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Chapter 417 The ambition of the Shimadzu family (third update, please subscribe)
When Shang Dun left Wangcheng and came to the Fengxing Hall, he saw the usually domineering Japanese people, who were being held kneeling on the side of the road, and dozens of captives were surrounded by a pile of corpses.

Along the way, there were alert Nanhua soldiers everywhere. They were wearing blue military uniforms and holding Western rifles, watching their surroundings vigilantly.After Shang Dun revealed his identity, he was introduced into the Enforcement Hall and sat in the main hall of the Enforcement Hall,

Facing the visiting Shang Dun, Li Fengzhi directly questioned him.

"Practice... This is your attitude to serve the Celestial Dynasty? One country, two ties?"

Facing the accusation, Shang Dun said helplessly.

"My lord, the Ryukyu country is poor and weak, and it is far away from the Celestial Dynasty. Facing the Japanese invaders, they are really powerless to resist."

Then Shang Dun looked grateful again.

"With the help of the Nanhua army today, it is really lucky for Ryukyu to be able to get rid of the imprisonment of the Japanese. Everyone in Ryukyu must be grateful for Nanhua's virtue..."

Facing the flattery of the regent of a country, Li Fengzhi just smiled indifferently, and then said.

"Don't rush to be grateful, since you can originally have one country and two clans, then, from now on, Ryukyu will be my clan of Nanhua!"

"what!"

Shang Dun opened his eyes wide in surprise.

"What? General, this, this..."

"you are not willing?"

Leaning forward slightly, Li Fengzhi said seriously.

"Why, is Ryukyu only willing to belong to the Japanese, but not to China!"

Shang Dun, who originally thought that he could use the conflict between Nanhua and the Japanese to drive the Japanese out of Ryukyu, was suddenly dumbfounded. He had never thought that this would be the result. Facing such a heartbreaking question, he was speechless for a while. He could only murmur.

"This, this, the Ryukyu country is weak, and the Japanese are tyrannical. What if the Japanese ask the crime?"

"That doesn't bother you guys!"

Li Fengzhi stood up and said.

"I will go to Japan to question the crime!"

Blame Japan!

Shang Dun couldn't believe what he heard. He even glanced in Naha's direction, and seemed to be muttering in his heart-how dare they go to Japan to question the crime with just a warship!

But only in Japan!

……

Japan also has dignity!

After the Nanhua Navy "attacked" the enforcement office, the "Tatsuwa Maru" in Naha Port immediately left Naha, and reported the "Shuri Incident" to the authorities after returning to Nagasaki. , Facing the "atrocities" of "Nanhua warships brazenly seizing the execution office and killing many Japanese".

For many years, the Satsuma clan, who has claimed to be the "Suzerain of the Ryukyu Kingdom", reacted extremely strongly. As the lord of the Satsuma clan, Shimadzu Hisamitsu immediately recruited Saigo Moritaka who had just returned to Satsuma from Tokyo. After telling him everything, Shimadzu Hisamitsu asked road.

"Xixiang, in your opinion, what should we do now? Should we wait for the court's decision, or handle this matter ourselves?"

Faced with the feudal lord's inquiry, Xixiang remained silent for a while. As the first hero in the fall, after he became famous, out of feudal thinking, he believed that his fame and status were higher than that of the Shimadzu family of the Satsuma feudal lord, which would damage the reputation of "loyal ministers" , So he resigned a month ago and returned to Satsuma as a consultant to the feudal government.However, he never imagined that he would encounter this troublesome matter just after he took the post of advisor to the feudal government.

"Nanhua... the national power doesn't seem to be weak either!"

Xixiang murmured.

"My lord, before I left Tokyo, I learned from the Westerners that Nanhua had conquered the capital of Argentina. Counting it, they had already destroyed two countries in South America! Nanhua's national strength is far beyond your imagination."

