Japan plans to abolish the Ryukyu Kingdom and establish Okinawa Prefecture.
The old retainers of the royal court kneel and beg for peace. The surrender faction secretly offers up the royal seal. The Qing court watches from across the sea. The Ryukyu Kingdom is one final document away from extinction.
Lin Qihai, a Fuzhou native and master's student at the Institute for Maritime Civilization Studies at Minhai University, wakes up transmigrated as Shang Qi, a distant relative of the Ryukyu Shang royal family. Before him lie hopelessly mismanaged coastal defenses; behind him stand three rusted cannons; and in front of him is Shuri Palace, on the verge of the kingdom's downfall.
Japan's commissioner announces the abolition of the domains and the establishment of prefectures?
Shang Qi refuses the order on the spot.
The surrender faction secretly offers up the royal seal?
He intercepts it and returns it to the king, then uses the seal to carry out measures to save the country.
Japan wants to take over the armory?
He seals it, audits the accounts, pays the troops, and repairs the cannons, firing a shot that stops Japan from swallowing the kingdom without a fight.
From refusing to surrender at Shuri to opening Naha to trade; from building the Zhenhai Battalion to having the coastal navy break the blockade; from escorting merchant ships into port to crushing Japan's machinery for annexing Ryukyu.
In this life, Ryukyu will not become Okinawa Prefecture.
Japan wants to establish Okinawa Prefecture? Then I'll restore the Ryukyu Kingdom.
