Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Chapter 91 - Shocking Gunshots

Xiao Letian had a set of musket team s, and they were even carrying strange guns that no one knew, capable of shooting out hail like bullets in an instant. This terrifying news quickly spread like wildfire through the Naha Harbor.

When Huashan Liyuan received the news, he was so shocked that he did not say anything for a quarter of an hour. This famous general of the Shimadzu Family, who had been guarding the Ryukyu for years, had gathered all of the knowledge in his mind but could not think of any kind of spear.

"Death Ice Three? Beaded Spear? "What is this thing …" Although birch elder was at a loss, he was clear about one thing. This weapon must be very, very terrifying.

The completely different one from Huashan Liyuan's fear was Ryukyu King Shang Tai. Ryukyu King was currently only a young man who was around twenty years old, and was the age where passion had yet to die in his heart, causing her blood to surge. In his heart, it was filled with yearning for the continent's civilization and hatred towards Shimadzu Family. Under the pressure of the Shimadzu Family for more than two hundred years, the Shang clan could not even afford to raise a decent navy. How laughable was that, an overseas island nation actually could not afford to own a navy, this was truly a big black joke.

Shang Tai wanted to resist, but he had received the teachings of the King since he was young, and he knew how terrifying the rule of the Shimadzu Family was for the past 200 years. Although they did not dare to touch the Shang family, as long as any of the ministers of the pro-Chinese revealed themselves, they would kill them.

Two hundred and fifty years of suppression had caused the royal family of the Ryukyu to feel a deep fear for the Shimadzu Family.

Historically speaking, after the Shimadzu Family invaded the Ryukyu in 1609, the Emperor of Ten Thousand Li had ordered Zhejiang Province to send troops to rescue the Ryukyu. However, the terrifying typhoon had disturbed the rescue, and after that, the continent found out that the Shimadzu Family did not destroy the Ryukyu's temple, and the Ryukyu Kingdom still existed in a legal sense. This made the Central Great Empire's face much better, so the expedition ended there.

From then on, the Shang clan did not receive any good news from the Central Plains civilization. To the Ming and Qing dynasties, the face of the Ryukyu Kingdom coming to pay respects was more important than the person in control of the entire archipelago.

Everything went on until 1865, when Tongzhi, the Ryukyu's King, was approached by a thirty year old man in the name of offering gifts. Then, a piece of good news that she had been waiting for for for two hundred years, smashed onto her head.

Shang Tai still remembered that when he heard the Chinese man's soft words, the precious Song Baiyuan in his hands fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

"Great Qing, Western Studies, Mr. Tai Dou Xiao Letian, is about to visit the Ryukyu. At that time, a small army will follow them to the land, I hope that Your Majesty can seize this rare opportunity …"

Shang Tai's ecstasy after hearing this news could not be described with words. Although he was just a puppet from the Shimadzu Family, their yearning for the Central Plains civilization came from the bottom of their hearts, and the Ryukyu's envoys stationed in the Social Security Council s were trying to send all the information that happened on the continent back to their own country. Currently, updating the《 Journey to the West s》 that they received was already an essential classic for him.

Now, his idol, the Grand Master of Western Studies, had actually wanted to come to the Ryukyu, and furthermore, brought a small army here. How could not be overjoyed?

When Shi Dakai revealed that Xiao Letian wanted to be an official in the Ryukyu Kingdom, Shang Tai was ecstatic. He immediately broke a dryad pink plate, and the servants around turned pale due to the heartache.

In Xiao Letian's plans, the Ryukyu was the most important link for him. As long as the Ryukyu King gave him a sufficiently high status, he would quickly become the leader of the Ryukyu's imperial court. Xiao Letian wanted to establish a trading port in the Ryukyu. He wanted to use the strength of the Chinese and natives of the Ryukyu to train his navy, and he also wanted to use his own Marine Corps.

Xiao Letian had never thought of rebelling against himself as the emperor, nor did he think of making the Democratic Republic of the Congo his president or leader. From the start, Xiao Letian had never wanted to instigate a civil war in China, he didn't want his hands to be stained with the blood of innocent people.

However, Xiao Letian's kindness did not mean that he was a pedant. His kindness to the entire clan did not mean that he would show mercy to his enemies. If someone dared to provoke him, he would not mind killing everyone in his clan and digging the grave of his ancestors. In this way, a strong military force was essential.

Even if it was a fool, the Ryukyu King would not agree to it. However, after the King Yi saw with his own eyes the miserable state the Ryukyu King was in when she was pressed by the Japanese Shimadzu Family, he finally understood that to, being pressed by Xiao Letian was already a matter worth celebrating.

According to the history of Japan, in the reverse movement in front of the Minzhiweixin, the Shimadzu Family actually had a currency reserve of 2.5 million silver taels, which was already the richest name other than the Tokugawa. Furthermore, the Shimadzu Family was the first Japanese to copy the name of an armored ship.

All of this required money, and the source of money, where the money came from, was the pressure on Ryukyu for more than two hundred years, as well as the smuggling under the Tsurukawa's Palace's forbidden sea command.

