On August 8, the eighth year of the Taiping Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, the Kingdom of Hawaii, Honolulu Harbor.

The battleship Hero, the armored cruiser Haohan, the cruiser Lushun, the cruiser Tianjin, the destroyer Xinhui, the destroyer Shunde, the Yamato "floating hotel", and the Musashi "floating hotel" lined up in a line, one after the other, rolling up snow-white waves, and slowly sailed into the harbor. This port is similar to the famous Pearl Harbor ten kilometers away, and it is a dangerous terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Pearl Harbor is a narrow entrance to a vast body of water that could fit an entire Pacific Fleet! The port of Honolulu is much smaller and narrower, with a small island stuffed like a thermos at the entrance to a shallow bay, creating a narrow and slender natural sheltered water.

Before the white colonists arrived in Honolulu, it was already a port. However, because the Hawaiian Islands were not geographically advantageous in the sail age, and even a bit of a chicken rib - it was located in the windless zone, and before the advent of steamships, few sailing ships would call at Honolulu, so the port of Honolulu was full of Native Hawaiian ships. Of course, in the Age of Sail, few Western colonists would have looked up to the Hawaiian Islands, a small island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. So until the beginning of the 19th century, it was still not colonized by anyone.

During the years of limited contact between the native Hawaiians and the outside world, there was also a "Great" on the Hawaiian Islands, that is, Kamehameha I, the founder of the Kamehameha dynasty that now rules the islands.

However, the emperor who had defeated Hawaii and the natives who were all obedient had not enjoyed the fruits of victory for a few years, and the British Empire and the Ming Empire, who had finished Napoleon, gave Camhameha I a "black ship visit" and gave Camhameha I an unequal treaty. Great Britain aimed his cannon at the royal palace of Kamehameha I, offering to keep him safe. The Ming warships blocked the exit from the port of Honolulu, saying that they wanted to protect the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom from being violated......

Kamihameha, who has been a ruthless person all his life, is really helpless in the face of this dimensionality reduction attack of imperialism...... The front-loading guns and smoothbore guns he purchased from merchants in the East and West during the conquest of the Hawaiian Islands could not deal with ironclad ships with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons.

In the end, however, the two imperialists negotiated an unequal treaty that was relatively equal to the Kamihameha dynasty, except for the so-so provisions of open doors, extraterritoriality, agreed tariffs, freedom of mission, the establishment of concessions, arms embargoes, one-sided most-favored-nation countries, and so on. In short, in addition to the compensation for the cession of land, it was all used by Kamihameha I.

Such a character who has been amazed for half his life, of course, is not willing to live the rest of his life in such a humiliated way. So he thought of a trick of using the emperor (imperialism) to control the emperor, in order to control the two unreasonable imperialisms of the Ming Dynasty and the Great Britain, he simply gritted his teeth and crossed his heart, and introduced Japanese devils to help restrain the Ming Ying......

Therefore, the current commercial port on the edge of the port of Honolulu has a situation where one large, two small and three concessions stand together. The largest of these is of course the Japanese Concession...... The Honolu-Rouge Concession is Japan's only overseas concession, and of course it is more important. Moreover, there are many poor people in Japan, and they go to Hawaii in groups to work and start businesses, and the Japanese concession in Honolulu has also become larger and larger with their efforts. Although the Ming Concession and the British Concession occupy a small area, they are well built, and they have a little Chinese and British style.

Zhuge Weidao and Zheng Guoxian were both standing on the bridge of the Hero, holding binoculars and looking at everything in front of them.

Honolulu, whose name is Honolulu in Chinese, was presented to them.

The castle of Honolulu, built by Sumitomoya of Japan, has been expanded several times and has become very magnificent, standing in a large crowd of local aboriginal houses. The huge Japanese-style castle is a sight to behold...... At least that's what Zhuge Weidao thinks, seeing this Honolulu City, he has a feeling that the Japanese devils have occupied Hawaii!

The Ming Concession and the British Concession are on the east side of this Japanese-style castle, and the houses in the Ming Concession are all white walls and black tiles, which look strict and rich, and the streets are not wide, but they are enough for carriages and automobiles to pass.

The British Concession is full of small white and red western-style buildings, typical of European colonial flavor, reflecting the sunlight near the equator, and actually looks quiet and peaceful.

The Japanese Concession is just south of this Japanese-style castle, next to the pier, and a large area is full of low-rise Japanese-style houses and narrow streets. It is also the busiest of the three concessions, with pedestrians coming and going and shopfronts opening on both sides of the street.

On the dock, Zhuge Weidao suddenly found two familiar steamships of four or five thousand tons...... It seems that they are the two boats I met in the Kii Suido!

Oh, it's kind of like, look closely, and it's not particularly like.

When he was about to take a closer look, Zheng Guoxian suddenly said to Zhuge Weidao: "Brother Daozi, look, the Queen Mother of Hawaii and the British minister, the Ming minister, and the Japanese minister have all come to meet us on the dock..... Also coming over were the Hawaiian Royal Guard, which was trained with the help of instructors sent by the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan. ”

As he spoke, he pointed at it, and Zhuge Weidao's gaze also turned over. Sure enough, I saw that there was already a big fat official wearing a Ming official robe on the dock, who was frequently wiping the hot sweat on his face, and several tall white civil officers were standing next to him, and a guy dressed as a Japanese samurai was standing next to an indigenous fat woman wearing a golden barrel skirt made of very "provincial" materials. A group of Native Hawaiian soldiers dressed as Japanese national ashigaru stood lazily around with Japanese-made breech-loading rifles.

Zhuge sneered: "Okay, these Hawaiian natives still trust the Japanese devils...... Brother Shenshan, everything has been arranged? ”

Zheng Guoxian replied with a smile: "It's all arranged, this time it's the work of the Army Intelligence Bureau, and your navy just needs to cooperate." ”

He paused, and then said, "The dirty work will be done by Saigo Takamori and the Japanese overseas Chinese and natives in Honolulu with the samurai from the north...... It will be like an ordinary rebellion, the queen regent of the Kamihameha Dynasty and the teenage king will run to the Yamato with the Japanese minister to take refuge, and most of the British ministers and foreign devils in the British concession will also run over to take refuge.

Once they're on board, the cannons in Honolulu will open fire on the Hero, but don't worry, it's just an old-fashioned front-loading gun, and it's useless. When the time comes, you just have to take the royal family of Kamihameha, the British ambassador, and the British expatriates to Mexico. ”

Zhuge nodded for Dao and lowered his voice: "Don't you need an accident that was overboard?" ”

"Overboard?" Zheng Guoxian was stunned for a moment, and laughed, "Brother Daozi, you are really good at telling jokes...... They're going to die, doesn't that look like we've invaded the Kingdom of Hawaii? How could we, the Great Tomorrow Dynasty, do such a thing of seizing people and destroying people's heirs? So what is going to happen tonight is a rebellion by the progressives of the Hawaiian Kingdom! This is the internal affair of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and we cannot interfere with it, and we only took the expelled members of the Kamihameha royal family from the Hawaiian Kingdom out of humanitarianism.

On the way to Mexico, Michiko is also responsible for convincing the Queen Mother of the Kamihameha Dynasty...... It was the dark, fat woman who only had to convince her to testify before the Mexican Emperor Agustín I that she had been overthrown by the rebels of her country, and the rest would be easy. ”