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The diplomatic and political confrontation between Britain and the United States was limited to the northern part of South America, and did not have much impact on the Han mainland in South America.

On January 23, the 22nd day of the lunar month, the last few days of the Han Dynasty's New Year's holiday, companies, government agencies, and armies around the country are taking advantage of the last few days of the end of the year to carry out the finishing work of the year.

Huaiyin Mansion (Rosario), Weizhou, where the Second Regiment of the Sixth Division of the Han National Defense Force is stationed, Lu Rongting, who has been promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Second Regiment of the Sixth Division, sat on a chair near the camp training ground, took off the cowhide military boots stained with dust and sand alternately with both hands, knocked the ground a few times, poured off the sand inside, skillfully put on the military boots, tied them and carried them, and then took the newspaper sent by the guards, holding tea in one hand and newspaper in the other, enjoying the rare leisure time between training.

Fuxing Bao and Youth Military Newspaper are government newspapers, and officers at and above the school level have a free newspaper provided by the Ministry of War every day to help young key officers understand the country's military and political affairs and expand their knowledge horizons.

According to the headline on the main page of the new issue of Fuxing Bao, the preparation for a constitutional monarchy is still the hottest topic in recent times, and the educational circles, intellectuals, and ordinary people have all shown a one-sided attitude of support for Li Mingyuan's initiative to reform the political system and prepare for a constitutional monarchy.

"Broaden the wisdom of the people, give the people the right to participate in politics and discuss politics, and the constitutional monarchy of the Great Han State is really the first benevolent government in China for 5,000 years, and Your Majesty's merits should be better than the ancient sages and saints."

"Soldiers, officials, teachers, peasants, and workers all have equal political power, and the reform of the political system of our Han state should be a model for the political system of the civilized world and the cornerstone of the eternal foundation of the empire." …………

The implementation of a constitutional monarchy means the transformation of the country from the rule of man to the legal system, the enhancement of the political status of the people, and the guarantee of security in the fields of national economy and personal security.

Under the constitutional monarchy system, the power of the monarch has been limited to a certain extent, the lives of officials and ordinary people have been guaranteed by law, and in the feudal society of the past, the emperor's words to decide the fate of people will no longer happen.

It is true that Li Mingyuan is the eternal monarch and saint monarch in the eyes of all the people of the Han Kingdom in South America, but no one dares to guarantee that the successor ruler of the empire can be as wise and loving the people as Li Mingyuan, and after the implementation of the constitutional monarchy system, it will be different, even if the future generations of monarchs are slightly lacking, but under the protection of the state system, as long as the monarch controls the core military power, the right to appoint the prime minister, the right to supervise the government and other rights, the country will not go astray because of the monarch's mistakes, and the people can also feel the sense of mission as the main body of the country. Security.

The new intellectuals and officials who had been educated abroad understood the benefits of a constitutional monarchy, while the ordinary people and immigrants who were not knowledgeable enough to hear the explanations of the local officials, even if they still knew nothing, believed that the constitutional monarchy was another benevolent government implemented by the emperor, and habitually raised their hands in support.

Lu Rongting, like most of the officers of the Young Zhuang faction, paid some attention to politics, but his main interest was in the military field.

Put down the "Fuxing Daily" and pick up the "Youth Military Daily", the organ of the army and navy.

"The Great Han Kingdom and the Kingdom of Hawaii established diplomatic relations at the ministerial level, and Major Kuang Yongzhong, a young officer of the Imperial Navy, went to Hawaii to take up the post of military attaché!"

Two lines of black headlines appeared eye-catching in the newspaper headline area, Lu Rongting read along the headline all the way, and gradually understood the cause and effect of the matter.

Because of the influx of Western traders into the Hawaiian Islands, they brought with them cholera, mumps, influenza, smallpox, measles and other infectious diseases that claimed about four-fifths of the lives of the indigenous people.

In 1778, the first Western navigator James Brown. When Captain Cook landed in Hawaii, there were more than 300,000 Native Hawaiians on the island, and by 1876, there were only about 60,000 Native Hawaiians left on the island.

The mass death of the population has caused a severe shortage of labour. To solve this problem, Hawaii began to import labor from overseas to work on plantations. Chinese (1852), Dongying (1868), Portuguese (1878), Americans and other immigrants came to the island.

The introduction of foreign laborers, especially Chinese and Dongying laborers, changed the demographic structure of the Hawaiian Islands, and by the beginning of 1889, the total number of Chinese in Hawaii, including Chinese indigenous women and the descendants of Chinese and indigenous women, reached 120,000, surpassing the local indigenous people and becoming the largest population race in the region. (Native Hawaii is Polynesian, and the race belongs to the transitional race of yellow and white people, and Dwayne Johnson is Polynesian.) ）

The second largest population group in Hawaii is the indigenous people, numbering about 50,000, and the third largest population group is the Dongying people, numbering about 30,000.

