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Zhang Qizhong, who was ordered to go first, had only thirty people in his hands, including himself, and only two Qiongzhou soldiers absconded from Zhenhaimen in the west of Yazhou City, but Zhang Qizhong was not disappointed in the future, in order to create momentum, he first drew Dinglafu in the nominal control area of the Zheng army east of the Ningyuan River, coerced some gentry, regimental training, clans, and villages to provide soldiers, and actually let him expand his strength to 200 people, which is almost the same scale as Tian Chao's own team, and even more, He also brought in a few donkeys and mules to form a small "horse team". (If you like this book, please bookmark biquge.info)

After the expansion of the army, Zhang Qizhong waved his army across the river and broke into the coastal area of Yazhou Bay, although there were also deserters, but at this time Zhang Qizhong showed his ruthless side, and completely shocked the whole army with the heads of seven deserters. After Liwei, Zhang Bu slowly marched all the way, bluffing while extorting food and wages from a number of villages that had closed their forts and defended themselves, and in the name of disobeying Wang Shi, he attacked two villages in succession, so that the news that Zheng Jun was preparing to attack on a large scale spread like wildfire.

Zheng Qiaozhu, the deputy general of the Qingya Prefecture Association who retreated to gratitude, originally thought that he could calmly prepare for a counterattack on Yazhou when the reinforcements from Guangdong Province arrived and the Zheng army contracted the front, but suddenly heard that thousands of Zheng troops came to take gratitude, and couldn't help but be shocked.

Of course, the typhoon forced the Zheng army's warships to retreat to the front line of Lehui Boaopu to take shelter from the wind, but before that, the under-armed Zheng army's sailors still sank and destroyed 21 follow-up ships of the Qing army transporting supplies, and captured the other three, obtaining hundreds of stones of rice grain, pigs, raw sheep and wine.

On 23 June, the typhoon departed, and a series of skirmishes between Zheng and Qing began between Huitong and Wenchang, and between Lehui and Anding, usually on a scale of sentry and below. Due to the mountainous and hilly nature of Qiongzhou and the roads that have been in disrepair, both sides are often exhausted by such skirmishes.

On the ninth day of July, another typhoon swept through the periphery of Qiongzhou, and after two days of heavy downpour, He Fu presided over a military meeting in Qiongzhou's capital. At the meeting, a group of Qing army generals were at loggerheads over which offensive route to choose, and finally He Fu made a final decision and decided to march through the Anding Middle Road with 15,000 people from the main Hunan and Guizhou coalition forces and the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners garrisoned in Guangzhou, and 5,000 people from the Guangdong Army and the Gui Army to take the Wenchang East Road, while the original Qiongzhou Green Battalion and the local regiment trained about 4,000 people to reinforce Changhua and Thanksgiving through the Chengmai and Lingao West Roads

"What's the matter?" Ma Chaozhi, who was in charge of the tax revenue of the Ryukyu Kingdom, was originally one of the so-called table fifteen people (note: equivalent to the ministers of various ministries), and the purple crown and the gold stem and silver hairpin of the flower arrangement all symbolized his majesty, but at this moment, he was snorting angrily and even ignored the scattered beard, which showed how high the anger in his heart was at this moment. "Then the Zheng family collects sea taxes from merchant ships from various countries to and from Naha, and we have pretended to be deaf and dumb, but now even the Ryukyu ships that come and go have to collect taxes, they are too domineering." Ma Liangzhi asked at the side of the lock in charge of foreign affairs. "Chicheng pro-Fang An Ruo, how did you negotiate with the merchant hall in Dongning?"

"Qin Fang An" is the name of the head of the Mao Chicheng family (note: equivalent to the word), and throughout the period of the Second Shang Dynasty of the Ryukyus, the Weng family, the Ma family, the Mao Chicheng family and the Mao family Toyomi Castle served as the three officials, so the people at that time called these four families and the royal family Xiang clan as the "Ryukyu Five Surnames" or "Ryukyu Five Famous Families", so the new city pro-Fang Anruo with the Han name Mao Enshou is equal to the status of Ma Liangzhi, whose name is Nakai Shinkinaka Liangqian, in terms of both the family and the current status. So you don't have to look at the other person's face to act.

"Ma Liangzhi, Dongning is now talking about the Imperial Lord Kana Zhiqian (note: the king of the Ryukyus) accepting the canonization of the Qing court." Mao Enshou's words are actually full of helplessness. "We are a small country, sandwiched between the powerful countries that want to dominate the mainland, what else can we do except compromise and seek perfection, is it possible, are you going to seal the merchant hall in Dongning, and arrest the merchants of Dongning?" Mao Enshou shook his head. "Now that Dongning has ordered the ships of the Taixi countries and Siam not to enter the Naha trade, if there is a complete blockade of Naha, won't the state be even more insufficient."

"But our income was originally going to be exploited by Satsuma, and now it is being exploited by Dongning, so what are the benefits?" Ma Liangzhi's words also make sense, after the Amami Islands were seized by Satsuma, the Ryukyus could only rely on entrepot trade to die, and now even the entrepot trade has to be taken away by Dongning, and the Ryukyu Kingdom has indeed reached the moment of life and death. "The people of the country are going to change the waves, but the property they have to hand over to others, this, this, how can they serve the people."

"What if we give up the Qing Kingdom and continue to obey the Ming Emperor?" In charge of port affairs, household registration, civil, public security, fire protection, religion, and construction, the head of the berth is built on the side. "I don't want to come to Dongning to intercept my merchant ships, right?"

