Chapter 490 To Destroy Their Clan, First Destroy Their History

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The sound of the waves is the dominant tone of the night on the island.

After a night of rest in the Michiela Fortress, the next day Xiao Ming took the map provided by Claire and began to officially receive the Ryukyu Island and the city of Geranja.

Luo Xin was ordered to take 2,000 soldiers to the city of Geranja to be stationed. Xiao Ming and Lu Fei took 2,000 soldiers to the sugarcane planting area marked on the map, while the remaining soldiers were responsible for the city defense in the Michiela Fortress.

"Your Highness, where are you going?"

The army assembled, Xiao Ming and Lu Fei were about to set off, when a voice came.

Xiao Ming saw that Claire and Rhodes were walking towards them. He said, "Count Claire, this king is preparing to send someone to inform you, and now we are preparing to receive the Ryukyu Island."

"His Royal Highness, we are here for this matter." After a night of painful psychological struggles, Claire finally chose to further develop a harmonious relationship with King Qi.

"Really? It's such a coincidence. This king is going to visit the sugar cane plantation and try the white sugar here."

When Claire heard the words, the muscles on his face could not help shaking, and he felt a pain in the flesh.

For more than 40 years in Ryukyu, they worked hard to manage this large-scale sugarcane plantation. Now these sugarcanes that are about to mature are Xiao Ming's in a blink of an eye.

In addition to sugar cane plantations, there are also large rice fields on the island of Ryukyu. These rice fields are ripe three times a year, providing them with sufficient food. These grains are even sold to the British, Spaniards, and French in exchange for money.

Reluctantly showing a smile, Claire said: "Then let me lead His Highness there, so that we can also formally hand over. The natives here do not know His Highness, and I am worried that there will be conflicts."

"That's very good, but from now on they are the citizens of the Great Yu Kingdom, not the natives." Xiao Ming deliberately emphasized the word "native" because it contained too much discrimination.

Claire was stunned for a moment, and his expression became more and more solemn. In his opinion, this was a dangerous signal, because he saw a precursor to the awakening of a nation from Xiao Ming.

"Okay." Claire's smile was embarrassed, he and Rhode looked at each other and walked towards the island.

Xiao Ming and Lu Fei followed them along the path extending from Mikila Castle to the northeast. After walking twenty miles, a wide sugarcane field appeared in front of everyone.

These sugar canes are very dense, about three meters high, and they are densely blocking the line of sight.

"His Royal Highness, this is our sugarcane field. These sugarcanes can be planted once a year. This place is very suitable for sugarcane cultivation. Each sugarcane is very sweet." Claire introduced to Xiao Ming.

After a pause, he pointed to the large paddy field opposite the sugarcane field and said, "This area is rice, which matures three seasons a year."

"Three seasons are ripe!" Lu Fei's mouth opened wide, and he said to Xiao Ming: "Your Highness, this is a big profit. There are three crops of rice every year, how much more rice is this?"

Zhao Long and Zhao Hu followed Xiao Ming, also excited.

"So how many people on the island are responsible for growing sugar cane and rice?" Xiao Ming asked.

Claire said: "The soil here... No, there are 30,000 people, 10,000 of them are responsible for sugar cane plantations, and the remaining 20,000 people are responsible for rice planting. There are about 50,000 mu of sugar cane orchards in this area, and about ten thousand rice fields. 50,000 acres."

"This is really a lot of wealth." Xiao Ming's eyebrows were beaming with excitement, and winning the Ryukyu really meant that he had added a granary to him.

If he allows Xiao Wenxuan to relocate 50,000 to 60,000 people to Ryukyu Island to open up wasteland, then Ryukyu will show greater value.

Claire nodded, "Indeed, Your Highness, this is enough to prove our sincerity, and I hope Your Highness can also show your sincerity."

"Isn't this king leading the army enough to prove his sincerity? Oh, of course, this king will definitely not let you suffer in trade." Xiao Ming said lightly.

After the group finished speaking, they visited the planting group under the leadership of Claire, and most importantly, Claire introduced the overseer in charge of the plantation and rice fields to Xiao Ming.

"Lin Fu sees His Highness." A black and thin young man saluted Xiao Ming with a strong Fuzhou accent in his tone.

Hearing this authentic dialect, Xiao Ming understood that this person was not from the island of Ryukyu, but migrated from across the sea, he said, "Claire made it very clear, from now on this island belongs to the king, you Those who govern also belong to this king, understand?"

Lin Fu looked at the soldier with a musket behind Xiao Ming, with a look of fear on his face, and said flatteringly: "Yes, Your Highness, I will listen to you since I was young, and your Highness can give any orders."

Xiao Ming nodded lightly. He and Claire walked forward for a while and found a village. There were many villagers in this village, and there was a blackboard in the middle of the village with some Dutch written on it.

These Dutch words probably mean that Ryukyu Island is the territory of the Netherlands, and the inhabitants of the island belong to the Netherlands and serve the Dutch all their lives.

Seeing this blackboard and the stool in front of the blackboard, Xiao Ming already understood that this was the Dutch enslavement education in Ryukyu.

With a light snort, Xiao Ming erased all the handwriting on the blackboard, and wrote the five words "the territory of Qingzhou" on the blackboard, stroke by stroke.

Seeing this, Claire showed a deep sadness in her eyes. Now most of the residents on the island can speak Dutch, and now this status quo will soon be changed, and all traces of the Netherlands will be erased.

And Xiao Ming's behavior further proves that he is different from the vassal kings of the Great Yu Kingdom. Only those who have a sense of national honor and disgrace will be so angry about this.

If it wasn't for the big picture, he really wanted to wipe out the Dutch, just like the other colonists, who were assimilating the land, and that's the scariest thing about it.

If you want to destroy its clan, first destroy its history!

When the first generation of people on this land perishes, the assimilated children of the second generation will no longer identify with their ancestors, and they will become a completely different nation.

This is the viciousness of tampering with history. In Xiao Ming's opinion, this is more terrifying than a nuclear bomb. Because of this, he was so angry when he saw that the Dutch were erasing the historical traces of the king of Ryukyu.

The people in the village had mixed expressions when they saw this scene. For the first time on this blackboard, such vigorous Da Yu characters appeared, and heavy memories flooded into their hearts. Tears flashed in the eyes of some old people who came from across the sea.

Throwing down the chalk, Xiao Ming looked at the three workshops in the village. Some sugar cane was being piled up outside, and some villagers were taking out some brown particles.