Port Elayele.

"Your Excellency the Governor, Rogge has sent a message that the Americans are going to do it today? Presumably they're already on the move, should we do it? Lieutenant Granston asked.

John Crane nodded and said, "It's already seven o'clock, I'll get our people on the island ready first, and wait for six o'clock in the evening, and then we will carry out a coup d'état." ”

Gladstone did not refute John Crane's words, this operation could not be all his own people, and other forces hidden on the island in East Africa should be linked.

Gladstone's 2,000 men could not be dispersed across the island, but should be used in key places, after all, Kauai is not a small area, and the force is too scattered to be conducive to a possible conflict with the Americans in the future.

Gladstone said: "When the time comes, I will go to Lihue with the main force, how many people will be left behind in Eliele? ”

John Crane thought for a while and said: "Elaele should be enough to leave 300 people, too few are at risk of being defeated, too much is not conducive to controlling Lihue, and when you control Lihue, I am afraid that you will have to divide your troops to other areas in the east and north of the island, so you have at least 1,000 troops left in Lihue, and you will personally sit in Lihue." ”

Gladstone said: "Of course, that is, Lihue has the largest population, I will pay more attention, as for the east and north of the island, the north should pay more attention, after all, the control of the eastern part of Lihue will be stable, and the north is mainly concentrated in Princeville in the eastern part of Hanalei Bay." ”

"Princeville is the second most populous town on the island, and it is more than half the distance around the island, so if you send someone to set out now, there will be no news of it for a while." John Crane also said.

As for Elayele, because it is not far from Lihoue, it was developed relatively late, that is, after the East Africans came, Elaiele only had some scale.

After discussing the arrangements for the coup, Gladstone asked, "Your Excellency, why hasn't the Navy arrived on Kauai yet?" ”

"The day before, the news had come back that the Navy should be on its way now, probably in a day or two," John Crane said. ”

……

Oahu.

Iolani Palace.

Iolani Palace was built in 1882 in downtown Honolulu as the "only" royal palace on U.S. territory in the previous life.

Built relatively late, the palace is entirely Western-style and looks a little smaller than the Sultan's Palace in Zanzibar, but it is also more elaborate.

At this time, the Hawaiian royal family could not imagine that the Americans would not "show mercy" after all, after all, the United States was still quite righteous and awe-inspiring before, helping the Hawaiian Kingdom resist the invasion of Tsarist Russia, Britain and France.

Of course, in recent years, the Hawaiian royal family has also recognized the danger of the United States being the only one in Hawaii, but they can only pretend to be ostriches, hoping that the United States will have a face.

The United States adopted the method of "boiling frogs in warm water" to achieve the annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and the native Kapu religion originally existed in Hawaii.

The Karp religion was eradicated, and this provided the conditions for an American invasion. Many American missionaries preached the Bible in Hawaii, and American Christianity spread freely throughout the country.

Ostensibly, American missionaries opened free schools, hospitals, and charity events throughout Hawaii. But in reality it is a means of stealth infiltration.

Of course, the Kingdom of Hawaii also deserves it, and now King Kalakaua of Hawaii is an out-and-out admirer, and after succeeding to the throne, Kalakaua has also taken a series of measures to get closer to the United States, so since Kalakaua succeeded to the throne, the fate of the Hawaiian royal family has been doomed.

In fact, Hawaii's location is not too easy to invade, even the continental United States is more than 3,700 kilometers away from Hawaii.

If Hawaii can balance the forces on the island, it will be easy to do it left and right, but the Hawaiian royal family has blocked their own way.

Today, the sea breeze in Hawaii is still very fresh, and Kalakaua stands in front of the windows of the royal palace, enjoying the blessings of the "civilized" world.

Since Kalakaua succeeded to the throne, he has moved the capital from Lahaina to the more economically prosperous city of Honolulu, and Iolani Palace, an American-style palace, is his masterpiece.

The exterior walls of the palace are painted in the same bright white as the White House in the United States, and the palace is planted with tall tropical trees in front of the palace, and the roads are smooth, which is not inferior to the royal palaces of some small European countries.

Take the Hohenzollern Palace of the Ensted family, for example, the Hohenzollern Palace is more like a military fortress, and the living experience is actually not good, while the Iolani Palace is on the contrary, located in the center of the city, with little defense function at all, only simple walls on the perimeter, and now outside these walls, the Americans have carried weapons and killed them violently.

"Your Majesty, it's not good, our palace is surrounded!" Kalakaua's minister nervously reported to Kalakaua.

"What's going on?" Kalakaua was shocked.

"The Americans, all the Americans outside, surrounded the palace with weapons, and at the same time I saw the banners of demonstrations against the monarchy."

"Damn, how could this be!" Kalakaua couldn't believe it, how could his "American dad" overthrow him backhanded?

I have to say that Kalakaua trusts the Americans too much, if it were Ernst, he would definitely not put the royal palace in the city of Honolulu, although Lahaina was a little remote before, but it was not easy to be directly surrounded by the Americans, if there was a military palace like Hohenzollern Castle, without the use of heavy weapons, it would be no problem to be besieged for several months.

Of course, the most striking point of Hohenzollern Castle is that it was built on a hill, so it is easy to imagine how poor the habitability of Hohenzollern Castle is, while Iolani Palace and Hohenzollern Castle are completely opposite.

Kalakaua built this palace for "enjoyment", Pearl Harbor in Honolulu is the best port in the entire archipelago, so the economy is also the most developed, plus a large number of Americans live, so the living conditions are also the best, and now these have become Kalakaua's lifeline.

Of course, according to the virtue of the Americans, it is unlikely that Kalakaua will be killed, after all, it is necessary to continue to maintain American rule in the name of the Kingdom of Hawaii, mainly to prevent gossip from the international community, and East Africa is also planning to do so.

Six o'clock in the evening.

Lihue.

"You are Kumari, the governor of Kauai, and I heard that you are a descendant of King Gomuali?"

Gladstone easily led his men into the governor's palace in Lihue and captured Kumari, the canonized governor of Kauai in the Kingdom of Hawaii.

"What do we say next, what do you do......" Gladstone didn't talk nonsense with the already scared Kumari, and directly asked him to start forming a puppet government, and announced his separation from the Kingdom of Hawaii and the restoration of Kauai's power.

At the same time, the turmoil on the island naturally attracted the attention of the Americans, but looking at the murderous East African Defense Force soldiers, they did not dare to let out a fart.

There were even sharp-eyed British businessmen, the first to recognize the clothing of the East African Defense Forces, exclaimed: "Oh my God, how are these damned East African barbarians here!" ”

Fortunately, the East African soldiers could not understand English, otherwise they would have brought him a rifle butt.

On this day, on March 13, 1892, a world-famous painting appeared on the Hawaiian Islands, and East Africa and the Americans staged a coup d'état on the Hawaiian Islands on the same day.

The unified Kingdom of Hawaii was completely destroyed, and two puppet regimes were formed, the Republic of Hawaii, which was supported by the United States, and the Kingdom of Northern Hawaii (Kauai), which was supported by East Africa.

The changes that took place in the archipelago soon attracted the attention of Britain, France, Japan, and other countries on the islands, and the countries could only watch the United States and East Africa "share the spoils" and were powerless to stop them for the time being.

(End of chapter)