The wealth of the Japanese army in the Ryukyus, and it is difficult to transport several ships, is not an exaggeration of Wei's father-in-law, nor is it a fact that his father-in-law paid out of his own pocket in order to please the emperor.

Although Kayama Kutaka has transferred the lion's fortunes from the Ryukyu Sea Trade over the past ten years to the Shimazu clan of the main family, the Ryukyu is the location of Wankokutsuliang, and thousands of merchant ships transit through it every year. Among them were not only merchant ships from Japan, but also merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty and the Western Ocean.

These merchant ships brought huge wealth to the Ryukyus, not only supporting the Shang regime, but also supporting the Satsuma Domain, the specific number of which has not yet been figured out, but according to Shang Xian's confession, the three officials of the Satsuma Domain stationed in the Ryukyus to collect sea taxes last year alone collected as much as 600,000 taels of silver. This does not include the Ryukyus side's own tax collection (the Ryukyu government led by the monk Kikukure).

It is conservatively estimated that the share of Ryukyu's annual sea tax should be about one million taels, equivalent to a quarter of the national tax of the Ming Dynasty.

As the Emperor of the Ryukyus and the supreme commander of the Japanese army stationed in the Ryukyus, it is impossible for Kayama to be loyal to the Satsuma Domain.

The father-in-law usually adopts the "substitution method" to do things, just like his old man is loyal to the emperor, and never wants to put the public family into his own account, but over the years, all kinds of entertainment expenses, activity expenses, self-remuneration expenses, maintenance expenses, settlement expenses, entertainment expenses, carriage and horse expenses, unknown creatures tasting fees, sustainable reinvestment expenses...

There are hundreds of expenses large and small, and the annual income of the father-in-law also starts at 100,000 taels. Therefore, with the heart of a father-in-law, it is certain that there will be money for a long time.

Cao Wenyao, the commander of the Guards Division, received an order to loot all the wealth "looted" by the Japanese army in the Ryukyu Islands, and then pay the "donation" to the base camp to His Majesty the Emperor according to the "82" model.

The secret order is codenamed "Chrysanthemum No. 1".

The whole meaning is to dig three feet into the ground.

For this reason, Cao Wenyao specially mobilized the Sixth Infantry Wing to carry out the "Juzi No. 1" mission, because Li Yanzhao, the wing commander of the Sixth Wing, was a talent that Wei Gonggong focused on cultivating and pinned high hopes on.

In the words of Gonggong Wei, Comrade Li Yanzhao is a rare person in the imperial army who is both civil and military, but his small head is full of infinite wisdom.

In the 45th year of Wanli, the "Huangming Daily" published an article in the first issue after Zhengdan, "Holding High the Banner of Wei Gonggong's Military Thought and Striding Forward" was written by Li Yanzhao.

After reading this article, Gonggong Wei was very happy and commented: Comrade Yan Zhao is not only an outstanding general of the emperor's army, but also the best soldier of His Majesty the Ming Emperor.

There is an inscription in the Imperial Army Meritorious Hall set up by Taipei Wei in the base camp - "Learn from Comrade Li Yanzhao!" ”

This inscription is the handwriting of Wei Gonggong.

It is said that Huang Zunsu, editor-in-chief of "Huangming Daily", privately asked Wei's father-in-law who would inherit his father-in-law's great career in the future, and his father-in-law blurted out that it was of course Li Yanzhao. This comrade's ideological and theoretical work is very solid, his mind is also very open, he knows how to study and apply it in a lively way, and what is more important is that he is very young and has a strong plasticity and creativity. In the future, if our family really retires, we can rest assured that the imperial army will hand it over to him.

In the second half of last year, the Guards Division carried out an ideological rectification, and this ideological rectification was based on the "three studies and one action" proposed by Li Yanzhao.

Such a big celebrity is the best person to carry out the task of "Chrysanthemum No. 1". Half of the officers and soldiers are children of Duke Wei's hometown, and the Sixth Infantry Wing is also trustworthy.

The "82 model" was first proposed by Wei Gonggong.

