Domineering Daming

At the same time, she is also very clear that she is a nobleman raised by Meixianglou, and she will be sold anyway, and everything is out of her hands.

Big brother is always better than that old grandpa.

The little girl thought so, lightly twisted her dress, and said crisply: "Xiang Jun thank you, son."

"Xiang Jun?" Zhu Xu was startled, and immediately said, "Your surname is Li?"

The little girl blinked and said, "My surname is Wu."

"Oh." Zhu Xu breathed a sigh of relief but was a little disappointed, and said with a smile, "Go, I'll let your sister-in-law take you to redeem yourself."

The little girl looked at Zhu Xu seriously with a small face, and said in a crisp voice: "Young master's kindness today, Xiang Jun will never forget it, and in the future, he will be a grass knot ring."

Zhu Xu was the emperor, and he didn't need a little girl to repay him. He smiled and turned to go ashore.

Bumbutai came soon, and already understood what Zhu Xu meant, so he took her across the bridge and walked to the other side.

Cao Huachun looked at the backs of Bumbutai's group, approached and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, King Shangfeng asks to see you again."

Zhu Xu took a look at him, and the folding fan was slapping the back of his right hand lightly, with a thoughtful look on his face.

King Shang Feng asked to see him yesterday, but Zhu Xu refused on the grounds of being "fatigued". Today is the third time he has asked to see him.

Zhu Xu was intentionally suppressing King Shangfeng to make him anxious for the next negotiation.

After thinking for a while, looking at the sky, he said: "Well, let him have a meal with me later, and the dishes will be simpler."

Cao Huachun said: "Follow the order."

Cao Huachun left, Zhu Xu squinted his eyes, and the folding fan behind him was still beating gently.

Ryukyu is a key link in the first island chain. He will never allow Japan to annex Ryukyu, but it is not easy to annex Ryukyu "naturally". , many things will be difficult to handle later.

Zhu Xu deliberated on the words to negotiate with King Shangfeng, and walked back slowly along the Qinhuai River.

After a while, he exhaled lightly, and with an outline in mind, he asked, "Where is the fleet now?"

Cao Bianjiao stepped forward and said, "We have already passed Shangqiu, and it will take half a month to arrive."

Zhu Xu shook his folding fan and said: "I can't wait any longer, take a carriage, take the official road, prepare as soon as possible, I will leave in two days, by the way, Zhejiang is not stopping, the action must be fast and secret."

Cao Bianjiao cupped his fists and said, "Observe the order!"

Zhu Xu opened the folding fan and continued to walk forward. The matter in Nanzhili had come to an end. He wanted to put aside these things and rush to Fujian as soon as possible.

Before Zhu Xu returned to the small building next to the barracks, Bumbutai came back with the little girl. She saluted and said, "My lord, I will bring back the contract. It will cost 100 taels in total."

The little girl looked at Zhu Xu, opened her big eyes, pursed her mouth and said, "My aunt suddenly raised the price."

A middle-aged woman beside her suddenly came over and knelt down, crying, "Thank you for saving me, my lord. The old woman is willing to be a cow and a horse for you, to repay your great kindness!"

Obviously this is the little girl's mother, and she knows good and bad.

Zhu Xu waved his folding fan and said, "Money is nothing, you follow Madam first, and we will make arrangements after returning to Beijing."

The woman kowtowed again and again, stood up in gratitude, took the little girl's hand, and said flatteringly: "It is a blessing from the previous life that Li Xiang met the young master."

Just as Zhu Xu was about to leave, he was startled when he heard the words: "Li Xiang? Isn't her surname Wu?"

The woman looked a little embarrassed, and said immediately: "Don't dare to lie to the young master, the old lady was originally a maidservant of the Wu family, the madam was jealous, and drove us mother and daughter out, so we had to live in Qinhuai. Li Xiang was raised by the seventh sister of Meixianglou. I think it’s fine, so I’ll use it.”

Zhu Xu understands, this "Li Xiang" is a stage name, that is to say, the little girl in front of her is Li Xiangjun, one of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai, and she is still a little girl?

"Accident..."

Zhu Xu smiled in his heart, and then said: "Well, it's okay, you stay here." Then he looked at Bu Mu Butai and said, "Take care of them, Li Xiang is the companion I found for Xiao Yongning."

Bumbutai naturally knew who "Little Yongning" was, nodded slightly, and led the two into the door.

The little girl kept looking at Zhu Xu with her eyes wide open, and turned her head only when she couldn't see him when she entered the door.

Zhu Xu didn't deliberately look for the legendary Qinhuai Bayan, but met one by accident.

