335 The year of the Qing Piercing Demon Dance, Yuyao was seventy-five
Things have evolved to this point, and the high-level members of the visiting delegation represented by Yao Wenhuan and Chen Dahu held a meeting to discuss this as the principle of the Xinghua Party.
The basic terms of the discussion are as follows:
1. The Ryukyu Kingdom must stop its behavior of "one feudal domain and two sects", and the dignity of the Chinese Empire and Her Majesty the Empress will not be provoked by anyone;
2. After the Ryukyu Kingdom ceased to pay tribute to Japan, the Imperial Navy was also required to protect the Ryukyu citizens under the terms of "national treatment", otherwise the prestige of the Empire would be questioned;
3. Explain his interests to the king of the Ryukyus, and ask him to agree to the construction of the royal naval port in Naha on the condition that the Ryukyu will stop paying tribute to Japan and that the Ryukyu will be protected by the Empire;
4. Yao Wenhuan and other civil officials and other civil officials took the engineers to return to China without departure and report to Her Majesty the Empress and the Cabinet, and the Royal Navy's East China Sea Detachment was temporarily stationed in the Ryukyus for protection until the empire sent to change the garrison.
The day after the meeting, Yao Wenhuan and Chen Dahu entered the Ryukyu royal palace to meet the king of the Ryukyus. Besides, the materials given by the Kingdom of God are also a lot for him, and compared with the direct killing and occupation of Japan, the Kingdom of God is more civilized.
If a man from the kingdom does not kill or rob them, it does not mean that he is weak.
The Ryukyuan people have seen it, the ferocious ronin samurai, the Shangguo people crushed it in three or two - it is no more difficult than the ronin samurai bullying ordinary Ryukyu civilians.
The people of Shangguo are a country of etiquette and education, and they do not bully people, otherwise they will not know how to bully them by relying on their national strength, which is much stronger than Japan.
They were paying tribute to the upper kingdom, but the upper kingdom also had rewards, such as the former Ming and Manchu Qing rewards, which were much more valuable than the tribute. Now Her Majesty the Empress of the Chinese Dynasty will also give a peerless sword, and the people of Shangguo will walk around in the Ryukyus, and they have the money to buy things in the Ryukyus, so that the people can make money.
All of this deepened the deep-seated reverence and goodwill of all the people of the Ryukyus towards the kingdom.
They believed that the people of Shangguo not only had great military force, but also money and culture, and that they had a lot of land and resources, many inventions, and wisdom books, and created great Chinese characters that were common in Japan, Korea, Ryukyu and other countries.
This is the noblest, wise, and righteous people, and the Ryukyu Kingdom should have respected the empire of such a great nation as its "father country", not the wolf-like ambition of Japan—this is the will of the people that cannot be violated.
After the conditions were negotiated between the two sides, they went their separate ways, and the officers and men of Chen Dahu's fleet changed the customs and customs of the previous few days, and several battleships and cruisers with good maneuverability and firepower patrolled the waters near the Ryukyus under the guidance of the Ryukyuans.
Yao Wenhuan set off for China, and this time the king of the Ryukyus, in order to show his respect, prepared a large number of tribute gifts, sent his own crown prince, and considering that it was Her Majesty the Empress who was in charge of the Celestial/Imperial Dynasty, he sent his beloved princess, who was only thirteen years old, to "serve" Her Majesty.
Yao Wenhuan and other officials returned to China by the fleet represented by "Xun 011" and "Xun 012". It turned out that several merchant ships that had come with the mission had already sold their goods and had purchased some local goods in the Ryukyus and returned to China together.
The Ryukyu ship followed the "Xun 011", but the Ryukyu prince fell in love with the big ship of the Celestial Dynasty and talked about the Celestial Dynasty culture with Yao Wenhuan. Yao Wenhuan, who did not pay much attention to the central ministries, still enjoyed the respect of this prince of the domain, so he also entertained him with good wine and food, and talked to him about the various customs of China and the special arrival of this dynasty. Only then did the prince know more deeply that the "same national treatment" of their Ryukyuan people was the kindness of Her Majesty the Empress of the Kingdom.
