In terms of cultural development, Yamaguchi at this time was as famous as Kyoto.
Moreover, "Yamaguchi Culture" is open and often publishes literary and religious books from the Ming Dynasty and North Korea. This is because the Ouchi family monopolized the official trade between China, Japan, and North Korea.
Both the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan "respected" the Muromachi shogunate and originally shared the official trade rights between China and Japan. They could only bring three ships on a mission. Often, you send two ships this time, and it is my turn to send two next time.
ships and jointly formed a tribute mission to China.
Due to the strong strength of the Ouchi clan, most of the time it was the Ouchi clan who sent out two ships.
As we mentioned before, there was a Zhejiang businessman who was unable to supply goods well, so he had to pay his son to the Japanese to receive the goods. The son took refuge with the Hosokawa family and changed his name to Zong Suqing (some say called Song Suqing). Because he was familiar with China's internal affairs, he
Do all sorts of naughty things.
For example, in the fourth year of Masanori, the Hosokawa family was unwilling to send only one ship, so Zong Suqing took a ship and set off in advance. Moreover, Zong Suqing landed in Shandong, violated the formal tribute process, and went directly to Beijing to bribe the eunuch Liu Li. Liu Jin was in power at that time
, a bribe of one thousand taels of gold actually allowed Zong Suqing to attend the celebration banquet for the Great Sacrifice of Heaven and Earth, which resulted in four exceptions for the Japanese tribute ships that year.
However, after Liu Jin was overthrown, the Hosokawa family, who had expanded their trade rights by bribing eunuchs, was immediately retaliated by the civil service group, and the official trade rights between China and Japan completely fell into the hands of the Ouchi family.
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Prime Minister Bao Chao stayed in Yamaguchi Hall for two months and learned some Japanese. The Ouchi family finally prepared thirty thousand taels of silver.
In addition to silver, there are a thousand swords, a thousand folding fans, a thousand pounds of brass, and five hundred screens.
These were the local specialties of Japan. Ming merchants even looked down on screens, saying that Japanese specialties were "just a knife and a fan." There was a lot of silver and brass, which were often used to buy goods from the Ming Dynasty. Some Chinese merchant ships simply shipped the silver back directly.
During this period, most of the subsequent fleets departing from Hangzhou came to Fukuoka, and only thirty-six ships went to Nagasaki.
Although Fukuoka had not yet been built as a city at this time, it had been the most developed area for foreign trade since the Yayoi period and was Japan's only official seaport with foreign countries.
Nagasaki is much more nonsense. This place is the home base of "Japanese pirates", and the Chinese merchants who dare to land in Nagasaki are not serious.
As for Kyoto, Chinese merchants dare not go there for the time being because the Seto Inland Sea is full of pirates.
These pirates are the prototypes of the creation of "One Piece". They have no conditions at all for ocean-going trade, and they lack ocean-going ships to rob China. They only dare to run rampant in the Seto Inland Sea, rob Japanese merchant ships, or go ashore to loot Japanese coastal areas.
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The Tsushima family in the southwestern corner of Japan and Zhejiang sea ships basically don’t go there.
Although the Tsushima family secretly carried out Sino-Japanese trade, they did not take the most convenient waterway. Instead, they used Ryukyu as a springboard to directly contact Fujian merchants. This waterway is the shortest in a straight line, but without the help of ocean currents and monsoons, the sailing date is actually longer.
, and are more likely to suffer shipwrecks.
More than a hundred Chinese merchant ships arrived in Japan, which immediately caused a sensation in the "Western Kingdom" and the news even spread to Kyoto.
With such a large amount of goods, it was difficult for the Ouchi clan and the Arima clan (Nagasaki) to eat alone. Osaka merchants took notice and joined forces with pirates from the East Seto Inland Sea to trade (pirates from the East Seto Inland Sea liked offshore trade)
, the pirates in the West Seto Inland Sea focus on robbery).
"Lord Angel, Lord Hougang from Kyoto wants to see you!" The Japanese waiter bent down and trotted in with a letter of greeting in his hand.
The personal bodyguard brought by Prime Minister Bao took the invitation and handed it over.
The content of the greeting post is very interesting: Hougang Guiyang, a follower of the Japanese King Menshin School, worships!
Master Wang Yangming’s disciple in Japan?
Prime Minister Bao Chao felt very strange and immediately smiled and said: "Please."
Hougang Keiya's original surname was Sanjo, and he was the third son of Sanjo Nishi Shitaka, a minister in the Muromachi shogunate. Both father and son studied Confucianism. Hougang Keiya went to China with the envoys to pay tribute, and met Hui in Ningbo.
Wang Yangming, who was visiting relatives in his hometown (at that time, Wang Yangming was thrown to Nanjing by Yang Tinghe, and he took a sea ship from Ningbo back to Yuyao to visit relatives).
Fenggang Guiyang was one of the pioneers who introduced Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind to Japan.
This man was thin and short, less than 1.5 meters tall. After entering the room, he bowed respectfully and said, "Meet the angel of heaven!"
Prime Minister Bao Chao immediately felt close to him because he spoke Chinese fluently. He asked out of curiosity: "Are you a disciple of Duke Yangming?"
