At the end of September in the thirty-seventh year of Wanli (AD 1609), the last batch of Chinese soldiers took the fourth batch of merchant ships from Taiwan to support the fleet and officially evacuated Shanchuan Port.
Before the evacuation, all buildings in Shanchuan Port were razed to the ground.
The last person to lead the evacuation was Yan Siqi, the newly appointed commander of the fifth regiment; this fifth regiment had just begun to be formed, and its main strength was Yan Siqi's student army and Taiwanese indigenous auxiliary troops.
The more than 100 employees of the Chunghwa Company who stayed in Kagoshima were led by Xu Xinsu, who established a Chunghwa Commercial House at the Inagagawa Pier, and the task of collecting debts from the Satsuma Shimazu family was also given to him.
After the withdrawal of the Chinese army, the shogunate issued the "Punishment Order of the Satsuma Shimazu Family" in October. On the grounds that the Shimazu family's unauthorized actions caused war disasters, the three states of Satsuma, Hyuga, and Oio under the jurisdiction of the Shimazu family were reduced. Nearly halfway there, most of Hyuga's territory was taken away. At the same time, the shogunate ordered the Shimazu family to "be cautious," and asked the new head of the family to "go to Luo" immediately - in fact, he asked the Shimazu family to meet with the shogun.
The new head of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Tadashi, still swallowed his anger and asked his son Shimazu Hisaki to do his best to suppress the riots in various parts of the Satsuma Peninsula. At the same time, he shamelessly asked for money from the retainers' territories in the territory, because the pilgrimage to "Joglow" required a lot of money.
At the same time, he also had to apologize to Xu Xinsu, the Kagoshima representative of the China United Company who came to collect debts every day.
Shimadzu himself felt that he was too cowardly as the head of the Shimadzu family.
Xu Xinsu gave him an idea: "...Don't you have any spare money at home? Then you can use your population to offset it... It's like this: Your Shimazu family owes our merchants from the six countries and Taiwan Port a total of one hundred Two hundred thousand taels of silver, then you can provide labor force to our island of Taiwan. Each healthy labor force is worth twenty thousand taels of silver. Almost 100,000 people can offset all your debts. You can also provide combat personnel for our Chinese army... ...Oh, we just spend money, and you provide manpower to help us fight the war... Just like those Western mercenaries, the price is easy to negotiate..."
The Shimazu family samurai all felt that it was embarrassing to work as mercenaries for money, and basically no one was willing to go. However, Shimazu Tadashi was still very interested in using the labor force to offset debts. Of course, he sold the farmers in his territory. , that was an act of suicide. A few years later, the Satsuma Shimazu family became the largest human traffickers in Japan. They not only bought ronin, bankrupt farmers, and businessmen from all over Japan, but also extended the human trafficking business to North Korea.
This is a later story. It is said that the Satsuma Domain is now extremely impoverished. Even if the income from other territories of the Shimazu family is added together, it will be difficult to repay all the debts owed anyway. The merchants of the six countries gathered together and announced If the Shimadzu family does not pay off the debt within half a year, they will have to go to Kyoto to file a lawsuit again. When the shogunate signed the "Kagoshima Agreement", it was clearly stated that all debts that the Shimadzu family should compensate must be handled by the Shimadzu family themselves; Otherwise, the Shimadzu family will be punished again.
Xu Xinsu once again gave Shimazu Tadanoori an idea: pay in installments.
The Chinese Company will take over the debts of the Shimadzu family and pay them in advance to the merchants from the six countries; all the claims of the merchants from the six countries will be transferred to the Chinese Company; then the Shimadzu family can pay off the debt to the Chinese United Company in five years. Of course, All must be paid back including interest.
Unable to bear the rapid decline and loss of face of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Yoshihiro changed his name to Yuishinsai in Kajimu's secluded place: Shi Manzi, who had many battles with the Ming Dynasty army on the Korean battlefield, finally got sick from anger. , died at the beginning of 1610. At the time of his death, a total of 13 retainers committed suicide with him, and his monastic name was the Master of Miaoyuan Temple Songji Zizhenan.
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On his way back to Taiwan, Yin Feng landed in Ryukyu and handled some Ryukyu affairs. Under the control of the Chinese army and Chinese guards, the Ryukyu prince Shang Feng reluctantly announced his succession to the throne. In the winter of the thirty-seventh year of Wanli (1609), the new crown prince King Shangfeng sent his uncle Mao Fengyi and his envoy Jin Yingkui to "announce the obituary of King Shangning and also ask for the title." The envoys Shangfeng sent to beg for the title were all the envoys sent by the Ming Dynasty to confer the title of Queen Shangning and stayed in Ryukyu. The Fujian people were inconspicuous lower-class people in their own country, but they became superiors in the Ryukyu Kingdom, so they couldn't care less about Shu. When the Shimadzu army came, they hid in Kume Village; when the Chinese army regained the Ryukyu Islands, they came out and took the initiative. To work for the Chinese Army, therefore, this time Shang Feng sent an envoy Qi Feng and chose them as envoys. The other attachés were basically personnel from the Security Department of the China United Company and the Chinese Army.
This time King Shangfeng sent an envoy to follow Yin Feng's idea and report to the court that Japan had planned to seize Jilong Mountain (Taiwan). Therefore, the court issued an edict to "order maritime security". Of course, this was already an afterthought.
Yin Feng returned to Taiwan at the end of this year. More than half a year later, his daughter had grown into a lovely baby. The entire Zeng family loved her like a treasure and named her Qianqian.
