"Ryukyu was originally a vassal state of our country, and my country has been subject to its tribute for many years, so how did it become a Japanese internal domain?" Lin Yizhe asked. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Ryukyu has been a vassal state of our country since the Ming Dynasty, and it has always paid tribute and received canonization, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it also respected Japan as a vassal lord, but China did not know it. After the Japanese Mufu was returned to power, its new monarch called Ryukyu a vassal and did not recognize it as a Chinese vassal state. Wang Kaitai's answer shows that he still has done some homework on matters related to the Ryukyus, "It's just that the Japanese people have not widely publicized it, and the government and the opposition in our country know very little about this matter, so Shilin has not discussed it." ”

Lin Yizhe knew that the reason why the Japanese handled it this way was obviously because they understood the temperament of the Chinese.

Although the Ryukyu Kingdom was a tributary state of the Qing Dynasty, it also paid tribute to the Satsuma Domain of Japan, and was in the status of "two genera". After Japan abolished the feudal domain, the Satsuma domain was abolished and Kagoshima Prefecture was replaced, and the Ryukyus were not annexed by Japan for the time being due to their status as "two genera". But it was this status of the "two genera" that gave Japan the pretext of annexing the Ryukyus!

Lin Yizhe chatted with Wang Kaitai for a while, he saw that Wang Kaitai was seriously ill and could not be disturbed for a long time, so he got up to say goodbye, and presented gifts such as medicines and supplements.

Lin Yizhe returned home, and then ordered someone to take the relevant documents of the ten years of Tongzhi about the killing of Liumin by Taifan, and read it carefully.

After reading the document, Lin Yizhe learned the ins and outs of this event that led to the fall of the Ryukyus and Japan's attack on Taiwan in the original history through this first-hand historical material.

During the Ryukyu Kingdom, the outer islands such as Miyakojima and Yaeyama Islands had to pay the annual tribute (poll tax) collected to the Shuri Imperial Palace. On October 18, 1871, the 4th year of the Meiji era of Japan, two ships carrying Miyakojima personnel and two Yaeyama personnel set off from Naha Port after paying the New Year's tribute. The boat drifted to Bayao Bay in southeastern Taiwan, where two of them drowned, one went missing, and the remaining 66 people went ashore and agreed to act together, but the galleon they were on was damaged by a huge wave hitting the rocks and could no longer set sail. The ship had been destroyed, and these people were temporarily unable to return to their homeland, so they had to go deep into a foreign land to survive. They first met two Han Chinese, who communicated with each other in sign language, and the two Han Chinese told them that they were inhabited by Fangui (i.e., Gaoshan Fanmin) as they advanced westward, and pointed out that Fanmin was fierce and suggested that they move south. So they went south with the two Han Chinese, and walked about a mile, and the two Han people turned their faces and snatched their clothes and belongings. Fearing that something would happen, they let the two of them loot. Two Han Chinese put together some items that were inconvenient to carry in one place, and used wooden plaques as a mark to facilitate them to be picked up later. At this time, at dusk, the two instructed the people of Miyakojima to spend the night in a stone ****. However, the area of the cave was not large, and the Ryukyuan people were afraid that less than 66 people would stay overnight, so they argued with the two of them. They threatened them, saying that if they did not obey, they would not care whether they lived or died. The people of Miyakojima did not think that the two men could be trusted, so they did not follow their instructions to go south, but instead went west.

They slept in the woods that night, did not eat any food, and walked in the dark on an empty stomach. The next morning, I secretly dug sweet potatoes in the field to satisfy my hunger, and then walked three miles to the west, and met a Paiwan Fan people working in the garden by the roadside. The Miyako islanders used sign language to communicate with the Paiwan people, and the Paiwan people gave them rice, taro porridge, sweet potatoes, etc., and let them stay in the leader's ladder house. According to the customs of the Coats Buddhist Society, an outsider who drinks the water from the people's house is no longer an enemy. However, in the middle of the night, a man with firewood and a knife entered a room and snatched the clothes of two of the Miyakojima people, and at dawn more than a dozen young men of the Paiwan tribe armed with knives, spears, bows and arrows forced them to take off their clothes and hairpins, and looted their belongings. The people of Miyakojima were afraid that the Paiwan people would not be good for them, so they decided to leave, but were stopped by the Paiwan people. So they fled in groups of three or five, and then rendezvous.

Because the people of Miyakojima did not say goodbye, the Paiwan people thought that they did not respect themselves, and that they might be the work of pirates (the Paiwan people were often infested by pirates), and they went out to pursue them for fear of attracting pirates in the future. When the people of Miyakojima met and drank water and rested by a small stream, six to seven Paiwan people chased after them from the grass and sternly questioned why the Miyakojima people had strayed into the territory but fled from the leader's house, and the Miyakojima people fled by wading into the stream. Soon he saw a house, so he went to one of the houses to spy on it, and the owner of the house was an old man surnamed Deng Hanmin, who knew that they were Ryukyuan, so he talked to them in Chinese, and they went in to rest with peace of mind. Deng Tianbao, the son of the old man surnamed Deng, said that he could help them write down their names and send them to Fucheng to wait for rescue. In addition, Ling Laosheng, a businessman who runs a local property trade, is also willing to protect them. When one of the Miyakojima people, Nakamoto Kana, was filling in everyone's names, about thirty Paiwan people chased after him, stripped the Miyakojima people's clothes and hairpins, Ling Laosheng was negotiating with the leader of the Paiwan tribe, but the Paiwan people took the Miyakojima people they found out of the house and killed them in turn, at this time, one of the Ryukyuan people who was taken out, Xincheng Chaoxian, rushed back to the courtyard and told the others to flee immediately, so as not to be killed, and was killed immediately after speaking. And the 9 people who couldn't escape, including Kana Nakamoto, Jira Shimabukuro, and Shimabukuro, were hiding in Ling Laosheng's house. After 54 people were killed, the Paiwan people of the Peony Society rushed to the scene and continued to track down the 12 people who had fled.

