Chapter 453: Japanese

After sighing, Liu Zhongwu pointed out several Shaanxi generals and said half-jokingly and half-jokingly: "I remember that you are all loyal and loyal family members. Why did you come to Hangzhou to study for a short time? How could the conspiracy you came up with is so insidious? Could it be that you have learned a lot of conspiracy when you come here to study?!"

Lu Qiuguan smiled and replied: "You are right. This is the headquarters of the Song Dynasty's conspiracy. No one in the world's vicious plan is right."

Everyone burst into laughter.

At this time, Japan had already received news that Zhao Xing was planning to visit, and Japan's Gongqing seemed calm about it. The inner minister Fujiwara elegantly handed the letter sent by Genyehei to the officials next to him, and said with a leisurely and fascinating expression: "I didn't often hear that this Su family led the style of Song Dynasty, such as food, wine, and gorgeous clothes. Even the famous Cai Kyoto was inferior to that. In the past, I often heard Song talks, I wish I could be born in Song State and could appreciate the style of this person with my own eyes. Now he is coming, which is a grand event."

Gong Qing next to him nodded vigorously, and a Gong Qing said with a longing look on his face: "I came to my country before this person had not made a name for himself. Unfortunately, I did not participate in that banquet. I am sorry. I cannot leave me behind in this banquet anyway."

Yuan Yeqing, a contact person from the Kanto Warriors, whispered: "I heard that he is here this time and plans to lead the Third Fleet of Qi Nanyang and his newly established Azure Dragon and White Tiger Legion, which has a total of 50,000 people."

As soon as he finished speaking, several officials rushed to answer: "I know that the manor in Changmen Hall cannot accommodate these 50,000 people, so it is better for me to come forward to receive some of them-ah, the Heavenly Army of Shangguo, the huge fleet, the gorgeous soldiers, and the extremely fierce weapons... This glory is enough for my descendants to talk about for a thousand years."

Yuan Yeqing said softly: "It is said that Changmen Palace requires our country to strictly control the output of sulfur..."

Fujiwara clan ordered sternly: "Then send more people - the heavenly soldiers of the Kingdom should come to supervise, and quickly set a piece of land. Let these heavenly soldiers garrison, and the nearby great people should not neglect them."

Ping Qingtai, the contact person of the Ping Family Warrior Order in the court, also took the opportunity to express his opinion: "The Heavenly Army is stationed in the sulfur mine, and cannot be without support. Let the great people come to each other to provide 50 farmers to help the Heavenly Army farm - these soldiers in the upper country are so delicate that they cannot do rough work."

Fujiwara waving a small round fan and shouted: "This is a grand event. You need to prepare in advance and give orders quickly. All the great people of all families offer their best girls, and use the best tea, the best houses, and the most beautiful music to entertain these soldiers of the Celestial Empire."

After Fujiwara's speech, there was a scene of nodding below. Countless Japanese Gongqing whispering: "Fifty thousand soldiers of the Celestial Empire came to the slaughter. Now, a hundred years of work can be completed in one year, but it is a grand event!"

In early August, at the Japanese Gongqing, the samurai was looking forward to it. Zhao Xing set off from Hangzhou with an army of about 30,000.

Unlike the news that the Japanese received in advance, it was predicted that Zhao Xing would have 50,000 people in Japan, but they miscalculated the system of Zhao Xing's army. Although the military salary of Zhao Xing's army was generous, he only calculated that one soldier often needed several servants to serve him. The salary of these soldiers was borne by the soldiers. The more careful servants even poured tea and wiped their boots and hired servants, while the thrifty soldiers only hired one relative to act. Therefore, the Japanese estimated that Zhao Xing would have 50,000 troops, but in fact, only 11,000 people were recorded on Zhao Xing's roster.

Zhao Xing's logistics supplies were also different from others. He had completely adopted the bidding method of the Song Dynasty to contract the military supplies to merchants. Therefore, when 30,000 soldiers arrived in Japan, more than 30,000 merchants followed him. They followed the army with a huge fleet. The situation in Japan was unclear and the supplies they carried were all used as goods for sale. For a moment, the grain prices in Japan fell sharply, the price of silk fell sharply, and the price of textiles fell sharply. All Japanese merchants exclaimed: The Song people brought a large amount of food and clothing. The amount of food was enough for the people of Japan to eat for ten years. The number of clothing could make the people of Japan wear it for a hundred years.

