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Because this is a private act of the Satsuma clan, the Tokugawa shogunate did not know it at all.

Li Dingguo complained: "In a land as big as sesame seeds, there are 39 prefectures and 36 islands."

After the Datong court learned the details, they definitely changed the three provinces of the Ryukyu Kingdom into three towns.As for the 36 islands, the big island was changed to a town-level unit, and the small island became a village directly.

The most urgent task is to let all the aborigines know Chinese.

At the same time, abolish the poll tax!

Ryukyu Han Chinese bully the natives, that is a problem that will arise in the future.As long as Zhao Han cancels the poll tax, the Ryukyu natives will definitely return to their hearts immediately, and they will no longer miss the Ryukyu king.

In about 20 years, when the Chinese language is popularized to a certain extent, schools will be established on the Ryukyu islands. The pocket islands cannot be built, and the entire island has only a few dozen or so people.

At that time, the Ryukyu natives will be regarded as real citizens, and the Han people will not be allowed to bully them anymore (as for words, they are not allowed to bully them now).Inspectors of clean government will also be sent to severely punish a few typical cases. While protecting the aborigines, they will also beat the 34 clan members by the way.

In the next month, Li Dingguo assisted Zheng Shen, the magistrate of Ryukyu, to complete the takeover of Ryukyu main island.

Except for the county magistrate, the county magistrate, judges and officials in charge, all came from Fujian with the army.Several officials in charge,

They even brought their family members and settled directly in Japan, Kagoshima Castle, on the Ryukyu Island.

Xiang Xiangxian is asking for help from the Satsuma feudal lord: "My lord, please send troops immediately to save the Ryukyu country!"

Mitsuhisa Shimadzu remained silent, as if he was thinking about whether to send troops.

Xiang Xiangxian, in fact, should be called Shang Xiangxian, and his surname has not been changed yet.He belongs to the Ryukyu royal family, and his current position is the lord of Yuji, and he controls six counties... well, actually six villages.

This guy is a hardcore sycophant who has stayed in Japan for several years.

Historically, he later became the Prime Minister of the Ryukyu Kingdom, compiled the first history book of Ryukyu, and publicized the "theory of the same ancestor of the Ryukyu".Since the surname "Shang" was bestowed by the Ming Emperor, he didn't want the surname of his ancestors and changed it directly to the surname

"Towards".

The territory of this guy is at the most northeastern tip of Ryukyu.

Hearing that the Datong army was coming, the whole family immediately fled to Japan by boat.

"grown ups!"

Kneeling down to Xiangxian, he raised his voice and asked Satsuma to send troops.

Shimadzu Mitsuhisa pondered for a long time, and finally: "You go back first, you and your family, I will give the house a settlement.

As for the dispatch of troops to Ryukyu, this is a major military and national event that requires long-term consideration. "

Xiang Xiangxian was forcibly driven away, crying bitterly as he walked.

Mitsuhisa Shimadzu screened the others away, and stayed alone in the room to meditate.China's use of troops in Ryukyu was beyond his expectations, and he had discussed it with his retainers, but there was no countermeasure at all.

The Tokugawa shogunate was very strict with the local vassal authorities, and even built houses for them in the capital.The whole family of the feudal lord has to go to live in the capital every year, and then return to the territory regularly for governance. Every time they return to their own territory, they have to make a report.

Whether it was collecting taxes in the Ryukyu Kingdom or occupying the eight northeastern islands of Ryukyu, it was all done quietly by the Satsuma clan behind the shogunate's back.

If this matter breaks out, even if the Datong Army doesn't kill them, the Tokugawa shogunate will find trouble with Satsuma.

Tokugawa Iemitsu's desire to control is too strong. A few years ago, the Satsuma domain opened a new gold mine. Is this a shogunate business?It even forced Satsuma to close the gold mine.

And as he got older, Tokugawa Iemitsu's desire to control became stronger.Several ports that were promised to be opened to Chinese businessmen were closed, and only the outer islands of Nagasaki were still able to trade.The purpose is very simple, to facilitate the shogunate to control foreign trade, and not to allow any local feudal lords to intervene in it.

