Monopolizing Oahu Island

When Friedrich's fleet returned to Hawaii, the local natives, instigated by merchants from Britain, France, and the United States, began to ostracize the Austrian forces once again.

Of course, they dared not harass the Austrians directly; after all, Friedrich's previous sweep had all but broken the natives' spines.

However, they still dared to attack the Southern Ming workers, who appeared less formidable and had been law-abiding while working on the island.

Naturally, one picks the softest persimmon to squeeze, and so the natives ran headlong into a wall of iron.

In reality, these workers were soldiers of the Southern Ming, so their organization and combat effectiveness were far beyond what the natives could imagine.

Moreover, most of them had lived on Kalimantan Island for a long time, so they were intimately familiar with the terrain of rainforest islands and lacked the timid, hesitant nature of the Austrians.

At the same time, the Austrians on Hawaii Island were no fools; they knew clearly that once the more numerous Chinese laborers were dealt with, they would be next, so they opened their warehouses and armed the Chinese laborers.

As for the lenient policies previously promised to the natives, they were all voided; after all, with the enemy's muzzles pressed against their foreheads, they would gain nothing but mockery if they did not fight back.

Of course, those who had completed conversion or expressed a willingness to accept it could continue to work in a separate area.

If those individuals attempted to leave or participated in the fighting against Austria, they were immediately treated as enemies, and no surrender was accepted.

This was a mandate from Franz; while prisoners could be treated well, failing to punish one's own traitors was both an insult to the loyal and a cruelty to the unfinished cause.