Chapter 598: Fight the Japanese from time to time

The auxiliary soldiers of the propaganda team had long been familiar with inciting hatred, and they mobilized hundreds of Ryukyuan people to complain on the same day, and built a high platform to criticize the more than 100 captured Satsuma generals.

Of course, the Satsuma Clan's Japanese invaders committed all kinds of evil in the occupying country, and they often committed murder, arson, and prostitution in the streets. The tearful accusations of the victims quickly caused the anger of the Ryukyuan people to slowly enter a state of uncontrollable state.

The propaganda team members lost no time in calling on the Ryukyuan people who had a blood feud with these soldiers to return blood for blood.

The final result was of course bloody, and the vengeful Ryukyuan people were emboldened by the support of the Ming Dynasty, and everyone rushed up and beat all the captives of the Satsuma Domain to death.

There is no doubt that they have a blood feud with the Satsuma Domain, and it is impossible for the Ming army to stay here for a long time.

The Ryukyuan people were happy to kill the Satsuma Domain's captives, but when the Ming army was gone and the Satsuma Domain returned, it was unknown that they would be slaughtered in retaliation.

No Ming army will tell Shang Feng that this puppet king, the Satsuma Domain, may not have any male soldiers, and if he wants to come to the Ryukyu Kingdom to retaliate, it must be other foreign vassals of the Wa Kingdom, and there should not be any in a short time.

When it was learned that the Ming army was preparing to return to the court, Shang Feng, the eighth king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, stopped the Ming Nanguo Gong from kneeling down and crying, begging the Ming Dynasty to leave like this, and must leave a group of men and horses to garrison here.

So, Huang Sheng had a good exchange with the cowardly king, telling the king that the place was barren and could not support too many armies of the Celestial Empire.

If there are fewer troops stationed here, I am afraid that they will not be able to resist the joint attack of several foreign vassals of the Japanese Kingdom, and how can the small Ryukyu Kingdom afford to keep more people and horses?

This is an indisputable fact, and King Shangfeng was speechless, just crying.

In the end, Huang Sheng gave him the idea to abandon the Ryukyu Islands and lead the people to join the Ming Dynasty, which had a rich place to accept tens of thousands of Ryukyu people.

Every household can get five acres of tax-free rice fields, and the common people of the Ryukyus can cultivate as much land as they want, and if they abandon the tax, they can net more than two koku of rice per acre of land every year, and he can still be the king of the Ryukyu people.

King Shangfeng, who was skeptical, couldn't choose, and couldn't help but believe it when he saw what the Duke of Nanguo of the Ming Dynasty said, so he could only take the Ryukyuan people who were willing to follow him to board the merchant ship of the Ming suzerain.

Unfortunately, the king had little appeal, but less than 20,000 Ryukyuan people chose to follow their king, accounting for a quarter of the total population.

There were less than 20,000 Ryukyuan people, and Huang Sheng resettled them in the Red River Valley in the central part of Jiaozhi Province, allocated land for them to cultivate, and slowly sinicized them, and this nation would not exist in less than 20 years.

Huang Sheng deceived King Shangfeng and his loyal people, took over the Ryukyu Kingdom, and issued a notice to let the Huang family system emigrate 2,000 households to live in the new territory, leaving 2,000 generals to rule the place.

The Sinicization was unwilling to follow their king to the south, and took the initiative to choose the Ryukyuan people who stayed in their homeland, providing them with jobs, so that they could live a prosperous life in exchange for food and clothing through labor.

The Huang family was very efficient, and within three days, they were given a salary of one stone of rice a month to recruit strong laborers of the Ryukyu Kingdom to work, and the healthy women were paid six buckets of rice per month.

In the Ryukyu Kingdom, where food was scarce, it was easy to make hungry Ryukyuan people feel frightened by rice as a basic salary.

There were countless Ryukyuan people who took the initiative to fight for work, and the Huang family organized 2,000 people to go to Iwo Jima to build docks, roads, and warehouses under the command of the Huang family's engineers.

Their next job was to mine sulfur, and the Huang family, the main raw material for black powder, had a large amount of it.

The three raw materials of black powder are sulfur, which is relatively rare, and there are too many ways to obtain nitrate, which can be mined and can be made by artificial nitrate.

Toilets, stables, pig and cattle pens, and courtyard corners can all collect nitrate, and the white crystalline stuff that spits out of the old brick walls is nitrate.

The collected nitrate and wood ash are crushed and sifted respectively, mixed and loaded into a large pot and washed with hot water to form a liquid, and then slowly filtered and refined over and over again, the concentration gradually fades from reddish-brown to lightened, and after cooling and crystallization, the purified nitrate can be used as the raw material for black powder.

The acquisition of willow carbon is more convenient, willow branches can be seen everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, as long as the silver will have a large number of people willing to burn willow carbon for sale, no matter how much you need can be bought.

From now on, the raw materials of the Huang family's black powder will no longer need to be imported, and of course they will not be controlled by others.

Huang Sheng renamed the Ryukyu Islands as the "Dongyang Prefecture Islands" in the Ming Dynasty, and the main island of Okinawa as "Dongjin Island", implying that it was used as a base to expand the territory to the east.

Twenty or thirty thousand Ryukyu young men and women laborers happily served the Ming Dynasty, because there were no whips here, they could eat their stomachs, and there was rice in vain as labor compensation.

Under the leadership of the Huang family's engineers and technicians, they built forts, warehouses, water conservancy facilities and roads, and the renovation of residential buildings began at the same time.

The Ryukyuan people were full of affection for the Ming Dynasty and sent many missions to pay tribute, and their king was also widely recognized after the Ming Dynasty was canonized.

They hated the Japanese invaders immensely, and the Satsuma clan had been rampant in the Ryukyu Kingdom over the years, killing and abusing women, which made the hatred even worse.

The king of the Ryukyuan people left for a long time, and the people who stayed behind were all employed, fed, and paid, and the Ming and the Wa kingdoms were like angels and demons in comparison.

The remaining Ryukyuan people were bewitched by the Huang family's propaganda team every day, and soon many Ryukyuan people began to swear to become the people of the Ming Dynasty, and from now on they were the common people of the Ming Dynasty's "Dongyang County".

As long as the Ryukyuan people who went through the oath-taking ceremony, the Huang family administrators recognized their status as the people of the Ming Dynasty, and immediately organized the Baojia to pay wages according to the treatment of the common people of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that becoming a citizen of the Ming Dynasty would immediately reap tangible benefits, the Ming "Dongyang County" soon lost the group of Ryukyuan people, although many of them could not speak Chinese, it didn't matter, within three years, most of them should be able to speak the Huangjia official dialect.

Huang Sheng arranged for Yunzhong to come and run two thousand generals to garrison "Dongyang County", with 4,000 auxiliary troops under his command, 72 field guns, and 600 cavalry.

The navy will naturally have a formation of warships to patrol the sea area to show the national prestige and declare sovereignty, and the thousands of people who come and move in the clouds are not passive defense here, they will often cooperate with the navy to attack and harass the islands of the Japanese country and plunder the sea ships, or a principle of continuous attack and uninterrupted land expansion.

The garrison troops and the patrolling navy must go from time to time to beat up the Japanese and weaken them, so that little Japan will not be tickled if it is not beaten for a few days.