Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 341 No, We Don't Exist——The Conqueror That Doesn't Exist (Seeking Subscription, Monthly Pass)
In April of the third year of the Ming Dynasty, in the fourth year of Yanbao in Japan, April [-]th.

The Ryukyu Zaiban Temple of the Satsuma Clan, located in Naha Port Town near Shuri, the capital of the Ryukyu Zhongshan King, is as strict and busy as usual.

In the Banfu Office, the samurai of the Satsuma clan are busy processing a lot of information related to China under the auspices of Huashan Jiuqin.

"Follow me, I have received news from Ningbo that the Great Jing Kingdom has perished, and the Great Ming Dynasty has really returned!"

"Yaoxi! This is good news, report it to Kagoshima City immediately, and the feudal lord must be the first to report this good news to Lord Gongfang!"

"Hay!"

He thought it was good news that Ming defeated Dajing. He was a Japanese devil in his 40s, thin and with a small beard on his lips.

He is a member of the Shimadzu family in Satsuma, and the Huashan family he was born in is a branch of the Shimadzu family, so he was especially trusted by Mitsuhisa Shimadzu, the head of the Shimadzu family, so he came to the Ryukyu Kingdom as the elder of the Satsuma clan Be the job of this particularly difficult Ryukyu Zaifan.

The reason why it is said that this is difficult to follow is because the legal suzerain of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Greater China, is in a wonderful state of breaking and standing!Originally, when the Qing Dynasty ruled the country, the coast of China was lifeless. Except for the Zheng family merchant ships who had a good relationship with the Tokugawa shogunate, there would be no Chinese ships coming to Ryukyu.

As for the mission sent by the Qing Dynasty to canonize the Ryukyu king, it came once in the early years of Kangxi. It was a busy time at that time, and the Ryukyu people in Ryukyu had to put on Tang clothes, while the Japanese had to hide in Tibet!

In short, even the Ryukyu country has to pretend that it has not been conquered by Japan, and the Japanese conquerors have to pretend that they do not exist, lest the little Emperor Kangxi be ashamed and send Qing soldiers to Ryukyu to shave their hair and change clothes!

What is even more exaggerated is that the Ryukyu Zaifan Enforcement Office also specially published a "Question and Answer Manual" and distributed it to the officials and people of the Ryukyu Kingdom. It listed almost all the questions that the angels of the Qing Dynasty might ask, and attached "standard answers" , all Ryukyu people who can speak must memorize it by heart, and strive to be foolproof.

Anyway, it's just a toss!
After going back and forth for several months, I finally fooled the Qing angel away. In fact, this Satsuma clan doesn't need to make such a fuss at all. Send some Japanese souvenirs—gold, then it will be solved?

But at that time, the king of Ryukyu did not change, and the angels of the Qing Dynasty would not come to Ryukyu. It was just a rare toss.But since the "Warring States Resurrection" of the Chinese Celestial Dynasty, their sea bans and lock-ups have ceased to exist.Merchants from Fujian and Guangdong are scurrying around in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Even the ports of Japan will come to a few merchant ships with the signboard of "Daqingjin Customs Road" from time to time to ask for trade.

The Tokugawa shogunate was so troubled that it was neither entertaining nor expelling them!
If you want to entertain, do you still want the closed-door ancestor's family law?

To drive away. The warship fleet of the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty is moored in the port of Busan!If you want to drive away the boats on the Daechongjin Customs Road, will the Busan Wakan still be open?

But compared to the mainland of Japan, Ryukyu is the big one!
Chinese merchant ships come here every three to five times, and the ships are getting bigger and better, and the weapons are getting more and more complete. It looks terrible!
So the Ryukyu Zaifan Enforcement Office used to pretend that it didn't exist once in decades or more than ten years, but now it has to pretend that it doesn't exist every day!
In addition to the daily "hide-and-seek", Ryukyu Zaifan Enforcement Office also received a task personally assigned by a general - to collect all the good news about the shogunate of the great general of the Ming Dynasty!

This Japanese general is very concerned about how the Ming general is doing!

