Ji Shiju rode his horse and followed Fang Jun, browsing the prosperous street scene of the Tang Dynasty imperial capital. Hearing the words, he laughed and said: "Aren't you that idiot Inugami? The emperor of your country spoke so fiercely in a piece of national letter that it made His Majesty the Emperor miserable. After some warnings, His Majesty the Emperor became angry, but also frightened. Although he knew that the Tang Dynasty was now planning a new attack on Goguryeo, who knew that after Goguryeo was pacified, he would take advantage of the situation and directly attack the main island of Japan? Therefore, he sent me here with fifty virgins. "
Fang Junqi asked: "There are only fifty virgins? Nothing else?"
Ji Shiju said with a smile: "What else do you expect? The Japanese country is very poor, otherwise it would not be red-eyed to snatch the land of our Ezo people. The Emperor looks majestic, but in fact he lives in The palace is just a wooden house, and the silk clothes are only worn when worshiping ancestors... The Japanese country is so poor that it only has people."
Fang Jun suddenly realized that it seemed that the Japanese country had never been rich in ancient times. Even in the later "Meiji Restoration", the monarchs and ministers tightened their belts together and laid a solid foundation for the country. , the Qing Dynasty paid 200 million taels of silver as compensation, and then it suddenly started to tremble, and it was out of control on the road to enriching the country and strengthening the army...
However, Fang Jun also knew that the Japanese came to pay tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty and specially selected beautiful women as tribute.
"Book of the Later Han Dynasty" records: "In the first year of Yongchu reign of Emperor An, the Japanese king Shuai Sheng and others offered their lives to a hundred and sixty people, and would like to see them." The Japanese country was so poor that it only had 160 beautiful women, which made the emperor dumbfounded. Later. The tribute paid by the Japanese country during the Three Kingdoms period was even more bizarre. The Japanese country was in a state of warlord rule at the time. A queen named Himihu wanted to ask the Han Dynasty for help. However, when she arrived, she discovered that the Han Dynasty had been divided into three parts, so Himihu's envoy came to the Wei Dynasty. country, and donated four men and six women to the State of Wei...
Forget it if you give it to a woman, what does it mean to give it to a man?
Emperor Wei was not a manly man, but in view of Himihu's sincerity, he praised the envoy and gave a large number of things in return. Including 200 pieces of high-quality cloth of all kinds, eight taels of gold, bronze mirrors, pearls and other practical objects.
The Japanese envoy is going crazy with joy...
Just giving a few beauties as gifts in exchange for so many items must be because the emperor of the Han Dynasty liked Japanese beauties! In order to please the emperor of the Central Plains, all the tributes from the Japanese state were almost beauties, and they never tired of the same tributes. , in order to get more valuable things from the Central Plains.
However, because the Japanese country had not yet produced writing at that time, and the warlords' fighting later caused all the only documents to be destroyed, these events are almost impossible to find in modern times, so they are not recorded. However, one can be found in Chinese history books. Second, some Japanese scholars strongly deny the historical fact of paying tribute to beautiful women.
Because they think it would be extremely embarrassing to send beautiful women as tribute...
The two of them talked and laughed all the way. Ji Shiju and Fang Jun talked about the situation in the Japanese country and the various achievements of the Ezo people in resisting the Japanese after receiving secret funding from the Tang Dynasty. Then they went straight to the Ministry of War Yamen.
As envoys of the Japanese Kingdom, outside of Honglu Temple, central government offices such as the Ministry of War would not allow them to enter, even if they stood at the door. Although the officials of the Tang Dynasty had some of the arrogance and hypocrisy of the Chinese Empire, they were definitely not allowed to enter. In front of the barbarians, we should show the superiority of the ceremonial state of the Central Plains dynasty, but it is definitely not like the kneeling posture of "I, the Qing Dynasty" in front of the "foreign grandfather". This is fundamentally different.
Therefore, Ji Shiju couldn't hide his excitement and curiosity, so he looked around after entering the Yamen.
When he thought about it, the Li Hu Li Bing Xing Gong was the yamen responsible for specific government affairs in the Tang Empire, covering almost all aspects. The Ministry of Personnel was in charge of officials, the Ministry of Husbandry was in charge of money, the Ministry of Punishment was in charge of criminal investigations, and the Ministry of Work was in charge of maintenance and construction. So, then
As the name suggests, the Ministry of War should be the center of military affairs in the Tang Dynasty...
How strong was the military of the Tang Dynasty?
When the arrogant Turkic Wolf Cavalry was chased by the military god of the Tang Dynasty and fled to the north, it meant that there was no military strength in the world that could resist the Tang Dynasty. It can be said that as long as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty wanted to destroy anyone,
, then who can be destroyed!
The current view of the Tang Dynasty by various countries is that it is a well-deserved superpower. When the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty wanted to conquer the east, except for the sticks of Goguryeo, he thought he could drag millions of Sui troops into the quagmire. There was no one in the world.
It is believed that Goguryeo can withstand the invincible military front of the Tang Dynasty.
After all, although the Sui army was very powerful back then, the domestic political situation at that time was turbulent and there were many factions in the army. Although it had super strength, it was unable to exert its full strength. The defeat was understandable. However, the current Tang Dynasty is not what it used to be.
