Chapter 570 Temasek
As Japan's Minister of Taizheng and the confidant of Emperor Toba, Tadao Fujiwara never only looks at the surface.
What is the essence of the problem between Japan and China?
Can that be done with just one or two wonderful strategies to eliminate and smooth?
The real strength of the Central Plains that surpasses Japan's ten times and hundred times is the fundamental source of Japan's current crisis.
The irreparable gap in strength between the two sides is the fundamental reason why Japan breaks the 200-year tradition and comes to celebrate Zhengdan in humiliation, and uses this very sad method to show its compromise attitude.
I surrendered to you, I kowtowed to you, but I still hold a knife in my hand.
Even if the knife is short and dull, it can hurt you. Although I have surrendered to you, I will firmly grasp my only power!
This is really a very dangerous road.
No matter how many Japanese people perform their performances in the choices of the Song people and the decisions of Emperor Zhao, they will not have any effect. Now they are like putting out their own capital, and then teaching the decision-making power to the other party completely, and completely manipulating their "life and death" in other people's thoughts.
This is a sadness that a prominent figure in Japanese politics like Tadao Fujiwara has not felt for a long time.
But this is so irreversible again!
Not to mention anything else, just look at the performance of the Song army after using Sado Island as a rocker and stepped into the Essay land. They swept around like thunder, wiped out all the hostile forces around them, and brought the Essay tribes under their command.
If the land of the Essian land is medium and high, the mountains are undulating and dense forests are everywhere, I am afraid that all the Essians have already made the Song army's on-the-trade meal
If you think about the Japanese general of the conquering the barbarians and the Japanese garrison in Muro, you can see the combat effectiveness of the two countries' troops at a glance.
Emperor Zhao, who is in the Central Plains, is a hero who is almost like a founding emperor. "Such resourceful, wise and powerful" is not enough to describe his ability, and it makes Fujiwara Tadatoshi have to think of the strange scenes when Goryeo "lost his country".
That same strategy can also be used in Japan.
Compared with Goryeo, which was on the verge of the country's destruction caused by the rebellion of the two Xijing squads, Japan, where the cracks in various forces in China are also clearly visible. Isn't it very similar?
But what is hateful is that even though the country is already in danger, there are so many people in the country who turn a blind eye.
Even the problem of a mere official vocational officer was noisy for many times before it could be achieved.
I don’t know how many scheming he would have to "learn from Zhongyuan" as the emperor thought. But what Fujiwara Tadatsuki was most afraid of was that he had scheming countless scheming he was still powerless!
In recent years, with the expansion of the Song army in the East China Sea, Japan has long looked at Zhao Song with a different look.
After all, the Central Plains has been weak for two hundred years, and was almost like the country's demise before. However, in just a few years, it turned from a dwarf to a towering giant. How could it not be shocking?
The means by Emperor Zhao to raise warriors and suppress scholars were generally considered by the Japanese government and the opposition to be a centralized means of powerful emperors.
The Emperor Toofeather dreamed that he would take over the world like Emperor Zhao, but that could be achieved easily.
Not to mention anything else, he himself wanted him to give up the real power in his hands, give up the political and military power accumulated by the Fujiwara family over hundreds of years, and give all the rights to Tooba. He himself was unwilling to do so.
Now, an indelible sorrow echoes in Fujiwara's heart!
And just as Tadao Fujiwara was worried, a fleet of ships composed of one, two, and three small, arrived in Temasek.
Temasek has been run by the Song army for many years. Not only are there ports, marinas and cities, but there are also houses inside and outside the city, with dense crowds.
There are many natives on the island, and even many of them are local people from Southeast Asia, but in accordance with the rules, they are like Han locals, practicing Han style, following the customs of Han, speaking Chinese, and writing Chinese characters!
The climate of the Little Glacier also has some impact on the Southeast Asian Sea, but for the new arrivals, the temperature here is still unimaginable.
Wang Cai looked at Temasek City not far away. From the outside, it looked no different from ordinary cities in China. The city was square. The blue brick wall looked extremely strong, about two meters high. There were four gates on the city walls, and a urn city was built near each gate. There was a prominent horse-faced enemy platform every thirty steps between the city walls, but the four gates did not have a moat. There were only large flags flying high in Song characters and troops guarding the army.
The area of the city is not very large, because the Song army has not yet prepared to turn against the Three Buddhas. According to the agreement, there are not many garrisons here. Naturally, the city cannot be too large.
In the eyes of people in the Central Plains, this small city is an ordinary county-level small city, but for local natives, such a city can be praised as "solid city".
However, compared with the ports and wharfs in China, Wang Cai thinks that the Temasek port was built very beautifully.
First of all, the street here is extremely wide and the stone brick surfaces are very neatly laid.
Secondly, there are a lot of green plants here, and tall coconut trees are planted on both sides of the road, which has a unique scenery.
Finally, there are the house floors here, which are generally three floors up.
Perhaps it is to adapt to the hot climate here, the houses are very high-end. The building forms are also very strange, horizontal and vertical, without the flying eaves and corners that are familiar to the Chinese.
Wang Cai couldn't see the architectural model in Temasek City. He only talked about Temasek Port. In the three vertical and two horizontal street layout, there were all such buildings. The materials used seemed to be bricks and stones, rather than the common wooden structures in China.
It is obvious that this sturdy building makes people more resistant to riots and wars.
As Zhao Gou's cousin and the son of Princess Xian Xiaochang (the fourth daughter of Emperor Shenzong), Wang Cai is not a pure playboy.
He abandoned his stable position in Yuqian and instead participated in the ocean expedition team under the Exploration Department, which also had great ambitions. Whether it was before the expedition team set off or on the way to Temasek south of the wind, Wang Cai had already broken up some of the information about Temasek in his hand.
He was very aware of the difficulties and hardships that Temasek had experienced in the past few years of development.
In order not to further stimulate the Three Buddhas and Qi Kingdom, the Song army's water and land garrisons in Temasek were always limited. Even now, the entire Temasek garrison was only 2,000.
But Temasek is also famous for its wealth and prosperity in Southeast Asia, and many people regard it as a treasure trove.
So, the situation here is really not very safe.
In recent years, slave riots have occurred many times, and the early docks have been transformed into ashes in the turmoil. Although no one knows how these slaves who dared to initiate riots were sent to Temasek by the slave owners, and how careless the slave owners who could watch the slaves all the way were so careless that the slaves who came ashore could take advantage of the opportunity.
No one knows this unsolved mystery.
Therefore, the Song army's architectural model in Temasek naturally changed.
Today, even among the farmhouses far away from the port, there are tall round earthen buildings that combine living and defense.
Only on a piece of land in the northeast of the wharf can Wang Cai see the buildings he is familiar with.
Chapter completed!