Although the royal family and the people of the Ryukyu Kingdom greatly admired the Han culture, and the number of Han people in the Ryukyus was also very large, after all, they were defeated by the Shimazu family in the Battle of Keicho and the Ryukyu War, and thus began the era of Japanese colonization for more than 200 years. Over the past two hundred years, Japanese culture and customs have influenced the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Look at the city built on the slopes of the mountains, there are Japanese-style hot springs, ryokans and noisy taverns everywhere, ronins and merchants in clogs, and singers with white powder in their faces swaggering through the streets, and the third-line voices in the taverns are intertwined with Japanese style and singing, which sounds like a few different flavors.

Xiao Letian's team is too large, this is not something that a dormitory can accommodate at all, under Liang Kun's advance arrangement, all four dormitory houses on a street are wrapped. Among them, Xiao Lotian lives in the most scenic 'Sakura no Yaku', a famous Japanese-style ryokan in Naha, which not only has two century-old cherry trees, but also attracts a stream of living water from the hot springs on the mountain, which exudes a faint smell of sulfur.

"Bath, bath...... My body is full of the smell of seawater, I don't have the appetite to eat without washing it...... "Xiao Lotian couldn't walk since he saw the hot spring, the storm yesterday filled his body with seawater, and he still smelled of sea salt.

For Japanese culture, Xiao Letian's favorite thing is their customs of baths, with the blue sky overhead, surrounded by carefully repaired stone platforms, and the warm hot spring water wrapping around his body, the refreshing feeling is really beyond words can describe.

Just as Xiao Letian was staring at the towel and closing his eyes to relax, a timid girl's voice suddenly came from behind him, "Guest officer, this is the sake you want, please ......use it slowly" Xiao Letian listened to the strange Chinese voice, and when he turned around, he saw a little girl in a kimono, kneeling behind him with a ruddy face.

"Well, thank you......" Before Xiao Letian could finish thanking him, what made him stunned was that the little girl actually began to undress. The kimono was originally a piece of cloth tied with a belt, and even if it was put on, the little girl untied the belt and it was directly slippery.

Xiao Lotian suddenly remembered that the maids in the ancient Japanese dormitory, that is, the maids, not only had to work, but also had to sell themselves. The life of the low-level people in Japan is extremely difficult, and Japan does not have feudal etiquette like China, so Maihuan does not have any guilt at all.

The little girl got into the water naked, and began to use a loofah pulp to help Xiao Letian wipe his back, and when she saw that the craft was practiced, she massaged while wiping, and the comfortable Xiao Lotian was about to call out.

"What's your name, how old are you this year, where is your hometown......" Xiao Letian asked casually as he lay on the stone platform with his eyes closed.

"Folk Girl...... Chinatsu, I'm from Shikoku far away, and my father came with me on business...... It's a pity that my father never came back after a trip to sea, and I only live here with one of my younger brothers......"

Chixia is an eighteen-year-old girl, probably numbed by the torture of life, and when he mentions her father and mother who died of illness, there is not the slightest sadness in his tone, as if he calmly explains the affairs of strangers.

The young carcass rubbed against Xiao Letian's skin, it seemed that Qianxia was very experienced, she knew how to make men more comfortable, and just as she was about to help wash the sensitive parts, Xiao Lotian suddenly stood up from the water.

"Okay, help me get dressed, I'm hungry......" Qianxia was a little surprised, he knew that Xiao Letian's body had already reacted, but why did this Chinese restrain himself? Could it be that I am not pretty? Or is there no money?

Soon Xiao Lotian made her even more confused, and when she knelt in the water, holding two pieces of silver Yingyang in her hands, the little girl's tears remained.

"Aligado...... Thank you, thank you......" The naked girl knelt in the water with tears of excitement, she had never seen such a generous guest, and she gave so many rewards without asking for her own body.

Xiao Lotian smiled at him, turned his head and walked back to the dormitory, he knew very well how poor Japan was before the Meiji Restoration. It was an unusually hierarchical country, and all the wealth was concentrated in the hands of the samurai, and even the emperor sometimes needed the help of a military commander.

Among the low-class people in Japan, the peasants who have been pressed by layers of hard work may not be able to eat a mouthful of their own rice for a year, and when they pay their taxes, the remaining rice will be exchanged with the merchants for miscellaneous grains as soon as possible, and they may not be able to eat enough.

Girls from civilian families are even more miserable, they have to work hard since they were young, and once they are older and more than ten years old, they can be sold for money, and many of them are sold directly, and those who are better off can get married, and those who are miserable will be sold directly to brothels.

A girl like Qianxia actually doesn't make much money working in a dormitory, but the boss provides him with food, shelter and daily clothes, and maybe gives a string or two of small money a year. Usually, Qianxia sells herself, and all she can get is a meager copper coin, and she is the happiest when she meets the wealthy maritime merchant Qianxia, because they sometimes give her hundreds of dollars.

If she met a local guest from Japan and the Ryukyus, it would be very pitiful, and she could only endure it if she was given dozens of copper coins. What? You say she can refuse? Don't even think about it, if Chixia dares to refuse a guest, the hostess will kick her out as soon as possible.

Today, Xiao Letian generously gave her two silver coins, this kind of beautifully minted foreigner silver coins, one of which has to be exchanged for at least a thousand copper coins, and Qianxia was going crazy with joy at that time.

Xiao Lotian left Qianxia and returned to the house by himself, and at this time lunch had already been put on the table, and the others had already begun to feast, but Xiao Letian's share had not been touched.

