"The Dog Slave Kingdom? What the hell is this name? You can't mean it because you don't know how to translate and are you trying to trick me?" Gan Ning looked at the Hu translator in front of him questioningly.
However, those who are familiar with Gan Ning will know that this tone is just his normal provocation, and does not necessarily mean he is really angry.
However, the few state barbarians in front of them were shocked when they heard this. They prostrated themselves and said: "Grand Governor, how dare I deceive you? These Amato people are so strange. I have tried my best to translate it as honestly and elegantly as possible.
Got it!"
I have to say that this translator is very good, and even knows "Xindaya", and... these people are rare in Zhouhu, and they can speak Chinese, Amato, and there are not many translators in Zhouhu.
That's right, Gan Ning was in the legendary "Qiuzhou" at this time, which was the westernmost Kyushu Island among the four major islands of the island nation in later generations!
Starting from Jeju Island, also known as "Juhu", and heading to Kyushu Island, the sea distance is actually about the same as the southern end of Kuaiji to the northern end of Yizhou, but the wind direction is more difficult to use.
But for Gan Ning, who already had rich sailing experience, it was nothing...
For more than half a year, Gan Ning traveled from Qingzhou to Zhouhu State and then to Youzhou, inspecting various enclave ports in Chu State. Then he continued eastward from Zhouhu State and found Danzhou, completing the sea map!
With such a close distance, although the Amato people are still in the transitional era from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, there are already contacts between the Zhouhu people and the Amato people.
Even in Jiangdong, there are reports that people from Ganzhou came to the shore for trading from time to time. The main "commodity" they dealt with was Ganzhou slaves.
Unlike the Zhou Hu people, at this time there was no unified kingdom in Danzhou, or on the four major islands of the island country.
Instead, there are dozens or hundreds of tribal countries, large and small. Among them, on Kyushu Island in the west, the strongest tribe is the "Gunnu Kingdom". The king is called "Hemi Gonghu", but the actual power lies in the title of his position.
It is in the hands of powerful ministers who are "old dogs, wise dogs".
Gan Ning couldn't complain about the translation of this name, and it was inconvenient to remember. The king of Bizhou Hu was called "Star Lord", and the general was called "Prince". It was too difficult to pronounce, so he directly announced: "Then
From now on, the name of the Chu State here will be Xiquan State, the king will be called Xiquan King, and the powerful minister will be called Xiquan General!"
"Dog slave... no, the king and people of the Western Dog Kingdom will definitely be grateful to the Governor for his generous name!" Translator Zhou Hu said excitedly.
Although it had nothing to do with him, he still pretended to be grateful. After all, in the eyes of the Hu people in Zhou, the Chu people were invincible.
"The West Dog Kingdom is the most powerful country in Tanzhou?" Gan Ning asked next.
"No, the West Dog Kingdom is the strongest country in the west of Danzhou, but further northeast of Danzhou, on a larger land, there is another country that is not inferior to the West Dog Kingdom, called Yamatai
, their queen is called Beiliuhu." Translator Zhou Hu said quickly.
"What kind of platform is Yamatai? What a humble name... From now on, it will be called Dongma Kingdom, Dongma King." Gan Ning curled his lips and said, obviously not interested in these awkward names.
At this time, the two most powerful countries on the four islands of Ganzhou were the West Dog Kingdom in the west and the Dongma Kingdom in the east.
Of course, the productivity of Ganzhou civilization was not yet able to support the emergence of a centralized state. The form was more like that of the Shang Dynasty when there were many tribes and clans, and the Western Dogs and the Eastern Horses only had more vassals.
Because it is next to the Fried Seafood Peninsula and Zhouhu, a small island with a science and technology tree on the sea, Danzhou civilization can now be influenced by some Chinese civilization, even if there is no official exchange between the two...
This made the Danzhou civilization almost surpass the Bronze Age and directly transition from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age. However, the humanities were still very backward and there was no decent writing.
Historically, it was after Cao Pi proclaimed the emperor that the Danzhou civilization actually sent an envoy to the Wei State to pay homage to the Queen of Yamatai, who was named the "Japanese King of the Pro-Wei Dynasty" by Cao Pi - this was also the first time that the word "Japanese" was attached to Dan.
