Chapter 673 Two Years Later
On the other hand, public opinion in Citigroup is boiling, and some radical ultra-rightists have even openly recruited volunteers in society, preparing to fight to the Kingdom of Hawaii to exterminate Chinese soldiers.
This kind of speech is very marketable in society, not only some people donate money and materials, but also some people spontaneously run to apply, and the police have to come forward to stop this farce.
What are you kidding, those overseas Chinese in the Ocean Kingdom are fierce and domineering, and if they dare to make trouble and be killed, they have nowhere to redress their grievances.
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The Ocean Kingdom has stationed no less than two 4,000-ton cruisers in Pearl Harbor, as well as a number of 2,000-ton destroyers, and its strength should not be underestimated.
Unconsciously
With only Hawaii and Oahu, the Ocean Kingdom has advanced its defense line 8,000 kilometers to the southeast in one fell swoop, encompassing most of the vast Pacific Ocean and approaching the outer edge of the North American continental shelf, greatly increasing its strategic depth.
Since then, the Ocean Kingdom has sent naval fleets and landing personnel in a planned and step-by-step manner to include the island countries in the South Pacific, and quietly carry out occupation and colonization.
Two years later
Early December 1893
Oahu
Pearl Harbor is a bird's foot inland, in the plains between the Kolau and Waiana Ranges, surrounded by mountains that shelter the prying eyes from the open sea.
Adjacent to the deep-water port of Honolulu, the port is a naval base and shipbuilding center in the North Pacific, as well as the largest and best safe port of call among the North Pacific islands.
As an important military port, ordinary civilian ships and foreign ships are not allowed to enter Pearl Harbor without a special permission from the Navy.
At the southern tip of the Waipiao Peninsula, there is a milky octagonal lighthouse, which is a prominent navigational sign for approaching, and on the shore on the east side of the entrance corner of the port, there is also a light signal tower for incoming warships to assist navigation in the dark.
The entrance to Pearl Harbor is a single dredged waterway with a depth of 13.7 meters.
Due to the geographical location, even if the wind and waves outside Pearl Harbor are fierce, the port is still calm, the whole harbor is very vast, up to 32 square kilometers, the average water depth is 14 meters, and more than 500 giant ships of more than 10,000 tons can be berthed.
A Pacific Shipping Company's 3,600-ton ocean liner slowly sailed into the narrow entrance, and the young crew on board rushed to the deck to enjoy the invincible bay view amid enthusiastic cheers.
"Look, there is a 7-story pagoda surrounded by clouds and mist, as if it is like a fairy mountain outside the world, it is really beautiful!"
"Wow, the reef on this shore is too steep, isn't it?"
"The mountains and rocks are strange, and after thousands of years of wind and waves, they present a unique sense of desolation, which feels a bit like exploring a mysterious treasure island."
"Oh my God, the water is so clear that the dolphins swimming under the water can see it clearly."
"It's so beautiful here, it's like a fairyland."
The young and enthusiastic faces looked at the surrounding scenery, and they had forgotten the hardships of the journey that lasted for more than a month, including new recruits, workers from the Navy Yard, hospital nurses, port administrators, some Chinese immigrants in transit and 220 graduates from the Royal Administrative University, a total of about 1,400 people, willing to contribute the light and heat of youth to this beautiful island.
The predecessor of the Royal Administrative University (Tianshu City) was the Tianshu City Development and Planning College, which was originally a short-term training school for training colonial officials, and after more than ten years of development, it has become a comprehensive liberal arts university with nearly 10,000 students, and a steady stream of qualified talents for all parts of the country.
The Royal Administrative University has established many special departments, such as the Department of Surveying and Mapping, the Department of Government Administration, the Department of Secretarial, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Home Affairs, the Department of Law, the Department of International Business, the Department of History, the Department of Literature, etc., to provide the Kingdom with high-quality grassroots civil servants.
After about half an hour, the passenger ship sailed through the narrow inlet waterway between the mountain peaks, and suddenly opened up in front of you, as if you had entered a paradise with a lot of things inside.
With the unanimous exclamation in unison, the blue sea and silver sand of the calm harbor in front of you are like a huge crystal clear sapphire, and the corner of the golden temple looming in the coconut grove in the distance adds to the mysterious atmosphere.
It's so beautiful!
In a white building on the shore
Li Sizhong, the governor of the mysterious island (Oahu), saw a passenger ship of the Pacific Steamship Company sailing in through the open window, so he casually picked up a few documents on the table and looked at them, and found the information of the passenger ship in advance on one of the documents;
The passenger ship "Lu-Activist", which belongs to the Lu's Shipping Company under the Pacific Steamship Company, has a standard displacement of 3,372 tons, a full load displacement of 3,724 tons, a range of 6,200 nautical miles, and 1,421 passengers.
Below are the specific passenger occupations, but the 220 enthusiastic and aspiring graduates of the Royal Academy of Administration, as well as the 896 immigrants, of whom 337 are women, are most interested.
"It's good that we finally brought some girls here, otherwise the indigenous women of this archipelago would have been ruined." Li Sizhong shook his head with a wry smile, turned his head, and said with a smile to Colonel Li Sixian, who was a guest; "Brother, you have been here for more than three months, you should know about our situation here, most of the people sent up in the past two years are strong and fierce offspring, and it is understandable to engage in construction, but young people will drink and make trouble after being together for a long time, and they will be jealous and make people big."
