1825 My New Daming

On August [-], the eighth year of Taiping, Ming Dynasty, the Kingdom of Hawaii, the port of Honolulu.

The battleship Hero, the armored cruiser Haohan, the cruiser Lushun, the cruiser Tianjin, the destroyer Xinhui, the destroyer Shunde, the "water hotel" Yamato, and the "water hotel" Musashi lined up, one after another, Rolled up the white waves, slowly sailed into the harbor.This port is similar to the famous Pearl Harbor in Ten Kilometers, and it is a dangerous terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.Pearl Harbor is a vast expanse of water in a narrow inlet, which can fit an entire Pacific Fleet!The Port of Honolulu is much smaller, and the terrain is much narrower. A small island is plugged like a thermos cork at the entrance of a shallow bay, thus forming a narrow and slender natural sheltered waters.

It was a port long before white settlers arrived in Honolulu.However, due to the fact that the geographical location of the Hawaiian Islands in the age of sails is not superior, it is even a bit tasteless-it is just on the windless belt, and before the advent of steam ships, few sailing ships would dock in Honolulu, so in Honolulu In and out of Lulu Harbor are native Hawaiian ships.Of course, in the age of sails, few Western colonists would look up to the small islands hanging in the middle of the Pacific Ocean like the Hawaiian Islands.So until the beginning of the 19th century, it was still not colonized by anyone.

In the years when the native Hawaiians had limited contact with the outside world, there was also a "great emperor" on the Hawaiian Islands, that is, Kamehameha I, the founder of the Kamehameha Dynasty that now rules the islands.

However, the great emperor who beat the half-L natives in Hawaii, who were all obedient, hadn't enjoyed the fruits of victory for a few years, and after he had settled Napoleon's British Empire and the Ming Empire, he came to Kamehameha I one after another. "Black boat visits Hong Kong", and a country gave Kamehameha an unequal treaty.The British aimed their cannons at the palace of Kamehameha I, expressing their desire to protect his safety.The warships of Ming Dynasty blocked the exit of Honolulu Port, expressing that they would protect the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Hawaii from being violated.
Kamehameha, 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 bought from Eastern and Western merchants when he was fighting against the Hawaiian Islands can deal with it at all. Not an ironclad ship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons.

But in the end, the two imperialists negotiated an unequal treaty that was relatively equal to the Kamehameha Dynasty. It was just a sloppy opening of the door, extraterritorial rights, agreed tariffs, freedom of missionary work, establishment of concessions, and embargoes. Arms, one-sided MFN, and more.In short, except for land cession and compensation, it was all used by Kamehameha I.

Such a person who has been astonished for half his life, of course he is not willing to spend the rest of his life in such a grievance.So he came up with a brilliant idea of ​​using the emperor (imperialism) to control the emperor. In order to control the two unreasonable imperialisms of Ming Dynasty and Great Britain, he simply gritted his teeth and brought in Japanese devils to help control Ming Dynasty. Britain
Therefore, in the commercial port next to the port of Honolulu, there is a situation where three concessions, one large, two small, stand at the same time.The largest one of these concessions is of course the Japanese concession. The Honolulu Japanese Concession is the only Japanese concession overseas, so of course it is more important.Moreover, there are many poor people in Japan, and groups of them went to Hawaii to work and start businesses. With their efforts, the Japanese Concession in Honolulu has also become larger and larger.Although the Ming Concession and the British Concession occupy a small area, they are well constructed and have a bit of Chinese and British style.

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

Honolulu, whose Chinese name is Honolulu, was displayed in front of them.

The water is blue and the sand is white. Honolulu City, the castle of the Kamehameha Dynasty built by Sumitomo House in Japan, has been expanded several times and has become very magnificent. It stands among a large number of messy local indigenous houses.The huge Japanese-style castle looks dazzling, at least Zhuge Weidao thinks so. Seeing this Honolulu city, he has a feeling that the Japanese devils have occupied Hawaii!

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

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

The Japanese Concession is just to the south of this Japanese-style castle, next to the pier. It is a large area, all of which are low Japanese-style houses and narrow streets.This is also the busiest of the three major concessions. The streets are full of pedestrians, and the shops on both sides of the street are also open.

And on the pier, Zhuge Weidao suddenly found two familiar steamers of four or five thousand tons, which seemed to be the two little boats he met in Jiyi Waterway!

Oh, it's a bit like it. Look carefully, but it's not very similar.

When he was about to take a closer look, Zheng Guoxian suddenly said to Zhuge Weidao: "Brother Daozi, look quickly, the Queen Mother of Hawaii, the British envoys, the Ming envoys, and the Japanese envoys have all come to welcome us at the pier. Come together There is also the Hawaii Royal Guard, which was trained by the instructors sent by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate."

Just pointing at the words, Zhuge Weidao also turned his gaze.Sure enough, on the pier, there was already a big fat official wearing a Ming official robe wiping the hot sweat on his face, and there were several tall white civilian officers standing beside him, and there was also a man dressed as a Japanese samurai. The guy was standing next to a fat Aboriginal woman in a gold barrel skirt that was "frugal" in materials.A group of native Hawaiian soldiers dressed in Japanese ashigaru, carrying Japanese-made breech-loading rifles, stood lazily around.

Zhuge Weidao sneered: "Okay, these Hawaiian natives trust the Japanese devils, brother Shenshan, everything is arranged?"

Zheng Guoxian replied with a smile: "It's all arranged. This time it's the work of the Army Intelligence Bureau. Your navy just cooperates."

He paused, and then said: "Dirty work will be done by Xixiang Longsheng and the northern samurai to mobilize the pro-Japanese elements among the Japanese and aboriginals in Honolulu. It will be an ordinary rebellion Similarly, the queen regent of the Kamehameha dynasty and the teenage king would run to take refuge on the Yamato with the Japanese minister, and most of the British ministers and foreign devils in the British Concession would also run to take refuge.

Once they're on board, the cannons on Honolulu City will fire at the Hero, but don't worry, they're just old muzzle-loading guns that don't do much good.At that time, you just take the Kamehameha royal family, the British ambassador, and the British expats to Mexico. "

Zhuge Weidao nodded and lowered his voice: "There is no need for an accident of being drowned?"

"Fell into the water?" Zheng Guoxian was stunned for a moment, and laughed, "Brother Daozi, you really know how to tell jokes that they are going to die. Doesn't this look like we invaded the Kingdom of Hawaii? How could it be that we invaded the Kingdom of Hawaii? Do this kind of thing of seizing people and destroying their children? So what will happen tonight is a rebellion launched by the progressive faction of the Kingdom of Hawaii! This is the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and we, Ming Dynasty, cannot interfere. The expelled members of the Kamehameha royal family were taken from the Kingdom of Hawaii.

On the way to Mexico, Michiko, you are also responsible for convincing the Queen Mother of the Kamehameha Dynasty that she is the black and fat woman, and you only need to convince her to testify before the Mexican Emperor Agustin I that she was killed by a rebel in her country Overthrow, then the next thing will be easy to handle. "