Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

Franz looked at the map and saw that there was an island in the Pacific Ocean that had only been marked in recent years—Hawaii.

When you think of Hawaii, you may think of sandy beaches, sunshine, beautiful women, hula, hand-opened durians, and endless crowds of joy.

But there was also a history of blood and tears in the area, with nearly 300,000 indigenous people living here before Europeans arrived in Hawaii (800,000 by another account), but the population fell to less than 60,000 in less than two decades.

In 1842, U.S. President John Taylor first recognized the Kingdom of Hawaii and, as Franz expected, was a very ambitious and actionable president.

According to the Americans themselves, they were afraid that Japan would send troops to occupy Hawaii. Because according to the U.S. whaling fleet report at the time, the Japanese had ambitions for Hawaii. If Japan forcibly annexes Hawaii, the United States will intervene on the grounds of counter-aggression.

In fact, this is not very credible, because the Kingdom of Hawaii was supported by the British. Not to mention the distance between Japan and Hawaii, the word Britain alone could make the Tokugawa shogunate retreat.

Hawaii was a natural transit point in the Pacific Ocean, something that any great power could only dream of in the age of sea power. This is why the United States really recognized its government, and the United States at that time, like other Western powers, wanted to control Hawaii through colonization.

Unfortunately, the diplomat who was active in British politics at that time was Palmerston, who did not care about the face of the Americans. After learning of the ambitions of the Americans, he directly and openly declared that Britain had sovereignty over Hawaii.

(Historically, it's 1843, and it's in advance in the book.) ）

The British did a big blow to the US federal government, but the latter was helpless to take the former.

In fact, in addition to the British and American colonists, there were also Chinese, Japanese and French people on the island. The Chinese and Japanese mainly came to trade and work in the sandalwood area, while the French also came to colonize.

The French, however, apparently came a little late, and were equally helpless against what the British were doing. Although France occupied Texas at this time, John Taylor was not a mediocre man.

He believed that although France and the United States were rivals on the North American continent, they could cooperate against the British on the Hawaiian issue.

At this time, although Britain was extremely powerful, the front in the world was too long, and there were too many enemies, so when encountering strong enemies, it could only choose to avoid or wait and see.

However, when King Louis Philippe of France and Minister Guizot learned of the U.S. government's proposal to join forces, they rejected it.

This is not only because of the strategic conflict between France and the United States, but also because of the unique sense of superiority of Europeans in this era, who regard all civilizations outside Europe as barbaric civilizations, especially in France.

Of course, Louis Philippe was very shy about offending people, so Guizot had to continue to act as a villain, and in his letter he accused the US government of doing something villainous, and John Taylor just laughed at it after reading it, and threw it away as garbage.

At this time, the United States had a bigger problem, and that was the disobedient Indians and the restless neighbors around them. Printing natives has always been a plus in American history, and almost every great American president has had to do something about the Indians.

John Taylor was no exception, and the Indian Expulsion War had always been on his mind. John Taylor was a man of great self-denial, and the extermination of the Indians was one of the few things that excites him.

However, by this time, the population of American Indians had been greatly reduced after the operation of Andrew Jackson and others, and most of them had moved west.

John Taylor circled the map with only a hundred thousand Indians left for him to toss around, so he came up with the idea of moving them all to the Oklahoma reservation.

"Presumably, this event will go down in history forever." John Taylor wrote in his diary.

As Marlon Brando wrote in his resignation statement at the Oscars:

For two hundred years we have been saying to the Indians who fought for their land, their lives, their families, and their freedoms, "Lay down your arms, my friends, and then we will live together......

They laid down their arms, but we slaughtered them. We lied to them. We cheated them out of their land. We starved them so much that they were forced to sign agreements that defrauded them, which we called treaties and never obeyed.

Of course, this time was no exception, at first the Indians put up a heroic resistance, which inflicted heavy losses on the US Army. The battle loss ratio between the two sides was about 1 to 15, and after losing more than 200 soldiers, the Americans repeated their old tricks.

First, he signed an agreement with some tribes to help them destroy the "uncooperative" tribes, and promised to give them cattle and sheep, pasture, and not to leave their homes.

The strategy soon worked, and the recalcitrant tribes were defeated, and hundreds of thousands of Indians set out on their way to the reservation. After that, the US Army did not forget to help those "friends" who helped them, and the looting was accompanied by massacres, and the last Indians had to embark on this road of blood and tears.

Fewer than 60,000 of the last 100,000 Indians managed to enter the reservation, and the bones scattered across the plains would eventually be buried by the sandstorms.

Unfortunately, neither the Polynesians in Hawaii nor the Indians on the North American continent could do anything about it, and due to the westward expansion of the United States, a large number of Indian tribes poured into the California region.

These Indians were submissive to the Americans, but seemed to be on the back foot when it came to Hispanic whites in the California area.

It's a pity that Friedrich's second brother, the second son of Archduke Karl, Archduke Karl Ferdinand, was stationed here. He was a man of devotion to his duties, showing no mercy to California's native people, Mexicans, or invading Americans and Indian tribes.

There was a huge generational difference in weapons between the Indian tribes and the Austrian army stationed in California, and the quality of the soldiers varied, with the elite regular army on one side and the starving primitive herdsmen on the other.

There was never a suspense in the battle between the two sides, and most of the time it was a one-sided massacre, but even so, the Indian tribes did not abandon their attack on the California region.

In fact, the reason why these Indians were brave was precisely because there were Americans behind them who promised: "They will become the masters of the land they have conquered." ”

For the sake of a false promise, a group of hopeless people carry out an invasion that is unlikely to succeed. But as the war continued, so did the casualties on the side of the Austrian Empire.

So, the newly arrived acting senior California official, John von Siner, decided to fight poison with poison.

(End of chapter)