After Gao Qi arrived at Deyu Island, he spent more than ten days to travel the entire island. In addition to the Daming City, which had been completed in Guijin, he built two auxiliary cities in the south and north of Deyu Island. Although the area is not large, the two cities are built along the mountain, occupying the two peaks of Deyu Island. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and overlooking the entire island.

At the same time, Gao Qi re-entered the Ryukyu people on Tono Island, granting them the Ming Dynasty household registration, making the island more than 8,000 Ming people. Before, when he passed by Zhoushan, he transferred a large sum of money from Han Kuo. He used this money to hire locals to build cities, build ports, and reclaim fields, making the very difficult locals suddenly become rich. Countless Ryukyu people went to Tono Island from the neighboring Amami Islands and Ryukyu Main Island, making this unknown small island the most prosperous place for the entire Ryukyu.

With the support of the Ming Dynasty, King Shangxian of Ryukyu also began to take action. He directly expelled Japanese officials who controlled the sea trade on the Ryukyu island, bypassed Japan and sent ships to the Ming and Nanyang. The sea trade that had been interrupted for decades began to gradually recover. But this move completely angered the Kagoshima clan, and they sent a fleet of nearly 2,000 people to Ryukyu with great fanfare.

At this time, Shangxian began to fear and quickly asked Gao Qi for help. Gao Qi transferred thirty warships and gathered nearly fifty Ryukyu warships to fight. However, neither Gao Qi, Ryukyu nor Kagoshima clan had any plans to start a war. After several days of confrontation, the Japanese army retreated, but did not withdraw to Japan's land, but instead stationed in the Amami Islands, which had been completely occupied by them.

This time, Shangxian bet right, and Japan dared not provoke the Ming Dynasty. But when the Japanese took out the letter of the country that Ryukyu called Japan, he dared not refuse to admit it. After all, in this ocean, the Kagoshima clan had absolute control. Under constant debate and compromise, the Kagoshima clan agreed to exchange the sea trade rights to Ryukyu, but Ryukyu had to pay a large amount of annual monies to the Kagoshima clan every month.

Gao Qi was happy to see this situation. In the case of internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty, it is really not appropriate to have large-scale conflicts with Japan. Moreover, with the current strength of the Ming Dynasty in Ryukyu, he is indeed not a rival to the Kagoshima clan. After this incident, the conflicts accumulated in the past were directly spoken out, and the number of incidents of pretending to be pirates and attacking the Ming Dynasty and Ryukyu fleets further increased.

The Kagoshima clan also has another name, the Satsuma clan. It is located in the southwest of Kyushu and has always been a powerful Japanese vassal. In the Battle of Sekigahara that determined the direction of Japan, he belonged to the Western Army and was enemies of the Tokugawa family. However, after the war, Tokugawa Ieyasu was afraid of the powerful combat power of the Kagoshima clan and basically maintained the original state of the Kagoshima clan.

The Kagoshima clan was full of hatred for the Tokugawa shogunate, and he was limited to the strength of the shogunate, so he did not dare to act rashly. In fact, at the end of the shogunate period, it was the Kagoshima clan who formed the Shogunate Alliance and finally abolished the Shogunate and returned to the Emperor. After Emperor Meiji took power, most of the members of the Japanese cabinet came from the Kagoshima clan.

Shimazu Konomiya, the current Kagoshima family, was only 35 years old, but he was ambitious. In order to consolidate his rule, he adopted a high-pressure policy to eliminate dissidents. During the period when the Tokugawa shogunate issued a lockdown order, he mined gold mountains and developed new fields to revitalize the industry within the vassal. He strengthened the exploitation of Ryukyu, actively participated in the affairs of North Korea, and even chose to face the Ming Dynasty.

With the Kagoshima Fan Shimazu clan alone, he would definitely not be able to fight against the Ming Dynasty. Shimazu Kokuha certainly knew this. His plan was to bring the entire Japan into the war. He kept sending envoys to Edo to show Tokugawa Iemitsu the difficulties faced by the Ming Dynasty and the possibility of sending troops to capture North Korea at this time.

But Tokugawa Iemitsu was not Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He did not have such great ambitions, otherwise he would not have been intensified to lock down the national order. Tokugawa Iemitsu was much more indifferent to Shimazu Kokura's extreme enthusiasm. You should know that even if you take down North Korea, the biggest beneficiary is the Kagoshima vassal rather than him. After all, the closest one to North Korea is the Kagoshima vassal, and he is willing to actively expand outward. To a certain extent, Tokugawa Iemitsu even hopes that the Ming Dynasty will teach him a lesson to this disobedient powerful vassal.

Tokugawa Iemitsu completely ignored Shimazu Kokuha's proposal. However, he did not restrict his actions too much and agreed to his series of actions in North Korea. However, Shimazu Kokuha stepped up his cooperation with the Qing Dynasty, and he wanted to defeat Tokugawa Iemitsu in reputation by seizing North Korea.

This information was gathered back to the Ming Dynasty little by little by little by little by Ming merchants in Japan, which gave Zhou Xian some basic understanding of the situation in Japan. At least in the short term, the Kagoshima clan would not choose to go directly to war with the Ming Dynasty. However, he only sent someone to report to Tokugawa Ieyasu on Tsuma Island to help the Qing Dynasty train naval masters, and did not act directly and radically. This is also Zhou Xian's current dilemma. His strength is not weak but it is too scattered, and he can only take a defensive position in some aspects. Even though he knows that a disaster may lead to one day in the future, he can only give a little restriction.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the germination of capitalism had already appeared, but this germination only existed in the south. The reason for this was caused by its unique geographical environment, loose political environment, and various other factors.

For example, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang promoted the transformation of rice into mulberry in the south. After the mid-Ming Dynasty, the textile industry dominated by silk and cotton textile industries had become very developed. In addition, driven by official propaganda and interests, in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas in the late Ming Dynasty, a large number of grain-growing fields became mulberry fields.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a proverb that "Suhu is familiar with the world, the world is full." But in the Ming Dynasty, it became "Huguang is mature with the world, the world is full". A large number of mulberry fields promoted the prosperity of the textile industry. In the late Ming Dynasty, some textile workshops could even hire thousands of people. Various silk products, porcelain, and tea were the favorite goods of the West and South China countries.

Shandong has many mountains and few fields and a large population. If Zhou Xian changed rice to mulberry, it would only cause greater problems. It is not realistic to develop large-scale textile industry in Shandong. Although Zibo is known as the porcelain capital, the existing porcelain factories are of scale and output, which are far from meeting the needs of marine trade. Tea is even more wild tea. In a simple sentence, the development model of Shandong's south cannot work at all, and a development model that suits it must be found.
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