On this day, among the various farewell poems that appeared on the Jinling Wharf, there was one word that appeared in many poems at the same time, that is, 'Wanli'.

This word also fully reflects the pessimistic attitude of many talented and beautiful people who came to bid farewell to them, they think that these officials who went to the Ryukyus will not be able to return in this life, how pitiful!

It's just as sad as you want to be sad!

Without the word "Wanli", it simply cannot fully express their regret.

In the crowd, Shi Huo took two entourages to board the navy's transport ship as usual, although his heart was desperate, but on the surface, he maintained the dignity that he should have as a scholar and as a Tang official.

He smiled, leaned on the railing, and waved softly to his friends.

In the past few days, the thief has been scolded by him at least dozens of times, and the bastard officials of the Ministry of Literature and Literature have been cursed by him hundreds of times, but these things can be done in private, and they can't be done in public.

Even if he thinks that he is going to Ryukyu for thousands of miles, whether he can come back alive depends on whether God gives him face, but dignity still needs to be maintained.

As a scholar, this demeanor must not be lost.

However, although there are still people with normal faces like Shi Huo, and there are many of them, not everyone's psychological quality is so good, when many people get on the boat, they are all supported by others to get on the boat, there is no way, the legs are weak and can't walk!

Of course, the officials who can be here today, although they are desperate and full of fear, and they don't want to get on the ship, but in the end they all obediently get on the ship.

As for those who don't want to go, naturally there are, but the Ministry of Officials has already dealt with them, don't go, it doesn't matter, leave the official hat, you can get out.

In these years, there is no shortage of people to be officials, you don't want to go, there are a lot of queues waiting behind!

Therefore, the people who can appear on this pier today have been carefully considered and thought about repeatedly, and they chose to continue to be an official in the Ryukyus after losing their official hats and going to Ryukyu to be an official.

After all, although it is risky to go to the Ryukyus, it is not that you will die if you go, even if you go to the ghost place of the Dayuanfu to become an official, the casualty rate of officials is still very, very low, at most, the conditions are more difficult and difficult.

What's more, in order to appease these officials who went to the Ryukyus, the Ministry of Officials has already given these officials who went to the Ryukyus a package ticket, serving for three years, and you will be transferred back at the end of the three-year period, and you will be promoted after you come back!

Otherwise, although they can be forced to serve in the Ryukyus, it is not good to oppose them too much, and it is always necessary to give them a little hope.

After Shi Huo and the others got on the ship, they went all the way east along the Yangtze River, and then arrived at the port of Shanghai, where they rested for a few days, and then they were transferred to the merchant ships belonging to the Datang Dongyang Trading Company under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and went to the Ryukyus with two frigates, four patrol ships, three supply ships, and 1,500 soldiers of the army who were carrying many transport ships.

The establishment of a government in the Ryukyus is a major event not only for cabinet institutions such as the Ministry of Ministers, but also for the Navy and Army!

At the same time, the army has decided to send two infantry battalions, an artillery battalion, and a baggage battalion to the Ryukyu Islands, with a total strength of about 1,500 troops.

The army garrison of 1,500 people was drawn from the Sixth Army, but now it has an independent organization, and it is called the Ryukyu Garrison Regiment, although it is a bit exaggerated to say that the size of the 1,500-strong army, and it is still scattered and garrisoned, it is a bit exaggerated to call it a regiment, but the Ryukyus are relatively special, so it is also a special treatment.

The commander of the regiment will be an army officer with the rank of colonel!

In addition to the army, there is naturally a navy, and the navy will not station the main fleet in the Ryukyu Islands for a long time, and the main fleet of the navy has many heavy tasks, so although there will be the main fleet cruising in the past, it is not under the control of the Ryukyu side.

The Navy will set up a Ryukyu Squadron in the Ryukyu Islands, and the main task of this detachment is to patrol and protect the security of the Ryukyu Islands and the safety of this section of the sea route.

It is estimated that it will have one new-type frigate of 450 tons, and four new-type patrol ships of 180 tons to be used as the flagship of the detachment, as the main force of patrol escorts, and a number of other small vessels.

However, in order to ensure the strategic security of the Ryukyu Prefecture and to avoid any turmoil, the navy will station a marine battalion of about 500 troops here for a long time in the short term, or in the next few years, and at the same time, in the short term, at least one year, the navy will maintain at least one cruiser and a number of frigates in the Ryukyu Islands for a long time to carry out cruising and strategic deterrence.

A year later, the main fleet will be arranged to be stationed and cruising from time to time depending on the situation!

At present, the Datang Navy has many main sub-fleets, mainly deployed in two directions, one is the South China Sea, which is used to deal with the threat of foreigners such as Portugal and Spain.

The other is deployed in the direction of the East China Sea, mainly to defend the coastal areas south of the Yangtze River.

