As for how to deal with the Ryukyu issue, the idea of the navy is simply and neat, that is, it is directly annexed, and it is not high about other messy colonies, puppets or something.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes that although both the Ryukyus and overseas regions are the undisputed territories of the Tang Empire, these territories have been borrowed by the local natives for many years, and most of the local natives are uncivilized barbarians.

Treat them directly as subjects of the Empire?

It's too nonsense, you are just a barbarian, and you even want to become a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, you want to be beautiful, so far, under the rule of the entire Tang Dynasty, there is only one barbarian in the real sense of the word who has become a subject of the empire, and that is Geddes, except for him, there is no second person who has become a subject of the empire for the time being.

But it's not good to kill them directly, the empire is a benevolent and righteous country after all, even if you want to kill, you have to come quietly and do this kind of thing with great fanfare, although it is actually nothing, but the face is not very good-looking.

Therefore, in response to the Ryukyu issue, the initial idea of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was to first take actual control of the region, then influence the region in all aspects such as culture, politics, economy, military, and diplomacy, educate the local people, and implement the policy of sinicization, and then completely collect the tax, military and other rights of the region, and finally abolish the nominal king and establish a state capital.

And this kind of policy is actually an upgraded version of the policy of changing the land and returning to the stream!

It is roughly divided into two steps, the first step is the Ryukyu Kingdom or the Ryukyu Kingdom, but the Tang Dynasty actually controls the place, and at the same time carries out indoctrination, and when the indoctrination is almost over, it is logical to set up a state capital in the place and become a territory directly under the jurisdiction of the empire.

Although the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is completely superfluous in the eyes of the military, in Li Xuan's view, it has certain merits, but it only has certain merits, and Li Xuan did not say that he agrees with such a plan in its entirety.

First of all, Li Xuan and the generals of the military felt the same way, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was too cautious about the Ryukyu issue, and took the face problem too seriously, worried that after directly annexing the Ryukyus, it would destroy the benevolent and righteous image of the Tang Empire.

But the question is? For the Tang Empire, which aims to establish an empire on which the sun never sets, it is necessary to have an image of Mao Renyi!

If you don't annex or colonize, what kind of empire will you build?

If you want to achieve Li Xuan's ideals and the goal of the Tang Dynasty in the next hundred years, you should have such an attitude: Lao Tzu is awesome, Lao Tzu wants to expand, Lao Tzu wants to annex, you bite me if you have something to do?

This is the attitude that an empire on which the sun never sets!

Talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, and make a colony and hide it, don't expect the sun to never set in this life.

Regarding the current situation, Li Xuan still feels that many officials in the Tang Dynasty are too deeply influenced by the concept of traditional hypocrites, and treat some small countries in Fanbang, talking about benevolence and righteousness every day, pretending to be the demeanor of the Heavenly Dynasty, obviously they want to swallow others, or endure it to death.

When someone comes to pay tribute for a few cents, you dare to directly reward someone with something of 100 yuan, just to show the generosity of the Heavenly Empire, and you don't know that people treat you as a fool behind your back!

What is the use of this attitude in foreign exchanges, especially in dealing with the small countries of the surrounding Fanbang, in addition to being good on the face, and in the name of the Heavenly Empire? There is no use for fart!

According to Li Xuan's idea, treat the surrounding small countries of Fanbang, if they can annex them, they will be annexed, and if they can't be annexed, they will be colonized, if the local natives are really hard-boned, they are unwilling to be annexed and colonized, all kinds of resistance, all kinds of uprisings, then kill until no one objects!

Of course, although Li Xuan thinks that annexation should still be annexed, there is one thing he still agrees with the approach of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that is, to control the influence, there are still many regimes in East Asia, and the current Tang Dynasty does not have the energy to focus on comprehensive expansion, and now it is just trying to expand overseas, and it is understandable to be cautious.

But this caution should not include the Ryukyus!

In Li Xuan's view, the only places that need to be handled by the empire with a cautious attitude are Korea, Dongying and Annam.

Why do you need to be cautious in these three places, because the aborigines of these three places are all stones in the pit, smelly and hard, and the geographical environment is relatively special, so they need to be handled with caution.

But the Ryukyus?

Does the Tang Empire need to be cautious?

Beware of fart!

After Li Xuan saw the excerpts from the report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Navy, he directly gave instructions to give the title of Viscount of the Tang Dynasty to the former Ryukyu King Shangqing, and a mansion in Jinling City!

Didn't you ask for a canonization of the king of the Ryukyus, I, Li Xuan, will canonize you, but this canonization is not a king of the Ryukyus, but a viscount of the Tang Dynasty.

