Chapter 112
The sea was undisturbed, perhaps after learning that several pirates had been eliminated recently, the pirates had begun to converge, because the pirates who went out to rob had no life to survive, which made it very puzzling, when did they chase the Ming army or the Korean army running all over the ground become so strong, especially when they heard that more than 1,000 people were wiped out in the first battle of Incheon, and the pirates began to be afraid.
There are three kingdoms in the Great Ryukyus, from north to south, Beishan Kingdom, Zhongshan Kingdom, Nanshan Kingdom, all three countries paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and all were canonized by Zhu Yuanzhang, but the Ming Dynasty did not interfere in its domestic affairs, to put it bluntly, as long as you have the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in your eyes, you can play your own domestic affairs. It is said that it has given a lot of freedom, but on the other hand, Da Ming has not fulfilled his responsibility as a big brother, and no matter how chaotic the younger brothers are, it has nothing to do with Da Ming, as long as they come to pay tribute to Da Ming, they don't care about these idle things.
In the fourteenth year of Yongle, the Zhongshan Kingdom destroyed the Beishan Kingdom, but after the Zhongshan domestic war in the war, except for Shuri was relatively calm, other places were completely out of control, because the war made the Ryukyu, which was originally short of food, completely lose the foundation of stability, to put it bluntly, the hungry people rebelled one after another, and joined forces to grab food for survival.
When the fleet arrived in Shuri, the Ryukyu prince Shangbashi led his ministers to the seashore to greet him, in fact, the Ryukyus were defeated by this Shangbazhi's rebellion, but his father was highly respected and prestigious in the Ryukyus, so Shangbazhi asked his father to be the king, and he was the prince and regent on behalf of his father. This is the highest welcome etiquette in the Ryukyus.
After kneeling and listening to the holy decree of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, Shang Bazhi was overjoyed, there is no need to talk about trade, Ryukyu can live a nourishing life by trade, followed by the Ming garrison is really fucking good, and I don't know what to say about the national scolding of Ryukyu at that time, so I used the national scolding of the Ming Dynasty instead.
Here I want to roughly explain the scale of the Ryukyu War, the great cause of the Ming family, where the use of soldiers is often 100,000 or 200,000, so for people who are used to this kind of number, thousands of people are drizzle. As for the Ryukyus, a small-scale war, the scale of both sides was a few dozen, a medium size of more than a hundred, and a large number of hundred. And the national war is about 1,000 people, this is the army of the country, basically except for the national war, the scale of the war is roughly equivalent to the base of the weapon fight in Daming Village.
As for the Ming peeping at the throne of the king of the Ryukyus, it is better to peep at a county in the Ming Dynasty, the big guy is at ease, Shang Bazhi has never thought about it like this, he just wants to have the garrison of the Ming Dynasty here, so he can free up his forces to stabilize the domestic situation, so he asked our Wang Qin to send back to the palace to talk slowly.
Shang Bazhi got straight to the point and asked him how many troops the Ming was going to station in the Ryukyus this time.
He replied that this time he would send 2,000 people, 1,000 escorts and 1,000 guards to protect the harbor.
So Shang Bazhi asked the 1,000-strong Ming army in Shanghai and Hong Kong to help defend Shuri as a whole, it is not a secret that the current domestic turmoil, due to the lack of troops, can not be judged, if the Ming can help to help defend Shuri, he can transfer the army to quell the rebellion.
He said, the prince does not have to worry, this time the Ming is willing to help Ryukyu to quell the rebellion, the king only needs to send a team of 100 people as a guide, the envoy hereby guarantees to send a thousand people to quell the rebellion, my Ming Yongle Emperor knows that there is such a rebellion in Ryukyu and does not want to see the people are always alive and in dire straits, so he ordered the envoy to come to settle the judgment. After the Ryukyu is peaceful, they will leave, prepare for the day tomorrow, and send troops early the day after tomorrow.
Shang Bazhi was overjoyed and said, thank you to the angel, but the angel does not blame the Ryukyu country for being small and barren, this food ......
The prince did not have to worry, the fleet was brought with food, and the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty set up a school of 2,000 people here to educate the people......
In addition, the envoy also brought a crop called sugarcane, conscripted the people of Ryukyu to plant, each mu can be exchanged for a stone rations, so that each family planted a few acres can be exchanged for a few stone rations, every time the envoy's fleet came over must be grain and sugarcane seedlings, the goods are not much for the time being, according to the situation of the Ryukyus on 10,000 households, each household planted 10 acres, 100,000 acres of sugarcane fields should be able to greatly improve the problem of insufficient rations for the people, followed by the construction of wharves, barracks and workshops, the required craftsmen I Daming are all paid rations as wages, As long as the people have money and food, their lives will be stabilized, and the situation of rebellion will be greatly reduced.
So after our king angel opened the gift package one by one, Shang Bazhi was constantly surprised, and thanked him again and again, not to mention the banquet and hospitality.
The land of Ryukyu is narrow and sparsely populated, and the people have been in a state of semi-starvation, which is determined by its geographical location, not that the people of Ryukyu are lazy, but that the land is not suitable for growing grain, but suitable for growing sugarcane, so he proposed to exchange grain for sugarcane, and exchange ten acres of sugarcane for ten stone rations every year, plus the rest of his land can be self-sufficient after the harvest is completed.
And he can also get a lot of profits through sugarcane sugar production, the cost of one mu is one stone ration, Yongle is less than three dollars of silver for one stone of rice, plus the cost of transportation and sugarcane seedlings for one or two silver, and the yield of sugarcane per mu is 50,000 to 100,000 catties, the minimum of 2,000 catties of sugarcane out of 100 catties of sugar, and then according to the minimum yield of 50,000 catties of sugarcane per mu, and then calculate the waste of the process according to the minimum yield of 2,000 catties of sugar per mu, the price of Daming sugar retail six cents of silver per catty, but shipped to Japan retail six cents of silver per catty, 2,000 catties of white sugar shipped to Japan according to the wholesale of five coins of silver is 1,000 taels. In this way, it is not a problem at all that the sugar supplied only to Japan and North Korea makes a profit of one million taels a year. As for 100,000 acres of sugarcane fields, it will take time to slowly open up the arable land, and when the yield increases, the price of white sugar will fall, so that the sugar market in Korea and Japan can be monopolized through the Ryukyus, and then the excess production will be transported south to the Nanyang countries.
As for the food problem, once the sugar is produced, the grain can be directly purchased from the sugar-importing country and returned to the country, and the problem of food shortage can be completely solved by establishing a reserve grain depot, so the value of the Ryukyus is truly reflected at this time.
After coming to the map of the Ryukyus, our Wang Qincha summoned Zhao Gang and other generals to give them a month to eliminate all the rebellions in the territory. The generals all pouted and said in their hearts, the palm-sized place is two or three counties compared to the Ming Dynasty, the total population is less than 100,000, and the total number of people is thousands of chaotic people, and then ask them about the weapons they use, they are even more faint, most of them use sticks, and the only iron weapon is a hoe, just use it for a month, and give them twenty small cannons, is this necessary?