Japan's control of Ryukyu relies on the "in-fan" system set up by the Satsuma vassal state in Ryukyu.

The lord of the Satsuma clan was the Shimazu clan. In 1197, Shimazu Tadahiro was appointed as the guardian of Satsuma, Osumi and Hinata by Kamakura shogunate General Genaki. Since then, the Shimazu family has ruled the southern part of Kyushu Island.

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This place is located in the southwestern border of the Japanese archipelago, and is also a volcanic area. The land is barren and the people are poor.

However, the Shimazu family has always had many heroes. During the Warring States Period of Japan, the Satsuma family actively expanded into the central and northern part of Kyushu Island and annexed many small countries.

After Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, he sent troops to conquer the Satsuma clan and reduced the territory of the Satsuma clan from nine countries to two countries.

During the Sekihara Joint Battle, Satsuma once again stood in the wrong team and stood opposite Tokugawa Ieyasu. However, in this battle, the Shimazu clan had extremely high military power, breaking through tens of thousands of Eastern Army with 1,500 people, and killing Naomasa Ii by the way

He and Tadaoki Matsuhei left a psychological shadow in Tokugawa Ieyasu's heart.

From then on, the Satsuma clan became the "external daimyo" of the Tokugawa Shogunate and was suspicious and guarded by the Shogunate.

There are three types of Japanese daimyos, namely the daimyos of relatives, the daimyos of genealogy, and the daimyos of other daimyos.

The vassal daimyo is mainly a relative of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Its fief is in the Kinki area and is well-fed.

The Daming period was mainly a loyal retainer who followed Tokugawa Ieyasu in his early years, including the Daming period who was the former descendant of Hoshihara, who surrendered to Shuntokawa Ieyasu.

The external daime was mainly a daime who was on par with Tokugawa Ieyasu in his early years and was forced to surrender after the war in Sekihara.

The fiefs of the outer daimyo are mostly in barren areas on the border and cannot hold important positions in the shogunate. The system of "alternative residence" must be implemented. The fiefs of the outer daimyos of the country live in the fiefs and half in the shogunate location Edo (now Tokyo),

Rotations every April.

The wife and son of Wakadaming must live in Edo forever, which is like a hostage. The costs incurred by "alternating residence" and the costs of the hostage living in Edo are all borne by Wakadaming.

Therefore, this is a very clever system that can not only weaken the financial resources of the Daimai Dainame, but also enhance the Daimai child's sense of identity with the Edo Shogunate.

Most of the lords of the Satsuma vassal were powerful lords, and most of them were people who were very fond of merit and laid out extravagance. After the fiefdom was cut, the Satsuma vassal was unable to support the huge samurai team and could not maintain a decent daimyo life, so he turned south to invade Ryukyu.

In 1609, the Satsuma clan formally sent troops to Ryukyu and quickly occupied the entire territory of Ryukyu. At the beginning, the Satsuma clan tried to directly rule Ryukyu, and set up institutions such as "Daiguan Office" and "Dasheng Office" in Ryukyu to measure cultivated land. In 1629, "

Adhering to the system in the world.

The so-called "persistence in the foreign countries" refers to the Satsuma lord sending his retainers to the main affiliated islands of the Ryukyu Kingdom to directly control the administration of various places. In this way, Ryukyu became a completely vassal state of the Satsuma lord.

The Tokugawa shogunate also supported the actions of the Satsuma clan. Because the Satsuma clan ordered the Ryukyu king to "Uedo" and asked the Ryukyu king to visit China in accordance with the model of Chinese vassal states to visit China.

In order to deceive the people, the Tokugawa shogunate also asked Ryukyu envoys to wear Ming Dynasty clothes and play Ming Dynasty rituals and music, claiming that China paid tribute to Japan. (After the Ming Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Ryukyu envoys were ordered to wear Qing Dynasty clothes and clothes.)

The Tokugawa shogunate's move publicly demonstrated to China that Japan is equal in diplomacy with China. Letting Ryukyu envoys wear Ming Dynasty clothes to Edo to pay tribute, which even more humiliates China.

The shogunate tried to imitate China to create a "Chinese-Article Order" and establish a new East Asian order centered on Japan. At this time, China was in the late Ming Dynasty, and its national strength was weak and it was unable to suppress Japan's attitude of fighting against each other.

