Obligations and rights are reciprocal.

Gonggong Wei emphasized that contributing to the country is the obligation of every good minister and county citizen that cannot be shirked.

Only when the business is fulfilled can the people of Liangchen County enjoy the equal rights of the emperor's people.

The all-out conquest of Japan is not only the sacred mission of the Ming Emperor's army, but also the mission of the people of Liangchen County, who have just been reborn.

"Although Liangchen County is only leased for the time being, during the 99-year lease, Liangchen County is the territory of the Emperor, and the empire does not allow the existence of any non-nationals who do not fulfill their obligations!"

The 10,000 servants were the manpower support provided by Gonggong Wei to the imperial army, and it was also a test for the people of the newly born Liangchen County.

During the war of aggression against Korea during the Toyotomi period, Ryukyu provided Japanese support with the blood and sweat of the Ryukyu people, and it became a characteristic of the Ryukyus from this time.

In the following 300 years, a large number of Ryukyu young adults were forced or lured by Japan to serve as coolies in Japan and overseas countries, and a large number of Ryukyu women were sold overseas by Japan in an organized manner.

Correspondingly, it is a matter of course to participate in this war of revenge. Although, the people of the newly established Liangchen County did not know their tragic history, but Wei Gonggong knew, so this was not a consultation, but an order.

Those who are active supporters are qualified subjects of the Empire.

Those who oppose the protesters are not qualified non-nationals.

At the request of Wei's father-in-law, Cai Jin posted a proclamation in the name of the Liangchen County Government and began manpower mobilization with the assistance of the Guards Division.

Because the Imperial Army's occupation of the Ryukyus was short-lived, the Guards Division was ready to be dispatched at any time to suppress non-nationals.

However, to the surprise and relief of the imperial army, including the Duke of Wei, the imperial people of Liangchen County were very active in supporting the imperial army's conquest of Japan.

In just three days, more than 4,000 young men signed up for the team. With the deepening of the work of the Liangchen County Government, it is expected that the 10,000-person husband service team will be formed in half a month at the latest.

Father-in-law Wei likes to investigate in order to draw real conclusions.

The base camp organized a survey team of Liangchen residents, and the investigation team found that unlike the original Ryukyu bureaucracy, which was full of "Japanese traitors", most of the ordinary residents of Ryukyu were pro-Ming, and even many of them did not speak Ryukyuan, but Hokkien language.

Cai Jin also has a detailed job description, saying that the cultural customs of the Ryukyus have always been influenced by Fujian.

For thousands of years, a large number of descendants of Fujian immigrants have lived in the Ryukyus and become part of today's Liangchen County.

For thousands of years, due to the influence of these Han Chinese descendants, successive Ryukyu governments regarded themselves as Chinese vassals and accepted Chinese culture.

It was only in recent decades that because of the military coercion of the Japanese shogunate and the Satsuma domain, the pro-Japanese elements who originally accounted for only a few people held the real power of the Ryukyu government, and under the dominance of these pro-Japanese elements, the Ryukyu kingdom began to become a two-faced, de facto puppet of the Japanese Satsuma domain.

However, with the purge of the pro-Japanese elements by the Imperial Army, the influence of the Japanese traitors on the Ryukyus was gone.

The collapse of the Japanese army in Hidakabe in Kayama also made the people of the Ryukyus truly realize the vast difference between Japan and the Emperor.

Under these circumstances, the people of the Ryukyus naturally did not reject the official rule of the Ryukyus by the original suzerain, Emperor Ming.

Many descendants of the Han people in Fujian even began to set off firecrackers to celebrate when the imperial army landed in the Ryukyus, and a large proportion of the descendants of the Han Chinese who volunteered to join the imperial army's military service were also very large.

For this reason, Gonggong Wei happily said to the left and right: "Facts have proved that overseas Han people are the strongest backing of the imperial army and the most loyal allies of the imperial army in foreign development. ”

"Emperor Daming's pro-army special operation engineering team" is the number assigned by Wei Gonggong to the Liangchen County Husband Service Team, referred to as "special team".

The members of the special forces enjoyed the treatment of auxiliary units of the imperial army, and in some respects they were even higher than the "Sino-Korean joint engineering team" that participated in the anti-Jin war in Liaodong.

At the same time, the army hospital of the Guards Division also recruited 500 women from Liangchen County, who were either trained to become nurses, or to be responsible for washing the clothes and bedding of officers and soldiers, cooking and cooking.

The chief nurse of the army hospital is Liu Xiuying, the former palace maid of the Huanyi Bureau who came from Taiwan, this woman is very hard-working, and the level of medical care is also very superb, not only won the respect of the palace maids who participated in the imperial army medical team, but also was very popular with the soldiers, and she was affectionately called "Sister Liu from the capital".

It's just that there are some rumors that this eldest sister Liu and Gonggong Wei seem to have an ulterior relationship.

A member of the medical team once saw Sister Liu go to Gong Wei's house alone one night, and then a shy voice came out of the room, and they could even hear what Sister Liu said and said something like light, light, and so on.

The team members who know the personnel know that what is Wei Gonggong doing. If you don't know, you don't know.

