April of the third year of the Republic of the Ming Dynasty, the fourth year of Japan's National Yanbao, April 15.

Located in the Naha Port Town, near Shuri, the capital of the Nakayama kings of the Ryukyus, the Satsuma Domain's Ryukyu Office is as busy as ever.

In the Ban Office, the samurai of the Satsuma Domain are busy processing a large amount of information related to China under the auspices of the Governor Kayama Hisakin.

"Pursue, I received news from Ningbo that the Great Yasukuni has perished, and the Great Tomorrow Dynasty has really returned!"

"Mixi! This is good news, report it to Kagoshima Castle immediately, and be sure to let the feudal lord be the first to report the good news to the princess! ”

"Hay!"

The one who thinks that Da Ming's defeat of Da Jing is good news is that he is a Japanese devil in his forties, thin and small, with a small beard on his lips.

He is a member of the Satsuma Shimazu family, and the birakayama family he was born in is a branch of the Shimazu family, so he is particularly trusted by Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the head of the Shimazu family, so he came to the Ryukyu Kingdom as the elder of the Satsuma clan to be this particularly difficult Ryukyu in the ban.

The reason why it is difficult to say this is because Great China, the legitimate suzerainty of the Ryukyu Kingdom, is now in a wonderful state of great destruction! Originally, when the Qing Dynasty unified the country, the coast of China was a dead state, and except for the Zheng merchant ships, which had a good relationship with the Tokugawa shogunate, there would be no Chinese ships coming to Ryukyu.

As for the mission sent by the Qing Dynasty to canonize the king of the Ryukyus, it came once in the early years of Kangxi. At that time, it was a busy time, and the Ryukyuan people in the Ryukyus had to change into Tang clothes, while the Japanese had to hide in Tibet!

In short, the Ryukyu Kingdom had to pretend that it was not conquered by Japan, and the Japanese conquerors had to pretend that they did not exist, lest the little Kangxi Emperor be angry and send the Qing Heavenly Soldiers to Ryukyu to shave his hair and change his clothes!

What is even more exaggerated is that the Ryukyu Prefecture also published a "Q&A Handbook" and distributed it to the officials and people of the Ryukyu Kingdom, listing almost all the questions that the angels of the Qing Dynasty might ask, and attaching "standard answers", which all Ryukyuan people who can talk to must memorize and strive to be foolproof.

It's just a toss anyway!

After tossing and turning for several months, I finally fooled the Qing Dynasty angel away, in fact, this Satsuma domain doesn't have to toss so much at all, send some Japanese native products - gold, then it's solved?

However, at that time, the king of the Ryukyus would not be replaced, and the angels of the Qing Dynasty would not come to the Ryukyus, so it was just a toss. However, since the Chinese Celestial Empire "the Warring States rose again", their sea ban and isolation country did not exist. Merchants from Fujian and Guangdong were running around in the waters of East Asia and the South Seas, and even the ports of the Japanese mainland would come from time to time with a few merchant ships with the signboard of "Dacheongjin Customs Road" to ask for trade.

It's really annoying that the Tokugawa shogunate is not hospitality, nor is it expulsion!

If you want to entertain, do you still want the ancestral family law that closed off the country?

To drive away. The warship fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division of the Great Qing Dynasty is moored in the port of Busan! If you want to drive the ship on the customs road of Daecheongjin, then the Busan Wakan will not be opened?

However, compared to the Japanese mainland, Ryukyu is the first place to be called!

The Chinese merchant ships come every three to five times, and the ships are getting bigger and bigger, and the armament is getting more and more complete, which looks so terrible!

So the Ryukyus in the Fan Office originally pretended not to exist once in decades or more than ten years, but now it has to pretend that it does not exist every day!

In addition to the daily "hide and seek", Ryukyu also received a task personally ordered by a shogun at the Ban Office - to collect all the good news about the shogunate of the Ming Kingdom!

This Japanese general is now very concerned about how the general of the Ming Dynasty is doing!