The next day, Deng Tianbao rushed to Baolizhuang to meet with the village chief Yang Youwang, who learned of the massacre and went home with his son Yang Acai and nephew Yang Ahe. When he arrived at the mouth of Shimen Shuangxi, he saw that there were many corpses, and at this time, two more Miyako Island people asked for help, and Yang Youwang agreed to protect them. When I came to Deng's house, I saw a number of Paiwan people from the Peony Society forcing the old man to make friends.

After negotiation between Yang Youwang and his entourage and the people of the Peony Society, they were compensated in exchange for four or five coins, six pieces of cloth, a buffalo, several pigs and ten urns of wine. It is also rumored that a fleeing Miyakojima man was arrested in the Bamboo Society, and Deng Tianbao and Yang Youwang came forward to rescue him in exchange for wine and meat. When the Peony Society returned to the mouth of Shimen Shuangxi in the upper reaches of Sichong Creek, they found that the Coats Buddha had left the scene, so the Peony Society cut off the heads of the 54 deceased (out of the grass), hung them on the trees, and brought them back to the skulls of the Peony Society and the Nu Milk Society as sacrifices after worship. The 12 surviving people stayed at Yang Youwang's house for more than 40 days, and it was not until December 22 that they were accompanied by Yang Acai to leave Hengchun and arrive in Fengshan, where they were escorted by the Fengshan government to the capital city of Taiwan on the 29th, and then delivered by the Taiwan government official ship to the Fuzhou Ryukyu Hall to return to China by boat. It was not until June of the following year that he returned to Naha in the Ryukyus. The 54 headless corpses were buried by Deng Tianbao in four tombs next to the Shuangxikou River, and more than 10 people were buried together in one place, which was managed by Lin Ajiu, a native of Baoli Village. Later, it was moved to the southern suburbs of Tongpu Zhuang and offered to worship every year. The skull was brought to the tribal skull by the Paiwan people according to their traditional customs.

After the incident, the Qing court, in accordance with the previous practice, paid for the families of the victims, and the Ryukyu Kingdom also expressed its gratitude.

Judging from the records in the documents, the Qing court only treated this incident as a very ordinary "accident", and did not think about what this event would bring after it.

But Lin Yizhe knew that in the original history, what happened later was unexpected by the Qing court.

When Japanese officials such as Ichi Chi Sadashin, Oyama Tsunashi, and Kayama Shikini learned of the murder of Miyakojima, they actively suggested that Japan send troops to Taiwan. In February 1873, Japan sent Foreign Secretary Tanetomi Shima to China as "Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Dispatched by China" to test the Qing court's attitude towards the murder of the Miyakojima people. The Qing Dynasty premier, Mao Changxi, the minister of the Yamen, and Dong Sui, the secretary of the household department, replied that the people of Miyakojima who were killed had already received compensation and repatriation from China, and that the incident had nothing to do with Japan. The vice-island minister emphasized that Ryukyu was his dependent territory, and asked why the Qing Dynasty did not punish Taifan, but Mao and Dong pushed it off on the grounds that "Shengfan did not accept the king's transformation". The saying of "people outside the world" became the basis for Japan to send troops to Taiwan!

Later, Japan's invasion of Taiwan failed due to Shen Baozhen's invasion of Taiwan with ships, but the Ryukyus eventually died at the hands of Japan. Emperor Meiji secretly ordered Tsunashi Oyama to send an envoy to Tokyo to celebrate in the name of the Japanese king Masaiichi, and the envoys sent by King Shotai of the Ryukyus kingdom to Tokyo to celebrate, but the Ryukyu side did not know Japan's intentions. Emperor Meiji summoned his envoys and issued an edict changing the name of the Ryukyu Kingdom to the Ryukyu Domain and canonizing Shotai as the vassal king. In 1875, Japan forced the Ryukyus to stop paying tribute to China, and in 1879 forced the Ryukyus King Shōtai to move to Tokyo and formally annex the Ryukyus.

The news of Japan's annexation of the Ryukyus reached China, causing a huge impact on the Chinese government and the opposition. The scholars clamored for war with Japan and the restoration of the Ryukyu regime, and they generally believed that if the Ryukyus could be restored, they might as well agree to Japan's request for "equal integration" in commerce, so as to show the "tolerance" of the **** suzerainty; If the Ryukyus not only cannot recover the country, but Japan will still threaten them more, then the imperial court will only have to fight a decisive battle with Japan and help the Ryukyus recover their land by force!

The scholars and doctors not only showed great toughness, but also believed that the battle would be won: "The master of the tart is right, and he must have a chance of winning; In recent years, Dongying has accumulated debts, the morale of the soldiers is not high, the ships are unbearable, although the soldiers are strong but not prosperous, and they are discouraged by the reason, how can they resist me? ”