Chapter 181: Ryukyu

Ryukyu Island.

At this moment, the Ryukyu prince Wu Ning has no way.

The king of the Ryukyus, who was canonized by Zhu Yuanzhang, died in the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, that is, last year, and Wu Ning, the son of the king of the Ryukyus last year, was going to ask for the title. But there was a big war in Daming.

The prince of the Ryukyus didn't know what to do?

He did not dare to get involved in such a thing.

Historically, the prince of the Ryukyus king asked Emperor Yongle for the title in the second year of Yongle, that is, five or six years later. By that time, the dust had already settled.

Now Wu Ning thinks the same thing.

However, the situation in the Ryukyus is different from history.

Historically, the Ryukyus are still divided into several countries, Zhongshan, Shanbei, and Shannan. Three countries.

But now the Ryukyus are unified.

The reason is simple.

Da Ming is in need.

Because of the opening of the sea, the sea transportation task of the Ming Dynasty was extremely heavy, and there were many Ming merchants entering and leaving the Ryukyus. As an important port in the East China Sea, the Ryukyus naturally take on a lot of things.

After all, a port needs to be run by someone.

However, the rapid expansion of the Ryukyu Port business caused a problem, that is, the king of the Ryukyus wanted to flatter the merchants of the upper country, after all, these merchants were all powerful people. The king of the Ryukyus did not dare to offend one. However, there are only tens of thousands of people in the Ryukyus, and there are many other things to do, so we can't all run the port.

In this way, the merchants of Shangguo have to be neglected.

This makes many maritime merchants very helpless. I wanted to move some people from the country. But most people don't want to go.

Without him, the most important thing for overseas immigrants is land. Compared with Nanyang, Taiwan, and Ryukyu are simply a small land, how much land can be allocated to immigrants? How can people be willing to migrate.

So, a few powerful people discussed, and this Ryukyu is divided into three countries. The already small population is still scattered and cannot serve everyone well. It's so bad.

Let's work together to unify the Ryukyus.

So the Ryukyus were unified.

The unified Ryukyus also did not have an army, and their defense was handled by Ming merchants. After all, the king of the Ryukyus was canonized by the imperial court. These people are all about saving face. Whoever anchors here will protect the king of the Ryukyus.

In any case, the port of Ryukyu is full of merchant ships throughout the year.

Because of this, the Ryukyu Kingdom became rich. The Ryukyu royal family also made a lot of money because of the operation of ports and participation in maritime trade.

In this respect, he is actually close to Beijing.

Without him, Beijing has a very active attitude towards maritime trade. Nanjing, on the other hand, is very ineffective in this regard, and it has caused many people trouble because of the blockade of the Taiwan Strait by pacifying King Jingjiang.

At this point, Takening, the prince of the Ryukyus king, was tendentious.

But the problem is that what Wu Ning thinks in his heart has no effect. As the lord of the small Ryukyu country, his only option was to cling to the victor and not offend anyone.

So he didn't want to stand between the north and the south, and he also felt that he didn't need to stand between the north and the south, after all, the main battlefield of the war between the north and the south was on land, and what did it have to do with him, a small country in the ocean.

But he never imagined that this would happen.

Fang Chengfeng and Qu Liangcai led tens of thousands of Japanese troops from Nagasaki all the way south and stopped in the Ryukyus.

After all, in this era, it is impossible to sail too far from land. If nothing else, the ships can't afford it without supplies.

It is impossible for Fang Chengfeng to directly attack Taiwan from Japan, and the foothold of the Ryukyus is also very important.

As for what the King of the Ryukyus thinks? It doesn't matter at all.

On Ryukyu Island, all the strong men may not have the army brought by Fang Chengfeng, what choice can the Ryukyu King have?

Of course, Fang Chengfeng also brought a benefit to the King of the Ryukyus, that is, Wu Ning, the son of the King of the Ryukyus, was canonized as the King of the Ryukyus by the Emperor of Longwu in Beijing. It's right.

As for the new Ryukyu King Wu Ning's heart, how to bear it

Worried. That's his business.

