Wild North America 1846

Chapter 173 The 15th Province
King Li Cha put down the report in his hand, stood up suddenly and walked over. His tall figure was like Yuan Zhiyue, and his powerful aura that was not deliberately suppressed made people breathless.

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

In the legend,

Your Majesty possesses the unworthy courage, the unpredictable ability of gods and ghosts, and is good at subduing birds and beasts. He has hills and valleys in his chest.When she was born, the sky was filled with red light, the fragrance was fragrant, and there were even auspicious beasts soaring in the sky, which was very magical...

In a word, the heavens are responsible for everyone!
These days, Easterners are extremely superstitious, and Westerners are even more superstitious. The superstitious legend of His Majesty the King is very convincing, and the society generally believes it.

Feeling the force of His Majesty's strong aura, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen, who has always been rough and rough on the sea, subconsciously took a few steps back, curbing the stubbornness of his whole body and lowering his head and hands, like a docile and harmless kitten.

"Look, Hengchen. This is Midway Island, and this is the Hawaiian Islands. The navy needs to arrange a long voyage. I will instruct the relevant shipping companies to deliver construction materials and convicts to the island for construction, and take these two places for me."

Li Cha tapped the two islands on the map lightly with his hands, and ordered in an unquestionable tone;
"Immediately organize the "Kingdom" and "Dignity" to escort the private cargo fleet to these two islands. Special personnel will be responsible for the construction of relevant docks and warehouses. Your navy will provide all security protection and eliminate opposition voices, with the focus on the Kingdom of Hawaii."

"My minister would like to follow the holy will, and we can 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 life safety of the local British, French and other European businessmen, do not take drastic actions against the Spaniards on Oahu Island, pay attention to the way method. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will also send personnel to participate in this operation, so listen to their opinions.”

"My minister understands, and will definitely live up to the holy hope."

"Well, go back and prepare as soon as possible, and set sail on an auspicious day. The king will wait for the good news of your return in victory."

"The minister obeys the order."

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

His majesty's aura is too strong, a pair of sword-like sharp eyes seem to penetrate people's hearts, and all the officials are silent like cicadas.

when leaving the palace

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen happened to meet Earl Harry Fritch, Major General Commander of the Northern Front Cavalry Regiment and Earl Liu Wu, Deputy Commander of the Brigadier General, who had returned to report their duties and were waiting for the new appointment. These two giants in the army dressed in general uniforms walked over Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen immediately stood aside and raised his hand in salute.

Earl Harry Freche passed by with his head held high, and Earl Liu Wu just nodded his head slightly as a gesture, 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 is unable to change it for the time being.

Today's Datang Kingdom's navy has just been established. The main sailing battleships and frigates are full of British officers and sailors.
he is keenly aware;
The task assigned by His Majesty is the greatest opportunity for the development of the navy. After the land war is over, the Royal Government's priority will be on transoceanic immigration. The navy has a lot to do in this field.

To make others look up to you, you must first make outstanding achievements yourself.

The Army is able to have the status of being proud of the crowd today, relying on one brilliant victory after another, relying on taking food from the tiger's mouth of the United States. In terms of the strength of the Army's combat effectiveness, both domestic and European countries have to take a high look.

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen secretly made up his mind that the development of the navy should start from zero, and rely on his own efforts to create brilliance, win His Majesty's holy family, and gain the recognition of the world.

After returning to the wharf in the Bay Area, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen immediately issued a series of military orders, ending all vacations, recalling capable naval officers and soldiers, overhauling ship facilities, overhauling weapons and equipment, and quickly replenishing ammunition, fresh water, food, fruits and vegetables to prepare for long-distance voyages...

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Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen led a small sailing fleet headed by sailing battleships "King Quan" and "Dignity", including three sailing frigates "Ningbo", "Xiamen" and "Fuzhou", escorting seven cargo ships belonging to the Pacific Shipping Company. , sailing in the direction of the Hawaiian Islands.

in a few days

This large-scale mixed fleet sailed into the bay of the Hawaiian Islands. At this time, Hawaii was just a small coastal town with a population of more than [-] people, and there was not even a decent wharf.