Unlike the Qing Dynasty who opened the door to live their own lives, who will sign the treaty with whom, and measure the material resources of China and form friends and welcomes, Japan has begun to pay attention to the situation in the world since the day it opened the door. Trying to understand this is a bit strange world.Although limited by communication and other reasons, there is no definite information yet, but they still obtained a lot of information related to Nanhua through the captains of European and American countries.

In fact, they are no strangers to Nanhua. In the past few years, Nanhua's merchant ships and training ships have sailed into Nagasaki Port many times.Every year, tens of thousands of women and girls go to Nanhua to work as maids on Nanhua boats, and many unemployed ronin warriors go to Nanhua to make a living.

For Nanhua, Japan is no stranger, what is unfamiliar is its national strength!
"Although Nanhua's national strength is not weak, we can't bully others too much. Ryukyu has been my Satsuma family for nearly 260 years. If we just sit back and watch Ryukyu be occupied by outsiders, how can we face the lords of the past dynasties!"

Once upon a time, Shimadzu Hisamitsu was the anxious man who "repelled the barbarians", but after being taught by the British in the "British-Saharan War" eight years ago, he immediately changed his position.Deciding that the "rejection of barbarians" who had a superstitious belief in force had no future, he took the initiative to carry out a series of economic and military cooperation with the British side, becoming the vanguard of the "founding of the country" theory.

Shimadzu, who considers himself to be quite strong in building factories, building warships, and cultivating talents all these years, pointed to the map and said.

"Although Nanhua is strong, its naval strength is quite weak. If not, naturally it will not only send one warship to Dongyang every year. This time they are in Naha, they only have one warship. Although the tonnage is quite considerable, but Our Satsuma navy has several warships, if we send a fleet to Naha, there may be a chance to force the Nanhua warships to retreat! Xixiang and Ryukyu have been my territory of Satsuma for hundreds of years, so we must return!"

Of course, as far as Shimadzu is concerned, the reason why he wants to send the fleet to Ryukyu is another unknown idea, that is, he wants to take advantage of this crisis to preserve the navy. China's warships have been eyeing, and soon they will use various excuses to ask for warships from various places.

If there is a crisis in Ryukyu, the Satsuma clan can naturally use this as an excuse to refuse to hand over the warship to the court.

Of course, if he could force the Nanhua warship back, by that time, he, the Satsuma clan, would definitely be famous and admired by all parties. After all, Nanhua...that is also a foreigner.

Faced with the lord's long sigh, Xixiang Shenglong was silent for a while. He certainly knew what the lord thought. In fact, he himself was extremely dissatisfied with the imperial court taking away the warships and even the soldiers of the vassals.

Staring at Nanhua on the other side of the Pacific Ocean on the map, he thought for a while, and then Xixiang Shenglong said.

"Even if we send troops, Zhi is not going to war with Nanhua, but to make him withdraw from Ryukyu. Therefore, we must not go to war with Nanhua. It's beyond our imagination, once the war starts, I'm afraid there will be endless troubles!"

Shimadzu Hisamitsu nodded repeatedly to Saigo Moritaka's warning.

"What you said is true. The purpose of sending troops this time is to regain Ryukyu. It is definitely not a war with Nanhua. Nanhua can use Asians to occupy foreign countries and destroy foreign countries. Their national strength is not bad! But, that's all. After all, South American countries are all small and weak countries!"

When facing Nanhua, an unfamiliar opponent, Shimadzu Hisamitsu was quite confident in his heart. He is not the same as before the "British-Saharan War". At that time, he knew little about the West, but now it is different , he already has a very deep understanding of Xiyang—who is the strong one in Xiyang?It's Europe!It is the so-called United States, which is only a second-rate country in Europe.As for the countries in South America...the national power is not worth mentioning at all, even Spain, their former suzerain country, is also weak and weak.

"Nanhua was able to destroy two countries in a row, because there are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are called kings,"

(End of this chapter)