Ever since Wu Daofu's Hongmen expedition to Eastern Wasamobo defeated its last sailors and forced them to sign a peace agreement, his Ryukyu sailors have suddenly found themselves in an embarrassing situation.

King Shangfeng lost the strong enemy of Satsuma, and his dependence on Hongmen was sharply reduced, so he naturally had some estrangement and vigilance with Wu Daofu, the representative of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the strength of Hongmen was difficult to guarantee that he would not become the next Samosa, and coveted the rich and central Ryukyu Kingdom.

On the one hand, Li Tianyang wanted to use the financial and material resources of the Ryukyu Kingdom to empty the white wolf and build an army attached to the Ryukyu Kingdom; On the other hand, King Shangfeng and his predecessor hoped to use this to win over the Hongmen to fight against the powerful Satsuma, and to use the Hongmen to build a naval division capable of defending the maritime frontiers of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

However, King Shoho's opinion was much more independent than that of his father, and he knew that relying on the hands of outsiders was not a long-term defense policy of a kingdom after all, so from the beginning of his succession to the king, King Shoho cut his investment in the Ryukyu naval division and instead built a naval division and infantry himself.

Later, although because of the invasion of Satsuma again, Wu Daofu seized the opportunity and pressured himself to invest capital in the Ryukyu Naval Division, but now, the situation has gradually weakened to the original situation with the passage of time, or even worse.

And on the Hongmen side, Wu Daofu also can't count on it, whether it is from the distance between each other or from the perspective of the development focus of Hongmen, the Ryukyu sailors are all motherless children and no one cares.

Wu Daofu could only be self-reliant, but fortunately, when he built the water division, he had a solid foundation, although King Shangfeng transferred a large part of the Ryukyu water division to supplement the real water division of their kingdom in various names, in exchange, King Shang Feng also handed over two thousand water division soldiers and their families to Wu Daofu, leaving them to fend for themselves on Iriomote Island.

Iriomote Island was the largest island in the Ryukyu Kingdom except for the main island of the Ryukyus, but because it was so remote, the natives living on it did not respect their Ryukyu royal family, so Li Tianyang took advantage of it and obtained this undeveloped virgin land from King Shangning.

If you don't care about the island's pristine terrain and diseases such as malaria caused by mosquitoes and flies, the scenery on this island is really good.

With 2,000 sailor soldiers who completely obeyed Wu Daofu's orders, plus their families, Wu Daofu now has a population of almost 6,000 people in his hands.

The Ryukyu Kingdom has become more and more neglectful of itself, and the food and wages that should have been issued have been in arrears for two months, and there is no indication from the royal family, and even the messengers he sent out to ask for food have been fooled back.

People don't say they don't give, but they just open their eyes and talk nonsense, saying that the Ryukyu Kingdom has suffered from natural disasters since last year, and there are some difficulties in grain turnover, plus the threat of Satsuma has caused a sharp decline in maritime trade, and there is no tax revenue, etc., anyway, it is just a sentence: Please also ask Admiral Wu to be calm, the kingdom has been raising money, and went to the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty to purchase grain and go to Yunyun!

Without Satsuma, an unreasonable and powerful enemy, and now that Hongmen has been attached to the Ming Dynasty, as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, King Shangfeng believes that Hongmen will really dare to do something to their Ryukyu Kingdom, which will be a great risk.

On the battlefield, those civil officials and nobles in the Ryukyu Kingdom are useless, but when it comes to playing with their brains and politics, these guys are all first-class good players.

Perhaps for those members of the Ming Dynasty who have a seven-trick exquisite heart, the methods of these civil officials in the Ryukyu Kingdom are still vulgar, but it is more than enough to deal with Li Tianyang them.

It is based on such calculations that King Shangfeng didn't even have the slightest certainty, so he dared to start the matter, and gradually aimed at the Hongmen team, which can not be said that this king has the courage to go out.

Li Tianyang had already received the information reported by Wu Daofu and the foreign guard intelligence system, and Li Tianyang was clear about the thoughts of the current upper-level officials and royal family of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

It can be clearly summed up that Li Tianyang also took the persecution methods of King Shangfeng, and since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it has never done anything to the kingdom and subject countries that bow down to them, which is the iron law in the Ming Dynasty, in order to highlight the style of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Tianyang also did not dare to risk the world's greatness, to do a crusade against the Ryukyu royal family, now is not as good as when the eunuchs were in power, even if Li Tianyang really did the crusade against the Ryukyu Kingdom, he can also bribe the eunuchs to buy a world peace; Now that the new emperor has just taken office, if he really dares to do such a big thing in this season of alternating between the old and the new, I'm afraid Li Tianyang thinks that he is not conspicuous enough!

Even when Li Tianyang and them occupied the three islands of Iriomote, the contract only said that it would be divided into the garrison of the Ryukyu Naval Division, and it still nominally belonged to the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was also an ambush that Li Tianyang had laid a long time ago, so as not to make it difficult for him to do it in his current position.

Therefore, all Li Tianyang could do to help Wu Daofu was to let He Yong, Sun Juyong, and their ocean-going fleets transport some food and materials by the way.

The rest can only look at Wu Daofu and their own.

Fortunately, the middle and upper-level officials of the Hongmen are no strangers to opening up land and building new homes, even the members of the Hongtang armed forces.

Xiao Xiurong was originally a senator in the Aircraft Department, but now it is good, he has changed his whole person from martial arts to literature, and began to learn step by step to settle the families and relatives of the soldiers, manage various livelihood matters, and organize people to start pioneering on Iriomote Island.

Hongmen is also supporting them as much as possible, the special medicine for treating malaria, Artemisia annua, the iron tools for cultivating cattle and even the construction of the people's houses are also used in cement building materials, which are all sent by the ocean-going fleet in batches again and again, so that Wu Daofu and the others have a lot less trouble.

In the typhoon-ravaged area, during the years that Wu Daofu stayed on Iriomote Island, they would be visited by Taiwan scenery almost once a year, and the houses built with ordinary building materials were built once after a typhoon, and the houses collapsed once, forcing Wu Daofu to ask Li Tianyang to transport cement from Dayuan Island.

As a secret, until now, except for Li Tianyang's father, who was told the weakened version of the cement formula, no other team has been able to get the channel of Hongmen, a building weapon.

Even some people wanted to purchase cement in bulk, but they were rejected by Li Tianyang, and the infrastructure of Hongmen's own settlements has been under construction, and they are still in short supply, so how can they still have the spare energy to sell.

It was only Wu Daofu's side, after Li Tianyang knew that they were in trouble on the island, he approved a batch of cement to Wu Daofu to solve their housing material problem.

(End of chapter)