Chapter 670 Two Years Later

These blindfolds played by Ocean Kingdoms can deceive ordinary people in European and American society, but they cannot hide from senior politicians. European public opinion lacks interest in this. On the contrary, public opinion in Citigroup is boiling, and some extreme right-wingers even openly recruit volunteers in the society. , Ready to fight to the Kingdom of Hawaii to destroy the Chinese soldiers.

  This kind of remarks is actually very marketable in society. Not only do some people donate money and materials, but also people come to apply for it spontaneously, and the police have to come forward to stop the farce.

  What a joke, those overseas Chinese in the Ocean Kingdom are fierce and domineering, and they have nowhere to redress their grievances if they dare to make trouble and be killed.

  Message display;

  Ocean Kingdom has stationed no less than two 4000-ton cruisers in Pearl Harbor, and there are also many 2000-ton destroyers. The strength cannot be underestimated. This is definitely not something that can be defeated by gathering hundreds of cowboys across the sea.

Unconsciously

   only mastered the islands of Hawaii and Oahu. The Ocean Kingdom has pushed the defense line 8,000 kilometers southeast in one fell swoop, encompassing most of the vast Pacific Ocean, and being close to the outer edge of the North American continental shelf, greatly increasing its strategic depth.

  Since then, the Ocean Kingdom has planned and step-by-step dispatched naval fleets and landing personnel to bring the South Pacific island nations into the bag, and quietly carry out occupation and colonization.

   two years later

  Early December 1893

  Oahu

  Pearl Harbor spreads inland in the shape of a bird's foot. It is located in the plain area between the Kola Mountain Range and the Waianae Mountain Range.

  There is a large valley and plain in the port area, adjacent to the deep-water port of Honolulu. It is a naval base and ship repair center in the North Pacific region, and the largest and best safe berthing port in the North Pacific islands.

  Backed by the azure clear water, the white sandy beaches and coconut trees along the bay constitute a beautiful paradise. As an important military port, ordinary civilian ships and foreign ships are not allowed to enter Pearl Harbor without special permission from the navy.

At the southern end of the Waipio Peninsula, there is a milky white octagonal lighthouse, which is a prominent navigation sign for entering the port. On the east bank of the entrance corner of the port, there is also a light signal tower for warships entering the port in the dark. Auxiliary navigation.

  The entrance of Pearl Harbor has only one dredging channel with a depth of 13.7 meters.

  Due to the geographical location, even if there are strong winds and waves outside Pearl Harbor, the inside of the port is still calm. The entire harbour is 32 square kilometers, with an average water depth of 14 meters, and can berth more than 5 million tons of giant ships.

  A 3600-ton ocean liner of the Pacific Ocean Shipping Company slowly entered the narrow entrance. Young crew members on the ship flocked to the deck to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Invincible Bay amidst enthusiastic cheers.

   "Look, there is a 7-story pagoda surrounded by clouds and mist, like a fairy mountain outside the world, it's so beautiful!"

   "Wow, the rocks on this shore are too steep, right?"

  "The mountains and rocks are strange and strange. After thousands of years of wind and waves, they present a unique sense of desolation. It feels a bit like exploring a mysterious treasure island."

   "My God, this sea is too clear, right? The swimming dolphins under the water can be seen clearly."

   "It's so beautiful here, just like a fairyland."

Looking at the beautiful surroundings with young and enthusiastic faces, they have forgotten the hardship of the journey that lasted for more than a month. Among them are recruits who are changing defenses, workers from naval shipyards, hospital nurses, port administrators, and some transiting Chinese immigrants. And 220 graduates from Royal Executive University, totaling about 1,400, are willing to contribute the light and heat of youth to this beautiful island.

The predecessor of Royal Administration University (Tianshu City) was Tianshu Development Planning College. It was originally a short-term training school for training colonial officials. After more than ten years of development, it has become a comprehensive liberal arts school with nearly 10,000 students. Such universities continuously provide qualified talents throughout the country.

Royal University of Administration has opened many special departments, such as the Department of Surveying and Mapping, Department of Government Administration, Department of Secretarial Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Internal Affairs, Department of Law, Department of International Business, Department of History, Department of Literature, etc., providing high-quality grassroots civil servants to the kingdom .

  For about half an hour, the passenger ferry sailed through the narrow entrance waterway between the mountain peaks, and the eyes suddenly opened up, as if entering a paradise with heaven and earth.

   Accompanied by the unanimous exclamation, the vast calm harbor of blue sea and silver sand in front of us is like a huge crystal clear azure sapphire. The corner of the golden temple looming in the coconut grove in the distance adds a mysterious atmosphere.

  It's so beautiful!

  In the white building on the shore

Through the open window, Li Sizhong, the general manager of Mysterious Island (Oahu), saw a passenger ship of the Pacific Shipping Company approaching, he picked up several documents on the table and looked at it, and found one of them. The information of the passenger ship notified in advance;

   "Lu-Activist" passenger ship, belonging to the Pacific Shipping Company's Lu's shipping company, the home port, Tianshu City, East Xiangzhou, the passenger ship has a standard displacement of 3,372 tons, a full-load displacement of 3,724 tons, a voyage of 6,200 nautical miles, and 1,421 passengers.

  The following are specific passenger occupations. What interests Li Sizhong most are the 220 enthusiastic and aspiring Royal School of Administration graduates, as well as 896 immigrants, of which 337 are women.

