Chapter 231: The Return of the Ryukyus
Gao Junshan's ambition was poured cold water by Bailisha and Liu Lishun, they resolutely opposed the war, put forward a major policy of recuperation, and they also used Cao Cao's defeat at Chibi as an example to dissuade Gao Junshan from moving south.
Gao Junshan had to listen to the minister's exhortation, so he had no choice but to press Li Guo's petition for war, stop fighting for half a year, and wait for the spring of next year to make a plan for the war.
He focused on the Civil Affairs Yuan.
First of all, a group of Chongwen disciples were promoted in the Civil Affairs Yuan to make up for the lack of a group of old people from the previous dynasty who were pushed down by Liu Fangliang, and then began to promulgate the "Huaxia National Law". When he took over the Ming Dynasty, he also inherited the "Da Ming Law" without major changes.
Gao Junshan has been on the throne for four years, as early as the beginning of his accession to the throne, he ordered Tian Fang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, to organize manpower to revise the "Huaxia Guoda Law".
Then he issued an edict to revise the "History of the Ming Dynasty", and Liu Lishun was appointed as the president, and asked him to organize a group of former dynasty relics to be busy with the revision of history.
At the end of the year, a delegation from the Ryukyu Kingdom came to Beijing to meet Takayama.
When Gao Junshan learned that someone from the Ryukyu Kingdom was coming, he put on a dragon robe and summoned them at the Taihe Hall.
This delegation consisted of five people, headed by Xiang Xiangxian.
Sitting on a dragon chair, Takayama received a pilgrimage from the Ryukyu Kingdom delegation headed by Xiang Xiangxian.
In the rhythm of the drum band, Xiang Xiangxian and his party of five people prostrated themselves on the ground, knelt down three times and kowtowed to the high mountain, and the mountain shouted long live.
Gao Junshan's voice was loud: "Flat!" ”
Xiang Xiangxian got up, saluted again, and handed over the watch: "The Ryukyu Kingdom Xiang Xiangxian led an envoy to meet the saint, my Ryukyu Kingdom Zhongshan King Shangxian died of illness last year, and his younger brother Shangxian claimed to be the son, and sent Xiang Xiangxian and others to come to the capital to return to sincerity. ”
Gao Junshan then understood, it turned out to be Guishun came, he ordered the attendant to take over the Ryukyu country's recital, read it carefully, only to know that it was the king of the Ming Dynasty's vassal state Ryukyu Kingdom died of illness last year, this king is called Shang Xian, and the Ming Dynasty named him the king of Zhongshan. Now his younger brother Sho Chi is the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom and has sent envoys to submit to the Huaxia Kingdom.
"Since you have come to Shun, you can no longer call it the Ryukyu Kingdom." Gao Junshan said after reading the Ryukyu Kingdom's table.
Xiang Xiangxian said: "Back to the saint, before the minister came to Beijing, the king specially instructed that all matters in the Ryukyus should be decided by the saint, and the saint should do what he thinks." ”
Gao Junshan said: "Since you are sincerely obedient, the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom can no longer be the king, you can be the governor of the Ryukyu Province, and we still have to send troops to intervene, can you accept it?" ”
Xiang Xiangxian said: "When the minister came, Shang Zhen repeatedly instructed us to submit to Huaxia, that is, the people of Huaxia, and everything is subject to the will of the Holy God. ”
Gao Junshan smiled: "That's very good! ”
The return of the Ryukyus to Shun was an unexpected gain for Gao Junshan, and he asked Niu Jinxing to receive Xiang Xiangxian according to the etiquette of a vassal king.
Gao Junshan sent troops to Ryukyu not to monitor the Ryukyu governor Shang Zhi, but to prepare for the next attack on Taiwan and the island country, which he had already made clear to Xiang Xiangxian, and told him that his son Gao Chengjun, that is, Erbao, was stationed with the army.
As the envoy of Takayama, Niho will be stationed in the Ryukyus to coordinate the relationship between the Ryukyus and the army, and the main task is to have the Ryukyu Province provide logistical support for the army.
