Then the direction of the newspapers began to change again, and the newspapers that had originally reported on the robbery of the Ryukyu fleet by the Great Song Dynasty merchant ships and the collection of toll taxes began to delve into the reasons for the tax collection of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and there was even a story in it.

Originally, Ryukyu felt that all kinds of pirates were rampant in the coastal areas of the Great Song Dynasty, so in order to maintain the orderly progress of maritime trade, so that the people of the two countries would not be robbed by pirates when they were doing business, and create a stable maritime trade environment.

After more than two years of anti-banditry operations, the maritime trade environment has been significantly improved, and the sea ships of the Great Song Dynasty have become much safer, and pirates from all over the country have also changed their careers.

However, for the sake of the continued stability of the maritime environment, the Ryukyus had insisted on sending a fleet to patrol the shipping routes, and they did their best for the safety of everyone, so in order to pay the salaries of these soldiers, the Ryukyus did not charge 20 koku for the ships of passing maritime merchants.

For these maritime merchants, it is a drop in the bucket, and for the Ryukyu Navy, which has created a safe navigation environment for them, it is the life to fight. Moreover, compared with the previous maritime trade environment, all kinds of pirates are almost extinct now, and the safety of merchants has been greatly guaranteed.

However, some merchants did feel that since the maritime environment was now safe, the Ryukyu Navy should not be collecting their navigation security tax, because the maritime merchants who engaged in such selfish behavior still controlled public opinion, which attracted the retaliation of the Ryukyu Navy.

Then the Ryukyu navy's raiding of the coast turned into recruiting refugees during the great drought in Fujian, and the year before last, many people had no food and clothing, so the Ryukyu army recruited displaced people to reclaim the famine.

Moreover, the Ryukyu State not only gave the refugees subsistence rations, but also distributed agricultural tools, and gave each person two acres of land per capita, and the agricultural tax was only 20% of the field rent, and the Ryukyus did not have all kinds of forced labor and did not need to increase taxes on farmers, because all their forced labor was done by slaves, and the slaves were captured savages and evil people who did not obey the king.

Then the newspapers began to have articles promoting the various benefits of the Ryukyus, such as the people living and working in peace and contentment, the fields were at least two acres per person, and the people everywhere did not have any additional taxes and fees except for the 20% agricultural tax.

After all this, the people are now surprised to find that the matter and the beginning are completely two extremes, why it was reported like this before, but now it is completely reversed, and the people are discussing it for a while.

In fact, it was not the goal of Tong Guan and others to think what the people thought, but they wanted to change the thinking of the officials through these newspapers, so that when someone proposed reconciliation with the Ryukyus, it would not attract large-scale opposition.

There is also to let Zhao Ji change his mind, after all, the emperor's attitude is the most important, as long as the emperor agrees, then there is no problem, if the emperor does not agree, things will become very troublesome.

But fortunately, these people also figured out Zhao Ji's character and temper, and a few people blew the wind and beat the side drum, Zhao Ji was also relieved, after the matter came to this point, what was missing was just an opportunity.

So when the sixth later, Tong Guan spread the news to Zhenjiang, hoping that Ryukyu could send a delegation to re-confess, Zhang San did not have so much face to consider, and immediately asked Gongsun Sheng to come to Zhenjiang with the envoy delegation that had been prepared, and Zhang San immediately explained his willingness to reconcile.

The attitude of the Great Song monarchs and ministers was really much better than the previous time, Zhao Ji not only personally received the envoys, but also agreed to the request of the delegation to enter Beijing, although the ministers also had individual objections, but most of them chose to remain silent.

There are so many famous gardens in Suzhou and Hangzhou, it is still very easy to collect a batch of exotic flowers and stones, and there is no shortage of corals and pearls in Ryukyu, so after the gifts are prepared, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty also arrived in Zhenjiang.

After that, Zhang San no longer paid attention, at this time Zhang San had returned to Ryukyu by boat, Ryukyu really accumulated a lot of things waiting for him to deal with, although there were clippers and carrier pigeons every day to contact this Ryukyu and Yangzhou, but some less important things were not done so much.

The first problem Zhang San faced when he arrived in the Ryukyus was the preparation of the founding ceremony, although the official grade setting, military official position setting and military rank, etc. were all arranged, but there were still many things that Zhang San needed to take the idea, not how important, but this matter was Zhang San's founding ceremony, and others did not dare to decide.

Of course, Zhang San hopes that everything will be simple, but for the military parade, Zhang San really hopes to have a scale and momentum, so a grand military parade must be held on the day of the founding ceremony.

Then there is Zhang San's wedding preparations, this time it is Wu Shuang who is going to marry, everyone knows the relationship between Zhang San and her childhood sweetheart, and there is no one who dares to pick out what Wu Shuang is unlucky or anything like that.

There is also the matter of the promotion of military ranks, and the promotion of lower-level officers can naturally be promoted by the staff department in accordance with the established merit promotion system, but the promotion of school officers needs to be reviewed by Zhang San personally, and the promotion of generals needs to be determined by Zhang San himself.

The military rank can't be promoted too quickly, and I don't know how many big wars there will be in the future, so Zhang San is still more cautious about the promotion and promotion of senior generals.

But fortunately, in addition to military ranks and ranks, there are many kinds of rewards, such as knighthood, territorial division, etc., now many lands in the world are ownerless, and Zhang San has a territory allocated to these people.

Therefore, in this campaign, in addition to Gan Xingtai's promotion to a military rank because of his merits, Yang Tai and others were all crowned viscounts and set aside a few hectares of land in Borneo, but they could not wait until the next stage of Borneo was completed, and the land in these places could be chosen by themselves.

In addition to the rewards of soldiers, there are also government officials who also need to be rewarded, and if Zhang San behaves too the day of the universal celebration, then it will also be looked down upon, so Zhang San rewarded a large number of barons and viscounts this time.

This time, Zhang San referred to the title system of later generations, giving the nobles a large amount of hereditary land, which only needed to be given a symbolic tax to the state, and the rest of the various properties were owned by the nobles.

Moreover, the nobility had the right to appoint officials in their domains, but the army and police needed to be sent by the state, and the nobility had to declare allegiance to the royal family, otherwise it would not be recognized.

Although the nobility is hereditary, the descendants will gradually decrease when they inherit it, but the land granted will not be recovered, and the nobility or the land given can be transferred and increased, etc., in short, it is given a respected status and a large amount of wealth, and everyone is still looking forward to the aristocratic system set by Zhang San.