Chapter 80: The Occupation of Hawaii

The island of Molokai on the edge of Honolulu was the first target, as volcanic eruptions in the east and west of Molokai created a plain that was the epicenter of Hawaiian agriculture and home to the famous Pearl Harbor.

The smaller tribe on the island, with only 30,000 men, ordered the Marines to invade by force, and the next day they landed on the island and captured the chieftain and shaman of the tribe.

Then he forced the chieftain to sign a treaty by force, recognizing the island as the permanent territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the natives of Honolulu were able to take on the task of interpreting more jerkily after learning Chinese for a month.

Resistance is just futile, it is impossible for any natives to resist, as long as there is still a native, you can have a new puppet.

The Marines left a hundred men to suppress Molokai, and on the fourth day continued to sweep the two smaller islands to the southeast, which were smaller islands, and the battle was ended in only half a day.

To the South: Maui ...... Island of Hawaiʻi...... Heading North: Kauai ...... Kamariro ...... In just half a month, the Marines conquered all the indigenous tribes of the Hawaiian Islands, each with several administrators, and the islands were also managed according to the model of the Honolulu Island pair.

They signed treaties with the natives, then directed the natives to build an administrative department, laid stone tablets to assert sovereignty, and then cleared farmland and built fishing boats.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner, and what makes Guo Weiyun feel helpless is that there are no mines on the Hawaiian Islands, and there are no steel tools.

All steel tools have to be imported from the outside, and although there are many steel tools brought this time, it is impossible for every aboriginal to have one! But that's all there is to it.

A lot of work has yet to be done, topographic surveys, population surveys, ...... The results of the census were not long in coming, and there were 350,000 natives in the Hawaiian Islands, which was a significant labor force.

After two months of topographic exploration, Guo Liyun ran all over the islands and demarcated all the areas that could be developed, and the Hawaiian Islands accounted for 50% of the land that could be reclaimed, but only 25% of the land that could be cultivated and grazing, that is, 9 million mu (the above data is wrong, the total area is 25,000 square kilometers, less than 0).

Molokai, a south-west leeward region, is drier and has less precipitation, making it suitable for grazing farms, which occupies a small proportion.

To run an overseas colony is to milk cows, and to raise taxes as much as possible and expand financial sources as much as possible, Guo Liyun's approach is to first collect the vast majority of the grain produced, and then use this grain to hire natives to reclaim and cultivate the land.

The natives, who used to be more laid-back, became busy for a while, and if they wanted not to starve to death, they had to work hard to get food.

However, the chiefs of each tribe were better off than before, they did not have to worry about food, and the governor's palace would give them luxury goods every month.

In the eyes of these natives, some things that are very worthless are luxuries, such as cotton cloth. Because there were no silkworms and cotton in the Hawaiian Islands, they had to use straw to wear clothes.

Porcelain, sugar, cotton, silk and other things completely enveloped these indigenous chiefs, and they began to work hard for the Ming Dynasty, and they would not be soft-hearted when they suppressed the tribe.

At this time, the natives of the Hawaiian Islands were still in the stage of slave society, and they were accustomed to oppression, and they would not resist much at all.

And Guo Liyun is not completely oppressive, he provides free for the elderly who can't go to work, and when the natives are sick, the doctor will help treat them.

At the same time, he freed the slaves and gave them equal indigenous status, and although they still had to work every day, it was much better.

There is cruelty, but there is also love.

Although benevolence is insignificant, it also alleviates the contradiction to a great extent.

The cultivated land on the Hawaiian Islands is extensively managed, but it does not mean that it is low-intensity labor, on the contrary, the degree of labor is relatively high, but it is a kind of relatively extensive management, and the object of comparison is naturally the land of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the population of Hawaii is not large, there are only 350,000 people, 20,000 are fishing, 30,000 are shipbuilding, and the rest of the labor force that can be mobilized is only 100,000.

100,000 people manage 9 million mu of cultivated land, and each person has to manage 90 mu of sugarcane, watering, fertilizing, sugar extraction, etc., anyway, as intensive cultivation can be.

Each island has several physicians who bring with them a large number of Chinese herbs, who are not only responsible for medical treatment, but also for epidemic prevention.

They even had to check each of the natives to see if they had any infectious diseases.

However, this part of Hawaii seems to be very clean, no infectious diseases have been found, and it is an isolated place.

That is, there are no migratory birds passing by, and there are no outsiders, and there is almost no way for infectious diseases outside to spread in. However, it is no longer isolated from the world, and the epidemic prevention work must still be done well.

These formally trained physicians not only know viruses and cells, but also have a clear understanding of various diseases.

However, the main treatment is herbal medicine.

Herbal medicine is an indescribable thing, and Chinese medicine can treat many diseases, even diseases that cannot be treated by Western medicine, and Chinese medicine can also use herbs to regulate and heal.

In many diseases, Chinese medicine is no worse than Western medicine, but there is no clear theory.

