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Since Ma Liangzhi and Mao Enshou reached a tacit understanding with the Ming and Zheng sides, the Ryukyu merchant ships became the only foreign trade ships that could sail into the Zhejiang Customs and the Jiang Customs, and these Ryukyu ships usually transferred the goods designated by the Ming and Zheng sides such as raw silk, silk, and tea to Penghu and then purchased Southeast Asian and Taixi goods and returned to Naha, so that the Satsuma clan could not intervene in the most lucrative silk trade, which naturally caused the dissatisfaction of the Shimazu family. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the biquge.info of Wèn Aishang Novel Network)

Under these circumstances, the Satsuma clan threatened the Ryukyu shipowners to transport the silk from the mainland back to Naha, otherwise the possibility of sending troops again could not be ruled out, but Ma Liangzhi, who had been promoted to the position of "Yifang" (management of national property and the management of mountains and rivers), deliberately sheltered the shipowners and refused to carry out the orders of the Satsuma clan, thus causing resentment of the Shimazu family.

In March of the 41st year of the Eriga calendar, with the support of the Shimazu family, Mao Chaoen (Yomitanyama pro-Fang Shengyasu), who had always been close to Satsuma's [Garichi] (management of the payment of servants and travel expenses), forced King Shozhen to dismiss Ma Liangzhi from his post and transfer him to King Shozhen's step-concubine Magami according to Siganashi's father, Fang Anguo (Fang Quantun of the sixth Ritsu clan of the Fang clan), who succeeded him as the [Yiyi Fang].

However, for the purpose of defending the Shang family, Fang Anguo continued to perfunctory his demands on Satsuma, so that the amount of raw silk and silk fabrics imported from Satsuma continued to hover at a low level every year, so that Satsuma's trade status declined year by year, and the financial resources of the once-prominent Satsuma Shimazu family gradually became difficult.

In order to avoid the financial bankruptcy of the domain, Satsuma demanded that the Ryukyus provide the amount of annual tribute in June of the 42nd year of the Erigai calendar, expanding the amount of rice from 8,000 koku to 12,000 koku per year, and giving 3,600 taels of silver in kind such as cloth and furs other than rice.

Out of fear that Satsuma would be insatiable, Mao Enshou and others once again pleaded with the Ming and Zheng sides for protection, but at this time, the Zheng army was preparing for the Qing army's attack on Taiwan in the three provinces, so there was no spare strength to support the Ryukyu side, and the Ryukyu were forced to continue to endure the exploitation of the Shimazu family.

However, after October of that year, the Zheng army defeated the Qing army's three provincial water divisions, and the shape suddenly changed.

In the first month of the 43rd year of the Eyori calendar, Ming Zheng officially changed the original merchant hall in Naha into the Kokushin Embassy, and the newly appointed Kokushin envoy Ho Zhiju paid homage to King Shozhen at the beginning of his tenure and openly announced that he would protect Ryukyu from foreign invasion. Next, the ecstatic Mao Enshou and Fang Anguo immediately launched a coup d'état, deposing the pro-Japanese Mao Chaoen, Mao Longda (Miri pro-Fang Anji) and other two three law ministers and six practitioners (table 15).

Ma Liangzhi, who had returned to power as the head of the land, first informed Satsuma that the annual tribute would be restored to the amount of the 41st year of the Yongli calendar, and then drove out all the people sent by Satsuma to the Ryukyus.

The Shimazu clan was furious at the sudden toughness of the Ryukyu side, but at this time it was no longer the Shimazu clan when the first feudal lord was alive for a long time, and the samurai in the domain were inevitably affected by decades of Seihei, and the domain was hit by floods and droughts one after another, resulting in a poor harvest in the domain, so the Shimazu family did not have the strength to clash head-on with the Zheng army, which had just defeated the Qing army and was demoralized, so they were forced to endure it.

Seeing the unusual weakness of the Satsuma people, the Ryukyu side rejoiced and at the same time gave birth to further thoughts. In the first month of the 44th year of the Eyori calendar, the Ryukyus announced that they would reduce their annual tribute to Satsuma by half, and at the same time no longer sell brown sugar, raw silk and other goods to Satsuma.

In 1687, Shimazu Tsunaki, who succeeded him as the governor of the family, made a final decision at the meeting of the elders held in April of that year and sent troops to attack the Ryukyus. In November of that year, the Shimazu family assembled a "huge" fleet of 27 Ataka ships and Sekibunes, and recruited 4,000 troops, including ronin, to attack the Ryukyus.

Before the Satsuma army's crusade was approved by the shogunate, Ming Zheng's merchant house in Nagasaki had already learned the relevant information, so the Fuba fleet had already monitored the Satsuma ports after the wind season, waiting for the Shimazu family to sail, and the fleet had just sailed to the waters of the Sanan Islands south of Motonoshima, and the Zheng army's notification ship had already transmitted the news back to Dongning.

Zheng Kezang, who inspected the counties of Taiwan again, received the news of the Shimazu family sending troops in Tamsui, and instructed the sailors to respond to the battle after a little weighing, but at that time, the main force of the Fubo fleet was either patrolling in Fujian and Guangdong provinces or strengthening the front line of Zhoushan as a fast transport ship, and there was not much strength to be drawn out, so Lin Sheng ordered the Keelung team to raise sails and attack.

