After Xiao Ming returned to Hangzhou, he settled down and went to Ding Jianpeng as soon as possible, he needed to check the overall information of Japan during the Anping period, but Ding Jianpeng didn't know this part of the information, he looked carefully from the computer, and only found a part of the introduction to Japan in the second half of the twelfth century.

This period was the period when the Kamakura shogunate was established, but this was already the end of the twelfth century, and after the Taira regime established by Taira Kiyomori defeated the Genji clique in the Kanto region and dominated Japan, it did not take long for Yorigen to defeat the Yorigen dynasty and then establish the Kamakura shogunate, and since then Japan has entered a relatively peaceful and unified shogunate era.

This is all after 1150 A.D., and the current period is still the end of the Warring States period in Japan, the country is in chaos, although the appearance of Xiao Ming can change the history of China, but whether it can change the history of neighboring countries, it is difficult to say, Ding Jianpeng fell into contemplation.

But Xiao Ming is very concerned, Japan's shipbuilding technology, and this guy called: "Fog Hidden Thunder", if this gang of pirates is allowed to run rampant in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, consolidate Liaodong by himself, and develop trade with the southeast coast of the Great Song Dynasty will be disrupted.

Ding Jianpeng said suddenly: "Why don't you scoop down the entire Ryukyus and use it as a transit base for trade in the East China Sea?" ”

"Ahh Xiao Ming was very puzzled and said: "Isn't Ryukyu the Okinawa of Japan?" Isn't it a subject country of Japan? ”

"!" Ding Jianpeng was furious, he waved his arm and said: "Ryukyu has never belonged to Japan, if you want to say that it belongs, he should have belonged to China!" ”

Historically, Ryukyu is also known as Liuqiu, Shannan, etc., but detailed information is needed to explain it, and Ding Jianpeng happened to have a little information about this, so he pointed it out to Xiao Ming to see.

In the mid-to-late 6th century AD, Emperor Yang of Sui ordered Zhu Kuan, a cavalry captain, to go to sea to visit overseas exotic customs. When I traveled to Yonaguni Island (170 kilometers southwest of today's Diaoyu Island), I saw a pearl-like island floating in the sea. When the Tang Dynasty compiled the Book of Sui, in order to avoid the emperor's dragon, the place was renamed Liuqiu, which refers to Taiwan. In the period of Zhu Yuanzhang, the beautiful name of the place was Ryukyu, which means glazed jade and pearl balls, and its magnificent and wonderful scenery can be seen.

Later sources generally state that from the Ming Dynasty, Ryukyu was a vassal state of China, and continued until the Qing Dynasty and the Satsuma Domain and the Edo Shogunate of Japan paid tribute. The Ryukyu Kingdom was repeatedly invaded by Japan, and in 1609, the Satsuma Domain invaded and controlled the northern part of the Ryukyu Kingdom for a period of time, while the Ryukyu Kingdom was still paying tribute to China. Due to its special geographical location, the Ryukyu Kingdom is known as a transit point for trade in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, and its trade is well developed, and it is known as the "Tsuryo of the World". On March 30, 1879, Japan annexed the Ryukyu Dynasty and the Ryukyu Kingdom was destroyed. Most of the country was transferred to Okinawa Prefecture, and the northern islands were incorporated into Kagoshima Prefecture.

The role of the Ryukyus as a trade center is mentioned several times, and the kingdom was founded on trade and had a developed maritime industry, but it lacked a basic shipbuilding industry, which means that the shipbuilding industry was not developed in the Ryukyus, and it seems that the ship that could be buried in the water must not have been built in the Ryukyus, which means that the ship must have been built in Japan.

Ding Jianpeng's meaning is very clear, in view of the geographical location of Ryukyu trade transit, why not say that the entire Ryukyu is included in the entire southeast coast of Dao Xiaoming and the scope of the Sanhai base? In this way, even the Great Song Dynasty, which is separated from the Central Plains Continent, can have its own sphere of influence.

