Chapter 629 The Fleet Set sail
In 1893, the Americans planned to overthrow the rule of Queen Lily in Hawaii and turned it into a so-called "republic", which was actually controlled by the Americans.∈◆,
At this time, China in the Far East was still the only Beiyang naval master under the Qing Dynasty's rule. He was still in the control of Li Zhongtang, and he was honestly acting as a guardian and guarding the house. Therefore, they didn't know anything about what happened on the vast sea thousands of miles away.
In 1895, the Hawaiians who supported the Queen's rule, led by Will Cox, conspired to launch an uprising, but the matter was exposed. More than 200 people were arrested and sentenced. The Queen herself was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $5,000. Later, due to concerns about arousing larger resistance, it was reduced.
At this time, Yang Hao and his family traveled through time for just one year, and after winning the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, they established a series of industrial miracles in Tianjin and became an important chess piece in Li Zhongtang's hand.
Although he had noticed the incident in Hawaii, Yang Hao still did not have the ability to intervene too much, but he secretly asked someone to spend money and tried to rescue Will Cox and dozens of rebels including him came out and placed secretly in the local area. The queen was still imprisoned - this was the price used to attract Americans' attention.
In 1897, under the instruction of President McKinley, who pursued expansionism, the ruling organization of the Republic of Hawaii proposed to incorporate Hawaii into the United States. At that time, the President was excited to declare: "It was not a change, but a completion."
In his and most Americans' eyes, this is the ultimate achievement of American businessmen, missionaries, whalers, planters, and military and diplomats over the past century.
But just as they were about to celebrate, the Chinese Navy, which had just beaten up the multinational joint fleet, suddenly appeared in Hawaii. The revolutionary army led by Yang Hao was extremely arrogant and claimed that China did not agree with the Hawaiian government's unilateral change of the status quo, involving the fundamental interests of hundreds of thousands of Chinese Chinese living on the island, and related to China's defense and security in the Pacific. The Chinese government and navy are necessary and determined to guarantee the legitimate rights and interests of their own country.
At the same time, under the escort of the Chinese Navy for thousands of miles, Li Hongzhang launched his first global whirlwind diplomacy. The powerful "Hebei-class" battleship appeared for the first time and caused a competition for shipbuilding by global powers. The naval power between China and the United States is seriously asymmetric.
When China protested, it was not long before it had controlled the Philippines. The powers of the great powers in the Far East were involved in the vortex of the Japanese war, and they could not draw any more energy, nor did they have any good ways to fight against China's maritime forces.
So, when the huge Chinese warship appeared in Hawaii, the so-called head of government headed by Shannon Duer as the interim "president" suddenly became timid. President McKinley had no way to face the war that could break out at any time, and the US government was even prepared to completely lose Hawaii.
However, the Chinese Navy did not launch a full-scale attack and occupation. After receiving the guarantee of the "Government of the Republic of Hawaii" to not unilaterally change the status quo, they quickly withdrew. However, as a blow and punishment for the ambitions of the United States, the Chinese Navy occupied Wake Island without hesitation and began to build port docks, military bases, and airplane runways that the Americans could not understand at all.
That is, since July 1898, China has laid a never-sinking nail in Guam and Saipan in the Pacific.
This small island less than two thousand nautical miles away from Hawaii has become a sharp knife that is pressed against the chest of Americans. Although it has never waved to the outside world for more than ten years, it has always made Americans in Hawaii feel uncomfortable.
From 1898, China launched major overseas developments and migrated from coastal areas to surrounding peninsulars, the number of Chinese people in the archipelago surged. As a commercial transit station between the Americas and Asia, Hawaii flourished at a speed of rockets.
Induced by the threat of the Chinese Navy and huge emergency interests, Hawaii became a semi-free port. On the surface, American soldiers were still guarding it, and American warships were also anchored in the port. The shore defense artillery with increasingly larger caliber was constantly increasing on the artillery, and it did not forget to strengthen its external defense firepower inside and outside.
