Wild North America 1846

The imperial meeting ended with the navy's surprise. Since there were so many indigenous laborers, the government would not make any concessions. Half of the labor force would be used to build coastal dams and water conservancy and irrigation facilities, as well as large-scale construction of roads and bridges.

Most of the indigenous population hiding in sugar cane plantations and remote pastures will be cleared out and put into hard labor camps, and the Hawaiian Islands will temporarily fall into a state of labor shortage.

The sugar mills set up around towns were better. The labor force needed for sugar cane plantations could only be found among the newly arrived Chinese immigrants.

Under the laws of the Kingdom, Chinese workers must be treated with reasonable remuneration and benefits, which will inevitably greatly increase the cost of sugar cane plantations and reduce the huge profits that can be called huge profits.

Whether they use hundreds or dozens of indigenous laborers, all of these sugarcane plantation owners are wealthy people. The high-quality cane sugar produced in Hawaii is expensive and the plantations are highly profitable. This is what local sugarcane plantations have done time and time again.

And three fundamental reasons for expansion.

Without the indigenous labor force, the cost will only increase.

All the crows in the world are as black as black, and Chinese plantation owners are no more noble than white plantation owners. As long as there are loopholes to exploit, who doesn't want to make more money?

from beginning to end

Richard just watched the royal government's handling with a cold eye. Fortunately, in the end, everyone was sent to the hard labor camp as usual.

Some will be transported to Pearl Harbor to develop military fields and build docks, forts and port facilities, while the rest will be handed over to the local government to build public infrastructure, mine mines, and do some heavy manual labor.

This cannot be blamed on the inhumane policies of the Tang Dynasty. The so-called people who are not from our race must have different intentions.

The aboriginal Indians look like they have black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin, and they seem to be very similar to the Chinese. In fact, they are not the same thing at all.

According to research by historians, the indigenous Indians possess the blood genes of the ancient Mongolians. They may have arrived in Alaska along the frozen Bering Strait thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago, and then migrated all the way east.

So Eskimos and Indians both have Mongolian blood genes, but can Mongolians and Chinese be equated?

Some Chinese people in the Tang Kingdom forgot about their business after two days of full meals. They shouted that "the world should be governed by benevolence and morality" and "there is no discrimination without education", and they used the same rhetoric of Confucian benevolence and righteousness towards foreigners.

As everyone knows

The religious beliefs, language, culture, life customs and everything of the indigenous people are incompatible with the Chinese. Blindly advocating "education without distinction" and "human unity" are actually laying deep roots for the kingdom.

England has ruled Ireland for hundreds of years, but it has not completely conquered the Irish. The Ottoman Empire has been glorious for more than 500 years, but it has not been able to unite the dozens of ethnic groups in its territory.

Greeks, Bulgarians, Moldovans, Syrians, Egyptians, Caucasians, Armenians, Slavs, etc., which nation was tamed?

History proves

Although the measures taken by the Americans in America and the British in Australia were criticized for a while, they permanently resolved the ethnic disputes and can be regarded as a complete solution.

After the imperial meeting

Richard announced a three-day hiatus. On the morning of the second day, escorted by more than a hundred Guards officers and soldiers, Richard went deep into the Mauna Loa volcano at an altitude of more than 4,200 meters to watch the volcanic eruption up close.

Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano in the world. It erupts once every three and a half years on average. The most recent eruption was just a few days ago. During the eruption, red lava spewed dozens of meters high. The magma resembled a fire dragon.

Unstoppable, it rushes towards the sea.

Wherever it passed, wood and stone were burned.

The hot lava hits the sea water, and with hissing steam, it plunges into the blue ocean. The scene is spectacular.

How can we not see such a magnificent scenery?

Standing on the top of the mountain, the air is filled with a strong smell of burning sulfur, and there is a winding lava flow from the top of the Mauna Loa volcano ring, slowly flowing downward.

Facing such a spectacular wonder of heaven and earth, the three white tigers that Richard carried with him roared loudly and fearfully, not daring to move forward.

Richard could only slap their heads in a funny manner, and told them to wait nearby. Then he led everyone forward in stride, until they were more than a hundred meters away from the volcanic flow.

"Your Majesty, I beg your Majesty not to go any further. The front is too dangerous. Please take care of your dragon body!" Lieutenant General Chen Chuan, commander of the Royal Guards, saw this scene and couldn't help but dissuade him.

More than a hundred meters away, the rocks under our feet were already hot and smoking. Put an egg on top and it would be cooked in about 10 seconds.

The lava river in front flows slowly, and the gray-black surface explodes from time to time, revealing the orange-red hot magma inside. Then under the influence of the air, the surface of the magma quickly dims, and "crackling" explosions are made from time to time.

Throwing out the extremely hot lava and touching it on someone's body would be a lot of fun.

Lieutenant General Chen Chuan didn't know that the hot magma in front of him gave Richard an incomparable feeling of intimacy. After completing the "reputation task known to millions of people", he used gold attribute points to advance to the intermediate level of Suzaku bloodline, and his physique underwent inexplicable changes.

Ordinary flames can no longer hurt Richard.

Richard firmly believed that the hot lava could not hurt him.

"Go over there. There is a high rock over there, and a river of magma flows from one side. It should be safe to stand on it and look at it." Richard didn't want to shock the world, and pointed to the tall rock in front of him.

