Watching Gu Zhiwen leave happily, Li Fushou also felt that he was in a much better mood, and it felt so good to help people!

Li Fushou felt that he should be able to get the honorary title of "Little Expert in Helping People" and help people make him happy.

Pinch your fingers and do the math

The Ocean Kingdom has helped Lanfang to restore the population structure with Chinese as the main body, restore the local people's livelihood, and take the opportunity to mix a group of retired officers and soldiers into it, becoming a small and medium-sized landlord class in Lanfang, which is really the standard body in Cao Ying's heart in Han, firmly controlling this small country of Chinese descent.

After years of recovery and development, the population of Lanfang has reached more than 1.3 million, with a regiment of about 1,700 people, and a pocket fleet of more than 900 tons of offshore patrol ships, the strength can be called very good.

After the shelling of Nagasaki

Taking advantage of the opportunity to deter the enemy, the Ocean Kingdom (then Queensland) made a strong intervention to help the Ryukyu Kingdom recover, which planted a deep thorn in the heart of the Fuso government and pulled a large wave of strong hatred.

At that time, the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Shotai, was sick in Kagoshima Prefecture, and the prince Naonori was lonely, and the Ocean Kingdom helped Shotai regain the throne.

From then on, the Ryukyu Kingdom was grateful to the Ocean Kingdom.

What the Manchu Dynasty has not done for more than 200 years of tribute, let the Ocean Kingdom have done it, how can this gratitude for the restoration of the country be born?

To understand how grateful the remnants of the Ryukyu Kingdom were, one has to look at history.

In 1609, the Satsuma Domain took the lead in attacking the Ryukyus, forcing the Ryukyus to pay tribute to Fuso, respecting him as the master, and the Ryukyus had to pay tribute to both the Ming Dynasty and the Satsuma Domain due to their lack of strength.

The Satsuma clan was very smart, and they knew that they couldn't afford to mess with the Ming Dynasty, so they agreed that the Ryukyuan people would never talk to the Ming Dynasty about it.

In this way, Ryukyu began to change from a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty to a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty and Fuso, which was actually equivalent to a second marriage of one daughter.

In 1872, Fuso Province took advantage of Emperor Meiji's personal administration to cut the name of Ryukyu Kingdom and set it as the "Ryukyu Domain", revealing its ambition to annex the Ryukyus.

In July 1875, Fuso forcibly ordered the Ryukyu Kingdom to stop paying tribute to the Qing government and switch to the Fuso era name.

In 1879, the Fuso Kingdom announced that the Ryukyus would be abolished as a feudal prefecture, and the so-called "Ryukyu Disposal" was completed, and the Ryukyus were forcibly incorporated into Fuso and "Okinawa" Prefecture was established, and the Ryukyu Kingdom collapsed.

The last king, Shotai, and more than 100 members of the royal family were forcibly relocated to Kagoshima Prefecture and became the de facto ruler of the country.

From the fall of the Ryukyus in 1879 to 1885, a large number of Ryukyuan people went into exile on the mainland to carry out the "Restoration Movement", and they used Guangzhou, Beiping, and Tianjin as bases to submit 28 petitions to the Qing Dynasty Prime Minister Yamen, the Ministry of Rites, and important ministers Li Hongzhang, Gu Yanchuan, Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guoquan, etc., requesting the Qing Dynasty to negotiate on the Ryukyu issue.

The Qing court attached great importance to this, and Li Hongzhang discussed with visiting former US President Ulysses Grant and asked him to mediate the matter.

If Fuso annexes the Ryukyus, it will cut off the passage between the Qing Kingdom and the Pacific Ocean, and it is recommended that "give him a broad passage through the Pacific Ocean, and if it is discussed at this point, he will accept it."

Under pressure from the United States, in March 1880, Fuso formally submitted a proposal to the Qing government to "divide the islands and revise the treaty", that is, the northern and central islands of the Ryukyu Islands were under the administration of Fuso.

The southern islands of the Ryukyu Islands, such as Miyakojima and Yaeyama, were under the jurisdiction of the Qing government. In exchange, the Qing Dynasty should revise the Japan-Qing Treaty of Commerce to allow Japan to enjoy most-favored-nation treatment and prohibit trade discrimination.

Just as the Qing government was preparing to sign a treaty with Fuso, Lin Shigong, the representative of the Ryukyu Kingdom, knelt down in front of the prime minister's yamen and begged, repeatedly pleading that he would not cede territory.

However, the Qing government had already recognized the "two-point plan" and agreed with the Japanese side to sign it within three months.

The poor weak country has no right to speak, and seeing that this treaty that will bring down the Ryukyus is about to be signed, Lin Shigong decided to stop it by dying. He presented a recital to the Qing court, and then left two desperate poems, and committed suicide by swinging his sword in front of the Yamen of the Prime Minister of Beiping.

