Chapter 95 Ryukyu Guard
"The envoy of the Celestial Kingdom is clear. What kind of virtue can I, King Shangfeng, be able to harm the people? It is all the Japanese pirates that are too rampant. With only more than a thousand soldiers in our Ryukyu Kingdom and there are not even firearms, how can we resist them?" The poor King Shangfeng lay on the ground and cried loudly.
Originally, he expected that after the Ming Dynasty drove away the Japanese, he could become the king of Ryukyu Kingdom again, but now he simply lost his throne.
"Take King Shangfeng onto the ship, order all members of the Ryukyu royal family to prepare their luggage within one day, and board the ship the next day, and go to Jinzhou with King Shangfeng." Aila asked the soldiers to take King Shangfeng onto the ship.
"What do you want to do to me? Our Shang family is the King of Ryukyu enthroned by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. It's not your Ming general's turn to depose me!" King Shangfeng was dragged up by the soldiers in a struggle.
The ministers of the Ryukyu Kingdom were frightened and witnessed their king being taken away by the Ming army, but they did not dare to say anything more. The Japanese have taught them how to be humans for more than ten years. Now they have a role that is even more cruel than the Japanese. They are afraid!
"Every ministers still perform their duties. Our civil servants of the Ming Dynasty will help you establish a new management system. For all the people of the Ryukyu Guards, we will treat the Liao army equally. We will also run private schools and factories here to make the Ryukyu Guards a trade center in the East China Sea." Ella said, "The Ryukyu Guards do not need to pay tribute every year, and pay taxes for the Ming Dynasty tax laws."
Listening anxiously as the translator translated Aila's words into Ryukyu, these Ryukyu officials finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that their status and power had not changed yet. Isn't this a great news?
After the Ming army came to Ryukyu Kingdom, the people of Ryukyu Kingdom were in a very complicated mood. The Ming army captured their kings and then seized all the royal family on warships, unilaterally proclaiming the demise of Ryukyu Kingdom. This made them very angry. After all, this was a dynasty that ruled them for two or three hundred years. However, the Ming Dynasty directly included the Ryukyu Islands in its jurisdiction, and treated the same as the people of the Ming Dynasty, which made Ryukyu, who had always respected the Ming Dynasty, feel that this was a good opportunity to get rid of its "barbaric" identity and officially join this great dynasty.
"The Ming army has an order. From now on, we do not have to pay tribute every year. We will reduce taxes to 10% every month. We will establish three private schools, build shipyards, fishing grounds, etc. within half a year." Officials from the Ryukyu Kingdom personally went to the people to promote the management concept of the Liao army, and fortunately they performed in front of the new master.
The people of Ryukyu Kingdom heard that as long as they pay more than they used to pay taxes every month, the balance in their hearts began to tilt towards the Ming Dynasty. From today on, they will be the people of the Ming Dynasty.
The entire Ryukyu Kingdom entered a new state, with officials doing their own things, and the people were waiting for new reforms, so the only one in the Shang family, as kings, was the most unlucky. The concubines of King Shangfeng were taken away by the Ming soldiers. They were looted by Japanese people for many years, without any extra gold, silver and jewelry at all. They were almost penniless and packed up some clothes and left, and even the slaves were dismissed. They were also considered a miserable king.
Since he insisted on turning the Ryukyu Kingdom into a garrison like the Ryukyu Guard, Chu Yun could not allow the Ryukyu Guard to have such a king. He should use civil servants to govern the Ryukyu Guard.
The civil servants who captured the Ryukyu king and followed the fleet began to reform the system of the Ryukyu guards with the help of local people who knew Chinese. The Ryukyu guards were at a low level at this time, and there was a gap between them and the ordinary towns of the Ming Dynasty. It was indeed a major project that took a lot of time to promote the advanced experience of the Restoration of the Liao army to dozens or hundreds of islands, large and small. At present, we plan to take the lead in reforming the Ryukyu capital.
In addition to the civil servants who came with the ship, there were four large merchant ships from Dalian Port carrying goods from southern Liaoning. After the Ryukyu royal family was controlled, the merchants on the four large merchant ships sold the most exquisite silk, the best quality tea and the most exquisite iron tools to the people of the Ryukyu Guards.
Perhaps the tax cut is not enough to shock the people of Ryukyu Kingdom, but when they see the Ming Dynasty goods, they are truly shocked! Boxes of goods that cannot be seen in Ryukyu Kingdom were carried off the ship, and the moment they opened it, the eyes of the onlookers of Ryukyu people shine! Moreover, these smart Ming merchants also used white silver to purchase rare treasures and resources on Ryukyu Island!
In addition, some more visionary businessmen saw the business opportunities here and had already started to recruit people locally, with great bids. An ordinary worker can get two taels of silver a month and can rest for one day every seven days. At this time, the most popular ones were Ryukyu people who knew Chinese. These people may have gone to study abroad in the Ming Dynasty, or asked people for advice on Chinese, and were hired by Ming Dynasty merchants to communicate with the people here. Everyone was stuffed with a large silver ingot by the Ming Dynasty merchants, which made them laugh from ear to ear.
The arrival of the Ming merchant ships, news spread around. The islands in the north and south knew that the Ryukyu Kingdom was no longer the former Ryukyu Kingdom, but the Ryukyu Guards of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the Ming merchant ships that had not been seen for a long time arrived in Ryukyu again, and opened trade at Nababo Port, recruited workers, and prepared to prepare for a new factory. So some thoughtful islanders from the north and south islands were coming to witness this grand event by boat. Especially the local families on the north and south islands wanted to curry favor with the officers of the Ming fleet that arrived at the first time and wanted to become a guest of the Liao army.
"What do you want to do to me by the so-called Restoration of Liao army in the Ming Dynasty? I am the King of Ryukyu enthroned by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. If the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty knew..." King Shangfeng still struggled unwillingly.
The women, children and children of the Shangfeng Wang family were crying in the cabin.
"So what if the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty knows? The Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty needs to rely on us to restore the Liao army. It will not be because of the rise and fall of a small kingdom of your Ryukyu Kingdom." Deng Qianlong, the acting fleet commander, said to King Shangfeng, "You will understand when you come to the deck with me."
After King Shangfeng and Deng Qianlong arrived at the deck, they looked down at the simple port and found that there were two or three thousand Ryukyu people gathered in the port, bustling with the Ming merchants, making them very lively. Perhaps there has not been such a prosperous era in the past twenty or thirty years.
"According to our military leader's words, this place will become a trade transfer station, a holy place for tourism and culture, and a land of fish and rice. At that time, this place will flourish, flourish and no longer be wild. Do you still think what we did wrong?" Deng Qianlong waved his hand to the Ryukyu Islands that fell on the East China Sea like a pearl, and said passionately.
Chapter completed!