Chapter 846: A String of Pearls in the East China Sea
From the moment Lin Mu landed, after seeing the docile expressions of the Japanese people on the pier, he unknowingly straightened his waist.
"Mr. Lin, please get in the car."
The little banner officer who received him greeted him to get on an ox cart and headed slowly towards the capital.
Along the way, Lin Mu saw those Japanese people working in the fields honestly, some of them were carrying burdens, and there were even wheelbarrows that he had never seen before going back and forth on this road.
"This is already Daming's territory."
Officer Xiaoqi proudly said: "All the people in Yingzhou who are literate must re-learn, from now on here they must speak Ming dialect and write Ming characters, and when the deadline is up, if there are still people who can't learn it, they have to do hard work. "
Lin Mu asked curiously, "What about those common people? Do they also want to learn Daming dialect?"
"Of course." The little flag official said confidently: "It's said above, the next step is to let everyone learn Daming dialect, and try to forget the ugly Japanese dialect within 20 years."
"Twenty years!"
Lin Mu recalled the time when his family moved from Fujian to Ryukyu, and he couldn't help sighing: "I used to think that Daming is far away, but now Daming is by my side, it's great!"
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The next morning, when Lin Mu arrived in the capital city, he was surprised to find that it had become a large construction site.
"A city will be built here, and it will be called Penglai in the future."
The little flag officer went to negotiate with people, and soon returned to the cart, and the ox cart just entered Penglai City.
Three sacred mountains in the East China Sea, Yingzhou, Penglai, and Abbot.
Now the country of Wa is named Yingzhou, and the capital of Kyoto is renamed Penglai, which makes Lin Mu feel a bit cloudy and foggy.
The bullock cart stopped outside a compound, the little flag officer got off the cart and said a few words to the sergeant guarding the gate, then turned around and waved: "Mr. Lin, follow them in."
"Thank you for taking care of me all the way."
Lin Mu bowed his hands in thanks, and then followed the sergeant into the compound.
Walking all the way, stopped outside the front hall, and then the sergeant went in to report.
Lin Mu was a little nervous,
His trip is supposed to be illegal, but he has to come.
After waiting for a while, the sergeant came out and said, "Mr. Lin, please come in. Your Highness, Xing and Bo are here."
Lin Mu went in cautiously, glanced at the two people sitting above him, didn't dare to look closely, and hurriedly saluted.
"stand up."
Zhu Zhanji sat upright and asked, "Are you here for something important?"
Lin Mu said nervously: "Your Highness, little... little..."
"Don't panic, relax, His Highness won't order someone to beat you, yes."
Fang Xing comforted with a smile.
"Your Highness, the three countries of the Ryukyu Kingdom have been training their troops recently, and the younger ones are worried that they will be involved in the chaos, so I beg Your Highness to allow me to take refuge temporarily."
Zhu Zhanji was stunned, looked at Fang Xing, and said, "You can rest assured, the Ming army is on the side of the Ryukyu. If they dare to attack you, they will naturally seek their own death."
Lin Mu blinked, and said in surprise, "Your Highness, but...the three kingdoms of the Ryukyu Kingdom all have the canonization of the Ming Dynasty!"
Fang Xing covered his head and smiled wryly. In the past, Daming was so kind to the vassal state that even his own people lost confidence. He felt that once an accident happened, Daming would definitely not care about them.
Zhu Zhanji was also a little embarrassed. He frowned and said, "When you go back, there will be an embassy with you. After that, you can live freely in Ryukyu. If someone provokes you, Master Wang will be there in no time."
Seeing that Lin Mu was still hesitant, Fang Xing smiled and said, "The Wa Kingdom has been destroyed, does the little Ryukyu dare to disobey Daming? Don't worry, I will go with the mission in a few days, and let the Ryukyu people see Daming by the way." majesty."
Daming's majesty?
Lin Mu followed the people out in a daze. In the next few days, someone took him around Penglai City, but the temple was not among them.
Three days later, Lin Mu boarded the boat with the three missionaries and went all the way to Ryukyu.
Seen from the East China Sea, the Ryukyu Islands can only be regarded as a small place, and the small ones cannot be smaller.
But the location of Ryukyu is very important.
From Yingzhou to Liuqiu, and then to Xiaoliuqiu, this string of large and small islands is a line of defense at sea, a line of defense like a chain of pearls.
At the same time, it can also be used as an important offensive base.
It is said that it is a mission, the leader is Wang He, followed by Jia Quan, and a bodyguard is brought together.
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In Naha, when the huge figure of the treasure ship appeared on the seashore, before the Ryukyu people noticed it, the thirty-six Han people on the small island rushed out.
"It's Daming, it's Master Wang!"
Wang He and others on the boat were about to go ashore in a small boat, but they couldn't help hesitating when they saw the crazy crowd rushing towards the shore.
"Who are those people?"
Jia Quan saw a few gray-haired old men running stumbling, but still refused to stop. One of them fell on the beach, and two young men went to help him, but he slapped him away, then got up and continued to run.
There were tears in Lin Mu's eyes: "Those are all thirty-six surnames who migrated from Fujian back then. Every family in our family enshrines the tablets of their ancestors and worships them on time. I just wish I couldn't return home."
Wang He was surprised, and then moved: "Your wanderer! You are still a wanderer who left his hometown for the sake of Ming Dynasty!"
A few people hurried ashore in a small boat, and Wang He got a little anxious when he got off the boat, and almost got a shit on the soft sand.
After stabilizing his body, Wang He helped one old man up, and then went to help another one, but when he turned around, he saw that the old man who had just got up knelt down again.
"The old man saw the big boat before, and it looked like this. How many years has it been? How many years!"
Seeing the old man howling and crying, Jia Quan felt a little sad.
As a bodyguard who was born in Jinyiwei, Jia Quan thought he was numb after seeing too much life and death, joys and sorrows.
But today, seeing the cloudy tears and the white foam at the corners of his mouth because of shouting, he was sad.
Wang He helped up this kneeling, helped up that kneeling, sweating profusely from being tossed, and finally had no choice but to say: "Our family came here on the order of His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun, and everyone got up."
Only then did these people get up, and then stood respectfully.
Wang He coughed dryly and said: "Your Highness heard that there was some commotion here, so he was worried that our people would suffer, so he asked our family to come and take a look. By the way, I would like to warn these natives, our Daming people are precious! No one is allowed to mess around! Otherwise Master Wang is in Yingzhou, and he will arrive in no time to destroy this court food!"
"Eunuch, is this true?"
An old man asked excitedly, his body was still trembling, his children and grandchildren hurried forward to support him.
Wang He stared and said: "Why is it not true? His Highness said this himself, with Xing and Bo beside him, who dares to talk nonsense?"
"But that Demon God?"
An old man with poor eyesight asked blankly, and the children and grandchildren beside him stamped anxiously, and then hurriedly apologized to Wang He.
"The little thing is... Last year, I heard someone say that Daming had a demon god who specialized in killing Japanese pirates, and piled up a mountain of heads to roll the heads of those Japanese pirates. That's great! This is Daming! You must go to Xunxing Hebo and fight under his old man's command!"