Although Japan and Ming Dynasty are not friendly countries, the fourth-generation general Tokugawa Ietsuna, who is not very smart (a bit low in IQ), really wishes Li Zhongshan well!Because in Jiagang's view, if the Great Tomorrow Dynasty can also realize the general rule of the world, then he, the general rule of the Japanese general, will be justified.

Even the Celestial Dynasty has been ruled by generals. Doesn't this mean that generals are right to rule the world?

Although the old middlemen of the shogunate and the lord of the Satsuma domain felt that the correctness of the Japanese shogun's rule of the world did not need the Ming shogun's rule of the world to prove it, but the matter of making the general happy still had to be done well.

Therefore, besides the daily hide-and-seek, Huashan Jiuqin has to seriously collect news about Li Zhongshan. The bad news should be concealed first, and the good news should be reported to Kagoshima City immediately, and then Kagoshima City will use the fastest speed Report to the Lord of Edo
A while ago, the Ming shogunate was in a hurry, and Huashan Jiuqin had not reported to Kagoshima for a long time, so that Tokugawa Ietsuna was in a hurry, seeing the young master Shimadzu Tsunaki who was staying in the Edo feudal mansion Just ask.Shimadzu Tsuna had no way to answer, so he had to ask people to go to Ryukyu to press for the good news. But Kawayama Hisaki didn't dare to make up a story, because if it is debunked, it will be harakiri!

Fortunately, these days, there is finally good news!

"Practice, it's the news from Ningbo that the Li family shogunate of the Ming Dynasty has just sent a general who conquers the east to Ningbo. The general who conquers the east is gathering ships in Ningbo. It seems that he has plans to send troops to the sea!"

"Nani?" Huashan Jiuqin's heart twitched, "They...they still found us?"

"Fulfillment, maybe they are going to conquer elsewhere." Yu Li, a member of the Enforcement Office, said, "There is reliable information that the Palace of Daming Yi Palace is planning an attack on Luzon Island!"

"But Luzon is to the south of Ming Dynasty!" Huashan Jiuqin said, "They should send General Zhengnan to go there!"

"Follow me, the elder brother of the Ming shogunate is General Zhengnan, and he is in charge of Annan's military affairs."

"The shogun of the Ming Dynasty is really good at fighting!" Huashan Jiuqin frowned, "I haven't finished fighting at home, so I started to use troops abroad. I still have to be careful!"

"Hay!"

The bottom one "hay" together with Li.However, these experts have been in Ryukyu for many years. Knowing their daily hide-and-seek will only deceive the missions of the Qing Dynasty. The shogunate generals of the Ming Dynasty probably know everything!After all, the Daming Shogunate and the Daming Yi Wang Fu are allies. How can the Zheng family of the Daming Yi Wang not know the details of the Ryukyu Kingdom?
But even if Daming knows everything, Ryukyu Zaiban Enforcement Office has to seriously hide and seek, that is the spirit of craftsmanship. No, it is the spirit of Bushido!

Outside the newly dug trench outside the enforcement office and the newly erected wooden fence along the trench, Satsuma samurai warriors with knives vigilantly patrolled back and forth. With a smile all over his face, he questioned him amiably.

"Your work there? What are you doing in our Tugara store?"

"Ours, the work of Tugara merchants, where are yours from?"

"Does yours belong to the Ming Dynasty, or the Jing Dynasty, or the Qing Dynasty?"

"Your, are you here to buy sulfur? There is a special sulfur store over there, which has the best sulfur in Tukara."

Now that the Ming businessmen come too frequently, it is impossible for the Japanese devils in Ryukyu to pretend that they don't exist at all.But they still came up with a self-deceiving operation, they did not admit that they are Japanese devils. They are actually Tugara people!

Tokara is the general term for a series of small islands between Japan's Kyushu Island and the Ryukyu Islands.According to the standard answers in the "Question and Answer Manual" formulated by the Ryukyu Zaifan Enforcement Office during the last Qing angel's visit.

