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Chapter 1360 Operation Yellow Bird

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    Although it is really a bit fanciful to annex the Ming Dynasty's vassal states.

    But the problem is that in another time and space, the Satsuma clan had done it for him!

    In the thirty-fourth year of Wanli, after several years of planning, the lord of the Satsuma domain, Shimazu Iehisa, decided to capture Ryukyu, the pearl of the sea, to monopolize Japan's only way to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and to consolidate the Shimazu family's power in the newly established Tokugawa shogunate.  status.

    The Satsuma clan claimed that the reason for invading Ryukyu was that Ryukyu did not bear the military expenses for Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea, but the Shimadzu family paid for it on his behalf. Now Ryukyu is still in arrears and will not repay. They are here to collect debts  There is no more ridiculous excuse than this.

    At first, the Satsuma clan only planned to capture Amami Oshima, but because it was too easy to capture, they regained the confidence they had lost on the Korean battlefield, and they followed the Ryukyu Islands all the way to Naha.  In five days, they captured Shuri Royal Castle, captured King Shoning and more than a hundred prince officials, and withdrew their troops back to the country.

    There¡¯s certainly nothing to praise for defeating the weak Ryukyus, but their subsequent operations can be called a model of Eastern colonial techniques.

    First, they brutally killed Zheng Zong, the third officer who resisted and the leader of the Kume clan, and bloodbathed Kume village, wiping out the pro-Ming forces.

    Then they helped pro-Japanese officials represented by Weng Jisong to high positions.  At the same time, officials from the Satsuma Domain were sent to Ryukyu to measure and allocate fields, draw national boundaries, formulate taxes, establish official offices on the islands, and supervise the trade and taxation of the Ryukyu islands.

    At the same time, Shimazu Iehisa brought King Shoning to Edo to meet General Tokugawa. After obtaining full authority to handle Ryukyu affairs, he took him back to Kagoshima.  There, King Shoning was forced to sign the "Fifteen Articles" with the Satsuma Domain, recognizing Ryukyu as a vassal state of Satsuma. The monarch and his ministers swore to always be loyal to the Shimazu clan, and then he was released.

    Subsequently, the Shimazu family sent a samurai group to return King Shoning to Ryukyu, but left his son and the heirs of princes and ministers in Kagoshima. On the one hand, they were used as hostages, and on the other hand, they were brainwashed with Japanese culture to make them grow up.  Pro-Japanese faction.

    After King Shoning returned to Shuri, he still did not get rid of the surveillance of Japanese samurai. He was forced to live in a deep palace and appointed a Japanese monk in Ryukyu as regent.  Since then, Ryukyu has completely become a puppet regime of Satsuma Domain.

    Ryukyu is the trade center of East Asia, so the news of the capture of the royal city cannot be concealed.  Soon, the King of Korea, who had experienced the same experience, wrote a letter to express his condolences.  Ryukyu also quickly sent people to report the encounter to its suzerain country.

    However, what is intriguing is that whether they were replying to Korea or reporting to the Ming Dynasty, they only described the encounter as a Japanese rebellion in which the king was kidnapped.  He also lied that after paying a huge ransom, the Japanese pirates would release the king.  There is absolutely no mention of the fact that the Satsuma Domain transformed and controlled the Ryukyu Kingdom after the war, and that the Ryukyu royal family and court have been completely reduced to puppets.

    They didn¡¯t even dare to mention the names of the Satsuma clan and the Shimazu family!

    The main reason at first was of course the fear of retaliation from the Japanese.  The Shimazu family has long stated that once the news leaks out and the Ming Dynasty navy comes to attack, they will first massacre Shuri Castle and then withdraw to Kagoshima.

    After the initial stage of intense hostility, the Prince of Ryukyu gradually got used to this state.  Although he is a puppet, there are still common people who can feed him!

    Those pro-Japanese interest groups would even help the Japanese tell lies to dispel Ming Dynasty¡¯s suspicion that Ryukyu was controlled by others, so as to prevent the tribute from being cancelled.

    As a result, from the end of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Ryukyu played the role of one female servant and two husbands, and they always lived in peace

    Through careful research and judgment, Zhao Hao concluded that it was entirely possible for him to puppet the regime of King Nakayama and completely control Ryukyu.  And as long as the method is appropriate, the backlash and sequelae caused will be far less than that of the Satsuma Domain.

    Although invaders and bullies are shameful, in this age of exploration where the jungle is strong and the strong prey on the weak, those who only care about their own reputation and do not seek benefits for future generations are downright hypocritical and the eternal sinners of the Chinese nation!

    Zhao Hao has long made up his mind. Even if he is nailed to the pillar of historical shame in the future and is reviled by future generations as a careerist, executioner and public enemy of mankind, he must let future generations enjoy this wave of dividends and let them earn five hundred yuan from their ancestors.  Year!

    In this way, you can live up to your experience in this world

    This evil person should be treated as such.

    ??~~

    Zhenwahao, in the large conference room.

    "So we have to pay attention to strategy to prevent the Ryukyu people from complaining to the Ming Dynasty!" Wang Rulong loudly announced the battle plan drawn up by the staff: "Originally this was difficult, but Ryukyu King Shang Yuan led his army to conquer the big island and gave us  This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity¡ªso the staff formulated a plan to capture the King of Ryukyu and capture his three thousand royal troops.sp; ~~

    "301, 302, 303" After the first group sat down, another group of police officers whose names were called stood up.

    "You are responsible for the second-line blockade mission and form a second-line blockade group at the mouth of Amami Bay. Once a ship escapes from the first-line group, it is your task!" Wang Rulong ordered in a deep voice: "If the first-line group can complete the task, then you cannot let it go.  Any ship out.¡±

    This batch of warships, Qing Yishui, are all medium-sized black-tailed boats with flexible steering and hard hulls. They will have to be rammed directly at any time.

    "What if they can't?" Xin Fei, who serves as the commander of the second-line cluster, asked.

    "That possibility does not exist." Haldi said.

    "Even if they can't, your mission is still the same. Don't let any Ryukyu ship go out!" But Wang Rulong gave a decisive order.

    "Yes!" The captains responded in unison.

    Although the death order was issued, Wang Rulong still arranged for a three-line blockade group and ordered them to be responsible for the task of blockading the outer sea.  Starting tomorrow, any ships will be prevented from approaching Amami Bay.

    If there is a Ryukyu ship that can break through the second-line obstruction by then, they will have to go

    In a word, it must be served in one pot!

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