In the Great Sui Dynasty, His Majesty Li Er was wise and powerful. Although there were some clans and clans that were bound to each other, the generals in the army were all fierce generals who followed His Majesty Li Er to bring peace to the world. They obeyed His Majesty Li Er. How could a mere corner of Goguryeo resist?
The mantis is acting like a chariot, just overestimating its own capabilities...
What kind of secret place is it to command millions of people as the center of the most powerful army in the world? On the one hand, Ji Shiju was grateful to Fang Jun for not treating him as a Japanese and could show him the most core secrets of the Tang Dynasty. On the other hand, he was shocked.
Eyeball, I hope that I can learn from some, even if it is just a little bit of operation mode, it can bring incredible progress to the extremely backward Ezo people...
But how did he know that the current Ministry of War is just in name only? What it handles all day long is nothing more than the transportation of grain and grass, the supply of baggage, and the deployment of weapons...
*****
Liu Shi hurriedly arrived at the Yamen of the Ministry of War. As soon as he entered, he attracted everyone's attention...
"Ouch, what's wrong?"
Guo Fushan raised his round belly, looked at the bruises on Liu Shi's eyes, and asked curiously.
Cui Dunli, the staff doctor, was walking out of the check-in room holding a small teapot. When he saw this, he smiled and said: "Could it be that I went to Pingkangfang to drink flower wine yesterday, and my sister-in-law showed off her power when I got home? Haha,
It is said that the girls from the Liu family in Hedong are all fierce and smart, but I didn’t expect that the wife I married back was also very fierce, haha.”
All the colleagues laughed together, full of ridicule...
Liu Shi blushed and said angrily: "What's the matter? Don't say that I have been slapped on the back of the head for the past few days and have no time to go to Pingkangfang. Even if I went, who in the family would dare to make a noise?"
Cui Dunli asked with a smile: "Then what's the reason for the injury on your face?"
Liu Shi touched his eyes, which were still burning. He was extremely depressed and said in a low voice, "What does it have to do with you? Has the servant ever come to the Yamen?"
Then someone said: "Here you are, leading a Japanese man to the guard room."
Liu Shi asked curiously: "How did you bring the Japanese here?"
"He is the Zuo Shilang. If the Master is not there, he will be the number one. Who cares who he brings? Even if the yamen is demolished, it will not care about our affairs."
Liu Shi glanced at this sinister guy and didn't answer.
Every yamen is like a river and lake. No matter how big or small the yamen is, there are always people who look at the heights of that mountain, just like Liu Shi, who was as dissatisfied as he was at the beginning. But not everyone can be like him and be killed by Fang Jun as soon as he jumps out.
He hit them head-on, suppressed them tightly, and did not dare to move at all. It was not that Fang Jun was targeting him, but that compared to him, those people were simply not worth Fang Jun's efforts to target.
I don’t know whether I should be grateful to be respected by Fang Jun, or should I be sad about why Fang Jun doesn’t distinguish between rewards and punishments, and can’t level a bowl of water. Why was he so cruel to me in the first place, but turned a blind eye to these people?
Liu Shi ignored the sore-teethed man, nodded slightly to Guo Fushan and Cui Dunli, and went straight to Fang Jun's check-in room.
In the duty room, Fang Jun was handling official duties, and Ji Shiju was sitting aside drinking tea, looking around with chattering eyes...
When he heard the sound of footsteps, Fang Jun raised his head from his desk and saw Liu Shi with dark eyes.
"Hey, what's wrong? Are you being cooked by your sister-in-law?" Fang Jun teased.
Liu Shi was speechless...
Why this sentence again?
Mom, do I look like he is henpecked?
Furthermore, even if I am really afraid of my wife, others can laugh at me, but how can you, Fang Jun, have the qualifications?
Speaking of henpecking, your father is probably the originator of henpecking in the world...
Liu Shi's face was very ugly. Of course he didn't dare to confront Fang Jun and say, "Your father is afraid of his wife." Wouldn't that be courting death?
But in the end, he couldn't calm down. He pointed at his black eye sockets and the scratches on his cheeks, and said in a low voice: "Did you see it? Here, it was the fist of that boy He Ruoming, and here, it was the blow of that boy Yu Wenjian.
It was scratched. If the official hadn’t been able to hide quickly, his face would have been stained..."
Fang Jun asked curiously: "Who is Yu Wenjian?"
Liu Shi said depressedly: "Who else could it be? The son of Yu Wenbi, the former Minister of Civil Affairs of the Sui Dynasty... A while ago, His Majesty adjusted the officials in various construction agencies. He Ruoming replaced Wen Shutong as the military supervisor, and the current Shaofu supervisor,
It’s Yu Wenjian!!”
Come on, is there anything else Fang Jun doesn’t understand?
One is the Supervisor of the Ordnance Supervisor, and the other is the Supervisor of the Shaofu Supervisor. These two people can use their old fists against Liu Shibao regardless of their status, and the former is Liu Shizhi's best friend. So there can be no other reason. It must be.
Liu Shi lost his integrity in poaching people and made these two people furious...
Fang Jun smiled awkwardly, feeling a little embarrassed. After all, he was the one who forced Liu Shi to do this.
The guilty conscience only lasted for a short while. In fact, Fang Jun didn't have much of a conscience, so he immediately asked excitedly: "How are you recruiting talents?"
To be able to make the chief officials of the two highest manufacturing yamen in the Tang Dynasty so angry that they beat them up must have been poaching to the point where they couldn't stand it...