Here in Ryukyu, there are no Japanese, only rustic Tukara people. So these are not Japanese samurai, but samurai from the "Tukara Empire"!

But no matter how good they are at pretending, there is no way to stop Geng Jingzhong's Ming army, who also knows how to pretend, because this Ming army is also pretending, they can't stay in Ningbo at all, don't hurry up and go to sea, and wait for tomorrow The soldiers are coming, and their end is coming!

And today is the day when the fake Great Tomorrow Soldiers arrived in the Ryukyu Kingdom!

At this time, a Japanese samurai disguised as a native soldier of the Ryukyu Kingdom who was standing guard on the watchtower in the port ran towards the Zaiban Enforcement Office, shouting: "Come here, come here , they are coming!"

"We're here, we're here!"

Geng Jingzhong, who was enduring the discomfort caused by seasickness in the cabin of a large Fuchuan, suddenly heard someone cheering outside the cabin, hurriedly supported himself, staggered out of the cabin, and stood on the deck outside.

At this time, the deck was already full of jubilant sailors and soldiers. They had been drifting at sea for several days, and almost failed to find the Ryukyu Islands!
Now it's finally here!
"Your Majesty, we have arrived. That is Naha Port in the Ryukyu Kingdom!"

Daoren Li was also on the deck, and when he saw Geng Jingzhong coming out, he hurried up to report the good news to him.

Geng Jingzhong waved his hand: "Don't call me king, call me general."

Geng Jingzhong's "Eastern King" was handed over to the generals below in Ningbo, so that they could relax a little.Before the fleet went to sea, he issued an order. After the fleet went to sea, everyone called him "General", "General Geng", and "Geng Zhengdong", and he was not allowed to be called "Great King" or "East King".

The reason for such an order is, of course, to fool the Ryukyu people into this small Ryukyu country. Daming sent an Eastern King to rescue them. Isn’t that too exaggerated?Even sending a general to conquer the East would be too big!

So Geng Jingzhong asked his subordinates to call himself "General", "General Geng" and "Geng Zhengdong".In addition, there is a more reasonable explanation for his behavior of arriving in Ryukyu. He passed by Ryukyu on his way to the east and helped the Ryukyu country to expel Japanese pirates by the way.

As for the Eastern Expedition?Li Daoren, who has some knowledge of the outside world, suggested that Geng Jingzhong should conquer an eastern continent.
"Oh, General, we are here!" Daoren Li said to Geng Jingzhong with a smile, "General, there seems to be no resistance on the Ryukyu side, let's enter the port!"

"Okay!" Geng Jingzhong was almost dizzy, and now he heard what Li Daoren said, of course he nodded and agreed, "Let the Musketeers prepare, and we must let the Japanese pirates in Ryukyu know how powerful we are!"

"Yes!"

In the sound of gongs and drums, a huge fleet of as many as 48 lucky boats and bird boats entered Naha Bay, and the largest lucky boat has already anchored at the pier. .Several Ryukyu officials wearing "Tang suits" on the shore stared dumbfounded at the big Chinese ship that was about to fill the port, and the hardcover man on the big ship in front of them.

These robust men wore blue clothes and scarves, and all of them carried bayonets and flintlocks on their shoulders. Under the hot sun in Naha, the bayonets of these flintlocks shone with chilling light.

And the Japanese devils hiding among the Naha people and foreign businessmen who were welcoming them all turned blue.What is this Great Ming Zhengdong General doing to Ryukyu with dozens of ships of elite soldiers at this time?Want to drive away the Ryukyu Zaifan Enforcement Office?It doesn't take so many soldiers, does it?The Ryukyu Zaifan Enforcement Office has a total of several hundred people. There are not a hundred arquebus guns in total. How could it be possible to resist so many Ming troops?
In fact, the Ryukyu Zaiban Enforcement Office of the Satsuma Domain is not a military institution, although all the samurai work in the Enforcement Office.But most of them are "civilian warriors". At most, they only manage law and order and expel pirates. They are not professional troops at all.

