer recognize the British rule.

In fact, in the entire Southeast Asia, the Chinese in British Malaya are the largest except for Siam. There are currently about 1.2 million people in the entire British Malaya region, of which those on the Malay Peninsula are concentrated in Singapore, and most of the rest are in Kalimantan.

Compared with Westerners and indigenous peoples, the Chinese now have the highest level of hygiene, and the epidemic is of course the lightest.

Even in the original history, the Chinese did not suffer much loss in this global disaster. In this disaster, the death toll in Asia accounted for more than 70% of the total number of deaths, of which Indians accounted for 80% of this number.

By the end of June, Lan Fang's territory had increased to Australian Guinea and the affiliated Solomon Islands. The actual occupied land included the British Malaya region on Kalimantan Island, and Palawan Island and part of Mindanao in the American Philippines.

This vast area, including most of the traditional Southeast Asia, and part of Oceania, has become the veritable largest country in Southeast Asia.

Of course, on this land, there are now Chinese, who make up the absolute majority, as well as Javanese, Malays, Sundanese, Madurese, and even French people. They now have a name: Lan Fang people.

Qin Zhiyuan did not artificially divide the races, but forcibly classified everyone as a unified Lan Fang people. No matter whether they are Chinese, Javanese, French, or anyone else, as long as they live on the land of Lan Fang, they must recognize that they are Lan Fang people, otherwise they will be illegal.

Yes, Lan Fang has formulated its own constitution, which marks that Lan Fang has officially entered the era of rule of law.

According to the provisions of the Constitution, Chinese is the official language in Lan Fang. All official documents, publications, signs with text information, etc. in Lan Fang, as long as they use text, must be written in Chinese.

In people's daily lives, Chinese has also begun to be popularized. Citizens who do not know Chinese must enter language schools to strengthen their studies. All facilities and institutions in Lan Fang can refuse to provide services to people who do not use Chinese.

This move is the most ruthless. From now on, if you do not know Chinese in Lan Fang, even your daily life cannot be guaranteed.

What Qin Zhiyuan wanted was assimilation, and it was different from the assimilation that the French promoted in Algeria. This was compulsory and unconditional assimilation.