Chapter 635: The Coup of the Ryukyu Kingdom
At the same time as the Ming army landed and occupied Hokkaido, Yan Yingyuan also ordered the Ming army on Honshu Island to start cleaning Honshu Island, all men over the age of ten were forcibly captured, and those who dared to resist were all killed on the spot.
Bloodshed once again permeated the entire Honshu Island, and the Japanese who had lost their young elite had no ability to resist at all, so they could only let the Ming army wreak havoc.
This may seem a bit cruel, but Zhu Ciji could not tolerate the deformed culture of the Wa Kingdom.
Why is it said that it is a deformed culture, the culture of the Wa Kingdom originated in the Tang Dynasty, when Jianzhen crossed to the east, first brought a batch of culture, and then the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom specially sent people to learn the culture of the Tang Dynasty.
Originally, if the Wa Kingdom really completely followed the culture of the Tang Dynasty, there was nothing wrong, but it is a pity that the Wa Kingdom only learned the skin of the Tang Dynasty culture in the end, not only adding the strange characters of the Wa Kingdom to the Chinese characters, but also changing the pronunciation of Chinese characters, clothing, and etiquette.
The culture of the Tang Dynasty can be called brilliant, but it is a pity that it was learned by the Japanese kingdom, and the essence was not learned at all, and it has developed so far, developed for a thousand years, and finally slowly became deformed, many places have gone against the Chinese civilization, and many etiquettes and customs have become vulgar and perverted and dirty, such a deformed culture is not something that Zhu Cijiao can tolerate, and must be eliminated.
Just arresting only a man over the age of ten is already a sign of Zhu Ciji's extreme mercy.
Without the constant education and influence of adult men and elderly men, those children under the age of ten who remained behind could be completely changed, and finally eliminate those deformed cultures from the roots, so that the Japanese could smoothly integrate into the Ming Dynasty.
After the arrest of all men over the age of 10, coupled with the sharp decline caused by the war, the population of the Japanese Kingdom suddenly dropped from more than 7 million to less than 3 million now, more than half of the losses, and more than 80 percent were women.
Zhu Ci prepared to immigrate one million to the Wa Kingdom, and established a large-scale school to teach the Han culture of the children of the Wa State and accelerate the assimilation of the Wa State.
As early as the decision to expand the territory in all directions, Zhu Cijiao consciously cultivated a large number of literate and hyphenated readers, whenever the Ming army conquered a piece of land, Zhu Cijiao would recruit some scholars to teach with high salaries.
The Wa Kingdom was left to be transformed without any resistance, and it is believed that with the passage of time, it will not take long to be completely assimilated.
On December 7, 11 people, including the queen and princess of the Japanese kingdom, were escorted to Nanjing.
Zhu Ci met with them.
To be honest, Zhu Ci didn't have any good feelings for the Japanese Kou, but had a faint hatred, but he didn't have much bad feelings for the Queen of the Japanese Kingdom and the Princess of the Japanese Kingdom who were women. He always believed that it was the men of the Wa Kingdom who were guilty, and that the Wage women were not at fault much, but because they were born in the Wa Kingdom.
I, Zhu Ci, waved my hand and asked people to take the queen and princess of the country down.
According to the tradition of the Chinese Dynasty, the Ming court would properly settle the captured foreign kings, and even if they were imprisoned, they would at least be able to ensure that they had no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.
In view of the fact that the queen of the Japanese kingdom knew the current affairs, and after being captured, she cooperated very well and ordered the surrender of the Japanese state, and contributed to the complete sweep of the Japanese state by the Ming Dynasty.
Although the queen of the Wa Kingdom hated Da Ming, but she also knew that she could not resist, and she retired after thanking her, as the queen of the Wa Kingdom, it was already their luck to be able to save their lives and have a stable life after the fall of the Wa Kingdom.
The queen of the Wa Kingdom did not know the current situation of the Wa Kingdom, if she knew that all the men over the age of ten in the Wa Kingdom were forcibly captured by the Ming Dynasty and escorted to the territory of the Ming Dynasty to work as coolies, perhaps she would not be so quiet.
When the Ming Dynasty gradually began to assimilate the Wa Kingdom, an earth-shattering event also occurred in the Ryukyu Kingdom.
"Boom"
"Kill"
The gates of the royal palace of the Ryukyu Kingdom were smashed open, and 3,000 Ryukyu soldiers led by the Ryukyu general Wu Ning entered the Ryukyu King's Palace.
A slaughter unfolded, and a large number of maids in the palace were killed.
"The prince is there, kill," a general yelled, pointing in one direction, and a young man in a purple robe.
Thousands of Ryukyu soldiers rushed towards the place.
On the night of December 6 in the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Ning, the general of the Ryukyu Kingdom, launched a coup d'état, led the army to attack the Ryukyu Palace, killed the prince of the Ryukyu King, coerced the Ryukyu King, and controlled the political power of the Ryukyu King in one fell swoop, and the second prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Shangzhi, was nowhere to be found.
The coup d'état of Wuning, the general of the Ryukyu Kingdom, was an earth-shattering event for the Ryukyu Kingdom, and it was also a major event worth paying attention to for the Ming Dynasty.
The East China Sea was the garden of the Ming Fleet, and what happened in the Ryukyu Kingdom spread to the East China Sea Fleet at the widest speed, and then quickly spread to Nanjing City through the mouth of Shen Jingchao, the commander of the East China Sea Fleet.
Regarding the coup d'état in the Ryukyu Kingdom, Zhu Ciji had only one idea, and the opportunity of the Ming Dynasty came.
Zhu Ci immediately summoned the first assistant Li Yan to discuss secretly in the imperial study, and it was not until more than an hour later that Li Yan came out of the imperial study.
On the same day, Zhu Ci issued an order to find the second prince of the Ryukyus, Shangzhi, and at the same time issued an order to reprimand Wu Ning, the general of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and clearly told him that the Ming Dynasty opposed the coup d'état of the Ryukyu Kingdom and let him do it himself.
The Ryukyu Kingdom is a small island country much smaller than the island of Taiwan, although the distance between the north and the south is long, but the total population is only 200,000 people, more than 10,000 troops, for the Ming Dynasty is a weak island country.
Originally, if the Ming army wanted to take the Ryukyu Kingdom, it was a matter of minutes, but the Ryukyu King was personally sealed by the Yongle Emperor, and the Ryukyu Kingdom was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, different from the relationship between Annam and North Korea, the Ryukyu Kingdom insisted on sending tribute every year, and it can be said that it was the most loyal vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
Now well, the sudden coup d'état in the Ryukyus is exactly what Zhu Ci wants, once the Ming annexes the Ryukyus, plus the demise of Korea and the Wa Kingdom, the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as unifying East Asia, and there is no need to worry about this direction, you can look elsewhere.
The reunification of East Asia is imperative.