Zhao Xing landed in Nagato, and most Song merchants drove their ships into Hakata Bay. The Japanese people looked at this huge fleet that they could not imagine into their bay. Then, their enthusiasm was as if a volcano erupted, and countless Japanese people carried their daughters from all over the place and rushed to Hakata Bay like leeches. Well, in this way, the Japanese who were originally farming also lost their value in Japan.

Zhao Xing stepped into his manor with the warm welcome of Japanese Gongqing, and walked all the way and wondered: "I didn't resist, I was so enthusiastic. This enthusiasm made me embarrassed to draw my sword."

Shuai Fan rolled her eyes from the side: "The Grand Master is still embarrassed?"

Yuanyeping followed carefully, his face looked very bad. He knew that this army was enough to destroy the country. Five hundred years later, in Japan's so-called Warring States Period, it was already a national-level war for the two countries to dispatch 500 soldiers, but Zhao Xing brought 11,000 soldiers this time, and they were the most terrifying continuous musketeers in this era.

The Sugawara family's elder bowed carefully and smiled flatteringly: "Namen Palace is joking. The heavenly soldiers are here, so we can't welcome them, so how dare we neglect them?"

Not far away, the Japanese ministers who were welcoming stood at the door of Zhaoxing Manor. They still maintained the fashion of the famous scholars of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. To put it simply, they painted their faces with white powder. They suddenly saw that they looked like the little devil in the Hall of Yama ran out of hell. This fashion came from the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest". At that time, under the high pressure of the Sima family, Ruan Ji and others could not vent their grief and anger in the situation where Hu people invaded the internal wars and were unable to vent their grief and anger. They could only show that they were incompatible with the society at that time. This fashion fled into Japan with the people of the Central Plains who were hiding from the war. They were regarded as a "noble aesthetic" by Japan and remained until five hundred years later.

Gong Qingli was dressed in gorgeous clothes, some wearing Shu brocade, some wearing shredded yarn, and some wearing Hangzhou embroidery. Their clothing styles were as if a group of Song people were standing there, but the hats they wore were slightly different from those of Song people. They wore high eagle crowns - the Japanese later called their variant "stand-shaped hats".

Sugawara also wore gorgeous silk, which was woven into patterns. Under the breeze, the straits on the brocade were undulating, as if someone was holding flowers and swaying. Zhao Xing even recognized that this was a kind of Su silk, which was also the most sought after luxury goods in the upper class of Japan at that time.

With the prosperity of the Song and Japanese trade, the luxurious and decaying lifestyle of the Song people infected the upper class of Japan. By the early Northern Song Dynasty, ordinary officials no longer wore silk fabrics produced in Japan. Even their maids wore imported clothes. The diary of the Zishibu records the clothes of Danayan at the banquets of the 10th to the third day of the first lunar month. A set of Tang-style clothes matched the thickness and light; the colors and styles did not repeat each other. Even the inner side (sergeants) ran to Tang-wu clothes. During this period, Japanese literati wrote novels, reviews, legends, etc., such as "The Story of Glory" and "The Story of Genji" and other characters in books, all of which were Tang-style and Song-style, or even imported directly from the Song Dynasty.

The Japanese palace was very luxurious, while Zhao Xing wore a little simple: a standard red military uniform in Song Dynasty, with an armed belt tied with an armed belt. The armed belt was covered with two hand guns, a Tang horizontal sword (modernly known as Japanese samurai sword), black trousers, shiny black horse boots, a pair of white gloves, and a large ring on one of the fingers outside the gloves.

This outfit looks solemn, but it also looks a little shabby. However, Zhao Xing's helmet added a lot to him. The helmet was made of stamped overall. In the entire Song army, he was the only one wearing such a golden helmet. The helmet was polished very smoothly, brightly like a mirror. The top of the helmet was dyed red with ponytail tassels, which were dazzling, making him look energetic.

