Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 589

[Chapter 589 Ryukyu Kingdom]

“Let him in.”

Zhao Xu signaled Xu Hark to go back first.

Not long after, Feng’er led a man over fifty to the study.

Half of this person’s beard and hair were white, and his figure was thin. No matter what, he couldn’t connect him with the Prince of Ryukyu.

It’s like a poor Confucian scholar.

“Shang Bin, son of Ryukyu, pays a visit to His Royal Highness King Yan.” Seeing Zhao Xu, the old man saluted.

“Excuse me.” Zhao Xu showed a soft smile, motioned him to sit down, and asked Feng’er to pour her a cup of tea.

From the name, he is the king of Yan, and Shang Bin is the eldest son.

If it was the same country, he would have saluted Shang Bin.

However, the Ryukyu Kingdom has always been a vassal state of Dasong, paying tribute to Dasong every year.

The king of the Ryukyu Kingdom is just a subject of Dasong.

Even though Shang Bin bears the title of son, he still has to salute him.

As if tired from crying and thirsty, Shang Bin drank all the water in the tea before looking at Zhao Xu.

After carefully looking at it, Shang Bin said: “When we met for the first time, His Royal Highness King Yan made a joke, but I was really helpless, the emperor said that he didn’t care about the matter of Da Song now, and asked me to come to His Highness, so I had no choice but to come Alright .”

Zhao Xu nodded, “It’s okay, there is no such thing as a joke, it should be that Da Song is sorry for Ryukyu, this king has heard about this matter when he was in the capital.”

The Ryukyu Kingdom is located in the northeast of Yizhou direction.

It is a piece of islands scattered in the sea, like a string of pearls, extending to Japan.

In contemporary times, this location is called Okinawa.

According to the history of this world, the people on Ryukyu Island were the people from the Central Plains who migrated there to escape the war.

After thousands of years of reproduction, the population of the Ryukyu Kingdom is close to one million.

The service of the people on the island is slightly different from that of the Central Plains Dynasty, but they are similar.

And the customs and habits are similar to those in the Central Plains.

Since the establishment of the country more than 400 years ago, the Ryukyu Kingdom has paid tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty every year and voluntarily became a vassal state.

Until thirty years ago, Japan invaded the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Naturally, the Ryukyu Kingdom was not an opponent of Dongying. After the defeat, the Ryukyu King and his son Shang Bin fled to Jinling, begging Da Song to send troops to take back Ryukyu.

But at that time, Da Song had long been devastated by the rise of Beidi, and was unable to take care of Ryukyu at all.

The matter was shelved.

When Zhao Heng succeeded to the throne, Ningjin Dusi fell into the hands of Beidi, and Da Song was not interested in helping Ryukyu restore the country.

Repeatedly refused to meet with Shang Bin.

But Shang Bin was very persistent and knelt in front of the palace gate.

But even that doesn’t help.

“His Royal Highness King Yan really understands righteousness. My Ryukyu has been occupied by Dongying for 30 years, and I have been seeking to restore the country but have not been able to. I only hope that His Highness will show mercy to the people of Ryukyu and show great kindness.” Shang Bin’s eyes turned red again.

After coming to Dasong for more than 30 years, it was the first time he heard someone say that Dasong was sorry for Ryukyu.

Although he didn’t dare to say it these years, he held back this sentence for a long time.

What is a vassal state? They regard Dasong as their suzerain, and pay a part of their taxes every year to pay tribute to Dasong.

What I want is that the suzerain country can lend a helping hand in times of crisis.

But he has been begging for thirty years in Dasong, and today someone is finally willing to admit this sentence.

“Sir Shang, don’t be sad. In the past, it wasn’t Da Song who didn’t want to help Ryukyu, but Da Song was not strong enough. If it had been earlier, this king would not have dared to agree rashly. Until now, Beidi has withdrawn to the north, and this king has nothing to do.” Zhao Xu said.

After a pause, he continued: “Since the emperor has entrusted this matter to me, I will promise you to help you restore Ryukyu to the country.”

“Really?” Shang Bin was overjoyed, jumped up and sat up from the chair.

Zhao Xu gave Shang Bin a positive look, “But don’t be impatient, we have to wait for a few more months.”

Dongying’s behavior in Dasong’s messing up the water aroused extreme anger in his heart.

He will never allow contemporary history to repeat itself in this world.

According to the memory in my mind, in the contemporary era, the position of the Ryukyu Kingdom also exists in the Han Dynasty.

And it has always been a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty.

But after being occupied by the Wa Kingdom, the Wa Kingdom forced the Han country to use the Wa Kingdom Calendar and stop paying tribute to the Qing Dynasty.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, Wa country officially incorporated it into its territory, which is today’s Okinawa.

“I’ve been waiting for thirty years, so why would I care about a few months.” Shang Bin trembled with excitement, “As long as His Highness can help me restore Ryukyu to the country, Ryukyu is willing to pay tribute to His Highness from generation to generation.”

From Zhao Heng With his attitude, he could see that the Emperor Dasong had no power at all in Yanzhou.

The real speaker is the King Yan.

Otherwise, when Zhao Heng said this before, he would only think it was pushback.

Now that Zhao Heng said so, he came running.

“Since that’s the case, Shang Shizi just needs to wait in Yancheng with peace of mind.” Zhao Xu nodded slightly.

Shang Bin replied yes, with King Yan’s guarantee, there is no need to say anything more.

He bowed to Zhao Xu, turned and left.

After Shang Bin’s figure disappeared, Zhao Xu looked to the right of Dasong’s map, which was a world map drawn by him.

On the map, the Ryukyu Kingdom is like a chain.

Connected with Dongying and Yizhou, this chain extends from Koryo to Yizhou, which is almost half the length of Dasong’s sea area.

In contemporary times, a certain country used these island chains to create a pearl chain strategy.

Today, he coincides with this magnificent era, so he will naturally not allow Japan to encroach on these sea islands.

“It’s September now, and by the end of the year, the twenty-four warships of the Ship Division will be launched, and the Black Shark pirates will be able to roam the Dasong sea area by then.” Zhao Xu murmured.

He didn’t immediately agree to Shang Bin because he was considering this factor.

Dongying is very cunning, and this time the trade with the Han family also involved the Frang machine.

According to the news sent back by Zhou Yi, the warships of their Black Shark Fleet had already met the warships of the Frang Robot.

Zhou Yi also specifically mentioned that he was holding a binoculars and saw a general on the opposite Frangji warship looking at him with a binoculars.

In addition to the Franz robot, the information Tianxianglou gave him last time mentioned the dialogue between two Japanese people.

The Dongying people have been promoting his threats to the Western countries.

Therefore, besides Frangji, he cannot guarantee whether warships from other Western countries will participate in the trade in the future.

But obviously in the face of this problem, the only way to solve it is to build ships.

Moreover, after these warships were launched, he would stop the construction of sail warships, and let Chen Shou develop steam sail warships, followed by small steam merchant ships and the like.

Time is ticking.

With such a dazzling operation this time, Dongpu obviously wanted to act as a vicious dog for the colonists to bite Da Song in the east.

He even wanted to gain further trust from the Western Land countries through this, and get all the benefits.

Facing the increasingly crazy Dongpu, he could only let his fleet break Dongpu’s legs.

Let them end up with Goryeo.

But just a month later, his position has become more firm.

Because on the side of the couch in Yanzhou, a state of Qi appeared.

(end of this chapter)