Because in China, the people represent not only the subjects of Her Majesty the Empress, but also the masters of the Chinese Empire. The master will enjoy basic rights, and if others infringe on the basic rights of the people, it is tantamount to bullying the master of the empire, which is an insult to the empire, and the empire will not tolerate it.
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Before Yao Wenhuan arrived in Nanjing, Lu Siniang gathered more than 400 Jianghu characters with 20 elite and ruthless characters as the backbone, and then with the assistance of the Cao Gang and the navy, he levied ten large ships with guns, and the military department also opened a convenient door for them, and each person was given a fire/gun. The navy also sent two cruisers to protect Lu Siniang and his party, but the navy shamelessly took off their snow-white military uniforms and put on ordinary people's clothes.
Although Lu Siniang and Yao Wenhuan went back one by one, the sea was vast, and the routes of the two groups were different.
Lü Siniang's fleet took the northern route: from the coast of Shandong, which was occupied by China, it followed the winter northwest continental winds to the east, and reached Ryukyu directly.
Yao Wenhuan's fleet, on the other hand, took the southern route: to avoid the strong northwest continental winds in winter, sail south along the Ryukyu Islands to reach Taiwan, which already has frequent contacts with the Ryukyus, and then cross the strait when the southern mainland wind is light.
After Zheng Chenggong recovered, the Taiwan government has been dominated by the Ming Dynasty, and later Kangxi sent Shi Lang to recover Taiwan and submit to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but there have always been anti-Qing righteous people on the island of Taiwan in history. For example, in the 60th year of Kangxi, Taiwan's Zhu Yigui rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, abolished shaving hair, cut off braids, took off flag uniforms, and restored the traditional Han clothing of the Ming Dynasty. It's a pity that later due to internal division, the Manchu Qing Dynasty lured the snake out of the hole and wiped it out.
This time and space is less than 60 years of Kangxi, but the original Manchu officials in Taiwan are also unpopular. Four years ago, when the Fujian Navy Division was destroyed or surrendered, local officials in Taiwan lost contact with the Manchu central government. In the following two years, businessmen who traveled to and from Taiwan and Fujian spread the news of the revival of the mainland Xinghua Party, and the news was widely circulated on the island.
Two years ago, after the then "Xinghua Navy" rectified the ships of the former Fujian Naval Division, Commander Shen Zhiyuan of the South China Sea Fleet also borrowed Shi Lang's method of attacking Taiwan in three ways. The small island of Taiwan was defeated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty at the Zheng Dynasty, how could it be against the Nanyang Fleet, and the Manchu Han officials surrendered without a fight, which will not be elaborated.
In short, Lu Siniang's fleet did not meet Lu Wenhuan's fleet.
Lu Siniang's fleet arrived in the waters of the Ryukyus, wanting to temporarily dock and rest before trying to go north to Japan. However, in the waters off the Ryukyus, he saw the end of a naval battle that was not small in scale, but there was a huge disparity in strength.
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Japan was actually a rather miserable place in ancient times, for thousands of years it was like a bird, with many mountains, little arable land, low grain production, and low steel production. Learning from the Central Plains, represented by the Tang Dynasty, allowed Japan to have a written language, but it was limited to the literacy of the aristocracy. There are some things in Japan that are more than those in the Central Plains: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and typhoons.
In ancient Japan, there was no surplus food in the landlords' families, and the daimyo samurai could not eat enough. Why are the Japanese so thin and short, in addition to racial reasons, they have generally developed a "small stomach" and cannot keep up with nutrition, otherwise in modern times, why is little Japan getting taller and taller?
Poor mountains and bad waters/out of the people/people, there is nothing in their own land, only robbing others. Therefore, after the death of the Song Dynasty, they could use the sentence "there is no China after Yashan" as a high-sounding reason to loot the Central Plains.
In addition to the Central Plains, of course, there are also the small neighbors of Ryukyu, and the rival North Korea on the other side. It's winter, so it's good to grab something for the New Year. They didn't know that the four samurai were killed and buried in the Ryukyus, and they themselves went out to do the same. I was going to pick the Ryukyus and then take a break in North Korea to grab a vote, because I heard that the Central Plains is now easier to mess with than the former Ming and Manchu Qing dynasties, and many fleets went to the Central Plains and never came back, and they lost their traces, and they also doubted whether there was another Qi Jiguang in the Central Plains. Fortunately, North Korea and Ryukyu are millennium soft eggs.
