Xiao Lotian has a musket team under his command, and it is still carrying a strange musket that no one knows, which can shoot hail-like projectiles in an instant. The terrifying news spread rapidly through the port of Naha as if it had grown wings.

When Kayama Kurigen learned the news, he was shocked and couldn't say anything for a quarter of an hour, this famous general of the Shimazu family, the elder of the family who had been stationed in the Ryukyus all the year round, collected the rich Western knowledge in his mind, and he did not think of what kind of gun this musket was.

"Dead Ice Three, Bead Gun, what is this......" Although the old man of the Birch Mountain family looked dazed, he knew one thing very well in his heart, this weapon must be very, very terrifying.

Quite different from the horror of Kayama Kurigen is the Ryukyu King Shotai in Shuri Castle, who is still only a young man in his twenties, and it is the age of passion and enthusiasm in his heart, in his heart, full of yearning for mainland civilization and hatred for the Shimazu family. For more than 200 years, the Shimazu family has been oppressed, so that the Shang Dynasty can't even afford to raise a decent navy now, what a ridiculous thing, overseas island countries can't afford to raise a navy, this is really a big black humor.

Shang Tai wanted to resist, but after all, he was educated by the king since he was a child, and he also knew the horror of the Shimazu family's rule in the past two hundred years, although they did not dare to touch the Shang family's royal family, but as long as the pro-China ministers exposed one, they would kill one, and now almost no minister in the court dares to declare that he is a pro-China faction.

After 250 years of repression, the Ryukyu royal family had a deep fear of the Shimazu family, and they hoped for the help of the government on the opposite continent more than once, but all their expectations were in vain.

In history, after the Shimazu family invaded the Ryukyus in 1609, the Wanli Emperor at that time had ordered Zhejiang to send troops to rescue the Ryukyus, but the terrible typhoon disrupted the rescue, and then the mainland found that the Shimazu family did not destroy the Ryukyu Temple, and the Ryukyu Kingdom still existed in the legal sense, which made the face of the central empire much better, so the expedition was over.

That was the only unsuccessful rescue of the mainland civilization, and it was also the last hope of the Ryukyu Kingdom, since then the Shang Dynasty has not waited for the good news from the Central Plains civilization, for the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Ryukyu Kingdom came to worship the false face, more important than the actual control of the archipelago in whose hands.

It was not until 1865, in the fourth year of Tongzhi, that when a Qing man in his thirties approached King Shangtai in the name of offering treasures, a piece of good news that had been waiting for two hundred years fell on the head of King Shangtai of the Ryukyus.

Shang Tai still remembers that when he heard the Chinese's whispered words, the precious Song Bai porcelain cup in his hand fell to the ground and shattered.

"The Great Qing Kingdom, Mr. Xiao Letian, a master of Western learning, is about to visit Ryukyu, and there will be a small army to land with him at that time, I hope that His Majesty will be able to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity......"

The ecstasy of King Shangtai after hearing the news cannot be described in words, although he is only a puppet of the Shimazu family, but their yearning for the civilization of the Central Plains is from the bottom of their hearts, and there are Ryukyu envoys stationed in the Imperial Court of Beijing City, and these envoys will send back to China at any time a piece of information about what happened on the mainland, and now the "Westward Journey" has become an indispensable classic on his desk.

Now that his idol in his mind, Mr. Xiao, the great master of Western Studies, is actually coming to Ryukyu, and he is also coming here with a small army, how can King Shangtai not be ecstatic.

The bigger surprise is still to come, when Shi Dakai revealed that Xiao Lotian wanted to be an official in the Ryukyu Kingdom, Shang Tai broke a Qianlong pastel plate in ecstasy, and the faces of the distressed servants around him turned white.

In Xiao Letian's plan, Ryukyu is his most important link, as long as the Ryukyu King gives him a high enough status, then Xiao Lotian will use the fastest speed to become Cao Cao in the Ryukyu court. Xiao Lotian wants to establish a trading port in the Ryukyus, he wants to use the power of the Ryukyu Han and natives to train the navy, and he also has a marine corps of his own.

Xiao Lotian never thought of rebelling against himself as the emperor, nor did he think about engaging in a democratic republic and becoming the president or head of state, from the beginning to the end, Xiao Lotian did not want to provoke a civil war on the land of China, he did not want to have the blood of innocents on his hands.

However, Xiao Letian's kindness is not pedantic, his kindness to the whole nation does not mean that he will be merciful to the enemy, if someone dares to provoke him, he does not mind killing him all over the house and then digging his ancestral grave. In this way, a strong military force is indispensable.

At first, Shi Dakai was a little hesitant, in his mind, Xiao Letian's plan was already very rebellious, and the King of the Ryukyus would not agree even if he was a fool, but when the Wing King saw the miserable appearance of the King of the Ryukyus being squeezed by the Shimazu family in Japan, he figured it out, for King Shangtai, it was already a fortunate thing to let Xiao Lotian squeeze.

According to the history of Japan, during the Shogunate before the Meiji Restoration, the Shimazu family had a monetary reserve of 2.5 million taels of silver, and was already the richest daimyo except for the Tokugawa family at that time, and the Shimazu family was the first daimyo in Japan to imitate ironclad ships, and the modern industrialization of the Satsuma domain has always been at the forefront of Japan.

This qiē requires money, and where does the money come from, the squeeze of the Ryukyus for more than 200 years, and the smuggling under the sea ban of the Tokugawa shogunate, is the essence of the Shimazu family.

