Wild North America 1846

King Richard put down the report in his hand, suddenly stood up and walked over. His tall figure was like Yuan Zhiyue, and his powerful aura that was not deliberately suppressed made people breathless.

A person's name, the shadow of a tree.

In the legend,

Your Majesty is a man of extraordinary courage, unpredictable power, good at subduing birds and beasts, and a chest with mountains and valleys. He is an extraordinary person. When he was born, the sky was filled with red light, the fragrance was fragrant, and there were even more auspicious beasts.

Soaring high in the sky, it's so magical...

In a word, heaven has given great responsibility to this people!

These days, people in the East are extremely superstitious, and people in the West are even more superstitious. His Majesty's superstitious legend is very convincing, and the society generally believes it.

Feeling His Majesty's powerful aura coming towards him, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen, who had always been a rough and arrogant sea-dweller, subconsciously took a few steps back, restrained his stubbornness, lowered his head and lowered his hands, like a docile and harmless kitten.

"Hengchen, come and see, this is Midway Island, and this is the Hawaiian Islands. The Navy needs to arrange a voyage. I will instruct the relevant shipping companies to transport building materials and convicts to the islands for construction, and get these two places for me."

Richard tapped the two island locations on the map gently with his hand, and ordered in an unquestionable tone;

"Immediately organize the "Kingdom" and "Dignity" to escort the civilian cargo fleet to these two islands. The relevant docks and warehouses will be constructed by dedicated personnel. Your navy will provide all security protection and eliminate opposition voices, focusing on the Kingdom of Hawaii."

"We sincerely abide by the holy will, and we can set sail in three days."

"Yes, you need to pay attention to the situation in the Hawaiian Islands. You are allowed to bring 500 soldiers to the islands. Be careful not to infringe on the property and life safety of local British, French and other European businessmen. Do not take drastic actions against the Spaniards on Oahu Island. Pay attention to your methods.

.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will also send personnel to participate in this operation and listen to their opinions."

"Wei Chen understands that he will live up to the holy hope."

"Well, go back and prepare as soon as possible. Choose an auspicious day to set sail. I will wait for the good news of your successful return."

"The humble minister obeys the decree."

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen took the order respectfully and came to the courtyard outside the palace gate. He felt that his back was soaked with sweat, and he couldn't help but reveal a wry smile.

His Majesty's aura was so powerful, his eyes as sharp as swords seemed to penetrate people's hearts, and all the ministers were as silent as cicadas.

When leaving the palace

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen happened to meet Earl Harry Fritch, the former major general commander of the Northern Front Cavalry Corps, who had returned to report on his duties and was waiting for his new appointment, and Earl Liu Wu, the brigadier deputy commander. These two military giants in general uniforms walked over with their heads held high.

, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen immediately stood aside and raised his hands in salute.

Earl Harry Fletcher walked by with his head held high, and Earl Liu Wu only nodded slightly to indicate before striding 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 temporarily unable to change it.

Today, the navy of the Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty has just been established. Its main sail battleships and frigates are filled with British officers and sailors. It has not made any achievements since its establishment. How can it compete with the huge army?

He is acutely aware;

The mission entrusted by His Majesty is the biggest opportunity for the development of the Navy. After the land war, the Royal Government's priority has turned to transoceanic immigration, and the Navy has great potential in this field.

In order to be respected by others, you must first make outstanding achievements yourself.

The Army has been able to achieve its current position of being proud of the world by relying on brilliant victories one after another and by grabbing food from the tiger's mouth of the United States. In terms 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 to start the development of the navy from scratch and rely on his own efforts to create brilliance, win His Majesty's favor, and gain recognition from the world.

After returning to the dock in the Bay Area, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen immediately issued a series of military orders to end all vacations, recall elite naval officers and soldiers, overhaul ship facilities, overhaul weapons and equipment, quickly replenish ammunition, fresh water, food, fruits and vegetables to prepare for the voyage...