The leader of the tour was Momotaro.
Momotaro was a samurai of the Satsuma Domain, and his swordsmanship was famous among many samurai, but this autumn was particularly unlucky. His hometown was hit by a severe fire, and the wind was strong in Japan, and all of them lived in wooden houses, and as a result, there were few families in the entire township that were not affected. At that time, because he was a samurai, he begged the feudal lord, but Japan was already poor, and even the shogun's meal was often one dish and one soup with two bowls of rice, so how could there be surplus food and benevolence to save the low-class villagers who were going to starve to death in the village.
Although the Satsuma clan was richer than the rest of Japan by directly squeezing the Ryukyus, Korea, and other places, or by stealing merchant ships to and from the seas of East Asia, or trading with the Netherlands and other places in the West.
The feudal lord couldn't solve Momotaro's difficulties, but he also supported him, and the feudal lord was willing to "rent" the official ship to him, and the feudal lord wanted to share the dividends, which was also deserved.
Momotaro used his charisma as a fine samurai, and the villagers who had been burned down by the fire, a large number of like-minded samurai, and ordinary farmers in the neighborhood came to him. Everyone understands this, let's go and get rich together!
There were more than 30 boats in total, large and small, in addition to the two large official ships with bronze cannons rented by the feudal lord, and other samurai's own work tool boats, and even the ordinary peasants cooperated to get small boats to follow the big ships.
The group went to the Ryukyus violently, if the Ryukyu people honestly handed over the property, food, beauties, etc., then they would not make a fuss to support them, and if they resisted, the warriors/warriors/swords were served.
It was necessary to let the companions who were so hungry that they wanted to cut a piece of meat on their legs eat a full meal in the Ryukyus, and then go around to Korea to grab it, which was too small after all.
Ryukyu, we are coming, we are going to eat. We're going to get the youngest and most beautiful girl in the Ryukyus to give a shot, no, when we're full, one shot won't be enough.
When they reached the sea close to the Ryukyus, they found two huge "European ships". The samurai of the Satsuma Domain were not the kind of other feudal clans that strictly enforced the Tokugawa shogun's policy of seclusion and seclusion, but they were knowledgeable enough to recognize them as European ships.
There was a burst of excitement in their hearts, because European merchant ships came to the East to be loaded with silver, gold and precious stones, and they had to buy silk, porcelain, tea and other expensive items in China to return home.
This habit lasted for centuries, and the world's silver flowed to China, forming a huge trade deficit in Europe. However, this is a foreign word.
This time, they may also be shopping for local things in the Ryukyus, and it is not uncommon for them to do so.
This is really a blessing from Amaterasu/Okami!
They quickly decided to rob them first, even the boats, and they pounced on the two "European ships" like a pack of wolves.
It's just that the two big ships seem to have spotted them, but red fireworks have been set off in the middle of the ship, until a red bright spot flashes thousands of meters away......
"Meng Tian" and "Li Mu" also discovered the Japanese fleet, patrolled for more than ten days, and they finally waited for the opportunity to perform.
The two "Ancient Famous General-class" battleships coincidentally "/son pretending to be innocent" without pulling out their cannons, pretending to be merchant ships. They had already fired signal flares into the sky, which were also seen by patrol boats two kilometers away, and then passed into the distance until the "Cao Cao".
The "Meng Tian" and "Li Mu" were originally converted from Portuguese galleons, and they did not have a very strong warship style, especially after they covered the naval guns with canvas, they looked no different from merchant ships from a distance.
The "Meng Tian" and "Li Mu" came to delay a little time, and when the "Cao Cao" and several cruisers arrived in this sea area, they would not leave a single board of the ship, and they could also show the small Ryukyu countries the "heroic/wind" of the Royal Navy. It has to be said that the Chinese are a little vain and difficult to change.
So, when they waited for the Japanese to get close to 1,000 meters, he drove the boat to the sea area where Cao Cao patrolled and trained. When they distanced themselves, they waited for the Japanese to be.
After more than 5,000 meters of pursuit, the Japanese finally approached 500 meters, but the effective range of the guns on the official ships rented by their feudal lords was only 300 meters. Now the artillery is fired by anti-aircraft guns to shoot mosquitoes, wasting that expensive shells.