The Sengoku era in Japan has passed for decades. Although there are many samurai in each feudal clan, the number of feudal troops is not large, and most of the small feudal troops are not standing troops that can be dispatched at any time.

Back then, the Satsuma clan sent Huashan Kugao to lead an army of 20 clans to conquer Ryukyu, but now it is simply unrealistic for the Satsuma clan to maintain a garrison of [-] troops in Ryukyu for a long time. The [-] garrisons should not be paid a salary of more than [-] to [-] taels?How high is the Satsuma clan in total?The feudal lord stopped squandering?So many high-level and intermediate warriors can't live anymore?And the one who spends money like water is not going to attend the pilgrimage?
Therefore, in the face of the "Ming army" that came suddenly, Huashan Jiuqin had no way to stop the resistance at all. He could only let the Ryukyu country arrange people to greet them with courtesy, and organize the samurai of the enforcing office to hide and seek urgently. There is no one left, I am ashamed to think about it!

And the high officials from the Ryukyu side who greeted the heavenly soldiers on the pier were also confused by the dozens of ships of the Ming army.Shang Tingzhu, the regent of the Kingdom of Ryukyu, Wu Chonggui, Xiang Yongbao, and Mao Fengming, the three chief officers, all looked dumbfounded as they stared blankly at the Ming soldiers in blue scarves and green robes, with flintlock guns on their shoulders, disembarking silently, lined up neatly, and said Can't come out chill.

This heavenly soldier looks more powerful than the people of Satsuma!

A team of about [-] blue-turban musketeers had already lined up, and then there was another piercing suona, and then they shouted in unison: "Geng Dongzheng is here!"

Geng Dongzheng is Geng Jingzhong, and he has cleaned himself up at this time. Wearing a boa robe and leading a group of men in various official uniforms, he swaggered off the boat with such an aura that he looked like an extraordinary person!

The Regent of the Ryukyu Kingdom named Shang Tingzhu, whose "Tang name" dared to be negligent, hurried forward and saluted: "Shang Tingzhu, the regent of the Ryukyu Kingdom, welcomes General Zhengdong from the Heavenly Dynasty. "

Shang Tingzhu is the prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom, of course he is a pro-Japanese faction, but he can speak Chinese well, and Geng Jingzhong can understand it completely.Moreover, Geng Jingzhong has a good impression of those surnamed Shang, so he smiled slightly and said: "The imperial court sent this official to conquer the Eastern Continent, and he just passed through your country. In addition, the imperial court heard that your country was invaded by the Japanese pirates 70 years ago. Let me expel the devil Sa for you! Where is the devil named Sa? Let him come out to fight!"

Expedition to the New World?
Want to fight the devil surnamed Sa?

Where is this going?

Shang Tingzhu didn't understand at all, he wondered if he really understood Chinese?
Standing beside him is Wu Chonggui who speaks Chinese better than him. This man is the younger brother of Yuji Asohide, who is known as the five great men of Ryukyu. The name he only had after his death was the Chong family, which was Wu Chong's family.With the support of the Japanese, this Wu Chong family served as the regent for 30 to [-] years, and it was very effective in cooperating with the Japanese rule.Although his brother Shigeki was not as capable as him, he still gained the trust of Japan.Hearing what Geng Jingzhong said now, he knew that these Ming troops were here to trouble the Japanese.

Seeing how many ships they have, how strong their soldiers are, and how well they speak, they must be trusted!
So he hurriedly plopped down and knelt down to Geng Jingzhong, crying, "God, we Ryukyu people are finally saved, and we are finally looking forward to the king's master. The good times of the Japanese country's devil are coming to an end!"

When he acted, the Ryukyu people and Japanese who could understand Chinese were dumbfounded. His family is so close to Japan, so he wished he could become a Japanese. Why did he turn his back on him now?How shameless is this?Then, more Ryukyu people reacted.

"Heavenly soldiers are coming! Ryukyu is saved!"

"The Satsuma domain is over!"

"Heavenly Soldiers, they are the devils of Satsuma Clan!"

"It's them. That mustache is the head of the Satsuma clan!"

(End of this chapter)