The September sea breeze, with a hint of heat, blows on an island full of palm trees. This island, dotted and dotted, floats on the East China Sea, with a total land area of more than 3,000 square kilometers, which is one-tenth of the entire Taiwan Island, less than 400 nautical miles away from Shanghai, Ningbo, and Wenzhou, but the nearest island of Kyushu is more than 600 nautical miles, which is the beautiful Ryukyu Islands.

At the beginning of the Ryukyus, there were many small countries such as Nanshan and Zhongshan, and then a heroic figure was born, named Shang Bazhi, who was about the same height as Wu Dalang, who traveled out of the island when he was young and got a peerless sword, and then, conquered the Quartet and unified the Ryukyus? This is the routine of the novel! The real history is: Shang Ba Zhi sold the sword, exchanged for a boat of pig iron, and then, like the Chinese peasants, cast ploughs with pig iron, buried in spring ploughing, the result is beautiful, Ryukyu for many years of wind and rain, grain harvest, and then after decades of accumulation, Shang Ba Zhi family is said to be gradually stronger, and finally destroyed the Ryukyu countries, the capital Shuri City, and was canonized by the Ming Dynasty.

In 1372, China became the suzerainty of the Ryukyu Kingdom. In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, that is, in 1392, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, gave 36 people surnamed Min to enter the Ryukyu Islands, so the Ryukyu culture was mainly influenced by the Ming Dynasty, respecting Confucius and other Confucian saints, and the locals wore "Hanfu".

After about 500 years of multiplication, there are about 200,000 indigenous people in the Ryukyus, most of whom are dark-skinned, drink tea, smoke dry tobacco, play the three strings, sing folk songs, and live an agricultural life without fighting with the world, sending people to China every three to five years to pay tribute.

In 1879, the peaceful life of the Ryukyuan people was completely destroyed by the Ryukyuan people. In March of that year, he secretly sent 1,000 military police to the Ryukyu Islands to attack the Ryukyu royal palace with muskets. The military police quickly occupied the palace and ordered Prince Nakijin, the acting agent of the King of the Ryukyus, to hand over the jade seal. In April, Samoto brazenly announced the "abolition of Ryukyu Prefecture", that is, the Ryukyu Kingdom was changed to Okinawa Prefecture, and the last king of the Ryukyus, Shotai and other members of the royal family, were taken captive, and the subjects of the island became the slaves of Ryukyu himself, and many people rebelled.

When the warships "Zhenyuan" and "Jiyuan," flying the five-clawed yellow dragon flag, slowly sailed toward the Ryukyu Islands, the military and police hurriedly asked for help from the navy. The "Fuso" was a large ship with more than 1,300 people, but the combat effectiveness of the "Fusang" was obviously weaker than that of the "Gao Chiho." and Lin Tai, the deputy admiral of the Beiyang Naval Division, and Lin Tai, the chief soldier of the left wing, were standing on the deck of the "Zhenyuan" and saw this with binoculars, and they were very excited and decided to sink the "Fusang" first.

When the distance between the two sides was about three or four nautical miles, Majifen ordered the "Zhenyuan" to raise its heavy guns, load the shells, prepare for battle, and then seize the opportunity to fire at the "Fuso" first! At this distance, the heavy artillery of the "Zhenyuan" had an absolute advantage, and the stern and bow of the "Fusang" were heavily damaged in many places, and the flowering shells knocked the "Fusang" out of three holes. Colonel Taiichiro Inoue, the captain of the "Fuso," resolutely ordered the warship to advance at full speed toward the "Zhenyuan." He said that the warship's speed, its artillery firepower, and its rate of fire were fast, making it suitable for close combat, and Inoue wanted to give full play to his advantage in close combat.

As soon as the distance was closer, Lin Tai used binoculars to discover a fatal flaw of the "Fusang": the average warship is also equipped with four main guns, and he said that he was too greedy when refitting the "Fusang", and in order to increase firepower, he actually used up to 12 14-inch guns, which were installed in the six main turrets, and these six main turrets were installed in the center line of the hull, and these six turrets accounted for half of the total length of the hull, and the ammunition depot, boiler compartment and turret were very close to each other, as long as the boiler compartment or turret was hit, "Fuso" The ammunition depot of the ship will explode soon, and the "Fuso" will definitely be blown up to the ground.

