The identity is recognized. Deng Haonan denied it, but he didn't admit it, and the eunuch Xiao Liuzi and the Han general Tang Jing were also in the same direction.

However, the purpose of their visit was not to study the identity of Deng Haonan, but to convey the emperor and empress's secret decree of King Qin.

However, Deng Haonan was thinking in his heart. This secret decree was written by the empress, and whether it succeeded or failed, it had nothing to do with the emperor. If it succeeds, the emperor takes advantage, and if it fails, it is held by an empress.

What a calculation!

This is naturally Empress Zhang's calculation, but Deng Haonan thinks that it is Zhu Youxiao's bureau.

King Qin? It's a great honor! It's a pity that it's not justified, it's sneaky. Perhaps Zhu Youxiao was worried that Wei Zhongxian would take a risk and kill him, and now that the forbidden army in the capital is under the control of Wei Zhongxian's minions, it is understandable for Zhu Youxiao to be so careful. However, it was quite challenging to let Deng Haonan challenge Wei Zhongxian, who had the power of 200,000 forbidden troops.

Seeing that Deng Haonan didn't burn the secret decree, Xiao Liuzi had no choice, so he could only go back and lie that Deng Haonan had burned the secret decree.

From Xiao Liuzi, Deng Haonan learned a lot of unknown secrets about the imperial court and the palace. Since Xiao Liuzi did not have any wariness of Deng Haonan, Deng Haonan asked what he said. This made Deng Haonan embarrassed, and the little guy seemed to recognize himself and regarded him as his brother.

"Someone!"

Ding Da stepped forward, "My lord! ”

Deng Haonan said: "Take 1,000 taels of gold and load it on the car for the little sixth son!" ”

Xiao Liuzi hurriedly excused himself. Deng Haonan then said: "Don't tell anyone else about our affairs, this gold will give you back and take care of it!" ”

"Seventh brother!"

Xiao Liuzi's eyes flashed, and Deng Haonan smiled: "Call me Brother Nan, I'll see your seventh brother in the future!" ”

Xiao Liuzi nodded hurriedly, and said with a smile: "I understand!" ”

"What do you know?"

It was Tang Jing who spoke, Deng Haonan smiled faintly and said, "Congratulations to my father-in-law!" ”

Xiao Liuzi was stunned for a moment, suddenly understood, and arched his hand: "Thank you, Master Hou, our family will go back to restore their lives!" ”

With that, Xiao Liuzi turned around and left, and Deng Haonan saw him off and kept sending him to the car.

Tang Jing repeatedly tested Deng Haonan, but Deng Haonan just pretended not to know him. The other party is a marquis, and Tang Jing has no way to take Deng Haonan.

"No matter what, I hope that the Hou Ye can put the court first!"

Deng Haonan said with a smile: "The country is in trouble, Benhou will naturally not stand idly by!" ”

The imperial court is the emperor's court, but the country is the country of the people of the world, how could Tang Jing not hear the meaning of Deng Haonan's words.

Before he could say a few words, Deng Haonan said: "Doesn't the general have to escort his father-in-law back?" ”

Tang Jing turned around, but saw that the father-in-law of the little sixth son had already gotten in the car and set off, and when he turned back again, Deng Haonan had already left.

Returning to the Governor's Mansion, Deng Haonan quickly convened his subordinates to discuss countermeasures.

Lin Feng said with a smile: "Wei Zhongxian's power is huge, and the emperor has found the right person when he is looking for Hou Yeqin!" ”

Huang Zupei disagreed, and said: "The problem is that Wei Zhongxian controls 200,000 forbidden troops. How easy it is to talk about King Qin! If Wei Zhongxian accuses the marquis of rebellion, then there will be a big mess! ”

"Isn't there a secret decree from the emperor?"

Wang Zhaoyang's words made Deng Haonan smile bitterly.

"The emperor is so calculating!" Deng Haonan replied: "The secret decree was written by the queen, success is good, failure is just the sacrifice of a queen!" ”

Empty gloves white wolf!

Wang Zhaoyang smacked his lips, and the secret emperor really didn't give it for nothing.

Huang Zupei saw that Deng Haonan didn't care at all, so he asked, "Master Hou looks confident!" ”

Deng Haonan smiled faintly, this kind of thing can only be taken one step at a time, and it is just a move.

In fact, Deng Haonan was wondering in his heart. According to the history books, Zhu Youxiao soon hung up, and when she was dying, Empress Zhang used a kite to send a letter to Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters. And the king of letters, Zhu Youzhen, broke into the palace, but Wei Zhongxian controlled the 200,000 forbidden army but did not stop it, and let Zhu Youzhen succeed to the throne as emperor.