Momotaro's eyes were red and he ordered, "Give me some strength! That ship is full of gold and silver treasures that can cost us a lifetime!"
"Meng Tian" and "Li Mu" felt that with the speed of the naval signal transmission, "Cao Cao" should have received the news, so they changed their attitude of fleeing.
The two battleships turned around in a large circle as the Japanese approached.
At this time, the two battleships raised the glorious flag of the Imperial Chinese Empire and the flag of the East China Sea Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy. The "Meng Tian" was also temporarily hoisted under the banner of "flagship" in accordance with the operational regulations of the Imperial Navy, and "Li Mu" obeyed the command.
At that time, even if the "Cao Cao" joined the war later, as long as the commander of a "general-class" battleship like the "Meng Tian" did not make a mistake in the principle of combat regulations, the "Cao Cao" would not be able to raise the "flagship" flag in order to prevent the operational order from being disrupted.
Of course, this kind of small fleet can only overstep its duties in case of emergency and emergency, and this kind of opportunity does not come every day, and some people will never encounter it in their lifetime.
Shen Xing, the captain of the "Meng Tian", was very excited: it was finally time for Lao Tzu to play!
He thought of Her Majesty's personal reception and awards, thought of his military exploits, and changed the rank badge on his shoulder.
"Led by the flagship, go at full speed and go straight to the Japanese official ship!"
"Prepare the ship's guns, prepare the crew's fire/spearmen, prevent the pirates from boarding!"
Orders were issued to the departments in the form of flags.
Before the pirates could reach within 300 meters of the ship's string to fire their guns/cannons, the large merchant ship quickly plunged directly at them.
The naked eye saw a row of sailors in snow-white uniforms and strangely looking white hats at the bow of the great ship, each holding a flint/firing/gun with a pointed bayonet.
Some of the Japanese "warrior" boats that rushed ahead were already close to 50 meters, and there were bursts of gunfire, and those brave warriors who were shouting bravely fell one after another, and some were planted in the sea.
Soon it had already rushed to a distance of 100 meters, and the Japanese official ship had already crossed the hull sideways, but two rows of four mortars had already been erected in the bow of the "Meng Tian," and the mortars, which were relatively easy to move, made up for the lack of heavy weapons in the bow. Therefore, although the Japanese were able to shoot artillery when they crossed the ship, this allowed his Chinese army to increase the hit rate of the bow mortar.
Within a hundred meters, even on a ship, there is a great chance of hitting.
The observer confirmed the distance, and the gunners who came out of the instructors of the long army from the military academy skillfully adjusted the Zhu Yuan.
"Bang bang!" continued to sound from the gunfire, and the gunpowder smoke rose from the bow of the "Meng Tian", but it would soon dissipate at sea.
The first round of guns, the character was good, two Japanese officer ships with guns, one hit two, one hit one, on the deck.
The vicious flowering bomb exploded, and the countless fragments and marbles in the bullet were dispersed by the huge kinetic energy, and hit the body of the Japanese at a speed that was invisible to the flesh.
The Japanese also fired four shells one after another, and their accuracy was limited, but the bow of the "Mengtian" was still hit by the lead bullet of about 10 catties, causing some damage, but only one bullet was hit, and such a large ship would not sink, and it still sailed forward.
Sailing into the middle of the Japanese ships, the string guns were fired one after another, and the sailors lined up on the strings of the ship raised their fire/guns to fire. The crews of the Japanese ships on both sides were unlucky, and as soon as the shells hit, they distributed a large area, and those who came within 100 meters of the Chinese ships were killed, wounded, or fell into the sea in fright.
The "Meng Tian" interspersed / passed, and the "Li Mu" followed closely behind, and came again.
At the end of the Japanese fleet, the "Meng Tian" waved the flag and ran over the small boats of the Japanese peasants.
The "Meng Tian" went to the left and the "Li Mu" went to the right, how could the smallest ship in the flotilla be the opponent of the dozen or so ships? One by one, the boats capsized, and the people also went into the water, constantly fluttering on the water, and then the Chinese sailors said: For the sake of the party and the country, I can give you a ride with mercy.