The head of Zhou Wenming is half of the character "Wei" plus the character "personal".
At this point, Ganzhou civilization developed even more rapidly, and a hundred years later, the representative country of Yamato appeared...
Just because of the lack of written records, even before Bai Tu crossed over, the islanders themselves could not know for sure whether Yamato Country was the continuation of Yamatai or the Inu Nu Country, but the voice of the former was higher.
The emperor who is known as the "Eternal Lineage" finally officially "discovered this person" in the fifteenth generation, that is, during the Yamato Kingdom. Unlike the previous fourteen, not only was there no evidence of his existence, but the more archaeological discoveries he made, the more evidence he found.
, there is no space for its existence, it looks like it was made up...
The name "Yamato" was also given by Prince Shotoku a few hundred years later based on Confucius' saying that "rituals are used and harmony is the most precious".
In fact, the pronunciation has always been "Amato", but in writing, it was originally written as "Japanese" and later rewritten as "Yamato".
It was only after the Yamato Kingdom that the concept of Yamato people came into being, just like after the Han Dynasty, the main ethnic groups in China began to call themselves Han people. As for race, the Yamato people should be the native Jomon people, mixed with some Han people who traveled east, and
The Buyeo people, the three Koreans who came from the Seafood Peninsula, are an ethnic group formed later.
Bai Tu didn't "spoiler" too much for Gan Ning, otherwise it would appear too mysterious... More importantly, Bai Tu didn't know as much as Gan Ning does now!
After all, the island countries of later generations also have disputes about where Yamatai is, and there are several versions.
Some people say that both Yamatai and the Inu Kingdom are on Kyushu Island. From this theory, it is divided into the following: Yamatai defeated the Inu Kingdom, which gradually developed into the Yamato of later generations, and after Yamatai defeated the Inu Kingdom, the remnants of the Inu Kingdom
Moving eastwards, it developed into the Great Harmony of later generations, and the Gonu Kingdom defeated Yamatai and developed into the Great Harmony of later generations...
Not to mention the fact that Yamatai is on Honshu Island, Inunu Kingdom is on Kyushu Island, and vice versa, both scenarios can open up many possibilities, which can be called an enumeration of historical perspectives.
Because Ganzhou did not have a detailed history at this time, the clearest record of Yamatai comes from a few fragments in the "Book of Wei".
As for the later years when Chinese civilization did not specifically record Ganzhou civilization, and Yamatai itself experienced civil strife, no one knows what happened in Ganzhou.
But now Gan Ning's arrival has finally ended the Schrödinger state in Danzhou.
No matter what happened before Shirotu traveled through time, in the Johime world, Danzhou's current situation is that the West Dog Kingdom is the strongest on Kyushu Island, and the East Horse Kingdom is the strongest on Honshu Island. There are dozens and hundreds of tribal countries, large and small, and
In Hokkaido, the Ezo people live.
In total, the Ezo people are also indigenous to the four islands of Kanshu, but they are even more backward in civilization. They were constantly invaded and enslaved by the Amato people, and were forced to move to the north little by little...
After listening to several translators introducing the customs and customs of Ganzhou to himself, Gan Ning directly used his power as "Navy Commander" to give the place a Chinese name since it was just a matter of translation anyway.
Gan Ning had just landed at this time and did not have a deep idea of the area of Ganzhou. After all, the Hu people in Zhou did not have a map and only used words to describe it. Gan Ning, who had traveled to the sea for a long time, understood best the geography described by adjectives.
The principle that "the position is the least trustworthy" means that it can easily be thousands of miles away, and the description of "one hundred thousand miles away" is not reliable at all!
But in the next two months, Gan Ning will become excited - Danzhou is different from Yizhou. It is said to be a "state", but Yizhou and the Thirteen Han Prefectures are not the same concept at all, and the area is at best a county...
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However, Danzhou...
Compared with Jingzhou, Yangzhou, and Yizhou, they are smaller in area, but the four islands together are enough to rival a state in the Central Plains in area!