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“Let him in.��

Zhao Xu motioned to Xu Hark and asked him to go back first.

Not long after, Feng'er led a man over fifty to the study.

Half of this man's beard and hair were white, and his figure was thin. No matter what, he could not connect him with the Ryukyu Crown Prince.

Rather, he looks like a poor Confucian scholar.

"Shang Bin, Crown Prince of Ryukyu, meets His Highness King Yan." Seeing Zhao Xu, the old man bowed.

"No courtesy." Zhao Xu showed a soft smile, motioned for him to sit down, and asked Feng'er to pour her a cup of tea.

From the title point of view, he is the King of Yan, and Shang Bin is the Crown Prince.

If they were from the same country, he would bow to Shang Bin.

However, Ryukyu Kingdom has always been a vassal state of Daisong and pays tribute to Daisong every year.

The king of Ryukyu Kingdom is just a minister of Daisong.

Even though Shang Bin held the title of Crown Prince, he still had to salute him.

Seemingly tired from crying and thirsty, Shang Bin drank all the water in the tea before looking at Zhao Xu.

After looking at it carefully, Shang Bin said: "The first time we met, His Highness King Yan made a joke, but I was really helpless. The Emperor said that he didn't care about Da Song now. He asked me to come to His Highness, so I had no choice but to come. ”

Zhao Xu nodded, "It doesn't matter, there is no joke. It should be that Da Song can't stand up to Liu Qiu. I heard about this when I was in the capital."

The Ryukyu Kingdom is located northeast of Yizhou.

It is a group of islands scattered on the sea, like a pearl line, extending to Japan.

In contemporary times, this location is called Okinawa.

According to the history of this world, the people on Ryukyu Island were the people from the Central Plains who migrated there to avoid war.

After thousands of years of reproduction, the Ryukyu Kingdom has a population of nearly one million.

The service of the people on the island is slightly different from that of the Central Plains Dynasty, but they are similar.

And the customs and habits are similar to those in the Central Plains.

Since its establishment more than 400 years ago, the Ryukyu Kingdom has paid tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty every year and voluntarily became a vassal state.

Until thirty years ago, Japan invaded the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The Ryukyu Kingdom was naturally no match for Japan. After the defeat, the King of Ryukyu and his son Shang Bin fled to Jinling and begged Dasong to send troops to recapture Ryukyu.

But at that time, Dasong had already been troubled by the rise of Beidi and was unable to take care of Ryukyu.

The matter was shelved.

When Zhao Heng succeeded to the throne, Ningjindusi fell into the hands of Beidi, and Dasong was even less interested in helping Ryukyu recover.

He refused to meet Shang Bin many times.

But Shang Bin was very persistent and knelt in front of the palace gate for a long time.

But even so, it was of no avail.

"His Royal Highness King Yan really understands the righteousness. Ryukyu has been occupied by Japan for thirty years, and we have been asking for restoration to no avail. I only hope that Your Highness will have mercy on the people of Ryukyu and show some kindness." Shang Bin's eyes turned red again.

He has been coming to Dasong for more than 30 years, and this is the first time he heard someone say that Dasong is sorry for Ryukyu.

Although he didn't dare to say it these years, he had been holding back these words for a long time.

What is a vassal state? They regard Dasong as their suzerain and pay tribute to Dasong with part of their taxes every year.

What I want is for the sovereign country to lend a helping hand in times of crisis.

But he has been begging for it in Dasong for thirty years, and today someone is finally willing to admit it.

"Prince Shang, there is no need to feel sad. It was not Dasong who was unwilling to help Liuqiu before, but Dasong's inability to do so. If it had been earlier, I would not have dared to agree hastily. Until now, Beidi has withdrawn to the north, and I have nothing to offer." Zhao Xu said.

After a pause, he continued: "Since the emperor has handed over this matter to me, I promise to help you restore Ryukyu to the country."

"Really?" Shang Bin was overjoyed and sat up from his chair.

Zhao Xu gave Shang Bin an affirmative look, "But don't be impatient, we have to wait for a few more months."

Japan's behavior in Dasong stirred up the troubled waters, arousing the extreme anger in his heart.

He will never allow contemporary history to repeat itself in this world.

According to the memory in my mind, in contemporary times, the location of Ryukyu Kingdom also existed as a Han country.

And it has always been a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty.

However, after being occupied by the Japanese state, the Japanese state forced the Han country to use the Japanese calendar and stopped paying tribute to the Qing Dynasty.

In the mid-19th century, Japan officially incorporated it into its territory, and this is today's Okinawa.

"I have been waiting for thirty years, how can I care about a few months." Shang Bin trembled with excitement, "As long as Your Highness can help me restore Ryukyu to the country, Ryukyu is willing to pay tribute to Your Highness from generation to generation."

From Zhao Heng's attitude, he could tell that Emperor Dasong had no authority at all in Yanzhou.

The real speaker is this King Yan.

Otherwise, if Zhao Heng said this before, he would only think it was pushback.

Now that Zhao Heng said this, he came running.

"In this case, Prince Shang only needs to wait peacefully in Yancheng." Zhao Xu nodded lightly.

Shang Bin responded yes, with King Yan's guarantee, there was no need to say anything more.

He saluted Zhao Xu, turned around and left.

After Shang Bin's figure disappeared, Zhao Xu looked to the right side of Da Song's map, which was a world map he drew.

On the map, Ryukyu Kingdom is like a chain.

Connected with Dongying and Yizhou, this chain extends from Goryeo to Yizhou, almost the length of most of Dasong's maritime territory.

In contemporary times, a certain country has used these island chains to create a string of pearls strategy.

Now, he coincides with this magnificent era, and he will naturally not allow Japan to annex these offshore islands.

"It's September now. The twenty-four warships of the Ship Division will be launched by the end of the year. By then, the Black Shark pirates will be able to walk sideways in the Dasong waters." Zhao Xu murmured.

He didn't agree to Shang Bin immediately because he was considering this factor.

Japan is very cunning, and it also involved the French people in this trade deal with the Han family.

According to the news sent back by Zhou Yi, the warships of their Black Shark Fleet had already encountered the warships of the Fo Langji.

Zhou Yi also specifically mentioned that he was holding a telescope and saw a general on the Folangji battleship opposite him looking at him with a telescope.

In addition to Fo Langjiren, the information Tianxianglou gave him last time mentioned a conversation between two Japanese people.

The Japanese have been preaching his threat to the Western countries.

Therefore, in addition to the Folangji people, he could not guarantee whether there would be other warships from the Western Kingdoms participating in the trade in the future.

But obviously faced with this problem, the only way to solve it is to build ships.

Moreover, after these battleships are launched, he will stop the construction of sail battleships, and instead let Chen Shou develop steam sail battleships, followed by small steam merchant ships and the like.

Time waits for no one.

Japan's dazzling operation this time obviously wanted to act as a vicious dog for the colonists to bite Dasong in the East.

I even want to use this to gain further trust from the Western countries and get all the benefits.

Facing the increasingly crazy Japan, he could only let his fleet break Japan's legs.

Let them end up like Korea.

And just a month later, his position became even firmer.

Because beside Yanzhou's bed, a Qi country appeared.