That is, in the war against Japan, 20% of the captured spoils were reserved for rewarding the expeditionary soldiers, so as to encourage the imperial officers and soldiers to march to the Japanese mainland with a more courageous attitude.

Eighty percent of the handovers are the father-in-law's "inexhaustible shipments" mentioned in the secret disclosure.

A strong sense of morality and mission did not allow Wei Gonggong to enrich his own pockets and deduct filial piety from the emperor, so he asked Wei Laojiu to prepare a lucky ship to carry broken and mutilated gold, silver, and even copper.

"Ensuring the integrity of coins in circulation and ensuring that the interests of the people are not harmed is what every public servant of the empire should do."

Gonggong Wei emphasized.

The "Juzi No. 1" mission was soon carried out by the Sixth Infantry Wing, and the officers and men carefully searched the areas where the Japanese troops had been stationed, and even opened the mezzanine of the latrine to take a look at it, so as to ensure that not a penny was missed.

The corpses of the Japanese soldiers killed in the battle were also examined one by one, and even when conditions permitted, the officers and soldiers salvaged the Japanese corpses floating on the sea and removed the gold and silver from the corpses.

Gold, silver, copper, iron, silk, cloth, food, weapons, as long as they could be used by the imperial army and produce economic value, were all collected by the officers and soldiers.

Even the clothes worn by Hisakata Kayama and the utensils used by the Japanese generals before their deaths were packed.

"Sell what you can, and give to the poor people what you can't."

After listening to Li Yanzhao's report, Wei Gonggong recognized his work, and at the same time further emphasized the need to collect more daily necessities so that they could be transported back by ship to those people who had just migrated to Taiwan from Fujian and Zhejiang.

Although Fujian and Zhejiang had already begun to mobilize the coastal poor to move to Taiwan two years ago, and the base camps had been deployed in accordance with the father-in-law's requirements and cooperated with some commercial banks, Taiwan's supply of materials was still very difficult. Many of the newly relocated poor people even have only one or two quilts for their families, and they don't have any decent clothes.

The development of Taiwan is destined to be a long-term system project, so Wei Gonggong must ensure the living materials of the "immigrants", even if it is unconditional support and investment.

So, if you can save some, you can save some.

The clothes worn by the Japanese soldiers, the quilts they covered, the bowls they used, etc., could all be transported back to the immigrants.

"There are a lot of weapons seized, including iron guns and spears..."

Li Yanzhao asked Gonggong Wei how to dispose of the enemy's weapons, whether to disassemble them and use them or issue them to the Ryukyuan.

"You can consider letting those merchants bid, after all, they can't do without them if the maritime industry wants to become bigger, and the imperial army can't protect them forever. They need to have the ability to defend themselves, and even need to have a separate offensive ability ...

Father-in-law Wei waved his hand.

"Let the merchants have a separate offensive ability?"

Li Yanzhao savored these words, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, isn't this a crime? Moreover, if the merchants had a separate offensive ability, wouldn't they become pirates again?

"What's not to do? For merchants, don't guard against it, let it go..."

Gonggong Wei proposed that the Ming Imperial Army and the merchants were a win-win relationship, and the prosperity of the Emperor was inseparable from merchants and commerce.

"The ocean is very big, the world is very big, and there are still many places in this world that the imperial army can't reach for the time being, but the emperor will eventually go to the world, so letting go boldly and letting the businessmen do it is in line with our actual national conditions and the actual interests of the imperial army..."

After Li Yanzhao memorized his series of speeches in the small green book, his father-in-law told Li Yanzhao one more thing, that is, he had written to the emperor, requesting the abolition of the Ryukyu regime and changing the Ryukyus to a prefecture or county under the Ming Dynasty.

"It belongs to Taiwan, temporarily under the command of the pro-army capital, and is directly under the jurisdiction of the base camp, um, but do you say that it is better to call it Ryukyu Prefecture (county), or what is it called?"

Gonggong Wei always felt that the word Ryukyu was not good, and wanted to hear Li Yanzhao's opinion.

"Well..."

Li Yanzhao put the pen in the middle of the small notebook and stuffed it into the pocket of his jacket, and after thinking about it carefully, he boldly said: "Father-in-law, it's better to call it Liangchen County!" ”