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"Shopkeeper Gu, according to our travel speed, how many days does it usually take to reach Nagasaki?" An expedition to a strange place is impossible without a guide. It would definitely not be possible to find a local guide first, but the younger brother of the head of the Gu family, the person in charge of the Nagasaki Merchant House, and his subordinates came in handy. Although Geng Jingzhong also sent several groups of people to Kyushu Island in the past year, they were still newcomers after all, far less familiar with these merchants who had been going to the East for many years.

"Hui Shizi, under normal circumstances, our merchant ships are full of goods, and the speed is slow, and it takes six to seven days if it is smooth sailing. Like us now, at the speed of the warship, it is estimated that it will arrive in five days! The shopkeeper replied truthfully.

"All the best! There must still be times when it is not smooth sailing, and it seems normal for the sea to be windy and rainy, so will it delay a lot of time? Geng Jingzhong asked. He rarely went to sea and was not familiar with the situation at sea. The few times I went to sea, I was also wandering in the coastal waters, and the one on Nanri Island was the farthest!

Shopkeeper Gu nodded: "The prince is wise, in the past, our merchant ships sailed out to sea, and what we were most afraid of was not pirates, but God!" Once God is in a bad mood and sneezes, one of them will be ruined and killed. Previously, we worshiped the Dragon Lord on the boat, just to pray that the Dragon Lord could keep us smooth sailing! ”

"Huh!" Geng Jingzhong shook his head undeniably, when he set off earlier, sixty third-class warships and a hundred new-type frigates were all on a desk. Worship the dragon king god together. Although it is superstition, Geng Jingzhong is not easy to stop. After all, it's safe. Even in the later generations, you still have to hang a Buddha pendant in the car!

"Shizi. Shall we go straight to Kagoshima to attack the Shimazu family? As far as I know, in the Ryukyus to the northeast of us, between the island of Kyushu, the Shimazu family has a team of sailors stationed there. However, the scale is not large, and it is only to deter the Ryukyu Kingdom. Although the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom submitted to the Qing court, in essence he was also subject to the Shimazu Satsuma Domain, and was constantly threatened by the Shimazu family. It seems that thirty years ago, the Ryukyu Kingdom was almost annexed by the Shimazu family! ”

"Oh. And what's going on? Tian Xin, why is it not written in the information? Geng Jingzhong turned around and frowned and asked Tian Xin, the subordinate in charge of intelligence in the merchant hall, and the main general Wang Zhenbang also looked at this intelligence officer named Tian Xin with some surprise. Tian Xinnai is a new batch of elites cultivated by the Future Academy, and was selected by Li Guangdi to be specially sent to the Japanese State to be in charge of intelligence work. Three years ago, the first to start enrollment of more than 1,000 young shopkeepers, after careful selection, 80 people were intensively cultivated, called Huomiao, so Tian Xin and other 80 people are all members of Huomiao. They did not study the Four Books and the Five Classics, but followed the missionaries to learn Western studies. Arithmetic, surveying, English, Dutch, etc., while also having to undergo certain military training, such as fighting, reconnaissance, etc. Although the time is quite tight, except for arithmetic, everyone only chooses two or three of them that they are interested in. It's also very productive.

Tian Xin is one of them, proficient in Chinese, arithmetic, surveying and mapping, and combat reconnaissance is also very good. Now he is a general with the rank of 100 households, and he is in charge of the operation of the intelligence department on Kyushu Island. His father had followed the Zheng family to trade with the Japanese kingdom many times. I learned the Chinese language, and then taught him. However, his father died young. He was left in Fuzhou City, but now he has become Geng Jingzhong's subordinate! The arithmetic taught in the future school is at best comparable to the fifth or sixth grade of primary school in later generations, and there is no too esoteric mathematical calculation. As soon as Geng Jingzhong's multiplication formula came out, the calculation problem was solved. The students in the school learn arithmetic very seriously, so they learn very quickly. It may not be understood in modern times, but in this day and age, learning arithmetic means that there will be a very lucrative job waiting for you, and it is not difficult to understand why those poor children are so serious!