October 11

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen led a small sailing fleet headed by the sailing battleships "Kingdom" and "Dignity", including the three sailing frigates "Ningbo", "Xiamen" and "Fuzhou", escorting seven cargo ships belonging to the Pacific Ocean Shipping Company on their voyage.

, heading towards the Hawaiian Islands.

a few days later

This large 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 10,000 people, and there was not even a decent dock.

The arrival of this mixed fleet caused shock in Honolulu.

Queen Kayahumanu, the stronghold of the Kingdom of Hawaii, was in her twilight years and was bedridden. Her children and some island chiefs were fighting for power, and the entire kingdom was in disarray.

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

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

Some white missionaries recognized that these warships and steamships came from the now famous Tang Kingdom on the west coast of North America. In North America, the Tang Kingdom had always been famous for its tyranny, prowess in warfare, and ferocity and cruelty.

The reason why it has left such a bad impression on the world is firstly due to public opinion in the United States and Mexico, and secondly, the Tang Kingdom itself did not do well. In the Great Lakes region of the United States, it frequently slaughtered villages and towns, and robbed people and property. It is indeed a bit

What is that...

But why did the Tang Kingdom come to Hawaii?

The Big Island of Hawaii is indeed a treasure land as beautiful as a fairyland. The sky is as clear as emerald, dotted with white clouds, the azure sea is intoxicatingly beautiful, the white beaches are lined with coconut trees, the thatched houses of the local indigenous people and a few

The European-style buildings are like a paradise, and you can live a peaceful life without fighting against the world.

The arrival of the Tang Dynasty warships and steamship fleet broke all the peace.

The armed forces of the indigenous tribes of the Kingdom of Hawaii quickly gathered, armed with spears, broadswords, and a small number of flintlock spears. Following the white missionaries and a few white adventurers living there, they approached the naval soldiers of the Tang Kingdom gathered on the beach.

There are many natives in the Kingdom of Hawaii who have converted to Christianity, especially the kingdom's senior officials and the chief's children. They shouted in English and told the Tang Kingdom naval soldiers to leave, saying that they were not welcome here.

See this scene

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen felt unspeakable anger in his heart. The Tang Dynasty had a tradition of enslaving white people and Indians, so he simply could not bear the intimidation of these white people and island natives, and regarded it as a great humiliation.

Ever since

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

Now that he had wiped his face, he simply continued to do nothing. Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen led his 733 soldiers to invade the indigenous town and the palace of the King of Hawaii, and carried out a bloody cleansing of them.

Sporadic gunfire continued until nightfall. Facing the naval soldiers and sailors of the Tang Kingdom who were armed to the teeth, the Hawaiian Kingdom, 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 demoted all the local island natives into hard labor. Strong men were escorted into the forest to cut down trees, build roads, docks, wooden trestles, and row boats to and from steamships.

Transport supplies and cooperate with engineers sent by Pacific Ocean Shipping Company to build docks.

Big trees were cut down one after another, the branches were trimmed off, and the sharpened ones were smashed into the mud on the beach. The convicts worked in groups of 8, carrying wooden poles weighing hundreds of kilograms, one after another.

The whole tree was smashed into the mud.

Tree stumps extend into the sea one after another, and are cross-connected with fastened "I"-shaped steel and fastened with large bolts. The upper ends are paved with one-foot-thick wooden boards, gradually forming a wooden trestle that extends to the depths of the bay.

, about 190 meters long.

With more than 3,700 indigenous convicts working day and night, this wooden trestle was built in just over 50 days, just before Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen led the fleet to return after occupying Midway Island.

After Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen occupied Hawaii Island, he sent troops into the mountains and rounded up more than 2,700 strong male island natives. He used them as hard labor prisoners for the construction of the Midway Island Terminal and stuffed them into three steamships that had just finished unloading construction materials.

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Then he led the team to set sail again, heading west to Midway Island, more than 1,840 kilometers away.

This journey was uneventful, and after another 8 days of sailing (note: unlike steam steamers, naval sail warships require appropriate wind power, so their speed is slower), they successfully arrived at Midway Island.

