If the Shimabara area of Wakoku were to be placed in the future, it would definitely be a relatively good tourist scenic spot.

In fact, in later generations, it was a place famous for its volcanoes and hot springs. There are plenty of things to see and do in the area.

However, just like the Wa country, because the entire Wa country is a mountain terrain formed by the extrusion of the continental plate, and because most of the Wa countries were under the sea in the past geological time, the Wa country with mountains as the main terrain is quite barren.

You know, the land is barren, which is a very terrible thing for human beings in the era of agricultural civilization. In the era of agricultural civilization without scientific breeding, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, no matter how carefully the farmers tended to the land, the output of the land was very thin.

Although the Shimabara Rebellion that broke out in 1637 was religious, there was no war in the world that was purely religious. In the final analysis, all political, military, and cultural issues are economic issues.

The root cause of the Shimabara Rebellion was that the Daimyo of the Shimabara Domain, who ruled the Shimabara region, was too poor and extravagant. In order to build their own castle, the Daimyo of the Shimabara Domain exploited and oppressed the people of the Shimabara area very severely.

In this barren land of volcanic ash and lava flows, the Itakura clan, the daimyo of the Shimabara Domain, built a large number of people to contribute to his project.

In this way, the people of Shimabara, who had been living in a very difficult situation in this barren land, broke out under the cruel exploitation of the Itakura clan.

In the original history, the rebellion of the people of Shimabara against the feudal rulers did not get a good result. Under the attack of more than 100,000 shogunate troops, the Shimabara rebel army led by Amakusa Shiro was trapped in Shimabara Castle, and finally because of the long-term siege of the shogunate army, the food in Shimabara Castle was cut off, so that the shogunate army attacked Shimabara Castle.

More than 20,000 people in Shimabara Castle, from the leader of the uprising, Shiro Amakusa to ordinary people, all of whom died in the massacre of the shogunate army.

In its original history, Western colonizers played a rather dishonorable role in this uprising.

Among them, the first Western colonists to enter the Wa Kingdom were mainly Spanish and Portuguese merchants. As these Western countries have done in all parts of the world, as the vanguard of the invasion, the missionaries entered at the same time as the merchants, and it can even be said that they were the first to enter the Japanese kingdom.

These missionaries spread Catholicism throughout the country and propagated the idea that God was above all else, which in itself was an affront to the feudal rulers of the country. At the same time, the daimyo on the island of Kyushu also engaged in trade with these Western merchants and made great profits in foreign trade, which made the Tokugawa shogunate, which had been trying to limit the development of the power of the local princes, very hostile.

The reason why the Tokugawa shogunate pursued a policy of seclusion was also to be able to control the local princes.

The Dutch and the British, as rising stars among the Western colonizers, were the last to reach the Wa Kingdom. In order to gain an advantage in the Japanese trade, they pointed out to the Tokugawa shogunate the evils of the Catholic colonial empire in Southeast Asia, which eventually became completely hostile to Spanish and Portuguese merchants, missionaries, and the Catholic people.

The most shameful thing is that in order to gain exclusive power over the Japanese trade, the Dutch even directly participated in the armed attack of the shogunate on the Shimabara uprising. Dutch warships in the Far East provided fire support to the shogunate during the shogunate's attack on Shimabara Castle, which shelled Shimabara Castle.

However, the whole event has been completely changed in this plane. Because from 1633, the East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet of the Chinese Empire carried out an all-round liquidation and sweep away of all foreign colonial forces in the China Sea area, so the Dutch colonists were already swept away by the navy of the Chinese Empire before the outbreak of the Shimabara Uprising.

Nagasaki, the only treaty port of the Wa Province near the Shimabara Peninsula, became a military and economic base of the Chinese Empire, just like the Kagoshima region where the Satsuma Domain was located.

Therefore, when the Shimabara Rebellion broke out, the Imperial Chinese Navy, which received an order from the Baath Military Committee, provided direct assistance to the people of Shimabara, who had been invaded by the reactionary government of the shogunate.

Under these circumstances, the Shimabara rebels, who had greatly improved their military strength with the support of food, weapons, and military training from the Chinese Empire, and were able to have an advantage in the armed struggle against the 100,000 shogunate army, even defeated the shogunate army in a general battle, with the artillery support of the Chinese Imperial Navy.