What is written in the history books is as simple as playing at home, and now that it is about to come to that moment, Deng Haonan wanted to wait and see what happened, but Zhu Youxiao let him enter the king of Beijing Qin, which made Deng Haonan a little puzzled.

"It is necessary to go to Beijing to report on work!"

This is undeniable by Deng Haonan, but whether he is diligent or not depends on the situation.

No matter how you call the wind and rain, Lao Tzu just can't be thundered, what can you do?

"Whoever wants to be the king of Qin will go, anyway, we don't take a cent from the court. Whatever! ”

“……”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, they didn't expect Deng Haonan to deal with an errand like this, it was the emperor's errand!

Huang Zupei said with a smile: "Master Hou thinks best!" If Hou Ye raises troops to serve the king, then no matter whether the people in the world are indiscriminate, they will spray at Hou Ye, and it is not a good thing to become the eye of the storm! ”

Lin Feng thought about it for a while, so he said: "The situation has not yet reached that point, I believe that many forces in the world are lurking in the dark, God knows which force Wei Zhongxian belongs to." If we stir up the situation lightly, we may offend the dark forces and be detrimental to us! ”

"Since this is the case, then why put this matter on hold and let the emperor go in a hurry!"

Deng Haonan shelved the matter of King Qin, and for the appointment of the governor of the three sides, Deng Haonan wrote to the imperial court, pushing the war with the Dutch was not over, and he could not go to the post, and asked the court to choose another talent. In the same way, the time to go to Beijing to report on the work was also postponed on the same grounds that there was no time to deal with the Dutch.

Ignoring the roar of the imperial court, the officials of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion were all frightened, and only Deng Haonan was leisurely alone, because he knew that Zhu Youxiao would hang up in a few months, so he was not afraid at all.

The problem of Taiwan was solved, and the issue of dealing with the Tokugawa shogunate was put on the agenda.

After learning that the Tokugawa shogunate had sued Deng Haonan to the Imperial Court, Deng Haonan was furious. The 4th and 5th Sentai of the Pacific Fleet were mobilized to Nagasaki and continued to shell Nagasaki and Hirado, and seeing that the Tokugawa shogunate had not accepted all 21 articles, the Pacific Fleet moved east to Edo Bay (Tokyo Bay). and shelled the piers of the coastal villages and put on a posture to attack Edo.

The Tokugawa shogunate was also greatly annoyed, but his arms could not reach his thighs, and the Japanese naval division was completely destroyed, and he could not compete with the Pacific Fleet at all.

With the Pacific Fleet bombarding for more than a month, all the villages and towns in the coastal areas of the Japanese country that were slightly more developed were destroyed, and the losses were heavy.

In mid-October, the Tokugawa shogunate finally couldn't take it anymore. All the envoys sent to the Ming Dynasty were intercepted, and the Ming court was unable to stop Deng Haonan's military operations. So on October 21, the Tokugawa shogunate finally agreed to the 21st article and sent the plenipotentiary minister Terasawa Hirotaka to the Kaneto Prefecture to sign the contract.

On October 28, Lin Feng, chief of the general staff of the Liaodong Governorate, signed the "Treaty of Jinzhou" with the Tokugawa Shogunate on behalf of the Ming government, and the Tokugawa Shogunate accepted all 21 articles, but the additional terms were changed, and the Liaodong Governorate did not want 2 million taels of silver as compensation, but cashed all into grain.

Terazawa Hirotaka was forced by the military pressure of the Liaodong Governor's Office and had to agree. After the signing of the same day, the Pacific Fleet ceased military operations.

On November 7, the Emperor of the Japanese Kingdom completed the final signature, and on the 11th, Deng Haonan signed on behalf of the Ming Empire, and the "Golden State Treaty" officially entered into force.

The compensation of the Tokugawa shogunate was nominally given to the Ming court, but in fact it all fell into the pocket of the Liaodong Governorate. The indemnity of two million taels of silver was replaced with grain. It has greatly consolidated the foundation of people's livelihood in the Liaodong Governorate.

The Tokugawa shogunate controlled most of the grain of the Wa Province (a quarter of the cultivated land in Ishitaka). During the Tokugawa period, the total stone height was 28 million to 30 million stone. The shogunate domain accounted for 7 million koku. Among them, 3 million stones are divided into flags and royal families, and 4 million stones are directly under the jurisdiction of the shogunate, called "Tianling". The "Heavenly Domain" is a land of abundance and is distributed throughout the country (47 out of 68 countries), especially in Kanto (29%), Tokaido (20%), and Kinai (18%).

With the signing of the Treaty of Golden State, the Tokugawa shogunate began large-scale purchases and requisitions of grain throughout the country. The Tokugawa shogunate's grain reserves were about 1.5 million koku, but this grain could not be moved, so it had to be collected from the shogunates in various places. According to the price of vomiting blood given by the Liaodong Governorate, once a tael of silver is rice, it really makes the officials of the Tokugawa shogunate vomit blood angrily.