Although a large number of bird boats, fortune boats, and sand boats were still retained as teaching boats, the two dhows that were originally used for teaching soft sailing ships had already been replaced by four 4,000-material iron-bone gunboats by the Guangnan Detachment -- Huang Chuxu, who was ambitiously preparing to upgrade the Keelung team to a detachment of the Sailor Academy, was worried that he would not have a chance, and now the people of Shimazu naturally laughed at it.

On November 26, the 44th year of the Yongli calendar, Huang Chuxu personally led four sailing gunboats and three notification ships to the Ryukyus, and encountered the fleet of the Satsuma clan in the waters of Nonjima, Iheiya Island, Nofu Island, and Yanaha Island. The rest ran aground on affiliated islands such as Yijiang Island, and were finally captured by Zheng's army or starved to death on the desert island.

After the landing of more than 300 Satsuma troops who were lucky enough to escape, they were unwilling to be defeated, and they marched all the way forward, attacking the division along the way, but it frightened some of the Ryukyu people, and the important town of Ryukyu Mountain North (note: the main island of Ryukyu is divided into three parts: Shanbei, Zhongshan, and Shannan, which are historically known as the three provinces), also fell into the hands of the Shimazu family.

The Ryukyu court, which received the flood report, panicked, and Ma Liangzhi and Mao Enshou went to the official residence of the messenger of Ming Zheng Guo in a hurry to ask for help. He Zhizhou then sent someone to report to the Keelung team who returned to Naha after the victory in the naval battle, and Huang Chuxu, who was red-faced, led the team to go north again, and unloaded 400 apprentices in the city of Nago to prepare for the battle.

The Satsuma army didn't know that the Zheng army was going and returning, and they were ready to use 300 people to create a miracle of zào, and after they ruined the city of Nakihito to the point where it was not in shape, they patted their butts and went all the way south. As a result, after only one day of travel, he ran headlong into the sailors of the Zheng army at the fork in the road leading to the castle of Hachi Nari and Namo. Although most of the soldiers in the Zheng army were young sailors and alternate military attachés in their teens, the newborn calves were not afraid of tigers, and they had just won the previous naval battle, so they were full of morale and high morale. On the other hand, although the Satsuma army was given a short rest, on the one hand, the lost morale was not so easy to recover, and on the other hand, they became a lone army, and they also lost vital gunpowder and other arms supplies, so they could not help but riot when facing the Zheng army. With such an addition and subtraction, the outcome of the battle is naturally self-evident. When the last of the defeated and scattered Shimazu Ashigaru fell under siege by the Ryukyuans, the battle that would determine the future of the Ryukyus came to an end.

The victorious Ryukyu side hurriedly abolished the last bit of annual tribute to Satsuma and announced the abolition of the "15 Articles of Oath" imposed on the Ryukyu side by Satsuma. However, the Ryukyus side's request for support from the Ming and Zheng sides to recover the Amami Oshima Island that had been ceded by Satsuma was rejected by the Ming and Zheng sides, whose main forces were still fighting in eastern Zhejiang.

As for Satsuma, as long as the news of the total annihilation of the expeditionary force was learned from the mouth of the Ming Zheng merchants in Nagasaki at the end of December of that year, the Shimazu people, who had suffered a great loss, naturally did not do it, and in addition to gathering troops and horses in the whole territory, they also sent people to Edo again to demand justice from the shogunate, drive out the Ming Zheng merchants in Nagasaki, and confiscate their goods to compensate for the loss of Satsuma.

Seeing that Satsuma's strength was reduced, the shogunate, who was very worried about the outside world, was naturally secretly happy, coupled with the strong opposition of the Sandu merchant group of the silk cut Nakama, so the shogunate was reluctant to come forward to fall out with the Ming Zheng side, and the general Tsunayoshi, who was ruined by Fushou Ointment, issued the "Decree of Mercy for Life" one after another in order to seek his descendants, and he was not allowed to have swords and blood in Japan, so Satsuma's request was finally lost.

Seeing that the shogunate was unwilling to make decisions for himself, the Satsuma clan hated it so much that it planned a second crusade against the Ryukyus at the beginning of February of the 45th year of the Eiryo calendar, but Satsuma's troop carriers could not leave Cape Sata, not only could the troop carriers not get out of Cape Sata, but even the merchant ships and fishing boats that passed in Satsuma Bay were shelled by the Zheng army at will, and the people of Shimazu were extremely indignant but helpless. Since the army could not be dispatched, it could not be kept for a long time to waste food, not to mention that the shogunate was still eyeing and preparing to correct the mistakes, so after a month of stalemate, the Shimazu family could only give up the conquest of the Ryukyus without a goal.

Seeing that they could not send troops to the sea and that the shogunate ignored them, the Shimazu family sent ronin to cause chaos in Nagasaki, slashing and slashing Ming Zheng merchants one after another, and even the mansions of Zheng Ming and others were harassed. The Zheng army successively captured Amami Oshima, the Sanan Islands, Kuchinagarabu Island, Yakushima Island, and Iwo Jima, and even the Tanegashima Island of the old Tanegashima family of the Satsuma family was captured by the Zheng army.

Forced by the aggressive offensive of the Zheng army, the Shimazu clan was forced to succumb, and the two sides negotiated in Satsuma Bay, and in the end, the Shimazu family gave up all their interests in the Ryukyus, including Amami Oshima, and Ming Zheng returned the Satsuma Islands, so that the Shimazu family's career was in vain, and what made the Shimazu people even more frustrated was that the Satsuma Pass was completely closed, Shimazu cut off a large source of wealth, and the prices of brown sugar and snow sugar in Japan also rose steadily

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