Of the 1230,000 shogunate troops, in addition to 40,000 or 50,000 killed in the war, the remaining 80,000 or so shogunate troops were sold to the Chinese Empire by the Shimabara rebels after becoming prisoners of the Shimabara rebels.

The Baath Party is very fond of this kind of human trade. In this era, the exploitation of tropical areas like the South China Sea is very depleting.

In this way, the more than 80,000 Japanese shogunate troops became the first batch of free labor for the Baath Party to develop the South China Sea region.

Although the sixteen-year-old Amakusa Shiro is a Catholic, he can be regarded as a religious leader to some extent, but at this age, he can lead the masses in the Shimabara and Amakusa areas in armed struggle, and even more can lead the 30,000 or 40,000 rebels against the powerful shogunate army.

As a former general under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was able to serve as a pioneer in the war of aggression against Korea by the Japanese Kingdom, and at the same time served as a descendant of Yukito Konishi, a diplomat who negotiated with the Ming envoys, Amakusa Shiro had no loyalty to the Tokugawa shogunate on the one hand, and a clear understanding of the strength of China on the other.

The reason why Amakusa Shiro chose to believe in Catholicism in the first place was definitely not because he was a holy child, but because he was exposed to the advanced medical skills of the Dutch (compared to the Japanese people) when he lived in Nagasaki, and in order to establish his prestige among the samurai and ronin in the Kitakyushu region, and in order to be able to learn advanced Western medical skills, Amakusa Shiro converted to Catholicism.

Therefore, for Amakusa Shiro, a young man, Catholicism is not important, because there are only a few dozen broken samurai and ronin in the Kitakyushu region who follow him in the Shimahara rebel army. The reason why most of the people participated in the uprising was simply because the Shimabara clan had oppressed the people too severely.

To a certain extent, Amakusa Shiro, who defeated more than 100,000 shogunate troops in the Shimabara region, is now capable of competing with the Tokugawa shogunate, the largest feudal ruling group in the entire Wa country. Anyway, after the Shimabara rebels defeated the shogunate army, the daimyo in the Kitakyushu region sent envoys to show goodwill to Amakusa Shiro. They were afraid that Amakusa Shiro would take revenge on them for facilitating the shogunate with the majesty of this great victory.

After Shimabara's victory, the daimyo of the entire Kitakyushu region can be said to have fallen under the majesty of Amakusa Shiro.

But Amakusa Shiro himself is very sober. He knew from the bottom of his heart that without the support of the Chinese Lordship, without the food, materials and weapons that the Lordship of China provided to him almost half-sold and half-sent, and especially if the Lordship of China had not directly sent armed men to train those bankrupt and rebellious peasants, it would have been impossible to win the war against the more than 100,000 shogunate troops.

Because it was impossible for him to surrender to the shogunate, because of the irreconcilable contradictions between him and the Tokugawa shogunate, Amakusa Shiro, who had a clear understanding, wrote to the government of the Chinese Empire at the first time and asked the Chinese Empire to annex it.

This was the first time since the founding of the People's Democratic Empire of China that a foreign region had requested to annex China. You know, the Chinese Empire is very tough on foreign issues. Generally speaking, as long as it is recorded in the historical documents of all Chinese dynasties, the countries that once paid tribute to China were unilaterally recognized by the Chinese Empire as vassal states of the Chinese Empire after the establishment of the Chinese Empire.

After purging all Western colonial powers in the South China Sea, the Chinese Empire established a lease treaty on the land occupied by the former Western colonists, and signed various lend-lease treaties with the local kings and sultans that were very favorable to them and much fairer than those of the Western colonists.

In other words, in foreign relations, the policies of the Chinese Empire were unilateral, and the vassal states were passive. So a situation like Amakusa Shiro looking for a backer to take the initiative to belong is still quite a new thing.

For the Chinese Empire, in fact, because of the so-called vassal states, except for Korea, which has been completely wiped out, there are also a few limited countries such as Ryukyu, North and South Annam, Burma, Nanzhang, Siam, etc., which are countries with relatively complete political systems, most of them are very backward small countries with a primitive tribal level. Therefore, the Chinese Empire did not adopt a diplomatic policy of equality and mutual benefit in the true sense of the word.

