This is how Li Hung-chang interpreted Brazil's recruitment of Chinese laborers: "If tens of thousands of Cantonese emigrate (to Brazil) each year, that would amount to hundreds of thousands in the course of a decade ... and our internal troubles would simply disappear."
所以李鴻章對「巴西招工」一案就曾有過如下的評語：倘若「粵東每歲移去（巴西）數萬人，十年即移去數十萬人，… … 而內地之隱禍可消弭於無形矣。」