The people on the ship of the remnants of the disabled pirates have realized the strength of the other party, these pirates can't beat and run, no principle is their principle, as for the "for the heaven/emperor/Your Majesty jade shatter" This kind of love god has not played for the time being - otherwise the Ming Dynasty will not deal with the Japanese who come and go without a trace, but fight to the death and attack without escaping.
Since the "Meng Tian" and "Li Mu" had "exchanged" directions with the ships of the Japanese invaders, the Japanese had no choice but to run in the direction in which the "Meng Tian" and "Li Mu" had just "escaped". However, what is even more tragic is that he just met the "Cao Cao" and "Xun 013" and "Xun 014" who rushed over. They were followed by several vicious little wolf guerrilla boats known as the Imperial Chinese Navy.
Chen Dahuxing hurried over, but saw the remnants of the Japanese in the telescope, obviously they were turned over, his heart was on fire, and he secretly scolded: Okay, you Shen Xing, take advantage of my absence, grab it!
He ordered the signal to be transmitted, and sure enough, the "Meng Tian" responded to the signal, now using it as its flagship, and ordered them to encircle and suppress the remnants of the Japanese army.
Chen Dahu shouted "" angrily, and then ordered the "Cao Cao" to "kill" the Japanese Kou, and he vented all his anger on the Japanese Kou.
-- Let you things that don't have long eyes come to rob and don't run to the sea area patrolled by Lao Tzu first! You are determined to let Shen Xing pick up the cheap! Damn! As a classmate of the military academy in the same period, Shen Xing's eyes are red "Emperor-class" (invincible-class) battleships for not a day or two.
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Lü Siniang was about to arrive in the Ryukyus to "rest" and discovered the crushing war between the empire and the pirate ships of the Satsuma Domain.
First of all, it was those in naval camouflage who saw the flag of their own national fleet through the telescope, so they had their men raise the imperial flag as well. This "pretending to be pure" was originally intended to deceive outsiders, and in case something uncivilized happened, it would be convenient for the imperial officials to open their eyes and tell nonsense in front of outsiders.
As a result, Lu Siniang's fleet safely approached the East China Sea detachment, which was beating the Japanese in the middle of the war, but there were also guerrilla boats that came forward to stop them from approaching.
As soon as the navy disguised people saw that it was someone from the East China Sea Fleet, they immediately raised the blue sea blue dragon flag of the fleet.
"My own people!"
"My own people!"
Both sides shouted, but Lu Siniang was the temporary head of the gang, she ordered the fleet to approach, only to see that the East China Sea Fleet was beating the water dogs, and the sea was red.
Lu Siniang hurriedly shouted with internal strength: "Don't fight, stay alive!"
"Don't kill them all, stay alive!"
"I am the Empress of the Empire, and I am ordered by Lu Siniang, an official of the fifth grade, everyone will stay alive!"
Lu Siniang belongs to the special forces and belongs to the "Bureau of Commerce Survey and Statistics of the Chinese Empire" (referred to as the Commercial Bureau, which is said to be commerce, the business of the imperial/ism and colonial/ism eras, which modern people understand). Although she is not a descendant of Long Xue and Gan Xingliang, her grade is also real.
Chen Dahu, Shen Xing and others couldn't help but be surprised when they heard Lu Siniang's shout, but her voice could be heard by everyone at a distance of thousands of meters.
However, Long Xue, the leader of the martial arts alliance, is loyal to the empire, and the empress herself is a peerless master, so they will not make a fuss.
They ordered to stop, and then, Lu Siniang ordered his subordinates to go and arrest the widows alive.
Lu Siniang looked at the hundreds of floating corpses on the sea, that distressed! These are all money! You are evil stars these days!
Lu Siniang thought of the task of "recruitment", as well as the bright future of the company's major shareholders in the future, the most unbearable thing to see was that no one died in vain, and her heart hurt so much that she wanted to scold!
Is there such a person who doesn't treat money as money? 150 silver dollars a month! Her monthly income is only 30 silver dollars, and as long as she catches a few, she will earn back all her money for a year!
Thirty or so frightened and drunk enough of the sea water were fished up, and those who had trained a little before setting off immediately took out ropes and tied them one by one. They have been educated and know that this is money, and it is all closely related to their work performance.
