"Hmph......" left a cold snort, and Mao Yunliang shook his hand and left Shang Jian's house without saying a word. As a representative figure of the anti-Japanese and pro-China faction in the Ryukyu Kingdom, he had irrepressible anger at the sudden disappearance of the three Japanese retainers of Shang Jian's family!

At this time, they still refused to sever ties with Japan. It's incorrigible!

Inside the room, Shang Jianzi suddenly collapsed on his actions, looking at Mao Yunliang's departing back, he felt as if he had really made a wrong decision.

"Teacher......" The voice of the eldest son, Shangqing, came into his ears. Shang Jian raised his head, his eyes stared, and suddenly a basin of ice water came to his head. He saw that his old friend, Cai Pingmao, the sixteenth generation grandson of the Cai family of Kume Village [Ming Ci Ryukyu Min 36 surnames], was retreating out of the house with a disappointed face, and he retreated straight without saying a word to himself.

Shang Qing, the eldest son who was scared out of a cold sweat by Mao Yunliang's angry momentum, is now dripping with cold sweat on his forehead, and Shang Jian himself has taken it up. Cai Pingmao's ancestor is Cai Shichang, if even he is disappointed in his father, then his own family will be in big trouble.

During the Qianlong period of Cai Shichang, he reformed the Ryukyu school system and allocated the number of places for more than 400 years exclusive to Kume Village [sent to the mainland for government students] to the Ryukyu people, and they had grievances with other families in Kume Village. However, Cai's status in the hearts of the Ryukyuan people is not ordinarily high, and Cai Shichang was named a national teacher by King Shangwen.

Shang Jian is the uncle of the current Ryukyu King Shang Tai, who was only four years old when he succeeded to the throne, and Shang Jian was a close relative of the royal family and respected in the Ryukyu country. And the reason why he has been able to sit firmly in Diaoyutai is that he was not afraid of rumors when Shangtai was young, and he was not suspicious when Shangtai was older. Cai Pingmao's support is crucial.

And although Cai Pingmao has a vague attitude towards Japan, he is not a staunch anti-Japanese faction like Mao Yunliang. Shang Jian once served as regent of the Ryukyu Kingdom. It is indispensable to deal with the Satsuma clan and Japan. Cai Pingmao is more or less involved in it, and he is a very active person.

Such a person, who has been friends for decades, is of great importance to Shangjian. But now......

"Brother Nianwen......" Shang Jian saw that Cai Pingmao was about to turn around, his heart tightened, and he shouted nervously. After decades of old friendships, do you have to abandon yourself at this time?

Cai Pingmao paused, but he didn't turn around, only sighed heavily. The straight waist has also become a little bent. "The minister is old, and the public is self-cherished."

Cai Pingmao's figure that stepped out was desolate and desolate, and Shang Jian's choice today disappointed him. Letting go of the Japanese at home and staying unmoved in the midst of change, Shang Jian thought it was a safe move not to offend the Japanese, but where did he go to China when he did this?

Shang Jian didn't offend Sa Japan, but this time he deeply offended the heavenly soldiers.

If Ryukyu can have the protection of the Qing Dynasty, then how hard can Japan be offended? Will Japan dare to send troops to the Ryukyus again?

As an old friend. Cai Pingmao knew Shang Jian very well, and he could see Shang Jian's thoughts at a glance. But this is just a little clever, and he can't even say it at all.

You are afraid that the Ryukyus will be retaliated against by the Japanese again after the return of the Heavenly Soldiers. Isn't this saying that the Celestial Empire is incapable of sheltering its own vassal kingdoms?? Heart-wrenching words!

……

"Haha, I have a great Qing army and defeat Russia in Western Xinjiang first. After defeating France in Vietnam, how can you be afraid of a single country? Today we have an army of 50,000. The follow-up is coming, as long as the sailors are better than Japan above the sea. You can set off on the same day and cross the sea to Tokyo! Liu Xian said this to the Ryukyu Kingdom.

"Japan is a rampant small country, bullying the vassals of the Celestial Empire, and it is a wolf's ambition. Is there any reason not to raise troops and punish them? ”

With the help of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Liu Xian only used the Chu army's Xiao Delong Division, and swept away the three Japanese soldiers all the way to the north, destroying 60 enemies and capturing more than 100 prisoners. Liu Xian only stayed in Shuri Castle, and during this period of time, he made up for the geography of Japan.

At the end of the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate set up forts on the seashores of Japan in order to defend itself against invasions from Western countries. And Tokyo Bay, where its heart is located, is a key place to rule, and it is naturally the most important thing. At that time, the Tokugawa shogunate intended to establish a defensive line between Kannonzaki (located in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture) and Futsu (located in Futsu City, Chiba Prefecture), which was the outermost mouth of the entire Tokyo Bay. It's like Bohai Bay, between the Jiaodong Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula, the relative small spike.

But the heavens did not follow people's wishes, and soon after the black ship attack, the United States Navy Commodore Matthew. Perry easily broke through the line with four warships and landed in Uraga (Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture), breaking Japan's long-standing policy of seclusion. As a result of this incident, the shogunate's sense of crisis suddenly rose to more than one notch, and the shogunate was commissioned to build a fort in Tokyo Bay in the same year. This retreat retreated to the bottom of the bowl in Tokyo Bay, just like the Dagu Fort in Bohai Bay.

