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Located between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the Ryukyu merchant ships were once active in the vast ocean stretching from Luzon, Siam, Malacca, Sumatra, Cambodia, and Java in the south, to Korea and in the north, and Fuzhou in China in the east. However, as a trade transit place that radiates China, North Korea, Japan and other three major countries in Northeast Asia, Ryukyu claims to have three provinces and 36 islands, but its land area is only equivalent to one province in China, and its population is only about 100,000.biquge.info The land is narrow and sparsely populated, which means that there is no force, and abundant wealth naturally brings peepers, just like the Ryukyus, who are holding gold in the downtown area, can protect themselves when China disdains, North Korea ignores, and Japan has no time, but with the end of Japan's Warring States period, a catastrophe struck.

In 1609, the Shimazu Domain, a daimyo under the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, invaded the Ryukyus on charges of "not sharing the military expenses of the Toyotomi clan for invading Korea, not thanking Satsuma for returning the Ryukyu drifting ship, and not doing enough to promote the Nimei trade", and plundered the precious items such as gold, silver, pearls, precious stones, sacrificial vessels, antiques, silk, and documents accumulated by the Ryukyu Kingdom over the past two hundred years, as well as more than 100 Ryukyu nobles, including the Ryukyu king, the younger brother, and the uncle, and then forced the Ryukyus to cede to the five islands of Kikai, Oshima, Tokuno, Yoron, and Okinoryobe. At the same time, he forcibly sent annual tribute, turning Ryukyu into a de facto colony of the Shimazu domain.

In 1644, at the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Ryukyu, who was dizzy because of the chaotic situation on the mainland, simultaneously declared himself a vassal to the Qing court in Beijing and Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty in order to contain Shimazu's further encroachment on Ryukyu.

"Give flags to the eagles and dragons." Looking at the horizon of the island that had appeared in the clairvoyant mirror, squad leader Chen Yi ordered. "Report to the team leader, Naha has arrived"

The sudden arrival of the Ryukyu side shook the Ryukyus side, and when the three Boy Scout sailor battalion warships approached the port of Naha, a 500-shiryūnakayama inspection ship in the style of a fortune boat rushed out and tried to intercept it.

"Sure enough, it's so daring!" Seeing this scene, Ma Yingpi sighed with a smile, and then ordered coldly. "Order the knight to open fire, and tell these two-faced and three-sworded Ryukyuan people how to obey the rules!"

The knight, who untied his cannon jacket, grabbed the wind, and the four guns on one side fired one after another, and the huge sound and the sky-high column of water suddenly lowered the seemingly imposing Ryukyu ship and stopped the oars for a long time, and then lowered a small boat from the inspection ship and slowly sailed towards the flying dragon and flying eagle, which did not seem to be dangerous.

"Where did you come from, the savages dared to trespass on the port and threaten the inspection!" Although the Ryukyuan people who climbed up the Flying Eagle along the rope ladder were stunned when they saw Ma Ying and the others' outfits, this did not prevent him from roaring in Fuzhou official dialect. "Don't you know that Ryukyu is a vassal blessed by the Qing Emperor?"

"Are you talking about the Tartars sitting in the city of Beijing?" Ma Ying laughed when she heard this. "Lao Tzu is the opposite, this is the prisoner!"

"You guys!" The inspector looked at the ill-intentioned sailors, and couldn't help but take a few steps back, and when his back pressed against the gunwale, he suddenly came to his senses, and immediately changed his color. "It turned out to be the lord of the kingdom from Dongning, and the villain didn't recognize it, but a few masters The ship seems to be a people, and this flag seems to have changed."

"Isn't it okay to change ships?" Xie Bao cross-examined. "Who are you, you have to take care of the ship change!"

"Don't dare, don't dare, the villain is Zhan Zhi'an, the general of the Ryukyu Shenkou side (note: equivalent to the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Industry) in Naha." Before Ma Ying and others came to Ryukyu, they had made up for the rank of Ryukyu for a while, and knew that the general affairs of Ryukyu were generally from the son of the eight grades and from the nine grades of Tsukutoshi (note: the sons of the Uri and the sons of Tsukudenok are the families representing the two kinds of scholars, the former is high, so the rank of the official is high, but the functions are the same), they are all red-crowned silver hairpins, known as the specific affairs of the red hat official. "Ask your lords?"

"This official Daming recruited hundreds of households under the command of the general's grandson." Since he now represents Dongning's face, Ma Ying does not have the arrogance just now when he returns the salute. "This official department is whaling at sea, and the supplies are exhausted, and I want to enter the port to rest, so I will sell some of the things I brought by the way, and I also asked the Red Riding Hood officer to lead the water into the port."

"Yes, yes!" Zhan Zhi'an is just an ordinary son of Li, and the Ryukyu Cong Eight Rank Officials can't be compared with the Ming Dynasty - even if there is only a corner of the Ming Dynasty left - the Zheng Six Rank Hundred Households, plus there are a lot of black cannons on the other side's ship, so he can't refuse Ma Ying's request at all. "It's just that there are still some ships in the harbor?"