Fang Chengfeng didn't know what was going on land at the moment. The only thing he knew was that the Great War between the rivers had begun. As for what it looks like, I don't know.

After all, the communication technology of these days, once the ship leaves the mainland, it is an island. The captain has absolute authority. Some people say that there is also a reason why ancient China did not develop a navy, because the navy could hardly be checked and balanced by traditional methods. If the captain decides to defect, there is nothing to be done.

It is a threat to a centralized government.

Of course, this is also a family statement.

However, Fang Chengfeng and Qu Liangcai's loyalty to *** is beyond doubt. After all, Fang Chengfeng, the Fang family and He Xi have been tied together for a long time. It is impossible to change the court, and the Qu family has a blood feud with Nanjing.

So in this situation, Fang Chengfeng wants to defeat the enemy at sea as much as possible, so as to achieve a victory for Beijing and open a channel with the South China Sea, if it really can't be. The Beijing court could also retreat from Beijing to Liaodong, or even to the sea, to continue the war with Nanjing.

Based on this idea, Fang Chengfeng desperately hoped to launch an attack on Jingjiang. It's just that the key to this matter is not here, but in Qu Liangcai.

Fang Chengfeng asked Qu Liangcai and said, "Now, are these Japanese soldiers available?"

Qu Liangcai was a little embarrassed and said, "Please give me some more time."

Fang Chengfeng said, "There is no time. We can't wait in the Ryukyus indefinitely, and after a long time, the wind will be heard in Fujian. Why the hell can't these people use it?"

Qu Liangcai said, "Military discipline is too bad. It's irreparably bad, they don't know what the human heart is? It's just, it's ------."

Qu Liangcai didn't know how to describe it.

In ancient times, Japanese samurai simply did not treat ordinary people as human beings, and could use ordinary people to test swords on the street.

Yes, the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty is not good. But most of the Ming army actually knew what was right and what was wrong. They just want to get more out of it. Looting, female Yin or something.

But there is a moral concept in this heart.

Unless there are extreme circumstances that make it difficult for them to sustain themselves, they will not do some useless slaughter.

But the Japanese samurai are different.

They are really inappropriate for the people, that is, the untouchables in their eyes. There was no sense of guilt at all when he killed, Qu Liangcai felt very speechless, military discipline or something. He Xi particularly emphasized.

The Ming Dynasty cannot violate the law and discipline.

But after Qu Liangcai integrated the army, he exterminated a few pirates to see how they looked. He discovered this that the Japanese army was qualified in terms of combat effectiveness. But for prisoners of war, it was cruel to the extreme. Qu Liangcai didn't pay attention, and all the prisoners of war were thrown into the sea.

Of course, this is the most important point. Qu Liangcai did not bring many generals, and it was impossible to control the whole army. In this case. Except for the army led by Qu Liangcai himself, it is estimated that the other armies will not grow anywhere.

Not to mention, there are other problems in the army, such as the various factions in the Japanese army, the Ashikaga faction that was the Ashikaga retainers before, the Kwantung faction that was Kanto before, the Kyushu faction in Kyushu, the new faction that fought with the Ming army, the new annex faction, and the new surrender faction that opposed the Ming Dynasty. Wait a minute.

In short, it's complicated.

It is already very difficult for Qu Liangcai to pinch these people together and fight under one banner. Not to mention, it is an impossible task to follow the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty.

This made Qu Liangcai feel extremely embarrassed.

Qu Liangcai told Fang Chengfeng about the problems one by one.

Fang Chengfeng was not surprised, he was silent for a while, and said, "I don't think you can manage these people in the same way as the imperial army?"

Qu Liangcai was stunned for a moment and said, "Then what method is used?"

Fang Chengfeng said, "Use their own methods. Don't you say that there are many factions among these people? Then simply pick out the leaders of all the factions and let them lead them

own people. Military discipline or something. Just tell them to do it, and as for whether it is carried out or not, it does not matter. As long as they catch their mistakes, the whole team, one counts as one, and all of them are beheaded."

Qu Liangcai was stunned for a moment and said, "Is this feasible? And if they are so scattered, what will they do if they fight a big war in the future? I'm afraid we won't be able to cooperate with each other at all."