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  Chapter 630 627 [Kume thirty-six Chinese surnames]

   Mao Taijiu, Jin Siyi, Jin Yingyuan and other Ryukyu envoys were having fun in Nanjing when they were suddenly called away by officials from Honglu Temple.

  Compared to the Ming system, the functions of Honglu Temple have been adjusted. In charge of foreign affairs, secondly in charge of banquet reception, and the working meals of various yamen inside and outside the capital are also separated from the functions of Honglu Temple.

   You must know that in the Ming Dynasty, even the elephants in the Royal Zoo ate grass and fodder provided by Honglu Temple. Eunuchs and civil servants, who changed the law and were greedy for food expenses, Honglu Temple could only see the sky and cry poorly. Internal employees also skipped meals, leading to state banquets for foreign guests, and foreign envoys were served with leftovers.

   "Meet Dahonghe!"

  The three Ryukyu envoys saluted together.

  Liu Xiangke has been promoted to You Shaoqing of Hongyu Temple, and he angrily said: "Don't put a high hat on me, you wait for the barbarians of the foreign country, and you actually serve the Japanese general as the master. What's your intention?"

  The three messengers were all terrified when they heard the words.

Mao Taijiu hurriedly said: "Ryukyu has served China for three hundred years and has been favored by China for a long time. If it is not helpless, why is it willing to deviate from it? It is all because of the Japanese army, and the small Ryukyu country is difficult to resist, so it can only bear the humiliation and wait for the opportunity. The eldest son requested canonization, and is about to return to the embrace of his mother country. If China can send troops to attack Japan, our country will definitely be grateful, and we will never have another heart."

   This is the truth. Although the Mao family has been a leading party for decades, the leading party also wants to stand on its own one day.

  Decades of time are enough to wipe out all political enemies, not to mention that the daughter of the Mao family is still the Queen Mother.

   Now that the Mao family is full-fledged, the hidden purpose of coming to Nanjing this time is to restore relations with China. When the time is right, China will be invited to send troops to seek the independence of the Ryukyu Kingdom, without paying tribute to Japan in business tax and food every year.

But Liu Xiangke didn't listen to the explanation, and reprimanded: "The country that betrays the lord, and still wants to be granted? Go back and tell the false lord of Ryukyu that if he wants to be king, he will drive away the Japanese on the island and show his majesty some loyalty." .In three months, if there are still Japanese officials collecting taxes in Ryukyu, our Celestial Dynasty will definitely send troops to punish them!"

  The Ryukyu Mission was expelled from Nanjing.

   On the way back to the country, Jin Yingyuan said anxiously: "The emperor of the Celestial Dynasty will not really send troops to fight?"

Mao Taijiu said with a smile: "It is best for China to send troops, which can scare the Japanese away. At that time, it is nothing more than sending envoys to reprimand, and our country is good at pleading guilty. With the Japanese gone, we can collect a lot of business taxes every year, and we don't have to raise food. To the Satsuma clan. This time we are coming to China, we are in the right place!"

   "Then do you want to expel the Japanese and show your loyalty to the emperor?" Jin Siyi asked.

  Mao Taijiu waved his hand and said: "Absolutely not. If we expel Japan, China will at most canonize the Ryukyu king, and most likely will not send troops to help, but Japan will send troops."

  When Japan attacked Ryukyu, Ryukyu rulers and ministers also asked Daming for help.

  But Ryukyu is too small, and it is located overseas, so Daming doesn’t want to mobilize people to help.

   Later, when Japan invaded North Korea, when the emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty discussed it, the mainstream argument was: Japan, a small country, was not satisfied with encroaching on Ryukyu, so it came to invade North Korea again. North Korea and Ryukyu are both vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, and they cannot blindly tolerate Japan's nonsense.

  In another time and space, about ten years later, Ryukyu will once get rid of the control and exploitation of Japan with the help of the Qing government.

  However, Japan has cultivated too many rapes.

  Ryukyu’s most powerful politician, historian and reformer Xiang Xiangxian was trained by Japan, and he also served as the regent of Ryukyu. From the source of ideology and culture, advocating the "theory of common ancestors between Japan and Ryukyu", Ryukyu was eventually assimilated by Japan. You know, this guy belongs to the royal family of Ryukyu, and he also compiled the history books of Ryukyu.