Generally speaking, the Chinese Empire adopted the form of a clear treaty document with these countries based on military strength on the basis of maintaining the suzerain-vassal system, and maintaining the political, economic, military, and cultural privileges of the Chinese Empire in these countries.

For those countries that did not have a complete system of political power, the method of establishing military and economic bases directly in the region was to maintain the suzerainty system.

Since the Ba'ath Party is still focusing its efforts on domestic construction, it has generally adopted a general policy of maintaining the suzerainty system (laying the foundation for future annexation and occupation) and maintaining a comprehensive tariff-free trade (dumping of goods) in foreign affairs.

As for the question of the Japanese state, the original idea of the Chinese Empire was to annex the entire Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island, and then after simple training of hundreds of thousands of less than a million Japanese people on these two islands, they were put into the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia as consumables to develop local land and resources, and pave the way for the immigration work of the Chinese Empire in the future.

Therefore, after receiving Amakusa Shiro's request for annexation, the Central Committee of the Chinese Imperial Renaissance Party also discussed this issue.

Eventually, the Central Committee of the Ba'ath Party decided that if Amakusa Shiro could accept the Ba'ath Party's land reform policy and carry out a comprehensive land reform of the Shimabara Peninsula under the guidance of the Chinese Empire, then the Chinese Empire could agree to Amakusa Shiro's request for annexation.

How poor the Shimabara area was and how barren the land on the Shimabara Peninsula was can be seen from the size of the population of the Shimabara region in later generations.

In later generations, the Wa Kingdom, with a total population of nearly 130 million, was one of the most fully industrialized countries in the developed world, and the total population of the Shimabara Peninsula (49,710 people in Shimabara City) was less than 50,000.

In this time and space, the population of the entire Shimabara Peninsula is concentrated around Shimabara Castle, and the total population is just over 20,000 people. It was also because many bankrupt peasants in the Kitakyushu region had gathered in the Shimabara area because of the uprising, so the total population of the Shimabara Peninsula was barely 40,000 now.

At present, it is very difficult for these 40,000 people to feed on the barren land of the Shimabara Peninsula turned into volcanic ash and lava flows.

Amakusa Shiro is no stranger to land reform. He personally visited the southern Kyushu region (Satsuma, Osumi, and Hyuga), which was also known for its barrenness and was now an overseas domain of the Chinese Empire.

"Three Princes and Seven People, Divide the Land Equally", that is, under the general policy of equal distribution of land according to the population, the policy of paying only three layers of tax in kind according to the actual output was very beneficial to Amakusa Shiro, and it can be said that it was not only very beneficial to the people, but also unprecedented mercy.

According to the conditions prescribed to him by the Chinese Imperial Government, the entire Shimabara Peninsula, including all the lands on Unzen, Shimabara, and Nandaoyuan, belonged to the "Unzen Kingdom".

As the king of the Unzen Kingdom, Amakusa Shiro will receive the surname Xu (in honor of Xu Fu) from the Chinese Empire and change his name to Xu Amakusa, and on the other hand, he will also receive 30% of all the land produced on the entire Shimabara Peninsula as royal property. As a standing army of 1,000 people and dozens of retainers, Amakusa Shiro is already very generous.

Therefore, after receiving the conditions offered by the Chinese Empire, Amakusa Shiro immediately wrote to express his willingness to accept the conditions of the Chinese Empire.

With the help of 4,000 soldiers of the Renaissance Army, after the canonization of the ambassadors of the Chinese Empire arrived at Shimabara Castle and held an official canonization ceremony for Amakusa Shiro, Xu Tiancao, the king of the Unzen Kingdom, wearing a plain blue gown and wearing a five-hun flat crown (the crown of the clothes of the lower doctor), eagerly followed the canonized ambassador of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese Empire to board the ship to the Chinese Empire.

For Xu Tiancao, the king of the newly baked Yunxian Kingdom, a vassal state of the Chinese Empire, he had two important tasks to do when he went to the Chinese Empire.

The first is to accept the reception of His Majesty the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, and confirm his identity as the king of the vassal state of the Chinese Empire. Another important task was to convince His Majesty the Emperor to send troops to punish the Tokugawa puppet dynasty for disobeying the will of the Tensa Empire.