Ding Jianpeng called this: "Turn the three seas into inland seas!" The strategy is to the effect that the entire Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea will be turned into its own inland sea, relying on the Liaodong Peninsula, the Goryeo Peninsula, and the Shandong Peninsula, plus the entire coastline of Hangzhou and Quanzhou, and this division of power is very attractive.

Ding Jianpeng showed Xiao Ming some things on the information, "The tributary trade of the Ryukyu Kingdom to China was already very developed in the early years of Kangxi. The goods brought to China include gold and silver cans, gold and silver powder boxes, gold jars and wine seas, lacquered gold painted screens, mud gold fans, mud silver fans, painting fans, banana cloth, ramie cloth, safflower, pepper, sumac, waist knives, fire knives, guns, armor, horses, saddles, silk, cotton, screw plates, etc."

At the same time, the Ryukyus also paid tribute to Kangxi with agate, ebony, incense, wood, ivory, tin incense, cloves, sandalwood, yellow ripe incense and other items, and these are all imported from Southeast Asia, which shows that its developed maritime trade is equivalent to Singapore in the 17th century and the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt in the 19th century.

Xiao Ming raised his own doubts, that is, it is okay to establish its own economic and trade circle, but it is not suitable to establish its own regional sphere of influence now, all this must wait for the elimination of the Dajin Kingdom from the north before it can be considered, and again, although the shipbuilding industry has developed based on several major bases in China, a bit of the maritime industry has not really developed.

Ding Jianpeng nodded in agreement, and he said to Xiao Ming: "What you said is also reasonable, if you want to establish your own regional sphere of influence, Japan is always an insurmountable existence, and you must first solve Japan's problems!" ”

Xiao Ming laughed and said: "What kind of Japan is an existence that cannot be reserved, with my current land and sea strength, I can destroy it now!" This matter can't wait, I'm preparing to deal with this pirate called "Fog Hidden Thunder", so I'll use it as an excuse to clean up this Fuso slave country first! ”

Ding Jianpeng looked at Xiao Ming in amazement and said, "You want to be a colonist!" ”

"I want to be an immigrant!" A wicked smile appeared on his lips.

In order to deal with the "fog hidden thunder" Xiao Ming made several plans, first of all, he disguised all four of his warships into merchant ships, and began to cruise on several routes in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, so as to attract the group of pirates to do it to him, and at the same time began the conquest of the Ryukyu Islands.

If you want to conquer the Ryukyus first, you must first solve the problem of piracy, as time goes by, none of the four warships has found the traces of pirates, Xiao Ming thinks about it is not a way, if it is always like this, in addition to it seems to be an escort for the merchant fleet, it is that the banner of Richanglong is no longer good, he wants to deal with pirates, maybe such news will also be learned by pirates, and it is reasonable to avoid him for a period of time.

Xiao Ming felt that it was still necessary to collect intelligence, but the sea was not as good as the land, Xue Bingchang's pedestrian division still couldn't really help much in this regard, Xiao Ming felt that it was necessary to establish a group of his own professional intelligence team, but how could this group of pirates be captured at the moment?

Xiao Ming suddenly thought of the last words of the pirate who contacted him last time, that is, to ask Richanglong to pay the protection fee, which was a good excuse, and it was also the best way to get close to this group of cunning pirates, so he immediately arranged for Gu Xiaoliu to go to the Huanggong Island outside the Ryukyus.

During this time, Xiao Ming was not going anywhere, and was at home to accompany the pregnant Cai'er and Bing'er, Su Cai'er became extremely timid after a pirate hijacking incident, and sometimes she didn't dare to sleep at night, so Xiao Ming slept with her, making Bing'er unusually pouting and angry with him, Xiao Ming had to find time to accompany her again.

People say that pregnant women are sometimes unreasonable, but the three ladies in the family are not bad, after Cai'er and Bing'er are pregnant, they do sometimes play a little sex and lose their temper, but they always have to apologize to him afterwards, Xiao Ming sighed again if he was too blessed, Shen Bei'er laughed at him for being a child, and a hero was short-lived.