Mitsuhisa Shimadzu of the Satsuma Domain also has a strong desire for control, constantly strengthening his control over the Ryukyu Kingdom, and even secretly attacked Chinese merchant ships many times.

Dressing up as pirates to attack Chinese merchant ships and looting goods is only second.Mitsuhisa Shimadzu's real plan is to make the Chinese emperor hate Japanese pirates, and it is best to come up with a ban on the sea policy again.In this way, the trade between China and Japan can only use the Ryukyu country as a springboard, and he controls the Ryukyu country, which is tantamount to monopolizing the trade between China and Japan!

That's all Shimadzu Mitsuhisa's courage is.

He dared to pretend to be a pirate and attack Chinese ships, but he never dared to actually start a war with China. That was purely courting death.

After thinking about it for a long time, Mitsuhisa Shimadzu called his retainers and ordered: "Decree the eight islands of Ryukyu to protect the islands. If... if the Tang people send troops, you must not admit your identity. They are ronin who escaped from Japan. They are broken. , I will treat their family well. If they dare to make trouble, the whole family will be executed!"

In fact, Mitsuhisa Shimadzu still had a sense of luck, imagining that the Datong Army would accept it as soon as it was good, and would not seize the eight islands in the northeast of Ryukyu by force.

How can it be?

Yuron Island, also known as Yoron Island in later Japan.With an area of ​​20.8 square kilometers, the land is small, but the coastline is 23.5 kilometers long. More than 1000 local residents live on the island.

Saburo Murayama was a low-level samurai who led several ashigaru and stationed on Yuron Island.

His real duty was to collect taxes, and every native had to pay a poll tax.The head tax was also brought by Japan, and the Ryukyu Kingdom never collected it before.

On this island, rice and sugarcane can be grown, and the poll tax is naturally calculated with two crops.

Saburo Murayama will bring a knife to any aborigine who dares not to pay taxes!

Before the order of the Satsuma lord reached this place, the ships of the Datong Navy arrived.

One warship left the formation and sailed towards Yuron Island, while the rest of the warships continued to sail northeast.

Saburo Murayama was basking in the sun on the beach when suddenly a soldier came to report and pointed to the west sea in horror:

"Tang... Warships of the Tang Kingdom!"

Saburo Murayama got up, stared intently, and comforted himself: "Maybe he used the road to supply supplies, not to fight."

The big fart island, he can't escape.

The sea-going ship of the Satsuma clan would come every year to take away the poll tax received.Usually there are only small offshore fishing boats, which are used by the aborigines for fishing, and it is impossible to escape back to their hometown while sitting.

Finally, the battleship docked.

One hundred Datong soldiers and twenty sailors came to the island armed with guns and ammunition.

Saburo Murayama hid with his men, not daring to investigate the situation at all, and only hoped that the Chinese would leave quickly.

After the Chinese soldiers disembarked, more than a dozen civilians came.

They are all Han Chinese who moved from Kume Island. This time they are the Ruan family and the Wang family.

Yulun Island will be set up as Yulun Village, and the Ruan family and the Wang family will take turns serving as the village head after they settle in Fentian.The poll tax was abolished, and the tax was levied according to the number of acres of land. Anyway, the tax set by the imperial court was very low.

They are newcomers, and they definitely don't dare to mess around, at most, they charge a little more land tax.If the islanders are forced to turn against them, the Datong Army will definitely send troops to suppress them, but it is possible that they will be beaten to death by the island natives before the Datong Army arrives.

The responsibilities of Ruan and Wang are to first register households for the islanders, then teach the islanders advanced farming techniques, and then slowly teach the islanders Chinese.

When they came to a village, the natives on the island were a little terrified, and they all hid in their houses and watched secretly.

Wang Shiyuan asked his wife and children to stay where they were, and asked the Datong Army to take care of them, and went to a thatched hut by himself.He shouted in Ryukyu dialect: "I am an official sent by the emperor to kill the bad Japanese in Satsuma. From now on, you are all Chinese, and you don't need to pay poll tax. Tell me, where are those bad guys? "

The natives dare not make a sound.

