As long as it's not raining, the weather in Hawaii is always sunny and the weather here is never gloomy.
On a sunny day, Li Mu did not choose to go out to play, but stayed in the recliner in front of his porch, playing with the pocket watch in his hand and was silent.
The beach camp was already under martial law, and last night, Ford Benjamin took advantage of the night to send two companies of soldiers into the beach camp to strengthen the garrison here, so although it seems that the beach camp is still only a dozen people to defend, in fact, the outer wooden houses have been turned into strong fortresses, and they are crowded with heavily armed fighters.
The huts had been reinforced to a certain extent, and the walls were inlaid with smuggled steel plates with shooting holes to provide maximum protection for the defending warriors.
On each of the four watchtowers, two "rainstorm" light machine guns are installed on them, these light machine guns can effectively form crossfire with the heavy machine guns in the wooden house, so don't look at the beach camp There are only more than 200 people, as long as the other side does not use artillery, no matter how many enemies come, they are not afraid.
In fact, there are warships guarding the harbor, so even if the enemy uses artillery, they can't please it.
According to Li Mu's plan, today is the day to launch an attack.
Ford Benjamin and Chu Wushuang with more than 1,000 heavily armed soldiers have been scattered all over Honolulu, and as long as those hooligans who deliberately make trouble cause trouble, Chu Wushuang and they will act separately according to the plan, and wipe out those cabinet members and the diehards in the legislative assembly.
Of course, in order not to anger the British, Li Mu's order was to try not to hurt those British, but this order had a certain degree of flexibility, if Ford and they encountered strong resistance, Ford and they would not stay, and no matter who was on the other side, Ford would let go and attack.
If he could, Li Mu would put all those British under house arrest, and when everything was settled, Li Mu would release those people, and then the raw rice would have been cooked and cooked, even if the British were unwilling, the British could only accept the reality.
At eight o'clock in the morning, two hours before the start of the plan, Fern Jerome suddenly came to visit Li Mu.
This is an unexpected incident, Fern Jerome is not Li Mu's accomplice, on the contrary, as the bishop of the Anglican Church, Fern Jerome should be regarded as Li Mu's enemy strictly speaking, so even if Li Mu catches up with Edward through Fern Jerome, Li Mu will not explain his plan to Fern Jerome and Pan.
"Let him in" Li Mu frowned, glanced at the pocket watch in his hand, Li Mu decided to plan it, anyway, it was to be under house arrest, then house arrest in the beach camp is not bad, at least by Li Mu's side, no one will take the initiative to hurt Fern Jerome.
After a short time, Fern Jerome followed Yan Shun, who was heavily armed, over.
After sitting down, looking at the holster on Yan Shun's waist, Fern Jerome shook his head and sighed: "It seems that you also found something" "What" Li Mu was stunned.
"Something is not right these days, the atmosphere in the Legislative Assembly is a little weird, my secretary told me that in the Chinese and American quarters, there are people who have been meeting all night, and there is movement on the aboriginal side, three days ago His Majesty's tribe bought a batch of arms, it is said that it was ordered from your horse weapons company, and on the way to your place just now, I noticed that there are no more pedestrians on the street, don't you think it is strange" Fern Jerome had a calm face and a very serious expression.
As the bishop of the Anglican Church of Hawaii, the chief justice of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and the speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Fern Jerome has his own channels of information, and although Fern Jerome does not know what is happening, or what is about to happen, as an old fox, Fern Jerome's sense of smell is still very acute.
"I don't know, I didn't go out at all, so whatever they're doing, it has nothing to do with me."
Li Mu pushed it all away.
Gathering all night, this situation is indeed very abnormal, Li Mu secretly hated, although he repeatedly told Chen Guofang and Cheng Zhi to be cautious, but he didn't expect it to attract the attention of Fern Jerome.
"Ream, tell me honestly, what the hell do you want to do" Fernjerome didn't believe it, and decided that all this must have something to do with Li Mu.
"I want to get some sleep, and when I wake up, I'll go back to New York."
Li Mu said casually, anyway, the time is almost up, even if Fernjerome realizes that something is wrong now, Fernjerome will not be able to change the result.
The army and police of the Kingdom of Hawaii are controlled by the Americans, and Fern Jerome does not have any force in his hands, so what Fern Jerome can do now is extremely limited.
"Ream, I just hope you don't get into an international dispute, you should know what Hawaii means to the Pacific, what it means to England," Fern Jerome had already said threateningly.
