The surrender of the pirates means that Xiao Ming can directly capture the ship that can be buried in the water and sail, this is the original submarine, Xiao Ming is looking forward to it, because in this era, someone can make a submarine, and this technology must be mastered by himself.

The surrendered pirates seemed to be in a hurry, Xiao Ming asked people to throw a "floating ring" at them, a kind of lifebuoy invented a long time ago, and let them all swim towards the big ship, and there were many pirates hidden in the "submarine", one by one, there were as many as thirty or forty people.

After these people were rescued on the boat, they found that they were all surrounded by tiger guards with loaded guns, and they were all tied up by ropes one by one, and at this time, there was a sudden gunshot sound, and there was a tiger guard report on the port side of the Jiaolong, saying that there were water ghosts! When they looked down, they saw a dead body emerging out of the sea.

The water ghost seems to want to sink the Jiaolong through the bottom of the ship, not to mention the bottom of the Jiaolong's sharp knife, even the layer of iron covered on the outside is not something that the water ghost can burn, even if he can successfully burn through the bottom of the ship, but the Jiaolong itself is a watertight compartment, and the impact on the overall ship is not too great.

Xiao Ming ordered, seeing the water ghosts killed immediately, you are welcome, the guards immediately lay on the side of the ship to search for themselves, and sure enough, they also found several water ghosts, with a burst of gunshots, these water ghosts all died, and the pirates who were arrested on the ship found that this big ship that looked like a merchant ship was so terrifying, and they couldn't help but tremble with fright.

The "submarine" was dragged with a rope, followed the Jiaolong back to the Weihai base, and after arriving at the dock, he was studying his structure by himself, but Xiao Ming wanted to personally interrogate these pirates to see which was the "fog hidden thunder"

But the caliber of these pirates is completely the same, that is, the "Fog Hidden Thunder" is not on this ship, only that this group of pirates is another Fusang person, whose name is Qianzuka Plain, Xiao Ming personally interrogated him, at first the pirate refused to confess, but when he saw Xiao Ming signaling that Huwei was ready to execute him, he became honest.

According to his confession, he was originally a Japanese fisherman in the Seto Inland Sea, and belonged to the commoners of the Kyushu Kingdom of Western Japan, but the Kyushu Kingdom was defeated by the military general of the Taira clan, Taira Nakamori, and the monarch was drowned in the pond, and the entire Kyushu Kingdom has now been merged by the Taira clan, and many generals who were originally loyal to the monarch have become lost dogs and belong to the objects of pursuit.

And "Fog Hidden Thunder" is one of them, Fog Hidden Thunder is not his real name, his real name is unknown to anyone, this person himself is a ninja! He studied with Fuso's famous ninja school "Fog Hide" school, and his name has the word Raizo, so people call him "Mist Hide Raizo!" ”

In order to avoid pursuit, Fog Hidden Thunder took advantage of his original fisherman's background, and used some special methods of the Fog Hidden School to build two ships capable of diving, and gathered a group of outlaws, and began a career of piracy, they were originally only in the Seto Inland Sea and the Tsushima Strait, as well as the Sea of Japan, which is known as the East China Sea by the Goryeo people, robbing Japanese and Goryeo merchant ships and fishermen.

It wasn't until the Shogun Taira Nakamori began to clean up the pirates that they left the Sea of Japan and moved south to the Ryukyu Islands, harassing merchant ships and fishing boats, but because the "submarine" couldn't stay underwater for long, they spent most of the time in ambush near the island, and after monitoring it through the boat, they attacked after uploading.

When they are generally a few hundred meters away from the merchant ship, they dive, and then drill to the bottom of the merchant ship and use the batter to hit the bottom of the other person's ship, and then use the water ghost to climb onto the other party's merchant ship to control the owner of the merchant ship to achieve the purpose of extorting money, or kidnap the hostages for ransom, but that depends on whether the other party is a big businessman, and the ordinary small businessman only robs money and goods.

Xiao Ming asked him, where is the fog hidden thunder hiding now? Katsuka Plain replied to him, saying that it must be on a small island outside the mountain north of the Ryukyu Islands, and the "submarine" he was riding on was bigger and stronger, and he didn't want this one, which was pierced by shrapnel and was basically scrapped!

Xiao Ming went to the dock to see the "submarine" they called the "foggy" boat, it was a shell like a squid, more like a shuttle, the whole was streamlined, the outside was coated with a very sticky unknown substance, and the internal facilities also used watertight cabins, and used a strange adhesive made of sea creatures, so this kind of bamboo and wood boat was able to resist water pressure and dive into the water.

Its construction principle is the same as that of a submarine, that is, there is a water storage compartment, which is in the lower part of the hull, and the water enters through the water guide tank, and the power inside is all artificial, and the water guide tank can also make the ship float on the water, and the person inside the person pushes the bellows to push the sea water from the back to obtain power.

If you want to sail on the sea, you can also put up the sails and use the wind to sail, because the whole body is made of bamboo and wood materials, so the compressive strength is limited, and it can only dive to a depth of more than ten meters, which is the limit, so this kind of boat itself has no effect on Xiao Ming at all, and what has a role is the creativity of this ship.

If other materials were used and the power plant in it was improved, then in the twelfth century, Xiao Ming would have had a basically modern "submarine"!

At this time, the preparations for the conquest of the Ryukyus had also been completed, and Xiao Ming decided to personally capture this "fog hidden mine" and at the same time use the name of trade to conquer the Ryukyu Islands, ?p>

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And Xiao Ming took the warships around and five Richanglong merchant ships to start the journey of conquest, the fleet has been sailing eastward, it will arrive in Japan, and the Ryukyu Islands trend in the southeast, Xiao Ming's warships and the Richanglong merchant ships from Hangzhou Port are converging in the East China Sea, in fact, according to the straight-line distance, it is closer to the east in a straight line from Hangzhou.