Is Xiao Ming a hero short of breath? After he received Gu Xiaoliu's report, he had already picked up the pirates, and immediately packed up those children and went on the ship, according to his personality of retribution for flaws, the pursuit of this pirate matter will naturally not give up easily, and in the end, he will not die.

Although it was Gu Xiaoliu who connected with the pirates, there was Xiao Ming's instruction and command behind him, and the pirates who were also in contact with them also had the instructions and command of their pirate heads, and the two sides had been disagreeing on the amount and amount of protection money, and soon it became a little stiff, Xiao Ming felt that it was time to make a move!

The other party hoped that 200,000 taels of silver per year would be used as the protection fee for the northward voyage of the entire Richanglong caravan, and Gu Xiaoliu only insisted on the amount of 100,000 taels, but the other party was very dissatisfied, saying that Richanglong was rich and rich, and this little money was to send food, Xiao Ming proposed that it would be okay to give 500,000 a year, but you must see your king!

The pirate was suspicious of this, so naturally he would not come to see Xiao Ming easily, but he still insisted on 200,000 taels, Xiao Ming was angry, the peace talks broke down, and Xiao Ming asked people to send a set of women's clothes to the pirate with the words "Fog Hidden Thunder", saying that the king who dared not see people was not as good as a woman! Not worthy of cooperating with Richanglong.

Xiao Ming's intention was to provoke the other party, and his goal was quickly achieved, two Richanglong's merchant ships reported that they had encountered pirate attacks at sea, but the other party obviously couldn't catch up with the fast merchant ships, and in the end gave up the pursuit, it seems that the other party was really angry, and the merchant ships mainly aimed at Richanglong were going to attack.

Xiao Ming was overjoyed by this, and immediately ordered that the merchant ships of Richanglong should not go to sea for a period of time, and he sent his four warships to cruise in the channel in disguise as merchant ships, in order to attract the attack of "Fog Hidden Thunder", if it can be successful, then it can annihilate the pirates in one fell swoop.

Soon his strategy paid off, and when the Jiaolong was sailing towards the Weihai base, the sailors on the mast suddenly issued a warning, saying that a huge black shadow suddenly appeared under the water, and a violent collision followed!

However, the steel keel and teak hull of the Jiaolong are very strong, coupled with the layer of iron plate on the outside, even if it touches the general reef, it will be safe and sound, so it was not damaged, but the crew was very panicked, thinking that they had encountered big fish and monsters in the sea, but Xiao Ming knew that the "Fog Hidden Thunder" had taken the bait!

He hurriedly ordered the observation post on the mast to quickly report the direction of the black shadow, while adjusting the angle of the mortar prepared by the ship, and carried out the first round of strikes towards the direction reported by the observation post, the explosion occurred at the moment when the shell just touched the water, and the column of water that rushed to the sky raised a high wave, and the black shadow under the sea seemed to have been hit.

But the observation post on the mast reported again, saying that the black shadow was sinking rapidly, and seemed to be running away, he couldn't see the other party anymore, according to the depth, the other party may have dived below ten meters, according to the visibility of the Yellow Sea, it was not visible at all, but Xiao Ming still had a magic weapon, that is, a hot air balloon.

The hot air balloon quickly rose into the air, at a height of about two hundred meters directly above the Jiaolong warship, looking down, and sure enough, he found the direction of the black shadow, in the twenty-degree direction of the east, Xiao Ming asked people to swing the ship's naval guns over, and it was a cannon in that direction! The column of water set off by this cannon was several tens of meters high, and it was a special high-explosive shell.

Sure enough, the fragments of the cannonball must have hit the black shadow, and they urgently surfaced, revealing the dark north, and at the same time, someone climbed up to the top and waved a white flag at Xiao Ming's Jiaolong! The other side has surrendered!