  The Ryukyu Mission, after being reprimanded, rushed back to China, waiting for China to send troops to fight.

  The Imperial Academy under the charge of Qian Qianyi also received a new errand, and hurriedly read various historical materials and wrote articles proving that the Ryukyu people are descendants of China.

  Qian Qianyi's head suddenly became dizzy. He knew the existence of the Ryukyu Kingdom, but he didn't study the specific situation at all. We can only organize people, look through the official archives of the former Ming Dynasty, and find that Ryukyu is a big fart. In the early Ming Dynasty, there were actually three countries, and the three kings didn't even have surnames.

  The current Ryukyu king's surname is Shang, which was also given by Zhu Zhanji.

   Then make it up!

  According to the "Shan Hai Jing" records, Fujian is in the sea, and there is a mountain in the northwest, which is called Min Zhongshan. The word "sea" indicates that the land of ancient Fujian includes not only the inland of Fujian, but also islands such as Taiwan and Ryukyu.

  In ancient times, how could the Chinese people go to Ryukyu?

  You can find historical evidence. The Yellow Emperor ordered a drum to turn the fox into a boat, and the wood into a boat. So the Chinese people have the ability to go boating across the sea to settle in Ryukyu.

  It is also said that at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the end of the Han Dynasty, the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the end of the Yuan Dynasty, a large number of Fujianese people traveled across the sea to Ryukyu to multiply and live in order to avoid the war.

  Therefore, Ryukyu people are Fujian people, and they are part of the descendants of China. It's a pity that I have been away from my homeland for so long that I have forgotten even the Chinese language. We should quickly establish a school so that the Ryukyu people can restore their mother tongue.

   "You guys are too confused, aren't you?" Zhao Han wanted to laugh.

  Qian Qianyi said awe-inspiringly: "Your Majesty, how can you say that this is a lie? The truth is like this. The people in Ryukyu are all descendants of the ancient Fujian people, and they are all my Chinese sisters and brothers!"

  Zhao Han said: "Just believe it yourself, and make up Annan's story by the way."

  Qian Qianyi said: "Your Majesty, Annan has ready-made ones, and they are all descendants of the soldiers sent by Qin Shihuang to the Southern Expedition!"

   "That's fine too." Zhao Han nodded.

   Fujian merchants who often go to Ryukyu to do business also reported an important piece of information, and this matter is well known in Ryukyu.

  During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, the king of Ryukyu died suddenly, and his son also died a few years later, leaving no heirs. An official in charge of the treasury even opened the treasury to bribe the ministers. He was elected king by the Ryukyu ministers and pretended to be the son of the Ryukyu prince to request canonization. Zhu Jianshen didn't send anyone to investigate, so he directly sent an envoy to confer the title.

  The current Ryukyu royal family is the offspring of that imposter!

Zhao Han said happily: "Now the master is famous. The Ryukyu monarchs and ministers not only honored the Japanese generals but also surrendered to the Japanese generals. They are also fake. They are not the Shang family enshrined by the Ming Dynasty at all! Since the Shang family does not exist, the Ryukyu Kingdom does not exist." There is no need for it to exist, let’s directly set up Ryukyu County after it is defeated!”

  …

  Winter, Fuzhou.

  Li Dingguo led troops aboard the troop carrier. He was supposed to go to fight Vietnam next year, but temporarily changed to go to fight the Ryukyu Kingdom.

  The reason why Li Dingguo went south was purely Zhao Han's deliberate cultivation.

  For the navy that is going on this expedition, the commander is Hong Xu, and the deputy is Shi Daxuan, all of whom are former generals of Zheng Zhilong.

  Summer is the best season to go to Ryukyu, and autumn is the best time to travel from Ryukyu to Fujian. As for winter, there is no difference between downwind and upwind, and the wind and waves along the way are not too big.

   Mighty, more than 50 ships sailed from Fuzhou to Taipei. In addition to warships and troop carriers, there are also some merchant ships for grain transportation, which were requisitioned by the imperial court for payment from Fujian maritime merchants.

  When I passed by Diao X Island, there were still Han people collecting herbs on the island.

   Most of them are Han Chinese living in Taiwan, and there are even Fujianese. They took a fishing boat to Diaoyu Island to collect sea hibiscus, a herbal medicine that can prevent high blood pressure and rheumatism.