The Chinese and Dongying people are the main foreign ethnic groups in Hawaii, accounting for three-quarters of the total population of Hawaii, while the Americans, who rank third in the number of foreign population groups after the Chinese and Dongying people, have only more than 2,000 missionaries, merchants, and ordinary immigrants, and the population is far lower than that of the Chinese and Dongying people.

Although the Americans were in a disadvantageous position in terms of the number of immigrants, they took advantage of being the first to enter the Hawaiian Islands, and the Americans forced the Hawaiian king to sign an unequal treaty, which gave the U.S. government the authority to establish a military port in Hawaii and station a small number of Marines.

The port of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, the main island of Hawaii, has a number of about 100 marines deployed all year round, and a supply station that can provide basic supplies such as food and fruits.

However, the situation of the United States dominating the Kingdom of Hawaii has changed because of the confrontation between Britain and the United States, and in order to share the diplomatic pressure and combat the expansion of the United States in the northern region of South America, the British government for the first time made it clear that it supports the interests of the Han Kingdom in the South Pacific region. The Kingdom of Hawaii gave the Han and the United States the same political treatment, and set aside an area of about 480 acres of land near the Pearl Harbor port on Oahu as a supply port for the Han Southern Pacific Fleet and a camp for the Marine Corps.

Hawaii stationed the Han Marines in camp and placed them near the American camp, but there was no idea of mutual checks and balances.

However, the South American Han State is not strong enough in the South Pacific region, and the core task of entering the Hawaiian Islands is to contain the annexation of Hawaii by the United States, so it does not care about the careful thinking of the Hawaiian government.

On the occasion of celebrating the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Han Kingdom and the Kingdom of Hawaii, the local government announced the dispatch of a 2,500-ton cruiser, a 1,350-ton light cruiser, and three auxiliary vessels to accompany the Han minister Zhong Juncheng (born as a child in the United States, and mainly studied in the field of diplomacy during his stay in the United States. ）

A diplomatic team of more than 150 people, including the military attache of the Han State in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Navy Major Kuang Yongzhong, three platoons of Marine Corps soldiers, and legation assistants, paid a diplomatic visit to the Kingdom of Hawaii.

During the state visit, the Han fleet will stay in Hawaii for three months, and after completing the state visit and condolences to the Chinese compatriots in Hawaii, the fleet will rush to Samoa, the capital of the Yizhou archipelago, where it will officially join the battle sequence of the South Pacific Fleet.

After reading the news that the navy was about to send a fleet to Hawaii for a visit, Lu Rongting felt a long-lost restlessness in his heart.

After the end of the Argentine War, the naval fleet successively received new ironclad ships, and the newly recruited graduates of the local naval officer academy and the backbone officers who returned from overseas travel were also able to go to sea for training frequently, and increase their combat experience by attacking pirates active on the South Pacific-South Sea route and the Atlantic-Africa route. In the form of simulated drills, combat skills are not degraded.

After all, simulated drills and on-the-spot operations are not the same thing, and they have not participated in on-the-ground combat operations for nearly 10 years, and not only are the veterans not used to it, but even Lu Rongting, the military commander-in-chief, also feels a little uncomfortable.

Lu Rongting was born in 1859, at the beginning of 1879, when the Argentine War broke out, he was only a 20-year-old junior officer, and now, in the blink of an eye, ten years have passed, the military rank has been promoted step by step from captain to lieutenant colonel, and the position has also crossed the level of battalion-level officers, and has been successfully promoted to the commander of a regiment, completing the identity transformation from a grassroots officer to a middle and senior officer.

According to the expansion schedule promulgated by the War Department, before July 1889, the Sixth Division of the Wehrmacht would be the first batch of expansion units to complete the expansion and rearmament of the first-class divisions, and at that time, the second regiment under his command would also be expanded from a standard regiment of 2,200 men to a large regiment of 3,000 men.

"In July next year, the expansion of the Second Regiment will end, and the rank may be promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel."

Lu Rongting took a sip of tea, stared at the rank epaulette on his shoulder, and muttered to himself.

In peacetime, the promotion of officers is slow, and the military rank is promoted to two levels in 10 years, which is a normal phenomenon in the Han National Defense Force, but compared with the first ten years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, generals such as Luo Linshan, Zhao Yongzeng, and Wang Dashan not only occupy high positions at a young age, but also because of the dragon's merits, everyone has the honor of a hereditary noble title.

