King Richard put down the report in his hand, suddenly stood up and walked over, his tall figure was like Yuanzhiyue, and the powerful aura that was not deliberately suppressed forced people to breathe.

The name of a man, the shadow of a tree.

In the legend,

Your Majesty has the courage of ten thousand people, the unfathomable ability of gods and ghosts, the ability to subdue birds and beasts of prey, and the courage of hills and ravines, and he is a strange man who is not born in the world. When he was born, the red light reflected in the sky, the fragrance was fragrant, and there were more beasts soaring in the sky of the nine heavens, and the gods were very ......

In a word, the heavens are at the mercy of the people!

In these years, the Oriental people were extremely superstitious, and the Westerners were even more superstitious, and this very superstitious legend of His Majesty the King was very convincing, and the society was generally convinced.

Feeling His Majesty's powerful aura coming, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen, who had always been rough and arrogant on the sea, subconsciously took a few steps back, restrained the stubbornness of his whole body, bowed his head and lowered his hands, like a very docile and harmless kitten.

"Hengchen, come and see, this is Midway, this is the Hawaiian Islands, the navy needs to arrange a voyage, I will instruct the relevant shipping companies to transport construction materials and hard labor prisoners to the island for construction, and take these two places down for me."

Richard gently tapped the location of the two islands on the map with his hand, and commanded in an unquestioning tone;

"Immediately organize the "Crown" and "Dignity" to escort the civilian cargo fleet to these two islands, the construction of the relevant docks and warehouses will be under the responsibility of special personnel, and your navy will provide all security protection and eliminate opposition voices, with a focus on the Kingdom of Hawaii. ”

"Wechen obeys the holy will, and he can set sail in three days."

"Yes, you need to pay attention to the situation in the Hawaiian Islands, allow you to bring 500 soldiers to the island, be careful not to infringe on the property and lives of the local British and French and other European merchants, do not take drastic action against the Spaniards on the island of Lake Wa, and pay attention to the ways and means. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will also send personnel to participate in the operation and listen to their opinions. ”

"Wechen understands that he will live up to his holy hope."

"Well, go back and prepare as soon as possible, choose an auspicious day to set sail, and this king will wait for the good news of your victorious return."

"Wechen obeys."

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen came out of the courtyard outside the palace gate with a respectful expression, he felt that his back was already wet with sweat, and his expression couldn't help but show a wry smile.

His Majesty's aura is too powerful, and a pair of eyes as sharp as swords seem to penetrate people's hearts, and all the ministers are silent.

When leaving the palace

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen happened to meet Count Harry Frege, the former commander of the cavalry corps of the Northern Front, and Count Liu Wu, the deputy commander of the brigadier general, who had returned to report and were waiting for the newly appointed.

Count Harry Fletsch walked by with his head held high, and Count Liu Wu only bowed his head slightly, and strode towards the Maple Leaf Palace.

In their eyes, the Navy is an insignificant existence.

As the commander of the Navy, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen can feel this strong inequality, but he is powerless to change it for the time being.

Today's Tang Kingdom Navy has just been established, and the main sail battleships and frigates are full of British officers and sailors.

He is acutely acute;

His Majesty's mission was the greatest opportunity for the development of the navy, and after the end of the land war, the priority of the royal government turned to transoceanic immigration, and the navy had a great deal to offer in this field.

If you want others to look up to you, you must first make outstanding achievements.

The Army's current position of being unsurpassed by virtue of one brilliant victory after another, by virtue of snatching food from the mouth of the United States, and the strength of the Army's combat effectiveness must be looked at at both at home and in Europe.

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen secretly made up his mind that the development of the navy would start from 0, and he would create brilliance with his own efforts, win His Majesty's favor, and be recognized by the world.

After returning to the Bay Area dock, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen immediately issued a series of military orders, ending all vacations, recalling capable naval officers and men, overhauling ship facilities, overhauling weapons and equipment, and quickly replenishing ammunition, fresh water, food, fruits and vegetables for the voyage......

October 11th

Lieutenant Commander Pan Hengchen led a small sail fleet headed by the sail battleships "Wang Quan" and "Dignity", including three sail frigates "Ningbo", "Xiamen" and "Fuzhou", escorted seven freighters belonging to the Pacific Shipping Company to sail in the direction of the Hawaiian Islands.

