Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 370 Whereabouts
"No, no, you don't know how envious Gu was when he heard that Brother Sanhuang was named King Wu. I didn't expect Gu to have the opportunity to become an overseas vassal king. Thank you for this." Zhu Changhao said to Zhang Qingfeng Thanks for saying.

Compared with being a vassal king in the Ming Dynasty and being imprisoned in one place for the rest of his life, Zhu Changhao would rather go overseas and become a king.

Although the overseas countries may not be as wealthy as the Ming Dynasty, they are very free. They can do whatever they want, and they can have their own citizens, officials and troops. .

"Your Highness came to see me today, did you want me to do something?" Zhang Qingfeng asked Zhu Changhao.

"No, I came to Palm Print to ask what I need to prepare before becoming a vassal?" Zhu Changhao asked Zhang Qingfeng.

"Get ready." Hearing Zhu Changhao's words, Zhang Qingfeng thought for a while and said, "Actually, Your Highness doesn't need to prepare anything. I will arrange everything properly for Your Highness."

Zhang Qingfeng said: "There will be an army of 1 people going to Ryukyu with Your Highness. By then, these troops will be Your Highness's private army. I hope His Highness will treat these soldiers and their families well, because if there is a rebellion in Ryukyu or something, Your Highness still needs to use these troops to counter the rebellion."

"It's natural, it's natural." Zhu Changhao nodded quickly.

He didn't expect that he would be able to lead [-] troops with only Fan Liuqiu, and the smile on his face couldn't stop.

"Also, although Ryukyu is an overseas island, because of its geographical location, its prosperity is no worse than some places in the south of the Yangtze River. Your Highness, don't have the mentality of being assigned."

"No, no." Zhu Changhao waved his hand quickly.

Zhang Qingfeng continued: "Your Highness will work hard to make Ryukyu stronger after becoming the king of Ryukyu, so as not to be bullied by the small country of Japan. Although Ming is powerful, it is impossible to endlessly help overseas vassal states."

"These people understand alone, understand alone." Zhu Changhao nodded repeatedly.

Zhu Changhao is 1 willing to settle down in Ryukyu, because he has also heard about the prosperity of Ryukyu.

Ryukyu is located in the middle of Ming Dynasty and Japan, so Ryukyu plays an important role as a transit point in the trade between China and Japan.

In ancient times, Ryukyu was known as "Tianjin Liang of all nations", which shows how rich and prosperous it is. Zhu Changluo has nothing to say if he can just come here.

"Since Your Highness has found me, I have to mention something to Your Highness." Zhang Qingfeng said to Zhu Changhao.

"Tell me about the palm print." Zhu Changhao quickly answered.

"As far as the matter of the feudal clan is concerned, it should be sooner rather than later, so as to avoid accidents." Zhang Qingfeng said to Zhu Changhao.

"What does the palm print mean?"

"What I mean is very simple. Your Highness can rule Ryukyu sooner with the army there. Ryukyu is no better than His Royal Highness King Wu's Taiwan Island." Zhang Qingfeng said to Zhu Changhao.

"Gu understands." Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's words, Zhu Changhao nodded and said: "Gu will ask the father to let Gu become a vassal as soon as possible."

Afterwards, the two communicated for a while before Zhu Changhao bid farewell and left.

Seeing off Zhu Changhao, Zhang Qingfeng was thoughtful.

Although Zhu Changhao is young, he has his own opinions. Fortunately, he can listen to other people's opinions. I hope he can cooperate with me in a tacit understanding.

On Daming's side, it is impossible for Zhang Qingfeng to control the power of Daming for at least ten years. Although Emperor Wanli did nothing, he controlled the power extremely strictly.

A great eunuch like Wei Zhongxian who could exert power for a while was impossible to appear when Emperor Wanli was still alive.

So Zhang Qingfeng naturally had to look overseas.

Here, after listening to Zhang Qingfeng's advice, Zhu Changhao asked Emperor Wanli to let him take over as soon as possible when he returned.

This time Zhu Changluo became the domain, all arrangements were made by Zhang Qingfeng.

In addition to Zhu Changhao taking away some of the eunuchs and maids around him, Zhang Qingfeng also selected a group of self-trained eunuchs from the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau to follow Zhu Changhao.

At the same time, Zhang Qingfeng selected hundreds of students who graduated from Daming University of Technology and some craftsmen from the manufacturing bureau to go to Ryukyu.

Their task is mainly to develop some simple industries in Ryukyu.

Because there were no scholars who were willing to become officials in Ryukyu, an overseas place, Zhang Qingfeng directly selected some factory executives from the Manufacturing Bureau.

After they arrive in Ryukyu, they will become local officials of Ryukyu.

Zhu Changhao took all the time to prepare for the feudal Ryukyu, but he still had to prepare for more than two months before leaving.

More than two months later, Zhu Changluo took more than 1 heavily armed troops, various craftsmen, doctors, students, and tens of thousands of family members, as well as various supplies and money, and left the capital in a mighty Cao transport boat.

Zhang Qingfeng's arrangement was that Zhu Changhao first use the canal to go to the south of the Yangtze River, and then recruited the imperial navy ships from the south of the Yangtze River to transport tens of thousands of people to the Ryukyu Island.

The Daming Navy has more than 3000 large ships. Although most of them are inland ships, there are hundreds of sea-going ships.

Hundreds of sea ships are fully capable of transporting everyone to the Ryukyu country several times.

Just when Zhu Changluo went to Ryukyu to become a vassal, Japan at this time also learned the news.

"What, Daming sent the prince to rule Ryukyu?"

Hearing this news, even Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had passed the throne to his son, was a little uneasy.

The attack on Ryukyu was ordered by the Tokugawa shogunate for the Satsuma domain, with the purpose of annexing Ryukyu, a wealthy place, and providing Japan with long-term wealth.

Now, Daming actually directly appointed a Zhu family prince to be the king of Ryukyu, which ruined everyone's plans.

"Father, are we going to send troops to stop it?" Dekang Hidetada asked his father Tokugawa Ieyasu.

"Send troops? How to send troops? Do you want to learn from Toyotomi Hideyoshi and fight with the Ming Dynasty for a few more years, and then wait for my Tokugawa family's strength to be severely damaged so that others can replace it?" Tokugawa Ieyasu asked his son Tokugawa Hidetada.

"Son understands." Hearing Tokugawa Ieyasu's words, Tokugawa Hidetada nodded to express his understanding.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a figure who unified Japan and briefly ended Japan's Warring States Period, which lasted for more than 100 years.

However, because of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ambitions, after several years of war with Daming in Korea, the strength of the Toyotomi family was greatly damaged, and then declined rapidly, and then Tokugawa Ieyasu rose.

Historically, after Tokugawa Ieyasu completely defeated the Toyotomi Clan in a few years, Japan would be truly unified, ending the Warring States Period in Japan, and entering the Edo Shogunate period that lasted more than 200 years.

At this time, the Tokugawa family had no way to deal with the Ming Dynasty extending its tentacles to the Ryukyu Kingdom.

If they fight Daming to death, it is very likely that the Tokugawa family will become the second Toyotomi family in the end.

"General, good news."

Just then, an excited voice came from outside.

"What good news." Tokugawa Hidetada walked out quickly and stopped the person who reported the news.

"General, there is news from Satsuma that the King of Ryukyu has arrived in Japan." The person who reported said loudly to Tokugawa Hidetada.

After speaking, he handed over a letter: "This is a letter written by Tadahiro Shimadzu to the general."

(End of this chapter)