"Back to the world, it is a dereliction of duty for the young general! We only focused on finding out the information on the Japanese mainland, and we didn't pay attention to the Ryukyus country! Please punish the prince! "Tian Xin knelt on one knee and asked for punishment, this was indeed his negligence, he had only heard that the Shimazu family had close ties with the Ryukyu country, and no one had ever known that the Ryukyu family was also the Shimazu family's sphere of influence.

"I didn't think about that either. Get up! Forget it this time, and do the work more carefully next time! Geng Jingzhong waved his hand and said to Wang Zhenbang. Since there are also sailors from the Shimazu family here in the Ryukyus, although it is a small part, it can't be let go! Order, turn to the northeast, go straight to the Ryukyus, and destroy this Shimazu family's sailors! ”

Wang Zhenbang immediately ordered the banner to quickly convey Geng Jingzhong's order, and the whole army turned to the northeast and galloped straight to Ryukyu Island. Whether it is Kyushu Island in the Japanese Province or the Ryukyu Islands in the Ryukyu Kingdom, none of these places have been visited by the navy, so they are very unfamiliar to these places. "Do you know what the hell is going on in this Ryukyu country? Tell us about it! After Geng Jingzhong issued the order, he continued to ask the shopkeeper Gu.

It's no wonder that Geng Jingzhong doesn't know about Ryukyu, and in his impression, he still thinks that Ryukyu is Taiwan, but in fact there is a big difference. It's a pity that there is no such introduction in the history books of later generations, and the real Ryukyu was annexed by the Wa Kingdom before World War II! Therefore, this paragraph is missing from the history books.

Shopkeeper Gu didn't dare to slack off, their family was a maritime merchant of the times, and they were familiar with all parts of the East China Sea, and this Ryukyu country had been here many times, so they still knew it very well. "Hui Shizi, the little one knows the situation in this Ryukyu country."

"This Ryukyu country is said to be a country, but in fact, the territory is not as big as a county in Fuzhou! The history of the Ryukyus is quite long. Let's talk about the last few decades. Well, fifteen years ago, the king of the Ryukyus, King Shangzhi, sent envoys to the imperial court to ask for canonization, and Emperor Shunzhi made King Shangzhi the king of Ryukyu, making Ryukyu a vassal of the Qing Dynasty. But in fact, the Ryukyu Kingdom was a vassal to both the Qing Dynasty and the actual Satsuma Domain at the same time, and each time the tributary trade income with the imperial court was exploited by the actual suzerain, the Satsuma Domain. ”

"The current Sho Dynasty of the Ryukyu Kingdom has a history of two or three hundred years. The surname of the king of the Ryukyus was given by Ming Xuanzong of the former Ming Dynasty! At that time, it seemed to be called the 'First Shang Dynasty', but now I don't know how many generations it is. But just a dozen years ago. The previous king also went to the capital and received the canonization of Emperor Chongzhen. ”

Geng Jingzhong was also surprised. It turns out that there is such a history. The Celestial Empire, he only knows that North Korea is a subject country of the Celestial Empire, and he really can't remember anything else. "That's right! Today I have seen a lot more! You go on! ”

"Oh, this Ryukyu country has been sending students to the Guozijian in Nanjing and Beijing, as well as the Ryukyu Hall in Fuzhou to learn our official dialect since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, so the language of the Ryukyu country has been influenced by the Chinese Min language, especially our Fuzhou dialect, and now the official language of the Ryukyu Kingdom is still Chinese characters. Of course, it was the upper class of the Ryukyu Kingdom that used Chinese chronicles, and the lower class of ordinary people did not, and I have seen them write a strange script. I don't recognize it, though. ”

"Shizi, if you want to say that this Ryukyu is still good, back then, the Japanese invaded our coast on a large scale, and the king of the Ryukyus also sent their small army to help General Qi fight against the Japanese invaders! In addition, the Ryukyu Kingdom was a country that promoted trade, and trade was held in various places such as Korea, Siam, Champong, Vietnam, Luzon, and Batavia. Just like us, buy east and sell west! ”

Geng Jingzhong interrupted him when he heard this. "Then why is this Ryukyu country now subjugating to the Shimazu family, is it the Shimazu family that invaded them?"