A few days later

This sizable mixed fleet sailed into the bay of the Hawaiian Islands, which at this time was nothing more than a small coastal town with a population of more than 10,000 people, and there were not even any decent docks.

The arrival of this mixed fleet caused a shock in Honolulu.

Queen Kayahumanu, the strongman of the Hawaiian Kingdom, was in her twilight years, bedridden, her sons and daughters vied for power with some island chiefs, and the kingdom was in disarray.

The soldiers led by Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen arrived at the beach in small boats.

By the evening of the same day, there were more than 770 sailors and naval officers and sailors on the landing, which caused strong uneasiness among the local natives and a small number of white people from Britain, France, and other countries who lived here.

Some white missionaries recognized that these warships and steamers came from the now famous Tang Kingdom on the west coast of North America, where the Tang Kingdom has always been known for its strong and warlike, fierce and cruel.

The reason why it leaves such a bad impression on the world comes from the public opinion of the United States and Mexico, and secondly, the Tang Kingdom itself is not doing well......

But why did the Tang Kingdom come to Hawaii?

The island of Hawaiʻi is truly a wonderland, with emerald skies dotted with white clouds, a blue sea, coconut trees on the white sandy beaches, thatched huts and a few European-style buildings of the indigenous people.

The arrival of the warships and steamships of the Tang Kingdom broke all this calm.

The armed forces of the indigenous tribes of the Hawaiian Kingdom quickly assembled, armed with spears and broadswords and a small number of flintlock spears, following the white missionaries and a few white adventurers who lived in the area, approaching the naval soldiers of the Tang Kingdom assembled on the beach.

There are many indigenous Christians in the Kingdom of Hawaii, especially the children of the high-ranking officials and chiefs of the kingdom, who are shouting in English to let the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom leave here, saying that they are not welcome here.

See this scenario

An indescribable anger rose in Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen's heart, the Tang Kingdom's tradition of enslaving whites and Indians made him unable to bear the intimidation of these whites and island natives, and regarded it as a great humiliation.

And so

A short and bloody fire broke out, and the sailors and naval soldiers of the Tang Kingdom who landed ashore responded with intensive firepower, killing and wounding more than 200 people on the spot.

Since he had already wiped off his face, he simply did not stop doing it, and Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen led his 733 soldiers to invade the indigenous towns, invade the royal palace of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and carry out a bloody cleansing of them.

The sporadic gunfire continued until nightfall, and in the face of the naval soldiers and sailors of the Tang Kingdom, which was armed to the teeth, the Hawaiian Kingdom, which was still in a semi-primitive state, had no ability to resist at all, and soon fell completely.

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen occupied the island of Hawaii with an iron fist, and reduced all the indigenous people of the local island to hard labor, and the able-bodied men were escorted into the forest to cut down trees, build roads, docks, build wooden trestles, row small boats to transport supplies from steamers, and cooperate with engineers sent by the Pacific Ocean Shipping Company to build docks.

One tree after another was cut down, its branches were cut off, and one by one it was smashed into the mud by the beach, and the prisoners carried hundreds of kilograms of wood in groups of eight, and smashed the whole tree into the mud one after another.

One after another, the stumps extend into the sea, cross-connected with fastened "I" beams, fastened with large bolts, and paved with one-foot-thick planks at the upper end, gradually forming a wooden trestle that extends to the depths of the bay, about 190 meters long.

With more than 3,700 Aboriginal prisoners working day and night, the wooden pier was completed in just over 50 days, just in time for the return of the fleet led by Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen after occupying Midway.

After occupying Hawaiian Island, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen sent troops into the mountains to search for more than 2,700 strong male island natives, who were used as hard labor prisoners for the construction of the Midway wharf, and stuffed them into three steamers that had just finished unloading construction materials.

Then he set sail again with his team, heading west to Midway, more than 1,840 kilometers away.

The journey was uneventful, and after another 8 days of sailing, the conquest fleet (Note; Unlike steamers, naval sailboats require the right amount of wind power, so they are slower) and arrive at Midway without a hitch.

At this time, Midway Island was deserted, and the small island of about 5 square kilometers was covered with forests and shrubs, and was a paradise for tens of thousands of albatrosses.

It is gratifying to note that there are several large and small precious freshwater lakes, all of which are formed by natural precipitation in the depression of the terrain.

