The remaining two weeks

Li Fushou, the king of the Ocean Kingdom, and his entourage ended their visit to the Liangguang region, and arrived in Shanghai on the Xuanwu battle cruiser, where they were greeted by the local governor and the local governor who went out of the city for 20 miles.

After inspecting more than 10 eagle schools in the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Li Fushou returned to Gusu Mansion to stay for a few days, and then prepared to set off south to Singapore, where the British Channel Governor's Mansion is located, and returned to Australia through here.

The good news keeps coming;

Prince Yi Xun received money to do things, Huai'an prefect Gu Zhixue has a good character, outstanding political achievements, and Emperor Guangxu was promoted to the right capital of the imperial history, and he is the third rank.

Zhenwei general Li Ping is brave and good at fighting, and has made outstanding achievements, and Emperor Guangxu has been promoted to the general army of Guangxi and the commander of the second grade, and he is rewarded with a yellow coat.

After this personnel change, Li Ping, the chief soldier of Guangxi, returned to Nanning to receive the order, and Gu Zhiwen, the consolation envoy of Guangdong, led more than 10,000 elite soldiers of the Wuwei Rear Army, went south to the northern region of Vietnam to take over the camp of the Wuwei Left Army, and the Wuwei Left Army later withdrew to the country.

In view of the complex military situation of the former enemy, the generals have a heavy responsibility.

Emperor Guangxu decreed that Gu Zhiwen, the consolation envoy of Guangdong, was the commander of northern Vietnam, wore a yellow coat, and was awarded the title of "Dorozo Baturu", and coordinated the command of the Qing army in northern Vietnam.

This is Li Fushou's handwriting, in the spirit of not bothering the two masters, Li Fushou gave Prince Yiyun 15,000 pounds, 500 taels of gold, the money in front is to buy a position of the commander of the North Vietnam, and the gold in the back is to buy a yellow coat and the title of Baturu.

In the Liangguang area for more than three months, Prince Yiyun wantonly scraped and scraped, sold officials and knights, only the commander of the four products of the same knowledge (vacancy) sold more than 20, the seven county orders (vacancy) hundreds, the actual prefect, the county order also has seven or eight, looted nearly 5 million taels of silver, can be said to make a lot of money.

The so-called happiness and sorrow, just a few days after arriving in Huhai, Prince Yiyun died violently in a drinking banquet, and he went to see God with a whimper.

Fortunately, he did all the things of the Gu Mansion first, otherwise it would have been a waste of time.

As for those who bought the prefect, the unlucky ghost of the county order is miserable, and now the prince is violent, the original promise will naturally fall through, and the silver spent in vain is gone, which is considered a clean loss, so there are not a few bankrupt people, it is really crying without tears!

Gusu City, Fuyuan

Fuyuan is the leading Jiangnan characteristic garden building in the whole Gusu City, and it is also a royal industry, Li Fushou bought this garden 13 years ago, together with the surrounding land, after years of continuous construction and expansion, it has the current scale.

More than 30 wooden boats are loaded with goods, all of which are antique jade, calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, rare books and antique furniture accumulated over the years, and are about to go down the river to the Huangpu River, where they will be loaded into sea boats and go to Australia.

Li Fushou was sitting in the courtyard in a loose outfit, chatting with Zhu Wei, the earl of Mingyuan.

"Ah Wei, have all the people in your hometown settled down?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for returning to my hometown this time to repair the ancestral hall of the clan, inviting out the ancestral tablet of my house, and gathering hundreds of young children of my own clan, I will take root in Australia in the future and develop, and I am ready to make great efforts to build the earldom.

"Well, we Chinese will never forget our roots! No matter how far away from the homeland, it is like a kite flying high in the sky, there is always a string tied there, and this innocence can never be erased. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't dare to forget his roots."

"Well, here's the matter, you wait to return to Australia with me today, it's the end of 1891, and I hope that you will be able to put together the framework of Victoria's government next year, and make a smooth transition between military and civil administration, and nip in the bud some threats that may cause big trouble in the future, and don't let them run rampant."

Zhu Wei replied respectfully;

"Your Majesty, the minister has a detailed strategy and is ready to promote national integration through seven major measures.

First, through policy measures, white women are urged to marry Chinese veteran soldiers or immigrants, and retired white naturalized soldiers are guided to marry Chinese women, otherwise, their meritorious fields will be distributed in remote and barren places as punishment.

The policy would not be relegated to words, but would be implemented as a matter of priority.