Under the secret control of the Shimazu family, the annual exploration trade of the Ryukyu King was actually flooded with goods from the Shimazu family, and two-thirds of the local taxes of the Ryukyu Kingdom were also taken away.

And now, Xiao Lotian has given King Shangtai a hope, so that the civilized and sensible Chinese people on the mainland can save the Ryukyus, which is already the collective dream of the Ryukyus people.

Looking at the large cloud of gunpowder smoke wafting from the Japanese settlement, King Shangtai burst into tears of excitement, "Zhongxing is promising, and Zhongxing in the Ryukyu Kingdom is promising......"

At this time, Xiao Lotian could guess that his every move would definitely be followed by the Japanese and the Ryukyu royal family, but he didn't have time to ponder the thoughts of the old monk of the Birch Mountain family, King Tai, and his secret conversation with Mike had reached a critical moment.

"Mike, can you really buy the blueprint of the Spencer rifle, can you really get the production authorization?" Xiao Lotian now grabbed Mike's hand excitedly and shook it desperately up and down.

"Oh, Mr. Shaw, please don't torture my wrist anymore, although the Spencer rifle has excellent performance, but the company's efficiency in the United States has not been good, and it is almost on the verge of bankruptcy, so why is it difficult to spend money to buy it?"

The thirty Spencer rifles were entirely a gift from Lady Luck to Xiao Lotian. The moment he landed on the dock this morning, Mike said goodbye to Xiao Lotian for the time being, and Manaha went to contact the merchants in his own country. He wanted to give Xiao Letian a gift, and when he saw the primitive musket that Xiao Letian was carrying, he had already decided.

At this time, in Tanggu Port, a clipper ship named Enterprise was being repaired, which was the merchant ship that Mike took from the United States to Naha. The captain of the Enterprise has a very good personal relationship with the Mike family, so Mike knows that there is a batch of smuggled prohibited weapons in the bottom hold of the Enterprise.

The Spencer rifle was sold for about $40 in the United States, while the basic price of the U.S. dollar and the Qing Dynasty currency silver at that time was $2.5 per tael of silver, so the average cost of Spencer was 16 taels.

Originally, the captain of the Enterprise wanted to secretly smuggle it to the remnants of the kingdom of heaven and the Twist Army, and if a foreign gun like this one was not sold for 200 taels, it would be considered a loss. However, under Mike's soft grinding and hard bubbles, Xiao Lotian actually got all forty Spencers with a 'friendship price' of 160 taels.

Six thousand four hundred taels is just the price of a foreign gun, and the remaining bullets cost Xiao Lotian six hundred taels of silver, and the captain originally wanted seven thousand five hundred taels to live or die, but thanks to Xiao Letian's counteroffer, he ordered two hundred Spencers, which blocked his mouth, and finally sold seven thousand taels.

Xiao Lotian stroked the famous gun during the American Civil War, and sighed in his heart, "Science and technology are the first productive forces, science and technology are the first gold mine, the cost of sixteen taels can be sold ten times the price across the Pacific Ocean, but if you don't buy it, who made you not have the ability to do this......"

Unexpectedly, when Xiao Lotian and the others returned to the dormitory with muskets on their backs, they were surprised to find a conflict in the casino. The scheming Xiao Letian blinked his eyes and took the musket team to fight the grievances.

This musket salvo is not only uneven, but also has a more important purpose in Xiao Letian's heart, Naha Port is not big, and the salvo of thirty guns will definitely shock the whole Hong Kong. In this way, it was a huge deterrent to the Japanese, after all, Japan is now more backward than the Qing Dynasty, and the arrogant character after the First Sino-Japanese Naval War has not yet been cultivated.

In addition, it is to cheer up the Ryukyu King Shangtai, Xiao Lotian knows that after more than two hundred years of suppression, the Shimazu family's control of the Ryukyu regime has become like an iron bucket, and almost all the people in the court are pro-Japanese, even if there are a few pro-Chinese factions, they are carefully hidden, and they will not surface unless they have to.

Spencer's gunfire is the-stirring stick that stirs people's hearts, and the situation in the Ryukyus, which was originally full of mud and sand, made Xiao Lotian stir up like this, and all the stench came up again, and the small calculations in the hearts of all parties began again, especially those wall grasses began to conspire in tandem one by one, and made their own analysis of the future situation.

Xiao Letian is a person who is very good at profiting from chaos, but this kind of chaos is not brute force after a hot head, but orderly chaos after careful analysis before.

Why did Xiao Letian dare to be so arrogant in Naha, was he really not afraid of the Japanese? In fact, he was also worried, after all, the Japanese were too powerful in Naha, and if the three or four thousand armed forces were really desperate, even if Xiao Letian was given a few cannons, he would have no chance of winning.

But Xiao Lotian decided that the Shimazu family did not dare to make a move, and now it is a critical moment for the Japanese Shogunate Movement, that is, from this year, the actions of the Emperor to the Emperor have gradually become violent, and the forces against the shogunate have become stronger and stronger. And next year, the Satsuma Domain and the Choshu Domain will form a military alliance.

It was not until the following year, in 1867, that the young Meiji Emperor officially ascended the throne, and a great era was about to begin.

"Shimazu, Shimazu, it's a critical moment for the fire to go to the house, are you really willing to make enemies with the Qing Dynasty for the sake of the Ryukyus? For the sake of my little Xiao Lotian, you have to draw strength from the Curtain Movement to deal with me? Hehe, I want to see how you Japanese deal with Lao Tzu's moves......K