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

Queen Kayahumanu, the strongman of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is now in her twilight years and is bedridden. Her sons and daughters are fighting for power with some island chiefs, and the whole kingdom is in disarray.

Soldiers led by Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen arrived at the beach one after another in small boats.

By the evening of the day, there were more than 770 sailors and naval officers and soldiers who had landed, which caused strong anxiety among the local indigenous people and a small number of white people from Britain, France and other countries who lived here.

A white missionary recognized that these warships and steamers all came from the now-famous Datang Kingdom on the west coast of North America.

The reason for leaving such a bad impression on the world is firstly from the public opinion in the United States and Mexico, and secondly, the Tang Kingdom itself is not doing well. In the Great Lakes region of the United States, it frequently slaughtered villages and towns, and robbed people and property. what...

But why did the Tang Kingdom come to Hawaii?
The Big Island of Hawaii is indeed a treasure land that is as beautiful as a fairyland. The sky is as clear as emerald, dotted with white clouds, the blue sea is so beautiful that people are intoxicated, the coconut trees are forested on the white sandy beach, the thatched houses of the local indigenous people and a few The European-style architecture is like a paradise, leading a peaceful life without contention with the world.

The arrival of the Tang Kingdom's warships and steamer fleet broke all the peace.

The armed forces of the indigenous tribes of the Kingdom of Hawaii quickly assembled, armed with spears and knives and a small number of flintlock guns, followed the local white missionaries and a few white adventurers, and approached the naval soldiers of the Tang Kingdom assembled on the beach.

Many natives of the Kingdom of Hawaii converted to Christianity, especially the high-ranking officials of the kingdom and the children of the chiefs. They shouted in English, asking the naval soldiers of the Kingdom of Tang to leave, saying that they were not welcome here.

see this scene
Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen felt unspeakable anger. The Tang Kingdom had always enslaved whites and Indians. He couldn't bear the intimidation of these whites and native islanders, and regarded it as a great humiliation.

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 [-] people on the spot.

Now that the face has been smeared, they simply do nothing. Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen led 733 soldiers to attack the indigenous towns and the palace of the King of Hawaii, and carried out a bloody cleansing of them.

The sporadic gunfire continued until night fell. Facing the naval soldiers and sailors of the Kingdom of Tang, who were armed to the teeth, the Kingdom of Hawaii, which was still in a semi-primitive state, had no ability to resist, and soon fell completely.

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen occupied the Big Island of Hawaii with an iron fist, and degraded all the natives of the local islands to convicts. The strong men were escorted into the forest to cut down trees, build roads, docks, build wooden trestles, and row boats to and from steamers. Transport materials and cooperate with the engineers sent by the Pacific Ocean Shipping Company to build the dock.

One big tree after another was cut down, the branches were cut off, and the sharpened ends were smashed into the mud by the beach. The convicts, in groups of 8, carried wooden clubs weighing hundreds of kilograms together, one after another. smashed the whole tree into the mud.

Tree stumps extend into the sea one after another, and they are cross-connected with fastened "I" steel, fastened with large bolts, and paved with one-foot-thick wooden boards on the top, gradually forming a wooden trestle bridge extending deep into the bay , about 190 meters long.

With more than 3700 indigenous convicts working day and night, the wooden trestle was built in just over 50 days, just in time for the return of the fleet led by Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen after occupying Midway Island.

After occupying the island of Hawaii, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen sent troops into the deep mountains to search for more than 2700 strong male island natives, and took them as convicts for the construction of the Midway Island Wharf, and stuffed them into the three steamers that had just unloaded the construction materials. .

Then he led the team to set sail again, heading west to Midway Island, more than 1840 kilometers away.

The journey was safe and sound. After another 8 days of sailing (note: unlike steam steamers, naval sail warships need appropriate wind power, so the speed is slower), the conquest fleet arrived at Midway Island smoothly.

In this era, Midway Island was uninhabited. The small island with a radius of about 5 square kilometers was covered with forests and shrubs, and it was a paradise for tens of thousands of albatrosses.