Lin Tai immediately ordered the "Zhenyuan" to hit the firepower and attack the middle of the "Fusang", and a series of flowering cannons shot out, like a Leonid meteor shower, fell on the poor "Fusang", three of the shells hit the boiler compartment and turret of the "Fusang", "boom", "boom", only a few earth-shattering loud noises were heard, the ammunition depot of the "Fusang" exploded, six turrets exploded in a row, half of the hull of the "Fusang" was blown to pieces, and it sank quickly The horn continued to beat the water dogs, and the explosion of the flowering shells stirred up white waves several feet high, and the blood of the navy flowed into the sea, and the smell of blood also attracted the arrival of sharks, and after a bite, the army suffered more than 1,000 casualties.

Another cruiser of the Navy, the "Takachiho," seized the opportunity to sneak attack the "Zhenyuan" at this time, hitting the "Zhenyuan" with two shells and secretly firing a torpedo. Unfortunately, the ironclad fort of the Zhenyuan was impregnable, with armor as thick as 14 inches on the waterline, or 355.6mm, and 12 inches thick, or 304.8mm. "Zhenyuan" was hit, the hull shook, and basically it was fine.

The relieved "Zhenyuan" began to counterattack, and the "Jiyuan" together with the "Gao Qiansui" flanked the "Gao Qiansui", the "Gao Qiansui" desperately resisted, the shells were all gone, the "Jiyuan" was seriously damaged by the bullet, and the sailors had some casualties, but the giant "Zhenyuan" on the sea was like a transformer hit by a bullet, basically undamaged, and the captain of the "Gao Qiansui" was so frightened that he hurriedly ordered the warship to increase its horsepower and slip away, and was hit by a cannon hit by the "Zhenyuan" that caught up behind, and the Yuezhang flag on the mast fell into the sea and sank into the sea in an instant.

Liu Mingchuan brought 2,000 Huai troops to arrive, and under the cover of the fire of the "Zhenyuan" and "Jiyuan", they forcibly landed on the Ryukyu Islands. And fishing less than a hundred nautical miles from Taiwan. The island was also quickly recovered by Liu Mingchuan and brought under the jurisdiction of Keelung City, Taiwan Province.

When Ito Hirobumi went to Nagasaki to negotiate with Song Xiaofei, he had already received news of the crushing defeat of the Saimoto navy at Ryukyu. At this time, "people are swordsmen, I am fish and meat", Ito Hirobumi knew sadly, but he still wanted to try his best to show his magnificent bearing, and he stepped up to the sail tower.

Upstairs, there was a rectangular table and seven or eight chairs were placed. The negotiators sat down, and Song Xiaofei first put forward three conditions: first, except for the negotiators, no matter what anyone had to do, they were not allowed to enter the venue; Second, it is said that the reports of this newspaper must be inspected by the Chinese side before they can be printed. Third, no one is allowed to carry a murder weapon.

In the first negotiation with Ito Hirobumi, Song Xiaofei calmly proposed the conditions for peace talks to Ito Hirobumi: 1. Release the detained Ryukyu King Shangtai and send a note to Britain and the United States, Ryukyu will be restored, and China is the suzerainty of the Ryukyu Kingdom; 2. Arrest and severely punish the murderers, compensate the five dead and missing Beiyang sailors with a pension of 500,000 taels of silver, and 1 million taels of silver for the ammunition and loss of the Beiyang Sailors this time, for a total of 1,500,000 taels of silver, to be paid off within two years; 3. To recognize China's "sea rights" over the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Tsushima Strait, and other East Asian waters, all ships sailing in East Asian waters must inform the Beiyang Naval Division in advance, otherwise they will be intercepted by the Beiyang Naval Division.

When Ito Hirobumi heard these three articles, dense beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and he called "too harsh", he especially didn't expect that Song Xiaofei, the admiral of the Great Shimizu Division, would understand "sea power", and also proposed the third article, to "sea power" in East Asia, but at that time China was the suzerainty of Korea, Vietnam, Ryukyu and other countries, and it was understandable to take the sea power of these countries into its own, but in this way, the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and the Tsushima Strait almost became China's "inland sea". It is necessary to inform China that this condition is too ruthless, it is tantamount to drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, firmly choking the neck of the Navy, and once there is an abnormal movement, it will be strangled to death by the Beiyang Naval Division. Ito Hirobumi forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart and said: "I came to Nagasaki to make peace sincerely, none of these conditions you mentioned are reasonable, not to mention His Majesty the Emperor, I can't agree to any of them!" ”

Song Xiaofei stood up, clenched his fists, and said with a smile: "Ito-sama's words, do you mean that there is no need to talk about it?" ”;