As for the achievements of the Navy in the western waters of Fuso, the Governor of Ryukyu Prefecture, Fang Pinglu, is not at all surprised!

It has been so long since he came to Ryukyu Mansion, a place far away from the mainland, Fang Pinglu has gradually changed his previous thoughts, in the past, he came here, it can only be regarded as a helpless choice, in order to choose to spend a lot of money here, make some credit and return to the mainland.

Before he came, he thought that this place must be a place where birds don't and want nothing, but after coming to this place, he found that although this place is a little smaller, there will be no inconvenient places in life, of course, it is impossible to see the prosperity of Jiangnan.

Because Ryukyu has always been an important transit point for the maritime trade between China and Fuso, it was and is still so, and it is even more important, a large number of merchant ships pass through the Ryukyu Province, bringing not only a variety of goods to this place, but also a large amount of financial revenue for this small Ryukyu Province.

Those sailors who have been adrift at sea for a long time, after arriving at Naha Port in the Ryukyus, the first thing they do is to buy drunk for fun, and these sailors are a real high-income group, and they are also typical of today's drunk, and they spend money very generously.

This is because being a sailor is very dangerous, and no one knows that he will lose his life in a storm or a pirate attack that day, so he will generally indulge himself outside.

Where there is demand, there is naturally supply, and in this way, consumption is generated, and with consumption, then it is natural that taxes can be collected from it.

In addition to the consumer market, as an important transit point for the trade between Datang and Fusang, many merchants directly choose to complete transactions here, Fuso merchants transport goods to Ryukyu, and then buy goods from China here and then transport them back to Fuso, Chinese merchants are similar, they bring a large number of Chinese goods from China, sell them here to merchants who specialize in running Fuso routes, and then buy Japanese goods back to China.

In this way, the large volume of goods that took place in the Ryukyu Prefecture was very large, and more taxes could be collected from it.

Relying on the prosperity brought by maritime trade, the Ryukyu Prefecture received a financial revenue of as high as 150,000 taels of silver in the seven years of Xuanping, which is not easy for an area that is extremely backward in agricultural development and fishery development, and can only rely on maritime trade.

After all, strictly speaking, the Ryukyu Prefecture can only be regarded as a transit station, and other commercial developments are relatively backward.

However, even so, Fang Pinglu was very satisfied.

In addition to good taxes, the ruling Fang Pinglu in the Ryukyu Prefecture has always maintained a high-pressure situation, and has not let the remnants of the Ryukyu Kingdom make any trouble.

For this reason, he received a commendation document from the Ministry of Officials in the eighth year of Xuanping, saying that he was loyal to the monarch in the Ryukyu Prefecture and led the work of the Ryukyu Prefecture in an excellent and effective manner.

Not to mention that there are four words ahead: loyalty to the king!

The Tang Dynasty is a monarchical empire, the emperor is everything, and loyalty to the monarch is the highest evaluation of a courtier.

Therefore, his experience in the Ryukyu Prefecture can be regarded as a superior choice, and when the three-year term expires, he is very likely to be dropped back to China, and he will definitely be promoted after returning to China, and he should also be placed in more important positions.

But even so, Fang Pinglu was still not satisfied!

Governing the Ryukyu Mansion, even if it is to govern the Ryukyu Mansion in an orderly manner, but this can only be regarded as ordinary work, at that time he came to the Ryukyu Mansion with ambitions, he is not satisfied with ordinary credit, he still wants more!

Otherwise, he would not have been pushing the Ryukyu Detachment of the Navy to suppress bandits in the past few months, and even the occupation of the Osumi Islands was his suggestion.

Before the departure of the Ryukyu Fleet, in the name of the Governor of the Ryukyu Prefecture, he had a very precise consultation and meeting with Feng Qirong of the Navy, during which Fang Pinglu, on behalf of the Yamen of the Ryukyu Prefecture, proposed that the pirate invasion was serious and hoped that the navy would exterminate the pirates, and also proposed that the Osumi Islands should also be included in the jurisdiction of the Ryukyu Prefecture, so as to expand the territory of the empire and at the same time be able to better conduct maritime trade with Fuso.

Therefore, when Fang Pinglu received a communication and returned to the Ryukyu Prefecture, informing him that the Ryukyu Squadron had taken Tanegashima and Yakushima in the Osumi Islands, and asked the Ryukyu Prefecture Yamen to send relevant officials to Tanegashima to establish a preliminary administrative structure.

Fang Pinglu was not surprised at all, and called over a dozen officials who had been prepared a long time ago, and asked them to follow the communication clipper ship to Tanegashima immediately to establish the yamen organization of Osumi County, Ryukyu Prefecture, an overseas territory directly under the Tang Empire.

Of course, Fang Pinglu did not have the authority to directly bring the Osumi Islands under the jurisdiction of his Ryukyu Prefecture, nor did he have the authority to send officials under his command to establish the Osumi Prefecture Agency, and this power was in the hands of the local cabinet bosses.

However, this did not prevent him from doing so in advance, because as the prefect of the overseas prefect, he had more privileges than the local prefects, and among many of these privileges, there was a very special power, that is, 'make a decision in advance, and report after the fact'.

