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387 The Qing Dynasty

There are many typhoons and heavy rains in the Pacific in July. The risk of going out to sea to fish is quite high. In previous years, even if the fishermen in Ryukyu were at risk, they had to struggle to go out to sea to fish, otherwise their family would starve to death.

However, in recent years, the people of Ryukyu have received the blessing of Prime Minister Xiao, and their lives have been much better all of a sudden. They are easy to find work on the dock, and they pay more wages than in the past. Moreover, under the shock of the new army, the evil gangsters like Hachiro disappeared.

With stable money, people are reluctant to work harder. When many fishermen see that the weather is not good, they would rather do some short-term work on the dock than risk going into the sea.

"Small girl! Carry out the dried fish that I didn't finish yesterday. The weather is really good today. The sun is strong and the wind is strong..." On the top of a small hill east of Naba Port, fisherman Chang Sanhao was stretching his waist and directing his subordinates to dry the dried fish.

"Where is the stubborn donkey? I asked him to replenish the net yesterday, but why didn't he move until today? This lazy person, except eating or sleeping, did not do any serious things..."

Chang Sanhao stood in the yard outside the straw shed, instructing his subordinates to come out of the busy schedule. After calling the stubborn donkey for a long time, he didn't come out of the house.

The thin black woman named Xiaomei walked out with a dustpan of dried fish and gave him a blank look, "What to make up for? Can the fishing net be repaired? Go to the dock as soon as possible to buy a new one, so I can get angry when I see it!"

The girl named Sun is the only woman in the room. Although she is thin and thin, she is still a bit delicate between her eyebrows and eyes. As soon as she spoke, Chang Sanhao didn't even dare to give up and quickly smiled.

"Hey... we can't spend this way even if we have money? We have bought fishing nets three times this month. If we buy them, I'm afraid that they will be suspicious!"

"I have a big suspicion. Why can't I spend money if I have money?" At this time, a tall man walked out of the house and stared at Chang Sanhao with dissatisfaction. This guy was the stubborn donkey who had just been scolded.

Chang Sanhao was obviously the head of this group of people. When he saw that his authority was provoked, he was so angry that his forehead was leaping with blue veins. "Damn stubborn donkey, don't forget our mission! We have to be like anything. Where can we buy new fishing nets three times in half a month? Isn't this completely exposed?"

"I tell you, if you don't knit this broken fishing net for me today, I will let you lie down and go out!"

A person's nickname can be called Stubborn, and people only remember his nickname and forget his real name, which is a very good example of personality. When Stubborn heard that Chang Sanhao dared to threaten him, he was so angry that he rushed up like thunder and punched him.

"I'm the last one. I remember you bastard. I'm here to be a spy, not a slave for you... Do you think I have to listen to you if I'm a higher level than me? You dream..."

"I have never played fishing nets in my life. Playing three pieces in half a month is enough to give you face. Mom, the money given to you by the court made you corrupt? How dare I ask me to revise the net? Grandma's..."

I never expected that the stubborn donkey would be good at Arhat Fist. He was caught off guard and Chang Sanhao was beaten step by step and retreated step by step. He had only the power of parrying but not the ability to fight back.

"Okay, okay, stubborn donkey, you finally tell the truth. You just want to be my seat, and you also want to compete with me for the fine girl! I tell you, this is a dream..."

Chang Sanhao didn't give it for nothing. He hit the mantis punch with one hand as fast as lightning. The two of them fought in a short while, and the dried fish around them made all over their bodies dust.

What is even more strange is that Sun Ximei and the more than ten fishermen around her felt strange. Instead, they smiled and shook their heads and spread out around them, alerting the two people who were fighting.

Chang Sanhao, Stubborn Donkey, Sun Ximei and others, in the eyes of outsiders, are just a group of ordinary Qing fishermen. They speak Chinese and wear Chinese clothes and have braids. There are still many fishermen like them in Ryukyu.

During the Tongzhi period, after more than ten years of trouble in the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, many rules have been in name only. Just like the ban on seas, it is still an unbreakable iron rule in name, but due to the impact of the war, local officials have already turned a blind eye.

In the past, a piece of sail was not allowed to go into the sea, but now it has become a secret fishing near the sea. The fishermen secretly entered the deep sea to salvage. In the end, some fishermen even crossed the East China Sea to fish and even rushed to Ryukyu.

There is no passport in this era. The Chinese and natives of Ryukyu are very familiar with the fishermen in Zhejiang, and some families even intermarried with each other, so these fishermen live in Ryukyu as very casually as their second home.

However, Chang Sanhao and others are not ordinary fishermen. Their real identity is a spy sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Ryukyu, who specifically explored Xiao Letian's information for the court. Especially now, when Xiao Letian's death was passed on to East Asia, every move of the Ryukyu Kingdom became the focus of the Qing court.

What actions will King Shangtai do? What plans will the Shimazu family in Japan have? What actions will foreigners from various countries take? Even the Hunan Army, which actually controls Jiangnan, have any hidden actions, are the main focus of the imperial court.

The best source of this information is Ryukyu. This East China Island Country where China and China live together is very difficult to keep any secrets.

