The Russians had already fled, leaving behind dozens of cannons and all the trophies, as well as a damaged battleship that ran away with its tail between its tail before the arrival of the combined Chinese and American fleet. But the smell of gunpowder in Honolulu has not diminished in the slightest.

Yolarani Palace, Honolulu, Hawaii.

"Gentlemen! Gentlemen of Great Britain, France, Ming and Japan, this is the Kingdom of Hawaii, an independent sovereign state, not anyone's vassal or colony, at least not yet! On behalf of all the people of the Kingdom of Hawaii, I would like to express my sincerest gratitude and financial reward for the heroic deeds of the troops and diasporas of your four nations in defending Hawaii...... But what is the difference between what you are doing now and the barbaric and cruel Russian bandits? A full 3,000 Anglo-French troops are stationed outside Yolarani Palace, and there is a whole Ming fleet in Honolulu Harbor! What exactly do you want? Want the whole of Hawaii? Okay, take it all, I don't care......"

It was none other than King Kamehameha III of Hawaii who was whining incoherently. It's October 31, 1853, and the Russian fleet has been on the run for four days! The British and French fleets that fled before, as well as the Ming fleet that pursued the Russian fleet, and Matthew. Perry's U.S. East India Fleet is now all gathered in the port of Honolulu, and no one has any intention of leaving! What's even more excessive is that with the Ming fleet, there is also a whole regiment of the Japanese New Army, which marched into Honolulu after the Great War, and was stationed in the square outside Yolarani Palace. Face off against the U.S. forces guarding the palace and the Honolulu infantry of the Kingdom of Hawaii! This is simply driving away the robbers and becoming a robber himself!

However, there are also American robbers in Yolarani Palace, uh. American friends supported Kamihameha III. So. The Anglo-French alliance of tomorrow had no intention of attacking. Instead, representatives were sent into the palace to negotiate with the Americans. And Kamihameha III, as the master of Hawaii, is naturally qualified to sit in on the discussion of how to divide Hawaii between the four big robbers and the little robber.

The robbers here are now temporarily divided into two factions, the United States and the British and French tomorrows. The attitude of the Americans is clear, they want the Kingdom of Hawaii to return to the state it was before the Honolulu port incident! That is, tomorrow the two countries will withdraw from the power, and Hawaii will remain independent and neutral.

Britain and France will say tomorrow. They need Hawaii as a base to encircle and suppress the Russian fleet, and in light of the recent Russian attack on Hawaii, the Kingdom of Hawaii should declare war on Russia and join the war instead of remaining neutral. In order to defend Hawaii from another Russian fleet, a newest Japanese infantry regiment stationed in Hawaii needs to be stranded until the end of the war! Moreover, Britain and France have also proposed that an agreement be signed aimed at maintaining Hawaii's permanent independence, and the United States needs to sign this agreement. The independence of Hawaii will be guaranteed by the five countries of Britain, France, and the United States, and if any country tries to annex Hawaii or change the political system of the Kingdom of Hawaii, it will be opposed by the other four countries!

And the United States. They resolutely oppose Hawaii's entry into the war, and even more oppose the signing of such an agreement guaranteeing Hawaii's permanent independence -- in fact, such an agreement has been the consistent position of Britain and France in recent years. In the struggle for Hawaii, they have fallen behind the United States. As a result, it has abandoned its intention to take Hawaii as its own, and has changed it to "preserve Hawaii's independence," that is, to prevent the United States from annexing Hawaii.

Of course, such an agreement is also for the Ming Dynasty and Japan. Aspen has laid out a very clever serial set this time. He did not pull a regiment of the Chinese Army into Hawaii, but brought a regiment of Japanese soldiers! Although the Ming Dynasty and Japan seem to be close, these two countries, after all, have their own national interests. The British, who are good at playing with international politics, see this very clearly.

Even if Zhu Jishi and Tokugawa Akiko can sleep in the same bed, as long as Japan is not incorporated into the Ming Empire one day, they will have their own national interests and national interests.

