Mao Taijiu, Jin Siyi, Jin Yingyuan and other Ryukyu envoys were having fun in Nanjing, when they were suddenly called by officials of Honglu Temple.

Compared with the Ming system, the functions of Honglu Temple have been adjusted. He was in charge of foreign affairs, and was in charge of banquets and receptions, and the working meals of the yamen inside and outside the capital were also stripped from the functions of the Honglu Temple.

You must know that at that time in Daming, even the elephants in the Royal Zoo ate forage provided by Honglu Temple. Eunuchs and civil officials, who are greedy for food and food expenses according to the law, Honglu Temple can only see the sky and cry poor. The internal staff also deducted food, which led to the state banquet for receiving foreign guests, and actually greeted the envoys of Fanbang with leftovers.

"Meet the Great Hung Lu!"

The three Ryukyu envoys brushed together.

Liu Xiangke has been promoted to the right Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, and angrily reprimanded: "Don't wear a high hat for me, you and other Fanbang barbarians, you actually serve the yang and the yin, and serve the Japanese general." What's the intention? ”

When the three messengers heard this, they were all terrified.

Mao Taijiu hurriedly said: "Ryukyu has served China for three hundred years, and has been favored by China for a long time, if it is not helpless, how can you want to deviate?" It's all because Japan sent troops,

The small countries of the Ryukyus could not resist, so they could only endure humiliation and wait for the opportunity. Now that China is strong, our son asks for canonization and is about to return to the embrace of the mother country. If China can raise a division to crusade against Japan, our country will be grateful, and there will be no need to have two hearts. “

This is true, although the Mao family has been the leading party for decades, the leading party also wants to stand on its own one day.

Decades is enough to destroy all political enemies, not to mention that the daughter of the Mao family is still the queen mother.

Now that the Mao family is full-fledged, this time they came to Nanjing to ask for a seal, and the hidden purpose was to repair relations with China. When the time is ripe, China will be invited to send troops to seek the independence of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and there will be no need to pay Japan an annual tribute of commercial taxes and grain.

Liu Xiangke didn't listen to the explanation, and reprimanded: "The country that betrays the lord, and still wants to ask for a seal?" Go back and tell the Ryukyu puppet lord that if he wants to be king, he will drive out the Japanese on the island and show his majesty some loyalty. Within three months, if there are still Japanese officials collecting taxes in the Ryukyus, our Celestial Empire will definitely send troops to levy it! ”

The Ryukyu envoys were expelled from Nanjing.

On the way back to China, Jin Yingyuan said uneasily: "The emperor of the Celestial Empire, he won't really send troops to fight, right?" “

Mao Taijiu said with a smile: "China sends troops best, which can scare the Japanese away." When the time comes, it will be nothing more than sending a messenger to rebuke it, and our country's good students will ask for sin.

With the Japanese gone, we were able to collect a lot more business taxes every year, and we didn't have to raise grain for the Satsuma clan. This time in China, we have come to the right place! “

"Then do you want to expel the Japanese and show loyalty to the Emperor of the Celestial Empire?" Jin Siyi asked.

Mao Taijiu waved his hand and said, "Absolutely not." If we expel Japan, China will at most canonize the king of the Ryukyus, and most likely it will not send troops to help, but Japan will send troops. “

When Japan attacked the Ryukyus, the Ryukyu monarchs and ministers also asked the Ming for help.

But Ryukyu is too small and located overseas, and the Ming Dynasty is unwilling to mobilize the people to help.

Later, when Japan invaded Korea, when the Ming monarchs and ministers were discussing, the mainstream argument was: Japan is a small country, and it is not satisfied with swallowing the Ryukyus, and it actually invades Korea again. Korea and the Ryukyus are both subject countries of the Ming Dynasty, and they cannot blindly tolerate Japan's nonsense.

In another time and space, it will be about another ten years, and the Ryukyus will be free from Japanese control and exploitation for a time with the help of the Qing Dynasty government.

However, Japan has cultivated too many traitors.

Xiang Xiangxian, the most powerful politician, historian and reformer in the Ryukyus, was trained by Japan and became the regent of the Ryukyus. From the source of ideology and culture, he advocated the "theory that Japan and Ryukyu share the same ancestor", and the Ryukyus were finally assimilated by Japan. You know, this product is the royal family of the Ryukyus, and the history books of the Ryukyus are also compiled by him.

