King Shangtai, surnamed Shangmingtai, the Shang family began to unify the Ryukyu Islands with the help of the power of the Ming Dynasty and established a feudal kingdom from the time when the three mountains competed for hegemony in the early years of the Ming Dynasty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The earliest Ryukyu Islands were nothing more than a group of tribesmen fighting each other for the right to live, and gradually some tribes began to merge, and finally formed a pattern of three mountains competing for hegemony.

Nanshan, Zhongshan, and Beishan are the three mountains named after their geographical location, and the three tribal associations began to fight, and no one could win for hundreds of years.

Until that time, the leader of the Zhongshan tribe, Shang, won the support of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, it was not a support, but Emperor Hongwu sent hundreds of immigrants from Fujian to the past, and politically recognized the status of King Zhongshan.

However, just these few hundred ordinary immigrants completely strengthened the strength of the Zhongshan Kingdom, and these people brought advanced shipbuilding, farming technology and iron-smelting technology, which suddenly raised the civilization level of Zhongshan Kingdom by a large margin.

Soon the Nakayama Kingdom annexed Namsan and Kitayama, eventually unifying the Ryukyus and forming a feudal kingdom that continues to this day.

More than 400 years of ups and downs have passed, and the Shang family's rule over the Ryukyus can only be said to be barely maintained, and the mainland civilization is still very friendly to them, but the mainland civilization is too proud to have the extra energy to pay attention to such a small country.

In the end, it was exploited by the Shimazu family, and it was squeezed for more than 200 years until Xiao Lotian finally rescued this place.

But at this moment, the times have changed greatly, when the Ryukyus opened the country and the west wind blew in, King Shangtai, who had just turned over and liberated, suddenly found that although he was free from the oppression of the Shimazu family, he could no longer fight against the tide of the times.

The young Wang greedily studied Western knowledge, he would consult Xiao Lotian as long as he had time, and there were more scholars, and slowly he understood a truth, this era is no longer an era in which weak and small countries can survive.

Everything said in the Westward Journey is true, when the world becomes smaller and smaller because of technology, the crushing of weak countries by big countries will become extremely cruel and ruthless.

If you are useless, if you do not have the strength to protect yourself, then your only fate is to be swallowed up by other empires.

After studying the path to the rise of countless great nations, the sad King Shotai recognized the cruel fact that there was no hope for the Ryukyus.

First of all, the land area of this country is too small, and it is mountainous and has few fields, and if there is no trade, he simply cannot feed too many people, and if a country does not even have a large population, it has been excluded from the threshold of a strong country.

In addition, the Ryukyus did not have the resources to develop heavy industry, so they had to rely on other economies to subcontract some light industries to survive. It's like the current industrial boom in the Ryukyus, which was purely urged by Xiao Lotian with policies.

Iron and steel, chemical industry, and large machinery and other industries were placed in the Tanggu Special Economic Zone, and have been expanding to the north, while Ryukyu got a light industry that relied on these basic industries, to put it bluntly, it is processing with supplied materials, especially some military enterprises that need to be kept secret, for the sake of safety, Xiao Lotian can only be placed here first.

Of course, there is also the financial industry, which is also one of the pillars that support the Ryukyu economy, but it is a pity that the financial empire belongs to Xiao Lotian and not to him King Shangtai.

The last very sad reason is that the Ryukyus have lost their historical opportunity, they missed the enlightenment stage of the Great Voyage, and the germ of the first industrial revolution has not caught up, and now as the prime minister said, the spark of the second industrial revolution has been shining, but King Shotai has been looking for it for several years with his innocent eyes wide open, and he has not seen where the spark is.

I have to admit that there is a gap between people, and it is a huge gap, and sometimes it cannot be made up in a lifetime.

Of course, the most stimulating thing about King Shangtai was the several military operations of the Chinese people, from the day of the Ryukyu Uprising and the Shimazu family, he already knew what kind of characters Xiao Lotian and these people were, they were all really outlaws with brains and black hands.

Xiao Lotian was really a literati? King Shangtai will never forget the scene when he shouted in the flames with the character Xiao on his back and encouraged the Chinese people in the city to charge towards the Shimazu main formation.

Later, he participated in the Austro-Prussian War in Europe, and when he came back, he fought with France, and the Great Qing Kingdom also let him kill a corpse all over the field, and even the Beijing division was captured...... Not to mention the battle for the Far East this time.

The intensity of the war is getting stronger and stronger every time, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger every time, and Xiao Letian's power has been suppressed by no one.

After the introduction of the Chinese Code, when everyone's hearts were conquered by this code, King Shang Tai finally decided, and he decided to talk openly and honestly with Xiao Letian.

On the eve of the Battle of the Far East, before Xiao Lotian was on the Zhiyuan, the two had a secret meeting in Shuri Castle, where King Sangtai proposed to sacrifice the throne to Xiao Lotian, and he only wanted to retain a princely status under Xiao Lotian in order to keep the country.

Xiao Lotian couldn't afford a small Ryukyu throne, he smiled and refused King Shangtai's proposal without saying a word! The frightened King Shangtai fell to his knees, and even prayed for the position of a duke or even a marquis, as long as he could ensure that the temple of the Shang family would not be destroyed......

King Shangtai, who couldn't kneel for a long time, cried like a motherless child, Xiao Lotian was sad when he heard it, and finally Xiao Lotian gritted his teeth and stomped his feet to point out a clear way for King Shangtai.

"There is no two-way law in life, there are two paths in front of you now Shangtai, one is to be the king for a few more decades and then be forced to be knocked down by the people under the tide of the times, this is a high probability event, not that I am alarmist......"

"The second way is to relinquish your power and only retain the throne as the national image of the Ryukyus, so as to ensure that the throne and the temple will continue uninterrupted...... I don't dare to guarantee you for a thousand years, but if I pay you back for another three or four hundred years, I think it's still possible!"

"Two paths, you choose by yourself, whether you want to be a powerful king or a national symbol, it depends on your own decision!"

Where does King Shangtai still have a choice, the king of bullshit, now his power has been completely hollowed out by the prime minister, Xiao Lotian is more ruthless than Cao Cao, I will compete with him for power? Isn't this a dream!

Without a second word, King Shangtai directly chose the second way, dedicating the government to the Chinese Code and the Chinese House of Representatives, and dedicating the royal power of the Shang clan of the Ryukyus for more than 400 years.

The old shopkeeper lightly pointed his fingers on the armrest of the chair, revealing some of the secrets he could say to everyone, "This is why King Shangtai will offer government, and Mi Fu, I am afraid that your question can not be asked to me, but by you to answer!"

"King Shangtai gave up his power as king and completely incorporated the Ryukyu Kingdom into the Chinese people, which gives a good example for the Chinese people in other regions in the future!"

"Tell me, should we give away a heart? We can't let our family lose power and money, right?"