But whether it is deliberate or incidental, there is no doubt that the Ryukyu Islands have now become the Ryukyu Prefecture under the rule of the Tang Dynasty!

And now, more than 100 middle and low-level officials, 1,500 army officers and soldiers, and the Ryukyu detachment of the navy, plus other supply fleets, formed a large-scale fleet of more than 30 ships and left the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then went straight to the Ryukyus!

Soon after, the latest issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper reported on the matter, although it was not the front page, but it also occupied half of the page on the third page, responsible for reporting on the matter.

Because they will become the first batch of officials and garrisons sent by Datang to overseas territories, their every move will have a great impact on similar situations in the future of Datang!

If the Ryukyu Prefecture is properly handled, then the same model will be adopted for similar overseas territories in the future, but if there is a problem with the Ryukyu disposal model this time, small problems will be repaired, and if it is a big problem, then the cabinet will carefully consider the treatment model of similar overseas territories.

Is it the same as now, all officials above the eighth rank are sent directly from the mainland, or are it appropriate to introduce local sinicized indigenous officials?

These choices all depend on the handling of the Ryukyu Prefecture!

Shi Huo naturally wouldn't, the officials and other high-ranking officials of the ministry were quite concerned about the situation in the Ryukyu Prefecture, they just thought that they were unlucky and were sent to Ryukyu thousands of miles away.

In fact, not all of them were unlucky people who were forced to go to the Ryukyus, but among the more than 100 civil officials, one of them chose to go on their own initiative.

This person is the Ryukyu prefect Fang Pinglu!

Why did he choose to take the initiative to go, naturally for the sake of his own future!

Unlike the ordinary middle- and lower-level officials in the Tang Dynasty, he has a distant cousin who is a military boss: Fang Xitong!

And to go to Ryukyu, it was also Fang Xitong who suggested that he go!

Before this, Fang Pinglu was the same governor of Jiangxi Guangxin Mansion, and he was able to become the same governor of a government, although it was said that he had the support of Fang Xitong, but in fact, in order to avoid it, Fang Xitong would never take the initiative to arrange for him to a good place, and he was able to get up is also his own ability.

He was an ordinary person before, not even a scholar, just a few words, a thief, no, from the dragon time is a little late, is after the Tang Dynasty occupied the eastern region of Guizhou, ready to go south to Liangguang when the dragon from the dragon, at the beginning was just a small river clerk, and then maintained a step a year to climb up, but his cultural level is not too high, the more you go to the top, the greater the difficulty encountered.

And at this time, coincidentally, when he was flipping through the family tree, he happened to find that he and the military boss, Lieutenant General Fang Xitong, had the same ancestor more than a hundred years ago, and then, he was cheeky and ran up to confess his relatives.

Fang Xitong didn't have much rejection of this distant relative who came to the door by himself, not for anything else, just because at this time, Fang Pinglu was already a fellow acquaintance from the four products.

And Fang Xitong is in his own family, to be honest, except for himself, the talent is withering, he has no brothers, his own son, get rid of it, he himself is only in his twenties, and the eldest son is only four or five years old.

originally had a cousin with good ability, but he finally pulled him up and became a major in the army, but this cousin of his was killed in the Northern Expedition.

Now, he is a lieutenant general of the army, a marquis of the empire, and the most powerful Fang family in the empire, except for himself, there is no brother and uncle who have served in the military and political two terms!

Standard Light Pole Commander!

In order to avoid any accidents one day, such as being killed by a short-sighted shell on the battlefield like his cousin, thus causing the decline of the family, he glanced at this distant cousin Fang Pinglu Gao who came to the door.

It's just that this Fang Pinglu's cultural level is not very high, and he is also a civil official, and it is not easy for him to pull him up, and it is too difficult to be promoted in a normal way.

Although Fang Xitong is a lieutenant general in the army and has a huge influence in the military, in the cabinet, especially on the side of the ministry, to be honest, his words are not easy to use.

The relationship between the military and the cabinet has always been relatively bad, and it is mutual suspicion and vigilance, and if he says a few words to the senior officials of the ministry, saying that I have a cousin, you can help him take care of one or two, believe it or not, the ministry will demote his cousin to Shankara the next day, don't expect to return to Beijing in this life.

It's not good to take the right path to get promoted, and it's not much use to go to the relationship, so there is only one way left, that is, to seek wealth and danger, don't stay in the homeland, go to Ryukyu, go to make a contribution, although that place is cheap, although dangerous, but in order to get promoted and make a fortune, going to Ryukyu is a fart!

Ordinary people don't know, but Fang Xitong, who is the core of the empire, naturally knows the grand ideal of the Holy Son of Heaven: conquer the world!

It can be expected that the Tang Dynasty will annex more overseas territories in the future, so the current disposal of the Ryukyu Prefecture will have a huge reference role.

What's more, the Ryukyus are close to Toei, and in the future, they will be at the forefront of the Empire's dealings with Toei.

In this case, it is much easier to make achievements than in other places, and it is easier to be noticed by the Son of Heaven, and there is no need for much at that time, just let the Son of Heaven see his name and think that he is doing a good job in the Ryukyus, then it will be a great victory!