It is impossible to overstate the significance of Hawaii, which is geographically located in the center of the Pacific Ocean, and all ships sailing in the Pacific Ocean have to replenish their coal and water in Hawaii before hitting their way to their destinations.
The British have the largest colonies in the world, but no one can afford to have too many colonies, and the Atlantic Ocean is important to the British, and the Pacific Ocean is equally important, as long as you consider that Hawaii is the link between Australia and Canada, it is enough for the British to fight.
"Fern, I regard you as my friend, but on this issue, I'm sorry, and the United States also has reasons not to let go."
Li Mu did not back down, this is also the attitude of the United States all along, so just after the end of the Civil War, although the United States has not yet recovered its strength, the then Secretary of State Hamilton Fish couldn't wait to announce: The United States will not allow any country to annex Hawaii.
To bolster the credibility of this statement, Hamilton Fish also promised that the United States would never annex Hawaii in the future.
Look, the promise of politicians is really not as good as a fart, and it has only been more than a year before Hamilton Fish turned his face and denied it.
"Reem, you should know that if we go toe-to-toe, then we can only cheapen those natives in the end."
There was excitement in Ferngerome's eyes when he looked at Li Mu, and at the same time, there was something inexplicable.
In fact, Li Mu has done the ideological work of Fern Jerome, think about it, this is Hawaii, tens of thousands of kilometers away from the British mainland, and Hawaii is not a British colony, so from the great queen to all the members of Congress, few people pay attention to Hawaii.
For Fern Jerome, no one pays attention to it is equivalent to being beaten into the cold palace, and even if he makes achievements, I am afraid that no one appreciates them, which is the most unacceptable, so Li Mu does not believe that Fern Jerome is so willing to dedicate his life to Hawaii in obscurity.
"Then why can't we join forces to kill all those natives, and then we decide our own fate," Li Mu asked curiously.
"Ha, Rim, you know that can't be, if we really do that, then it may be the Qing Empire that takes advantage in the end, I think although you were also a Qing countryman, I guess you don't want to see this situation."
Fern Jerome snorted, thinking a little off.
This one If there is really no aborigines in Hawaii, then it is really hard to say who will take advantage, you must know that the Chinese arrived in Hawaii earlier than the whites, and the Chinese do not dislike the ugly indigenous women on the Hawaiian side, under normal circumstances, in order to do better business, they will use the "marriage" method to get involved with the local Hawaiian people, even Chen Guofang is also this way, so for now, among the local mixed race, there are a lot of people with Chinese blood, accounting for more than half of the local mixed race in Hawaii.
Regarding this aesthetic, this is really not a problem for the Chinese, the Qing Empire did not practice monogamy, so as long as the eldest wife in the family is Chinese, it really doesn't matter what race the little wife is, even if he marries home and does not round the house and only puts it at home, it is also cost-effective.
"Come on, it's not the turn of the Qing Empire."
Li Mu couldn't laugh or cry, he really didn't think so.
Just as Li Mu and Fern Jerome were chatting, Yan Shun suddenly came over and whispered in Li Mu's ear: "Ford sent someone back to report that he found that those native Hawaiians were gathering, they were very emotional, and it was not clear what their purpose was. ” "Continue to monitor" Li Mu did not avoid Fern Jerome at this time, before Li Mu successfully subverted the Hawaiian Kingdom, it is estimated that Fern Jerome did not have a chance to get out of this beach camp.
"What happened," Fernjerome was also surprised.
"I don't know, but it's probably not a good thing, those natives are gathering, so what do they want to do" Li Mu seemed to remember something, but he couldn't be sure for a while.
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"Damn, it's definitely not a good thing, Reem, please, I'm going to take my family over" Fern Jerome is also sensitive, if this kind of thing happens at this critical moment, it is better to deal with the worst plan.
Shhh Yes, Fernjerome is a Protestant priest, and he is not a Catholic ascetic, so it is not surprising that he has a family.
With that, Fernjerome got up and was about to walk out of the camp.
Li Mu grabbed Fernjerome.
"Fern, you can't leave here now, only here can your safety be guaranteed, and I can send someone to pick up your family."
Li Mu didn't let Fernjerome go, what kind of joke, in case Fernjerome hung up as soon as he went out, who is this Alas, but on the other hand, if Fernjerome died at the hands of those native Hawaiians, it might be a good thing for Li Mu
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