The capital of Shuri, the Kingdom of the Ryukyus, time is a good medicine, and the royal capital, which was attacked and destroyed by the Japanese in the past, has once again become majestic and majestic, even better than in the past.

King Shangfeng is now a middle-aged man in his forties, as a king, if he were not wearing a crimson king shirt that imitated the clothes of the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and a dragon crown made of fine gold thread on his head, I am afraid that it would take him to change into ordinary clothes, and no one would think that there was anything strange about the thin middle-aged man in front of him.

But it was precisely after this seemingly unsurprising king succeeded to the throne that the overall strength of the Ryukyu Kingdom was growing by leaps and bounds.

After freeing itself from the control of the Japanese Satsuma, the Ryukyu Kingdom was finally able to develop its military power in a bright and bright way.

Drawing on the neglect of military affairs by previous kings, King Shangfeng has shown great importance to multi-armed forces since he took office.

The Ryukyu Navy Division was ostensibly an army belonging to the Ryukyu Kingdom, but both Wu Daofu and King Shangfeng knew that it was just some hidden tricks.

However, King Shang Feng was able to make full use of this superficial relationship, and began to establish another naval army in the Amami Islands by drawing from among the Ryukyu sailors who were loyal to his kingdom, who had combat experience in the previous naval battles, and who had received formal military training from Wu Daofu.

At the same time, King Shangfeng began to recruit the children of the Ryukyu Kingdom to form an army in the main island of the Ryukyus, and relying on the relationship between Hongmen and them, he had the cheekiness to consult with Wu Daofu and them, and asked them to send people to train this new army.

In terms of armament, King Shangfeng also spared no effort, and the wealth that the kingdom had accumulated for several generations was spent by him like flowing water, and a large number of obsolete warships, swords and firearms were purchased from Hongmen.

He also entrusted the maritime merchants to purchase a large number of sophisticated equipment and weapons in the Japanese country, and even took the initiative to post talent posters, regardless of the other party's background, as long as they have good qualities and are not afraid of death, their kingdom can give them rich treatment and prominent status.

In less than ten years since King Shangfeng ascended the throne, his military strength has changed from almost poor and white to 5,000 Amami Naval Divisions, 6,000 Ryukyu Barracks, and 3,000 Imperial Guards.

Such a manpower may not be regarded as a hegemon to the princes, but compared to the previous situation when even an ordinary pirate gang and gang could come to the Ryukyu Kingdom to fight the autumn wind, it is basically able to ensure the territorial security of the kingdom, as long as it does not run into a powerful team like Hongmen.

Of course, it was only the king who could spend money that could not be called a wise king, and at the same time, King Shoho focused on rectifying the bad habits of Ryukyu officialdom, and aimed at the backwater parasite nobles in the upper echelons of the kingdom, and King Shoho reformed the kingdom system drastically after the army was full-fledged.

Almost all of the heirs of the Ryukyu Kingdom had their own fiefdoms, such as King Shoho himself, who was the lord of Kadena Castle before he inherited the throne, and could be said to call for wind and rain in the city, no less than the king's power.

Now, however, with a strong military force as the foundation, King Shangfeng attacked strongly, recovering the fiefs that were in the hands of the heirs of the royal family, as well as the actual control areas of those large ethnic groups, and completely transforming the Ryukyu Kingdom from a feudal princely kingdom into a centralized kingdom like the Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, because of his strength, the nobles of those kingdoms whose interests were damaged rose up one after another, and too many royal children and clan adults opposed or even used force to oppose the centralized actions of King Shangfeng, but in the end they became a pile of white bones under the throne of King Le Shangfeng.

After the centralization of power, the kingdom experienced initial turmoil, and soon showed its vitality brought by centralization.

King Shangfeng followed the example of Hongmen and built a wide road connecting the north and south of the main island of Ryukyu, which made it easier for the people to travel and strengthen the royal family's control over the periphery.

Subsequently, King Shangfeng raised the strength of the whole country to form a fleet, and no longer the previous kings sat in the center, only collecting taxes from passing ships to live, at most they only bought low and sold high on the island to make some hard-earned money.

The construction of the fleet allowed the Ryukyu Kingdom to catch the last train of the Age of Discovery, and the Ryukyu Kingdom, which maintained good relations with Hongmen and was a subject state of the Ming Dynasty at the same time as the Japanese people, was one of the few fleets that could trade freely in the Japanese Kingdom under the general situation that the Japanese people closed off the country and did not allow Westerners to trade back and forth.

At the same time as forming a fleet to trade on his own, King Shangfeng sorted out the trade activities of past ships in the Ryukyu Kingdom, formulated a more reasonable tax policy, and at the same time worked hard to develop his own specialties to attract more ships to and from the main island of the Ryukyus, bringing more benefits to the kingdom.

In this way, the Ryukyu Kingdom's treasury was not scarce due to King Shangfeng's lavish spending, but was growing slowly and steadily, making the Ryukyu officials who managed the treasury overjoyed and extremely proud of the kingdom.

The life of the people of the Ryukyus has also become better, and more merchants and ships have come to the Ryukyu Kingdom, bringing more business opportunities to the people, and all kinds of goods are placed in front of everyone, as long as they have the vision and ability, they can earn enough profits and bring a better life to their families.

Even if a family with limited ability can open a small shop such as a wine shop, tea house, inn and other shops on the island, they can also support a family; Or sell your labor to become a sailor or coolie on the dock, and the income is also good at the end of the year.

Without the Japanese people on their own territory, the people's lives are naturally very comfortable, and the people are grateful from the bottom of their hearts to King Shangfeng, who has exchanged this good life for everyone.

This also made King Shang Feng widely supported by the people at the bottom when he began to prepare to regain power, and finally made the powerful princes and city lords like Prince Shang Zhiwu defeated one after another, losing the city tribes that had been passed down for several generations.

However, at this moment, King Shangfeng, who was regarded by the people of the Ryukyu Kingdom as the Emperor of the Ages, was frowning in his palace, as if there were thousands of things hidden in his heart, and there was no sign of the Emperor of the Ages.

On the long table in front of King Shangfeng, it was full of all kinds of information collected by the palace guards, as well as the various movements of the defeated princes.

These, in fact, are not the reason why King Shangfeng is so distressed, but the real reason is that he is holding the hand tightly, a note that only has a few crosses written.

(End of chapter)