Colonel Li Sixian is the captain of the cruiser "Kokang", which is the No. 9 ship of the "Courage" class cruiser construction plan, which belongs to the Borneo fleet, and came to Pearl Harbor for a one-year voyage training and rotational garrison mission.
He is not Baron Li Sixian, the deputy secretary general of the royal secretariat, the two just have the same name and surname, and they are both middle-level and high-level bureaucrats born in the Eagle School, and they have nothing to do with anything else.
"Of course I understand, the young men of our fleet like to run to the hospital as soon as they come back, those beautiful little nurses are very eye-catching to look at, and they really want to live in the hospital, young men, blood and qi are the same."
"Your military is more tightly controlled, I'm in trouble here, the island garrison receives reports every now and then, how to harass women, forcible indecent assault and other complaints account for the majority, frightened the island's immigrant families and their dependents are afraid to go out at night, many American businessmen and white plantation owners are unbearable, have fled here, this may be the only comfortable news."
Throughout the Hawaiian Islands (including Mystic Island, formerly Oahu), the white Western and Chinese populations living in the islands were of superior class due to trusteeship, the Fuso and Mexicans were of the middle class, and the local natives were reduced to inferiority.
The island of Hawaii is small in size, small in population, and ethnically complex, which is a bit of a stretch.
At the end of the 18th century, after the first indigenous king Kamehameha I unified the Hawaiian Islands, the connection with the Western world continued, and with the opening of the Oriental trade with the American merchant fleet, the main protagonist of the Western trade was the whaling industry, and the main protagonist of the Eastern trade was the sandalwood, a specialty of the Hawaiian Islands, which was very marketable in the Eastern countries.
Decades later, with the depletion of resources and the loss of whaling and sandalwood trade, Hawaii desperately needed to find a new source of economic growth.
In 1874, the King of Hawaii and the United States signed a mutual tariff exemption agreement, which paved the way for Hawaii to export sugar to the United States cheaply. The agreement was enforced two years later, attracting large numbers of white traders to Hawaii to establish sugar plantations. But farming requires a lot of labor, and Hawaii has no one to hire.
It turned out that Westerners had brought not only Christianity to Hawaii, but also infectious diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and scarlet fever.
At the end of the 18th century, there were about 200,000 native Americans living in the Hawaiian Islands, and the population began to decline dramatically since Captain Cook landed.
In 1872, when Hawaii's first census was conducted, there were only 57,000 people left in the entire kingdom, and Native Hawaiians were in danger of genocide.
After that, in order to solve the problem of labor shortage, the lords of the estates recruited large numbers of laborers from the Qing Dynasty, Fuso, Luzon and the East Indies, and a large-scale wave of immigration began.
Hawaii also brought in a large number of Spanish-speaking cowboys from Mexico to teach the locals how to manage the ranch.
It turned out that at the beginning of the 18th century, a merchant sent several livestock to Kamehameha I as a gift, and the king was so fond of it that he ordered a nationwide ban on the slaughter of livestock, resulting in a flood of cattle and horses in the Hawaiian Islands.
Today, there are large ranches on the island of Hawaiʻi, and the beef produced here not only meets the needs of Hawaiians, but also exports to other countries.
By the end of 1893
The entire Hawaiian Islands have a population of more than 120,000 people, including 42,000 Chinese immigrants, 13,000 Fuso laborers, more than 4,300 white plantation owners and merchants, more than 6,000 East Indies residents, more than 1,100 Mexicans, and more than 49,000 local indigenous people.
Overall
In the past two years, the Chinese population has shown a sharp upward trend, with the number of Fuso laborers, Luzon, the countries of the East Indies and Mexico steadily decreasing, and the number of whites showing a sharp downward trend, from more than 8,200 people to more than 4,300 today, and the number loss is serious.
Many of the indigenous populations have also migrated to the North American continent, thus showing a slight downward trend.
The drastic decline in the number of white plantation owners and traders was driven by exorbitant taxes set by the Hawaii Governing Council (formerly known as the Hawaii Emergency Committee) to dispose of plantations and ranches, shops, and operate the Port of Hawaii docks at low prices, leaving with a devastated heart.
It is estimated that the number of whites who stick here will be reduced by more than half in the next two years.
Because the Hawaii Board of Governors has introduced a new law, which will impose a resource surcharge on the export of sugar, which is tentatively set at 13%, and a livestock quarantine tax on the export of beef, the tax rate will be tentatively set at 7.5%, which will be officially implemented from January 1, 1894.
In doing so, it is tantamount to wiping out the sugar planting industry and the beef export industry, and completely cutting off the white people's minds.
This is a rhythm that will never stop if you don't dare to kill!
As sugar plantations went bankrupt and large numbers of Fuso laborers on the island of Hawaii arrived, Mexicans left to find new jobs on the North American continent.
Well, only the local natives can't go.
They have to endure richer Chinese marrying off local indigenous girls, endless harassment, oppression, and bullying, and perhaps in twenty or thirty years, the already fragile indigenous race of the Pacific island nation will no longer exist.