Fenggang Guiyang regretted: "I did not formally become a disciple. I was fortunate enough to follow Zen Master An and listen to the teachings of Yangming Gong in Hangzhou."
Zen Master Liao'an is Liao'an Guiwu.
The envoy sent by Japan to pay tribute to China must be a monk. Liaoan Guiwu had been the envoy for several decades. When he met Wang Yangming in Hangzhou, he was already over eighty years old. Later, the Mita Museum in Japan
, and also preserves Wang Yangming's original work, namely "Preface to the Return of Monk Zhengjiangan of Japan".
A Confucian scholar in the Zhengde period once said: "Of the more than 500 foreign countries that paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, the only scholars were Japanese." This Japanese specifically refers to An Guiwu.
Liao'an Guiwu was proficient in Zen knowledge and Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. When he chatted with Wang Yangming, he found that Wang Yangming actually combined Zen Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism. He was immediately shocked and immediately took Fenggang Guiyang and other disciples to communicate with him every day.
Fenggang Guiyang said: "I heard that Angel is Wang Yangming's disciple again, so I immediately came from Kyoto, hoping to ask Angel's mind questions."
Bao Chaoxiang also studied mind science, but was not proficient in it. He smiled and said: "I studied under the Wangmen School of Mind Science and Physics, specializing in physics."
"Physics school?" Fenggang Guiyang was confused.
Baochaoxiang could only explain: "The School of Physics was founded by Ruoxu Gong. The Tao follows Yangming's philosophy of mind, but pays more attention to the principles of all things, which is taken from Zhu Zi's 'having many principles to respond to all things'. The extremes of physics are everywhere
Also, my heart knows everything, and as long as I can master the principles of all things, I can understand the principles of heaven and become a saint."
Fenggang Guiyang asked: "How does your sect achieve conscience?"
Baochao smiled and replied: "It's just the unity of Qi and Li. The so-called unity of Qi and Li means the unity of knowledge and action as mentioned by Yangming Gong. Li comes before heaven and earth, and Qi is conceived in Li and evolves all things. Li is from the top, Qi is from the bottom, and Qi is connected.
If it is straightened out, everything in the world will run smoothly..."
Prime Minister Bao Chao described the tenets of the School of Physics, and Fenggang Guiyang was dumbfounded on the spot. This seems to be a little different from Yangminggong's philosophy. Is it really a knowledge that comes from the same source?
Fenggang Guiyang immediately sought advice for several days. He was impressed by a few simple experiments and immediately called on his friends to study together.
Bao Chaoxiang was so deceived that he actually gathered a crowd to give lectures at Yamaguchi Hall. Like his brother Bao Chaozhen, he was only a scholar with a reputation as a scholar. He had a solid grasp of the Four Books and Five Classics. For the time being, he put aside mathematics and talked about mysteries with the Japanese.
Especially the telescope in his hand was regarded as a sacred object by Japanese students. When they heard that it was made by the school of physics, they immediately asked Prime Minister Bao Chao to explain the relevant optics.
Within ten months, although there were not many students attending the lectures due to language differences, Prime Minister Bao's reputation for erudition quickly spread.
Whenever these Japanese students asked to formally become their disciples, Prime Minister Baochao refused: "I am just a member of the physics school. My teacher Ruoxugong is ten thousand times more talented than me. I have only learned some superficial knowledge of physics, how can I be so honorable?"
Where are the apprentices in the hall?"
Everyone admired him and were fascinated by Wang Yuan's knowledge.
When the ship was repaired in Fukuoka, the goods were sold and goods were purchased and loaded on the ship, the Prime Minister had already made a name for himself in the Yamaguchi Hall, and several Japanese disciples were willing to follow him to China.
Ouchi Yoshihiro was also a versatile man in both civil and military affairs, and attached great importance to his son's cultural education. Later, his son lost the war and was no longer interested in fighting. He favored civil servants all day long and attacked military generals. Tao Qingxian and a group of military generals ousted him, so he fled and committed suicide.
fate.
"Lord Angel, my son Yoshitaka is only ten years old. He is very passionate about literature and martial arts," Ouchi Yoshihiro said to Prime Minister Hoshino. "I heard that the king's minister is both civilized and military. I wonder if Inuzi can become a disciple of the king's minister?"
Prime Minister Bao Chao said: "I can't make the decision on this matter."
Ouchi Yoshihiro said with a smile: "Then let Inuzi go to Hangzhou with the angel and ask Wang Shilang to make a decision in person."
Ouchi Yoshihiro had a good plan. He wanted to continue to dominate Sino-Japanese trade. He also heard that Wang Yuan was a favorite of Emperor Daeming at a young age, so he was eager to build this relationship. He sent his son to China.
Apprenticeship was just incidental, he also sent a fleet to Hangzhou for trading, and his retainers established relations with Wang Yuan in person.
In mid-November, Prime Minister Hoso led a fleet back to China loaded with cargo. They were accompanied by five merchant ships belonging to the Ouchi clan and a ten-year-old boy named Yoshitaka Ouchi.