Lin Shigong's suicide greatly shocked the Qing government, and the Empress Dowager Cixi thought that Lin Shigong was a great loyal minister, gave 200 taels of silver, and ordered a thick burial.

Lin Shigong's desperate poem said:

In ancient times, there were several loyal and filial piety people, and they have been worried about the country and homesick for five years.

Once dead, the community will survive, and the high hall will rely on the brothers and sages.

Affected by the suicide incident, the Qing government finally decided not to sign the "two-point plan", and the Fuso side believed that the Qing government did not keep its word, and blatantly reneged on its promise, and Shishido returned to Japan in anger. Fuso began to take a tough stance on the Ryukyu issue.

After that, a large number of Ryukyuan people who were dissatisfied with Fuso's rule chose to go into exile in the Qing Dynasty, and they were called "Toqing people". They are active in China in the hope of turning the Ryukyu issue around.

They believed that rather than being annexed by Fuso, Ryukyu would be better to annex Huaxia.

After the bombardment of Nagasaki, according to the instructions of Li Fushou, in line with the viewpoint that there would be no itching if there were more lice and no worries if there was more hatred, the harsh treaty proposed to Fuso was added to the conditions for the restoration of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and it was signed.

After King Shotai returned to the Shuri Royal Palace and successfully restored the country, the entire Ryukyu Kingdom celebrated, and the soldiers of the Ocean Kingdom (then the Queensland National Guard Garrison) stationed there were regarded as protectors and warmly welcomed from the heart.

This move alone has won the heartfelt support of 2 million sulfur globe citizens.

The benefits of this were enormous, and after the Ryukyu Kingdom was removed, only 4 large islands remained, and it was located in the northern corner, with a decrease of 13 from north to south, a decrease of 2 million people, and an additional 2 million enemies, and it was not connected to Taiwan before, with the Ryukyu Kingdom in between.

From a geostrategic point of view;

Fuso is completely separated from Taiwan-Island, and even if Taiwan is obtained, it will not be able to form a whole island chain, let alone form a joint force, and it is two enclaves that are disconnected in the middle.

Although the Ryukyu Kingdom only has 3,600 square kilometers of land, it occupies an important role in connecting the upper and lower parts of the entire chain of islands along the continental shelf and communicating the north and the south.

After the establishment of the Ocean Kingdom, the Ryukyu Kingdom was the first feudal kingdom to come to congratulate the door, and the prince Shangdian led the team to present generous gifts, and the following countries regarded themselves as very upright.

In the re-establishment of the Ryukyu Kingdom of more than 4,000 troops, all of them use Australian military equipment, military instructors and military systems, and introduce the new culture and new educational concepts of the Ocean Kingdom, and move closer to the Ocean Kingdom from all aspects.

The most important thing is that King Shangtai personally wrote a handwritten letter, imploring Li Fushou to marry a daughter to the prince Shangdian, promising that the princess would be the princess, and the two sides formed a good son-in-law, which has a long history.

Therefore, Li Fushou is very willing to help people, and his wishful thinking is;

If Gu Zhiwen can gain a foothold in the northern part of Vietnam, then after the First Sino-Japanese War, taking advantage of the great loss of prestige of the Qing court, he can almost declare independence and establish a state.

With the Governor's Palace in Liangguang at its back, the new kingdom has no worries in the north, and what should be worried is a ferocious counterattack by the French expeditionary force.

If it survives, then the kingdom of Yuebei will be established.

If you can't survive everything and play it all, it won't be worse than the original history anyway.

If you want to withstand the ferocious attack of the French, the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the north can never be counted on, and you can only rely on the Ocean Kingdom to help you.

So

In the international community, the Ocean Kingdom will have three loyal little brothers, the Kingdom of Lanfang, the Kingdom of the Ryukyus, and the Kingdom of North Vietnam (tentative), and there are also people to help them speak, although the political and military significance is not great, but the political significance is great.

After all, there are many people with loud voices, if in the future, the Chinese in Malaysia will encourage the independence of several kingdoms, plus Singapore, Penang, and northern Thailand, and make seven or eight little brothers, it will be no problem.

Think about it, Li Fushou now has 9 sons, and the one in Mrs. Qin's belly may also be a son, so you have to get more small kingdoms and everyone will share a point.

There are also many princesses in the kingdom, and the scope of marriage in the future can be wider, in addition to the feudal kingdoms of Europe, Asia can also be considered, such as the Kingdom of Thailand, the Kingdom of Nepal, and the royal family of Fuso can be considered.

Alas, being a parent is a heart that can't be!

In the past two years, the limelight of the Ocean Kingdom has been too big, and Li Fushou intends to stay for a while, to integrate the vast territory into strong strength, and then wait for the opportunity to move.