Midway Island in this era was deserted. The island with an area of ​​about 5 square kilometers was covered with forests and shrubs and was a paradise for tens of thousands of albatrosses.

What is gratifying is that there are several precious freshwater lakes of various sizes here, all of which are derived from natural precipitation and are formed in depressed areas.

Now that we're here

After two days of inspection, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen determined the location for the construction of the dock, and then drove the indigenous convicts to work enthusiastically.

The construction process is the same. First, supplies are transported to the support, trees are cut down, and large trees that are sharpened one by one are driven into the beach and water, and a solid wooden trestle about 78 meters long is built.

The 78-meter wooden trestle built on Midway Island stretches straight into the sea at one end. The trestle is about 3.8 meters wide and can accommodate two immigration ships to berth at the same time. The water depth is excellent and is sufficient for ships under 10,000 tons to berth directly.

After completing the construction of the wooden trestle, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen divided the indigenous slave laborers into two parts, cut down trees in one part to build wooden stilt houses, and built roads and warehouses.

The other part went deep into the island to clear up wasteland, burned weeds and dead branches, plowed the land, built water canals, and planted the crop seeds brought by the trip.

In addition, there are some cattle, sheep, rabbits, chickens, ducks, and geese brought from Hawaii Island, all of which are directly left on the other three islands to be free-range. As for whether they can be kept alive and reproduce in groups, that is not the Navy's responsibility.

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Thirty-five days after arriving at Midway Island, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen left behind 157 soldiers and several engineers to guard the less than 2,400 indigenous convicts who were transported to the island (note; in just over a month, there were more than 300 indigenous convicts).

(who died of heavy labor) continued to build Midway Island, and all the remaining people returned to the Hawaiian Islands by ship.

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

Lieutenant Colonel Pan Hengchen's actions this time left a profound mark in the history of the Tang Kingdom and deserve a special mention.

First of all, this operation established two stable supply ports at Midway Island in the middle of the Pacific and the Hawaiian Islands in the east, becoming important ports of call and material supply stations for the northern trans-Pacific route, and providing a platform for the Chinese people in the Tang Kingdom to rise and fall.

The flow of immigrants has made an indelible and important contribution.

Secondly, it is precisely because of the two major supply ports of Midway and the Hawaiian Islands that the mortality rate, which has always been high in the transoceanic immigration transportation of many shipping companies, has rapidly dropped from an average of 5.6% to less than 0.7%, a reduction of an order of magnitude, with the lowest

Years even reach 0.26%.

If we put this into the 90 to 100-year history of Chinese immigration in the Tang Dynasty, with a total immigration scale of tens of millions, how many more millions of lives would have been saved?

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

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

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

London didn't say anything, and it had nothing to say about this remote Hawaiian island. However, the American public opinion circle was full of sourness and had a lot to say.

It is nothing more than the Tang Kingdom bullying the weak, disrespecting the diversity of indigenous cultures and democratic rights, wantonly trampling on slavery, and violating the moral bottom line that a civilized country should abide by.

Anyway, it was all kinds of sourness, all kinds of discomfort and discomfort, and the public opinion circles were violently outputting it, and they couldn't help themselves.

On the contrary, the other country involved, Spain, due to the rapid decline of its national power, even though Oahu was taken away by the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty, it didn't even dare to let go.

The logic of the Spanish is also very simple. The Spaniards were driven away by the Mexican rebels fighting for independence. After independence, Mexico reached the highlight of its life, with a total territory of 4.769 million square kilometers, ranking second in North America.

Big country.

As a result, Mexico was severely beaten by the United States and lost Texas, which has a total area of ​​more than 690,000 square kilometers, and also lost Tijuana and Monterey in the north. The combined area of ​​these three exceeds 900,000 square kilometers.

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However, it was the Tang Kingdom that had the last laugh. The war lasted for three years and the United States, the North American hegemon, was beaten to a bloody pulp. It also ceded six states in the northwest. It was a ruthless character.

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

It's just an island of Oahu. If you lose it, just lose it. It's a pity.