Yongle five years.

Spring.

A large fleet of warships set out from Jinshu, passed through the coast of Goryeo, rested on the main island of the Ryukyus for half a month, and then headed north along the east coast of Shimazu to bombard Yamana in the bay of Shikoku Island and the Chinese region of Wakoku.

Not only did it destroy the food and grass of the shogunate army, but it was also the first official military operation that shocked the shogunate.

The shogunate's large iron guns not only did not have time to counterattack, but also did not have the slightest resistance, and the shipboard guns on the naval battleships were like thunder, and the range was up to two or three miles.

It's amazingly powerful.

Several people, or even a dozen, were destroyed in one shot.

Half an hour later, the fortifications on the coastline were wiped out, and people discussed how powerful the Ming fleet was.

When there was no sound on the shore, the boat landed with Ming soldiers.

The Navy has two types of ships that land.

One is the sub-mother ship invented during the Song Dynasty, which is a light ship.

The length of the mother ship is more than three zhang five, the front two zhang, the back one zhang five, only two sides of the gangway, the inner space, there is a small boat, there is a cover plate, there are four oars to row, with a rope and the mother ship tied.

The mother ship has firewood, oil, gunpowder and fire.

During the war, the mother ship quickly approached the enemy ship, nailed it together, and set the mother ship on fire and the descendants returned in the sub-ship.

The type of sub-ship became one of the main carrying vessels of the Golden State Navy.

The other is the Clippers.

Ships with fast speeds that are convenient for maneuvering on the water can also be used to transport supplies.

Historically, when Zheng He went to the West, the largest clipper in the naval fleet of the Ming Dynasty had eight masts, 37 zhang long and 15 zhang wide, with a displacement of about 140,000 tons, and ordinary clippers had five masts and three masts, with a displacement ranging from thousands of tons to one or two hundred tons.

This account may be true or exaggerated.

But so.

Exaggeration was common in ancient times, such as an army of hundreds of thousands, claimed to be a million.

But in ancient times, there were clear records, so everyone knew the specific numbers and could make a complete judgment.

And there is no detailed record in the West.

The West is the type of poetic story that is passed down by word of mouth.

So they take these kinds of stories as historical materials and study them carefully.

If there is no clear historical record in ancient times, then in the same way, later generations will also study ancient poetry and stories as historical materials, but it is just a matter of winning and defeating, and whoever is strong will have a high degree of credibility in speaking.

Fear of the strong is also a kind of primitive human nature.

Therefore, in the hearts of many people, the strong represent authority.

These small boats, through the oars of the soldiers, quickly poured into the shore, and the soldiers immediately went ashore, and formed a formation on the shore, and after the various teams were assembled, they formed one phalanx after another.

At this time.

The shogunate tentatively sent a cavalry force.

The war horses of the Wa Kingdom were low, the size of the donkeys of the Ming Dynasty, so they had very high flags behind them to set off the tallness, and behind the cavalry, there were soldiers in cloth armor, and the ashigaru men with rudimentary armament.

The two sides soon began fighting.

Daming's new style of self-generated fire gun has gradually matured technically.

Huguang Province is divided into Hubei and Hunan Province, the quality of flint ore in Hunan Province is not in the forefront of the world, but it is already the best batch in Daming, enough for military needs.

On the other hand, the firearms of the Wa Kingdom actually belong to the principle of the fire door gun.

Over the years.

Many countries and regions have studied the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, and there are many achievements, but the firearms of the Ming Dynasty can be imitated in production, and it is difficult to produce them on a large scale, whether it is the Wa Kingdom or Goryeo, they cannot produce them in large quantities.

In short, the productive forces of a peasant-industrial society cannot be built by them.

Therefore, even in the Wa Kingdom, the shogunate army only has a new firearms team of 300 people, and it is in the hands of the shogun, and it is not here.

However, according to the information reported by the merchants, the craftsmen of the Wa Kingdom had already begun to study the second generation of steam engines.

Including Yoshihiro Ouchi, these local powers.

However, the shogunate only had the strength, and the rest of the places could not be promoted.