"Fortunately, I finally gave us some ladies here, or else the indigenous women on this archipelago will be overwhelmed." Li Sizhong shook his head with a wry smile, turned his head, and smiled at Colonel Li Sixian who was a guest. Said, "Brother, you have been here for more than three months. You should understand the situation here. Most of the children sent in the past two years are vigorous offspring. You can understand it when you are doing construction, but young people are in When we are together for a long time, we will drink and make troubles, become jealous and make people big."

  Captain Li Sixian is the captain of the cruiser "Kokang". This is the No. 9 ship of the "Courage" class cruiser construction plan. It belongs to the Borneo Fleet. This time he came to Pearl Harbor to perform voyage training and alternate garrison missions for a period of one year.

  He is not Baron Li Sixian, the deputy secretary-general of the Royal Secretariat. The two are only the same name and surname. They are both middle and high-level bureaucrats born in the Young Eagle School, and have nothing else to do.

   "Of course I understand. The guys in our fleet like to run to the hospital as soon as they come back. The beautiful little nurses look very seductive, and I really want to live in the hospital. Young men are just as healthy."

"It's better for your army to be tightly controlled. I'm in trouble here. The island garrison received reports every other time. The complaints about how to harass women, forcibly indecent assault, and other complaints accounted for the majority, scaring the family members of immigrant families on the island. They dared not go out at night. Many American businessmen and white plantation owners were overwhelmed and fled here one after another. This may be the only comforting news."

In the entire Hawaiian Islands (including the Mystic Island, formerly Oahu), due to the implementation of trusteeship, the western white residents and the Chinese population living in the islands belong to the upper class, the Fusang country and the Mexicans belong to the middle class, and the local natives are reduced to the lower class. .

  The island of Hawaii is small in area, small in population, and very complicated in ethnic composition. This is a bit long to say.

At the end of the 18th century, after the first native king Kamehameha I unified the Hawaiian Islands, he was in constant contact with the Western world, and accompanied by the American merchant navy opened Eastern trade. The protagonist of Western trade was the whaling industry and Eastern trade. The protagonist is sandalwood, a specialty of the Hawaiian Islands, which has a very market in Eastern countries.

  Decades later, due to the exhaustion of resources, there is no whaling industry and sandalwood trade, Hawaii urgently needs to find new economic growth points.

  In 1874, the King of Hawaii and the United States signed a mutual tariff exemption agreement, paving the way for Hawaii to export cane sugar cheaply to the United States. This agreement was formally implemented two years later, attracting a large number of white businessmen to Hawaii to establish sugar cane plantations. But farming requires a lot of labor, and there is no one to hire in Hawaii at this time.

  It turned out that Westerners not only brought Christianity to Hawaii, but also brought in infectious diseases such as smallpox, flu, measles and scarlet fever.

  At the end of the 18th century, there were about 200,000 natives living in the Hawaiian Islands. The total population has dropped sharply since Captain Cook landed.

  In the first census conducted in Hawaii in 1872, there were only 57,000 people left in the entire kingdom, and the native Hawaiians were facing the danger of genocide.

  Since then, in order to solve the problem of labor shortage, the manor owners recruited a large number of laborers from the Qing, Fusang, Luzon and East Indies, and the large-scale immigration wave began.

  Hawaii also recruited a large number of Spanish-speaking cowboys from Mexico to teach the locals to manage the ranch.

  It turned out that in the early 18th century, a merchant gave several livestock to Kamehameha I as a gift. The king couldn’t put it down and ordered a nationwide ban on slaughter of livestock, which led to the proliferation of cattle and horses in the Hawaiian Islands.

  Nowadays, there are still large tracts of pastures on the Big Island of Hawaii. The beef produced here can not only meet the needs of Hawaiians, but can also be exported to other countries.

  By the end of 1893

  The entire Hawaiian Islands has a population of more than 120,000, including 42,000 Chinese immigrants, 13,000 laborers, more than 4,300 white plantation owners and businessmen, more than 6,000 East Indies, more than 1,100 Mexicans, and more than 49,000 indigenous people.

Overall

The population of Chinese descent has shown a sharp rise in the past two years. Fusang laborers, Luzon, the East Indies and Mexicans have steadily declined, and the number of whites has shown a sharp decline, from the original more than 8,200 to more than 4,300 today. The loss is serious.

  Many of the local indigenous population also moved to the North American continent, so there is a slight downward trend.

The sharp decline in the number of white plantation owners and businessmen is entirely due to the excessive taxation imposed by the Hawaiian Management Committee (formerly the Hawaii Emergency Committee). They have to deal with plantations and ranches, shops at low prices, and transfer to Hawaii Port Terminals. , Leaving here with a torn heart.

  The number of white people standing here is estimated to be reduced by more than half in the next two years.

Because the Hawaiian Management Committee has introduced a new bill, it will charge a resource surcharge on the export of cane sugar. The tax rate is tentatively set at 13%, and the livestock quarantine tax on the export of beef is tentatively set at 7.5%. It will be officially implemented today.

   Doing so is tantamount to exhausting the cane sugar plantation industry and beef exporting industry, and completely cut off the white people's thinking.

  This is a rhythm that will never stop if you dare not kill it!

  With the bankruptcy of cane sugar plantations, a large number of laborers on the island of Hawaii, Mexicans will leave one after another to find new job opportunities on the North American continent.

  Well, only local indigenous people can't go.

  They have to endure more wealthy Chinese marrying local indigenous girls, and endure endless harassment, oppression, and bullying. Maybe in 20 or 30 years, this originally weak Pacific island indigenous race will no longer exist.

  (End of this chapter)