The conditions offered by the Ming Dynasty to the Ryukyu Kingdom seemed full of compromise and compromise.

The best possible arrangements have been made for the vested interest groups in the Ryukyu Kingdom, that is, the groups that actually control the power and wealth of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

For the large number of mixed-race Ming and native people living in the Ryukyu Kingdom, there will be almost no direct impact on their actual lives.

However, this seemingly superficial reform has actually touched on the essence - immigrants from the colonies will receive imperial citizenship.

Historically, if Britain had been willing to implement similar reforms in the North American colonies, the American War of Independence would probably not have broken out, or the independence would not have been so complete.

Granting citizenship rights to colonial immigrants, thereby eliminating the independent tendencies of vassal colonies, is one of the two most direct and critical purposes of this reform.

Another key is to appease workers and refugees.

The old gentlemen in the court and the emperor can grasp the real key.

When the key goals are achieved, other interests should be left as untouched as possible to allow the reform to proceed as smoothly as possible.

Because the war is not over yet.

If the deepest reforms were started directly, such as the complete and direct removal of vassals and abolition of slavery, it would most likely accelerate the collapse of the empire.

When Ryukyu was discussing the withdrawal of the feudal vassal, official news related to the withdrawal of the feudal vassal had also spread to other feudal states.

According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, when the court was closed every day, the General Administration Department would notify the local Chief Envoy and the vassal state via telegram of the major events that needed to be disclosed that day.

Equivalent to a telegram sent by telegraph.

As for which major events need to be made public, the General Affairs Department will contact the emperor at any time to confirm.

The main things announced by the General Affairs Department on January 7th were the withdrawal of the Xihai vassal, the reorganization of the food industry, and the relaxation of bans on six industries.

Therefore, although the other vassal states did not directly receive the notification of the withdrawal of the vassal state like Ryukyu, they also knew that the withdrawal of the vassal state had been decided.

In addition, the nobles and elites of the vassal state all had more or less personal connections with local officials.

Most of them can get a few pieces of uncertain news, saying that Ryukyu may be about to withdraw its vassal domain soon, and the specific details may be being discussed.

As a result, the top officials of the vassal states around the Ming Dynasty, in the south, and in the west, immediately entered a state of sleepless nights.

People from various interest groups contacted each other quickly and gathered separately for meetings as quickly as possible to discuss and speculate on future possibilities.

The kings of the vassal states in Yinzhou also got up in the middle of the night and convened vassal officials, nobles and capital elites for a meeting to discuss these real major events.

For the vassal state, the war with Taixi was not as big a deal as the Ming Dynasty's withdrawal from the vassal state.

The most tense of all the vassal states are those on the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Islands, because they are the closest to the mainland and have the closest relationship.

In today's Ming Dynasty, there are no two vassal states, Korea and Japan. These two names have become place names, Korean Peninsula and Japanese Islands.

The boundary between the Korean Peninsula and the Ming Dynasty is no longer the Yalu River on the mainland, but 30 kilometers north of Pyongyang, which is basically the narrowest point on the Korean Peninsula.

From then on, the Korean Peninsula to the south was split horizontally from the middle, forming the two vassal states of Goryeo and Silla.

As for the Japanese archipelago, from northeast to southwest, it was divided into four vassal states: Ezo, Edo, Nara, and Toyohara.

The area of ​​the six vassal states is roughly the same, between 80,000 and 90,000 square kilometers, slightly smaller than a chief envoy in the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, the territory of Fengyuan Kingdom is roughly divided into three parts: Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, and China in later Japan.

The name of Kyushu Island comes from the fact that there were originally nine kingdoms on the island, so it was called Kyushu Island by Japan. Shikoku Island is also similar.

Emperor Shizu Zhu Cixi believed that those so-called Lingzhi countries were not worthy of being called countries at all, and these two islands were not worthy of being called Kyushu or Shikoku.

Therefore, Zhu Cixiang changed Kyushu Island to Jiucheng Island, and the neighboring Shikoku Island was also changed to Siyi Island. Yi means city and county.

As for the so-called "Chinese place", the name comes from the mythical "Fengweiyuan China", which is also known as the "Fengweiyuan Thousand and Five Hundred Autumn Ruisui Country".