The East China Sea Fleet ended the battle and dragged some of the still working ships back to the port of Naha in the Ryukyus, with Lü Siniang's fleet following. They didn't look at the sea of blood behind them, "black triangles" appeared, and then, there was a faint sound that made people's bones tremble.
The sharks compete for food, and the corpses of those robbers are snatched clean, and the world is so ruthless.
The news of the Imperial Fleet's elimination of a large number of Japanese pirates also spread in the Ryukyus, and the great general of the Ryukyu Kingdom was on the "Cao Cao" at that time. In the first few days, the Ryukyus sent personnel to guide the "angels of the kingdom" around the island, after all, the Imperial fleet was not familiar with this sea area as the Ryukyu locals - where it was easy to have Japanese pirates, where to be careful of the reefs, the Ryukyuan people knew everything about it.
Later, the imperial fleet was already familiar with it, but the Ryukyu general himself fell in love with the giant ship of "Shang/Guo", and everyone else got off the ship honestly, but he still relied on the "Cao Cao" ship and did not leave, and he did not see Chen Dahu driving people, so he relied on it for a while. Because he loves the feeling of "being on a big ship, with a powerful empire behind him, and strong soldiers under him, and not afraid of anything".
As a result, he saw the scene of the Japanese who had done all the evil things to the people of the Ryukyus in front of the Imperial Navy. Even, those "angels of the kingdom" who are "gentle" and "honorable gentlemen" on the streets of the Ryukyus, who are widely admired by Ryukyu girls, harvest the lives of the Japanese without blinking their eyes, as if they were crushing ants.
As soon as the "thunder" of the "upper kingdom" shot out, a large number of Japanese pirates fell, and it was difficult for those Japanese to even get within 50 meters of the "upper country" ship, because about 50 meters was almost a forbidden distance, and the accuracy of the fire/gun reached an extremely high level, and very few fish that escaped the net could cross over.
When the Ryukyu Shogun entered the palace, he excitedly talked to the king's ministers about the war, and his mouth was foaming at the mouth, and the mood of the people was high.
With the protection of the kingdom, there is no fear of the Japanese invaders, and as long as they live by the kingdom, the people of Ryukyu will be at peace. In the past, although they were loyal to Shangguo, whether it was the former Ming or the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they did not care about the invasion of the Satsuma Domain for more than 100 years. But Ryukyu hangs alone on the sea, and it is inconvenient for the Ming Dynasty to manage it, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty will not take care of them?
The general said: "Your Majesty, the kingdom of God wants to build a naval base in our country, and Your Majesty must not show a look of distress for Naha Port again to make the kingdom unhappy." As long as the kingdom has a naval base in our country, our Ryukyu Kingdom will never be invaded by foreign enemies. If the kingdom thinks that we are not loyal enough, it will be us who will suffer, regardless of us. ”
The ministers praised the general for his wisdom and wisdom.
So, when Chen Dahu saw the king the next day, the king was particularly respectful and asked, "General, when will the Naha naval base in Shangguo be built?"
Chen Dahu said: "Then it depends on when Her Majesty the Empress will send the construction team, and His Royal Highness the Prince will come after you sign a lend-lease contract with the empire on behalf of the king." ”
The king said: "It's better to do the relocation of the people in that area first when the construction team of the Kingdom comes, and the people of the Kingdom can start construction as soon as they come." Xiao Wang can recruit people for the kingdom to assist in construction. If you have any other needs, Xiao Wang can also help prepare"
Chen Dahu heard that it was really good, thought about it and said: "Then there is King Lao, but try to disturb the people as little as possible, if it causes the loss of people's property, the empire also has regulations to give a certain amount of compensation." The daily remuneration of the people was also settled by the empire according to the daily wage of the local economic level of the king's Ryukyus. These are also the basic methods of domestic construction, and the empire will not forcibly recruit its citizens as free labor unless it is a national disaster.
The king was moved, and the boss of the country of righteousness was to have meat to eat.
Then, he immediately ordered the officials to go to the people to publicize the fact that Shangguo had won the war, and the people spread that the gods were even more miraculous, and those sailors went to the streets of the Ryukyus, and there were always girls who sent flowers.
And the relocation of the people in the Naha area is not so difficult, not to mention that there was no democracy at that time, even if there is democracy in the Ryukyus now, loyalty to the "Shang/Guo" is still the will of the people.