The forcible collection of grain led to a sharp increase in the price of grain in the country. When the food was finally ready, the Tokugawa shogunate spent a total of six million taels of silver.

With the full opening of trade, Ming merchants in important cities such as the capital Edo, the traditional capital and handicraft center of Kyoto, the national market Osaka, the foreign trade center of Nagasaki, and Fushimi, Kai, Nara, and Hakata were able to enjoy super-national treatment as trade was fully opened. However, Ming merchants had to pay a fee equivalent to the Liaodong Governor's Office before they could enjoy supra-national treatment. In this way, it is equivalent to a large increase in the financial revenue of the Liaodong Governor's Office.

Taiwan's recovery has made Deng Haonan's ambition swell sharply, and his subordinates have a strong expansion mentality.

Under these circumstances, the Liaodong Prefecture began to extend its claws to the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The Ryukyu king Shang Feng was insatiable and imposed heavy taxes on the trade of the Pacific Trading Company in the Ryukyus, which was the main reason for Deng Haonan's attack on the Ryukyus. At the same time, Shuri, the capital of the Ryukyus, has an excellent port that can be used as an important military base and transit and supply station for the Pacific Fleet in the Black Water Ocean, and its strategic location is very important.

Only by controlling the Ryukyu Kingdom can the Liaodong Governorate be connected with the Taiwan Prefecture, facing the resistance to the Nanyang States in the south, and serving as the strategic column of the Liaodong Governorate in the north, and at the same time monitoring the Wa State and Korea.

On November 8, the envoy of the Liaodong Prefecture met with the Ryukyu King Shofeng and demanded the lease of all ports and wharves in Shuri Jinmu Bay, and at the same time demanded that the Ryukyu King exempt the Liaodong Governor's Pacific Trading Company from all taxes.

Shang Feng obviously did not realize that the war was approaching, and immediately vetoed the request made by the envoy of the Liaodong Prefecture, after all, the tax paid by the Pacific Trading Company in the Ryukyus was as high as 500,000 taels, which was enough for him to squander what he wanted to do for a long time.

His reluctance suddenly became the reason for the Liaodong Prefecture to start a war against the Ryukyu Kingdom.

On 12 November, the Pacific Fleet assembled at Jinwu Bay, and all the ships coming and going were detained, except for the merchant ships of the countries that had formed an alliance with the Liaodong Governorate, and the merchant ships of various countries withdrew from Jinwu Bay one after another. From noon, the Pacific Fleet began shelling ships in Jinwu Bay.

The heavy shelling lasted six hours, and all the trading ships in Jinwu Bay were shelled, destroying hundreds. When the king of the Ryukyus heard this, he did not realize the severity of the problem, and just sent the poor sailor out to fight.

However, the largest Ryukyu sailor was no more than 200 tons. And the training of the sailors was poor, and the whole army was wiped out with a single shot.

The fall of the Sailor made the Ryukyu king Shangfeng nervous. Knowing that the Liaodong Governor's Mansion had really come back, he immediately sent an envoy to negotiate.

Deng Haonan had already regarded Ryukyu as his own territory, so he did not allow negotiations. However, Deng Haonan also made concessions, as long as Shang Feng agreed that Ryukyu would become the sphere of influence of the Liaodong Governor's Office, and all the military and political power of the Ryukyus would be handed over to the Liaodong Governor's Office, he could let Shang Feng spend his old age in peace.

Shang Feng naturally disagreed, so how could he live his luxurious life.

The negotiations broke down, so Deng Haonan had to settle it by force.

On 14 November, the Pacific Fleet carried the Marines and attacked the three major vassal states of the Ryukyu Kingdom in three directions: the second Sentai attacked Shanbei Province, the third and fourth Sentai attacked Nakayama Province, and the fifth Sentai attacked Shannan Province.

Among them, next to Shannanguo is the Xiaonanshan Naval Base, and they surrendered the most happily. Before the arrival of the Fifth Squadron of the Pacific Fleet, Shannanguo had already been occupied by the 300 garrisons of Xiaonanshan Naval Base.

On November 15, the 2nd Sentai shelled Yanmei, the capital of Shanbei County, and the defenders, only 300 men, were crushed in less than 20 minutes in the face of a fierce attack by 1,000 marines, and the remnants of the defenders surrendered after a symbolic resistance. Before the Second Squadron could even transport the cavalry artillery to the island, the battle was over.

The only one that resisted fiercely was Shurijo Castle, the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was once the center of the Nakayama Kingdom and once a powerful place that unified the entire Ryukyu Kingdom.

