Early on the next morning, the fleet sailed past Huaping Island and Pengjiashan. Just after noon, Zhao Yanhao saw a large uninhabited island that was higher in the south and lower in the north with little vegetation in front of the ship. Suddenly, there was a large area of white and black on the island.
The big-winged birds flew up from the rocks and mountains in fear, and circled around the mast and chimney of the Windrider, chirping.
"What a big seagull," Zhao Kui couldn't help but sigh.
"This is an albatross," Zhao Yanhao showed off his poor biological knowledge. As soon as he started "popularizing science", Zhao Kui looked at him with eyes shining and admiration on his face, which was very helpful to him.
"What about this island?"
"This island is the Gaohua Island of our Song Dynasty," Zhao Yanhao said. "The Ming Dynasty people called it Diaoyutai, and it is the indivisible territory of our Song Dynasty from ancient times."
It was dawn, Shuri Castle was filled with morning light, and everything was silent.
Suddenly, the sound of clanging drums broke the silence. Several senior Ryukyu officials, wearing purple and yellow eight-roll rugs on their heads and blue robes made of plantain cloth, filed in from both sides of the Reishen Gate, passed through the imperial court, and walked
Enter the main hall and kneel down in their respective positions.
The sliding door at the back of the palace opened to the left and right, and the Ryukyu King Shangfeng, dressed in yellow court clothes and an orange eight-volume rug on his head, slowly walked in from the back of the palace. All the courtiers bowed their heads and bowed, and Shangfeng was sitting on the cushions.
superior.
"Master Kanashi, you must not agree to the request of that Kun man," Chou Riban Dharma Sima Shenglian said first with an angry look, "This Kun man claims to be a descendant of the Song Dynasty in his credential, and is Chinese orthodox. However,
Regardless of the hair and hair, the pair of small jackets are inconsistent with the clothes of the Song Dynasty in the book. I don’t know which pirates stole Qiongya, pretended to be the Song Dynasty, and tried to ask our country to pay tribute. It’s simply It's the best in the world
Daji..."
"What Ozato Okata said makes no sense," a purple-crowned old man in his fifties interrupted Ma Shenglian, "If the short-haired Kun man is lying, then Naha Hong Kong is better than the Buddha Langji man.
Are the large ships and the Japanese red seal ships several times bigger and the black ships fake? It must be that the Song people after Yashan lived in barbarian lands overseas for a long time in Australia, and when they entered the barbarians, they were barbarians." The old man continued to ask Shang Feng.
Greetings, "Master Kanashi, I think you don't need to pay attention to the group of Kon people, so you should quickly send an envoy to Gokunogen (Ryukyu's honorific name for Satsuma Domain) to request troops to drive out the Kon people."
"The words of the relatives in Fengjian City are wrong," another purple-crowned old man, Jurisdiction of Yourifan, replied to Heling, "The Kun people directly submitted their credentials to Zaifan Fengxing. I'm afraid Zaifan Fengxing had already sent someone.
When I went to Yu Guoyuan, when our envoy arrived, the Satsuma State Secretary had already known about it. I thought that our country should also send an envoy and inform the Satsuma State Secretary as soon as possible, and then make a decision after discussion. Otherwise, Yu Guoyuan would be blamed. How could we, a small country like us, afford it?
rise?"
"Kun people actually know about the existence of Zaifan Shixu?" King Shangfeng was shocked.
The Ryukyu Zaibanbo is an administrative agency set up by the Satsuma clan in Ryukyu. Although it usually only controls Ryukyu trade and supervises the collection of tributes transported to Satsuma, it does not interfere too much in the internal affairs of the Ryukyus. However, the Yokome official of the Zaibanbo is also responsible for supervision.
Responsibilities for internal affairs of Ryukyu. If Ryukyu dares to behave in any way that violates the 15 Articles, he will be reported to Satsuma Domain.
However, in order to secretly trade with the Ming Dynasty, the Satsuma Domain had always concealed the existence of the Zaiban Shosho. The Satsuma Domain was also very cooperative. Before the Ming Dynasty's canonized envoys came to Ryukyu, the Japanese in the Zaiban Shosho had evacuated to Okinawa.
In the remote area of the central part of the island, Ryukyu also had to play a double role with the Satsuma clan. To the envoys, receptionists and businessmen, pamphlets written in both Chinese and Ryukyu languages were distributed, containing various questions that Chinese officials might ask.
Its standard answer. The result was that the secret was not revealed until Japan annexed Ryukyu.
"Could it be that some scum on the island colluded with outsiders and leaked the news?" Shang Feng couldn't help but think, "If the heavens also know about this..." Shang Feng did not dare to think too much, he could only comfort himself, "...
Mr. Yizhai, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, did not mention this matter, and the Celestial Empire did not send an envoy to reprimand him, so he must be unaware of this matter."
Thinking of this, Shang Feng breathed a sigh of relief temporarily, but on the surface he remained calm, but in his heart he was extremely contemptuous of these ministers who only thought about the Satsuma Domain, and secretly cursed: "A group of treacherous scum supported by the Dukara people.
.”
But at the moment, Shangfeng has no other choice but to rely on the Satsuma Domain. When the Zaiban officials who came to Ryukyu last year came to Ryukyu, Zheng Zhilong, the powerful sea lord of the Southeast China Sea, was easily killed by an Australian who came from nowhere.
The news that they were defeated and killed on Xiamen Island immediately caused an uproar in the country. The Shuri pro-army defending the capital was dismissed by the Satsuma Domain. Only a few hundred people were left, and all their firearms were confiscated. It was very difficult to expel ordinary small pirates. Most of them
I can't count on it. Moreover, the Australian goods in the hands of these Kun people are indeed of excellent quality, and the people are quite friendly - even though they are threatening, they never disagree and go directly to the shore to rob, kill, and set fire. It's not like that.