The hereditary aristocracy of the Han State is a symbol of honor and a symbol of status, and in the twenty-first year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the number of hereditary nobles in the Han State totaled only more than 50 people, and the number of non-hereditary nobles was more than 40 people.

The knighthood ceremony at the end of 1879 was the largest hereditary title awarding ceremony in the history of the Han Kingdom, after which, although there were four people such as Zhou Sheng and Lin Shenhe, who were awarded the hereditary baronial title because of their great achievements in different fields, but during this period, there were also two hereditary nobles who were deprived of hereditary nobility because of violations of discipline, lawlessness, and corruption in life.

Hereditary aristocracy has a great attraction for every young soldier, and Lu Rongting is certainly no exception.

At the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, the family already had seven children, the eldest child was eight years old, had entered the second grade of the junior school, the child's slow growth, let Lu Rongting, who regarded himself as young, have a pressure, the military career is only a few decades in total, missed the ten years before the Argentine War, in the ten years after 1889, we must seize the opportunity, make meritorious achievements, and serve the country!

The strong sense of dedication prompted Lu Rongting to grasp the motivation of the troops' training day by day for ten years, drank the remaining tea in one gulp, and after a short rest, Lu Rongting stood up and planned to continue to devote himself to intense and substantial training, so as to make ample preparations for the war that might come in the next few years.

"Battalion Commander Shi, Battalion Commander Zhang, how is the training of the troops today?"

Lu Rongting put on a simple military hat for pacifying, came to the soldier training center, and asked two young officers who were no more than twenty-five or sixteen years old.

"The training of the brothers is not bad, and the tactical exercises such as infantry and artillery coordination tactics, skirmish attack tactics, demining and minelaying tactics, and heavy machine gun defense have achieved excellent results.

It's just that each battalion has only one Jianye six-year heavy machine gun, and three battalions of a regiment, plus a machine gun platoon directly under the regiment headquarters, there are only seven heavy machine guns in total, and compared with the previous regiment's more than 10 Gatling hand-cranked machine guns, the number has been reduced by more than half. ”

Of the three infantry battalions under the jurisdiction of the Second Regiment, Shi Jintang, commander of the first battalion, and Zhang Yougong, commander of the third battalion, both have a background of studying abroad, and compared with the commander of the second battalion who grew up from the local grassroots army, they attach more importance to the heavy fire support of the grassroots infantry units.

"How does the rate of fire and bullet range of the Jianye six-year heavy machine gun compare to that of the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun?"

"The Jianye six-year heavy machine gun has an effective range of 1,000 meters and a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, and when using ordinary ammunition to load, it still has a certain lethality at a distance of 2,700 meters.

The Gatling hand-cranked machine gun had an effective range of 800 meters and a rate of fire of 170 rounds per minute. ”

Shi Jintang, the commander of the first battalion, replied.

"Yes, the effective range of the Jianye six-year heavy machine gun exceeds that of the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun, the rate of fire is more than three times that of the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun, and the lethality is more than five times higher than that of the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun."

Lu Rongting summarized the performance comparison between the Jianye six-year heavy machine gun and the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun, and then explained: "The Jianye six-year heavy machine gun has better firepower than the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun and is more suitable for the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops, which is also the reason why the local army eliminated the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun and fully replaced the heavy machine gun, but compared with the improvement of weapon performance, the manufacturing cost and ammunition consumption cost of the Jianye six-year heavy machine gun far exceed the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun." ”

Lu Rongting found a chair and sat down, and continued: "On the European side, a Makqin heavy machine gun costs 300 pounds, and the matching bullet costs 30 pounds.

The cost of the six-year heavy machine gun produced by the local independent production and manufacture of Jianye is 1,400 Han Yuan, which is equivalent to 200 pounds at the British exchange rate, and the cost of supporting ammunition is 25 pounds. ”

"Jianye six-year heavy machine gun is really a good thing, the use of triangular brackets, the weight of the machine gun barrel is light, after the barrel is disassembled, two to three soldiers can carry the parts transfer, and the mass is bulky, the volume is huge, and the need to use a carriage to carry the transfer of the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun, Jianye six-year heavy machine gun is more suitable for positional defense operations and rapid transfer, but the heavy machine gun ammunition consumption rate is terrifying, the combat cost is high, otherwise, the heavy machine gun will be popularized to the company, platoon-level combat units, the comprehensive combat capability of the Wehrmacht troops, It will be completely different from what it used to be. ”

The commander of the third battalion shook his head and said regretfully.

"The country's economic development is booming, and the technical level of local military enterprises is also improving day by day, perhaps in a few years, the production cost of heavy machine guns and ammunition will be reduced, and heavy machine guns will also be popularized to basic combat units at the company and platoon levels." …………