Compared with the tributary system in the past, the Ming Dynasty has changed greatly in recent times for these tributary rewards. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn the past, it was the blood transfusion of the Central Empire to the state to maintain the righteousness.

Now, however, the Ryukyu Kingdom is even more grateful to the merchant ships that come to the Ryukyu Kingdom. It was the customs duties brought by these merchant ships that kept Shuri Castle prosperous. As for the tribute, it is only a little more generous in return from the Ming Dynasty, but it will no longer be a blood transfusion.

In the Showa Hall, the warm morning sun shines into the house, and it looks very bright.

After the red tape, it quickly got to the point.

Shang Zhen took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has something important to do." ”

Zhu Cihong remained silent: "Aiqing, please speak." ”

After that, Sho Chi emotionally told the story of the Ryukyu Kingdom being invaded by the Japanese since 1609 with tears of his own tears.

Among the many islands, the invasion of the Satsuma clan did not bring much resistance.

But the Ryukyus are by no means a weak country that opens its doors and surrenders. On the contrary, as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, there are also loyal people in the Ryukyus, such as the famous Xie Ming relatives Riyama Zheng Zhen.

From this, Shang Zhen recalled the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Ryukyu Kingdom for 300 years.

At that time, the Ryukyu Kingdom was a barren and backward land. After worshipping the eldest brother of the Ming Dynasty during the founding of the People's Republic of China, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang sent a huge Fuping development team "Thirty-six Surnames of the Min People" to help Ryukyu develop tributary trade between China and the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Zheng Zhen's ancestor was one of the thirty-six surnames of the Min people back then.

Later, the descendants of the Min people in the Ryukyu Kingdom withered, and the number of people who spoke Chinese language throughout the night gradually became scarce. At the same time, the Wako Rebellion broke out. Many of the people who were plundered by the Japanese went to Ryukyu again, and were treated favorably by the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Under the continuous immigration of Chinese immigrants, it is natural that China's advanced cultural technology has also been brought to the Ryukyus. As a result, the Ryukyu Kingdom became a land of beautiful customs and etiquette.

This made the Ryukyu Kingdom sincerely loyal to China, and the descendants of Chinese immigrants in the Ryukyu Kingdom were also loyal and patriotic. When the Japanese got involved in the Upper Ryukyu Kingdom, they wanted to persuade Zheng Zhen, but Zheng Zhen sternly refused. When the Satsuma clan attacked the Ryukyu Kingdom, it was Zheng Zhen who rose up to resist.

After the defeat, the Satsuma clan demanded that the Ryukyu subjects sign the instrument of surrender. Others were afraid of the Japanese obscenity, but only Zheng Zhen raised his eyebrows and pointed coldly at Qianfu, never compromising, so that the Japanese angrily set up an oil pot to intimidate.

In front of the oil pot, Zheng Zhen was still not afraid.

In the end, Zheng Ji died in the oil pot, and the Ryukyu Kingdom was invaded by the Satsuma Domain.

Although this was 30 years ago, such loyal and righteous men have been passed down from generation to generation in the mouths of the people of the Ryukyu Kingdom. It has also inspired generations of Ryukyuan people to understand loyalty.

"Lord Zheng's loyalty, ministers and other thoughts, never dare to forget. Now, the Ryukyu Kingdom is trapped in the hands of the Dongying Japanese people, and they have always had great kindness in their hearts. Please also ask Daming to be the master of the Ryukyu Kingdom! Shang Zhi said, his eyes filled with tears, and he didn't know how much he recalled the history of humiliation at the hands of the Japanese.

When Zhu Cihong heard this, he was also embarrassed. Not many people know about the Ryukyu Kingdom in later generations.

It is Zhu Cihong himself who knows the history of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and it is also due to the kind of loyal ministers and attachments of the people of this country.