Now that we're here

After two days of investigation, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen determined the location of the wharf to be built, and then drove the indigenous hard labor prisoners to work in full swing.

The construction process was the same, starting with the delivery of supplies to the support, cutting down the trees, and driving the sharpened trees into the sand and water one by one, and building a sturdy wooden trestle about 78 meters long.

The 78-meter wooden trestle built on Midway Island stretches straight into the sea at one end, and the trestle is about 3.8 meters wide, which can berth two migrant ships at the same time, and the water depth conditions are excellent, which is enough to meet the direct berthing of ships below 10,000 tons.

After the construction of the wooden trestle, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen divided the indigenous prisoners into two, and some of them cut down trees to build wooden stilted houses, roads and warehouses.

The other part went deep into the islands to clear the land, burn weeds and dead branches, turn over the land, build water ditches, and plant the seeds of the crops brought by the trip.

In addition, some cattle, sheep, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese, and birds brought from Hawaii Island were all dumped directly on the other three small islands, and whether they could be raised and multiplied in herds was not something for the Navy to consider.

Thirty-five days after arriving at Midway, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen left behind 157 soldiers and several engineers to guard over the less than 2,400 Aboriginal prisoners who had been transported to Midway Island (Note; In just over a month, more than 300 Native laborers died from hard labor) continued to build Midway, and the rest returned to the Hawaiian Islands by boat.

At this point, the naval occupation came to an end.

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen's actions this time have left a strong mark in the history of the Tang Kingdom, which is worthy of special mention.

First of all, this operation established two stable supply ports in Midway Island in the central Pacific Ocean and the Hawaiian Islands in the east, which became important ports of call and material supply stations on the trans-Pacific northern route, and made an indelible and important contribution to the wave of Chinese immigrants in the Tang Kingdom.

Second, it is precisely because of the two major supply ports of Midway and the Hawaiian Islands that the mortality rate of many shipping companies in the transportation of transoceanic migrants has been high, from an average of 5.6% to less than 0.7%, a decrease of an order of magnitude, and even reached 0.26% in the lowest year.

If it is placed in the 90~100-year history of Chinese immigration in the Tang Kingdom, the total scale of immigration of tens of millions of people, how many millions of lives have been saved?

Third, a year later, on October 11, 1849, Hawaii officially became the 15th province of the Tang Kingdom and the only overseas province located in the east-central Pacific Ocean.

Honolulu, located on the island of Oahu, became the capital of Hawaii Province, and Pearl Harbor, also located on the island, also became the first important overseas military port of the Tang Kingdom Navy.

Due to the extreme seclusion of news on the overseas islands, it was not until a year later that the Tang Kingdom officially announced that the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Island had become the 15th province of the Tang Kingdom, and the Europeans and Americans reacted.

London didn't say anything, and there was nothing to say about this remote island of Hawaii, but American public opinion was full of sourness, and Balabala said a lot.

It is nothing more than the Tang Kingdom bullying the weak, not respecting the diversity and democratic rights of indigenous cultures, wantonly trampling on enslavement, and violating the moral bottom line that civilized countries should abide by.

Anyway, it's all kinds of acid, all kinds of discomfort and unaccustomed to it, and the public opinion circle has a violent output, and it's not okay to be self-congratulatory.

On the contrary, it was Spain, another country concerned, because of the sharp weakening of its national strength, although Oahu was taken away by the Tang Kingdom, it didn't even dare to fart.

The logic of the Spaniards is also very simple, the Spaniards were driven out by the Mexican rebels who fought for independence, and after independence, Mexico reached the highlight of its life, with a total territory of 4.769 million square kilometers, making it the second largest country in North America.

As a result, Mexico was beaten by the United States, losing Texas with a total area of more than 690,000 square kilometers, and DeWarner and Monterrey in the north, which together combined with a total area of more than 900,000 square kilometers.

However, it was the Tang Kingdom that had the last laugh, and the three-year war beat the North American hegemon the United States to a bruised nose and swollen face, and also ceded the land of the six northwestern states, an out-and-out ruthless character.

The Spaniards don't want to provoke such a ruthless character out of thin air, although they have lost Mexico, but there are still Cuba and Alidascar in Central America, if they are targeted by the Tang Kingdom, it will be bad.

It's just an Oahu, if you lose it, you lose it, it's a pity.

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