Since June, the "Spanish flu" epidemic in Lanfang has also begun to become serious.

Far from Europe, penicillin can only be shipped by ship, and the quantity is not too large at a time, because Penicillin produced in Corsica is mainly supplied to Europe and the United States.

MacArthur's report played a role, and the U.S. government asked the French government to purchase penicillin in unlimited quantities, and asked Qin Zhiyuan to send manpower to set up a penicillin factory in the United States to produce it locally.

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, in addition to a large sum of money, a figure that Qin Zhiyuan could not refuse.

The British are the same, the demand for penicillin is worldwide, and no country can be an exception, because Qin Zhiyuan has asked Allen to apply for patent barriers in various countries, so now no matter which country in the world, as long as it is to produce penicillin on a large scale, it must be authorized by the Corsica General Factory.

In fact, the French government has to take a cut of the patent fees charged by Corsica.

This is also a helpless thing, if it does not rely on France, Qin Zhiyuan will 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 patent rights, would the Republic of China have the strength to help Qin Zhiyuan safeguard his interests?

The results can be imagined.

At the same time as building factories on a large scale all over the world, the government of the Republic of China also put forward a request to Qin Zhiyuan, which is not to build a factory, but to ask for finished products.

The Republic of China has become a pot of porridge, and it is not easy to establish a factory and put it into production steadily.

Of course, Qin Zhiyuan was not stingy with his people, and immediately squeezed out some of the limited inventory and sent it 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 Republic of China government.

In fact, compared to other countries, the epidemic in Lanfang is relatively mild, and in the populous British Malaya, the American Philippines, and Australian-managed Guinea, the disease has spread uncontrollably.

These areas received a lot of immigrants from the Lanfang area during the Lanfang war, and the number was even so large that it had reached a one-to-one level with the locals.

The population is so dense that once there is an outbreak, it is simply impossible to control it.

In the worst-hit Philippines and British Malaya on the island of Kalimantan, more than 10,000 influenza-related bodies are burned every day.

In the British Malayan region of Kalimantan, entire villages have been wiped out, and those villages are now forbidden places, and no one dares to take care of the aftermath or search for any living people.

It's summer, and if those corpses aren't disposed of in time, a plague is almost certain to break out.

As a result, throughout the colonies of Southeast Asia, whites are fleeing frantically, and the best choice is to flee to Canada, where the epidemic is relatively light, where the land is vast and sparsely populated, compared to Southeast Asia, it can almost be said to be a wild place.

In order to prevent the epidemic from spreading to the Lanfang-controlled area on Kalimantan Island, Qin Zhiyuan negotiated with the British government and obtained the right to go to the British Malaya area on Kalimantan Island to clean up on the condition of aiding the construction of a penicillin factory.

The same is true of Papua and New Guinea, to which Australia belongs.

Papua and New Guinea, including part of the island of Guinea and the attached Solomon Islands. These places are now Australian territories, and some of them were German colonies occupied by Australian troops after the outbreak of World War I.

Because of the short period of governance, especially on the side of the German colonies, the Australians have not yet established effective rule, and even practiced military rule.

The "Spanish flu" also has an impact on Australia, which is generally sparsely populated, but its population is concentrated along the eastern seaboard, where the population density is still very high, comparable to that of the United Kingdom.

There are epidemics where there are people, and there is also the "Spanish flu" spreading in Australia itself, and for a country of less than 5 million people, everyone is precious.

As a result, Australia is also shrinking, and they have almost abandoned the island of Guinea and withdrawn all Australians to the mainland to defend it.

On the island of Guinea, it's not just Australians who run the area, half of it belongs to Lanfang.

Australians can run, Lanfang can't.

So for the same reason, in order to prevent the epidemic from spreading to Lanfang's territory, Huang Bohan negotiated with the leader of the Australian Labor Party, the current Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes, to directly buy the Australian territory on the island of Guinea and the attached Solomon Islands for $15 million.

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

The Australians, who had suffered heavy losses in the world war, had been maintaining an army of 300,000 men in Europe, which was a very heavy burden on the Australian government, which had not yet developed a mining industry.

Someone is willing to pay for a baggage, and Billy Hughes is happy to throw it away.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the concept of national territory was far less strong than in the 21st century, and Europeans did not care about it, they cared about the industrial consumption power of their territories, because all the colonies were not the inherent territory of Europeans, and 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 with them those who did not have the "Spanish flu", these people are labor, and Australians cannot give up.

Even in the 21st century, Australia's land development is still in its infancy. When even the fields in the Republic of China have been used by industrious farmers, there is still enough wasteland in Australia that has not been cultivated, not because Australians are lazy, but because they lack human resources.

And it's not just Australia, it's the same in Canada, it's the same in 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 establishing a village-level ruling body.

After the end of the World War, some people made a statistic on Southeast Asia, because of the "Spanish flu", nearly half of the population of Southeast Asia was reduced, and it is estimated that 5 million to 8 million people died from this disaster.

This figure is much higher than the original historical figure, on the one hand, because the war in Lan Fong has greatly increased the population density of the countries around Lan Fong, so when the outbreak of the epidemic is particularly violent. On the other hand, the selfishness of the British and Americans when disaster struck, which led to anarchy and chaotic management in the local area, was also one of the reasons.

Lan Fang showed a strong sense of responsibility in this disaster, even if it was a no-man's land caused by the serious epidemic, Lan Fang's troops would take the initiative to clean it up, working tirelessly and fearless of the virus.

These efforts were not done in vain, in the British Malaya region of Kalimantan, many locals formed organizations like "self-help associations" to help themselves in order to protect themselves, and 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 Asian region, the Chinese in British Malaya are the largest in addition to Siam, and there are currently about 1.2 million people in the entire British Malaya region, of which the Malay Peninsula is concentrated in the Lion City, and most of the rest are in Kalimantan.

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

Even in the original history, the Chinese lost much in this global catastrophe. In this disaster, Asians accounted for more than 70 percent of the total number of deaths, with Indians accounting for 80 percent of that number.

By the end of June, Lan Fong had expanded its territory to include Australian Guinea and the Solomon Islands, including the British Malaya region on Kalimantan and parts of Palawan and Mindanao in the United States Philippines.

This vast region, which includes most of Southeast Asia in the traditional sense, and part of Oceania, has become the veritable number one country in Southeast Asia.

Of course, there are now the majority of the Chinese living in this land, as well as Javanese, Malays, Sundanese, Madura, and even French, all of whom now have a name: Lan Fong.

Qin Zhiyuan did not artificially divide the race, but forcibly classified everyone as a unified Lanfang people, whether they were Chinese, Javanese, French or anything else, as long as they lived in the land of Lanfang, they must recognize themselves as Lanfang people, otherwise they would all be illegal.

That's right, Lan Fang has formulated her own constitution, which marks Lan Fang's official entry into the era of the rule of law.

According to the provisions of the Constitution, Chinese is the official language in Lanfang, and all official documents, publications, signs with written information, etc., in Lanfang, as long as the words are used, must be written in Chinese.

In people's daily lives, the Chinese language has also begun to be popularized, and people who do not know Chinese should enter language schools to strengthen their studies, and all facilities and institutions in Lanfang can refuse to provide services for people who do not use Chinese.

This trick is the most ruthless, from now on, if you don't know Chinese in Lanfang, then even daily life cannot be guaranteed.

What Qin Zhiyuan wanted was assimilation, and it was different from the assimilation carried out by the French in Algeria, which was a mandatory unconditional assimilation.

(To be continued.) )