It is rumored that he was the extremely vicious person who caused Zheng Zhilong's gun and oars to be wiped out and killed many people.
But even if King Naotoyo wants to have the final say on such major diplomatic matters, he has no control at all. Whether it is tribute or canonization, Satsuma Domain's Yokomune stationed in Ryukyu monitors it very strictly, and the three officials in the imperial court are all under strict supervision.
They are the pro-Satan people supported by the Satsuma clan, and they are colluding with them. Even if they want to pretend not to know, they will not be able to keep this group of Australians in the dark.
But for this trade called "canonization" and "tribute", Shangfeng knew that even if the Satsuma clan did not have the final decision-making power, he would never agree to it. Ryukyu's heart is towards the Celestial Dynasty, and it is enough to be canonized by the Ming Dynasty; losing to Satsuma
It would be fine if he was forced to confer a vassal status for Japan and suffered humiliation; even a group of pirates who didn't know where they came from wanted to consecrate him. If he accepted it, how could he have the face to meet the ancestors enshrined in Chongyuan Temple?
Shang Feng pondered for a moment and then said: "My dear friends, who would be more suitable to send to Satsuma?"
"Reporting to Mei Gozen Kanashi, this important task must be shouldered by Kian Oyakata," Xiang Heling replied without hesitation, "Although Kian Oyakata is old, he has been on many missions to Okunogen (Ryukyu to Satsuma).
The honorific title of the feudal lord), and he is very familiar with Yu Guoyuan’s family elders.”
All the ministers agreed, "What Kunito Oyikata said is absolutely true." Although Shang Feng was unwilling to give in, he still had no other option, so he had to order Xi'an to be summoned to the palace to discuss in detail how to report the matter.
To Satsuma Domain.
Zhao Yanhao stood on the deck of the stern of the Yufeng, looking at the scenery around the floating island, and then picked up a unique tall glass with lemon slices in it.
"These Ryukyu officials really didn't shed tears until they saw the coffin," Zhao Yanhao drank a few sips of the bubbling mint-flavored soda through a straw and said to several naturalized cadres with a smile, "seniors
If you set up a few cannons in the east, you can conquer a country, and the history of a nation is about to begin."
Just a week ago, when the fleet sailed to the floating island Naha Port and anchored, the residents near the dock were frightened and fled in all directions when they saw these huge black ships that were emitting black smoke and had never been seen before. Zhao Yanhao, Xu Liang and the others
After waiting for a long time, not a single warship from the Ryukyu Kingdom came out to fight or intercept.
After a long time, a small boat came slowly from the Naha Port area. A Huangguan official, who was said to have arrived on horseback, climbed up the rope ladder thrown from the side of the ship and pretended to be calm and took a sip.
With a strong Fuzhou accent and weird Mandarin, he said a lot of scene talk with a righteous expression - at least Zhao Yanhao was confused when he heard it, thinking that the Ryukyu dialect he learned during the surprise attack was of no use at all.
If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have spent so much effort learning some Fuzhou dialect.
"This guy is Cai Ze, the Naha official who is in charge of the trade of Naha Port. He is a Ryukyu native who was newly incorporated into Kume Village. This guy asked me why you barbarians are so audacious and dare to raise troops to invade without any reason." said the companion.
Zheng Jue, a naturalized intelligence officer and part-time Ryukyu translator, explained angrily.
Zheng Jue was in his twenties and was a Chinese descendant of Kume Village on the floating island. When Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, enthroned Chadu, the king of Zhongshan in Ryukyu, Chadu asked Zhu Yuanzhang to give him some people to facilitate his study of Chinese culture and trade. So Zhu Yuanzhang granted him
He was given the thirty-sixth surname of the Minzhong boatmen. After these Fujian people came to Ryukyu, they established Kume Village on the floating island near Naha Port. The people of Kume Village were highly valued by the King of Ryukyu, and most of them held important positions in trade with China.
, and even one of the four major noble families in Okinawa. Zheng Yu, who served as the third division officer during the Ryukyu expedition, is a descendant of Kume Village.
This Zheng Jue is Zheng Tie's great-nephew. Although Zheng Tie is already notorious in Ryukyu for "inviting Satsuma to invade", the Zheng family has been quite famous because they have served as the head of the Hucheng village where Xiaolu was born for generations.
The King of Ryukyu did not punish their family. However, in the past few years, Kume Village was almost abandoned due to the reduction in trade and large-scale Chinese emigration. King Shoning ordered some Ryukyu nobles and new Fujian immigrants to be incorporated into the Kume Thirty
Six surnames, moved into Jiume Village. Although the Zheng family had long since moved out of Jiume Village, they still had a lot of land deeds to Jiume Village. As a result, Zheng Jue’s father, Zheng Zixiao, found out that the new villagers had secretly occupied a lot of their family’s land, and he was very angry.
So he went to the Ryukyu court. As a result, the court kicked the ball to Zaifan Zongxing - the Satsuma official in Zaifan was very upset when he heard that he was Zheng Zong's nephew, and always ruled him lose the case. Zheng Zixiao was also dissatisfied, so he sent his
The second son, Zheng Jue, went to Satsuma Domain to appeal - this kid caused trouble all day long by relying on his ancestral karate skills. Although he could speak Mandarin and Japanese, he could not say that he did not read, but because he had no interest in the classics of saints, he
To this day, he is still He Zibu (Tong Sheng) and cannot earn more than a few bushels of food for his family a year, so Zheng Zixiao often gives him a dirty look.