Among these words, Zhu Cixi chose the word Ruisui, which had a better meaning, as the name of the region, and the word Fengyuan as the name of the new country.

Fengyuan Country was the transit place for the Ming Dynasty's trade with Japan, and it was also the only place the Ming Dynasty had to pass through to go to Beiyinzhou. Therefore, it received special care from the Ming emperors of the past dynasties.

Local native men were continuously recruited as servant soldiers and sent to the northern and southern Yinzhou, Nanyang, Dashi, and Mozhou to expand territory.

Local native women were selected with good looks and good looks, and were sent to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty to become maids for the royal palaces, nobles, and business elites.

Relatively common ones were sold to Yinzhou or Nanyang to be wives of single immigrants from the early Ming Dynasty, or simply to engage in much-needed service industries.

At the same time, the native people of the Ming Dynasty continued to migrate to live in the Japanese archipelago, including Fengyuan.

After more than a hundred years of continuous replacement, there are basically no natives in Fengyuan Country today.

Even if we check the household registers, we can only find the sons of Ming men who took the women as concubines, but no real purebred natives.

If you occasionally find purebred Japanese natives, they are basically slaves sold from other areas.

The first king of Fengyuan Kingdom was Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Cihong's biological brother, who was also the third prince of Zhu in history.

King Fengyuan has now passed down to the fifth generation. The current king's name is Zhu Zhongdong, who is the sixth brother of Zhu Zhongliang, the current Ming Dynasty emperor.

Zhu Zhongdong is fifty-five years old this year and is in relatively good health. Most of the time he will not stay in Kumamoto Castle, the capital of Weihara Kingdom, but stay in Nagasaki Port for a long time.

Because Nagasaki Port is the most prosperous place in Fengyuan Kingdom and the place where the four feudal lords of Japan are most well-informed, this is very important under the current situation.

On the evening of the seventh day of the first lunar month in the thirty-fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Toyohara Palace in Nagasaki Port City was as brightly lit as the Ryukyu Kingdom and other feudal kingdoms.

The powerful military and political ministers of Toyohara Kingdom, the chief and deputy judges, the Magistrate of Nagasaki, and the commander of the feudal prince's bodyguard Kumamoto Guard, all gathered in the lobby of the manor.

They looked at King Fengyuan who was sitting here with mixed expressions with excitement and apprehension.

Zhu Zhongdong, King of Fengyuan, looked unhappy. He held a few telegraph newspapers in his hand and read them several times before raising his head and asking with a straight face:

"How specific do you think the imperial court is in its determination to withdraw from the feudal vassal?"

Several ministers looked at each other, and finally Li Hongbin, the highest-ranking Zuo Changshi, handed over his hand and said:

"I would like to report to your Majesty that I believe that the Western Sea and the Great Eclipse are not sufficient. The determination of the imperial court depends on the situation in Ryukyu.

"I have already arranged manpower to contact the Ryukyu Palace directly. There should be news soon."

After hearing this, King Fengyuan simply closed his eyes, tapped his fingers on the table next to him, and just sat there waiting for the news. Several ministers also stood anxiously waiting.

This depressing atmosphere did not last long. Half an hour later, a servant quickly walked into the lobby and handed three telegraph newspapers to Zuo Changshi Li Hongbin.

Li Hongbin read it quickly, and then with unusual excitement, handed it to King Fengyuan above:

"Your Majesty, the imperial court has made its decision. Fengyuan will make preparations early."

Zhu Zhongdong looked at the contents of the telegraph newspaper and fell into deep confusion.

After a few seconds of silence, Zhu Zhongdong handed the finished telegram to other ministers for circulation. The ministers all widened their eyes instantly.

Then they couldn't hold back their excitement and started to chant a little loudly:

"The King of Ryukyu can directly serve as the chief envoy, so is our king qualified to be the governor of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Tohoban Island and Ryukyu can actually have one chief envoy and four offices. Then Fengyuan Kingdom, which is twice as wide as Toban Ryukyu, can have two chief envoys and more than ten offices?"

"All the ministers on the scene can serve as envoys, participate in politics, and command envoys. The county magistrate has the opportunity to become the prefect."
Chapter completed!