The Ryukyu envoys, after being reprimanded, rushed back to China and waited for China to send troops to fight.

And the Hanlin Academy, which Qian Qianyi was in charge of, also received a new errand, and hurriedly flipped through various historical materials and wrote articles to prove that the Ryukyuan people were descendants of China.

Qian Qianyi's head suddenly became extremely big, he knew about the existence of the Ryukyu Kingdom, but he had not studied the specific situation at all. I can only organize manpower, look through the official archives of the former Ming Dynasty, and find that where the Ryukyus fart is bigger, there were actually three countries in the early Ming Dynasty, and the three kings didn't even have surnames.

Today's Ryukyu king's surname is Shang, which is still the surname given by Zhu Zhanji.

Let's make it up!

According to the record of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", Fujian is in the sea, and there are mountains in its northwest, and Fujian is in the middle of the mountain. The word "in the sea" indicates that the land of ancient Fujian is not only inland Fujian, but also includes Taiwan, Ryukyu and other islands.

In ancient times, how could the people of China go to Ryukyu?

The basis for historical data can be found, and the Yellow Emperor ordered the common drum, turning the fox and the wood into a boat, and the wood as a pole, so as to make it work. As a result, the Chinese people had the ability to cross the sea to settle in the Ryukyus.

It is also said that at the end of the Qin, Han, Tang and Yuan dynasties, a large number of Fujianese went to Ryukyu to live across the sea to escape the war.

Therefore, the Ryukyuan people are the Min people, a part of the descendants of China. It's a pity that I've been away from my homeland for so long that I've forgotten even Chinese, so I should quickly build a school so that the Ryukyuan people can resume their native language.

"You're fooling you, aren't you?" Zhao Han wanted to laugh when he saw it.

Qian Qianyi said righteously: "Your Majesty, how can this be said to be foolish? And so it is. The people of this Ryukyus are all descendants of the ancient Fujian people, and they are all my Chinese compatriots and sisters and brothers! ”

Zhao Han said: "It's good for you to believe it yourself, and by the way, make up Annan's." ”

Qian Qianyi said: "Your Majesty, there are ready-made ones in Annan, and they are all descendants of the soldiers of the Southern Expedition sent by Qin Shi Huang!" ”

"That's fine." Zhao Han nodded and said.

Fujian businessmen, who often go to Ryukyu for business, also reported an important piece of information, and this matter is well known to everyone in Ryukyu.

During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, the king of the Ryukyus died violently, and his son also died violently within a few years, leaving no heirs. An official who managed the national treasury actually opened the treasury to bribe his ministers, and was elected king by the Ryukyu ministers, pretending to be the prince of the Ryukyus and asking for canonization. Zhu Jianshen didn't send anyone to investigate, and directly sent an envoy to canonize him.

Today's Ryukyu royal family is the descendants of that impostor!

Zhao Han said happily: "This division is famous, and the Ryukyu monarchs and ministers not only serve the yang and the yin, but also call the Japanese generals vassals." And it's fake, it's not the Shang royal family canonized by the Ming Dynasty at all! Since the Shang royal family does not exist, there is no need for the Ryukyu Kingdom to exist, so let's set up Ryukyu County directly after the defeat! “

Winter, Fuzhou.

Li Dingguo led his troops to board the troop carrier, he was supposed to go to Vietnam next year, but temporarily changed to fight the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The reason why Li Dingguo was allowed to go south was purely because Zhao Han was deliberately cultivating.

The navy that went on this expedition was Hong Xu and Shi Daxuan, all of whom were Zheng Zhilong's former generals.

Summer is the best time to travel to the Ryukyus, and autumn is a good time to travel from the Ryukyus to Fujian. As for winter, there is no tailwind or headwind, and the wind and waves along the way are not very large.

More than 50 ships sailed from Fuzhou to Taipei. In addition to warships and troop carriers, there were also some merchant ships transporting grain, which were requisitioned by the imperial court from Fujian maritime merchants for a fee.

When passing by Diaoyu X Island, there were still Han people collecting medicine on the island.

Most of them are Han Chinese living in Taiwan, and even Fujianese. They took a fishing boat to the island to collect sea hibiscus, an herb that cures high blood pressure and rheumatism.