China ignored this and pretended not to see it. But the number of Chinese expatriates on the island was increasing. By 1905, when the first five-year plan of the Chinese New Dynasties ended, the proportion of Chinese expatriates on the Hawaiian Islands officially exceeded 50%.
It was from that time that, under the manipulation of overseas intelligence agencies, the Chinese, who had always been less likely to participate in political activities, launched a competition to seek political discourse. They made a big splash in the seemingly open election campaign of the head of government and won more than two-fifths of the seats.
Americans were very wary of this. They did not dare to use military means to suppress it. So with the support of President Roosevelt, they increased their investment in Hawaii. They encouraged their own people to immigrate, but the effect was not very good. In the tide of American immigration, those white-skinned people who arrived in North America were too lazy to be like pigs, and even the overseas Chinese piglets who traveled thousands of miles to California could not compete, let alone the forces directly controlled by Yang Hao.
However, Americans also have a way. They encouraged the Japanese to immigrate to Hawaii, trying to use them to dilute the proportion of Chinese expatriates, but the result was not very successful. These people were bullied by the Chinese in their hometowns and were in a panic all day long. The country was divided, and half of them became vassals. When they arrived in Hawaii, they lag behind the Chinese in all aspects, whether in education, business, diligence, or business resources. Competition was impossible to succeed. The only advantage was the large number of Japanese prostitutes.
Speaking of which, the Japanese people's concept of chastity is similar and they do not regard selling their bodies as a shame. After being cut off from Kyushu Island, the Japanese government happily passed the national policy of "sacrificing a generation of girls in exchange for capital for a strong country."
In North Korea, Ryukyu, the Philippines, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, and even California, the United States, tens of thousands of Japanese girls bravely shouldered the hope of revitalization of the Yamato nation, and fought in various harsh buildings and halls with small bags. In exchange for colorful paper pieces, they accumulated and sent them back to the small treasury of the Japanese government, greatly supplementing the increasingly dry government resources.
Conservative Chinese people expressed incredible, unimaginable and acceptable to this almost cruel way of revitalization, but did not stop them from doing so. The main reason is that the existence of Japanese prostitutes and women has greatly solved the key physiological needs of Chinese overseas immigrants.
The Chinese are all mainland nations in their bones. Even those who first went out to explore were unable to survive in China. Once they made money, the new dynasty was established and they immediately began to return to their hometowns to build a large-scale construction, and the leaves fell back to their roots.
However, the New Dynasty government in the B plane had already restricted it. If overseas immigrants want to come back, they had to pay at least half of their property and then buy real estate at a high price. They didn't expect any land and anything else, and there was no room for negotiation. The large amount of money they earned overseas could only be invested in the industrial and commercial field. The good things of the land-buying local owners in the past were completely gone.
Among these overseas expatriates, the number of women is less than one-tenth of the total, which can be said to be very rare. Some people have no choice but to marry a Nanyang woman as concubines, and it is also helpless. Most expatriates simply have no chance of getting married, and it is difficult to solve physiological problems.
As we all know, this kind of problem accumulates, it will cause great trouble. The emergence of Japanese prostitutes and girls has become a timely rain to solve the problem. After layers of exploitation by Chinese gangs, Japanese gangs and government representatives, tens of thousands of women have become the new force to satisfy overseas expatriates.
They have a very similar appearance to Chinese people, they are gentle and good at serving, and have a high tolerance. They can withstand any tossing and troubles. Except for their slightly ugly appearance, they are the best choices.
Without surprise, women became the most popular Japanese, no one. Millions of Chinese expatriates alone were enough to take care of their skin-meat business.
In just a few years, foreign exchange created by Japanese prostitutes and girls has become the most important source of wealth for the Japanese government, and its income is even above the sale of gold and silver.