Zhao Xing's manor was completely in the Tang style. He did not have the eaves that were raised in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The entire manor seemed to be reappearing in the Palace of King Wu (Sun Quan) in the Three Kingdoms period. After the manor was built, it attracted the kings of Japan to follow suit. They came from all over the place to see with the mentality of a pilgrimage to see the style of this manor. After that, even the Song Shang, who lived in Nagato, built their own houses in the style of this manor, making the originally conspicuous manor seem common and submerged in a row of houses.

As early as the early Northern Song Dynasty, the upper princes, nobles and nobles of the Japanese ruling class had manors all over the country. The manors remained independent of the emperor's government and did not pay taxes to the state. State officials were not allowed to interfere in the internal affairs of the manor. This is the so-called "no import or no entry". Due to the gradual increase of manors, the national tax revenue decreased. The Emperor's court forced the order to stop the establishment of a new manor three times in succession from the second year of Yongguan (984 AD), the second year of Kuando (1045 AD), and the third year of Tianxi (1055 AD). However, the emperor's awe were ignored.

On the one hand, the Emperor himself was building a manor. He was on the first day of the lunar month and did not allow others to do the fifteenth day, which made it difficult for him to speak loudly. Then something happened, which made the trend of building manors in various parts of Japan become more and more intense. In August of a certain year, the new Song Shang and Zhou ship sailed into Hakata Bay and happened to be moored in the Kanzaki Manor Realm, which was led by the Emperor. Daizaifu sent people to check and verify according to the rules, but the Beiqian Shuo stopped in the Emperor Manor Realm. Daizaifu had no right to interfere in the manor affairs and was not allowed to go to the manor's jurisdiction to inspect. Later, Beiqian Shuo personally presided over the Song merchant ship trade in the name of "Yuan Xuan". Since then, the Song merchant ship often bypassed the Daizaifu to trade with other manor owners.

The manor is so convenient, and the huge profits provided by Shanghai Trade are enough to make anyone take risks, so kings from all over Japan, regardless of the emperor's ban, built manors in their own territory in order to bypass the special sale regulations of the Japanese government and traded directly with Song merchants. While enjoying the wholesale price of luxury goods in the Song State, they also avoided the laws of paying taxes to the state... The Zhaoxingdi Manor was also established under this situation. Because this manor enjoys the privilege of "not importing or not entering", the Japanese ministers who greeted could only stand at the door of the manor to greet him, but did not dare to step into the manor easily.

Zhao Xing walked to the door of the manor, and a Japanese official stood up and looked up and down with admiration, and said, "Shan Yuya Kamiya, see the people, love them..."

This is a poem from "A Collection of Ancient and Modern Times", which belongs to "Love Songs", which is modernly translated as: "The mountains are full of cherry blossoms, and the fragrance is hidden among the clouds under the fog.

The most affectionate one is vaguely seen, and no matter how you glance at it, you will be moved." The old translation is: "In the spring clouds, it seems like you see a mountain cherry blossom. If you haven't seen this person, you are in love."

Zhao Xing felt chills, and the official opposite him bowed and introduced himself: "The little foreign minister Dajiang Qing has met the Grand Master of the Celestial Dynasty. The Grand Master's articles are famous all over the world. The Minister also wants to ask the Grand Master for more advice."

The so-called "love song" in ancient poems does not refer to the love between men and women. Most of them use things to describe people and express a feeling in their hearts. Dajiang Qingshi said in the tone of a lover that he had heard of Zhao Xing's name, and longed to see Zhao Xing like a unrequited lover. Now he finally got what he wanted. This feeling and scene - no matter how you look at it, it is moving.

This sentence was nothing, but in Japan, a country that likes Tang Feng (uniform love), a man from the Oe-Qing clan said this, which made Zhao Xing stand tall and admire the poem.

In recent years, the Military Information Department has conducted a detailed investigation on the situation in various countries. As soon as Shuai Fan heard that the other party was well-known, he immediately understood. He stepped forward and broke Zhao Xing's embarrassment: "Oei Qing clan, I heard that the knowledge of poetry and prose in your country was inherited from Sugawara and Oei clans. Since you have the surname "Oei", you must be the head of the Oei clan, right?"