Zhu Xu didn't care, he went into the building, learned more about the things in the East China Sea, and waited quietly for King Shangfeng to come to his door.

King Shangfeng came earlier than Zhu Xu expected, but he didn't get close. He brought people along and waited anxiously for the announcement not far away.

"My lord, will the Ming Dynasty really send troops? The Wa Kingdom is also a vassal of the Ming Dynasty..." Among the crowd, a bearded old man in purple asked worriedly to the middle-aged man in royal clothes.

The person in the middle is naturally King Shang Feng, Shang Feng, he frowned, with a resolute look on his face, and said coldly: "The Shimadzu family of the Satsuma domain has already attempted to annex my Ryukyu, and if they want to keep Ryukyu, they can only ask Daming to send troops. There is no other way! If...the Ming Dynasty refuses to send troops, we will submit to the Satsuma Fan, which is nothing more than one more kingdom!"

Chapter 697

King Shangfeng and a group of people stood not far away, all of them looked solemn and their thoughts were heavy.

The current situation in the Wa Kingdom is very strange. The emperor lost power and formed various vassal regimes. The nearest to Ryukyu is the Satsuma domain. The Satsuma domain refused to accept the general who was in power. He fought many times and tried to rescue their emperor, but failed. In the face of many feudal towns, the general was unable to completely eradicate them, so he could only imitate the traitor in the history of the Ming Dynasty, "holding the emperor to command the princes", and barely maintained the situation.

The Satsuma clan couldn't rescue their emperor, and was unable to kill the thief, so they spread their anger on their Ryukyu. They have already captured most of Shanbei. If they are allowed to annex Shanbei completely, then the core of Ryukyu, Zhongshan, is next. Where the capital is!

Shangfeng is in his 40s this year, with a fair complexion. He is the kind of weak scholar who has no great ability, but is quite concerned about the country and the people.

Official positions in Ryukyu, especially high-ranking ones, are basically monopolized by the royal family, so they are generally not called official positions. They are all Wang Shu, Wang Di, etc. This Uncle Wang is the Uncle Wang of King Shangfeng, who is also the Prime Minister of the country, and his name is Shang Lian .

Listening to King Shangfeng's words, Shang Lian nodded and said: "I also saw the military appearance of the Ming Dynasty yesterday, and it is indeed powerful. If the Ming Dynasty sends troops, it will not only guarantee the safety of my Ryukyu, but even destroy the Satsuma Domain with ease!"

King Shangfeng and others were also invited to participate in the military exercise, but their sense of presence was relatively low. Now that they recalled it, they were quite excited, but they still frowned and said: "The Ming Dynasty doesn't like expansion. If they want to, they can capture the entire capital of Wa Kingdom Needless to say, it may not be easy to persuade the Emperor Ming to send troops..."

Shang Lian nodded slightly. This was the trouble. The Ming Dynasty had no interest in going abroad. It was not easy to persuade them to send troops to fight for them.

King Shangfeng felt that the atmosphere around him was a bit depressed, he immediately took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "No matter what, Ryukyu is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and there is a 'common defense agreement', the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has no reason to look at Ryukyu Annexed!"

The people behind him stared slightly slower, but Shang Lian looked at King Shang Feng calmly. That being said, it is actually as difficult as climbing the sky, and the ending can only be known by meeting the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

When King Shangfeng and others were worried, Zhu Xu was reviewing information on Ryukyu and Japan in the study.

Looking at it, Zhu Xu found it interesting.

This menacing Satsuma clan is really amazing. If he remembers correctly, the Satsuma clan was the main force behind the downfall of Japan in later generations, and the backbone of the Meiji Restoration also came from here, forming a big "valley". Affected for hundreds of years, extending to World War II!

This Satsuma domain now occupies a small area and has a small population, but its combat power is quite fierce. It has survived from the Warring States Period of Japan, as one can imagine.

It's just that the Satsuma clan is far away from Edo, and is in the same situation as the Tokugawa family. They are unable to go north and can only go south. Then the weak Ryukyu is naturally the best target for conquest and expansion.

Ryukyu used to be three countries. From north to south, they were Shanbei, Zhongshan, and Shannan. The capital was Zhongshan. Now Shanbei has been swallowed up by the Satsuma clan. It is no wonder that King Shangfeng is so anxious now.

In fact, King Shangfeng has been flirting with the Wa kingdom and the Satsuma clan all the time, and it is not known whether any agreement has been reached. After all, King Shangfeng had been a proton in the Satsuma clan for many years before, so it is obviously not so easy to be released and inherit the throne. Simple!

Zhu Xu looked at the information and tapped his fingers on the table.