Although Yue Lei was nervous and Xin Qiji was excited, everything was fine after they arrived in Heiankyo, Japan. There were really no ronin warriors or dignitaries who came to the post house to run wild. Even the formal reception dinner included Emperor Go-Shirakawa and the current emperor.
.It can be said to be extremely polite.
But not to mention a bunch of famous people in the mission, even the royal guards who came with them to the banquet felt that something was wrong with the father and son.
Since I don’t know which official agency to contact at the moment, I don’t have time to listen to their nonsense. Everyone goes out to collect information through different fields. This is also the diplomatic experience of the Song Dynasty over the years.
What I didn't expect was that the person who took the lead in Japan was not Xin Qiji, who was later known as the tiger in poetry. It was Lu Jiuyuan and Zhu Xi, two enemies.
To put it simply, both of them were born in Enyin. Zhu Xi is the adopted son of Liu Ziyu, deputy minister of the Privy Council, and Lu Jiuyuan is the younger brother of Lu Jiusi, the Minister of Rites. Both of them have been well-known figures since they were studying in the Imperial College, and both have their own opinions. Zhu Xi admires
Lu Hao asked King Lu Shen that "the laws of nature are physics", while Lu Jiuyuan believed that "the mind is the principles" and once said: "The universe is my heart, and my heart is the universe."
After they grew up a little, they would write articles to each other, criticize each other's views, and point out each other's flaws. It's hard to say that the Zhao Guan family sent them on a mission together this time because they didn't want them to get out of the way quickly so that they could have some peace and quiet while they went to Taixue.
But no matter what, they knew that they were not here to argue academically. After constant exchanges with Japanese Confucian scholars, they sorted out their own views and reported them to Yue Lei.
In terms of data analysis ability, Yue Lei is not good, but isn't this because of Xin Qiji? There is also Chen Liang, who has been spotted by the Military Statistics Department. He frowned and said: "It seems that the people of the Ping family did not lie to us.
Emperor Shirakawa has sole power, and the emperor is fighting with his father to seize power. In the past few years, the Japanese rebellion has been prevalent, and the status of the samurai family has greatly increased. But after the emperor came to the throne, he was determined to govern personally, so that the relationship with his father became more and more tense. In order to unite his strength, he
Even in spite of Emperor Go-Shirakawa's objections, he married Emperor Konoe's widowed concubine, his great-uncle, and his wife, thus ruining his relationship. Although this didn't sound good, the power behind it also made Emperor Go-Shirakawa very angry.
Headache."
Yue Lei was shocked by this relationship, but Lu Jiuyuan said: "Speaking of it, this small island country has a strange system. I heard that in the past few years, there was an emperor, an emperor, a king, and a king. They studied our Song Dynasty classics and calligraphy all day long.
Even painting, don’t you know that there are only two days between heaven and earth?”
It had become instinct for Zhu Xi to disagree with him, and he immediately retorted, "What does their bullshit system do? The key is that they fight like this, so that power is lost and the military is domineering, making our southeastern coast unclean. This matter
How to solve it? This is the purpose of this mission."
This is finally to the point. They are now facing a question, who has the final say in Japan, a small country? Who can stop the samurai from dressing up as Japanese pirates and robbing?
As for the Emperor, the Emperor, the Emperor, and the Fujiwara family, this matter is not the main goal they should worry about.
Although Yue Lei hesitated, after all, he had some opinions after many years of experience. After thinking about it, he said: "There are also many people these days. I posted here, and among them was the head of the Taira family, Taira Kiyomori. This person was the true heart of the official family back then.
Coming from a riding background, I most admire Wenhua of the Song Dynasty. Of course, his Ping family also holds a lot of shares in maritime trade, so he definitely doesn’t want pirates to rob him. If not, I’ll meet him first.”
This principle is like the Zhao Guan family designating several coastal ports. Then they do business with the designated Japanese families and the Imperial family. It is difficult for others to get a piece of the pie, which is why piracy incidents occur. But the problem is that this is not a temporary idea of the Zhao Guan family.
This was already decided when the Juehua Island Amnesty Treaty was signed.
Of course, as time has changed, this treaty may no longer be suitable for the relationship between the two countries, but the problem is that both the Song Dynasty and Japan feel that it is impossible for the Song Dynasty to change the treaty for the sake of Japan.
Don't ask, asking means national power and cultural invasion.
Do you know how many people in Japan from the emperor on down are pro-Song elements?
It happened that the Heike family was holding a plum appreciation gathering in winter, and Yue Lei took Xin Qiji and others there. Speaking of Bushido culture, we finally arrived at Xin Qiji's home field. He defeated all the noble children present with a wild goose-wing sword, and drank and drank to the death of everyone else.