However, there are also several detachments that have been away for a long time, for example, the Fourth Squadron has long been based on the Ryukyu Islands as the central point, and this sea area is patrolling, escorting, and fighting piracy.

The same task was also carried by the Fifth Squadron, which was mainly stationed in Lianzhou Province and patrolled all the coastal waters of Annam, all the way to Malacca.

And these two detachments are actually the main detachments of the Datang Navy cruising in the open sea, carrying out armed deterrence and escort, although the other detachments are not weak, but they are more patrolling the coastline of the Datang Dynasty itself, controlling the safety of their own coastline, and they do not take the initiative to attack on weekdays.

Only when it is time for the decisive battle of the main force, the Datang Navy will dispatch all detachments to fight together, and on weekdays, they will carry out daily patrols with each detachment as the core.

The army sent 1,500 troops, and the navy directly stationed a Ryukyu detachment and a marine battalion, which shows the importance that the military attaches to the Ryukyus!

In other words, this is not the importance that the military attaches to Ryukyu, but the importance that the entire Tang Dynasty attaches to Ryukyu, why? Because this broken place is currently an important transit point for Datang's maritime trade with Japan.

Otherwise, you think that the Tang Navy ate too much food some time ago before landing on the Ryukyu Islands, and then arrested all the kings of the Ryukyus, not for profit!

In recent years, the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty began to frequently travel from China to Dongying, and many ships going to Dongying, many ships, especially the merchant ships departing from the ports of the southern provinces, basically passed through the Ryukyu Kingdom, and when they passed, they had to pay taxes at the port of call, and sometimes they did business directly with the merchants of the Ryukyus.

This back and forth, for a long time, and then these maritime merchants settled the account books, Ma Dan, Lao Tzu actually paid so much money to the Ryukyu Kingdom every year, and the business is not very neat, after all, it is in a foreign country, and it is naturally not very convenient to do things!

However, the attitude of the maritime merchants is actually not the key, it is the pirates who really prompted the Tang Dynasty to send troops to the Ryukyu Kingdom!

After several years of severe crackdown by the Datang Navy, the gradual cleaning of the coastal areas of Datang has been carried out, and at present, there are very few large-scale pirate gangs in the coastal waters of Datang, although there are still some small-scale pirate gangs hiding and hiding in some coastal areas, but they can no longer pose too much threat to the coastal areas of Datang and the past merchant ships.

But these pirates who were in the coastal areas before were tens of millions, and they did not mean that they were all killed by the Datang Navy, and the pirates who were annihilated by the Datang Navy were actually only a very small part.

So where did so many pirates go?

Most of them have changed careers to become maritime merchants!

At present, the maritime merchants engaged in maritime trade in major ports are actually pirates who have changed their careers, or they have not changed their careers, but they obediently put away their guns and cannons along the Datang coast, and then entered the ports to trade in a regular manner, but after leaving the Datang coast, they basically restored their true colors.

And you can't tell if they're maritime merchants or pirates!

In these years, maritime merchants or pirates, in fact, are basically a virtue, the ships are all armed merchant ships, all of them go to sea with guns, and when the merchant ships are fighting with each other, the ghost knows whether they have a personal grudge or want to rob the goods.

Even if the Datang Navy cracks down on this situation, the Datang Navy is not omnipotent.

Those pirates or maritime merchants, in the sea areas patrolled by the Datang Navy, naturally will not be stupid to fight, but when they reach the open sea, they will let themselves go one by one, because in the far sea, the Datang Navy can't control it.

As a result, all merchant ships that go to the ocean will carry guns, even if you are not ready to rob others, but you must prevent others from robbing you!

Even the three maritime trading companies under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises of Datang, such as the Datang Oriental Trading Company, which specializes in Japanese routes, and the Datang Nanyang Trading Company, which specializes in Nanyang routes, are all armed merchant ships, and many of the crew members on it were still pirates in the early years.

Not to mention the Tang Western Company, which has a monopoly on European trade and can legally organize corporate arms, even has cruisers.

In the past, many pirates along the coast of the Tang Dynasty were transformed into legal maritime merchants or sailors of the Tang Dynasty.

However, there are still some pirates who have run away to other seas and continue to do their old business, and there is a direct robbery of business!

A large number of pirates who escaped from the coast of the Tang Dynasty are now basically active in the South China Sea, the Ryukyu Sea and the Dongying coast, and even the Portuguese have a headache for this.

In this kind of big back, in order to maintain the Japanese shipping route and fight the pirates in the Ryukyu waters, it is the direct reason why the Tang Dynasty sent troops to the Ryukyu Kingdom, as for accidentally annexing the Ryukyu Kingdom, to be honest, it's not that it hasn't been considered, but in fact, it's just incidental.