Now Li Yuntian's words couldn't help but arouse this desire in the depths of Alu's heart, he understood what Li Yuntian meant, Li Yuntian was persuading him not to limit his eyes to more than 20 villages, and he also had this intention.

Besides, just like Li Yuntian said before, the whole world is under the emperor's majesty, and the Xuanfu Division on Xiaoliuqiu Island naturally has to accept the management of the imperial court, and Alu has no ability to confront Li Yuntian at all, if he doesn't agree, a war will definitely break out at that time.

Aru felt that Li Yuntian was not a treacherous and cunning person, so he thought that Li Yuntian did not want to annex the twenty or so villages under his command, otherwise he would never treat him politely and did a lot of good things to the villagers, he was willing to believe Li Yuntian.

In fact, Li Yuntian's behavior of letting people give gifts to Alu and help the villagers of those villages made many people feel puzzled, Alu is just a self-proclaimed king, and there are only more than 20 villages under his command, which is equivalent to a township in the countryside of Daming at best, Li Yuntian has no need to be so polite to these natives.

But Li Yuntian warned those people to treat Aru with courtesy, after all, everyone will be a Ming person in the future, and don't regard him as an uncivilized barbarian.

The so-called upward and downward effect, under Li Yuntian's example, the people who speak martial arts no longer dare to despise and despise those people who were originally regarded as barbarians, after all, they are also the people of the Great People, so they must be treated equally, only in this way can the two sides truly integrate together.

Because Alu came just in time for the Chinese New Year, Li Yuntian left him in Jilong Town, which has undergone earth-shaking changes compared with half a year ago, not only there is a large barracks on the left and right sides of the town, but also many new buildings have appeared in the town.

According to Li Yuntian's final plan, a new city will be built on the basis of Jilong Town, explaining that Jilong City will become the most important city on Xiaoliuqiu Island.

Aru was very interested in the integrated treasure ship moored in the harbor, so Li Yuntian specially led him to take Zheng He's treasure ship around the sea, in Alu's opinion, the boat was extremely smooth on the water, like walking on the ground, he could hardly believe that this ship was man-made, and it could completely load the people of a village with livestock.

Not only that, Li Yuntian also showed Aru the machinery that Jiangwutang set up in Jilong Port to load and unload goods, with the help of those machinery, a person can easily lift goods that a few people can't lift before, which is convenient and fast, which makes Aru is too eye-opening and touches a lot.

Under Li Yuntian's construction, Alu is ready to select a group of children from the village to be sent to the lecture hall for further study, which is a rare opportunity for him who has always admired the culture of the Ming Dynasty, you must know that in the past, only the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty could send students to the country, and Li Yuntian took the initiative to train the children in the village, which made him excited and excited, in his opinion, this is a golden opportunity.

Li Yuntian has always believed that the attitude towards any problem is to dredge rather than block, so if you want Aru, the indigenous people on Xiaoliuqiu Island, to really integrate into the Ming Dynasty, you must treat them politely and treat them equally, so that they can have a sense of belonging in their hearts.

And Aru did not live up to Li Yuntian's hopes, and led his 20,000 or 30,000 indigenous residents to join the Ming Dynasty and officially became the people of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why it is official here is because after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Penghu Inspection Division did not effectively control the area where Alu was located, so the indigenous people of Alu were actually outside the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise Alu's parents would not have stayed here when Ming Taizu issued the edict to move inland, and the Penghu Inspection Division did not count it among the people under its jurisdiction.

It was not until the middle and late Ming Dynasty that the Ming court attached importance to Xiaoliuqiu in order to crack down on the Japanese invaders, and a large number of immigrants to the island gradually realized the integration of ethnic groups on Xiaoliuqiu Island.

On the night of the Lantern Festival, a grand lantern exhibition was held in Jilong Town, attracting many people in the town to go out to see the lanterns.

In order to bring out the festive atmosphere, Li Yuntian asked the Ming army sailors in Jilong Town and the yamen of Jiangwutang to make lanterns in company-level departments, and selected those lanterns to select "lantern kui", rewarding 100 taels of silver, 70 taels of lists, and 50 taels of flowers.

Because Li Yuntian gave a rich hanging red, it attracted many people in the town to participate in this lantern festival, and racked their brains to make lanterns that they thought were good-looking.

Li Yuntian enjoyed with the people, surrounded by a group of guards, and went to the street to enjoy the lanterns and guess the lantern riddles with the soldiers and civilians.

In Li Yuntian's view, this kind of activity that can unite the centripetal force of the military and the people in the town should be held more often, which is also an important way for the government and the people to understand each other.

"Xianggong, I just received the news that on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, more than 1,000 Wu Kou raided Songjiang Province in Nanzhili, plundered two county towns along the coast of Songjiang Province, killed nearly 165 soldiers and civilians, abducted 29 women, and robbed property worth nearly 1 million taels of silver!"

Just when Li Yuntian was sitting on a stall on the side of the road eating rice balls with relish, Lei Ting hurriedly walked over, leaned over and whispered in his ear.

"A million taels?" Li Yuntian's eyes suddenly showed a look of surprise when he heard this, not only because the Japanese robbers dared to attack the coastal state capital of the Ming Dynasty, but also because those Japanese robbers would rob so much property.