Basically, in addition to the two major powers of military administration and finance, he basically has other powers.

Therefore, when he sent people to the Osumi Islands, he also began to write a recital, the main content was to report on the affairs of the Osumi Islands, saying that the island had been occupied by pirates for many years, and that the Tang Dynasty had resolutely and resolutely defeated the pirates and occupied the place in order to ensure the normal maritime trade, and said that in order to make the maritime trade more smooth in the future, he specially requested the establishment of Osumi Prefecture under the Ryukyu Prefecture, the county governed Tanegashima, and the administrative teams at all levels of the Yamen of Osumi Prefecture were established.

At the same time, he also reported that because of the urgency of the matter, he had already sent more than 10 officials to Osumi Prefecture to inspect and prepare for the establishment of the county.

Therefore, strictly speaking, the more than 10 officials sent by Fang Pinglu to the Osumi Islands were not officials at all levels such as prefects and prefectural officials of the Osumi Islands, but officials who were preparing for the establishment of Osumi Prefecture in the name of special envoys and deputy envoys.

Xia Wuyan, who was sent to the Osumi Islands by Fang Pinglu and served as the 'special envoy for the preparation of Osumi County', is a little interesting, this person is not a traditional civilian official, but a soldier, well, an army background!

Xia Wuyan, who previously served in the Sixth Infantry Division of the Army, served as an officer of the infantry team, the battalion commander of the infantry battalion, and the rank of major, but in a battle, he suffered a lot of injuries, and after recovering from his injuries, he was often awakened by the nightmare of fighting.

In this case, he simply took the initiative to apply for a retirement major, and then he was arranged to come to the Ryukyu Prefecture and serve as the director of a Zhengliupin.

The army and navy have always been mortal enemies, and in order to prevent the navy from fooling around in the Osumi Islands, he chose Xia Wuyan, an official from the army, to serve as a special envoy for preparation.

Even if Xia Wuyan has retired from active duty, Fang Pinglu knows that these veterans have a very strong sense of belonging to the army, and when they are on active duty, these army officers are not interested in the navy, even if they are retired, they also hate the people in the navy!

With Xia Wuyan here, he doesn't have to worry about the navy turning Osumi County into his own land.

The principle of separation of military and political affairs in the empire must be maintained, and the military should not be allowed to interfere in even the slightest local affairs, which is almost the common understanding of all civilian officials.

As the army grows larger and larger, those generals are also becoming more and more arrogant, in fact, many cabinet officials are worried, worried that these generals will eventually meddle in the court, or even meddle in the political situation of the empire, if there is any turmoil, it will be a huge disaster for the entire empire.

Under this general policy, the cabinet is also closely following the pace of the military, and when the army strikes down a place, they will immediately send officials to take it over, and absolutely do not give the military any time or opportunity for military rule.

The same is true of Osumi Prefecture in Ryukyu Prefecture.

However, considering that Osumi Prefecture is far away from the mainland, even from the Ryukyu Islands, in order to avoid trouble, he simply got a retired army officer and professional official to serve as a special envoy in the past, so as to avoid the local officials and the navy from getting mixed up.

Fang Pinglu thought so, naturally he was a little persecuted and delusional, Feng Qirong didn't have any intention of engaging in the navy's own land, Feng Qirong was a rear admiral, and he was not very old, he wanted to go further, it was best to get a knighthood

For this reason, people are bent on conquering the entire Fuso coast, and even killing Kyushu Island, how can they care about such a broken place in Osumi County.

Meritorious service is the most noble goal of the local imperial soldiers!

Well, it sounds good to say that it is for Your Majesty, for the Empire, and for the sake of the people, but to be realistic, they are just to go further, and then get the title and become one of the top people in the Empire.

Meritorious service, promotion, knighthood, this is the dream of all soldiers, once successful, then it also means that a new elite family will appear in the top elite class of the empire.

In contrast, they are too lazy to intrigue with the civil servants in the cabinet!

But what do the military generals think, the civilian officials in the cabinet don't know, they are just on guard as always, and if they don't guard now, will it be possible to wait for the military to really intervene in government affairs in the future?

Then it will be too late!

Xia Wuyan's ship is not big, but the speed is extremely fast, because this is a communication ship specially built by the Navy for communication and pick-up and drop-off of important people!

These communication ships may only be more than a dozen tons in small ones, and only a hundred tons in large ones, but they all have the same characteristics, that is, they use flying clippers in the bow, and the hull is slender, the draft is extremely deep, and the area is very large after all the sails are opened!

It's all designed for speed!

In downwind conditions, this kind of communication ship can easily run to a speed of twelve knots, and in extreme cases, it can even run at a speed of fourteen knots!

This is an explosion at an age when the speed of most ships is still five knots or even lower!

It's just that this kind of communication ship is fast, but the other performance is basically not good, the cargo capacity is very small, and it is absolutely uncomfortable to ride.

Therefore, when Xia Wuyan stepped off the communication ship and stepped on the dock of Tanegashima, his face was pale without a trace of blood, and the whole person was even unstable, and he needed the help of others to stand firmly!