The promotion of the steam engine is not a technical problem, but a market demand.

Just as the United States invented many new technologies in later generations, many new technologies have been carried forward in China and marketized.

Invention and marketization.

The latter is more important.

Therefore, many inventions in ancient China, because of market demand, have not been promoted, the same industrial revolution occurred in the United Kingdom, not in France and Italy, where technology and culture are more developed, and it is also the British geographical environment and production mode that created the demand of the market.

This was recognized by many scholars in later generations.

Including research on China and the United States.

Even in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was clear that the invention of technology was mainly in Europe, but the United States was the main reason for the rise of power, and the productivity surpassed that of the West.

The fertile land, the vast and sparsely populated land, the high per capita resources, and the stable surrounding situation have led to the same new technology, although invented in the old countries such as the United Kingdom, it has been popularized and developed in the United States.

For example, in the eighteenth century, the United States introduced a new patent law that allowed technology stolen from any country to be patented and protected in the United States.

Including after the Meiji Restoration in Japan, a large number of technical spies were sent to Britain to steal textile machine technology, so Japan also successfully acquired a large number of technologies after Germany and the United States to establish its own textile industry.

Some people with ulterior motives in later generations used this article to accuse, but in fact, their purpose was very clear, that is, to disintegrate.

Why is Britain in the Industrial Revolution willing to teach steam engine technology and textile machine technology to its sworn enemies Germany and the United States, and why does Germany teach advanced electrical technology to the United States on the other side of the ocean?

Because they can't stop it.

Including the Native Americans, when they first saw the cavalry and muskets of the Western colonists, they were frightened as if they had encountered immortals, but in just a few years, the local natives also rode horses and carried muskets to resist the colonists.

Was it the colonizers willing to teach them?

This is the main reason why the United States regards the East as its number one adversary.

Because the new technologies that have just come out one after another have been popularized and developed in China, so that the countries that invented these technologies are shocked, and everyone is not stupid and knows what the consequences will be in the long run.

The Ming soldiers used grenades to destroy the fighting spirit of the shogunate army.

The Baizi Lianzhu cannon carried down from the small boat supplemented the firepower of the Ming soldiers, forming a dense line of fire, so that the sprinting shogunate army was overwhelmed, and seeing that the fire was almost over, the Ming soldiers launched a counterattack.

Bayonet charge.

In less than half an hour, the thousands of troops left here by the shogunate had been defeated, including the time when the Ming soldiers landed.

Subsequently.

After the Ming army was assembled, a team of 2,000 people, with a vehicle-mounted cannon and a hundred sons, went to Beizhong City.

The daimyo of Bichu Castle had already received the news and asked for help as soon as possible.

Facing the city of the Wa Kingdom.

The generals of the Ming military are no strangers.

Under the command of flags and horns, the teams went into order, and then the fire of the vehicle-mounted guns rang out.

After destroying a section of the city wall, the Ming soldiers used grenades to clear the way, repelled the defenders at the collapsed site, and then swarmed into the city, and the local defenders did not form the organization and military spirit of street fighting.

When the Ming soldiers entered the city, the defenders collapsed.

It only took half a day.

The Ming soldiers took Bizhong City.

However, their purpose was not to occupy the city, but to destroy the city's grain and grass.

In order to defeat the Ouchi rebels, the shogunate army gathered more than 100,000 troops, most of which were piled up in the rear, including Bichu Castle, which was one of the main supply points of the shogunate army.

Hit the snake and hit the seven inches.

The Ming military department did not have the determination to fight the shogunate army, because the situation in the country did not allow it at present.

It's just that.

The shogunate army has taken the Yamana region.

In the southern part of Wakoku, the Yamana region was originally the most powerful, but later during the war, the power of the Yamana region declined and was replaced by Yoshihiro Ouchi, also known as the Ouchi clan.

Last year, the Ouchi clan included not only parts of Yamana, but also parts of Takeda and Mori, as well as the Matsuura area of Kyushu Province.

Originally, it took only a few months for the shogunate to quell the Ouchi clan's rebellion.