"Sake, tempura, Japanese tofu, miso soup, sashimi, ......" are just as delicate but the food is very small, and although it is beautiful, it also exudes a small family atmosphere.

Now Xiao Lotian has recovered from the fatigue of the journey, and while eating, he and Shi Dakai are studying the next step together. Xiang Shaolong and the green forest masters led by him were scattered around the dormitory, keeping a close watch over the surrounding grass and trees.

"Strategist, just now I have secretly connected with the Ryukyu royal family, they said that now the Japanese are very strict, it is difficult for us to meet with the Ryukyu King Shangtai alone, but the envoy also said that the day after tomorrow, the king Shangtai will prepare a wild trip, and the royal family will try their best to create a chance to meet alone......"

After all, Shi Dakai had already been to Ryukyu once, and it was no secret that he had a secret connection with Ryukyu King Shangtai, and Japanese spies had been keeping an eye on him.

Xiao Lotian held a sake glass and pondered for a while, "Let's talk about the current situation of the Japanese, how many troops do they have, and who is the commander?"

At this time, Liang Kun next to him took over the conversation, "The Ryukyu Kingdom is also the territory of the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain of Japan, and it is not directly controlled by the Japanese shogunate, and the Shimazu family's control of this place is also invisible, and they also claim that Ryukyu is an independent kingdom to the outside world......"

Although Liang Kun looks very rough on the outside, he can become a qualified commander of the army, his heart is still very meticulous, and he also knows the history of the Ryukyus.

Although the Ryukyu Kingdom has always considered itself a vassal state of China, even the Ryukyu King has an attempt to annex China. However, due to the disregard for the sea in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the actual control of Chinese mainland did not extend to the Ryukyu Islands, but more of a cultural influence.

In 1609, in the fourth year of Changqing in Japan, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Kyushu Shimazu Iehisa sent 3,000 soldiers led by Kayama Hisataka to invade Ryukyu and included it in the territory of the Shimazu family.

But strangely, the Shimazu family did not abolish the Ryukyu king, on the contrary, the Shimazu family only hid behind the Ryukyu king and secretly controlled the Ryukyu kingdom. The officials assigned by the Shimazu family could only exercise their functions if they were canonized by the Ryukyu King once more. Moreover, the Shimazu family did not hinder the diplomatic activities of the Ryukyu King against the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Is it because the Shimazu family did not have the strength to annex the Ryukyus? The answer is no, the Shimazu family almost unified the whole of Kyushu during the Warring States period of Japan, and if it were not for the final Toyotomi Hideyoshi who poured troops from all over the country to attack, then Japanese history does not know what would have become like.

Speaking of which, Xiao Lotian had already understood, Liang Kun's words and some records from his previous life finally overlapped, and the conspiracy in the history of the Shimazu family turned out to be true.

The root of a qiē is still in trade, due to the Ming and Qing dynasties, the form of trade is very distorted, and he is carried out in a form of tribute. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the trade between overseas subject countries has always been in a state of constraint, and overseas countries do not want to trade, he must take the survey issued by the Ming and Qing courts at the specified time and place to trade legally.

In this way, the right of exploration is very important for the surrounding small countries, and if the number of transactions with the mainland can be increased, it will naturally be able to enhance the national strength.

The Shimazu family retained the Ryukyu royal family with the aim of using the Ryukyu Kingdom's exploration and trade rights to profit for his family. In real history, during the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of seclusion and seclusion, the Shimazu family used their conspiracy to secretly trade with the Ming Kingdom, thus accumulating very strong financial resources for a hundred years.

It is also recorded in some wild histories of Xiao Rakuten's previous life that the reason why the Satsuma clan was able to become the vanguard of supporting the imperial family in the downfall movement before the Meiji Restoration was because of the financial resources he had accumulated over the past 200 years.

To put it mildly, without the selfless support of the Satsuma Domain, the Tokugawa shogunate would not have been overthrown so easily, and the Meiji Restoration would not have been so smooth.

"Now the head of the Shimazu family stationed in the Ryukyus is an old man named Kariyama Kurigen, he is a descendant of Kayama Hidaka who invaded the Ryukyus, and the head of the military generals under him is called Yamamoto Kiyoshi, known as a gunman, and he is very powerful with an iron gun. And the head of the civil government is called Takenaka Inoue, who is proficient in Sinology and has a ...... of foreign literature."

"As for the evil Hachiro I saw on the dock, he was simply a ruffian, bullying the good and collecting protection money to live, so there was nothing to be afraid of......

Just when Liang Kun introduced the domestic situation of the Ryukyu Kingdom to Xiao Letian, Xiang Shaolong's shouting suddenly came from outside the dormitory, "Where did the thief come from, dare to show off in front of me, ......" After speaking, there was a clanging metal impact sound outside the dormitory.

The generals around Xiao Letian copied all the weapons one by one, and protected Xiao Letian in a ring.

"Don't make such a fuss, let's go out and have a look......"

Note: All the gods who read the book, can we not be so calm, a little more enthusiastic, a little more enthusiastic, and let the results of "The Hidden Dragon of the Great Qing Dynasty" rush again. I know that all of you who like this book are people who are a little older or have a more calm and calm mind, otherwise they wouldn't like Yan Sù's historical theme, but now we are a new book period, don't be calm and take it seriously, go crazy, if you don't go crazy, we will be really old...... K