When we usually talk about Japanese ronin, we probably mean those down-and-out samurai who lost their feudal titles and left their masters' homes to wander around.

In 1868, Japan's shogunate system collapsed, and the centralized system headed by the emperor finally regained control of the Shishima after more than five centuries of effort.

One of the most important reforms introduced by Emperor Meiji was the abolition of feudal prefectures, that is, the abolition of feudal lordship by the princes and the nationalization of their territories. At the same time, the feudal hierarchy was reformed, and the privileges of the samurai were abolished. This measure of the Meiji government directly led to the rapid collapse of the samurai class, in which a small number of imperial families and nobles became large landowners, big capitalists and bankers, and a group of middle-class samurai became merchants, freelancers and usurers. The lower samurai, which were more numerous, went bankrupt in a short period of time and became proletarians who sold their labor for a living.

Of course, not all lower-class samurai were willing to engage in production, and these people wandered around with swords and did nothing, becoming a class with a new historical character in Japan - the ronin class. It is reported that after the Meiji Restoration, the number of ronin was 100,000.

After the Meiji Restoration, a small number of ronins were used by the Japanese military as the vanguard of their aggression and expansion, and in many of the Japanese army's foreign military operations, we can see that ronins played the role of spy teams, vanguards, and special forces.

Obviously, the limited number of "jobs" provided by the Footbasin Chicken Military Department will not bring much practical improvement to the large group of ronin. These strapped ronins are still making trouble everywhere and making ends meet by working as traitors.

With the passage of time, the composition of the ronin is no longer a single down-and-out samurai who have lost their titles, and a large number of idle people who do not do their jobs have been mixed in, and the so-called samurai spirit with "loyalty, righteousness, honesty, bravery, and perseverance" as the core has been thrown out of the sky by most ronin, and they have completely become an important unstable factor in Japanese society.

At the suggestion of Kazuo Inukai, a former small trader in Osaka, the buying of ronin became an important part of the "Euphrates" plan to trigger social unrest in the footbath chickens.

Inukai Kazuo sees the characteristics of the ronin's poor life but desperate to restore his former authority, and through money bribes and promises to restore the abolished county, he has snared many ronins who have been quite gambled.

The ronin who is now in conflict with the police and the indigenous people of the Ryukyus in front of the old palace of the Ryukyu King was actually instigated by the people who bought Kazuo Inukai.

Ito Hirobumi's helplessness under the pressure of the 406 water pipe is undoubtedly a sign of cowardice and betrayal in the eyes of those ronins who regard themselves as the emperor's "personal soldiers".

"Kobayashi-kun, hurry back and let the pistol team come to support!" Seeing that the scene was out of control, Director Jiaoban hurriedly asked Xiaolin He to go back and call for reinforcements.

Compared with the Great Celestial Empire where bandits were running all over the streets at this time, the control of guns in the local area was relatively strict, and even the patrol officers on duty on the street were not qualified to hold guns.

Obviously, the Japanese police who were being crushed at the scene could not rely on shields and batons to deter the two sides of the confrontation who had already brought knives, and the director of the exchange had no choice but to move out the "pistol team" with .38 Smith and Wesson revolvers to the town.

Seeing several black-clad policemen with pistols approaching in the distance, several undercover agents mixed in the ronin pile quickly broke away from the crowd, and motioned for their accomplices to remove a flower pot hidden on the second floor of a nearby teahouse as a code for action.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! The pistol team that arrived at the scene fired two rounds into the sky to warn the two sides of the fight. Hey, no, I only fired two shots, so why do I think I heard four shots? The Inspector who had fired the gun glanced at his men suspiciously.

After the gunshots rang out, the fighting ronin and the Ryukyu natives stopped and returned to their respective positions before the battle, and those who were wounded were helped out of the battle zone by their companions.

After the men and horses on both sides dispersed, a messy clearing was left in the middle, and two corpses were still bleeding!

"Killed!"

"It's the Japanese who died!"

The two men who fell in pools of blood were all wearing kimonos with Tsukiyo heads, and it was clear that neither of them was a native of the Ryukyus.

Soon the Ryukyuan people who participated in the fight dispersed, and after the ronin found out that the two fallen people had died from the shooting, they immediately shifted their targets and surrounded the Japanese police at the scene.

The undercover agents quickly picked up the pace, and the ronin first scolded the Japanese police for not only not sheltering their compatriots but also shooting their own people, and then it developed into a physical altercation.

The director of Jiaoban, who already felt that he had been arranged, immediately told his subordinates to break out of the encirclement and return to the Jiaoban office. However, the matter did not end temporarily when the Japanese police got up, and the enraged ronin began to smash around the Jiaobansho.

Not long after, the Molotov cocktail that had appeared before flew towards the closed gate. When the fire was burning, the scope of the riots was even greater.

Originally, there were only a few streets near the old palace that were smashed, but when the fire at the police station broke out, the entire Motobu Peninsula suddenly became agitated as if it had been agreed.

The ronin were smashing and looting everywhere, while the Ryukyuan people, who claimed to be descendants of the 36 surnames of the Ming Dynasty, held groups to guard the property.

Finally, when the Army's garrison in Okinawa received orders to suppress the riots, the clash had already resulted in hundreds of deaths.

After receiving the report, Ito Hirobumi hurriedly gathered his staff to discuss how to prevent the Great Song people from taking the opportunity to intervene in the affairs of the Ryukyu Islands. After all, the report says that about 40 Ryukyuan people suspected to be descendants of the 36 surnames were killed in the riots.

"Your Excellency, a few days ago, under pressure from the British, we suspended the payment of the money stipulated in the secret agreement to the Great Song people, and I am afraid that this time they will not give up." Mutsu Munemitsu said.

"Now that the entire South Pacific Sea is like a bath tub for the Great Song people, and even the British Far East Fleet has gone north to avoid the edge of its 38th Task Force, if they are interested in restoring Ryukyu as a vassal state, what can we do?" Heihachiro Togo, who has retired from the Navy, said.

"This time, I am afraid that we will vomit out the money we have delayed in paying with interest, and we should resist the pressure not to use the British as a gunman." A staff member who is not familiar with the temperament of the Great Song people said.

"Hey, if money can solve the problem, the Prime Minister will not gather everyone, this time the loss of the Ryukyus is a trivial matter, I'm afraid that the leased Taiwan will have to be spit out!" Mutsu Munemitsu, who has been slapped in the face by MissFox many times, is not as optimistic as some people.

A group of dignitaries sat around and discussed for three days, but they couldn't come up with any decent response plan. In the words of Togo Heihachiro, Ryukyu and Taiwan were surrounded by the 38th Fleet of the Great Song Dynasty and the battleship that had bombarded the pass, and the Japanese Navy could not reach even a single sampan if they wanted to.

However, before the Great Song people came to the door to find trouble, this group of foot basin chicken bosses found that their backyard was already on fire. In many parts of Hokkaido, ronin protested against the despicable act of the police shooting and killing the samurai in Okinawa, and demanded that the emperor restore the privileges of the samurai.