, and then took the lead and strode over.

Lieutenant General Chen Chuan, who followed closely behind, opened his mouth, but did not make a sound. He could only frown and shout loudly to the officers on the left and right: "Follow quickly, first go to investigate whether the rock is safe, and spread your guard left and right.

, if there is any abnormal movement in the volcano, immediately call the police without any mistakes.”

"As you command, sir."

The masters of the Imperial Guard followed closely behind them. After hearing this, they dispersed with a "crash". Several officers who moved quickly climbed up the tall rock like apes, took off the scabbards from their waists and laid them on the big rocks.

Poke the edge hard to see if the knot is strong?

On the big rock

At this time, there was a simple folding table and chairs, and a set of tea cups were placed on the table, brewing green tea with a pleasant aroma.

Richard sat on a chair, drinking tea leisurely, feeling the strong smell of sulfur blowing against his face along with the steaming heat, feeling extremely comfortable physically and mentally.

He could feel that every cell in his body was cheering for joy, as comfortable as a fish jumping into a pond, greedily absorbing the heat gifted from the volcano.

At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guards who were standing for 4 weeks had beads of sweat on their faces, and big drops fell down. Their faces were as red as shrimps. This was a reaction to being burned by being too close to the lava river.

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The boulder is located on the side of the lava river, and the steaming heat rushes up. It feels like it can burn people's skin, and ordinary people can't stand for a few minutes.

Richard ordered: "You all stand back, this lava heat is not something you can bear."

"Your Majesty, it's too dangerous here. A son of a lot of money can't sit down in the hall, let alone your Majesty's body of ten thousand gold!"

"Okay, don't talk too much. Finally, stand twenty meters away and let me be quiet."

"Uh...Wei Chen obeys the order."

Lieutenant General Chen Chuan was also sweating profusely and felt dizzy from the heat. He quickly waved his hands and stepped back. He really couldn't hold on any longer.

On the contrary, Richard looked calm. He took a deep breath of the scalding hot air, with a comfortable look on his face as if he was smoking a cigarette. He felt the strong fire element in the air and felt extremely comfortable.

The elite Imperial Guards accompanying them were unable to cope with the rolling lava flow. They changed shifts every 15 minutes, and everyone who came down was shaky and their faces were as red as boiled shrimps.

King Richard sat leisurely on the big stone, drank a large pot of three liters of tea, and sat there for more than 5 hours. He did not get up and return until about 4:00 in the afternoon, with no strange color on his face.

In the eyes of all the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guard, he was regarded as a heavenly being, and they looked at His Majesty with different eyes, full of fanatical reverence.

They didn't know that if Richard hadn't been in full view of everyone, he would have really been able to reach out and scoop up the hot magma. Would he have been burned if he tried?

Fortunately, in order to avoid shocking the world, he finally gave up this impulse.

When everything comes to an end, going too far is not enough.

If you really want to test it, red-hot coal or molten molten steel will do. Even if it proves that you can't get burned, so what?

The Hawaiian Island covers an area of ​​more than 10,000 square kilometers and has five active volcanoes. Among them, the Mauna Loa volcano that erupts from time to time is a rare spectacle in the world. Through continuous volcanic eruptions, the area of ​​the Hawaiian Island is expanded, which can be called a real-life volcano.

Eruption Museum.

The Chinese immigrants who moved here built a large-scale Zhurong Fire Temple in a valley more than ten kilometers away from Mauna Loa. After worshiping, Richard also donated 10,000 yuan of incense wire for the new temple.

The temple building indicates that the sacred bird "Suzaku" is enshrined.

He also personally wrote a plaque with the words "The Ancestor of Fire, the Beginning of Civilization", which also attracted devout pilgrims from all over to donate and worship.

As a result, the scale of the Suzaku Temple expanded again and again, with many temples, and it became a famous temple with a far-reaching reputation. This is a story for another time.

More than 10 days later

Richard finished his inspection in Hawaii Province and returned to North America by ship. After landing at the Port of Los Angeles, he settled in the palace and continued his routine nationwide inspections.

He was a restless monarch. He originally planned to visit Paradise Island, but unfortunately he was strongly discouraged by the accompanying cabinet ministers and ultimately failed to make the trip.

The flight to Paradise Island is not that close!

It takes more than 2,800 kilometers to sail south from Los Angeles to Panama. After resting here, it starts again and goes all the way west deep into the Pacific Ocean for about 8,300 kilometers before finally reaching Paradise Island.

This back and forth, plus the inspection time, took less than two months to complete. The straight-line distance between the two emerging cities of Donggang and Xinxi'an on Paradise Island reached more than 2,400 kilometers.

If we take the northern route, it’s almost 2,860 kilometers, and if we take the southern route, it’s more than 3,300 kilometers. It’s really too far away.

Now is the period of rapid development of the two cities of Donggang and Xinxi'an. The construction boom is in the ascendant, the urban population has been skyrocketing, and various development problems have emerged one after another.

Secretary of the Colonial Department Dong Jie and more than 80% of the colonial officials were all focused on construction on Paradise Island, vowing to turn this beautiful island into a paradise on earth.

After comprehensive consideration

Richard decided to dedicate two and a half months next year to inspect Paradise Island and Panama. Since the opening of the central Pacific route, these two places have been developing rapidly, so they must go and see them on the spot.