Needless to say, in ancient times, things that are hundreds of miles apart, if not have a great impact, often disappear quickly, which is unimaginable with the developed network information in later generations, which has caused the result of ten miles of different customs and hundreds of miles of different sounds.

The Ryukyus and the Tang Dynasty are thousands of miles apart, separated by the sea, which was regarded as a dangerous place by the ancients, and both sides only know the existence of the other, but they do not know what the other is really like. When Zhen Thirty-one looked at the natives of the Ryukyus with disdain, and the Ryukyuan people held fine porcelain and silky and beautiful silk in their hands, the basis for exchange did not exist, and only robbery remained.

On Yejiu Island in the Ryukyus, those leaders finally knew the existence of the Tang Dynasty, and through the exchange with the Wa Kingdom, they knew that it was an existence that was more powerful than the Wa Kingdom, and they were respectful to Zhen Thirty-one, suppressing their greed in the depths of their hearts. But when Zhen Thirty-One went to another unknown island, he was treated differently.

After leaving Yejiu Island, the ship continued to sail south, and after three days came to an island where the conditions were significantly worse than those of Yejiu Island. We again offered porcelain and silk in exchange for fresh water and food from the inhabitants of the island, but when the natives saw the porcelain and silk, instead of giving us fresh water and food, they continued to ask us for more porcelain and silk ....... ”

Zhen Thirty-one's face was very calm, without the slightest excitement and anger, as if everything he said had nothing to do with him.

"When the natives saw that we were unwilling to give them porcelain and silk, they attacked our camp, and the weapons in their hands turned out to be branches and stones, and they were all over their bodies with sap paint, and they looked very hideous, and when they saw the swords, guns, and crossbows in our hands, they killed us without fear, and the result was naturally a massacre. After the defeat of the natives, I thought that the natives would send people to beg for mercy, but after waiting for a day and not seeing a single person appear, I sent people to search the island, and found that in a cave, the leader of the island had ......committed suicide. ”

The people around them all looked puzzled, and they didn't understand why the head man on this island wanted to commit suicide, could it be that Zhen Thirty-one was regarded as a man-eating demon.

Zhen Thirty-one took a sip of tea and said: "At that time, I was also a little puzzled, it was they who attacked, and they were even more afraid than us, the whole island is only half the size of the South Island of the Wufeng Islands, but there is an island next to this island, the two islands are about the same size, and there is a strait that is not wide in the middle, and they often fight with each other, if either side wins, the leader of the losing side of the island will be used by their own people to vent their anger, and then elect a new leader, The head of the suicide is afraid that his master will use it to vent his anger, so he will commit suicide! ”

"It's barbaric to have some natives!"

The people around couldn't help but gasp, such a head person is really a little aggrieved, and he doesn't know when his life will not ......be guaranteed.

"It's true, most of the people on the island are indeed uncivilized natives, and they don't even know about the existence of the Tang Dynasty. However, Ryukyu has many islands, the largest island has three, the area of the island is six or seven hundred to thousands of square kilometers, the largest population on the island is only thirty or forty thousand people, most of the islands are uninhabited, according to the master's description in advance, we will become the three main islands of Ryukyu into Amami Island, Kumi Island and Sakishima Island, with the current combat power of the Goho Islands, we can occupy these three main islands of Ryukyu within three months! ”

"Great! Let's use the Ryukyu Islands for military training? ”

Zhen Qian glared at the noisy Wang Tianxing, and sighed in his heart how did his subordinates become a group of killers?

Seeing Zhen Qian's unhappy expression, Wang Lun reminded: "Now that we have a firm foothold in the Wufeng Islands, it is impossible to really occupy Ryukyu by sending troops to attack Ryukyu at this time, and only when the population of our island exceeds 100,000 can we have the ability to truly occupy Ryukyu!" ”

Defeat those natives of the Ryukyus, Zhen Qian really did not take it to heart, the area of the Ryukyus is not large, from a strategic point of view, there is no depth at all, with the current military strength of the Wufeng Islands, it is indeed very easy to defeat the natives on the island, but after defeating, the population cannot be moved to the Ryukyus, and it is not of much significance to hold it in his hands now.

In fact, the area of the Wufeng Islands is not even one percent of the area developed now, and there is not much point in expansion.

Now Zhen Qian's biggest headache is the population problem, the smuggling of people from Datang has never stopped, but at present, there are too few ships, and the number of people that each ship can carry is limited, and there is no chaos in Datang at this time, so it is impossible to transfer the population on a large scale.

At present, the proportion of the population of the Wubong Islands is very dangerous, with the Tang people accounting for less than one-fifth, and the supplementary Silla population is only one-tenth, and the rest are all Japanese people. Fortunately, Zhen Qian realized this hidden crisis very early, and when he selected the Japanese to go to the island, most of them were women and children, and a large number of marriages were given to the Tang people, even if they were young and strong Japanese men, they were mostly sent to the military camp, which reluctantly suppressed the hidden danger of the Japanese people.

If a small number of Tang people were to move to Ryukyu at this time, the Wufeng Islands would probably become a society dominated by Japanese people, which Zhen Qian did not want to see.

This kind of thought made Zhen Qian very hesitant, there is a larger island in the south of Ryukyu, the area is more than ten times that of Ryukyu, although the natives on the island are far more than Ryukyu, but they are larger in area. If you continue to the south, the area of the Ryukyus and other places in the later generations is less than 100 times that of the Ryukyus, and in the Tang Dynasty, the natives of these islands could not even cultivate, but only collected some food from the trees, and there was no problem at all if they were invaded.

This is why Zhen Qian set up his first stop overseas foothold on the Wufeng Islands?

If Zhen Qian did not choose the Wufeng Islands, but first occupied the Ryukyus, or landed on the island of Taiwan, he would first encounter a problem?

That is, Zhen Qian needs to start from scratch in these places, or transport a large amount of materials from Datang, there is no initial primitive accumulation in these places, everything has to start from scratch, this is no time for Zhen Qian, if the Anshi Rebellion will break out in ten years, Zhen Qian may choose to take Taiwan Island as his first foothold, rather than the Wufeng Islands, which are so close to the Japanese state.

There is an advantage to choosing the Wufeng Islands, that is, you can rely on the various resources of the Wa State to rapidly expand the Wufeng Islands, and all kinds of resources, including the population, can be plundered in the Wa State, laying a good foundation for primitive accumulation.

There is also a disadvantage to choosing the Wufeng Islands, it is also too close to the Wa State, in case it is discovered by the Wa State, and if Zhen Qian is attacked by the Wa State before he has a stable foothold, everything he does will come to naught, which is why Zhen Qian secretly supports Shao Er Dongshang, the more chaotic the Saikaido is, the more beneficial it is for Zhen Qian, and it will be too late for the Wa State to understand!