Behind Zhen Qian, there was a man who looked like a young scribe, with a delicate appearance, standard facial features, and a firm look, but his body was a little fat, which made people have a sense of grace and affinity, and this person was Zhen Thirty-one who had just returned from Ryukyu.

The trip to the Ryukyus for more than four months made this person's skin appear bronzed, and the whole person stood there with a tall and resolute temperament.

"Let's go! Let's go to the barracks and have a look! ”

The military camp is not on the island of Devil's Sorrow, but on the nearest deserted island of Devil's Sorrow, there is nothing special about this island, the whole island can be said to be barren, there is nothing but weeds. If there are no supplies sent in from outside on such an island, it is a miracle that the people on the island can live on it for ten days, which is why Zhen Qian made this island a military camp.

In addition to the army, this strength also includes many other things, such as money, spirituality, faith, culture, and affection.

The army is not the only one in terms of strength, but it is the most important one, and without an incomparably powerful army, there would be no present in the Wufeng Islands, let alone a future and development.

In the wolf's den, there are only guards and no army, this is to take into account the inner resistance of those who have just entered the valley, having an army means deviance, will make people fearful, just like ordinary people are unwilling to fight in peacetime, if they are not forced to the edge of life and death, no one is willing to stand up and resist.

But in the Wufeng Islands, things are completely different.

What kind of existence does the Wufeng Islands need a sense of belonging, just like a wanderer has a homecoming home, it is also a kind of core force and cohesion, the Wufeng Islands are everyone's home, everyone's hope, for this hope will make everyone fight for it, there is a sense of pride .......

A child without parents will think about who his parents are, a person without a home will build a home of his own, and countless families will gather together to form a small society, and this small society will grow up, so that everyone will have a sense of identity with this small society, and then a country will be needed to bring countless such small societies together again.

There are thousands of Tang people on the Wufeng Islands, and these Tang people will have a deep nostalgia for the Tang Dynasty thousands of miles away, and the Silla people on the island will also think that they are far away from the Silla Kingdom, but they are still a part of the Silla Kingdom, and there are more Japanese people on the island, because they are very close to the Japanese Kingdom, and the Japanese Kingdom has a centripetal force for these Japanese people, which Zhen Qian cannot change, even if Zhen Qian is strong, he cannot stop it.

At this time, there is a need for a new cohesion, and people from different places in the future will come together, no matter what they have done before, what their previous identity is, they can find their own sense of belonging in the Wufeng Islands, and regard the Wufeng Islands as their home.

The first step was to build an army, to build a strong army belonging to the Five Peaks Islands, and the army would protect all the people on the Five Peaks Islands like a strong father, and a sense of security would arise spontaneously.

Then pride, then identity, and finally belonging!

At the end of the day, a whole new country was born! Everything fell into place!

Zhen Qian has now taken the first step to build an army that belongs to the Wufeng Islands, an army that is recognized by all the people of the Wufeng Islands.

A few days later, on the first day of the ninth lunar month, Zhen Qian decided to hold a grand military parade on this day, announcing the official establishment of the Wufeng Islands Army on this day!

On the boat to the island where the barracks were located, Zhen Qian quietly listened to Zhen Thirty-one's narration, before that, Zhen Qian had already read Zhen Thirty-one's voyage diary, and also read the record documents of Zhen Thirty-one's trip to the Ryukyus, but when he heard Zhen Thirty-one recount of this experience, he couldn't help but be shocked, and he was greatly moved!

The word Ryukyu came from the Sui Dynasty, and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty ordered Zhu Kuan, the captain of the Yu Cavalry, to visit the foreign customs, and began to reach the boundary of the country. Looking at it from afar, the pan swirls and stretches, if it floats in the water, so it is also named Liuqiu.

In the Sui Dynasty, Ryukyu was called Ryukyu, and the natives of Ryukyu called themselves "Okeinawa", and the Japanese people called it the Nansei Islands. The Book of Sui was changed to "Liuqiu".

In the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, sent an envoy Yang Zai to Ryukyu with an edict, which called it Ryukyu. From then on, it became the official name. It can be seen that even the name of the Ryukyu Kingdom was chosen by China.

Due to the proximity of the Japanese to the Ryukyus, there are often personnel exchanges between the two sides, but at this time the Ryukyus are really not a country, but the Japanese people have become the South Island Amami, Shinjuku and Qiumei Island and others, even the Tang Dynasty also treats the Ryukyus as a group of island natives, and the Ryukyu navigation technology is backward, unable to communicate with the Tang Dynasty, and there is not much news about the Ryukyus.

Compared with the Tang Dynasty's unfamiliarity with Ryukyu, Tang merchants knew about this island, but unfortunately Ryukyu Island was not rich in products, and even Tang merchants were reluctant to interact with Ryukyu.

"This time I followed Zhen Jiu to the Wufeng Islands, then led a flyer south to the Ryukyus, after arriving at Yejiu Island, I saw the Ryukyuan people living on the island, most of these people are not civilized, only a few people know some etiquette, but unfortunately their living conditions are too difficult, the island's products are scarce, the grain planting technology is not as good as some remote areas of the Tang Dynasty, and the boats are mostly rafts and boats, when they saw us appear, they first panicked and screamed and ran away, and when we went ashore, some people actually attacked us, It was only after we repelled that their leader showed up ....... ”

Except for Zhen Qian, everyone else listened with relish, the Ryukyuan people are different from the Nanban south of the Tang Dynasty, the island is not big, the products are not rich, and the cultivation technology is backward, the grain can only be harvested by the sky, fortunately, the fishery around the Ryukyu is abundant, but it will not starve the Ryukyuan people on the island to death.

The climate on Ryukyu Island is good, not cold in winter and not hot in summer, which is similar to that of Taiwan Island.

The main purpose of Zhen Thirty-One's trip to the Ryukyus was to understand the current situation of the Ryukyus, draw a map of the Ryukyu Islands, and prepare for future expansion.

The Ryukyuan people were deeply wary and afraid of Zhen 31's arrival, they knew that there was an extremely powerful country to the west of them, and after hearing Zhen 31 call himself a Tang person, their fear became even stronger, and they were unwilling to associate with Zhen 31.

However, when the Ryukyuan people saw the porcelain and silk brought by Zhen Thirty-one, they immediately became enthusiastic and asked Zhen Thirty-one about the purpose of coming to Ryukyu, and when they learned that they had just drifted to this place unintentionally, they breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and took out a lot of treasured food to exchange with Zhen Thirty-one, and the first stop of Zhen Thirty-one's trip was quite smooth.

It's a pity that Zhen Thirty-one was wrong, thinking in his heart that these Ryukyuan people wearing leaves were simple and kind, and suddenly relaxed his vigilance!