However, although the shogunate defeated the Ouchi clan, it did not completely quell the local resistance, and laid the groundwork for the Onin Rebellion, which became famous in the history of the Wa Kingdom decades later.

This war is known in the history of the Wa Kingdom as the Onei War.

Whether it is the scale or the movement, it is not as good as the rebellion of Yingren.

Because the current shogunate is still very strong, unlike decades later, it can no longer suppress the contradictions in various places, but now it is not what it used to be, and through the support of the Ming Dynasty, the Ouchi clan has made great progress.

The original Ouchi clan was counting on North Korea.

Originally, the strongest guardian of the western Wa Province was the Yamana clan, which belonged to the locals, and now the Ouchi clan, who is known as the strongest guardian of the western Wa country, does not consider themselves to be Wakoku, they think they are Koreans.

So they wanted to form an alliance with Goryeo, but Goryeo didn't lend a hand.

The current Goryeo three points.

Although the king of Goryeo has frequent contact with the Ouchi clan, the Ouchi clan needs the support of the Ming Dynasty even more, and the king of Goryeo does not dare to send a large army to the Wa Kingdom, so the current Ouchi clan is very conflicted.

The Ouchi clan was well aware of the difference between Goryeo and Damyeong.

With the help of the power of Goryeo, they can still maintain their independence, but if they fall to the Ming Dynasty, then it will be difficult for them to get out of the control of the Ming Dynasty in the future, which is also the reason why the Ouchi clan and the Ming Dynasty have not negotiated.

Even the shogunate army broke through the defense line of the Ouchi clan, not only took the northern places, but also had a great tendency to surprise the hinterland of the Ouchi clan.

Without the help of external forces, the Ouchi clan would have been defeated.

Based on this.

The Ouchi clan finally compromised and fully agreed to Daming's conditions.

The kingdom of Kyushu was returned to the Ming Dynasty.

Ouchi clan independence.

However, on the Shikoku side, the Ouchi clan's firm demands were attributed to them, and the Daming believed that the flag of the Shikoku was tilted to the shogunate and did not belong to the Ouchi clan, so it should be taken over by the Damei.

Under the same conditions, Daming was also talking to the shogunate.

Compared with the situation of the larger inner clan, the elders of the shogunate refused without hesitation, and finally contributed to the military operation of the Ming army's blitzkrieg on the rear of the shogunate army.

When the news spread that the grain and grass at Bichu Castle had been destroyed, and they were preparing to take advantage of the victory, the shogunate army, which had destroyed the Ouchi rebels within two months, was shaken, and the intensive offensive suddenly stopped.

After the shogunate's reinforcements arrived, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had already retreated.

All that remains is the ruined city.

All the grain and grass that can be taken away are taken away, and what cannot be taken away is burned, leaving not a grain of grain behind.

"Yaga."

Bichu Matsuyama's daimyo Kobori Enshu, looking at the black smoke billowing in front of him, couldn't help but scold, and panicked in his heart.

It is not easy to accumulate grain in the country.

In order to quell the rebellion this time, the shogun prepared for several years, and over the years, the Ouchi clan jumped up and down, not because the shogunate could not see it, but because he had insufficient spare strength and secretly accumulated strength.

Although the shogunate's grain and grass are not limited to this, one-third of the grain and grass has been destroyed, and there is a worry about the elusive fleet of the Great Myojin, so this battle cannot be fought.

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To the south of the main island of Wakoku is Kyushu Province, which is also an island.

The development of the Kyushu Kingdom originated from the Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Wa Kingdom, and a large number of people and high-level people migrated to the southern region, coupled with the convergence of defeated samurai, the main stop point of the Wako in history was in the Kyushu Kingdom.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the strength of the Kyushu Kingdom developed, and even the Shimazu family, which arose in the southern part of Kyushu Kingdom, coerced the Ryukyus to pay tribute to the Wa Kingdom, and during the Qing Dynasty, the Ryukyus were officially annexed and incorporated into the Japanese territory.

At present, the main power of Kyushu is in the north, and some of it belongs to the Ouchi clan.

South of Kyushu Province.