There are so many yamen in the Tang Prefecture Prefecture, but how many state capitals can make the Son of Heaven pay attention? There will definitely be no more than ten fingers, and all of them are important industrial and economic towns, such as Songjiang Prefecture.

And Ryukyu will become a place that will attract the attention of the Son of Heaven after these economic towns!

Moreover, the head of the garrison regiment sent by the army to the Ryukyu Prefecture was an old subordinate of Fang Xitong, so that the cooperation between the Ryukyu prefect yamen and the military was smoother.

Fang Xitong even thought that if the Holy Son of Heaven had a whim in the future, he would start a war against Dongying, then the Ryukyu Islands would be a front-line fortress and logistics base, and the administrative leader of this kind of place, as long as he did not make mistakes, would always be indispensable for his contributions when he talked about merit after the war.

Under various circumstances, Fang Xitong suggested that he go to Ryukyu to take up a post, so that not only could he take the opportunity to remove the subordinate characters from the fourth grade, but also when he returned to his homeland after the expiration of his tenure, he could be promoted to another level without accident.

Of course, he did a good job in the Ryukyus in the early stage, and if he didn't do it well, he didn't need to be hot, and he Xitong could step on him directly, so as not to affect himself.

When Fang Pinglu, Shi Huo, and more than 100 other people took the navy ship to Ryukyu, they had different thoughts, but most of them were not in a good mood.

Even Fang Pinglu was worried about how to carry out his work after arriving in the Ryukyus, and it was best to make achievements in a short period of time.

Just when more than 100 officials and more than 2,000 officers and men of the army and navy left Shanghai and went to the overseas Ryukyus, Jiangxia County, Wuchang Prefecture, on the other side of the Yangtze River in Hanyang Prefecture.

Li Xuan was on the edge of the Yangtze River, holding a telescope and looking at the situation on the other side of the Yangtze River!

And Lieutenant General Lei Wan on the side explained to Li Xuan: "The fort on the other side of the river is their river defense battery, but it has been shelled by our large-scale fleet three times before and after, plus their naval division has been completely wiped out, and at present, the puppet Ming thief army has abandoned this river defense battery, and all the troops have retreated to the area around the city!" ”

"The pontoon bridge on the left side is currently the main channel for our army to supply the river crossing operation, and the puppet Ming thief army has also tried to destroy it many times, but it has been intercepted by our naval forces, and occasionally small-scale damage has been repaired in a short time!"

Li Xuan watched and listened at the same time, and didn't give much response!

And Lieutenant General Lei Wan was obviously familiar with Li Xuan's attitude, and continued: "At present, the troops crossing the river have the 1st Infantry Division, the 10th Mixed Regiment, the 1st Lancer Regiment, and two heavy artillery battalions. However, the Fifth Army, which came from the front line of Huangzhou, had already conquered Huangpo before, and at present, the forward troops of the Fifth Army were less than twenty miles away from Hanyang, and it was expected that they would be able to contact them tomorrow, and at the latest, the main force of the Fifth Army would all arrive on the east side of Hanyang.

In addition to the Fifth Army, the Second Army is also finishing its rest and is currently coming! ”

"On the northern front, an infantry regiment and a reserve division of the Fourth Army also passed through the three passes of Yiyang and headed south, but they have fewer troops, for the sake of caution, they will try to attack De'an Mansion, if they can't overcome it, the department will retreat to the three passes of Yiyang and hold the north-south passage!"

"News from Xiangyang, although it is difficult for the Fourth Army's troops of about 4,000 people to attack Xiangyang, it is still possible to contain the enemy forces in this direction!"

After Li Xuan heard this, he nodded slightly: "The difficulties of the Fourth Army are understandable, in this battle, the Privy Council does not need to make too many demands on the Fourth Army!" ”

As the emperor of the empire, Li Xuan naturally knew very well that according to the current deployment of the Tang Army, in fact, the greatest pressure was not the First Army, let alone the Second Army and the Fifth Army, but the Third Army and the Fourth Army.

Among them, the Fourth Army is even greater!

Because the three armies in front, as the main force attacking Huguang, have sufficient troops and ammunition, it can be said that they are strong and strong, and they do not need to control too large an area, just rush over and fight.

But the Fourth Army is not going to do it!

At present, among the armies of the Tang Dynasty, the Fourth Army's defense area is the largest, but the strength of the army is not the largest!

The Fourth Army only had two infantry divisions and one mixed regiment, but its defense area included the central and western regions of Henan, the whole of Shanxi, and the whole of Shaanxi, and at the same time it was surrounded by enemies on all sides.

In the north, they were to garrison the border towns of the Great Wall to resist the Tatars, in the west, they were to garrison Jiayuguan to prevent the invasion of Turpan and other northwestern regions, and in the south, they were to fight against the Ming army in Xiangyang and Yiyang!

This also leads to the fact that, in fact, in many important directions, the Fourth Army can only send a few thousand troops, most of the time with the infantry regiment as the core, with a number of auxiliary units, to form a similar mixed regiment to assist the defense in a certain direction alone.

But just like that, the Fourth Army is far from being able to control such a large area, because it has to be not only external, but also internal.

The current Fourth Army, which is too busy to take care of itself, does not give much help to the friendly forces fighting in Huguang, and this battle has to rely on the First Army, the Second Army, and the Fifth Army to fight it themselves!