Zheng Jue was unwilling to go, but he did not dare to disobey, so he reluctantly took a boat to Satsuma. As a result, the boat sailed to the Tokara Islands and was robbed and taken prisoner by pirates who called themselves the Seven Islands. Because Ryukyu cannot be bought and sold in Japan.
As a slave, the shipowner resold him to Zheng Zhilong. He became the "little one" of a certain shopkeeper and was regarded as a confidant.
After the Zheng Zhilong Group was defeated, Zheng Jue was captured again. Because he was a Ryukyu Chinese, he was very rare. As a result, he was selected and sent to Lingao. After purification, he was selected by Jiangshan as a "special labor force" to be trained by the Foreign Intelligence Bureau.
After Zhao Yanhao listened to the explanation translated by Zheng Jue, he disdainfully interrupted the long speech of the overlord Cai Na.
"I am Taizhong, the official of the Great Song Dynasty in Australia. I am the envoy of the Zhongshan Kingdom of Ryukyu. I am the envoy of the superior kingdom." Zhao Yanhao said, pretending to bow to Nanfang, and then waved to the Ryukyu officials, "You are so impudent.
, How dare you say something rude here!"
After that, Zhao Yanhao waved his hand, and the sailors opened the gun cover of the 130mm main gun on the bow. Under the adjustment of the sailors, the black fine steel gun body was pointed straight at the Naha port.
Cai Ze's face suddenly turned pale. The barrel of this cannon is so thick. If the Kon people really bombard Naha Port, even if the King of Ryukyu can spare his life, the Japanese officials in Japan will most likely bring the matter to Satsuma.
Go ahead, if Satsuma Kuni is blamed, he will have his own head chopped off.
"The envoy from the Kingdom of Heaven calms down," Na Baguan quickly changed his attitude, "The villain has eyes but cannot see Mount Tai..."
"Forget the polite words and give these two letters of credence to the King of Ryukyu and Zaifan respectively," Zhao Yanhao ordered Zheng Jue to hand the two letters of credence to Nabaguan. "If you dare to hide it privately,
Then I will go directly to Kagoshima to talk about life and ideals with Shimazu Tadahashi."
Zhao Yanhao was in a very happy mood after seeing off the shivering and pale-faced overlord Cai Ze. In Lingao, he was just a soy sauce veteran who was "afraid of his boss". After coming to Ryukyu, he not only had many naturalized people to provide him with
He was sent to show off his "official power", and the Ryukyuan people were at least very afraid of him.
"No wonder they all work hard to be expatriate veterans and do business, and they feel like a bastard from the bottom of their feet. They just hope that they don't have the halo of being a point-of-view person..." Zhao Yanhao thought about a certain English book he read at night before traveling through time.
"Looking at the situation, the Senate will send out a lot of Perrys. I don't know who can be the first to sail the black ship to the coast of Uraga."
Early on the third day, Cai Ze boarded the Wind Rider again in a small boat. This time he was respectful and presented a gift list with various supplies written on it, probably rice, awamori wine, etc.
Wind pigs, live chickens, various fruits and vegetables, etc. were also given as extra gifts, including some cotton fabrics, ramie fabrics, and even some banana cloth that Zhao Yanhao had never heard of.
"Can bananas be used to weave cloth?" Zhao Yanhao was very curious.
"Chief, every household in Ryukyu must grow bananas," Zheng Jue explained respectfully, "As for how to weave it into cloth, it is more troublesome. It seems that you need to peel off the outer skin of the banana leaf stalks to extract the fiber, and then dye and weave the cloth.
.Chief, I’m very sorry, I only heard about it and never saw it with my own eyes.”
"How much fiber can be extracted from bananas? How many trees do you need to cut down?"
"Reporting to the leader, it will take nearly two hundred banana trees to be cut down to make a banana cloth costume..."
"It's really not environmentally friendly, just like Lao Wu who is in charge of forestry." Zhao Yanhao muttered. But the clothes worn by the elders are all made of cotton produced in India and Songjiang or Dutch linen. Buy some light banana cloth to make something special.
Casual clothes were also a good choice, so he decided to solemnly write the words "banana cloth" at the end of the purchase list.
In fact, banana cloth is also produced in Hainan Island. It is one of the local specialties exported by Li people's villages. However, it has not formed a large scale and is only available in the market by chance. Zhao Yanhao did not know that he also had this thing.
After Cai Ze sent the condolences, no official Ryukyu officials came for more than a week. However, some bold Ryukyu people rowed boats and started selling things. They sold sweet potatoes, firewood, vegetables, fish and shrimps.
Not very valuable agricultural and sideline products such as cloth. Some Ryukyu people even brought some brown sugar - except for the color, brown sugar and brown sugar have roughly similar ingredients. The method of making brown sugar was introduced by a Ryukyu official called Ma Hexi more than ten years ago.
He also introduced cotton and popularized sweet potatoes from Ryukyu. He was known as the "Five Great Men of Ryukyu" in later generations.
Although later generations of Ryukyu people spoke highly of him, brown sugar was also the most important foreign trade product of Ryukyu in the original time and space. During the Satsuma era, the brown sugar trade was completely controlled by the Satsuma clan. However, Zhao Yanhao was very fond of this man who is still in the imperial court.
The agricultural products introduced by the "Ryukyu version of Shennong" who were using their remaining heat were not interesting at all - Wen Tong also hoped to sell Leizhou's white sugar to Ryukyu and Japan. The value of buying these semi-finished products, which are similar to brown sugar, was not high.