Although Japan and the Ming Dynasty are not friends, the fourth-generation general Tokugawa Ietsuna, who is not very smart (with a little low IQ), sincerely hopes that Li Yat-sen is good! Because in the eyes of the family platform, if the Great Ming Dynasty can also achieve the rule of generals, then he, the general of the Japanese National General, will rule the world justifiably.

Even the Celestial Empire has ruled the world by generals, doesn't this mean that the generals are right to rule the world?

Although the elders of the shogunate and the lords of the Satsuma clan felt that the correctness of the Japanese shogun's rule did not need to be proved by the Ming general's rule, it was still necessary to do a good job of making the shogun happy.

Therefore, in addition to daily hide-and-seek, Kayama has to carefully collect information about Li Yat-sen, among which the bad news is concealed first, and the good news is reported to Kagoshima Castle immediately, and then Kagoshima Castle will report to the princess of Edo as quickly as possible

And a while ago, the Ming shogunate was in a hurry, and the Hisashi of Kayama had not reported to Kagoshima for a long time, so that the Tokugawa family was anxious, and when he saw the young head of the Shimazu family who was staying in the Edo Domain, Shimazu Tsunagui asked. Tsunaki Shimazu couldn't answer, so he had to ask someone to go to Ryukyu to urge good news. But the long-term relatives of Huashan did not dare to make it up, and if the blind weaving was exposed, it would be seppuku!

Fortunately, in these days, there is finally good news!

"Pursue, or the news from Ningbo, the Li family shogunate of the Ming Dynasty has just sent a general to Ningbo, this general is gathering ships in Ningbo, and it seems that he has plans to send troops to the open sea!"

"Nani?" Birshan's heart twitched, "They. Did they still find us? ”

"Yes, maybe they're going to go elsewhere." "There is reliable information that the Great Ming Wing Mansion is planning an attack on Luzon!" ”

"But Luzon is south of the Ming Dynasty!" Kayama Hisashi said, "They should send General Zhengnan to go!" ”

"Pursue, the elder brother of the Ming shogunate general is the general of Zhengnan, and he is in charge of the military affairs of Annam."

"This shogun of the Ming Dynasty is really warlike!" Birch Mountain Jiuqin frowned, "Before the domestic war is over, we will start to use troops abroad, so I still have to be cautious!" ”

"Hay!"

The bottom "Hai" with the force for a while. However, these forces have been in the Ryukyus for many years, and knowing their daily hide-and-seek will deceive the Qing Dynasty mission, and the shogun of the Ming Dynasty may know everything! After all, the Ming Shogunate General and the Ming Wing Royal Mansion are allies, and the Zheng family, the Great Ming Wing King, still doesn't know the details of the Ryukyu Kingdom?

But even if the Ming Dynasty knows everything, Ryukyu has to be serious about hide and seek in the Fan Commission, that is, the spirit of craftsmanship. No, it's the spirit of bushido!

Outside the newly dug trench outside the office and the newly erected wooden fence along the trench, the samurai of the Satsuma clan with swords on their shoulders vigilantly patrolled back and forth, and every Ryukyuan or anyone else who approached the office was kindly interrogated with smiles on their faces.

"Yours, what's going on there? What are you doing at our Togara Merchant House? ”

"Our, the work of the Tugara merchants, where are you from?"

"Yours, is it from the Ming Kingdom, or from the Great Jing Kingdom, or from the Great Qing Kingdom?"

"Yours are here to buy brimstone? There's a special sulphur merchant over there, and there's the best sulphur in Tokara."

Now, due to the frequent arrival of Ming merchants, it is impossible for the Japanese devils in the Ryukyus to pretend to be completely non-existent. Still, they came up with a self-deceptive operation that they didn't admit that they were Japanese devils. They're actually Tugaras!

Tugara is a general term for a series of small islands between the Japanese island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. According to the standard answer in the "Q&A Handbook" formulated by the Ryukyu Office at the time of the last visit of the Qing angels.

Here in the Ryukyus, there are no Japanese, only the Tugala people. So these are not Japanese samurai, but samurai of the "Togara Empire"!

