The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 599
The auxiliary soldiers of the propaganda team have long been familiar with provoking hatred. They mobilized hundreds of Ryukyu people to complain that day, and built a high platform to criticize more than 100 captured Satsuma generals.

Of course, the Satsuma Japanese pirates did all kinds of evil in the occupying country, and they often committed murder, arson and public prostitution in the streets.The tearful complaints of the victims quickly caused the anger of the Ryukyu people to slowly get out of control.

The propaganda team lost no time in calling on the Ryukyu people who had blood feuds with these soldiers to return blood with blood.

The final result was of course full of blood. The vengeful Ryukyu people got the support of the Ming Dynasty and became more courageous. Everyone rushed forward and beat all the captives of Satsuma to death.

There is no doubt that they have a deep blood feud with the Satsuma clan. It is impossible for the Ming army to stay here for a long time.

The Ryukyu people were happy to kill the captives of the Satsuma clan, but the Ming army left and the Satsuma clan made a comeback. It is unknown whether they will be massacred in retaliation.

No Ming army would tell Shangfeng, the puppet king, that the Satsuma domain might have no males. If he wanted to come to the Ryukyu Kingdom to take revenge, it must be other foreign domains in the Wa Kingdom, and there should not be any in a short time.

When he learned that the Ming army was preparing to return to the imperial court, Shangfeng, the eighth king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, stopped Da Ming Nanguo on his way, knelt down and cried, begging the master of the Ming Dynasty not to leave like this, and must leave a group of troops to garrison here.

Ever since, Huang Sheng communicated with the cowardly king and told the king that this place is barren and cannot support too many armies from the heavenly kingdom.

If there are fewer troops stationed here, I am afraid that they will not be able to withstand the joint attack of several foreign vassals in the Wa Kingdom. How can the Little Ryukyu Kingdom afford it if there are too many troops?
This is an indisputable fact, King Shangfeng was speechless, but wept endlessly.

In the end, Huang Sheng gave him an idea to abandon the Ryukyu Islands and lead the people to join Daming. Daming has a rich place that can accommodate tens of thousands of Ryukyu people.

After going there, every household can get five acres of tax-free rice fields. Ryukyu people can cultivate as much land as they want, and they can still earn more than two stones of rice per mu of land without tax. He can still be a Ryukyu native. the king.

The skeptical King Shangfeng had no choice but to see the words of the Duke of Nanguo in the Ming Dynasty so convincing that he couldn't help but believe it, so he could only take the Ryukyu people who were willing to follow him and boarded the merchant ship of the Suzerain of the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that this king has little appeal, but less than [-] Ryukyu people choose to follow their king, accounting for a quarter of the total population.

There were less than 20 Ryukyu people in the area. Huang Sheng resettled them to the Red River Basin in the central part of Cochin Province and allocated land for them to cultivate. Slowly sinicizing them, this ethnic group will not exist within [-] years.

Huang Sheng deceived King Shangfeng and his people loyal to him, took over the Ryukyu Kingdom without hesitation, and issued a notice to let two thousand households of the Huang family immigrate to live in the new territory, leaving two thousand presidents to rule this place.

Sinicization Wang Nanxia, ​​who was unwilling to follow them, took the initiative to choose the Ryukyu people who stayed in their homeland, and provided them with jobs, allowing them to exchange labor for food and clothing to live a prosperous and prosperous life.

The Huang family was very efficient in handling affairs. They offered food and housing within three days, recruited Ryukyu strong laborers for one stone of rice a month, and paid healthy women six buckets of rice a month.

In the Ryukyu Kingdom, where there is a shortage of food, using rice as basic wages is too easy to make the hungry Ryukyu people tempted.

There are countless Ryukyu people who took the initiative to fight for jobs. The Huang family organized 2000 people to go to Iwo Jima to build docks, roads and warehouses under the command of the Huang family's engineers.

Their next job is to mine sulfur, and the Huang family has a large amount of the most important raw material for black gunpowder.

The three raw materials of black powder are sulfur, which is relatively rare, and there are too many ways to obtain nitrate. It can be mined from nitrate ore, and it can be produced by artificially collecting nitrate.

Nitrate can be collected in toilets, stables, pig and cow stables, and corners of courtyards. The white crystals spit out from those old brick walls are nitric acid.

The collected nitrate and wood ash were crushed and sieved separately, mixed into a large pot, rinsed with hot water to form a liquid, and then filtered and refined slowly over and over again. The concentration gradually became lighter from reddish brown. After cooling and crystallization, after The purified nitrate can be used as the raw material of black powder.

It is more convenient to obtain willow charcoal. Willow branches can be seen everywhere in Daming. As long as there is money, there will be a large number of ordinary people willing to burn willow charcoal for sale, no matter how much they need, they can buy it.

From now on, the Huang family's black powder raw materials will no longer need to be imported, and of course they will not be controlled by others.

Huang Sheng renamed the Ryukyu Islands as the "Dongyang County Islands" in the Ming Dynasty, and the main island of Okinawa was named "Dongjin Island", implying to use this as a base to expand eastward.

A large-scale construction project was underway on "Dongjin Island", and [-] to [-] Ryukyu young and middle-aged men and women worked happily to serve Daming, because there was no whip here, they could eat a full stomach, and there was white rice as labor compensation.

Under the leadership of Huang's engineering and technical personnel, they built forts, warehouses, water conservancy facilities and roads, and began to rebuild residential buildings at the same time.

The Ryukyu people are full of affection for the Ming Dynasty, and have sent missions to pay tribute many times. Their kings will only be widely recognized after being conferred by the Ming Dynasty.

They hated the Japanese pirates very much. The Satsuma clan expropriated and brutally expropriated and murdered women in the Kingdom of Ryukyu these years, which made the hatred intensify.

Wang Yuan of the Ryukyu people went to another country, and the people who stayed behind got jobs, had enough food, and got wages. The comparison between Daming and Wa Kingdom is like an angel and a devil.

The remaining Ryukyu people were bewitched by the Huang family's propaganda team every day, and soon many Ryukyu people began to take an oath to become citizens of the Ming Dynasty, and from now on they will be ordinary people in "Dongyang County" of the Ming Dynasty.

As long as the Ryukyu people have undergone the oath ceremony, the managers of the Huang family will recognize their status as citizens of the Ming Dynasty, and immediately organize Baojia to pay wages according to the treatment of ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that becoming a citizen of the Ming Dynasty will immediately gain tangible benefits, the "Dongyang County" of the Ming Dynasty will soon lose the group of Ryukyu people. Although many of them cannot speak Chinese, it does not matter. Can speak Huang's official dialect.

Huang Sheng arranged for Yunzhonglai and Shizhuan to station two thousand generals in "Dongyang County", with four thousand auxiliary troops under his command, 72 field cannons, and six hundred cavalry. When defending the country, three times as many troops will not be them. opponent.

The navy will naturally have battleship formations cruising the sea area to show national prestige and declare sovereignty. Qian Zong, who is running in the cloud and time, is not passively defensive here. They will often cooperate with the navy to harass the islands of Japan and plunder ships. It is still a principle of continuous attack and uninterrupted Tuotu.

The garrison troops and the cruise navy have to beat the Japanese pirates to weaken them from time to time, so that Little Japan will not get itchy for a few days without being beaten.

(End of this chapter)