When the Flying Tiger was berthed at the Taiwan Port pier, the construction of the Taiwan Port city wall defense system had begun to take shape. The construction of the Anping Port fortress in the south of Taiwan Port had basically been completed. The military defense system of Taiwan Port had become more complete. During the city wall construction , the craftsmen of Zhonghua Company used a large number of original cement concrete as materials, plus a large number of boulders from Taiwan's mountainous areas, stone walls as high as five feet, and turrets protruding outside the city wall every fifty steps, with intensive firepower and no blind spots. , based on the equipment of the Ming Dynasty official army at that time, it was simply impossible to capture it.
Tens of thousands of people gathered on the pier, cheering with slogans such as "The ship owner is victorious," "The big boss is mighty," and so on. It can be said that everyone is jubilant.
At this time, nearly 100,000 Han people had settled and immigrated on the island of Taiwan; about 100,000 indigenous people had submitted to the rule of the Chinese Company, and 60,000 Japanese coolies had just been obtained. In the entire East Asian waters, the Chinese United Company directly controlled The region extends southward to most of West Borneo (Kalimantan Island), and the southeast includes the Philippines; in the north, the Chinese Company controls all of the Ryukyu Islands; the Chinese Company almost monopolizes maritime trade and transportation on the southeastern coast of China, and throughout the entire Southeast Asia, Japan, and the east coast of India are the largest suppliers of Chinese goods, and are also the largest purchasers of European goods and specialties from Southeast Asia and the West every year; the company's annual trade income and port commercial tax income include the Borneo gold mine Including mining income, it has exceeded five million taels of silver; this does not include the income from the company's farmland and the money earned from selling land in Luzon; nor does it include the property Yin Feng plundered from time to time through war. Adding all these together, the annual income of the Chinese Company has exceeded the fiscal and tax income of the entire Ming Empire at that time.
Yin Feng and the dozen or so maritime businessmen on the company's board of directors had unintentionally accumulated tens of millions of dollars in wealth, making them as wealthy as the entire country.
The prosperity of Taiwan Port was not affected by the Japanese pirate attack, and it quickly recovered from the chaos. When Yin Feng came back, the Taiwan he saw was already more prosperous than before the Japanese pirate attack.
Now, on the coast of China and the direction of Japan, the Chinese Company has no rivals for the time being. Now, before turning its attention to Nanyang, it is necessary to ensure the safety of Luzon Island. From Ye Hua's expedition to the European fleet, European businessmen It can be learned from the news that the Spaniards already knew about the fall of the Luzon Island colony. However, because Spain was at war with France and Britain in Europe, it was temporarily unable to do anything about the situation in the Far East. This time, the expedition to Japan was carried out through the Japanese Jesuits Due to the relationship, Yin Feng inquired about Date Masamune's fleet to Europe; Monk Dasmarinas asked for help from the Vice-King of Mexico in the Kingdom of Spain through the fleet.
Therefore, Yin Feng ordered Zeng Jingshan of Luzon to start strengthening the defenses in various parts of Luzon. At the same time, Fan Tao led the battleship Feihu, ten three-masted warships, and twenty Fuzhou-type transport ships from Taiwan, manned by Dutch sailors. Lead the way through Luzon Island and expedition to the Spanish colony of Guam in the Pacific. This move will completely expel the Spanish colonial forces from the Asia-Pacific region, and at the same time obtain Luzon the easternmost maritime outpost on the sea.
Guam is the largest island in the North Pacific between Hawaii and the Philippines, and between Japan and New Guinea. It is at the extreme southern end of a series of fifteen islands in the Mariana Islands, and is the distance from Guam to the extreme northern island of the Mariana Islands. It is four hundred and twenty miles. Guam's narrow waist and irregular shape can be said to be similar to a peanut or a human footprint. The entire island has an area of about two hundred and twenty-five square miles, a length of about thirty miles, and a width of about thirty miles. From four to nine miles, the northern half, slanting slightly to the west, connects with the southern half, maintaining an almost straight line from south to north. Except for the harbor and the mouth of the river, the entire island is surrounded by a strip of water between twenty and seven hundred yards wide. Surrounded by coral reefs.
The Chamorro people, the indigenous people of Guam, originate from the Micronesian Islands and are descendants of the early Malays. Chamorro men do not wear clothes, or even rags to cover their lower bodies, but some women use a rope to It is tied around the waist and hung on a rope with grass or leaves to cover the lower body. Some people also wear a small apron or a mat made of palm leaves. When fishing, men sometimes wear a small conical hat made of pandanus. blindfolds, and sometimes they wear slippers made of palm leaves to protect their feet.
In 1521, Magellan arrived at Guam for the first time during his circumnavigation. He led forty armed men ashore to search, burned forty to fifty houses and several small boats, killed seven more islanders, and then returned to the ship. , continue to move west.
After Magellan's death, in order to obtain the fruits of Magellan's discovery, Spain sent another expedition commanded by Father Garcia Joffrey Loaisa. One of the captains was Juan Sebastian, who completed Magellan's voyage. Elcano, there was Andres Urdaneta on his ship, who later became an Augustinian monk, led the Legazpi expedition, and finally laid the foundation for Spain's control of Guam. After many hardships and losses, the Loaisa expedition passed the Straits of Magellan and arrived at the Thieves Islands (Magellan's name for Guam) on September 4, 1526. The Loaisa expedition stayed there for four days. After replenishing fresh water and food, they left Guam and continued towards the Maluku Islands. After arriving there, the Portuguese imprisoned them until 1536, eleven years after they set sail. The survivors returned to Spain,