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The navy fought a battle and became a hero up and down the Ryukyus, and the spring breeze was proud, but Lu Siniang was more pragmatic than them, and she was thinking about business.
The navy is quite capable of fighting, and the navy is still being reviewed in China, so the detachment here will do it with the devils first.
The empress sent her to test the waters of "recruitment", and it was already on the ground anyway, so why not let the navy go to the coast of the Satsuma Domain to sweep it, so that they could follow them ashore, and then catch them as much as they saw people, and they were not afraid of being cut off by the sudden arrival of the devil's sailors.
Her original plan was to steal 2,000 people and go back, but the navy here is already fighting Japan privately, and she can use her strength to catch 10,000 people.
A pariah is 150 silver dollars, and even if the Japanese are worthless and converted into 100 silver dollars, 10,000 people will have 1 million silver dollars, 5 million taels.
Subtracting 25% of the import customs duties, there will be 3.85 million taels, and she will share a 5% commission just as the leader and not counting the status of a shareholder, which is nearly 200,000 taels - enough to buy a luxurious house in Nanjing and save money, and she and her son can live a good life.
Think about it, if there were 100,000 people in the Satsuma Domain, they would be able to "create" a total of 50 million taels of GDP as long as they ran ten times.
If there is such a "state-owned enterprise", customs tax plus net profit of the enterprise, a fleet of 100,000 people to go to sea to "recruit" 100,000 people, and the treasury income is also 30 million taels, right?
Poor Yongzheng, it is said that he has been the emperor for 13 years, and he has killed many corrupt officials, and the entire dynasty has only given 50 million taels to the state until he is tired and dead - this is still a promising emperor.
Where is this, the ruthless Her Majesty the Empress just uses such a fleet led by her in such a financial route, which refuses to be said to be small-scale, and the wealth that can be "created" in a year is almost as hard as Yongzheng's ten years of bitterness. Not to mention the dividends of state-owned enterprises and public-private joint ventures in the Chinese Empire, bank revenues, commercial taxes, customs taxes, and agricultural taxes after land reform and the promotion of high-yield grain.
Lu Siniang has been the mainstream of mixed rivers and lakes for many generations, and now she has been on the edge of the Xinghua Party for a few years, and her eyes are also wide open.
She sighed in her heart: Sisi, it's not that I don't miss the old love, it's really Her Majesty the Empress who said right, there is no way to do it with you, although you have good kung fu in bed. Niu Hulu and Tong Jia's are like that, and I don't see that you have a way to save it, let alone be the queen mother, it seems that you have no future.
There is a lot of money to be made, and it is possible that the empress will be promoted to a higher position satisfied, and she will become a shareholder of a large company in the future, and if she has money, she can invest in those businesses of the Cao Gang again, and become a real instant interest group figure in the empire, instead of following behind and drinking porridge.
If she doesn't do this kind of thing, she won't be called Lu Siniang......
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However, it is said that the fleets of Yao Wenhuan and the Ryukyu prince crossed the Taiwan Strait and went north along the coastal waters, and along the way, merchant ships frequently traveled from north to south, and fishing boats went out to sea to fish freely, and the coast prospered in just a few years.
In Xiamen, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Wenzhou and other coastal areas, the government has also invested in the construction of tall lighthouses, which are lit at night to prevent fishermen who do not return to the port after dark from finding their homes. It is also convenient for the navy and merchant ships of various factions to travel at night.
Entering the coast of Zhejiang, they encountered a cruiser that was also the East China Sea Fleet, and Yao Wenhuan heard that Her Majesty the Empress had sailed to a place called "Peach Blossom Island" in the East China Sea. Three days later, a joint military parade and military exercise will be held between the two fleets of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the East China Sea and the South Sea. During the exercise, it is necessary to conduct live-ammunition target shooting at sea, array formations, rush to board enemy ships, and landing of marines on beaches.
When the captains and sailors of "Patrol 011" and "Patrol 012" heard this, they were all in good spirits, and they did not consult Yao Wenhuan at all, and immediately accelerated their way north.
They wanted to transport these civilian officers back as soon as possible, and then return to the East China Sea Fleet's combat sequence. (. Just Love)