It is the Amami Islands, and the Amami Islands belong to the Ryukyu Kingdom, but because of their proximity to the Wakoku and the backwardness of the local productivity, it is not very clear, and the famous Iwo Jima is within the Amami Islands.

To the south of the Amami Islands is the main island of the Ryukyus.

To the north is the Shanbei Kingdom, in the middle is the Zhongshan Kingdom, and in the south is the Shannan Kingdom.

According to the praise of the West by some people in later generations.

If it weren't for the Ming Dynasty, these areas would have been full of wars and chaos for a long time, and the existence of the Ming Dynasty would have helped to ensure the peace of the world, so the three kingdoms still existed, and under the management of the Ming Dynasty, they did not dare to conquer each other.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty is the light of civilization.

As for the fact that these three kingdoms will become a unified Ryukyu Kingdom a few decades later, it is not under discussion, is it?

For example, the expansion of the United States is a historical reason.

There is always a reason to explain.

In the early days of the Ming Dynasty in history, the sea area between the main island of Ryukyu and the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty set up a Zhenyuan Bo Press Division on Kume Island, but there was no at the moment, and after communicating directly with the local natives by the Ming Navy, it became an important maintenance point on the supply line of the Ming Navy.

Quy Nhon City in the Kingdom of the Three Norths.

The overseas base camp of the Ming Navy is located.

Thousands of soldiers are training in the camp and are on rotational leave, with each squad having six days off per month.

Several soldiers did not leave the camp too far.

The Ming Navy has a scale of 100,000.

Of these, 10,000 or 20,000 were placed on the Ryukyu, Wa Kingdom, and Korea side, and the local food supply was provided.

The Ming navy soldiers were rich, but the local natives did not have a high-level trade method, and only the royal palace and ministers would accept the food stamps of the Ming navy soldiers.

They went to the Ming Dynasty, and the demand for food stamps was getting higher and higher.

However, with the development of commerce, more and more merchants brought goods, and the natives could also buy the goods of the Ming Dynasty through the food stamps, and unconsciously, the food stamps of the Ming Dynasty had become the currency accepted by the local people.

The tribal leader received the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

The young girls looked at the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty with warm eyes.

Several soldiers and the young men of the tribe kicked and bowed.

Kemari was given to them by the soldiers, and Kemari activities were also introduced to the local area and became a leisure activity.

Barearmed.

The Ming soldiers and the young men of the tribe divided into two teams and competed in the open space, and the leader had a smile on his face and watched them sweat with a smile.

"Wise people are polite."

One of the leaders affirmed.

Everyone had a good impression of the Ming soldiers, they obeyed the local rules, and brought a large number of food stamps, and generously gave a lot of good things to the tribe.

Kemari is just the same.

There are also sharp knives, beautiful cloths, delicious beef jerky, etc.

The most important thing is that the Ming soldiers kept the salute.

They never do anything illegal, and the military discipline is strict, which amazes the leaders of the tribe, and from Da Ming, they feel a sense of crisis that they are respected and not violated.

Over the years, the two sides have formed a very good relationship.

The Ming soldiers told the locals that even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had ordered that the Ming army should maintain military discipline no matter where it was.

If Zhu Gaochi is here.

He will think of what the US military is doing.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the new imperial court relied on the United States and treated the United States as a gentleman, and the result was that their wives and daughters were collectively violated, an alternative "someday" feast.

The new court never had the idea of self-improvement, and regarded dependence on others as the only means.

It was the first to rely on the United Kingdom.

Even British history textbooks say that 918 was a British failure.

Because of Japan's invasion of China, the local government begged Britain to solve the problem and pinned its hopes on the League of Nations, but the British-led League of Nations could not urge Japan to stop its aggression.

In a nutshell.

The brainwashing of Western-dominated world-centrism has been inculcated in Britain since childhood.

Therefore, Britain and the United States do not feel that there is anything wrong with interfering in the affairs of other countries from the perspective of their own interests, because their people, who have been educated since childhood, make them think that they are the managers who dominate the world.

Therefore, all countries must obey their interests and violate their demands, which is to undermine the so-called civilized order.