Even though he was drunk, he was still there chanting plum blossoms. What made Pingqing Shengsheng even more happy was that he found that this great young man was actually a loyal fan of the Song Dynasty official family just like him. The two of them were so speculative that they wanted to
If Yue Lei had not stayed awake, Xin Qiji might have been recruited as his son-in-law by Ping Qingsheng.
Of course, the last sentence is a joke. The aesthetics of the island country are different from those of the Central Plains Dynasty. Anyway, the people from the Song Dynasty mission really don’t understand. What does it mean that these noble ladies have their teeth painted black? It looks very interesting.
The urge to run away!
But God's unfairness is that after Xin Qiji sobered up, he analyzed Yue Lei and others very objectively, "Yue Shaoqing, I don't think we need to contact the Ping family anymore."
Yue Lei was startled and said: "You'an, how do you say this?"
"The incident of Japanese pirates along the coast must have nothing to do with the Taira family. After all, everyone has said that in the trade with Japan, apart from the emperor's line, the Taira clan benefits the most. He cannot possibly ruin his own job. But the problem is, now
Although he is close to the Song Dynasty, he has no ability to restrain other families from engaging in piracy trade. Such a small country is divided into pieces, and it is difficult for anyone to make the decision. As long as we pass on the deterrence, we can probably be honest for a while. As for similar incidents happening again, I'm afraid
We still have to rely on the navy.”
What's more coincidental is that Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan, two enemies who had been arguing for a long time, could only agree with Xin Qiji's point of view. Unless they had Yue Yun's ability back then, they went to major families, found the Japanese pirates harboring them, and killed them.
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But when it came to Yue Yun, Xin Qiji thought that since he was already here, he had to promote the country's prestige no matter what. So he studied it very seriously, and after having in-depth exchanges with the people in the Zhang family's caravan, he invited the heads of several major families.
Visit the Song Dynasty Ship.
It has to be said that Zhang Jun spent the rest of his life dealing with maritime trade, but if we look at it from later generations, his contribution to the Song Dynasty's naval career was really huge.
In order to prevent pirates and ensure shipping routes, he has renovated every aspect of his ships. Almost every merchant ship is built according to the requirements of a warship. Yue Lei and the others in the fleet on this trip have the latest triangular sails.
In conjunction with the artificial power wheel, it ensures navigation under any circumstances. There are specially mounted small steel cannons on the ship, and there are soldiers from the Imperial Navy or Navy on board each ship to cooperate.
Of course, the last item was Xin Qiji's idea of letting people from the Zhang family trade group make a temporary guest appearance. Anyway, as long as the number is controlled within a certain range, you can go back and apologize to the officials.
Japan has been in chaos all these years, but under the leadership of Taira Kiyomori, it is conceivable that several major families were shocked when they saw these excellent navies. Shaoqing Yue Lei read out the oral edict of Zhao Guan's family here.
They kowtowed repeatedly, saying that they would abide by the laws of the Song Dynasty, engage in peaceful business, and resist piracy.
All in all, in the spring of the thirty-fourth year of Jianyan's reign, the Song Dynasty envoy followed the ocean current and sailed back to the Tianjin port, and entered Yanjing to report the results to Zhao Guan's family.
As a result, Zhao Guan's family looked at Xin Qiji for a long time, and actually felt a little regretful. You have historically been able to take the heads of thieves and bandits out of an army, but why can't you do it now? They didn't expect that they didn't give him room to develop.
But no matter what, they had completed their mission this time, so they all received rewards, and Xin Qiji's official position was officially awarded. But when they arrived in Kansai, which they were not very familiar with, they were in charge of the imperial camp and the army.
Huai's subordinates became the head of every one of them.
He didn't know that when he took the document and took office, the army leader Tang Dutong had already received a secret letter from the officials, ordering him to be placed in the most difficult place where personal cohesion could best be demonstrated.
Then where else could there be for the imperial army under his control? Of course, the Tubo tribes south of Qingtang and west of Dali were supposed to have surrendered to the Song Dynasty one by one, but they were changes to the Song Dynasty.
The Tuguiliu policy was very contradictory. He also continued to instigate the Heiman Yang family, the Bozhou Yang family and the Luo family to cause trouble.
Thanks to the fact that the children of these families were studying in Tokyo and Yanjing, they knew how terrifying the Song Dynasty’s military power was, so they didn’t follow them into chaos.
But Tang Huai, who is not young anymore, is a little worried. Is it okay for such a young man?
Xin Qiji quickly used his ability to tell his superiors that he could do it.