After only one day of sailing, the fleet has arrived at the Ryukyu Islands, Xiao Ming did not expect his fleet to be so fast, and for the people on the Ryukyu Island, a large group of large ships emitting black smoke suddenly appeared from the sea, and it is also a Western scenery that has never been seen, which is true, the people on the Ryukyu have always become the Western continent for Chinese mainland!

In the 12th century, the three kingdoms of Shannan, Nakayama, and Shanbei appeared in the Ryukyus, located in the southern, central, and northern parts of Ryukyu Oshima (Okinawa), respectively, and this period is called the "Sanzan Period". Among the three kingdoms, Zhongshan is the strongest, and Shanbei is the weakest.

And Xiao Ming is now about to go to Shanbei Kingdom, but what they didn't expect was that the monarch of Zhongshan Kingdom insisted on letting them stay, and then officially bowed to them in the Central Plains, claiming that they were envoys sent by the Heavenly Empire, and they must pay a big salute and hold a grand welcome celebration!

This made Xiao Ming a little unbearable! However, as soon as the Ryukyu girl who exuded a strong Southeast Asian style appeared, Xiao Ming felt that it was better to set up a base in Zhongshan, but in fact, the natives of the Ryukyu Islands were actually a branch of Baiyue along the coast of China, mixed with some Malays and some Japanese islanders, and their customs and habits were closer to the Yue people.

Within the king's royal family, a large group of people, such as princes, princesses, princes, concubines, regents, etc., are very respectful to Xiao Ming, and the minister of state is a Fujian Min man surnamed Zhang, because there are a large number of Fujian people in Zhongshan who have moved here, and Zhang Guoxiang is an old man in his sixties, and he told Xiao Ming a lot of customs and customs of the Ryukyu Islands.

Among the three kingdoms, Zhongshan and Shannan are related, the king of Shannan is equal to the nephew of the king of Zhongshan, because he married the daughter of the king of Shannan and became the son-in-law of others, so he went to Shannan, and the old king took over the king's seat after his death, the two countries are almost one, but Shanbei has been hostile to the two countries.

Among the three kingdoms, Shuri, the country of Nakayama Province, is the most magnificent, and the port and wharf facilities are more complete, and the entire Ryukyus is fed on rice, but the output of the land is limited, and many people are still engaged in fishing for a living.

Until after the Tang Dynasty, due to the war in the Central Plains. A large number of Min people migrated to the Ryukyus, and a wide range of trade activities were opened here, but the king of Shanbei believed that Zhongshan dominated the overseas trade lanes and occupied the best port, and the friction between the two countries gradually escalated, and even fought against each other.

The king of Shanbei is called Liangpu, in order to deal with Zhongshan in the past two years, he has been constantly recruiting troops and horses, and has been supported by the nobles of the Japanese Asuka country, and there are constantly Japanese samurai to join Shanbei country, and at the same time they also take in pirates, ready to rob the cargo ships of Zhongshan and Shannan at sea, and "Fog Hidden Thunder" is the pirate they took in!

And Zhang Guoxiang conveyed the king's meaning, that is, he hoped to establish the status of a vassal state with the Great Song Dynasty, and asked the Heavenly Dynasty to help them deal with the Shanbei Kingdom, Xiao Ming said to Ding Jianpeng, who accompanied him: "In the whole Ryukyu fart where the farts are bigger, the chiefs of several tribes also know how to fight and fight, fight and kill!" It's also a vassal country, so it's better to be my Xiao Ming's vassal country! ”

Ding Jianpeng smiled: "That's not exactly what you want!" ”

Xiao Ming thought for a while and said: "It seems that things are simpler than we thought, this time after dealing with pirates, we will build the base first, since Shanbei Kingdom is colluding with Japan, simply push them over and destroy them!" "It is still very important for the base to unify the Ryukyus with us!"

Ding Jianpeng also agreed, so the two made a decision, and the rest of the things were easy to do, Xiao Ming claimed to be the sea patrol envoy of the Great Song Dynasty to the lord of Zhongshan Kingdom, and agreed to all the king's requests, and said that he would give His Majesty the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty after he went back, but now he needs the king of Zhongshan to cooperate with a few things.

The first is the matter of pirates, since the pirates are supported by the Shanbei Kingdom, then the punishment for them will definitely not be abandoned, and at the same time, for the sake of the trade between the entire Ryukyus and the Great Song Dynasty, they are ready to choose a place in Shuri to establish a trading base.

The first thing is that the king of Zhongshan can't ask for it, but the second thing is that all the people in their royal family can't give Xiao Ming a reply after discussing it with the prime minister for a long time, Zhang Guo expressed the king's worry to Xiao Ming, that is, he is afraid that the base of the Great Song Dynasty will cause the Central Plains people in the country to disobey the system and lose the king!

Xiao Ming also had to admire the political sensitivity of the little king, and he told the other party that if he supported the construction of his base, he would consider unifying the whole of Ryukyu and completely handing it over to him, because a unified Ryukyu island was important for the eastern seas of the Great Song Dynasty.

In a very modern diplomatic rhetoric, the king of Zhongshan had nothing to say, and Xiao Ming promised to support the whole of Ryukyu in a wide range of ways, including medical care, education, and handicrafts, as well as to build a salt and sugar mill in Zhongshan, because Ryukyu was rich in sugar cane.

The king of Zhongshan was very happy to accept Xiao Ming's request, so a large number of islanders began the construction of Xiao Ming's Ryukyu base under the king's arrangement. When everything was arranged, Xiao Ming immediately led four warships from Shuri Port to Quy Nhon Port in Shanbei, the purpose of which was to investigate the piracy incident!