And the random outbreak of the future to the next generation, and then it will not take a few minutes for the whole world to know, a random war breaks out, and in just a few days, it can be maneuvered hundreds or even thousands of kilometers to reach the battlefield.

Although the current news is supported by telegrams, it can greatly shorten the information exchange cycle, and if it is a major matter, a telegram can be sent directly to cross thousands of miles.

But this is limited to the transmission of telegraph information, and if it is the speed of transportation of people and materials, this speed is very slow.

In this era, the fastest speed is naturally the warship, but the top sail-steam hybrid warship, its speed is not generally below fifteen knots, and few can exceed sixteen knots, and this is still the highest combat speed, unless it is a combat time, otherwise no captain will use it to keep the steam engine at high speed, so it will not be long before the expensive steam engine has to be scrapped.

And the above is still a warship, if it is a civilian ship, it is even lower, Shi Yezhi is on the round-the-world route of the Nanyang Shipping Company.

This is a sail steam mixed merchant ship, belonging to the combination of passenger and freight ships, manufactured by the Shanghai shipyard, displacement of about 1,700 tons, fast speed, in the case of smooth wind and water, the sail is the mainstay, the steam engine power is supplemented, when there is no wind or breeze, it is to increase the output of the steam engine, the average speed is much faster than the pure sail merchant ship, and the range is farther than the pure steam power merchant ship.

Since the Panama Canal had not yet been opened at this time, and the east-west railroad in the United States had not been connected, it was still troublesome to travel from Shanghai, China to New York on the east coast of the United States. It can't cross the Pacific Ocean directly from the coast of China and reach the west coast of the United States, as it did a few years later when the East-West Railway opened. Then take the train straight to New York on the East Coast.

In this era, you had to take a boat to get from Shanghai to New York. And there are two routes by boat, one is from Shanghai, crosses the Pacific Ocean, detours to the southern tip of South America into the Atlantic, and then goes north to the east coast of the United States.

The other starts from Shanghai, passes through the Strait of Malacca into the Indian Ocean, then detours to the southern tip of Africa into the Atlantic, and then crosses the Atlantic Ocean into North America.

No matter which route it is, it is more than 10,000 kilometers and needs to go around most of the world.

So the speed of this flight is very far away. Moreover, the source of passengers is also small, so although the South China Sea Shipping Company has a global route to the United States in order to expand the American market, it has not opened a direct domestic route to New York.

Nanyang Shipping Company is mainly engaged in passenger transportation, and its passenger transportation business is naturally based on domestic passenger transportation as the core, mainly operating the three golden shipping lines from Guangzhou to Shanghai, Shanghai to Tianjin, and Tianjin to Guangzhou. Its international passenger business is mainly based on Southeast Asian routes, mainly operating domestic routes to Singapore and Japan.

There are also some European routes. It is mainly a domestic route to Europe, France, and the United Kingdom.

Finally, there are fewer round-the-world routes.

The so-called round-the-world route starts from the port of Tianjin, passes through Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and other ports in China to pick up passengers, and then enters the South China Sea to Singapore in Malacca, and then enters the Indian Ocean after a short rest. It then stopped in Yangon, British Burma, and then headed west again, passing through India to the east coast of Africa. Then take a detour north through Africa to Spain. After France and London, it crossed the Atlantic to New York, USA.

After leaving New York, it was the Caribbean Sea that went south. It then enters the east coast of South America, detours through South America into the Pacific Ocean, and then heads north to the west coast of the United States.

After leaving the West Coast of the United States, he traveled westward, across the Pacific Ocean, to Edo, Yokohama, Japan, and finally back to Shanghai.

This completes the entire journey around the world, which takes one year!

The reason why this round-the-world route will stop at so many ports along the way is to reduce the cost of domestic departures to the East Coast of the United States, after all, if you fly directly from the domestic to the East Coast of the United States, there are not many passengers, and the operating costs are quite high.

This makes it like a stop-and-go bus, which can effectively increase operating income after carrying many passengers along the route.

And this route is also the main passenger route from China to the United States, or from the United States to return home!

Otherwise, you will have to take the foreign merchant ships, and these merchant ships do not have passenger ships, most of them are cargo ships, and by the way, you can only take people.

Sitting on a ship with a speed of only a few knots, it is difficult for Shi Yezhi to reach Hawaii in a short time!

However, although Shi Yezhi has not yet arrived, it does not mean that he cannot interfere in the situation in Hawaii, before he boarded the ship, he had already communicated with the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Navy by telegram.

Knowing that two giant ships of the empire were already heading for Hawaii, Shi Yezhi had authorized them to carry out certain actions according to the specific situation after arriving in Hawaii, but before he arrived, it was forbidden to reach any written or verbal agreement with Hawaii or Britain and France.

Shi Yezhi didn't want to wait for his hard work to arrive in Hawaii, and the navy would reach an agreement with Hawaii or Britain, France, the United States and other countries without authorization, such as accepting reparations and the like.