However, no matter how good they can pretend, there is no way to stop the Ming army of Geng Jingzhong, the general of the Ming Expedition to the East, who can also be disguised, because this Ming army is also pretended, they can't stay there in Ningbo at all, don't hurry up and go to sea, and when the Ming soldiers come over, their end will come!

And today is the day when the fake Great Tomorrow soldiers arrive in the Ryukyu Kingdom!

At this time, a Japanese samurai disguised as a native soldier of the Ryukyu Kingdom who was standing guard on the lookout in the harbor ran towards the Zaibanjo at this time, shouting as he ran: "Coming, coming, they are coming!" ”

"It's here, it's here, we've arrived!"

Geng Jingzhong, who was enduring the discomfort caused by seasickness in the cabin of a large Fu ship, suddenly heard someone cheering outside the cabin, hurriedly supported himself, staggered out of the cabin, and stood on the deck outside.

By this time the deck was already full of jubilant sailors and soldiers, who had been adrift at sea for several days and had barely found the Ryukyu Islands!

Now it's finally happening!

"King, we've arrived, it's Naha Port in the Ryukyu Kingdom!"

Li Daoren was also on deck, and when he saw Geng Jingzhong coming out, he hurried up to report the good news to him.

Geng Jingzhong waved his hand: "Don't call me the king, call me the general." ”

Geng Jingzhong's "East King" was handed over to the soldiers below in Ningbo to listen, so that they could have a little peace of mind. Before the fleet went to sea, he gave an order, and after the fleet went to sea, everyone called him "General", "General Geng", and "Geng Zhengdong", and he was not allowed to be called "King" or "King of the East".

The reason why there is such an order is, of course, to fool the Ryukyu people, this small country of Ryukyu, and the Ming Dynasty sent a king of the East to rescue them, is that too exaggerated? Even sending a general to conquer the east is too big!

So Geng Jingzhong let his subordinates call himself "General", "General Geng" and "Geng Zhengdong". In addition, there is a more reasonable explanation for his arrival in the Ryukyus, as he passed through the Ryukyus on his way to the east and helped the Ryukyu Kingdom expel the Japanese by the way.

As for the Crusade? The Li Daoren, who had some knowledge of the outside world, suggested that Geng Jingzhong go east to conquer an eastern continent

"Oh, General, we're here!" Li Daoren smiled and said to Geng Jingzhong, "General, there seems to be no intention of resistance on the Ryukyu side, let's enter the port!" ”

"Good!" Geng Jingzhong was already fainting, and now when he heard Li Daoren say this, of course he nodded and agreed, "Let the musket team prepare, and we must let the Ryukyu Japanese know that we are powerful!" ”

"Yes!"

Amid the sound of gongs and drums, a huge fleet of as many as 48 fortune boats and bird boats entered Naha Bay, and the largest of them was already anchored on the edge of the pier. Several officials of the Ryukyu Kingdom wearing "Tang costumes" on the shore looked at the big ship of the Celestial Empire that was about to crowd the port, and the hardcover men on the big ship in front of them.

These sturdy men in green clothes and green scarves, all with flintlock pistols with bayonets on their shoulders, glowed with a chilling glow in the blazing sun of Naha.

And the Japanese devils who were hiding among the Naha people and foreign businessmen who welcomed them around were all blue-faced. What did this Ming Zhengdong general do when he came to Ryukyu with dozens of elite soldiers at this time? Do you want to drive the Ryukyus away from the Ban Commission? You don't need that many soldiers, do you? The Ryukyus in the Fan Prefecture gathered a total of several hundred people. There were not a hundred arquebuses combined, how could it be possible to resist so many Ming troops?

Actually, the Ryukyu of the Satsuma Domain was not a military institution, although the people who worked at the office were samurai. But most of them are "civilian samurai", at most they are in charge of law and order, and they are not professional troops at all.

Decades have passed since the Warring States period in Japan, and although there are many samurai in each domain, the number of feudal armies is not large, and most of the few feudal armies are not ready to be dispatched at any time.