At that time, the Tokugawa shogunate invested about 750,000 taels of money, using stones brought from Izu and other places, and soil and sand obtained from the excavation and demolition of Shinagawa Gotenyama, to build a number of Western-style forts surrounded by square or pentagonal stone walls, called "Odaiba", in front of the house. Since the fourth and seventh Odaiba were not actually completed, a total of five Odaiba, including the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth Odaiba (originally planned to build 11 Odaiba), were actually built as a maritime defense for the Gyeonggi Stronghold in the Edo region.

After the Meiji Restoration, the Tokyo Restoration government renovated the five forts and reorganized the defensive line between Kannonzaki and Tomitsu. However, the Japanese government was not wealthy, and the funds invested were limited, and many of the cannons on the batteries were old breech guns from more than ten years ago.

Historically, during the Meiji and Taisho periods, Japan began to demarcate safe waterways in Tokyo Bay, and began to build one sea fort after another, so there were many artificial islands in Tokyo Bay in later generations. However, Japan has just embarked on the road of revitalization, and it has not completely settled [Saigo Takamori] internally, and it does not have the energy and financial resources to build a sea fort. Therefore, Tokyo Bay is now spacious enough for 10,000-ton ships to sail at will, and there is only one natural island in Yokosuka City, Sarushima, which is more than 1,000 square kilometers of sea surface. More importantly, Yokosuka is home to Japan's largest shipyard in modern times, as well as an arms factory of modest size. More than a decade later, the two factories would be merged into the Yokosuka Naval Shipyard, which would become one of the most important fulcrums of Japan's 50-year hegemony.

Even if he couldn't get the equipment inside, and supplemented the weak shipyard of the Qin army, Liu Xian also thought about leveling it with artillery bombardment. Today, Japan does not have a Yokosuka shipyard, and shipbuilding technology will be stagnant for at least three to five years.

In addition, some of Japan's existing warships are deployed in Hiroshima [Kure Naval Port], and the other part is deployed in Tokyo Bay. As long as the Combined Fleet can sail down to Tokyo Bay, winning a naval battle is a matter of hand.

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"Brother Xianzong, I Lao Luo only heard the reputation of the Qin army in the past, and I heard how powerful Liu Hou was. It's good to be unconvinced. Seeing the true God today is an eye-opener and a name worthy of it. ”

Luo Dachun, the governor of Fujian, was the commander of the second batch of troops of the Chu army. This person is not a literate person, he dropped out of school at the age of eight because of his father's lawsuit, so he was not very successful in the early years. At the age of thirteen, he went out into the world alone. On Guiyang, down Sichuan, into Yunnan, to Myanmar, since ancient times there have been many hardships, never a young man, after joining the army, Luo Dachun was alert, brave, atmospheric, and bold, precisely because of his tribulations and adventures in his youth. It is precisely with his courage and wisdom that Luo Dachun has gone from a small soldier in the green battalion to the pinnacle of life step by step in the rain of bullets and bloody rain in the past 20 years.

Like Liu Xian, there is no fame, no Confucian general, Zuo Zongtang, the backer behind him, and his strength is limited, Luo Dachun has achieved the position of the governor of a province, and it is already the end.

As Chen Yucheng, who was at the peak of his killing, abandoned his horse and armor and hid in the bushes to escape for his life, Luo Dachun was arrogant. There is no first in the text, and there is no second in the martial arts. Of course, he was not convinced by Qin Jun and Liu Xian, who had never been masked. Until today –

Luo Dachun, who was in the first line of the Chu army, had a friendship with Li Shien on the periphery of the Hunan army, and when they fought against the Taiping army, the two joined forces many times. Li Shien took Luo Dachun to the Qin army's camp for a turn, not looking at the training of the Qin army on the playground, Li Shien led Luo Dachun to drill the tent, so that Luo Dachun also deeply experienced the shock when he saw the same scene himself.

All the beds are neat and tidy, and all the pillows and sheets are the same. The shoes under the bed, the scrubbing utensils on the table, even those aimed in that direction, were all the same.

Don't think it's a showcase. These things are part of maintaining personal hygiene in their own right. Even in the 21st century, it is still very common to not be accustomed to washing your hands before eating and after using the toilet, let alone now. If there are no strict regulations to enforce the personal hygiene of soldiers, it will be difficult to ensure the necessary public health and safety within the army.

From the point of view of combat readiness, soldiers can reduce the time spent organizing their belongings as much as possible, so that the troops can respond faster in the event of an emergency.

What's more, there are no rules! Soldiers can't rely on conscious suppression, and no one thinks everyone is a saint, right? People are lazy. Even if it is a habit of self-restraint and self-adjustment, compulsory hygiene management is a spur to soldiers every day.

Luo Dachun is not an ordinary person, he just thinks that Qin Jun is making a show and putting on a posture. A glimpse of the whole leopard can see the interests and disadvantages of the Qin army. (To be continued......) R640