This is not what Shi Yezhi wants, but what Shi Yezhi wants is the whole of Hawaii, and at the very least, he wants to obtain one of the islands with a good deep-water port.

When Shi Yezhi took a ship to Hawaii, the two warships of the Imperial Navy were also sailing in the Atlantic, and since this voyage was strictly speaking, the first ultra-long-distance voyage of the Imperial Navy, so there was definitely no experience, and the preparation was not enough.

At least halfway through, they were in too much of a hurry in the previous days, frequently using steam engines to accelerate, and before they reached the scheduled coal and fresh water supply point, they found that the coal had been burned out.

In the end, I had to rely on the sails to continue sailing, and then I encountered no wind again!

Why is the Pacific Ocean called the Pacific Ocean?

It is because the sea area is vast, and some sea areas are often as calm as the dead zone, and there is no wind at all. Like a pool of stagnant water, this is deadly for a sailboat without steam power.

Of course. It's the sixties of the nineteenth century, not hundreds of years ago. In those days, the Pacific Ocean was no secret to mankind, and most of the islands along the way had been seized by various countries as colonies.

For example, the famous Midway, Guam and other islands have been controlled by Spain, although most of these islands are not very developed, but most of them also have some coal and fresh water supply stations.

The small fleet of two wooden fast sail cruisers had to sail for five days before reaching the nearest Spanish-controlled supply depot.

The Spaniards were not friendly or mean to the Imperial warships passing by, and anyway, as long as they gave money, they sold supplies, including coal, and gave nothing if they didn't give money.

This way stops and goes, and the middle lane is replenished many times. This tiny Hawaiian task force has finally arrived in Hawaii!

At this time, nineteen days had passed since they officially set off from Edo, and more than twenty-five days had passed since the outbreak of the Yusho incident.

The calendar has been flipped from November 6th to December 2nd!

In the past month, the Yuxiang has actually left Hawaii and will have to continue to San Francisco on the west coast of the United States, where they will unload a large number of guns that will be sold to cowboys, miners and prostitutes who have made their way to the west coast of the United States.

According to the plan, after the Yuxiang unloaded this batch of ordnance. I will go to South America to help the Spaniards carry a batch of supplies back to the Philippines, although the freight is not much, but it is much better than going back empty.

Now, however, they have revised their plans. Because he has been temporarily requisitioned by the Navy, they will purchase a large amount of supplies in San Francisco, USA, mainly food. Then there was also a portion of the military's guns that returned directly to Hawaii and then joined the Hawaiian task force.

Accompanied the Yuxiang back to San Francisco. There was also a coal carrier hired by the Pacific Trading Company, which was naturally American. However, it has nothing to do with the U.S. government, but a private transport ship, and the reason why it agreed to bring coal over is simple, the Pacific Trading Company gives more money.

Anyway, why did the Pacific Trading Company be so active in helping the navy liaison, and even advanced money to hire coal carriers to buy supplies!

Because the Pacific Trading Company is a royal industry, since these royal industries enjoy various benefits such as loans and monopolies brought by the status of the royal industry, they naturally need to pay various costs.

Cooperation with the government was their most important responsibility, although the Taiping Trading Company was not strictly a shipping company, but a veritable arms dealer, with several transport ships mostly used to transport arms, and generally staffed with more sailors and artillery.

But like the Royal Shipping Company, the ships of the Pacific Trading Company must actively cooperate with any naval action.

It is worth mentioning that the Royal Shipping Company was originally an independent commercial operation in the Navy's transport fleet, and this shipping company is mainly freight, although the passenger business is not weak, but it is not the strength of the Royal Shipping Company, which is the business center of the Nanyang Shipping Company.

Royal Shipping is the centre of business and is the transport of goods!

Once war broke out, the Royal Shipping Company was the military's most reliable and timely logistical supply fleet.

When the Yuxiang and a hired coal carrier left for Hawaii, two Imperial Navy wooden sail steam hybrid warships also arrived outside the Hawaiian port of Honolulu!

On the day he arrived at the port of Honolulu, the supreme commander of the Hawaiian task force, Admiral Guo Yi, negotiated with the Hawaiian Kingdom and put forward a series of conditions that were unacceptable to the Hawaiian Kingdom and Britain, the United States, and France.

Among the many conditions, there is no plan for dealing with the bombardment of the Yuxiang, and the most crucial one is to order the Kingdom of Hawaii to abandon all defenses of Honolulu Harbor within twelve hours and hand it over to the officers and men sent by the Hawaiian Task Force of the Chinese Empire, otherwise the Task Force will forcibly launch a landing operation on the port!

To this end, in addition to preparing the sea support provided by the two warships, Colonel Guo Yi also prepared the largest marine force in a sea area of thousands of miles, including an infantry company of the Marine Corps, two infantry platoons and an artillery platoon temporarily formed by the sailors on the ship. The total strength of this mixed force is more than the dreaded 'two hundred'!

Two hundred, that's all the regular land forces that the Imperial Navy is ready to use to land and conquer the Kingdom of Hawaii! (To be continued.) )