The reason why Zhu Jishi did not move the throne of the Japanese emperor to the Forbidden City or the Old Summer Palace was not because of his personal relationship with the Japanese "female general", but because he couldn't do it at all! The results of the bloody battle in Osaka Bay showed that the Japanese nation was much stronger than North Korea, and it was not comparable to Vietnam. And in this world, any nation with combat effectiveness will have its own ambitions......

And Hawaii, to some extent, is a bait used to provoke contradictions between China and Japan. Because the Ming Emperor would never agree to Japan's annexation of Hawaii, and Japan, which was stationed in Hawaii, would definitely not be willing to let the fat that "had" in his mouth be taken away by the Ming Dynasty.

As for Zhang Zegen, the minister of the Ming Dynasty in Hawaii, and the attitude of the Japanese shogunate infantry to Sasama Zoyama also seemed to have fallen into the hands of the British - both agreed to the permanent independence of Hawaii, but they both proposed to give the citizens of their respective countries the right to move freely to Hawaii! It seems that these two people have exactly the same agenda, and they both want to turn Hawaii into a new Ming or a new Japan through immigration......

It's just that these two Oriental officials who have just entered the colonial era probably haven't thought that those Chinese and Japanese who settled in Hawaii now certainly regard China and Japan as their motherland, but what about two or three generations later? Just look at so many countries in the New World now. Who remembers the descendants of the English, French, Germans, Spaniards, Portuguese, and other European immigrants who settled in the New World?

A hundred years later, the descendants of Chinese and Japanese who immigrated to the Americas will forget their homeland and become citizens of a certain American country, just like the descendants of Europeans. It was on the basis of this understanding that the British Empire was now not opposed to the relocation of China and the Japanese to the Americas, nor to the establishment of a Japanese colony in Patagonia.

But the Hawaiian king and his American advisers had recognized the seriousness of the matter. With less than 100,000 indigenous populations and 50,000 Chinese immigrants, and now that the Japanese are ready to flood in, it won't be long before the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes the backyard of China and Japan!

And, even more unacceptable, Hawaii could become a springboard for China and Japan to expand into the Americas! Now the western states of California, Texas and Utah are full of Chinese, and Japan has also established colonies in Patagonia! This cannot but be said to be a threat to the interests of the United States!

But to the distress of these Americans in Hawaii, the United States is not aware of the threat of the Yellow Peril. Even if some California gold diggers put forward the slogan "America's gold is American", it did not rise to the level of banning Chinese immigrants from entering the United States - after all, the United States is a country of immigrants, and the land is so vast and sparsely populated that it is impossible to legislate to prohibit immigrants from all countries from entering the country, otherwise the United States will not be able to develop.

But if the target of exclusion was to target the Chinese as a single ethnic group, then the Ming Empire would certainly have fought-for-tat and banned Americans and American goods from entering the sphere of influence of the Ming Empire, which was unacceptable to the factory owners in the north and the farmers in the south. Therefore, in the short term, the United States can still tolerate the entry of hundreds of thousands of Chinese immigrants every year, at least not openly oppose it......

But the Kingdom of Hawaii couldn't bear it!

The opinion of the King of Hawaii is of no use in today's discussion of Hawaii's future and destiny.

British Minister Bao Ling even cast a reproachful gaze: "Your Majesty the Honorable King, we are all friends of Hawaii, and we have come all the way to your country not to occupy it, but to help her!" Now we are ready to enter into a treaty that will protect Hawaii's eternal independence, forever under your rule and that of your descendants. Are you against such an arrangement? If that's the case, it's a shame. But the determination of the British, French, Ming, and Japanese empires to help the Kingdom of Hawaii and its people will not change because of your irrationality. Because, we are all true friends in Hawaii! ”

He turned his head and looked at the American minister with a smile: "I think the United States, like us in the United Kingdom, is a real friend of the Hawaiian people, right?" (To be continued......)