After shouting several times in a row, a native came out of another thatched hut.He seems to be because Datong soldiers are many and powerful, and they are stronger than those Japanese. Out of awe of the strong, he said: "Bad tax collectors, hide there, I saw them run away."

Wang Shiyuan said: "You lead the way. If you catch the bad guys, I will reward you with a handful of food."

In order to convince the other party, Wang Shiyuan brought his own rice, took out a handful and gave it to the native. w.

The aborigines were very happy when they got the rice, and immediately set up a leading party.

Saburo Murayama was going crazy. They were just a few of them, but they were rounded up by more than 100 elite soldiers.And still can't escape,

The aborigines are too familiar with the terrain and know where the Tibetans are most suitable.

It took only half an hour for Saburo Murayama and his men to be caught.

The situation in Yongliangbu Island next door is similar.But this island is bigger, more than four times the area of ​​Yoron Island,

And the main crop is very interesting, it turned out to be potatoes from America.

The really decent battle broke out on Ufu Shima Island, which is the Amami Oshima Island in Japan.

The island covers an area of ​​712.48 square kilometers. The Ryukyu Kingdom has set up seven prefectures here, with more than 16 counties under its jurisdiction. There are 120 major chiefs and more than [-] minor chiefs.Two of the great chiefs are still the Ryukyu royal family.

More than 200 people immigrated from the Satsuma clan here, and after decades of reproduction, it has become more than 600 people.

These more than 600 Japanese, farming and fighting together, trained dozens of soldiers, and five of them also had firecrackers.They only collect taxes, and the specific administrative management is still done by the chiefs of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The two chiefs of the Ryukyu royal family had already received news of China's dispatch of troops, and even knew that the royal family would be arrested and questioned.

Therefore, the two royal chiefs took the initiative to contact the Japanese and ordered other chiefs to gather troops.They actually gathered nearly a thousand troops, armed with various weapons, trying to resist the soldiers of Datong.

Chapter 630 [Crushing Bureau]

The Datong Army that attacked Amami Oshima had a total of more than 30 large and small ships, 5000 troops from the army, and 1000 troops from the navy.

Most of the islands are surrounded by mangroves, and large ships cannot dock at all.Small and medium-sized ships can land in the four fishing ports of Southwest, Northwest, Northeast and Zhengdong.In the rest of the villages, Datong soldiers all landed in small boats, and under the guidance of the guide, they rowed ashore through the mangroves.

Six thousand soldiers, divided into six groups, set out, intending to end the battle as quickly as possible.

The main target is the landing point in the northeast, which is the urban area of ​​Amami hundreds of years later.There is the most arable land on the island, and of course the largest population. It is ruled by a Ryukyu royal lord, and all the Japanese are here.

Zhu Dafu joined the army in the ninth year of Chongzhen. Before joining the army, he worked as a farmer and soldier for two years. Now he is leading 1500 people.

He was afraid that there would be an ambush on the island, so he asked Shi Daxuan for fire support.

"Boom boom boom boom!"

More than a dozen cannons were fired, and two houses were destroyed, one of which was the Japanese office.No coincidence, but the size of the house (there were small thatched cottages everywhere else) and its proximity to the coast made it a prime target for naval artillery.

After the shelling was over, many aborigines in the thatched huts on the bank were frightened and ran away frantically, and went to hide in the forest behind them.

Finally, Zhu Dafu successfully led his troops ashore.

After some searching, the soldiers came back and reported that all those who hadn't escaped were indigenous civilians, and no enemy could be seen here.

Lin Jingchong took the initiative to communicate with the aborigines. He also comes from the Kume 36 surname, and may be the ancestor of Aragaki Yui. He will bring his wife and children to settle in Amami Oshima in the future.

Not long after, Lin Jingchong gave half a catty of rice to the aborigines, and found out the information very smoothly, and came back to report:

"General, the Ryukyu governor (lord) here left with the Japanese two days ago. He also raised an army, searched for the food of the nearby natives, and supposedly went to the southern mountains and forests to join forces with another Ryukyu governor.

Zhu Dafu asked: "The family members are also taken away?"