Oe Kei's clan obviously did enough investigation. He turned around and bowed to the commander: "The general is fighting in the east and west, and his subordinates destroyed countless countries. When he saw him today, he was indeed famous and looked up to him... The little foreign minister was the head of the Dae Je family. The Grand Tutor came to my country in the past and was hosted by the Sugawara clan. The minister had never had the opportunity to come to the front. Today, this opportunity is the one. The minister is not willing to give in."

Genyeping snorted and whispered: "This guy spent twenty Jin Xiaojue (Japan Jin Xiaojue of the Song Dynasty imitated the Song Dynasty Jinying, each weighing ten taels), and bought this opportunity with Sugawara's Sugawara..."

Zhao Xing said, "It turns out that the opportunity to meet me is worth twenty Jin Xiaojue. I wonder if this price is comparable to that of the stock god Buffett?"

Yuan Yeping was stunned: "Who is Buffett? Is that Western bard left by the adults?"

Zhao Xing nodded immediately and concealed: "That's right, he will be called Buffett in the future."

Yuan Yeping curled his lips: "The song he sang...Roland's song is a rhetoric, no one can understand it. He has red hair and green eyes. Who would spend twenty Jin Xiaojue to meet him?"

Shuai Fan snorted and muttered boredly: "These people are smiling all over their faces, making my hands itchy... What a noise, hurry up and go in. This long road makes me feel uncomfortable."

Dajiang Qingshi nodded quickly: "It's ready, it's ready long ago. The manor has warm soup. We also used the best-sized Fenglu (bath bucket) made of fragrant wood, and the ladies who scrubbed the bath also prepared two hundred. Please pick them first."

Shuai Fan opened her mouth in shock and hadn't recalled from the shock for a long time: "Do you eat two hundred... to eat?"

Daei Qingshi thought that handsome woman was not satisfied, so she patted her chest and made great efforts to assure Shuai Fan that the ladies were selected from Gong Qing's family, and that the selection was as strict as a talent show. He guaranteed that these ladies were the highest quality ladies in Japan.

Wen Tang is a hot spring water picked from hot springs hundreds of miles away. In ancient times, when there was no insulation facilities, it was hard to imagine how the Japanese tried their best to transport these hot spring waters. When it was poured into the bucket, the soup spring still maintained its original heat, causing the whole house to smell a strong sulphur.

The handsome fan was soaked in the soup bucket. While shouting to the ladies to scrub him, he said to Zhao Xing: "Is this the Master's simplicity spring that is still obsessed with... Left a little more, pinch it a little heavier, yes, it's this... Master, the Japanese serve him so thoughtfully, how can we speak?"

Zhao Xing was also asking, he led the army to invade, and now the Japanese don’t respond to scolding him or fight back. If you want to steal his woman, he cheered and feared that his woman would not satisfy you. If you want to live in his house, he rolled happily on the ground, cleaned the house up and down several times, and was careful to worry that you would dislike him. How could this make people speak? You can’t tell the Japanese: Give up your home, give up your woman, and hand over your land and money, I don’t plan to leave.

Maybe those Japanese people were too happy.

"Why are these bastards not at all aware of their homes..." Zhao Xing said thoughtfully: "I heard that from the Three Kingdoms era, there were more than 2 million Japanese people who moved from the Central Plains. Japan called these migrants the "Chinese people". The Chinese people compiled and recorded in Japan called them "Minist people", and there were hundreds of thousands... Think about it, he accepted millions of people, and are he still worried about our 30,000 bird people?"

After Zhao Xing said that, he added in annoyance: "I was wrong. This group of people has no sense of invasion now. Maybe we announce that we will live here. The group of people still raise their hands and feet to agree. I am afraid that we will regret it..."

Shuai Fan frowned in distress and quickly reminded: "Master Tai Shi, don't say that we are here to invade. Maybe the Japanese know that we are going to station in their country, so they celebrate the whole country and exaggerate the matter. If this matter is to be caused by the court, the court will think that Tai Shi fled to Japan, which would be bad."