The so-called ships of Shangguo certainly do not refer to the ships of Dongning, but to the Chinese ships from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and most of the owners of these ships are serving the Manchu Zonggui or the wealthy families of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"Don't worry!" Ma Ying gave him a reassurance. "They don't have a face, we still have a face, and it will definitely not become a dispute in your country." Zhan Zhian finally let go of his heart, but Ma Ying's next sentence made his heart beat wildly. "If there is really a dispute, the account will not be settled here by you, and it will be calculated when you go to sea." Zhan Zhi'an was confused and didn't know how to interface, and at this time Ma Ying raised his eyebrows. "Zhan Tongshi, you understand the foundation and intention of the rest of the people, it's time to bring water into the port."

"Ahh Zhan Zhian was taken aback, but Ma Ying's gaze was like a blade, and he couldn't help prevaricating. "Xiaguan will go back and make arrangements"

In fact, the Qing court maintained the suzerain-vassal relationship between the Qing and Ryukyu only to maintain the face of the coming dynasty of all nations, but in fact it was completely indifferent to the importance of the geographical location of the Ryukyus, and this indifference instead caused the unprecedented prosperity of the port of Naha, and there were not only more than a dozen Chinese ships such as sand boats, fortune boats, Hirobunes, and bird ships in the port, but also three or four from Japan (Note: the Japanese-Ryukyu trade belonged to the Satsuma Port, which was the only foreign port after Japan's closure of the country other than Nagasaki and Tsushima -- there was also a Ezo Mouth - As a result, the Satsuma clan amassed considerable financial resources, and eventually became one of the shogunate's gravediggers) Sekibune and Ataku ships, as well as Korean, Siam, and Annam ships, but the merchant ships of Luzon and Franc Giyi, which often came and went, disappeared this time.

"A third of the sailors of each ship take turns to go ashore to rest." Ma Ying and Karl, who has already learned Hokkien? Feng? Captain Sedin Horen deliberated a few words and made a decision. "Chen Yi, Xie Bao, and Chu Jin are the three of you leading the team, Huo (En) teaches Xi, and you and Ka Jiaoxi accompany Yu to walk on the street."

Ma Ying's visit to the Ryukyus this time was not because of the exhaustion of supplies, as he said to Zhan Zhi'an, but specifically to test the sales of whale oil candles, whale bones, shark skins, and kun skins.

Turning around on the street, Ma Ying found that the sale of whale bones was the worst, and the prices of all parties were not even as much as the Yinggui Li Merchant House on North Shanwei Island, so they would definitely be eliminated when they sailed next time, shark skin and kun skin were welcomed in Japanese merchant houses, but because Japan had not fought for many years, the number of absorbers was not very much, but the whale oil candles dumped at the price of four cents a piece were the most popular, even if they knew that Ma Ying was from Taiwan, the merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang still grabbed this bargain, So much so that in the blink of an eye, the load of nearly 30 tons of the three ships was emptied.

"A candle costs four yuan, and this time I brought a total of 500,000 candles, which is almost two million yuan, and one penny weighs four yuan, that is, 5,000 catties of copper." Ma Ying's algorithm actually has a big problem, no one will just pay copper coins and ingots without choosing more convenient gold and silver. "Just made ballast."

"Your Excellency!" Ma Ying, who came to a conclusion, was contentedly eating ramen that was rare at sea, and Carl and Horn beside him had already been seduced by the street girl, but his comfort did not last long, and a sailor who stayed behind hurriedly came over. "My lord, it's not good!"

Although Ryukyu and Dongning are not far away, but after all, it is a foreign land, as soon as Ma Ying heard that it was not good, she immediately got anxious, and she didn't care that there was still juice on her lips, so she stood up at once, and asked impatiently, "What's wrong?" How's it going on this side of the ship? ”

"The ship was fine, but the first brothers who came ashore were beaten." The sailors also came out of the boy boy camp, so although they were in a hurry, the words of the exit were still orderly. "Squad leader Chen took the brothers shopping, Yiren taught to eat and drink to find women, the brothers watched the scenery on the street, but they didn't expect to meet a team of Japanese businessmen, and somehow they collided, and the Japanese scolded us for being slaves of the country, and the result was a fight." The Japanese walked on the streets of the city with knives, gathered crowds to roar, and swaggered through the city was originally a harm to the Ryukyus, but the Ryukyuan people could not afford to provoke the Japanese, and the Japanese became more and more rampant. "Xiao Shiro went up to persuade the fight, but was slashed by the Japanese with a knife, the brothers went back to the ship to take revenge with weapons, and were stopped by Squad Leader Xie and Squad Leader Chu, no, the big guy was angry, and sent a few of me out to find an adult to call the shots."

As soon as he heard that his own people were injured and cut, Ma Ying's eyes turned red: "Is Song (Matsumoto) Hirahiko's injury serious?" ”

"The doctor on the ship saw it, and it was enough to choke, even if he could leave a life, he would have to recuperate for more than a year." It's okay not to say this, but as soon as she said it, Ma Ying's face was distorted, and seeing that the situation was not good, the sailor hurriedly spoke. "Team leader, hurry back to the ship, if you don't go back, the two squad leaders may not be able to stop squad leader Chen."

"Go back!" Ma Ying took out a few copper coins from his arms and threw them on the table in the restaurant, but he only took two steps before he stopped. "You go and get a few teachers back, and by the way, find out whether this gang of Japanese who committed murders is a merchant or a resident, and if so, when will their ship sail, remember, don't leave the tail of your hand!"

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