Soon, the attendants contacted by the Military Intelligence Department of the Attendant Office found the recent situation of the third prince and the eldest prince of the son of Lu Guohong Chengchou from a pile of information.

Zhang Qiang took a look, although there was the support of the Taixi people, but they had to bypass the sailor patrol ships of the Huaxia Army from a distant place, and transport weapons and personnel from Southeast Asia and the South Seas to the Ryukyu Islands, which led to their extremely low efficiency, ten ships can almost reach eight Even if God blesses, generally one is shipwrecked and sunk, or something happens, three of the remaining nine ships may be captured or sunk, and one may return halfway, there is no insurance at sea in this era, With the performance of a wooden sailing boat, sailing is generally no big deal and sending it to death.

When five or six ships arrived, most of them were supplied by their respective ships, and the supplies were consumed on the way, and at least half of the people transported died or became unwell, because the Dutch were not so kind to treat the natives of Southeast Asia as human beings.

Even if they had at least 20% of their soldiers who had fallen ill or died accidentally due to the long distance, their transportation capacity was limited, and they could only transport some weapons and ammunition, and a small number of troops to support the Great Prince.

Therefore, the eldest prince could not afford the third prince, who was close to the road and had a larger population than them.

From Amami Island to Ryukyu Island, it is only a few hundred nautical miles away, and there are more than a dozen large and small islands in the middle, and the third prince has already accounted for seven or eight of them with the support of the Huaxia army, plus he has many sailors and warships, and from time to time he attacks and harasses the eldest prince's Ryukyu Island, which has caused a lot of trouble to the eldest prince, and the population has decreased sharply, and now he is still guarding the main island and the five or six small islands around it and is unable to counterattack.

The two sides fought to the death, and almost 100,000 people died, the cannon fodder troops of the eldest prince could not keep up, and the naval fleet could not beat the naval fleet of the third prince with a large number of troops, so they could only retreat near the port and occasionally attack, according to the latest statistics, the garrison of the Chinese army and the naval fleet stationed on the island of the eldest prince reported that the eldest prince now has only fifteen thousand-ton warships, more than thirty eight-hundred-ton warships, and more than one hundred ships of six hundred tons and below, and these ships are in addition to guarding the island. It can only support the garrisons and populations of one or two large islands dozens of nautical miles away, and the rest are powerless to attack.

The population of the third prince has reached 700,000, most of them are Southeast Asian natives and Japanese prisoners who support him here by the Huaxia Army, with 180 naval warships and 270 warships.

Zhang Qiang thought, since so many people and naval warships are idle, he will definitely not be able to repay so much support he has given him, so it is better to let him fight the second prince, anyway, their second and third children fight each other and want to destroy each other, why not?

Let the third prince use a war to pay off his debt to the Huaxia Army.

He said to his attendants, "Send someone to inform the third prince, and say that I want to meet him in Kagoshima, and let him come to me." ”

Today's three princes have almost Zhang Qiang's head of the horse, he is the third prince, the little king of the Ryukyu Kingdom's backer, Zhang Qiang does not want to annex the Ryukyu Islands for a while, the current territory of the Lu State, just as the previous dynasties have never seen overseas islands or other kingdoms, although the current Chinese Kingdom has advanced a lot, but after all, it is still a feudal agricultural country, and there is no industry.

To say that industry is also light industry, arquebuses, flintlock pistols, manufacturing in the Bronze Age of Cannons, others, sailboats, luxury carriages, all wood, what kind of industry is this?

So the dynasties of the past dynasties did not have the ability to expand, and now the Kingdom of China plus the Qing Dynasty, Dajin, some territories that have not returned, and the territories of the three small countries in Southeast Asia are considered to be large, and people in this era can not imagine it, so the Chinese nation of the previous dynasties has no intention of expanding at all.

The third prince has to go to Kagoshima Prefecture for a long time, he has to deal with a lot of things, although the kingdom is small, there are a lot of people, 700,000 people, of course, there is not so much population, the total core population is only 300,000, which also makes Amami Island crowded.

Some of the places where he could live were actually occupied by the first inhabitants, the officials and soldiers who followed him from the Lu country, and the common people occupied many of the wasteland, and a hole was dug in the ground, and a roof was built with wood on it, and a thin cloth curtain was hung at the door, or some other reed mat, and this was where a family of four or a family of six or seven lived.

Such wastelands are almost overrun by outsiders, and even the beaches are crowded.

The soldiers, especially the naval fleet, could only live on ships every day.

In such a crowded place, there is no arable land at all, and there is no food, and the food is all supplied by the Huaxia Kingdom, and the people of Xinlu Mansion rely on so many Japanese people to farm the land, and they can have some output, but in Amami Island, there are only fish, and even raw fish are rushed to eat every day, and the food is not enough at all, of course, officials and combat soldiers do not have to rob, they have special food security, although the lower the level, the less food they can get, and many people are actually hungry, but after all, it is better than those people.