And giving a house basically declares that you don't expect to return to Ryukyu in this life, and live in Jinling City, the most prosperous and greatest city of our time, with peace of mind!

In addition, this title is not hereditary, that is, after the death of the former Ryukyu king, the first Ryukyu Viscount, the Ryukyu king family will completely become ordinary commoners.

Interestingly, this Shang Qing Wang is not young, and he fell ill after coming to Shanghai Port after traveling by sea, and basically no one expects him to live for more than a year!

The Ryukyu Islands were governed by the Ryukyu Prefecture, which was directly administered by the Cabinet, and all internal affairs were compared to those of other prefectures in the Empire.

This decision is basically to manage the Ryukyu Islands as if they were the mainland of the empire!

At the same time, in view of the fact that the Ryukyu Prefecture was overseas, the army was instructed to send troops to garrison it.

The establishment of a government in the Ryukyus, which is actually not a pioneering open territory for the Tang Dynasty, because before this, the Tang Dynasty has done such a thing on Dayuan Island, the previous Dayuan Island, in fact, is a desert island, although there are also indigenous and Han people live, but to be honest, before this, all dynasties did not include Dayuan Island in their jurisdiction, before the establishment of a patrol department in Penghu.

However, the Tang Dynasty included Dayuan Island for the first time within its jurisdiction, set up Dayuan Mansion, established an official government, and garrisoned the army, and continued to exile all kinds of criminals to Dayuan Island, trying to enrich the local population and develop it.

However, the environment of Dayuan Island is too harsh, and it is too difficult to develop, even if the Immigration Reclamation Division is open to the landless farmers in China, as long as they go to Dayuan Island to reclaim, each adult male can get 20 acres of land for free, but just like that, few people are willing to go, because if they go, how long they can live depends on the will of God.

Regardless of whether it was an immigrant who went on his own initiative or a criminal who was exiled, the mortality rate was quite high, and a total of 2,400 people were emigrated and exiled in Xuanping's four years, and one year later, one-fifth of them died.

Today, seven years after Xuanping, there are only 1,500 of the 2,400 people left!

The others all died in the wilderness!

Of course, this is not to say that all the places on Dayuan Island have a very bad environment, but that the environment of land reclamation is very bad!

At present, several major populous gathering places on Dayuan Island, such as the Penghu Islands, the Jilong Port in the north of Dayuan Island, and the Dagou Port in the south of Dayuan Island, have been inhabited by many people in the past, and after development in recent years, they have become suitable places to live.

But if you leave these three places and go to other places, it will be more difficult to survive in the wilderness.

The Tang Dynasty did not dislike the broken place of Dayuan Island, but set up the Dayuan Mansion and immigrated to develop it, and naturally it will not be disliked by the Ryukyu Islands, which have been living in the local indigenous people for many years and are more suitable for human habitation.

However, in any case, the Ryukyu Islands are isolated from the sea, and for the people of the Chinese land, it is too far away, and the distance will make people feel a sense of rejection and even fear.

No, although the Ryukyu Prefecture was established, in order to select the prefect of the Ryukyu Prefecture, the same governor and a number of prefects and other officials, it made the officials worry about gray hair!

In a remote and dilapidated place like Ryukyu, few people are willing to take the initiative to take the initiative to serve and stay well in the prosperous Central Plains, so why should they go to that shabby place to suffer.

What's more, everyone knows that the ghost place in Ryukyu is far away, and it is unknown whether they can come back alive if they go!

The officials saw that no one was willing to go for a while, and they didn't pay attention to the principle of voluntariness, paralysis, being an official in the Tang Dynasty, then you have to pick and choose!

Therefore, the officials in charge of this matter in the Ministry of Officials selected a group of candidates from among the many officials, and what candidates are basically people who have no background, and they are ready to forcibly select from them.

The people in the Ministry of Officials are not stupid, and everyone is reluctant to go to that ghost place in the Ryukyus, if you get some talents who have a backstage, or have outstanding abilities, and plan to focus on training, there will be more people who will be offended!

But these people who don't have a backstage, are not talented, and focus on training, it's not so much trouble to arrange.

It doesn't matter who is who, just close your eyes and circle a few names casually, well, it's so happily decided, they are the first prefect of the Ryukyu Prefecture and officials at all levels!

If you want to say that the selected person is unwilling, the official department said that if you want to go, you have to go, and if you don't want to go, you have to go, apply for a transfer, you are not allowed, you are sick, and you have to go if you don't die.

What, you said you won't go alive or dead, okay, count you ruthless, take off your official hat and still be on the ground, and then you can get out!

The high-ranking officials of the Ministry who were irritated by the candidate officials were also angry, so they made a quick knife to cut the mess!

After the list was announced, all the officials who were selected were wailing!