What is gratifying is that there are several large and small precious freshwater lakes here, all of which come from natural precipitation and gather in the depressions.

now that i'm here
After two days of investigation, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen determined the location of the construction dock, and then drove the aboriginal convicts to work in full swing.

The construction process is the same. The first step is to deliver materials to the security, cut down trees, drive the sharpened trees one by one into the beach and water, and build a solid wooden trestle bridge about 78 meters long.

The 78-meter wooden trestle bridge built on Midway Island stretches straight into the sea at one end. The trestle bridge is about 3.8 meters wide and can berth two immigrant ships at the same time.

After the construction of the wooden trestle bridge, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen divided the aboriginal convicts into two, and cut down trees to build wooden houses on stilts, and built roads and warehouses.

The other part went into the depths of the island to open up wasteland, burned the weeds and dead branches, plowed the land, built water canals, and planted the seeds of the crops brought on this trip.

In addition, there are some cattle, sheep, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese and poultry brought from Hawaii Island, all of which are directly thrown to the other three small islands for stocking. thing.

35 days after arriving at Midway Island, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen left behind 157 soldiers and several engineers to guard the less than 2400 aboriginal convicts transported to the island (Note; in just a little over a month, there were more than 300 aboriginal convicts Convict died of heavy labor) to continue the construction of Midway Island, and the rest of the people returned to the Hawaiian Islands by boat.

So far, the naval occupation operation has come 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 on Midway Island in the central Pacific Ocean and the Hawaiian Islands in the east, which became important ports of call and material supply stations for the trans-Pacific northern route, providing support for the Chinese in the Datang Kingdom. Migration has made an indelible and important contribution.

Secondly, it is precisely because of the two major supply ports of Midway Island and the Hawaiian Islands that the high mortality rate in the transoceanic immigration transportation of many shipping companies has dropped rapidly from an average of 5.6% to less than 0.7%, an order of magnitude lower. The year even reached 0.26%.

If we put it into the 90-100-year history of Chinese immigration in the Tang Dynasty, and the total number of immigrants totaled tens of millions, how many millions of lives could be saved?

Third, one year later, on October 1849, 10, Hawaii officially became the 11th province of the Tang Kingdom and the only overseas province located in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean.

Honolulu, located on the island of Oahu, became the capital of the province of Hawaii, and Pearl Harbor, also located on the island, also became the first important overseas military port of the Tang Dynasty Navy. This is a later story.

Due to the extreme lack of information on the overseas islands, it was not until the Datang Kingdom officially announced a year later that the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Island became the territory of the 15th province of the Datang Kingdom that Europeans and Americans reacted.

London didn't say anything, and he had nothing to say about this remote Hawaiian island, but the American public opinion circle was full of sourness, and blah blah blah.

It is nothing more than the fact that the Tang Kingdom bullied the weak, did not respect the diversity of indigenous cultures and democratic rights, trampled on slavery wantonly, and violated the moral bottom line that civilized countries should abide by.

Anyway, it is all kinds of sourness, all kinds of discomfort and dislike, and the public opinion circles are outputting violently.

On the contrary, Spain, another country involved, did not even dare to give a fart even though Oahu Island was taken away by the Tang Kingdom due to the rapid weakening of its national power.

The logic of thinking about the Spaniards is also very simple. At the beginning, the Spaniards were driven away by the Mexican insurgents fighting for independence. After independence, Mexico reached the highlight moment of life, with a total territory of 476.9 million square kilometers, the second largest in North America. big country.

As a result, Mexico was severely beaten by the United States, losing Texas with a total area of ​​more than 69 square kilometers, as well as Diwana and Monterey in the north. The total area of ​​the three combined exceeds 90 square kilometers .

However, it was the Tang Kingdom that had the last laugh. The three-year war bruised the nose and swollen face of the North American overlord, the United States, and ceded the land of the six northwest states. It was a truly ruthless character.

The Spaniards are not willing to provoke such a ruthless character out of thin air. Although they lost Mexico, they still have Cuba and Aridas in Central America. It would be terrible if they were targeted by the Tang Kingdom.

It's just a small island of Oahu. If you lose it, just lose it. It's not a pity.

(End of this chapter)