Many people who were forcibly emigrated can only choose to become soldiers, of course, they are cannon fodder, and they have obtained military functions to receive food, and now they have received a ration that cannot be filled alone, which has become a symbol of status.

Compared with the people of the Huaxia Kingdom, these people are simply called Huazi, hungry people.

Recently, however, this situation has changed, and with the death of hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder, the Ryukyu Kingdom has captured several large islands, which are only one-tenth the size of Amami Island, or one-fifth, or even one-thirtieth of the area, which can also relieve the pressure on these populations.

10,000 Han people were immigrated to those islands one after another, and the Han people were the first class of people, and although it was difficult to go to the islands, there were also wooden stilted buildings that were better than shacks to live in, and then there were soldiers guarding the islands, followed by those cannon fodder soldiers, Japanese prisoners and Southeast Asian prisoners and immigrants, where did those Japanese immigrants and Southeast Asian immigrants have shacks, although they still lived in shacks, the conditions improved, they didn't have to crowd with many people, they had a large area, And with the rations that were received on time less than those of the soldiers and a piece of sashimi a day.

These people accounted for a total of 200,000 people, which eased the congestion on Amami Island.

There are 300,000 people at the bottom and immigrants, cannon fodder, etc. left.

Now the third prince is still discussing with the officials and generals to seize a few more small islands, and it can alleviate the living conditions of 50,000 people, and the remaining 450,000 people are in Amami Island, Amami Island will reach the maximum use, and there will be prisoners and cannon fodder to be immigrated in the future, as well as the people of Lu on the original island, the total population of the Ryukyu Kingdom has reached almost 800,000 now, and it may be 1 million in the future.

When the third prince was thinking about continuing the siege of the eldest prince and seizing more land, preferably to recover the entire Lu country, he was actually thinking about how to produce more food to feed this million people in the future, or how to deal with the 300,000 people on the island and the people from the South Seas in Southeast Asia who were increasing one after another after taking the island, mainly because the Lu country did not have much food and arable land in the first place, and people could not eat fish every day.

If you don't have a population, you can't have a population, but if you have a large population, you can't feed it.

At this time, he received an order from Zhang Qiang to visit him.

His Majesty the King of Huaxia Kingdom is his master, a life-saving straw, how dare he delay, after arranging some things, he immediately rushed to Kagoshima County with 20 warships and 2,000 officers and soldiers.

Zhang Qiang looked at the third prince Hong Tianpao who came in a hurry and said happily: "Lord Hong, congratulations, the recovery of the Lu Kingdom and the seizure of the throne are just around the corner." ”

The third prince smiled cautiously: "Thanks to Your Majesty's blessing, thanks to Your Majesty's support for Xiao Wang, Xiao Wang is grateful, I don't know what Your Majesty has to ask Xiao Wang to come?" ”

Zhang Qiang waved and smiled: "Actually, there is nothing, isn't this a relief for you?" I wonder if the troops on the island are enough? ”

"Ah, ah, enough, enough, Your Majesty, you don't know, I've broken my heart these days, there are too many people, I can't let go, Your Majesty's great kindness to the little king is really unforgettable, and after the restoration of the country, I will take the Huaxia Kingdom as the upper country, pay tribute every year, and congratulate every year." Hong Tiancang said cautiously.

Zhang Qiang said: "It's not necessary, I have encountered some things here, small things, and I need your help?" ”

Hong Tianpao immediately said: "Your Majesty's affairs, Xiao Wang will do his best, but Your Majesty knows that I am also poor here, and I can't help much, you see——? ”

Zhang Qiang looked left and right, and then said to him: "You have to help with this favor, and you can help." ”

Hong Tianpao immediately said: "Listen up." ”

Zhang Qiang asked people to take the map, pointed to Shikoku Island and said: "Look here, Kochi County, here, it happens to be a protruding island of Shikoku Island, I hope you send 30,000 troops, 70,000 militia to attack here, and beat your second brother, I think you should be able to help with this little force." ”

"Ahh The third prince was stunned, he didn't expect such a thing, to beat his second brother, the second prince, although they had been constantly rubbing before, and there were battles from time to time, but now Feng Quan was able to resist in that aspect, he had already focused on his eldest brother's side, and now he was dispatching troops to fight his second brother, a little embarrassed, he was preparing to dispatch the naval fleet to attack his eldest brother's main island, and now he was a little reluctant to divide his troops.

Thinking about it, he thought clearly that he had to help with this favor, without the support of the Huaxia Army, he would have to starve to death wherever he was hungry, and if there were not so many people, he would not be able to beat his eldest brother, this is an obvious thing.

Dispatched troops to fight his second brother, although it was necessary to delay some battles so that his eldest brother could breathe a sigh of relief, but now that he has a comprehensive advantage, he can still defeat his eldest brother when he comes back, but the time is only longer, and the remaining troops are enough to consume.

So he could only agree to Zhang Qiang's request, which should not be said to be instructions.

(End of chapter)