"Stop! Don't fight either of you... Look, what are the seas in the south?" Just as Chang Sanhao and the stubborn donkey rolled over, Sun Ximei suddenly threw away the dustpan and pointed at the sea in the south and shouted.

"Where is the Qianliyan? Where did you buy the Qianliyan from foreigners? Hurry up and bring it to me..." When the telescope was handed to Sun Ximei, she snatched it and looked at the south with her eyes.

At this time, the stubborn donkey and Chang Sanhao stopped fighting, and stood behind the girl with her arms around her back and looked at Nanfang with anxiety on her face, and kept asking.

"What's going on? What's wrong? Aren't the sea boat coming from the south? What's so strange?" Before they could ask clearly, Sun Ximei threw her eyes and screamed and ran into the room.

"Cut down the tree! Cut off the message tree quickly and report to the brothers... Where is the paper and pen? Where is the pigeon? Damn bastard, who told you to touch my mother's things? Catch all the pigeons..."

"Damn foreigners! Damn Xiao Letian! We're blocking here now... That's the French warship, I recognize the French flag!"

With a bang, everyone was in a mess. The main purpose of coming to Ryukyu to pursue this time was to observe the French's every move. Now everyone has not encountered French envoys, but has encountered French fleets, which shows that the French are here to make trouble.

"Let me see, let me see..." The stubborn donkey stood beside Chang Sanhao and couldn't help but grab Qianliyan. At this time, Chang Sanhao had no time to argue with him, because in his eyes, ten murderous warships were lined up in a geese-wing formation and pressing from south to north, and countless fishing and cargo ships on the sea were escaping in horror.

Although the location chosen by Sun Ximei and the others is not the highest terrain of Ryukyu Island, it is almost the same. When they found that the warships flying the French flag appeared on the sea, Naha Port at the foot of the mountain knew nothing, and this was the best time to release information.

The heavy axe cut off on the cherry blossom trees outside the thatched hut. Each time it was filled with rain-like leaves flying around like cherry blossom rain in spring. In a short while, the cherry blossom tree as thick as a sea bowl was knocked down.

Not even ten minutes later, at the end of the northern sight, on the mountain of another small island, a chestnut tree, which was equally thick, began to tremble constantly, and the leaves fell down, and in a short while, they rolled down the hillside like the fate of the cherry tree.

This is a very ancient way of information transmission, but its efficiency is second only to the telegraph line. After the three message trees were knocked down, a sailboat hidden on the northern island immediately set sail toward the west.

Not only that, these Qing Yao spies still had more than ten carrier pigeons in their hands. Sun Ximei wrote the information about the French warship approaching the port on silk belts. After writing a piece of the subordinate next to her, she stuffed it into a thin bamboo tube, and finally tied it to the foot of the carrier pigeon and took it to the back mountain to release it.

"Hurry, hurry up... write a few more copies, cross the sea and the crisis is full of dangers. How many of these carrier pigeons can survive... Hurry up, hurry up, wait a while for Xiao Letian's new army to find an abnormality, and we can't let it go if we want..."

Xiao Letian's intelligence department is very good at using carrier pigeons, and for this reason they are also very good at preventing carrier pigeons. In a short while, as long as the new army discovers the traces of the Southern Fleet, Wang Huaiyuan's prison hall will immediately launch the blocking plan.

The falcons raised by the Punishment Hall and countless sharpshooters hiding on the top of the city and mountain will kill all the pigeons flying in the sky. Now there is not much time left for Chang Sanhao and the others.

Puff, puff... One pigeon after another was released into the sky and flew towards the western continent. When the carrier pigeon fell down the fifth one, an abnormality was also found at the outpost of Naba Xinjun, and the southern fleet was finally discovered by the new army.

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"Discover the enemy situation! Fifteen nautical miles south...discover the French fleet...our enemy has finally arrived..."

"Arrange, defend, enter a state of war... The brothers of the new army entered the fortifications... All the reserves organized the people to evacuate into the mountains!"

"The Punishment Hall initiates the shielding plan...release the falcon...snipers prepare...shock all the birds in the sky..."

"Each turret is in place...the telegrapher is in place...removing the cannon suit...opening the cannon door... let's fuck it..."

The whole city was filled with commands and soldiers running everywhere. Hidden in a private house, the telegraphers in the fortifications began to communicate with each other and send reports. In the end, the figure of King Shangtai appeared on the walls of Shuri Castle.

"Look, there are pigeons in the sky..." The old hunters trained from the Punishment Hall saw the abnormalities in the sky at a glance. Without saying a word, they took off the rifle behind them and fired violently into the air.

One pigeon after another was knocked down, and soon the hunters discovered the target they were looking for. "Look, it's Yingshan in the east... Where did the pigeons fly out, rushed up to surround them, and seize these tricks!"

At this time, Chang Sanhao and the others were ready to retreat. The straw shed was poured with tinder oil everywhere, and all the things that could not be taken were thrown in.

The stubborn donkey lay on the stone and looked down at the mountain. He was so scared that his back was cold, "Grandma, run away quickly... Is there no three or four hundred in the dark? Our mission has been completed, don't work hard!"
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