Zhao Xing nodded bitterly: "This may be the worst invasion in history - the invaders are afraid that they will say "if they come, they won't leave." Being an invader to be your and me is also the first person in history."

Shuai Fan stretched out his hand from Feng Luzhong, covered his face and said in shame: "I was wrong. I shouldn't have come here with the Grand Master, and it has ruined my reputation - they actually thought we were here specifically to farm, which is embarrassing!"

Yuan Yeping knelt at the door of the bathroom. Hearing the talk in the door, he gently reminded: "When the Liao Kingdom destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, I heard about our Japanese Kingdom from the Bohai people. After that, the Liao people sent captured Bohai people to Japan and asked for trade, but was rejected by my emperor. My emperor Tsunei said: If it was not Song merchants, it would not be included. From then on, two hundred years later, my country only traded with the Song Kingdom and did not allow other merchants to set foot in the territory of my country."

Yuan Yeping reminded Zhao Xing that the phenomenon of sulfur sales he was worried about did not exist at all, and merchants from other countries and regions were not allowed to enter the Japanese coastline at all.

The two people in the room were full of shame. Just thinking about how to smooth things over for themselves, Shuai Fan muttered unwillingly: "How will history books record your and me do you and me come to Japan to fight for the country? Or do we plan to promote the power to Japan?"

Zhao Xing came back to his senses and said resolutely: "History books will not record that you and me will go on the expedition this time. By the way, we are not going on the expedition, we are just stopping in the middle. That's right, we are stopping in the middle."

Yuan Yeping slapped his legs at the door of the bathhouse and reminded: "After the order was issued, the soldiers were very enthusiastic. They all rushed to station in Japan."

Shuai Fan snorted: "Sugarawa, Oe and the two clans came to Japan and inherited Japanese literature; the two clans from the Qingyuan and the two clans from the Central Plains came to Japan and inherited the Ming Jingdao; the Ming Dharma Dao is Sakagami and the two clans from the Central Plains; the three clans from the Yin-Yang Dao are Kamo and the two clans from the Abe; the medical Dao is the Heqi, the Danba Dao is the hereditary... Listen to these names, Sugawa, Oe, the Kiyohara, the Central Plains..."

Zhao Xing suddenly remembered something, and he waved his hand to let the lady retreat, whispering: "I have heard a rumor that a Japanese minister, a grandson of Emperor Xian of Han, was the grandson of Emperor Xian of Han. He also held a secret certificate of immortals from the Han Dynasty. After he came to Japan, the Japanese king agreed with him that he would not be a Guan Bai unless his descendants."

The so-called "secret letter of immortals". In today's words, it is the identity proof of the royal family. It was called "Huang Book" in the Tang Dynasty, and it was abbreviated as "Yuan Book" in the Song Dynasty. It was named because this identity proof was first engraved on the jade gui.

Shuai Fan also lowered his voice and asked, "Is this really a matter? Then why don't they publicize it?"

Zhao Xing replied: "It is said that Emperor Xian of Han had sneaked out, so his descendants had an agreement with the Emperor of Japan."

Zhao Xing said this "agreement" was not officially announced to the public until 2000 AD. However, when the news was announced, no one in the country cared about it. It was eight years later when the people in the country knew about it. Zhao Xing did not care about the news at that time. Now he just heard the Japanese minister quietly tell him the rumor, and he was still skeptical about the news.

The handsome woman thought, her lips squirmed and wanted to say something. At this time, several ladies walked in with clothes and prepared to change clothes for the two. According to the Japanese style at that time, the master asked the ladies to leave midway, which was to indicate that they planned to finish taking a bath, so the ladies turned around and brought the clothes.

This time, Zhao Xing changed into casual clothes he brought with him. The costume was not dyed. It maintained the original image of coarse cloth, but only wrote many poems and paintings on the cloth, including Mi Fu's notes, the pencil written by Huang Tingjian, and some miscellaneous and unknown calligraphers left graffiti on Zhao Xing's clothes. The characters are of different shapes, including cursive script, running script, and regular script, with strokes horizontally and vertically, just like the title board left at the modern opening ceremony.