Historically, there have also been stories of envoys from the Ryukyu Kingdom asking for help from China. In addition to the Ming Dynasty, there was also the Qing Dynasty. In particular, the Qing Dynasty closed itself off from the rest of the country, becoming more and more backward and corrupt, and the gap between it and the prosperous Japan was getting bigger and bigger. Most people know that Taiwan was invaded by the Japanese, but the fall of the Ryukyu Kingdom did not happen because few people paid attention to it.

In October 1879, three ragged overseas visitors crawled at the door of the Prime Minister's Yamen, crying bitterly, attracting many onlookers from passers-by.

These are three Ryukyu ear and eye officials who became slaves of the dead country, Mao Jingchang and other 3 people.

At that time, the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Shotai, was taken captive by the Japanese, and the three of them went through a lot of hardships to try to ask for help from the Qing Kingdom to make the Ryukyu Kingdom the masters. However, for the invasion of the vassal state, the Qing state, as the suzerain, could not do anything, and the prime minister Yamen could only give them a large amount of 300 taels of silver to let them leave on their own.

In desperation, Lin Shigong committed suicide in grief and anger, hoping to arouse the attention of the Qing Kingdom with his death.

Before Lin Shigong died, he left a petition of "begging for death", and ordinary people in later generations heard about it, and they all sighed at each other.

"Lin Shigong, the secretary of the Ryukyu Kingdom, is respectful, and asks God for the sake of death, and quickly saves the country from the dead, and saves the country with all the ministers. The theft of the merit was due to the humiliation of the country, and it was already in September of the guest year, and he went to pay tribute to the ears and eyes of the official Mao Jingchang, etc., and changed them into the capital,...... Weeping Nian arrived in Fujian on the order of the king to report urgency, it has been three years, our country has been tragically attacked by the Japanese, one is a ruin, the second is the king's son to see the east, and then the people are subjected to its tyranny. It is all caused by the fact that the merit can not cry and ask for help, it is already a crime of death, but the lord of the country has not returned, the prince has been detained, and he is still ashamed to survive, and he has not dared to donate his body to blame. ……”

Lin Shigong's death was great, but the ups and downs of the Qing Kingdom were not something that could be stirred up by his blood. In the face of the torrent of history, in the ignorant Qing Kingdom, Lin Shigong's death was soon forgotten. Although it was circulated in the market for a while, it did not attract the attention of the Qing people, so that they could rescue the Ryukyu Kingdom.

But what is even more moving is not only Lin Shigong's death.

Don't forget, there were three messengers in total.

More than ten years later, Jiangxi celebrity Wen Tingshi has such a record in "Wenchen Puppet Record": "In the Battle of the First Sino-Japanese War, there was a person who asked for the arrest of the traitor, saying that he lived in the mutton alley outside the southern city, and his surname was Xie." The court sent an order to Tang Chunsen to arrest him in the matter. Tang Zhi, ordered the military service not to be delayed, first pick up its correspondence books, then Ryukyu sent ministers to save the Chinese and Korean people, and lived in Beijing for 12 years. Every year there is a letter, and the governor is not up to it, and his travel expenses are helped by the remnants of the Ryukyus, and they are very pitiful. ”

It turned out that after Lin Shigong's death, there were still messengers who persisted for 12 years, trying to ask for help every year, but still got nothing. Infatuated with this, people are all embarrassed when they hear it.

Later generations said that if a strong country annexes a weak country, why should it resist, won't it be that after being annexed, he will become a citizen of another country?

But apparently not.

In this world, the core is still the law of the jungle.

The citizens of the dead country have only one identity, the slave of the dead country. He is a slave of another country, not a citizen.

At this moment, Zhu Cihong saw Shang Zhen talking about Zheng Zhen's resistance, and he was also embarrassed: "This matter will be handed over to the cabinet and the State Advisory Committee for discussion." You don't have to worry about the safety of the Ryukyus. The Second Fleet is stationed in the Ryukyu Kingdom, where do you dare to cause trouble? ”

Zhu Cihong said calmly, but it contained a powerful power, so that Shang Zhen couldn't help but have tears in his eyes, and said emotionally: "The minister bows and thanks my emperor Longen." ”