Chapter 846 A String of Pearls in the East China Sea
From the moment Lin Mu landed, after seeing the gentle expressions of the Japanese on the pier, he unknowingly straightened his waist.
"Mr. Lin, please get in the car."
The small flag officer who received him greeted him with an ox cart and slowly headed towards Kyoto.
Along the way, Lin Mu saw those Japanese working honestly in the fields, some carrying loads, and even wheelbarrows that they had never seen before were traveling back and forth on this road.
"This is already the territory of the Ming Dynasty."
The little flag official said proudly: "All people who know how to read in Yingzhou must learn again. In the future, we must speak the Daming language and write the Daming word. Once the deadline comes, if there are still people who cannot learn, they must do cool labor."
Lin Mu said curiously: "Where are those people? Do you also need to learn the Ming Dynasty?"
"Of course." The little flag official said confidently: "Above said, the next step is to let everyone learn the Ming Dynasty and strive to forget the unpleasant Japanese language within twenty years."
"Twenty years!"
Lin Mu remembered the time when his family moved from Fujian to Ryukyu, and couldn't help but sigh: "In the past, I always thought the Ming Dynasty was far away, but now the Ming Dynasty is around, which is great!"
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The next morning, when Lin Mu arrived at Kyoto City, he was surprised to find that it had become a large construction site.
"The city is going to be built here, and it will be called Penglai in the future."
The little flag official went to negotiate with the people and soon returned to the cart, and the ox cart entered Penglai City.
The Three Sacred Mountains of the East China Sea, Yingzhou, Penglai, and Abbot.
Now that Japan is named Yingzhou, Kyoto is renamed Penglai, Lin Mu feels a little confused.
The ox cart stopped outside a courtyard. The little flag officer got out of the car and said a few words to the sergeant guarding the gate, then turned around and waved, "Mr. Lin, you can follow them in here."
"Thank you for taking care of me all the way."
Lin Mu bowed to thank him, and then followed the sergeant into the courtyard.
Walking all the way, he stopped outside the front hall, and then the sergeant went in to report.
Lin Mu was a little nervous. His trip was a violation of regulations, but he had to come.
After waiting for a while, the soldier came out and said, "Mr. Lin, please come in, your highness, Xing and Bo are here."
Lin Mu went in carefully, glanced at the two people sitting in the upper head, and didn't dare to look closely, so he hurriedly bowed.
"Get up."
Zhu Zhanji sat down a little and asked, "Do you have something important to you here?"
Lin Mu said nervously: "Your Highness, the little one... the little one..."
"Don't panic, relax, your highness won't order anyone to hit you, right?"
Fang Xing smiled and comforted him.
"Your Highness, the three kingdoms of Ryukyu have been training their troops recently. The young people are worried that they will be implicated in the chaos, so they beg your highness to let us avoid it for the time being."
Zhu Zhanji was stunned, looked at Fang Xing, and then said, "Wait and feel at ease. The Ming army is right next to Ryukyu. If they dare to attack you, they will naturally seek death."
Lin Mu blinked his eyes and said in surprise: "Your Highness, but... the three kingdoms of Ryukyu have all enfeoffed Ming Dynasty!"
Fang Xing covered his head and smiled bitterly. The Ming Dynasty used to be so nice to the vassal states that even his own people lost their confidence, and felt that if an accident happened, the Ming Dynasty would definitely not care about them.
Zhu Zhanji was also a little embarrassed. He frowned and said, "When you go back, there will be a delegation to follow you. From now on, you can live as you wait in Ryukyu. If someone provokes you, the king will arrive in an instant."
Seeing that Lin Mu was still hesitant, Fang Xing laughed and said, "The Kingdom of Japan has been destroyed. Does the small Ryukyu dare to disobey the Ming Dynasty? Don't worry, follow the mission in a few days and let the Ryukyu people see the majesty of the Ming Dynasty."
The majesty of the Ming Dynasty?
Lin Mu followed the people out in a daze. In the following days, someone took him around Penglai City, but the temple was not included.
Three days later, Lin Mu followed the three men on board the boat and went all the way to Ryukyu.
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 Ryukyu, and then to Xiaoliuqiu, this string of islands is a sea line of defense, a pearl chain-like defense line.
It can also be used as an important offensive base.
It was said that it was a mission, but Wang He was the leader, followed by Jia Quan, and he would be considered a life of one another.
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Naha, when the huge figure of the treasure ship appeared on the beach, before the Ryukyu people discovered it, the thirty-six Han people on the island had already rushed out.
"It's the Ming Dynasty, the King's Army!"
Wang He and others on the boat were about to go ashore on the boat, but they could not help but hesitate when they saw those crazy crowds running towards the shore.
"Who are those?"
Jia Quan saw several old men with white hair stumbled, but he still refused to stop. One of them fell on the beach, and two young men went to help him, and he slapped him away, and then got up and continued running.
Lin Mu's eyes were filled with tears: "Those are the thirty-six surnames who moved from Fujian back then. Each of our families enshrines the tablets of our ancestors and worship them on time, and they just wish they could not return home."
Wang He was surprised and then said with emotion: "You are a wanderer! You are still a wanderer who left his hometown for the sake of the Ming Dynasty!"
Several people quickly took a small boat to get ashore. Wang He was a little anxious when he got off the boat, and almost got a dog chewing shit on the soft beach.
After stabilizing his body, Wang He helped one old man up and then went to help another. But when he turned around, he saw the old man who had just gotten up kneeling down again.
"I saw a big ship back then, and it looked like this. How many years have you been? How many years have you been!"
Seeing the old man crying loudly, Jia Quan felt a little sad.
As a guard who was born in the Jinyiwei, Jia Quan felt that he had been numb when he saw many separations of life and death, and sorrows.
But today he saw the turbid tears and the foam that arose from the shouting of his mouth, but he was sad.
Wang He helped this and that kneel up, and he was sweating profusely. In the end, he had no choice but to say, "Our family has come to the order of His Royal Highness the Emperor and everyone should get up."
These people then stood up and stood respectfully.
Wang He coughed dryly and said, "Your Highness heard that there was a little trouble here, and he was worried that our people would suffer losses, so he asked our family to come and take a look. By the way, I would like to remind these natives that our Ming people are precious! No one is allowed to do anything! Otherwise, the king will be in Yingzhou and will arrive in an instant, destroying this court food!"
"Father-in-law, is this true?"
An old man asked excitedly, his body trembling a little, scaring his children and grandchildren quickly stepped forward to support him.
Wang He glared and said, "Why isn't it true? This is what Your Highness said in person. Xing and Bo are there next to him. Who dares to talk nonsense?"
"But that demon?"
An old man with poor eyes asked blankly, his children and grandchildren around him stomped their feet in a hurry, and then quickly apologized to Wang He.
Chapter completed!