   And Huangwei Islet in the northeast of Diao X Island also has two fishing boats docked. But not to fish, but to collect guano on the island. If summer comes, you can still pick up bird eggs. At that time, seabirds will cover the sky and sun, and they will gather at Huangwei Island to lay eggs.

   Within a few days, the fleet entered the Ryukyu Islands.

  Some small islands also have natives, like large and small villages, and the chiefs of the islands need to pay tribute to the Ryukyu king on a regular basis. For these island natives, it doesn't matter who rules, as long as they don't exploit too much.

  Since this is the case, let’s leave it alone, and slowly build schools to carry out education in the future.

  The fleet headed straight for Shuri Castle, which was later east of Naha City.

   At this moment, the sea is not being reclaimed by Japan, and the waterway is very wide. Since it is not the best sailing season, there are not many merchant ships docked here, and all of them are looking at the Datong Navy Fleet stupidly at the moment.

  When the imperial court collected merchant ships for transporting grain in Fujian, it announced to the outside world that it was going to fight in Nanyang.

   Until the day of the expedition, the merchants transporting grain did not know the destination. As for collecting Ryukyu information, that is a normal behavior. Who knew the emperor would send troops?

  At this time the fleet arrived, and the Ryukyu, Japanese, and Han merchants in the port were all dumbfounded.

  A ship, head to Kume Island first.

  This Kume Island is not the Kume Island hundreds of years later, but an outlying island at the mouth of the Kong'e River. It can be understood as the equivalent of Chongming Island to Shanghai. After the 18th century, due to the continuous accumulation of sediment, Kume Island gradually disappeared and became part of Naha City.

  Fujian petty official Zheng Shen, with two hundred Datong troops, landed as a descendant of the Jiumi Zheng family.

   "Don't fire, don't fire, that's a Chinese ship!" Someone was shouting at the fort guard on Kume Island, and they were still speaking Hokkien.

   Zheng Shen led the troops off the boat, suppressed his excitement, and said loudly: "Zheng Shen, a descendant of the Kume Zheng family, is back!"

  The buildings on Kume Island are all in the southern Fujian style, and the clothes are also Han Chinese.

  The soldiers guarding the fort are all Han Chinese. When they saw the Chinese ships, they didn't fire at all. Now that they heard that the Zheng family was coming, they even came over to say hello with a smile.

   Not long after, hundreds of islanders came over.

  One of the old men walked tremblingly in front of Zheng Shen, leaning on a cane and asked, "This old man is the patriarch of the Zheng clan. Which clan descendant are you?"

   Zheng Shen replied: "The great-grandfather of the younger generation is Zheng Gong who tabooed Zhou."

  The old man laughed suddenly: "I am your uncle!"

  Zheng Shen was stunned for a moment, and then bowed: "The younger generation pays homage to uncle."

  The old man pointed to the distant fleet: "This is?"

   Zheng Shen explained: "It is good to teach uncle to know that this Ryukyu country will be Ryukyu County in China in the future, and my nephew will be the first magistrate of Ryukyu County."

   "Okay, okay!" The old man was overjoyed.

  The rest of the islanders also smiled.

  Another old man raised his crutches and shouted: "Kume's thirty-six surnames, all of you are listening. From every household, there are people who can help us take the Ryukyu!"

  This island, guarding the mouth of the sea, is the only place to pass from the sea to the Ryukyu King City.

  There are thirty-six surnames on Kume Island, all of whom are Han Chinese.

   They had armies and batteries to protect the royal city from attack by sea. At the same time, he also helped Ming Dynasty monitor the Ryukyu monarchs and ministers, and participated in the tribute trade for generations.

  When Japan invaded Ryukyu, they did not dare to pass through here, because they could not withstand the fort attack.

   Ryukyu resisted Japanese aggression, and it was Zheng Pei who led the Han people in Kume Island to resist. The Ryukyu king did not send troops at all. Moreover, after Zheng Pei was captured and sacrificed, the Ryukyu monarchs and ministers slandered Zheng Pei as a traitor.

  Kume has thirty-six surnames and has been an official in Ryukyu for generations, but now he is being suppressed miserably.

  Of course, there are also those who are forced to cater to Japan, such as Cai Jin of the Cai family, who is now serving as the official doctor of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

   Zheng Shen stayed on the island for less than half an hour, and all the young and strong Han families with the 36 surnames were dispatched to help the Datong army capture the port together with weapons.

  (end of this chapter)