Second, Victoria will clearly stipulate that all civil servants and personnel of government functional departments such as the police, home affairs, and urban management are required to be proficient in bilingual dialogue in Chinese and English, and to be able to understand the written and written language.

This policy would exclude 9 out of 9 white residents, for whom proficiency in Chinese is undoubtedly a regional challenge.

Third, we should extensively carry out Chinese education in primary and secondary schools, promote the values and ethics of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, courage, forgiveness, sincerity, loyalty, filial piety, and compassion, promote the Confucian idea of loyalty to the monarch, respect for teachers and education, and promote the development of education and culture with "loyalty, truth-seeking, kindness, and tolerance" as the core.

Fourth, advocate freedom of belief and encourage the coexistence of folk Buddhist temples, Taoist temples and churches, and harmonious and common prosperity.

Fifth, if financial resources permit, we should promote boarding education in primary and secondary schools, and good ideas should start from children.

Sixth, vigorously train grassroots civil servants, teachers, police, judicial, cultural and other government workers from the Eagle School, and give priority to recruiting veterans who have experienced bloody battles, so as to strengthen the cohesion of grassroots political power.

Seventh, it is necessary to be self-sufficient, pay attention to the building of clean and honest government departments and internal affairs and discipline departments, and remove a small number of corrupt elements and unqualified personnel from the ranks of civil servants.

The above immature ideas still need to be gradually adapted to in practice, and there are some increases and decreases. ”

After answering, Zhu Wei sat quietly on the side, waiting for His Majesty's comment with great anxiety.

Li Fushou didn't respond immediately, he seemed to be in a daze when he looked into the distance, and only after a moment did he say in a light tone; "Whether the method is good or not, only after the specific implementation will you know, since you are prepared, then let go of your hands and feet to do it, ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, for the education problem must always grasp the unremitting persistence, this is the fundamental."

"Zhu Wei has been taught, and he must do what His Majesty wants."

"Victoria is handed over to you, New South Wales is handed over to Wu Xuewen, you two will take the lead in setting up the state government and township shelves in next year's work, but the focus of the work should be on eliminating the flow of drugs, if you don't do this work now, it will be difficult to do it in front of everyone's eyes in the future, understand?"

"Weichen understands that he will never dare to live up to His Majesty's trust."

"Hmmm......"

Li Fushou picked up the teacup, and Zhu Wei said goodbye with great discernment, leaving the lush courtyard.

Li Siyi, the personal secretary who accompanied him, sent a telegram from Oahu with a happy face, and he brought good news;

The old woman is retired and waiting for an empty nest.

The old woman in the message refers to Queen Lirio Carani, the regent of the Hawaiian Islands, which had been in the hands of Queen Lirio Carani since the death of Kalakaua I in January 1891, and who had nothing to do, and indeed nothing to do.

Throughout the Hawaiian Kingdom, this indigenous royal family has a very non-existent presence.

The Hawaiian wharf was contracted by American businessmen, the island's commerce was dominated by Chinese, the sugar plantations were full of Fuso laborers, and the whole island was a little bigger, with a population of only 20,000 or 30,000 people, not to mention the army, and only a few part-time police officers to maintain law and order.

When the old woman retired, Queen Lirio Carani abdicated as planned, and there were two ways out for her;

One is to sell this indigenous kingdom and take the money and leave.

The other is ousted by the angry populace and left in disgrace.

The storm was caused by a group of Citigroup sailors who took turns violently assaulting two Aboriginal girls who were out one evening, killing one and injuring the other.

Although the case is very bad, it has not happened before, and most of them have been handed over to the American Chamber of Commerce to deal with the matter of paying a little money.

There must be nothing the Hawaiian Kingdom can do about it, you must know that cargo ships are not easy to mess with these days, which cargo ship does not hide some long guns and short guns, if you have the chance, you don't mind making a cameo appearance as a pirate, and the force is worth a lot.

This incident was instigated by someone with a heart, and the body of the indigenous girl who was violently ravaged was carried and paraded, which aroused the great indignation of the local indigenous people, so there were riots such as mob smashing, looting and burning, and even endangered the personal safety of Queen Lirio Carani.

In the midst of the chaos, a Chinese businessman suggested that the Oahu garrison should be asked to suppress the riot and restore order.

Queen Lirio Carani said to be the head of a country, but in fact she was an old indigenous woman, with no knowledge or brains, and she agreed in great fear.

Thus, an urgent letter for help was sent with the king's seal......

