Chapter 124 Zhao Mingdeng
"Okay, it's so great!" After hearing what Tang Paul said, the Zheng family and his son answered in unison.
In the past, Zheng Xi was still worried about his identity, whether he was a Ryukyu or a Ming Dynasty person. After listening to these four points, he was completely not worried.
I was born as a person from the Ming Dynasty, and death as a person from the Ming Dynasty, and no one can change it!
The reason is nothing. The four major demands put forward by Paul Tang are highly consistent with the interests of the Kumi tribe!
Although the thirty-six Fujianese have been living in Ryukyu for nearly 200 years and have been highly respected in Zhongshan Kingdom, and have been promoted to the Kumi clan as a whole and become part of the ruling class. However, the indigenous princes and gentry always regard them as outsiders in their hearts. For example, the fief given to them on Kumi Island, which was overseas, never allowed them to hold military power, and let them live in Kumi village rather than in the royal city, etc.
Of course, this is also related to their own strong sense of the arrogant people in the Celestial Kingdom and their unwillingness to regard themselves as Ryukyu people. In Jiumi Village, they built ancestral temples and religious temples, used the language of the Ming Dynasty to teach the Ming culture, wore the Ming Dynasty clothes, and uphold the customs of the Ming Dynasty. They kept their clans together and basically did not intermarry with Ryukyu people... They had no intention of integrating themselves, so why should they ask others to treat them as their true self?
In fact, the two sides were able to live in peace all the time because of the dependence of Zhongshan on the Ming Dynasty. The Kumisen monopolized the tribute of Ryukyu and naturally became invincible. But being unbeaten does not mean victory, and people and things that are not against them, making them uncomfortable are everywhere.
This "Naba Massacre" is a living example - although the King of Zhongshan has always handed over the Naba officials in charge of Naba Port to the Kumigens' hereditary, they never allowed them to interfere with the north and south fortresses of Naba Port.
Moreover, among the Ryukyu gentry, there are quite a number of pro-Japanese sects. This is what makes the Zheng family and son hate the most. Those people assist the Japanese infiltration of cultural, religious and economics in Ryukyu, which will not only affect the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty in Ryukyu, but may also attract the covetousness of evil wolves.
Now Mr. Zhao wants to hand over all Naha Port and its surrounding spheres of influence to the Kumi tribe. He also needs to eliminate the poison in Japan in Ryukyu. He comprehensively promotes Chinese education, completely consolidates the orthodox status of the Ming Dynasty, and begins to actively assimilate Ryukyu. Is this the Kumi tribe's dream all along?
Anyway, Zheng Zhui has decided to fight for "Zhao Sizhao" for the rest of his life!
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The happy time passed quickly. Before he knew it, noon came, a man in a black police robe came in and leaned into Tang Youde's ear and said a few words.
Tang Youde nodded slightly, then smiled and introduced to the Zheng family's father and son, "This is Deputy Chief Huang next to our young master. He was ordered to invite the two of you to have lunch with the young master."
The father and son were flattered when they heard this, and quickly greeted Huang Xiaohu. Huang Xiaohu was in a serious manner. After nodding to greet the two, he reached out to invite him and said, "Please, please, two distinguished guests, the young master is waiting for you."
"Okay, hurry up." With the 'Zhao Sizhao', the Zheng family and his son were able to put their positions in a particularly correct position. They quickly followed the two out of the camp and went to a cape that was poking out of the sea in the back mountain.
Zhao Hao placed the banquet at the highest point of the cape, where the scenery was very good. Looking at the vast sea and sky, people's minds would become bigger.
Moreover, the typhoon just passed, the temperature was not high, and the sea breeze was blowing on the face, so it would not be hot at all.
So under the parasol on the high ground of the cape, they met the amiable Mr. Zhao.
As soon as they saw Zhao Hao, the Zheng family father and son immediately knelt down and apologized, saying that their family had not taken good care of the young master's subordinates and killed so many children from the Ming Dynasty. They deserved to be killed.
"Okay. The matter has been investigated clearly, and the responsibility is not on you. You don't care about defense, and there is no army, so you can't force you." Zhao Hao generously helped Zheng Zhaozuo up and sighed, "It's my fault. I think they are too good. I thought Ryukyu was a powerful vassal in the sea, and he has never been bad for many years. It's no problem to protect the safety of the merchants and fleets of the Celestial Dynasty. I didn't expect that they were so unbearable that they could let the Japanese pirates burn, kill and loot under the capital city, come and go freely, and they were really rotten from the inside to the outside!"
"Yes." Zheng Zhaozuo was busy focusing on the key points. He was also an old fox. Naturally, he knew that Mr. Zhao's purpose of characterizing this was to reshuffle Zhongshan. "The young man also hated Zhongshan's current situation. Unfortunately, my thirty-six surnames of Fujian are outsiders after all, and no one listened to his loyal words. Instead, he would be jealous and felt that we wanted to turn against each other."
"What are these words?" Zhao Hao asked the father and son to sit next to the long table with a blue sea tablecloth, pointing to the snow-white beach, clear sea water and beautiful coral reefs in the bay and said, "Did this belong to them originally? What did King Shangyuan bring his three thousand royal soldiers to do? Do you inspect?"
"He came to quell the rebellion. What the young master said was that the Amami Islands and the Xian Island Islands were originally owned by their own masters. It was not until the generation of King Shangyuan's grandfather that Zhongshan Kingdom laid the foundation for today's territory through continuous conquests." Zheng Zhaozuo hurriedly continued: "Actually, even their kings are fakes!