After being crushed by China, Japan's industrial and agricultural products were severely hit and could not find a way to sell. Later, the global fishing led by the Chinese Navy caused their fishermen to run. The entire country's economy was on the verge of collapse, and those who owed a lot of debts in the outside world could not pay back the three artifacts of the Japanese royal inheritance.
In short, it was quite unsuccessful to intend to use the Japanese as a strategy to check and balance Chinese immigration.
After 1905, the revival movement of the native Hawaiian people began to recover. Under the organizational activities of Will Cox, a large number of resistance forces increased rapidly. In a semi-open organizational form, it became one of the three major ruling forces in Hawaii.
With the secret support of relevant Chinese parties, the Hawaii Restoration Organization secretly took Queen Lily as the leader to seek dynasty restoration. On the other hand, Will Cox publicly selected seats for government officials, and was sought after by a large number of natives, becoming a rising political star.
To be honest, whether it is American colonists, Chinese expatriates, or Japanese, the old people of the Hawaiian Kingdom. They can't compete with these outsiders in all aspects, and now they have almost all become migrant workers. Seeing outsiders become landlords, rich people, etc. is quite envious and jealous.
But they didn't have a smart mind to compete, so they could only grit their teeth and stare and drool. Will Cox was like a beacon in the dark night, illuminating their future at once. So, without much effort, a new political force with a huge mass base made a grand debut.
Their high-profile activities and the secret troubles of the dynasty restoration organizations have greatly attracted the attention of Americans. Not to mention the merger, maintaining rule alone is a big problem.
The Americans had already seen through the Yang Hao government's face at this time and were determined not to give him any chance. Under the guise of "protecting overseas Chinese", they put the navy everywhere. That was too scary.
Even the "Black White Fleet" with the support of President Roosevelt was a global visit, and the Chinese Navy was then visited by the global visit to change clothes. Subsequently, the battleship fleet obtained by the Germans was very sucking the British in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and for the first time, the Americans correctly realized how strong the Chinese Navy is!
Although the Americans built 20 battleships, the latest "Delaware-class" battleship even has 10 305mm main guns. However, the thin body plate with a 225-ton radius appears very fragile under China's huge body with an equal displacement of 30,000 tons. The 45-diameter main gun it uses is far inferior to the old 50-fold 305 gun or the new 356mm main gun in all aspects of range, firing rate, penetration ability, and accuracy.
The current US President Taft is a man with little courage. He pursues gold-dollar diplomacy and intends to use money to solve all problems. The Chinese government welcomes any overseas investment without political terms, and of course it does not exclude American capital. The condition is that it cannot participate in the field of the country's economic lifeline, and others can be tried.
But in this era, China's own national industry has already started, and the capital of local industrial and commercial people is no less than that of Americans. In terms of technical level and product quality, management and efficiency are not on the same level. American capital can only serve as apprentices and supplements, and it is impossible to dominate.
Without much surprise, the situation in the Pacific seems to be vaguely maintained in this form. But both China and the United States know that it is almost impossible. China and the United States have never given up on the battle for Pacific hegemony. Especially when China intervened in building the Panama Canal and obtained the American supply points, the Americans were like thorns on their backs and were in a state of dying.
At the end of September 1910, China initially completed the deployment of the Western Strategy and launched a vigorous mainland expansion movement. Against the backdrop of stopping the war with Tsarist Russia, it gave people a feeling of being in a mess.
But during the same period of time, the Chinese Navy, which had been silent for a long time, quietly started to move.
In October, the headquarters of the four major war zones in China completed the preparations and deployments. Immediately, the third war zone launched its first action plan. In the middle of the month, the naval force was quietly unleashed from the local area, crossing the entire inland sea without any disturbance and directly reaching Guam, and then transferring to Wake Island from there.
Along the way, the whole process was strictly confidential, without any force being alarmed, avoiding any peeping of any ship. There were as many as twenty destroyers and submarines responsible for clearing the site, and the light cruisers even monitored all ships of various countries in this sea area.
All actions are to conceal the two brand new ships in the fleet.
Chapter completed!