"How is that possible?" Mao Enshou shook his head. "Let's not say how the Qing Emperor will react when he learns about it, even if we obey the Ming Dynasty again, Dongning, which lacks financial resources, will also accept our money, at most in a different name."

"What then?" Several of the other members of the table fifteen also began to talk about it. "Can you try to get Satsuma to come forward?"

"It's also impossible," Mao said with a wry smile. "How can Satsuma be hostile to Dongning?" Of course, there is a reason for this, not to mention that the shogunate now strictly prohibits the Japanese feudal domains from using swords without authorization, even if they are extraordinarily gracious to let Satsuma come forward, it is still a question whether Satsuma, who has been in peace for a long time, is willing to come forward on behalf of the Ryukyus to talk to Toning, who wiped out tens of thousands of Qing troops. "I guess I reluctantly asked him to come forward, and the benefits of extortion are also staggering."

"What if the Satsuma ship is also required to pay the sea tax by Toning?" The purpose of managing state-owned property and mountains and forests is to put forward a hypothesis. "Do you adults still remember, a few years ago, the mysterious disappearance of the Satsuma ship, we may be able to say that we found evidence, it was Dongning's hand, in this way, will the Shimazu family still be able to sit still?"

"Unfounded, in case of goofs?" As one of the three law divisions (note: that is, the three officials), the party led hurriedly stopped. "When the time comes, whoever makes a move, Ryukyu will have only one way to lose the country, which is inappropriate, extremely inappropriate."

The three officials are the highest officials in the Ryukyu court under the regent, and their status is equivalent to the three princes and three divisions in China, but unlike the regents, who only have a symbolic status and are in charge of ceremonies, the three officials have the highest power in the Ryukyus, and as the name suggests, there are three people in total, who are elected by the relatives (note: the Ryukyu rank, the highest title in the Ryukyu clan, and cannot be hereditary). More than 200 people had the right to vote, including the Ryukyu royal family and the high-ranking nobles. The royal family only has the right to vote, not to be elected. The three selected people are responsible for the three responsibilities of using the place, giving the place, and bringing the party, and the grades range from the first grade to the second grade. However, in 1611, Satsuma forced the Ryukyus to sign the "掟fifteen jo" (掟五ヶ article), which stipulated that the position of three officials could only be held by people who were inclined to the Satsuma sect, so from then on the three officials were nominally the most senior officials of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and in fact became agents of the Satsuma clan ruling the Ryukyus.

"Neither left nor right, do you want to see Ryukyu sitting still?" Ma Chaozhi got up angrily, shook his hand, and walked out angrily, looking at his back, Mao Enshou raised his eyebrows slightly, and then narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, but the others obviously didn't notice his expression, just sighed

That night, Mao Enshou quietly visited Ma Chaozhi. Ma Chaozhi was very surprised by Mao Enshou's sudden visit, but after all, everyone was in a near-top position, and the city still had this, so he talked for a while, until Mao Enshou asked to retreat from everyone, and the conversation between the two entered the main topic.

"Actually, I thought there was a way to save the Ryukyus." Mao Enshou said straight to the point. "It's just a bit of an adventure."

"Adventure? If we don't take the risk, sooner or later the Ryukyus will be wiped out by the withering of trade. Ma Chaozhi replied firmly. Adults still don't sell it, when is it, let's talk straight. ”

"If the Amami Islands are recovered from Satsuma, do you think there is still a chance of life?"

"There are tens of thousands of acres of sugar fields in the Amami Islands, and with the benefits of cane sugar, it can ease the Ryukyus, but how can Satsuma Shimazu be willing to return these benefits to the Ryukyus, and the adults are counting on praying with them, I am afraid that the bamboo basket will be empty."

"Let's talk to Dongning, on the condition that I reclaim my vassal to the Ming court and pay the sea tax, how about asking the Shangguo to help recover the islands?" Mao Enshou didn't say this, but wrote it in water, for no other reason, firstly, Satsuma had a lot of eyeliner in the Ryukyus, and secondly, he was also afraid that Ma Chaozhi would turn around and sell himself.

"Counting on Dongning?" Ma Chaozhi took a breath. "The Zheng family is a pirate, what if the front door drives wolves and the back door enters the tiger? No, no, it's too risky, and besides, I heard that Tonyeong's business in Nagasaki is doing so well, so why should he give up his business in Japan and stand out for us. ”

"I thought that Toning could turn against Satsuma, but Edo would never turn against Toneh." Mao Enshou has also thought about it repeatedly. "First, now that the Qing Dynasty has banned the sea, only the Dongning family can provide the goods demanded by Japan. Second, the merchants of Osaka and Edo had long been dissatisfied with Satsuma's monopoly on the trade of Satsuma, and they had beaten Satsuma, not Sandu (Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka). "The power of wealthy businessmen is great, this is one aspect, and the key is the third factor." In the end, Satsuma is powerful, and whether Edo's position will be shaken is not something that the old middle school wants to see. ”

"There is some truth in the words, but can you convince Dongning?"

"How do you know if you don't try," Mao Enshou stared straight at Ma Chaozhi. "It's just that there are a lot of collusions in Satsuma in the country now, and if the matter is not secret, disaster will befall in the blink of an eye."

"Then the adult came to find a certain family today, but he is not afraid that a certain person will poke this matter out?"

"The Lord is the pillar of the country, I can trust the Lord, and if you and I join forces, it is not enough to believe in Dongning."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Listen to me, sir"

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