Chen Bazhi doesn't want to train the Ryukyus?

Bullshit!

He thought about it very much, and the more troops trained, the better, the Oshima Island of the Ryukyus is likely to be the forward front in the face of Japan and even Spain in the future, and the more reserve troops the better, this is Chen Mu's operational philosophy, and he must absolutely implement it.

The so-called 'don't want to' is nothing more than mental tricks.

For the same mutually beneficial thing, the promise is too refreshing, and the person who makes the request will feel that he has suffered a loss, which is the reason that Chen Mu handed over to Hachiro.

Although Chen Mu will definitely allow the training of troops, and the imperial court will not interfere in the purchase and sale of armaments, there are still the most difficult problems in front of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Armaments are too expensive.

Birds, one-sided breastplates, arm bindings, all kinds of weapons, ammunition, and even small shark boats and artillery, even if they don't count food and grass, it costs thirty-three taels of silver to arm a soldier when combined.

This is not counting the loss of 30% of General Chen, and it is too scary to take 1,400 people and 40,000 taels of silver to train a thousand elite soldiers.

It's not so practical, Chen Bazhi didn't kill the pawn for the sake of killing, it was a madman and a fool, and the killing of the pawn was just to make the soldiers absolutely obey the order and not kill more people on the battlefield.

It is better to train in Luzon than at home, because they are recruits who are new soldiers, and they are afraid if they are told that they will die if they violate military law; The soldiers in the country are not afraid, just to let people know that this is true, they will kill a few more people.

Even so, he still killed so many people in Luzon.

The situation in the Ryukyus should be better, through the mouth of the Ryukyu officials, let the soldiers really know that the general will kill them, and they will seriously carry out the military orders, not to mention that they are the best soldiers in the Ryukyus, maybe only need to die three or four out of a hundred to train the soldiers.

The ship sent to deliver the news traveled to Manila, but Chen Mu was not seen, and it was worth continuing all the way west, and Chen Mu went to Sulu country.

The situation of Sulu was similar to that of Ryukyu Luzon, but it was not invaded by the Westerners, and its territory was in the area of the Sulu Islands, with Borneo being the muddy country of Borneo to the west and Luzon to the east.

The land of the islands was barren and little corn was eaten, and the people in the country mostly fed on fish and shrimp, but they did not always suffer from famine like the Ryukyus, because their neighboring mud country was rich in grain production, and on the other hand, the trade between the people and the Ming Dynasty was very prosperous.

"There are three kings in Sulu, called the king of the east, the king of the west, and the king of the mountain, whose people boil the sea for salt, make cane for wine, and weave bamboo for cloth." The merchant Li Yuxi was Chen Mu's guide on this trip, and they drove the fleet along the Luzon Islands to the Sulu Islands, landing at the port across the sea from Sulu and Borneo, and introduced: "The country is rich in pearls and tortoiseshells, and there are many large pearls that weigh more than two. ”

"Ming merchants trade with local natives, often profit dozens of times, local lack of food, need Ming merchants, so the merchant will return often leave a few people hostage, hoping to come again." Li Yuxi said and smiled, raised his left sleeve with his right hand and said: "This is undoubtedly related to the Luzon people, in the past, the Luzon people called the Han people to come often, and this is the first Chinese language they learned." ”

Li Yuxi knew what Chen Mu cared about, and said thoughtfully: "However, they often go to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute every few years, but every tribute must be paid by all countries. ”

"Speaking of which, the East King and his ancestors were buried in the Ming Dynasty, and they died of illness when the tribute returned to the south, and Grandpa Yongle ordered him to be buried in Dezhou with the etiquette of the vassal king."

There are two tombs of overseas vassal kings in Daming, one is the tomb of the East King of Sulu in Fuzhou, Shandong, and the other is the tomb of the King of Huni in Nanjing.

Nanjing's muddy king is more interesting, the Ming people call him Mana Jagana, but this word is not a name, it is often used in Chinese texts to mean 'side by side king'. In Hungni, people call the river where he first landed 'the river of the Chinese' broken hands'.

The people of the muddy country called it Laja, which means king; The Han people of the muddy country called it the general soldier, the name of the Fujian people was Huang Yuanshou, the general of Zhu Yuanzhang during the period, he was given the name Huang Senping, and sent the muddy envoy, and finally paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty as the king of the muddy country, and was buried in Nanjing.

Before his death, he made three requests to Emperor Yongle, one was to 'know the territory of the territory', so that the mud country and the Broken Hand River Valley were included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty; second, the emperor was asked to 'seal the country after the mountain is a town', called Changning Town Guoshan; and the third is to 'support the body in China' and be buried in the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, the mud country and the Broken Hand River valley are still Ming overseas enclaves.

The generals on the fleet were at ease, while the people stationed in the port were in a mess, even though Chen Mu had sent someone to report earlier, now countless giant ships and ships came from the sea with noisy flags, which still caused a huge commotion.

"I'm tired of Li Lao getting off the ship to negotiate first, so as to prevent Chen's fleet and Chen Bing from causing chaos in his country."

Chen Mu is not a lie, it seems that Sulu is far from the Central Plains, although the port is prosperous, but the livelihood of the people is not easy, although the banner is sent to welcome the angels, but the soldiers on the shore are panicked, and even faintly list the posture of preparing to meet the battle according to the wooden fence.

"Marshal, there are three batteries in the port, and the one on the hill is facing the fleet."

Ni Shangzhong came from the stern of the ship, and now he is the leader of the navy on the Chihai ship, and he is learning how to operate the gun. However, even if there is a naval battle, it will not be his business until the final broadside battle.

Chen Mu also found out that two of the three civil forts were empty, but the fort near the palace on the mountain was undoubtedly visible in the telescope, and the muzzle of the cannon sticking out from the fort was facing them at this time.

And the artillery system on the fort was very familiar to him, he waved his hand and said: "Don't panic, it's a ship cannon of the Francophone man, it looks like five catties, I also have a few in Haojing, and it can only fall into the sea for a mile when it is blown down from the mountain, and even the most experienced gunner can only hit the coast with a hundred families of people gathered together - where did they get it?" ”

He looked carefully at the armaments of the Sulu State on the shore, and it was not surprising that there were such things as firearms, three-eyed guns, and cold weapons, but they were actually mixed with bird guns and some Fran machines, and they were different from the Ming Dynasty bird guns and Fran mechanisms.

Ni Shangzhong didn't think this was worth doubting, and said with a long sword in one hand and a knife on his waist in the other: "I bought it, it looks like it is the same as the armament of the Northern Army, and I didn't expect that there was a strong army in the land of Sulu projectiles overseas." ”

"Buy?"

Chen Mu shook his head, raised his finger and said, "Let me tell you, there must be a story about the source of these guns." ”

To this day, all the countries of Nanyang have the ability to make their own, this thing has no technical content, just like the Ming Dynasty imitated the bird gun, it belongs to the one that can be made by looking at it, even if the quality is different, it is an object that can be used.

The small Franc machine weighing one pound was used in the Ming Dynasty, the individual soldiers were too heavy, and the size of the army was nothing more than the original version of the Western gyroscope, and now there are not many on the Xiyi ship.

The most likely thing to buy is that the fort looks like a five-pound cannon, which is a hard commodity of Portugal, but there is a problem with that.

Not to mention whether the religiously fanatical Portuguese will sell the cannon to Sulu, they will buy it, and Sulu, as a sultanate, will not buy it, and the two sides will fight when they see it.

Sure enough, Li Yuxi, who got off the ship, came back and brought back interesting news, saying: "Portugal is at war with Sulu, and has attacked Sulu several times recently, but has been repulsed. ”