Chapter 368: General Election in the Republic of Hawaii
8th Year of Xinghua (1896)
In January, at Mawei Shipyard, the D-class destroyer "Anqing" was launched, with a displacement of 4,683 tons, and two more destroyers of this class will be built in the future, namely: Luzhou and Fengyang. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In March, Jiangnan Shipyard, the first Qingming-class submarine was launched, with a surface displacement of 1,257 tons and an underwater displacement of 1,405 tons, and five more submarines of this class will be built in the future.
In May, the battleship "Qin Shi Huang" entered service with the Pacific Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire and became the flagship of the Pacific Fleet.
In June, the second and final battleship of the Qin Dynasty, the Qin II, was launched and outfitted, and is expected to be officially commissioned by the middle of next year.
At the beginning of June, the Admiralty of the Chinese Empire officially announced to the outside world that the Chinese Empire will build a powerful navy with 16 new battleships in the next five years to safeguard the interests of the Chinese Empire, and that the Chinese Empire will build four more Qin-class battleships this year and three more Qin-class battleships next year, so that the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire will have eight new-style battleships in three years.
As soon as the Chinese Empire's shipbuilding plan came out, it didn't take long for Britain to announce the construction plan of six Majestic-class battleships, followed by three French, three American, two Russian, and two German.
The navy is a rich man's game, so if you don't have money or technology, just watch it.
In the second half of this year, there is another important project that has attracted the attention of the world: the first presidential election of the Republic of Hawaii.
Because of the persecution of the Chinese by the Hawaiian natives, but the Hawaiian royal government could not deal with it impartially, the Chinese were forced to be helpless, and the leadership of the Hawaiian Chen family rose up and established a free, democratic, and equal country in the Hawaiian Islands on March 8, 1892, and requested the Chinese Empire to become the protectorate of the Republic of Hawaii.
The emergence of the Republic of Hawaii made the United States very irritable, because the United States had always wanted to incorporate the Hawaiian Islands into the United States, but it did not expect that the United States would naturally refuse to recognize the status of the Chinese-dominated Republic of Hawaii, and quickly sent a naval fleet to the Hawaiian Islands to eliminate the Republic of Hawaii in the bud.
Unexpectedly, the air force of the Chinese Empire arrived in the Hawaiian Islands first, and under the deterrence of the Chinese Empire's airships, the war did not break out, and the representatives of the Chinese Empire and the United States negotiated the Hawaiian Islands issue in Honolulu, and finally the two countries took a step back and reached the "Sino-US Hawaiian Consensus", the two countries recognized the status of the Republic of Hawaii, neither country could be established in the Republic of Hawaii, and when the situation in Hawaii stabilized, the government of the Republic of Hawaii would be democratically elected, etc.
After the signing of the Sino-American Hawaii Consensus, both the Chinese Empire and the United States emigrated to the Republic of Hawaii, but a series of events that followed made the United States suffer a dumb loss.
Because the Hawaiian kingdom is gone, their status has declined rapidly, not only inferior to the Chinese and white Europeans and Americans, but also inferior to themselves, most of the natives can barely maintain food and clothing, which makes the natives very unbalanced, and under the provocation of some people, the natives began to riot. chaos, want to overthrow the Republic of Hawaii and re-establish the Kingdom of Hawaii.
However, the aborigines did not have firearms in their hands and the violence that produced them. The scale of the chaos is relatively small, although there will be no large-scale bloody conflicts, but it has a great impact on people's lives, and the main target of the indigenous people is the white people in Europe and the United States, and the Chinese are also harassed, but the army and police of the Republic of Hawaii are all Chinese, and the natives who dare to do it to the Chinese will be shot and killed directly on the spot, and the natives who do it to the white people will only be arrested first and then punished.
As a result, the natives did not dare to attack the Chinese easily, and mostly attacked the whites.
The aborigines of Hawaii have been unable to stabilize the situation in the Republic of Hawaii, so that the government dominated by the Chinese has always existed, and the whites could not bear the harassment of the aborigines, so they left Hawaii one after another, and the proportion of Chinese in the Republic of Hawaii increased rapidly, and by the eighth year of Xinghua, the Chinese accounted for 65 percent of the total population of the Republic of Hawaii, and more than 50 percent of the total population of the Chinese who had lived in the Republic of Hawaii for more than three years and officially became citizens of the Republic of Hawaii and had the right to vote.
Because of the frequent riots of Native Hawaiians. In the sixth year of Xinghua, the Hawaiian government issued an order that all Hawaiian natives who affected the social order of the Republic of Hawaii should be sent to the northern desert island with their families to fend for themselves.
In this way, by the eighth year of Xinghua, most of the Hawaiian natives were sent to the northern desert island, which was tightly sealed by the Hawaiian military and did not allow outsiders to enter, so that the situation inside the desert island was unknown to outsiders.
The number of indigenous people has plummeted, and social security in the Republic of Hawaii has rapidly stabilized, and the government of the Republic of Hawaii is finally about to hold a general election, and anyone who has lived in the Hawaiian Islands for more than five years can participate in the election and become an official of the government of the Republic of Hawaii.
The Republic of Hawaii is a small country with a small number of people, and the main steps are to determine how many people are running for the election, how many people are eligible to vote, then make speeches, vote, and finally count the votes to determine the new president of the Republic of Hawaii.
On 1 July, the Republic of Hawaii entered the election process, and five people participated in the presidential race, namely former President Chen Zhongzhong, a native Hawaiian, a white American, a white European, and one himself.
The number of eligible voters was 76,048.
On August 1, Chen Zhongzhong won 56.8 percent of the vote and became the second president of the Republic of Hawaii for a five-year term.
Countries around the world that are following the presidential election of the Republic of Hawaii know that the final result of the election is basically like this, the Chinese in the Hawaiian Islands are already the main composition, the Chinese Empire has completed its control of Hawaii, and the United States has no power to return to the sky, unless the United States is willing to go to war with the Chinese Empire.
The Chinese Empire's airship deterrence is vividly visible, even Britain is immersed in the construction of airships, and rarely has a major conflict with the Chinese Empire, and Britain only has an air force of similar size that can have the confidence to confront the Chinese Empire.
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