Although many Ryukyuan people were dissatisfied with the king's corruption, when the Ming army invaded, they still resisted in unison.

Shuri Castle was very tall and no less large than the Jinshu Fortress, but there were too few artillery, and only four iron cannons were deployed on the four corner towers of the castle. Shurijo Castle had 2,000 defenders, which was quite a large number for the Ryukyu Kingdom, which had a population of only 200,000.

On 16 November, the 3rd and 4th Fleets of the Pacific Fleet covered the landing of the 1st Brigade of the Marine Division on the southern shore of Jinwu Bay.

On the 17th, the Marines routed 1,000 Ryukyu soldiers who had come to stop them 30 miles outside the eastern castle of Shuri, killing 70 people, taking more than 600 prisoners, and the rest missing.

On the 18th, the 1st Brigade of the Marine Division drove to the outside of Shuri Higashi Castle. The Ryukyu defenders launched an artillery attack, which at first made the marines' heart skip a beat. Because the sound of the opponent's artillery was really loud, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, it was much louder than the five-year field artillery of the Apocalypse of the Marine Division. However, then the Marine Division discovered that the opponent's artillery was thundering and raining, and the shells flew 300 meters before falling.

Two miles away, the commanders of the Marine Division of the Ryukyu Expeditionary Force were Colonel Jiang Chunhui, the brigade commander, and Colonel Liao Jianjun, the chief of staff. At this time, they rode outside the camp to observe Shuri Castle, and when they saw that the enemy's equipment and technology were far away, they immediately sighed and smiled.

"I don't think we need to wait for the cavalry artillery, let's attack it directly!"

Jiang Chunhui put down his clairvoyance, turned his head and said: "Our tactics have always been artillery bombardment, then cavalry charge, and finally it is our infantry's turn to clean up!" ”

"That's it!" Liao Jianjun smiled bitterly: "Every time the first credit is given to the artillery and cavalry, we infantry always drink soup!" ”

Jiang Chunhui said: "This time is different, the cavalry did not come, and it must be us who have made the first contribution to the attack on the city!" ”

As he spoke, the cavalry artillerymen had arrived. In this attack on Shuri, Deng Haonan used fifty artillery pieces. According to Deng Haonan's idea, only infantry could be used to go south to the Ryukyus. However, because Shuri Castle is a tall castle, it really can't be done without artillery.

Mounted artillery was deployed on the hillside south of the castle and began shelling Shuri Castle at 3 p.m.

Cannons roared, and shells whistled towards Shuri Castle. As the cannonballs landed on the city walls, they instantly smashed the masonry on the walls to pieces. Rubble was scattered, sand and dust were flying, and Shuri Castle was in chaos.

The Ryukyu defenders still mainly used knives and guns, accompanied by bows and arrows, rolling logs and stones, and a small number of firearms, all of which were melee weapons, and in the face of the Ming army's artillery, they could only be beaten. The only thing that can be taken on the table is the cannon on the corner platform. However, the artillery also failed to hit the artillery positions of the Ming army, but after firing several times, due to improper gunpowder matching and management, it caused an explosion, and dozens of Ryukyu defenders were killed on the spot.

Knock knock!

Shells whistled in, and the shelling hit a wall in the South Castle Kao Near East Castle. With each shelling, the shells shattered a large chunk of the wall. The defenders above were the most miserable, as the shells hit the masonry and caused a splash of rubble, inflicting a large number of casualties on them.

At ten o'clock, as more than a dozen shells whistled, the southern city wall suddenly collapsed. The opening more than ten meters long became a nightmare for the Ryukyu defenders.

At 5:20, as the 1st Brigade of the Marine Division formed an attack formation, the cavalry artillery stopped shelling.

Jiang Chunhui drew his command knife and ordered the siege of the city.

Without the protection of the castle, the rolling logs and stones of the Ryukyu defenders would not be useful. And the archers duel with the musketeers at a horizontal distance is simply looking for death.

"Fire!"

Bang bang bang!

The 1st Brigade of the Marine Division formed nine platoons and opened fire on the Ryukyu defenders. After two hours of shelling, the Ryukyu defenders on the southern wall had suffered most of the casualties, and there were only less than 200 regular troops. However, the king of the Ryukyus lacked the preparation to mobilize the common people to fight in the city, and there were many ordinary people who did not even know that the Ming army was attacking the city.

In fact, it's not that Shang Feng doesn't want to stop the people from resisting, one is that many people don't want to see him because of his corruption. The second is that he was not mentally prepared at all, and he did not expect the speed of the Ming army to be so fast.

The remnants of 200 soldiers were unable to resist the attack of the 1st Brigade and retreated, and finally the 1st Brigade entered the castle through the gap, and Shuri Castle fell.