It was already three days before I returned to Okinawa Oshima in the Ryukyus from the Twin Straits.

Li Yuanba spent a day to get a thorough understanding of the Twin Islands, and then spent another two days replanning the Twin Islands, during which he also unloaded two of the several Shenwei cannons on the battleship on a whim and placed them on the small cliff of the pirate's lair.

The distance from the cliff to the sea is completely within the maximum range of the Kamui cannon, so that you can attack enemy forces on the sea on the island.

And the scar-faced pirate leader Pride, who got these two Shenwei cannons, was even more ecstatic, if it weren't for the fact that Li Yuanba didn't have many Shenwei cannonballs left for him, I'm afraid that the experiment alone would have to run out of those cannonballs.

After that, more than half of the pirates on the twin islands were left behind, led by Stuttering Sea and Jin Toad, and as for Pride and those pirate elites specially selected by him, they returned to Guangyang City in Okinawa with Li Yuanba.

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The Lord's Mansion of Gwangyang City.

"So that's the case, but with the character of the second son, he will never let you go, so why do you bother to send you to death in person?"

The injuries on his body have almost healed, and with half a panda eye, he is trying to persuade Li Jiancheng to give up the idea of returning to the Tang Dynasty.

It seems that as soon as he came back, he went to Li Jiancheng and told all his questions.

Li Jiancheng, who was sitting opposite Chen Hua, shook his head and said: "It's not a way to hide like this, not to mention that I have been relieved of what happened back then, this time I returned to Chang'an, whether the second child imprisoned me or killed, everything will be natural!"

"But you know your body, so why don't you wait until you're better?" Chen Hua's face changed sharply, and he said, "With your physical condition, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear the humiliation of the second son!"

"That's it!" Li Jiancheng waved his hand and said, "It's like you just said the ground." I know my own body, and it's not going to be like that. But I also remind you, keep your mouth tight, don't let Yuanba know about this matter, otherwise, with Yuanba's temperament, he will do everything! ”

"But ......"

Chen Hua is one of the few people who knows Li Jiancheng's physical condition, to put it mildly, if Li Jiancheng cultivates himself from now on and doesn't ask about the world. At most, it will live for another three or five years.

"Nothing!" Li Jiancheng didn't seem to want to talk about this topic anymore, "I heard Yuanba say, the reason why you were captured by pirates this time was because of those Tang merchant ships?" ”

Chen Hua smiled bitterly when he heard this, and said, "Hey, don't mention it!" Eldest son, I was going to ...... that day"

By the time Chen Hua explained the whole thing to Li Jiancheng, it was already three poles in the morning.

"Big brother, are you done talking?" It's time for dinner. Li Yuanba slowly wandered to the City Lord's Mansion, intending to take Li Jiancheng to eat.

When I walked to the door, I happened to run into Li Jiancheng and Chen Hua, so I asked casually.

"Chen Hua has seen the fourth son!"

When Chen Hua met Li Yuanba. The look on his face was somewhat unnatural, after all, he had planned to deceive him before, and it was normal to be embarrassed now.

"Yuanba, I'm going to call you over there. Now that you're here, let's go to dinner together! Li Jiancheng saw Li Yuanba and immediately laughed.

"The eldest son, the fourth son. Just go, I've been away for so long, and there are still a lot of things to deal with, so I won't go with you! ”

was taken in a blink of an eye, but Chen Hua still couldn't let go, so he simply quit and left.

Li Jiancheng understood Chen Hua and waved his hand directly at him, but he kept walking in the direction of the dining hall behind him, he turned his head to look at Li Yuanba who was following closely by his side, and said:

"Yuanba, if you occupy the entire Ryukyu Islands, how do you plan to govern them? I've heard that you are completely a hands-off shopkeeper in Dengzhou, and all political affairs are handed over to the chief official Wang Jun, and the military affairs are handed over to Su Dingfang and Liu Renliang, the generals of Shenwuwei. You can't treat Ryukyu as if it were Dengju, right? ”

Not to mention that the eldest brother is like a father, Li Jiancheng can be regarded as having seen Li Yuanba through, and he is still a lazy person like more than ten years ago, not that he is incapable of doing a good job, but because of his personality.

Although Li Jiancheng's question seems to be asked at random, he pointed out an extremely solemn question, that is, the management of the Ryukyu Islands after the capture of the Ryukyu Islands.

Although the Ryukyu Islands do not belong to Li Yuanba now, it is only a matter of time.

Besides, the Ryukyu Islands are not based on the imperial court, it has no sense of belonging to the imperial court, and everything is considered Li Yuanba's private property.

Presumably Li Shimin also understands this truth, after all, it is so far away from the realm of the Tang Dynasty, even if Li Shimin has a heart, he is beyond the reach of the whip!

Fortunately, Li Yuanba has never been a person who has ambitions for power and the throne, and Li Shimin is also relieved to teach the Ryukyu Islands to Li Yuanba to take care of.

"Big brother, what would happen if you put all the Ryukyus in the hands of one person to manage?"

Li Yuanba did not answer Li Jiancheng's words directly, but asked a seemingly unrelated question.

"Self-reliance, of course!" Li Jiancheng replied almost without hesitation: "Throughout the ages, are there still few such examples?" Which of them is not in their own fiefdoms to loot the people's fat and ointment, strengthen themselves, and expand their forces, mercenaries self-respect! ”

"Big brother can see clearly!" Li Yuanba nodded and said: "So for the governance of the Ryukyu Islands, I plan to set up the Nanyang Metropolitan Protectorate, and the military and political affairs in the Metropolitan Protectorate will be separated, and the imperial court will send internal envoys to supervise it!"

"Nanyang Metropolitan Protectorate!" Li Jiancheng's eyes lit up and said, "Your kid's ambition to expand is not small!"

Li Yuanba laughed and said, "Big brother, I still want to hear your opinion!"

"You stinky boy, you want to trick me again!"

Seeing Li Yuanba's cunning expression, Li Jiancheng immediately understood that this kid was fighting his own little Jiujiu in his heart, and he was afraid that he had already thought of a way to deal with it.

When he thought of this, Li Jiancheng sorted out his language a little and said slowly:

"At present, the state of the Ryukyu Islands is not independent, and the same imperial court institutions as those in the Tang Dynasty must be established. Since the Ryukyus existed in the form of an archipelago, it was necessary to send the Ryukyus to an area divided into several prefectures so that the imperial court could manage them! ”

"Well, I agree with that, but what about food and population?" Li Yuanba nodded thoughtfully and said.

Indeed, for a newly occupied area, the main constraints on development are the problems of food and population.

Needless to say, the importance of food is needless to say, without food, even if there are few people, they will definitely starve to death.

As for the other point, it is the population, without the population, who will build and who will plant?

These two are the most important factors that limit the development of a local unit. (To be continued.) )