At that time, the Satsuma Domain sent Kayama Hisadaka to lead 3,000 feudal troops to conquer the Ryukyus, but now it is simply unrealistic for the Satsuma Domain to maintain 3,000 garrisons in the Ryukyus for a long time. 3,000 garrisons are not allowed to issue more than 100,000 or 200,000 salaries? How many high is the Satsuma Domain? The feudal lord is not squandering? Are there too many high-level and mid-level samurai to live? And the confession that spends money like running water is not done anymore?

Therefore, in the face of the "Ming army" that suddenly came over, there was no way to stop the resistance at all, so he had to arrange for someone to greet him with courtesy, and the samurai of his own organization office urgently played hide and seek such a conqueror, and he was ashamed to think about it!

And the senior officials of the Ryukyus who greeted the heavenly soldiers on the dock were also confused by the Ming army of these dozens of ships. Shang Tingzhu, the regent of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the three officials Wu Chonggui, Xiang Yongbao, and Mao Fengming, all looked at the Ming army with green scarves and green robes and flintlock pistols on their shoulders in a daze, silently disembarking and lined up neatly, unspeakably slaughtered.

This heavenly soldier looks more powerful than the people of the Satsuma Domain!

A team of about 200 musketeers with green turbans had already lined up, followed by a piercing suona, and then shouted in unison: "Geng Dong is here!" ”

Geng Dongzheng is Geng Jingzhong, and at this time he also picked himself up, wearing a python robe, with a group of subordinates wearing various official uniforms, swaggering down the boat, looking at it is not an ordinary person!

Where did the regent of the Ryukyu Kingdom, whose "Tang name" is Shang Tingzhu, dare to slack off, and hurriedly stepped forward to bow down: "Shang Tingzhu, the regent of the Ryukyu Kingdom, greets the general of the Celestial Empire, I don't know what the general of the Ryukyu is saying about coming thousands of miles to my Ryukyus?" ”

Shang Tingzhu was a prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and of course he was a pro-Japanese faction, but he could speak Chinese, and Geng Jingzhong could fully understand it. Moreover, Geng Jingzhong has a good impression of the surname Shang, so he smiled slightly at the moment: "The imperial court sent this official to the Eastern Continent, just passing through your country. In addition, the imperial court heard that your country was invaded by the Devil of Wakosa seventy years ago, so I asked the official to expel the Devil of Sa for you by the way! Where is the devil surnamed Sa? Let him come out and fight! ”

Crusade to the New World?

And to fight the demon surnamed Sa?

Where is this?

Shang Tingzhu didn't understand it at all, he wondered if he really understood Chinese?

Wu Chonggui, who was standing beside him, spoke better Chinese than him, this person was the younger brother of the feather land Chaoxiu, who was later known as the five great men of the Ryukyus, and the "feather land" of this feather land Chaoxiu was a place name, his family name was Wu, and Chaoxiu was also a name he only had after his death, and his name was Chongjia before his death, that is, Wu Chongjia. With the support of the Japanese, this Wu Chongjia served as regent for twenty or thirty years, and cooperated with Japanese rule very effectively. Although his brother Takashi was not as capable as him, he still won the trust of Japan. Now listening to Geng Jingzhong's words, he knows that these Ming troops are here to trouble the Japanese.

Seeing that they have many ships, strong soldiers, and good speech, they must take refuge!

So he quickly knelt down for Geng Jingzhong, crying: "God, we Ryukyuan people are finally saved, and we are finally looking forward to the king, and the good days of the Japanese devil are over!" ”

As soon as he behaved, the Ryukyuan people and Japanese who could understand Chinese were dumbfounded, his family was so pro-Japanese, he hated to be Japanese, why did he turn his face now? Is this still shameless? Then, more Ryukyuan people reacted.

"The Heavenly Soldiers are coming! Ryukyu is saved! ”

"The Satsuma Domain is over!"

"Heavenly soldiers, they are the demons of the Satsuma Domain!"

"That's them. That mustache is the head of the Satsuma Domain! ”

(End of chapter)