"Xianggong, according to the official report, those Wu Kou seem to have stepped on a little in advance, mainly robbing the rich families in the two county towns of Songjiang Prefecture, and at that time, someone and Wu Kou Li opened the city gate, so that the soldiers and civilians of the county town who were immersed in the festive atmosphere of Chinese New Year's Eve did not notice it in the slightest."

Lei Ting said to Li Yuntian with a stern expression, "The warehouses used to store the belongings of the wealthy families in the county have been found out by the Japanese invaders, and after those Japanese invaders entered the door, they went straight to the warehouse, and quickly snatched the things, and when the local garrison received the report and arrived, those Japanese soldiers had already fled. ”

"Damn!" Li Yuntian's good mood was suddenly ruined by the group of bold and reckless widows, and he couldn't help but smash the table with his fist, the other party knew that he was cleaning up the widows and even dared to commit crimes against the wind, which simply did not take him seriously, it was really rampant.

"Do you know where those wretches are?" Then, Li Yuntian calmed down his somewhat angry mood and asked Lei Ting in a low voice.

"Someone recognized the people in that gang of Japanese robbers, as if they were from the Great Ryukyu." Lei Ting replied softly when she heard this, Liu Mei frowned slightly, as soon as this matter came out, it would definitely put Li Yuntian under a lot of pressure, and it would also make Li Yuntian have to take another shot at the Japanese Kou.

"Ryukyu?" Li Yuntian's brows suddenly frowned when he heard this, he also thought that the Japanese who attacked Songjiang Mansion were the same as the group of people who attacked Ningbo City's Bosi Wharf last time, but he didn't expect that the other party was from Ryukyu, which was really unexpected by him.

The Great Ryukyu Islands are located between the small Ryukyu Island and the Kyushu Island of Wakoku, and the territory stretches from Amami Oshima Island in the north, Kikai Island in the east, Hateruma Island in the south, and Yonaguni Island in the west.

According to the records of the Ancient Chunfeng Lou Trivia, the Ryukyu Kingdom is located on the sea east of Fujian, and is called "Liuqiu" in the Book of Sui, and "Ruqiu" in the History of the Yuan.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ryukyu Kingdom split into three independent states, namely the Zhongshan Kingdom, the Shannan Kingdom, and the Shanbei Kingdom, which divided the central, southern, and northern parts of the Ryukyu Island, respectively.

Among them, the Zhongshan Kingdom was the most powerful of the three kingdoms, and it maintained a separate diplomacy for a long time after that, and its sovereignty was no different from that of Japan in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty.

In the fifth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, sent an envoy Yang Zai to Ryukyu with an edict, which called it "Ryukyu", and since then it has officially become the name of the Ryukyu country.

The content of the edict reads: "I am recommended by my subjects, enthroned as emperor, and must have the name of the world called Daming, Jianyuan Hongwu." It is used to send envoys to foreign countries, broadcast the intentions of the people, and when the envoys arrive, the barbarian chieftains call the ministers to pay tribute. Weier Ryukyu, in the southeast of China, far from overseas, has not been reported. I hereby send an envoy to send an edict to know it. ”

Although this edict called the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom "barbarian chieftain", which now seems to be full of derogatory connotations, it was a normal diplomatic vocabulary of the Ming Dynasty at the time, after all, compared with the Ming Dynasty, those countries overseas can become barbarians, and its king is naturally a chieftain.

The king of Zhongshan of the Ryukyu kingdom was the first to receive the edict and immediately sent his younger brother Tai Qi to China with Yang Zai to serve as a vassal, and the king of Shannan, Chengchadu, and the king of Shanbei, Wei Nizhi, also paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty in the following year, and accepted the task of defending the Ming Dynasty against the Japanese invaders.

Since then, the Ryukyu Kingdom has been paying tribute every other year in accordance with the Ming Dynasty's code system, and it is the most reliable vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.

However, with the rise of the Japanese Invaders, the Ryukyu Kingdom became a natural maritime transit station for the Japanese Invaders due to its special geographical location, and it was the second largest maritime gathering place for the Ryukyu Invaders in addition to the small Ryukyu Island.

In the face of the ferocious and powerful Japanese invaders, the three Ryukyu kingdoms were forced to put themselves on the defensive, and gradually formed a delicate balance with the Japanese invaders.

The Three Kingdoms of the Ryukyus once asked the Ming Dynasty to send troops to help clear out the Japanese on Ryukyu Island, and the Ming court did send troops to the Ryukyu Island several times, but those Japanese invaders fled when they heard the news, and waited until the Ming army left and then swaggered back.

This made Da Ming have no way to take those Japanese robbers, and then he did not send troops over, after all, if this is not only not effective, but also costs a lot of money, it can be said that the gains outweigh the losses.

Over time, the Japanese were able to gain a foothold on the island of the Ryukyus, and they usually did not provoke the three Ryukyu countries, and the three Ryukyu countries did not take the initiative to attack the Japanese invaders, and the forces of the two sides were in a balanced situation.

In addition, many of the Japanese who came to Ryukyu Island had close ties with the daimyo of the Wakoku Kingdom, and once the three kingdoms of the Ryukyus cleared out those Japanese pirates, it would inevitably attract the retaliation of the daimyo of the Wakoku Kingdom, which could be said to be more than worth the loss.