Then he lowered his voice and said, "The previous royal family was abandoned by the gentry because of his innocence. Now King Shangyuan's great-grandfather is called Jinmaru, who was actually a powerful minister at that time. After becoming the new king, he was afraid that the state would not agree, so he succeeded to the throne, so he changed his name to Shang Taijiu, lied that he was the king's brother and asked for a title, and then he got the title of King Zhongshan. This matter is not a secret in Ryukyu, but it was just that the state had been hiding it from the state."
After saying that, Zheng Zhaozuo bowed his head ashamed and said, "At that time, Jinmaru was worried that the people from Kumi Village would report him, so he promised to pay great benefits. For example, he promoted the thirty-six surnames of Fujian people to gentry, gave us the Naha Port forever, and no longer restricted our quota for official careers, etc.... In exchange for us to remain silent. Now, I think about it, I really forgot my righteousness when I see profit, and I feel extremely ashamed!"
"Oh, this cannot be considered to be forgetting the righteousness when you see profit. You have not harmed the interests of the Ming Dynasty. It is understandable to seize the opportunity to greatly improve your own situation!" Zhao Hao waved his hand and said, "This incident just shows that the so-called orthodoxy cannot always guarantee the legitimacy of rule. In fact, where does the legitimacy of rule come from? It comes from being able to lead the people to live a good life. Whoever can lead the people to live a good life is the legal ruler, and everything else is nonsense!"
Mr. Zhao's outrageous remarks made the father and son frightened, but I think he should be talking about the King of Ryukyu...
Zhao Hao said as he pointed to a few cycad trees not far away, and laughed jokingly: "I heard in China that the King of Ryukyu was looking for reasons during the day to cheat money from the Ming Dynasty... Oh no, I paid tribute. At night, I dreamed of standing on three mountains to conquer the world."
When Zheng's father and son heard this, they couldn't help laughing. Unexpectedly, the arrogant and obsessed behavior of King Yelang of Ryukyu was spread to the Ming Dynasty. It's ridiculous that they thought they were far away and no one knew what they were doing on the island.
"As for the people of Ryukyu, they collect the fruits of cycads during the day and grind them into powder to satisfy their hunger. At night, they dream of going out to sea to make a living with the ship and escape from this 'cycad hell'." But Zhao Hao said again.
The father and son suddenly had a gloomy face, and Zheng Zhaozuo sighed: "I didn't expect that the young master knew Ryukyu so much that he even knew the 'Cyrus Hell'."
The so-called cycad is also called banana leaf palm. Flower seeds contain a lot of starch, which can replace flour to satisfy hunger after being ground into powder. However, flower seeds contain toxins. If improper treatment is used, it is easy to cause food poisoning. Sometimes tragedy of eczema will die from accidental eccads. Moreover, it is difficult for ordinary people to remove the wood fibers. Therefore, eating too much of this product can easily bloat, which will make people live to break their intestines.
The environment of Ryukyu is harsh, agriculture is backward, and the gap between the rich and the poor is huge. Only the gentry and rich people can eat rice all year round. When ordinary people encounter famines, they have to rely on iron to satisfy their hunger. Some poor people even rely on iron to live on iron to survive all year round, so people often die on the streets as they walk. Therefore, it is called the "Iron Hell".
Of course, at most, it can only be considered the first level of hell. When the Japanese come and suck blood from Ryukyu every year, Ryukyu people will understand what the eighteen levels of hell is.
"This shows that Ryukyu indigenous peoples are very incompetent in governing the country." Zhao Hao knocked on the table and said in a stressful tone: "As the representatives of the Ming Dynasty in Ryukyu, you have the obligation to save the people of Ryukyu from suffering and lead them to live a good life! I believe that when the people no longer have to rely on iron to satisfy their hunger in the future, everyone will recognize your governance. No one can shake your legitimacy!"
The father and son were thrusting their bloodlines when they heard it, and they felt that the road ahead became extremely clear and bright!
We are not traitors of Ryukyu. We are in order to lead the people of Ryukyu to live a good life and turn Ryukyu into an overseas fairyland of the Ming Dynasty!
Zheng Zhaozuo focused his head and stood up to salute Zhao Hao again and said, "Old and the thirty-six surnames of Fujian, swear to follow the young master to the death, and follow the young master's leader!"
Zheng Hui also followed his father and kowtowed to Zhao Hao happily.
"Okay, then we are completely our own people." Zhao Hao happily helped Zheng Zhaozuo up again and gave them peace of mind: "Welcome to join the Jiangnan Group family. In the future, we just need to do things with peace of mind. Our Jiangnan Group is open and upright, talking about a flower blooming alone, not spring, and a hundred flowers blooming in spring. Wherever the group goes, we will benefit you, and we will never do the thing of killing chickens and getting eggs. We hope that everyone will share prosperity and create a beautiful prosperous era! This prosperous era is not a carnival of the powerful and powerful people with wine and meat, and frozen bones on the road. It is a kind of harmony in the world that has a place to live, a young person has a place to grow, and a widow, a widow, a lonely, a disabled person has a place to raise!"
After many trials, Mr. Zhao's incitement ability has become at the level of a pyramid scheme master. His righteous remarks made Zheng Zhaozuo completely relieved. He even made Zheng Hui's eyes red with excitement. He felt that he had a goal in his life - that is, to follow Mr. Zhao and strive for the realization of harmony in the world for the rest of his life! There is no regret in death!
Chapter completed!