When Zhao Yanhao ordered the sailors to bring out Songjiang cotton cloth and Leizhou white sugar, he could almost hear the heartbroken voices of these Ryukyu people. However, Zhao Yanhao still asked the sailors to exchange a small amount of cotton cloth and white sugar for the Ryukyu 磣 and brown sugar in the hands of the Ryukyu people——
You always have to bring back some specialties to give to the elders, right? These Ryukyu people were extremely grateful and went back with cloth and sugar.
Zhao Yanhao actually wanted to exchange rice for specialty products: the Senate issued silver coins in Guangzhou, and the silver inventory was not large, and foreign trade was generally not allowed to flow out. The rice was a gift from the King of Ryukyu. Zhao Yanhao felt that he might not be able to eat it for a while, so he planned to sell it directly.
Buy some specialty products. However, few people collect rice. After asking about it, I found out that in order to collect more rice and hand it over to Satsuma Domain, except for the royal family and high-ranking nobles, civilians are prohibited from eating rice. Most civilians eat grains and even cycad fruits. Because
They didn't dare to eat it, so no one except some nobles dared to collect rice.
"The Ryukyu Kingdom did more than the Puppet Manchukuo." Zhao Yanhao felt very sorry for the Ryukyu people. However, the private trade with Ryukyu was actually not that important. The main trading objects of this operation were the Ryukyu royal family and the Satsuma clan behind it.
.Therefore, Zhao Yanhao's slogan of rescuing the Ryukyu people was actually loud to the Senate, but it was of little use for the time being.
When the Ryukyu people came to do small business, Zheng Jue reminded Zhao Yanhao that there might be members of the Satsuma clan among the crowd on the shore - at least Zhao Yanhao saw through the telescope that there were Japanese samurai with moon-haired men sneaking among the crowd on the shore.
Looking around. However, he didn't care much about the Ryukyu craftsmen who were coerced and lured by the Japanese to board the ship for business - the Ryukyu people could only queue up to get on the deck, and were "invited off" from the ship after the transaction was completed. Zhao Yanhao didn't
I felt that the Ryukyu people could see what was going on, but they still ordered most of the crew members to be armed and stand on the deck on guard to show the military might of the Senate's "Celestial Kingdom".
However, the Ryukyu official did not reply for a long time, and Zhao Yanhao was impatient to wait. This efficiency was too low! Just as he was with Xu Liang, Zheng Jue and the captain of the special investigation team, a naturalized citizen named Li Renjun
Studying how a few people like Perry marched to the gate of Shuri Castle with an armed parade to enjoy a meal with the Ryukyu King, the sailor in charge of the lookout post ran over to report that several small boats were rowing towards the Wind Rider.
Zhao Yanhao picked up the binoculars and looked at several small boats. He found that in addition to the Ryukyu Kingdom's Ba pattern flag, the boats also hung the flag of the white pill cross pattern on a black background - Zhao Yanhao played a lot of Warring States games.
However, I quickly recognized the owner of this flag: the Shimazu family of Satsuma Domain.
"What's coming is finally here," Zhao Yanhao tried to calm down and made a deep expression. "Please invite the envoys of the Satsuma Kingdom Secretary and the King of Ryukyu to board the ship."
Zhao Yanhao will probably never forget the funny scene in his life of a skinny little old man dressed as a warrior and a skinny little old man dressed as a monk standing on the deck.
"Xi'an, poor monk. His Chinese name is Min Fanyuan. He is a relative of Ryukyu. He is a tea ceremony official and pays homage to the envoy of the Song Dynasty." The old monk, who was in his seventies and had a shiny forehead, clasped his hands and said in Mandarin with a Fuzhou accent.
Zhao Yanhao nodded in response.
Then the old monk introduced the fifty-year-old samurai beside him: "This is Yamada Izuku, the envoy of Satsuma Kingdom." Yamada pressed his hands on his thighs, and then bent slightly to Zhao Yanhao.
Indicate.
Zhao Yanhao finally understood the meaning of Xi'an under Zheng Jue's translation.
"Don't push me if you don't speak Mandarin..." Zhao Yanhao almost cried.
Then he calmed down, cleared his throat, and said to Xi'an in a Quanzhou dialect with an Osaka accent, "Xian Oyakata doesn't need to be polite. Both of you are Japanese. We can talk in Japanese."
"ほんま?" Xi'an was shocked - he didn't expect that this young man actually knew his true identity. Xi'an's late father was a fortune teller in Sakai Port. When he was a child, he gave him a fortune telling: "He will definitely not be able to succeed here.
, but going to the southern country will lead to prosperity and wealth." Then he learned the tea ceremony from an unknown disciple of Sen no Rikyu, Kang Yin, and later crossed the sea to the south and came to Ryukyu. Ryukyu was culturally immersed in the cultures of China and Japan, and the Japanese tea ceremony
There are also some enthusiasts, but no one is proficient. He, the second sword in the Japanese tea ceremony world, became an academic authority on Ryukyu tea ceremony and served as the king's "Tea Ceremony". During the Ryukyu expedition, he was responsible for dealing with Satsuma Domain.
He served as a diplomatic envoy for many times, and was therefore awarded the title of "Yinfang", the highest non-royal noble title.
"How do Australians know that I am from Sakai Hong Kong?" Xi'an thought anxiously, "How can I still understand the dialect of my hometown?"
Zhao Yanhao didn’t deliberately learn the Kansai accent. He just found it interesting by watching Japanese dramas and comics. In addition, he himself studied in Osaka, so he deliberately learned the dialect of the Izumi area in Osaka, which is the most commonly used.