"This can be said by you, the son of the world! Just 60 years ago. It was also during the Wanli period of the former Ming Dynasty, when the lord of the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Iehisa, sent the general Kayama Hisataka to invade the Ryukyu Kingdom. With 3,000 troops and more than 100 ships, he invaded the Ryukyu Kingdom from the Yamakawa Port on the island of Kyushu and captured Shurijo Castle, the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom, in just five days. A month and a half later, Kayama Hidaka captured the Ryukyu king Shoning and the prince's officials, totaling one or two hundred, before withdrawing his troops and returning home. Hey, it's also that this Ryukyu country is too small. There are too few soldiers. There were tens of thousands of soldiers, a few thousand soldiers. How to fight with the fierce Satsuma clan, you can only fail! Hey. Guess what, the reason why the Satsuma clan claimed to have invaded the Ryukyu Kingdom? Shopkeeper Gu asked with interest.

"Is it to build greater East Asia for co-prosperity?" Geng Jingzhong said casually.

"What is Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity?" The head of the Gu family was confused.

Geng Jingzhong reacted after speaking, and the topic ran away. "Nothing, I said it casually, you go on!" Wang Zhenbang on the side was sad, basically there was no chance for him to interject, so he could only prick up his ears and listen quietly, acting as the most loyal listener!

"Good!" Shopkeeper Gu continued: "The excuse of the Shimazu Satsuma Domain is that the Ryukyu Kingdom did not bear the military expenses of Toyotomi Hideyoshi when he invaded Korea, but he Satsuma Domain paid for it on his behalf, but the Ryukyu Kingdom "did not repay", which is really ridiculous. In fact, the Shimazu Satsuma Domain wanted to seize the trade interests between China and Ryukyu, and on the other hand, it was also to grab a large amount of goods from the Ryukyu Kingdom to compensate for the military expenses and losses incurred by the Satsuma Domain in the invasion of Korea and participation in the Japanese Civil War, that is, the Battle of Sekigahara. ”

"Wait, did you analyze it yourself, or did you listen to someone else?" Geng Jingzhong suddenly became interested, if he wants to die, these are all analyzed by the shopkeeper Gu in front of him, that is still a talent!

The shopkeeper Gu was stunned for a moment, and the table was too much? "The prince laughed, where do I have this ability, this is all said by the native people of the Ryukyu Kingdom, their kings, princes and hundreds of officials were all arrested by the Satsuma Domain, but the Ryukyu Kingdom turned upside down, and the Ryukyuan people all hate the Satsuma Domain. It's just that the strength is too poor, so you can only surrender. But when I usually complain, others still can't control it. The small ones I heard about when I was doing business with Ryukyu merchants. By the way, after the defeat of the Ryukyu Kingdom, it was forced to cede the Amami Islands in the north to the Satsuma Domain. ”

"Oh, that's right!" Geng Jingzhong nodded, and his head thought quickly. "Since this Ryukyu Kingdom is sandwiched between the Wa Kingdom and our Fujian, then use this place as a transit station, do you think the Ryukyu Kingdom will agree?"

"This, if the prince destroys the Satsuma domain, it is estimated that the king of the Ryukyus will agree to whatever the prince says!" Shopkeeper Gu said respectfully. The strength of the Mawei Navy is so strong, the Ryukyu Kingdom can't even beat the three thousand Japanese invaders, and it was almost wiped out.

"Hehehe!" (To be continued......)

PS: The first chapter has just been completed.,Now it's going to be presented immediately.,The second chapter is in the code word.,Please brothers later!