What’s strange is that under the rule of the Satsuma clan, Ryukyu still paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty and regularly paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty. With the Japanese nature of the urinary nature, why is it not forbidden that Ryukyu be tribute to the Ming Dynasty?

Because it can't!

The prosperity of Ryukyu is based on East Asia's maritime trade. East Asia's maritime trade is based on China as the trading center. Most of the trade interests of Ryukyu were achieved through tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty heard that Ryukyu had "one country and two families" secretly paid tribute to Japan, the court was furious. Ye Xianggao, the chief minister of the cabinet at that time, concluded that the Japanese were manipulating Ryukyu's tribute trade and advocated refusing to accept goods tributed by Ryukyu.

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Refusing to accept goods means that trade between China and Ryukyu will be interrupted, which will be a big blow to Ryukyu's economy. In addition, Japan will not be able to benefit from Ryukyu's trade.

Therefore, not only the Ryukyu people were anxious, but the Japanese were also panicked and sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to repair it. Finally, the Ming Dynasty changed the period of Ryukyu's tribute to once every ten years, and then once every five years.

After the Qing Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty, the national strength flourished. On the contrary, the Tokugawa Shogunate became increasingly conservative. Under various opportunities, the control of the Satsuma clan on Ryukyu was greatly weakened, mainly based on economic plunder, and successively withdrew the "official office" [1999].

Administrative organizations such as Dasheng Office.

The "Zaifanxing" set up by the Satsuma clan in Shuri is more like the "trade representative office" of Japan in Ryukyu.

Japan is an agricultural country with sparse arable land, and the Satsuma vassal was a small vassal on the southwest edge. However, the Satsuma vassal was located in the trade representative office of Ryukyu, but it imported a lot of wealth to the Satsuma vassal, making the Satsuma vassal one of the top major vassals in Japan.

The four strong vassals in southwestern Japan, in addition to the Satsuma vassal, are the Changshu vassal, Tosa vassal, and Himemae vassal. The four vassals are located in the southwest of Japan and are geographically close to Ryukyu, and they all benefit from Ryukyu trade.

By the mid-19th century, the Tokugawa shogunate's control over the external vassals was weakened. The four southwestern vassals used their geographical advantages to participate in smuggling trade. They were powerful and were no longer respectful to the Tokugawa clan and had conspiracies to reverse the curtain from time to time.

Therefore, although Ryukyu is small, it is actually related to the future East Asian order. After understanding this, Yang Xuan tried his best to control Ryukyu and expel Japan's influence in Ryukyu.

When John Tang was ordered to go to Ryukyu, he first attacked the "Zaifanxing" set up by the Satsuma vassal state in Ryukyu.

On this day, John Tang and Perry gathered a team to hold a ceremony. The team had more than 350 people, the left wing was the Revolutionary Army, about 100 people, and the right wing had more than 200 people, and the soldiers were selected from Ryukyu soldiers and were officers of the Revolutionary Army.

Training is temporarily commanded by the officers of the Revolutionary Army.

Maxiu Perry also brought a fifty-man white guard to help John Don improve his momentum.

Shang Tai, the "King of Zhongshan" of Ryukyu, was present. Seeing the Ryukyu soldiers in the audience full of energy and excellent firearms, the Ryukyu monarch and ministers praised him endlessly, and he suddenly felt a sense of confidence.

The younger brother of the King of Ryukyu, Shang Xi, was the number one "pro-China faction". He called this small team the China-US and Ryukyu coalition forces, and was widely promoted, greatly increasing the morale of the Ryukyu people.

First, a military parade was held. Ryukyu soldiers trained their queues first, and then conducted live-fire shooting.

The gunfire was fierce, and the paper man on the target was beaten to pieces, which made King Ryukyu very excited. Afterwards, King Ryukyu gave a speech to the team:

"245 years ago, the Japanese army invaded our country. After seven days of great disaster, the ancient city of Shuri became rubble. The former king and his royal family were captured and imprisoned in Kagoshima, Japan. This is a great humiliation. Whenever I think about this, I burst into tears.

"Japan controls our country's trade and plunders our country's wealth. It is difficult to satisfy Japan's greed. Fortunately, China's Xingyi army protects our Ryukyu, Tang Qin envoy trains the guards for me, and General Perry helps me uphold justice.

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