And Huangwei Island, in the northeast of Diaoyu Island, also has two fishing boats docked. But they didn't come to fish, but to collect guano from the island. If summer comes,

You can also pick up bird eggs, when the sky is full of seabirds, gather in Huangwei Yu to lay eggs.

Within a few days, the fleet entered the Ryukyu Islands.

Some of the small islands were also native, large and small villages, and the chieftains of the islands were required to pay regular tribute to the Ryukyu king. For these island natives, it doesn't matter who rules them, as long as they don't take too much of it.

In this case, we should ignore it and slowly build schools in the future to carry out education.

The fleet headed straight for Shuri Castle, which was later east of Naha City.

At this time, the sea was not reclaimed by the Japanese frantically, and the waterway was very wide. Since it is not the best sailing season, there are not many merchant ships docked here, and they are all stupidly looking at the Datong naval fleet at the moment.

When the imperial court recruited merchant ships to transport grain in Fujian, it announced that it would go to Nanyang to fight.

It wasn't until the day of the expedition that the grain merchant Jia knew the destination. As for collecting information about the Ryukyus, it was a normal behavior, and who knew that the emperor would send troops?

At this time, the fleet arrived, and the Ryukyuan, Japanese, and Han merchants in the port were all dumbfounded.

A ship that first goes to Kume Island.

This Kume Island is not Kume Island hundreds of years later, but an outlying island at the mouth of the Kong'e River, which can be understood as Chongming Island to Shanghai. After the 18th century, Kume Island gradually disappeared due to the accumulation of sediment and became part of Naha City.

Zheng Shen, a small official in Fujian, landed at this moment with 200 Datong troops as a descendant of the Kume Zheng family.

"Don't fire, don't fire, that's a Chinese ship!" The defenders of the Kumejima Fort, someone is shouting at the moment, and they are still speaking Hokkien.

Zheng Shen led the troops off the boat, pressed the excitement, and said loudly: "Zheng Shen, a descendant of the Kume Zheng clan, is back!" “

The buildings on Kume Island are all Hokkien style, and the clothes are also Han Chinese.

The soldiers guarding the fort were all Han Chinese. When they saw the Chinese ships, they didn't fire at all, and when they heard that the Zheng family was coming, they even came over to say hello with a smile.

Before long, hundreds of islanders came.

One of the old men, trembling, walked in front of Zheng Shen, hung up his cane and asked, "The old man is the patriarch of the Zheng clan, which clan is your descendant?"

Zheng Shen replied: "The great-grandfather of the younger generation is Zheng Gong. “

The old man suddenly laughed: "I am your uncle!" “

Zheng Shen was stunned, and then said: "The junior will visit my uncle." “

The old man pointed to the fleet in the distance: "This is?" “

Zheng Shen explained: "Uncle Good knows that this Ryukyu Kingdom will be China's Ryukyu County in the future, and my little nephew will be the first governor of Ryukyu County. ”

"Good, good!" The old man was overjoyed.

The rest of the islanders also smiled.

Another old man raised his cane and shouted, "Kume has thirty-six surnames, all of them are listening." Every family, there are people who contribute their strength to help our Celestial Empire win the Ryukyus! “

This island, which guards the entrance to the sea, is the gateway to the Ryukyu Imperial Castle from the sea.

There are 36 surnames on Kume Island, all of whom are Han Chinese.

They had armies and batteries to protect the royal city from the sea. At the same time, he also helped the Ming Dynasty to monitor the Ryukyu monarchs and ministers, and participated in the tributary trade for generations.

When the Japanese invaded the Ryukyus, they did not dare to pass through here at all, because they could not withstand the attack of the fort.

The Ryukyus resisted the Japanese invasion, and it was also Zheng Zhen who led the Han people in Kume Island to resist, and the Ryukyu king did not send troops at all. Moreover, after Zheng was captured and sacrificed, the Ryukyu monarchs and ministers also slandered Zheng Zhen as a traitor.

Kume has thirty-six surnames, and has been an official in the Ryukyus for generations, but now he has been suppressed very badly.

Of course, there are also those who are forced to cater to Japan, such as Cai Jin, who is now serving as the chief speaker of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Zheng Shen stayed on the island for less than half an hour, and all the thirty-six young men surnamed Han were dispatched, bringing weapons to help the Datong army capture the port.

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