Lin Jingchong: "Not only the family, but all valuables have been removed. It seems that they plan to live in the mountains and forests for a long time, and come out after the Chinese army leaves."

"The island is full of mountains?" Zhu Dafu asked.

Lin Jingchong: "The coast around this island is cultivated land, and the middle is full of mountains and forests."

Zhu Dafu had a headache and said: "If the enemy is hiding, it's not easy to fight. You have to search the mountains slowly to find someone."

The "difficult to fight" here means that the battle cannot be completed within the predetermined time.This time the navy and army were dispatched together, not only as simple as recovering Ryukyu, but also had to quickly resolve the Ryukyu issue and go to Japan for a visit.

The Satsuma clan often acted as pirates and robbed Chinese merchant ships. This matter must be resolved smoothly!

If you want to solve it, the navy alone cannot do it.By the time the Datong Navy was dispatched, the Japanese pirates had already run away and turned into the Satsuma Navy Navy, hiding in the port of Kagoshima.In this case, the army must also send troops to go directly to the door to raise troops to question the crime.

Zhu Dafu ordered: "Carry a few bags of grain off the boat, and let a few more natives lead the way. Tell them, as long as they find the target, each will be rewarded with ten catties of white rice!"

In the mountains and forests fifteen miles away to the east.

Shang Kun sat in the thatched hut, eating fresh fish caught in the mountain stream, worried: "Will these Tang soldiers really leave?"

Shang Hong: "They will definitely leave. They send a lot of troops and consume a lot of food every day. But we took all the food away, and Tang soldiers will leave after eating the food. It is good to hide in the mountains for a while. If Tang soldiers come, Just fighting in the woods, their big artillery can't be used, but our bows and arrows can kill."

Hideo Yamamoto was eating tea and rice, and carefully selected buildings to be assassinated: "I heard from my father that Tang's army does not know how to fight at all. It depends on the number of people to dare to fight. I don't think it can be avoided all the time. I sent a small group of soldiers to lure. Set up an ambush in the mountains and defeat them! No matter how big the warships of the Tang State are, can they still sail into the mountains?"

"It's better to be cautious." Shang Hong objected.

When the Satsuma domain first invaded Ryukyu, Japanese soldiers burned, killed and looted, making the people of Ryukyu miserable.At that time, the Ryukyu monarchs and ministers were very hostile to Japan, but in recent years the relationship has eased.

One is that under the pressure of Ming Dynasty, Japan gave up the annexation of Ryukyu and gave the king and officials more autonomy.The second is the Ryukyu royal family, which must send young people to Japan to study, so as to cultivate more pro-Japanese factions.

Before we finished our lunch, a soldier suddenly came to report the news.

But the two Datong armies on the east coast of Amami Oshima, one with 1000 soldiers and the other with 800 soldiers, are heading towards their hiding place under the leadership of the islanders.

"Hurry up and go deeper into the forest!" Shang Hong hurriedly.

Hideo Yamamoto was unwilling, and said: "The enemy is divided into several groups, and the number of each group is no more than ours. Just set up an ambush to lure them, and break them one by one first. If you keep hiding, you will always be found. At that time, when Tang soldiers gather together, we will definitely be killed." beat."

Shang Kun nodded and said: "It also makes sense."

Shang Hong resolutely opposed: "We can't beat Tang Bing, we must hide."

Hideo Yamamoto asked: "If you don't fight, how do you know you can't fight?

The three of them argued over this. After all, the Satsuma samurai was the Supreme Emperor, and the two Ryukyu royal families finally obeyed the order.

Hideo Yamamoto asked all the Japanese men on the island to take up weapons, including hoes and sticks.So again the rioters,

Counting the Ryukyu soldiers, the force reached 1300.

They asked their family members to wait where they were, and approached the [-] Datong Army in the southwest on their own initiative.

An ambush was set up in a forest, and Hideo Yamamoto sent dozens of people to lure him, and the only five firecrackers were also sent out.

The general of this Datong army is called Li Tang, and he is just a battalion commander. He has 30 troops under his command, and the other [-] are navy officers and soldiers.They broke up into a group of [-] people, and slowly searched the mountains and forests, narrowing down the area bit by bit.