Under the secret control of the Shimadzu Family, every year, Ryukyu King's trade was actually filled with Shimadzu Family's goods, and two-thirds of the Ryukyu Kingdom's taxes were taken away. The entire Shang Clan could be said to be living off of their golden rice bowls, and some even went as far as asking the Shimadzu Family for money in private to live on.

But now, Xiao Letian had given a hope, for the civilization and rational Chinese people of the continent to come and save the Ryukyu. This was already the collective dream of the people of the Ryukyu.

Looking at the big ball of smoke floating in the Japanese area, Shang Tai was so excited that hot tears filled his eyes.

At this time, Xiao Letian could guess that his every move would be noticed by the Japanese and the Ryukyu Imperial Family, but he didn't have time to ponder over the thoughts of the birch elder and Shang Tai.

"Mike, can you really buy a Spencer? Can you really get a production license? " Xiao Letian grabbed Mike's hand and shook it excitedly.

"Oh, Mr. Xiao, please stop tormenting my wrist. Although the Spencer Rifle is excellent, the benefits of this company in the United States have always been poor. They are on the verge of bankruptcy, so what's so difficult about spending money to buy it?"

The thirty Spencer rifles were a gift from the Goddess of Luck to Xiao Letian. The moment they had climbed onto the dock this morning, Mike had said his goodbyes to Xiao Letian and went to contact the merchants of his own country. He wanted to give Xiao Letian a present. When he saw the primordial flame gun on Xiao Letian's hands, he had already decided.

At this time, at Tanggu's port, a scissor boat called the 'Entry' was in the process of repair. This was the merchant boat that Mike was riding on to Na Ba from the United States. The captain of the Forward was on very good terms with the Mike family, so Mike knew that there was a batch of contraband weapons in the lower cargo hold of the Forward.

Spencer's Rifle was sold for about $40 each in the United States. At that time, the basic exchange rate between the United States dollar and the Great Qing's currency Silver was about $2.5 each. Thus, Spencer's cost averaged about $16 each.

Originally, the captain of the Invasion ship had wanted to smuggle the Gun to the heavens and the Twisted Army. It would be a loss if she didn't sell them for 200 taels of silver. However, under Mike's persuasion, Xiao Letian actually used 160 gold coins to buy all 40 Spencer.

6400 gold coins was only the price of the Gun, the remaining bullets cost Xiao Letian 600 gold coins. The captain really wanted 7500 gold coins, and it was a good thing that Xiao Letian haggled and ordered 200 spins from him, thus stopping him from talking. In the end, it was 7000 gold coins.

Xiao Letian stroked the famous gun from the American civil war and thought to himself, "Technology is the number one productivity, technology is the number one gold mine! 16 gold coins can be sold for ten times the price just by crossing the Pacific Ocean, but you can't not buy it, after all you don't have the capability …"

Never would they have thought that when Xiao Letian and the others carried their guns back to their rooms, they would unexpectedly discover the conflict in the gambling den. The crafty and scheming Xiao Letian blinked his eyes, brought musket team along to fight to the death.

This time, they would not only be shooting at the same time, but they would also have an even more important goal in Xiao Letian's heart. Naha Harbor was not big to begin with, so shooting thirty guns at the same time would definitely shock the entire Hong Kong. This way, the Japanese would be greatly intimidated. After all, the current Japan was even more backward than the Great Qing Dynasty.

Furthermore, they were cheering for the Ryukyu King, Xiao Letian knew that after two hundred years of suppression, the power of the Shimadzu Family had already controlled the power of the Ryukyu like a metal barrel, and the people in the palace were all pro-Japanese. Even if there were a few pro-Chinese s, they had hidden themselves, and only if they had no other choice would they be able to surface.

The sound of Spencer's gunshot was like that sh * t stick that stirred the hearts of the people. With Xiao Letian's interference in the situation of the Ryukyu, all of the obnoxious fumes rose up again, and the small plans in the minds of the various forces started anew. Especially those people who were plotting in tandem with each other, they started to make their own analysis of the situation in the future.

Xiao Letian was a person who was good at taking advantage of chaos. However, this kind of chaos was not the result of him acting recklessly, but rather, it was caused after careful analysis.

Why did Xiao Letian dare to be so arrogant there, is he really not afraid of the Japanese? In fact, he was also a bit worried. After all, the Japanese was too big of a power, if the three to four thousand troops were to really go all out, he wouldn't have any chance of winning even if he gave Xiao Letian a few cannons.

However, Xiao Letian was certain that the Shimadzu Family would not dare to make a move, because this was the most crucial moment of the Japanese movement, and since this year, the movements of the High Lords had gradually become more violent, and the powers that opposed the Mu Clan became more and more powerful. And next year, the Samoan and the Changzhou vassal would form a military alliance.

The year after that, in 1867, the young Emperor of the Ming Dynasty officially ascended the throne. The great era was about to begin.

"Oh my god, this is the critical moment of the House of Fire! Are you really willing to become enemies with the Great Qing for the sake of the Ryukyu? For a little Xiao Letian like me, you want to draw power from the act to deal with me? Hehe, I would like to see how your Japanese will deal with this daddy's attacks … "