Xiang Xiangxian said: "It turned out that the second prince went to Ryukyu, and we will definitely treat you wholeheartedly." ”
Gao Junshan said: "You can just call him by his name, his name is Gao Chengjun, and we don't have a prince in Huaxia Kingdom." ”
"Understood, understood. We will greet the High Orange Army like a prince. ”
Gao Junshan repeatedly emphasized: "Gao Chengjun went to you to do coordination work, and you must try your best to cooperate with his work." ”
"Definitely, definitely."
Gao Junshan greatly rewarded Xiang Xiangxian and his entourage, and gave the Ryukyu governor 30 satin coins and 20 concubine satin coins as encouragement.
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The Admiralty now has six Wuchang-class warships, namely: "Wuchang No. 1" to "Wuchang No. 6", and the Navy has formed six naval fleets with Wuchang-class warships as the main ships. Among them, the First Fleet is in Fujian, the Second Fleet is in Hainan Island, the Third Fleet is in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the Fourth Fleet is in Shandong, the Fifth Fleet is in Vladivostok, and the Sixth Fleet is in Fujian to be on the move.
Gao Junshan ordered Fujian's Sixth Fleet to sail for the Ryukyus, and Erbao acted with the Sixth Fleet as a liaison officer.
Gao Junshan's order to the Sixth Fleet was to wait for the Ryukyu Xiangxian delegation to return to Fujian, take them with them to Ryukyu, and then intensify training on the island in Ryukyu.
In 1649, the New Year's bell had just struck, and a historian named Tan Qian came to meet Gao Junshan.
Talking about Qian, the original name is Xun, the number shoots the father, the word Zhongmu, after the death of the Ming Dynasty, the name is changed, the word Rumu, the number Guanruo, Zhejiang Haining.
Gao Junshan attaches great importance to learned talents, and when he heard that it was a meeting of the people, he instructed Sun Kewang to summon him in the imperial study of the Chuanxin Palace.
"Students meet Your Majesty." After Tan Qian, he called himself a student, because he is now teaching at Chongwen College, and Gao Junshan is the head of Chongwen College, so he humbled himself as a student.
Gao Junshan welcomed him warmly and congratulated him on a happy new year. It turned out that he had come to present a book to Gao Junshan, and he wrote a book called "Guoyu".
He loves history in his life, and he especially likes to govern the history of the Ming Dynasty. In view of the fact that there are many inaccuracies in the official history books of the Ming Dynasty, and the private history is redundant, he is determined to compile a detailed and well-founded historiography of the Ming Dynasty, and from the first year of the Ming Dynasty (1621), based on the actual records of the previous dynasties, refer to more than 300 kinds of private writings and local chronicles, which lasted several years, changed its manuscript several times, and completed the history of the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty to the Tianqi Dynasty.
Gao Junshan had heard about this matter before, but he was busy with military affairs, and put Tan Qian aside, and today he took the initiative to come to the door, Gao Junshan of course wanted to praise him, and affirmed the historical value of "Guoyi", and affirmed the sweat of Tan Qian for so many years.
After sending him away, Gao Junshan felt that he hadn't been to Chongwen Academy for a long time, so he decided to go the next day to see what breakthroughs his students had made in science and technology.
Gao Junshan is most concerned about the further improvement of the steam engine, the news from Hainan Island said that the rubber tree will be three years later, no, now it should be two years, you can start tapping, with rubber, the technical aspect must be followed up, so he is most concerned about the research progress of the steam engine.
Living up to expectations, his students have come up with a series of inventions under his suggestion, such as the separation condenser, the setting of an insulation layer outside the cylinder, the lubrication of the piston with oil, the planetary gear, the parallel motion linkage mechanism, the centrifugal governor, the throttle valve, the pressure gauge, etc......., have all entered the stage of lions, and all of them have passed the test.
Now it is just waiting for the advent of rubber, with which the performance of the existing steam engine can be further improved, and at what point, it will not be a matter of crossing the ocean.