Pinch your fingers and count to startle

If you add the African colonies, the territory of the Ocean Kingdom has exceeded 10 million square kilometers, ranking fifth in the world after Britain, France, Russia and Qing, ranking higher than Canada, and lower than the Manchu Qing with a total area of 11.5 million square kilometers (after being divided by Tsarist Russia by 1.5 million square kilometers).

The place is big enough, but the population is too small.

Even if you add Mozambique and other colonial areas in Africa, the total population by the end of 1891 was more than 2,260,000 (the white population of the southern states of Australia increased by more than 600,000, the natural population increased by more than 600,000, and the average annual immigration was more than 1.4 million), which could only rank tenth to eleventh in the world, a little less than the population of Korea, and almost half of the total population of the Dutch East Indies.

At the current rate of immigration, combined with a high natural population growth rate (the demographic structure is dominated by young men and women), the compound annual growth rate is between 2.1 million and 2.2 million, and the total population of the Ocean Kingdom is expected to exceed the 40 million mark by the end of this century.

That's a staggering number, about 23 of Germany's population, half of America's population, and slightly less than the French, which is about a few million people.

Why did the Tsarist Empire be so dick in Europe?

It was because in 1891 his population had exceeded 100 million, five times that of the Ocean Kingdom, and the British and Germans were cold at the thought of the endless gray cattle slaughtering into Europe.

I'm afraid only the French rejoiced, because Tsarist Russia was an ally of France, and the two wore a pair of trousers.

Okay, anyway, Tsarist Russia can't threaten the Ocean Kingdom, so let those Eurasian countries have a headache.

Li Fushou is wishful thinking, he is now thinking about the Ryukyu Kingdom to request a marriage, the eldest princess Elizabeth is out of Mrs. Xiang, the girl's name is Little Cherry, born in 1879, the virtual age is already 13 years old, like a flower like jade, gentle and lovely.

I want to be at the beginning

The Dutch toad wanted to eat swan meat, hoping that Sheng Xuanyin, the second son of Baron Sheng Yeyun of Kapitan in Dutch Batavia, would marry Elizabeth, but Li Fushou refused.

The head is a melon seed watt, and I'm thinking about fart!

Inside the Kingdom of the Great Ocean

Many top nobles and important ministers want to marry the royal family, and at the royal reception party, those handsome young men dressed in heroic and handsome clothes are like little cocks who have eaten stimulants, always dangling in front of the eyes of the eldest princess Elizabeth, hoping to attract the attention of the beautiful princess.

The reality is undoubtedly very cruel, the prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom is 25 years old, 12 years older than her, and the original princess died due to childbirth, so the position of princess is vacant.

For practical reasons;

King Shang Tai suffered too much fright and joy in the process of experiencing the destruction and revival of his family and country, so his body has been lingering on the sickbed, and it is estimated that there are not many days to live.

If Shotai dies of illness and his son Shonori will inherit the throne as a matter of course, then his wife Elizabeth will be promoted to queen, and their children will undoubtedly be the next king in the future, which is equivalent to a letter of nomination from the Ryukyu Kingdom.

So Li Fushou was moved and was ready to go against the wishes of his eldest daughter to promote this political marriage. Compared with the happiness of her daughter, the overall situation is still important!

This was undoubtedly cruel to Princess Elizabeth, and the girl's dream of weaving beauty in life was shattered before it began.

In the episodes that have happened in countless aristocratic and wealthy families, the eldest princess Elizabeth has once again appeared, and for the family in power, the happiness of the children can never be worth the rich benefits of political marriage.

"Your Majesty, the governor of Guangdong, Qi Shan, asks to see you."

"What's the matter?"

"Listening to his presentation, I should still ask us about the next trip, and it is said that it is a thoughtful arrangement in advance, but in fact, the meaning of the words is that I wish we would leave early."

"Hmph, two days ago, Prince Yiyun also revealed the same meaning, and I was scolded back, it seems that this is the Manchu court that doesn't want us to stay here, is it possible that we will still be killed?"

"I don't dare to borrow any of them, it's just boring tight. Wei Chen felt that these Manchurians were evil guests who would not leave, and they had invaded the land of my Huaxia Heavenly Treasure for too long. ”

This is reasonable, they are also grasshoppers after the autumn, and they can't jump a few times. Reply to Qi Shan, our next trip to the Shanghai Sea, we can invite Prince Yi Xun to go north on our Xuanwu heavy cruiser, a little shock, he, the prince of the Prime Minister's Navy Yamen, knows some naval matters. Guangxi's Guangjitang will not go to see, to the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to see the children rescued by the Eagle School, we will go back, together with the road out of a month, it is not good to be out for too long, compress the itinerary, return to visit Singapore, and strive to return to the Red River Valley within two months. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Siyi respectfully accepted the order and went to deal with Qi Shan, the governor of Guangdong.