Traditional Chinese medicine should be a very advanced medicine, and the reason why there is no clear theory is that science and technology have not yet reached that height.

And the reason why Chinese can discover this kind of medicine is completely blindfolded and constantly found out the way.

The disadvantage of TCM is that it lacks a systematic surname, and it may only be a branch of advanced medicine, which makes TCM unable to continuously improve like Western medicine, and surgery is also a defect of TCM.

The theory of traditional Chinese medicine may seem very mysterious to people who do not know it, but after thousands of years of continuous exploration, its theory of diagnosing diseases can be said to be tempered thousands of times, and the error is very small.

And the Chinese medicine of this era is definitely not comparable to the half-hung Chinese medicine of later generations.

Zhaojiapu General Hospital is trying to continuously sort out the essence of traditional Chinese medicine, and then form a relatively unified theory, and then template the large-scale training of physicians.

At the same time, with the advent of anatomy and microscopes, Western medicine is also being studied, but it is not called Western medicine.

Western medicine in this era is still at a very naïve level, and it is strange that when you are sick, you will bleed when you are sick, and you will not kill people.

With the support of many advanced theories provided by Zhao Yan, coupled with more frequent human anatomy experiments, as soon as the anesthetic comes out, the surgical operation can be overcome.

With the presence of traditional Chinese medicine, they are not as completely incapable of resisting infectious diseases as Westerners are in the same way as Westerners.

These TCM practitioners, who have received advanced theoretical guidance, are very proficient in the means of epidemic prevention, what conditions are likely to make the epidemic spread, how to put an end to it, etc., they have a bottom in their hearts, and they have spared no effort in cleaning up the areas inhabited by the indigenous people.

In addition to paying attention to cholera and yellow fever, it is also necessary to prevent and control surname diseases. Historically, Westerners brought the disease to Hawaii, and as a result, only 130,000 natives died.

The best way to combat the disease is to prohibit [***], so soldiers and administrators in the Hawaiian Islands are forbidden to associate with the local natives.

However, the physiological problem still had to be solved, so the Jiyuan soon appeared on the Hawaiian Islands, these natives have reddish-black skin, and their faces are similar to those of the Orientals, but they do not have the spirit of the Chinese, and they look stiff.

However, it was not too ugly to look at, and the Governor's Office bought most of the women who could be seen by the human eye and provided services exclusively to the soldiers. For the soldiers who are outside, there is nothing to find fault with. There are doctors in the hospital who provide contraceptive measures, so you don't have to worry about any troubles.

If you really get a child, not only do the adults not know what to do, but the children will also suffer.

Guo divided the 9 million mu of arable land into two parts, 1 million mu was planted with rice to ensure food supply, and the rest was planted with sugar cane.

Crops such as pineapples, coffee, and cocoa still need to wait for ships to arrive from the Americas. Although pineapples were introduced to the Ming Dynasty in the 16th century, they were not easy to find, and it was obviously more convenient to find them in South America.

The management of the Hawaiian Islands adheres to the principle of fine management of Terley, not to exploit the indigenous people extensively, but to strive to make the indigenous people produce more value.

Various means of stimulating the positive surname of the Aborigines continued to be developed, and the Governor's Office even intervened in the marriage of the Aborigines, buying all the good-looking Aboriginal women from the chiefs with 'luxury goods'.

For example, if an indigenous person is active for a long time, he can marry a beautiful woman from the tribe. If you don't behave aggressively for a long time, what kind of punishment will you receive?

There are also many short-term rewards, mostly material rewards, such as extra meals, cotton cloth and other worthless things. All kinds of rewards and punishments are applied, and those natives who are comfortable and accustomed to work actively are getting higher and higher day by day.

After a few months, Guo Liyun is very satisfied with the current state and strives to maintain this state. Hawaii isn't really developing at the moment because a lot of the tools are lacking.

The speed of shipbuilding is very fast, although there are not many shipwrights, but the biggest impact on the speed of shipbuilding is the problem of materials, as long as there is enough manpower and wood, fishing boats are easy to manufacture.

Hawaii's fishery resources are not top-notch, and top-tier fisheries generally require a lot of nutrients, so there are only a lot of nutrients in the seawater and coastal areas to have enough plankton to support the food chain.

The Hawaiian Islands are not too large and therefore belong to the oceanic region, and they cannot provide the first two nutrients, so it is impossible to form a top-notch fishing ground.

However, Hawaii's fishing industry is still quite impressive, and with the equipment of fishing boats and professional fishing tools, the production of the fishery has skyrocketed.

The supply to the indigenous people was so much that Guo set up a processing plant to specialize in the production of fishmeal, which contains a lot of protein and can be used as concentrate feed when it is shipped back to Denglai.

If you want to really enter the stage of rapid development, you have to wait for enough production tools to be transferred from Denglai next year, so Guo Liyun wrote down the items he lacked on the list early and waited for the captain of the F001 Tang Jing to hand them over to him when he arrived.

(To be continued)