The Japanese Minister of the Palace Court, who was invited in again, changed into a set of clothes in the blink of an eye. Their clothes still maintained that gorgeous style. However, when these people saw Zhao Xing's famous robe, their eyes immediately emitted a bright light. Abe Yan was impatient. He sat directly next to Zhao Xing and pulled Zhao Xing's sleeve to read the handwriting on it one by one: "The world's number one demon... pedantic... straightforward, butcher, unreasonable... Oh, I recognized that this was written by Lord Huang Luzhi. Mr. Su once said that Lord Huang Luzhi's words were like "stone crushing snake". As expected, what was written by this - the commandment is urgent!"

Abe Yan called out Huang Lu's name, and Japanese Gong Qing couldn't sit still. They all came to Zhao Xing and lay on Zhao Xing regardless of etiquette to identify the inscriptions. While typing his fingers in the air, copying the handwriting, while admiring.

After a long time, Gong Qing and others recalled it and returned to their original positions. Dajiang first apologized: "We are too anxious and rude... I often heard that Changmen Hall is a disciple of Su Xueshu. I don't know that Changmen Hall has treasured Su Xueshu's calligraphy and paintings so that we can observe it?"

Zhao Xing clapped his hands, and the servant quickly handed over a folding fan. Zhao Xing took the fan in his hand and opened the fan. The fan was titled Su Dongpo's "Huangzhou Cold Food Post" - which is known by modern Japanese as "Huangzhou Cold Food Post worth half a Japan."

This folding fan attracted the attention of Japanese Gong Qing. At the following banquet, the topic mainly revolved around this "Huangzhou Cold Food Post". In the face of the charm of the Song Dynasty's brush and ink, Zhao Xing's graffiti outfit immediately became extraordinary, making all the gorgeous costumes of the Japanese suddenly fascinated...

A few days later, the depressed handsome fan complained to Zhao Xing with dissatisfaction: "Taiwei, have you figured out where we are fighting? Let's go quickly. The soldiers have been corrupted in Japan these days. They are not the army, they are obviously a group of big clients. I figured it out. When the Taishi came to Japan, he was not fighting with the Japanese at all, but fighting with them clothes. Look at you, those Japanese people changed their clothes three times a day, and you also exchanged them for clothes. Why did this happen?"

Zhao Xing lazily answered: "It's so difficult, the world is full of chaos, where can the opponents come from?"

Shuai Fan blinked his eyes and suggested with a sneaky expression: "Why don't we go north? I asked Song Shang a few days ago that there are often whaling ships here to go north. They said that a river flows directly into the sea, and a large fish with a height of people often migrates from the river at the mouth of the river. The locals call that fish a "salmon". It is said that the river was caused by a black dragon, so the locals call that river the "Heilongjiang". I often suspect that the river is the legendary black water, and the so-called black water Jurchens are whether the Shengman tribe living on both sides of the river."

Zhao Xing was startled, clapped his hands and ordered people to bring a map. While studying the map, he said: "I don't know that the news about the Jurchens we have now heard from the locals. Maybe there is a different translation method for a place name, or maybe this river is black water. If that's the case, it's really necessary to go to the Jiangkou to show off your power, at least to let them understand that I, the Song Dynasty, have the ability to copy their retreat."

Shuai Fan encouraged: "Yes, I also heard that there are golden sands and gold on that river, which can make people crazy than anything. As long as there is golden sand, this expedition is worth it. No matter how cold or barren the land is, the news of the gold mine will make the merchants crazy."

Zhao Xing stood up: "Leave as soon as possible - I am impatient with this boring banquet. Now I can still return before winter. As far as I know, the winter on that land is very cold."

Shuai Fan also stood up: "It's raining to beat the child, and it's still idle. Just go around the territory and can't catch golden sand, even if you catch some big fish."

Zhao Xing threw down the map in his hand and sighed and said, "I wanted to shoot a crane, but I didn't expect to catch a fish."
Chapter completed!