It is not a strange thing for eunuchs and palace maids to eat against each other, and it is a pitiful thing to say.

Therefore, these rumors did not affect Sister Liu's status in the minds of the team members, nor did they affect the prestige of Gonggong Wei in the imperial army, and even some people hoped that Gonggong Wei could form a good couple with this Sister Liu.

After all, Father-in-law Wei is the emperor and has paid too much for the imperial army, and he is an old man with a strong will, and it is also a happy and gratifying thing to be served by a good woman.

The army hospital was located in the port of Naha, southeast of Ryochen Prefecture, where the command post of the wing fleet was also located.

Father-in-law Wei has been in the army hospital for the past few days, and Liu Xiuying personally treated her father-in-law's injuries, saying that the old hip injury that her father-in-law had injured by a savage in Taiwan last year had recurred.

Even if he was ill, his father-in-law did not forget to work when he received Liu Xiuying's careful treatment.

He demanded that the Liangchen County Government headed by Cai Jin must not relax its vigilance against the pro-Japanese elements, boldly mobilize the masses, report and expose potential pro-Japanese elements, and vigorously promote the spread of Han culture in Liangchen County.

In this regard, Liu Xiuying was dissatisfied with this, believing that Father-in-law Wei should not let things at work affect the treatment of injuries.

"It's up to you, it's all up to you, our family's injury is almost healed, these days are very lighter than before, and it turns out that women are the best healing props for men." Father-in-law Wei said kindly.

"Props?"

Liu Xiuying took a long time to understand the meaning of the word Father-in-law Wei, took off her father-in-law's pants angrily, and said angrily: "Let me treat your injuries every day, but you are cured and comfortable, what about me?" Hmph, now I have an injury, you can treat me! ”

"Where did Xiuying get hurt?" The father-in-law was stunned.

"Why am I not hurt?"

Liu Xiuying picked up her father-in-law's hand and put it somewhere, blushed and gritted her teeth and whispered: "This is all sewn, and you won't make up for it." ”

"Make, make!"

As soon as his father-in-law's heartstrings moved, he took out the Dinghai Shen Needle from the East China Sea and gently helped Sister Xiuying treat the crack.

Pleasant times are always short-lived, and after a few days of recuperating in the hospital, my father-in-law had to drag his refreshed body to preside over the plan.

On 21 August, at the port of Naha, dozens of naval and land generals attended a general mobilization meeting for the base camp against Japan.

At the meeting, Shen Yourong, chief of staff of the Combined Fleet, pointed out that the Imperial Army had only 30,000 officers and men on land and sea, and according to reliable information, the Japanese shogunate was able to mobilize more than 200,000 troops, and the disparity between the enemy's and our forces was too great, so it was not possible to draw troops from the mainland.

"If we want to transfer troops, the Taiwan garrison division can draw two wings, and the special operations forces in Liaodong can also draw out one wing-sized force, and if Zhejiang and Fujian can cooperate..."

Jiang Xifeng, chief of staff of the base camp, agreed with Shen Yourong that he had already drawn up a plan to increase troops.

According to this plan, about 15,000 to 20,000 reinforcements can be obtained.

However, in this case, the war against Japan would have to drag on for at least two months, and possibly even several months.

"Can't be delayed."

Gonggong Wei, who was sitting at the main seat of the big round table, looked around at the generals and said: "Although the imperial court does not have full support and the imperial army has limited strength, you must know that the imperial army is not fighting alone, and we have three allies in Japan!"

The first of the three allies mentioned by Wei Gonggong was the Catholics who were being brutally suppressed by the Tokugawa Hidetada shogunate.

Although they were a rabble and lacked unified leadership and command, they received financial and weapon support from Gonggong Wei through Yan Siqi and others, so although the Catholic Shogunate always lost more than won in the face of the attack of the shogunate army, it has been persistent.

This insistence caused the main force of the shogunate army to be pinned down by the fallen shogunate, which led to a situation that was extremely favorable to the imperial army - in the situational battlefield, the strength of the imperial army was not a disadvantage, but an advantage.

The second ally was a large number of Han Chinese who "ate sea rice" in Japan, and most of these people were from Fujian and Zhejiang.

Unlike the descendants of the Fujian people who now settle in Liangchen County, most of the Han people who eat sea rice are from the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese family.

Moreover, they are all typical "powerful factions", if they are slightly organized, they are an army.

To put it mildly, they are maritime merchants.

To put it mildly, they're pirates.

Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong, who is a small monk, are representatives of this kind of person, and Japan's largest maritime power faction "Kapitan" Li Dan is the leader of this kind of person.

Yan Siqi has accepted the canonization of his father-in-law "Dragon and Tiger General", but Li Dan has not expressed his position for a long time, and the relevant contact work has been in charge of Hu Guang and Sha Qiandao, according to the news from them, Li Dan's attitude towards the imperial army is very vague.

The third is the Confucian scholars in Japan.

At the meeting, Duke Wei warned his subordinates not to underestimate the Japanese Confucian scholars, who would never be inferior in energy and role in the upcoming war against Japan, nor would they be inferior to those powerful men at sea.