The previous dynasty relied on external forces, suffered great suffering, and brought tribulations to the people, so there is a lesson from the past, so there is the anger of later generations, and they will never hand over their fate to others.

Just like a certain bar in later generations.

Hope in the international community, how to resist the robbers?

What makes the weak and weak despair the most is that the robbers do not want to accept them as their own people, but have a great tendency to drive them away and kill them all.

The winner is king, and the loser is the villain.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty became the seeds of the Ming Dynasty to expand its territory and take root in the new land.

It's just that.

The shackles of moral shackles allow the soldiers to maintain their humanity in general, and they dare not mess with human nature, but they are not saints, and their private desires are also in the process of being staged.

Several soldiers brought back several bags of military rations.

The soldiers have money.

They bought many goods, including grain, from domestic merchants and became one of the wealthiest people in the region.

After the banquet of the tribe.

The soldiers smiled and returned to their "new homes".

"Ah Niu."

"You have great strength, you are obedient, and you are smart, learn the Ming language well, and when you have the opportunity one day, I will take you to join the Ming army, become a Ming person, and settle down in the Ming Dynasty in the future."

The family surrounded the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming soldier gestured.

The adults in the family smiled with satisfaction, and the strong boy smirked when he heard his new name, and his sister couldn't help but push him and ask him to express his attitude to his brother-in-law.

The soldiers were unimpressed.

After blowing the cowhide for a while, he led his local daughter-in-law back to the room.

The population of Ryukyu Island is small.

Compared with the hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, it is not worth mentioning at all.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty does not care about absorbing the local population, because the population size of the Ming Dynasty is the biggest advantage, so the ancient dynasties, such as the Ming Dynasty, have only one requirement for the surrounding tribes.

Harmony.

Because from the bones, the ancients were very confident.

They believe that with their own civilization and productivity, they can solve all problems, including the indoctrination of the natives.

Only those tribes that often burn and loot will let the Ming send troops to exterminate them.

For example, Banshu Toast.

Yang Yinglong himself can do whatever he wants behind closed doors, everyone can get by on face, Daming will not pay attention to it, only this person is burned and looted in the surrounding area, and slaughtered the people, which is the fundamental reason for one of the three major expeditions of Wanli.

Compared with the expedition of the army, the benefits obtained by exterminating these tribes are not cost-effective, so the Ming did not want military action, and the thinking from the emperor's will to the local officials has never changed.

Harmony.

A small number of people and tribes can't do it, and modern Westerners can't do it either.

How many people are they have, how can they absorb the local natives, and they are not bound by moral shackles, so exterminating the local population is not a psychological burden, and it is also their inevitable behavior.

The soldiers spent the night at the home of their indigenous wives and stayed for a few more days, waiting for the holidays to approach before saying goodbye to their families and returning to the camp.

At this time.

The fleet that had gone out to conquer the Wa Kingdom also came to the docks to rest.

The wharf was built by the navy, initially for military use, and later opened for civilian use, and a large number of merchant ships arrived at the wharf.

The arrival of thousands of soldiers, coupled with the arrival of several merchant ships, made Quy Nhon City lively overnight, and the soldiers finished their toil at sea and rested in twos and threes.

Merchants brought in wine from the mainland, which became the best-selling goods.

There are also soldiers who buy clothes.

"Slow down, I've got a mirror in my hand."

A soldier blocked a friend's warm embrace and pointed to the mirror in his hand.

Mirrors weren't meant to be cheap.

After crossing the ocean, it is not cheap, except for the local nobles of the Ryukyus, ordinary people cannot afford it, but the naval soldiers can afford it.

"You're really home."

The friend looked at the gift in the other party's hand and knew that the other party was sent back to the "father-in-law's" house, and the friend couldn't help but joke.

"People are following me, I want to be worthy of them."

The soldier said seriously.

"Many people have two homes, you are good, too sincere."

"Someone else is someone else, and I am me."

"Let's go, let's drink."

The two left shoulder to shoulder.

Foreign.

Three joys in life.

When the gold list is inscribed, the candle night in the cave room, and the old acquaintance in another country.

Career, family, life. (End of chapter)