A company of soldiers soon arrived on Hawaii Island by boat from Oahu, accompanied by a large amount of weapons and ammunition, and quickly armed the local Chinese laborers and merchants to form the "Hawaii People's Self-Defense Force" to carry out bloody liquidation and suppression of the rioters, killing a corpse all over the field.

In this way, the ethnic contradictions between the two sides have been completely intensified, and it is impossible to reconcile them at all.

As the initiator of the invitation to foreign forces, once the Chinese soldiers were evacuated, Queen Lirio Carani would be 100% slashed by the angry natives, and she would not be able to leave the protection of the Chinese soldiers.

throughout the event

The American businessman, who had a strong presence on Hawaii Island, was caught off guard and waited until the Chinese soldiers landed on Hawaii Island to react, but unfortunately it was too late.

Long-distance telegraph offices were blocked, seaports were blocked, and all ships could not enter or leave, let alone deliver messages to the North American continent.

On behalf of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Queen Lirio Carani formally requested a trusteeship from the Oahu garrison, and the king sealed the formal trusteeship agreement, and went into exile in Australia under the protection of Chinese soldiers.

Of course, she was given a large sum of money, supposedly £3,000.

The poor Hawaiian Kingdom was lost to the Lord of Oahu, and at the request of Queen Lirio Caraney, Oahu officially sent two companies of soldiers to the Hawaiian Kingdom, and sent a Seagull ocean patrol ship to Hawaiian Harbor to suppress the mob in order to restore normal social order.

In view of the huge military spending, the Emergency Committee of the Kingdom of Hawaii, mainly Chinese merchants, passed a bill to increase taxes, mainly for plantation owners and port contractors mainly American merchants.

All the changes were completed in a dazzling ten days.

When the Kingdom of Hawaii regained contact with the outside world, everything here was no longer human.

Citigroup Secretary of State George W. L. Stephens, when questioned in the House of Representatives on December 9, 1891, expressed his anger;

The Citi Nation Government does not want to see any changes in the Kingdom of Hawaii, expresses great regret over what has happened there, and is deeply concerned about the hope that the Ocean Kingdom will respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of every weak country and respect and protect the personal safety and property safety of American businessmen living in the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Wilson, an American expatriate living in the Kingdom of Hawaii, demanded it strongly; The Chinese Flag State must respond to this by sending troops into the Kingdom of Hawaii to restore order and protect the safety of the Americans.

Wilson was arrested for his remarks, tried by the Hawaii Emergency Committee in a simple process, convicted of conspiracy to subvert the Kingdom, confiscated all property proceeds, and deported himself.

At this time, Li Fushou, the king of the Ocean Kingdom, who was visiting the British Governor's House in the Straits Settlements, said when asked by reporters about this;

Oahu and the Kingdom of Hawaii are friendly neighbors separated by a strip of water, and we must not turn a blind eye or turn a deaf ear to the riots that occur in the Kingdom of Hawaii, and we will do our utmost to restore order with sincerity to requests for help from our neighbors.

The power of the king is sacrosanct and inviolable, and it is true all over the world.

Citi citizens who have repeatedly committed violence in the Kingdom of Hawaii will be required to pay compensation for the crimes committed and will be deported as persona non grata.

There can be no doubt that all American businessmen who legally do business in the Kingdom of Hawaii, as well as businessmen from other countries, will be fully protected for their personal and property safety.

Restoring the current order in the Kingdom of Hawaii is the most important thing to do at the moment.

The Ocean Kingdom opposes unfounded accusations, and the garrison will responsibly fulfill its obligations to maintain regional security under the supervision of the international community, so that the parties concerned will calmly look at the disputes.

Who wouldn't do tai chi?

On December 14, 1891, Queen Lirio Carrani arrived in Brisbane, Australia, on a cruise ship, and immediately held a public press conference to express her official position;

Queen Lirio Carani was grateful to the Ocean Kingdom for its help in times of crisis, and she said that the decision to formally take custody was the most appropriate choice made after a painstaking ideological struggle, and she believed that it was the common wish of all Native Hawaiians.

In the face of riots and the restoration of order, choose to minimize bloodshed and choose peace.

She is really tired now, and she wants to rest for a while, hoping that Hawaii will be more beautiful in the future......

At a press conference

It can be seen that Queen Lilio Carani was very excited, and shed tears several times, and I don't know whether it was tears of remorse or tears of gratitude, anyway, she was quite emotional, and her words were clear and thorough.