In terms of cultural development, Yamaguchi at this time was as famous as Kyoto.

In addition, the "Yamaguchi Culture" was open, and often published literary and religious books on the Ming Dynasty and Joseon, because the Ouchi clan monopolized the official trade between China and 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. An envoy can only bring three ships at a time, and often this time you send two boats, and next time it is my turn to send two ships to form a tributary mission to China.

Due to the strength of the Ouchi clan, most of the time, it is the Ouchi clan that sends out two boats.

As we said earlier, there was a Zhejiang businessman who was unable to supply goods, so he could only pay his son to the Japanese to pay for the goods. This son took refuge in the Hosokawa clan and changed his name to Zong Suqing (one said to be Song Suqing), because he was familiar with China's internal affairs, so he engaged in all kinds of riot operations.

For example, in the fourth year of Zhengde, the Hosokawa clan was unwilling to send only one boat, so Zong Suqing set off with a boat in advance. Moreover, Zong Suqing landed in Shandong, violated the regulations of the formal tributary process, and went directly to Beijing to bribe the eunuch Liu Li. At that time, Liu Jin was in power, and the bribe of 1,000 taels of gold actually allowed Zong Suqing to participate in the celebration banquet of the great worship of heaven and earth, which led to four exceptions for the Japanese tributary ships that year.

However, after the fall of Liu Jin, the Hosokawa clan, who had expanded their trade power by bribing the eunuchs, was immediately retaliated against by the civilian clique, and the official trade rights between China and Japan completely fell into the hands of the Ouchi clan.

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Bao Chaoxiang stayed in the Yamaguchikan for two months, and by the way, he learned some Japanese, and the Ouchi clan finally prepared 30,000 taels of silver.

In addition to silver, there were a thousand swords, a thousand folding fans, a thousand pounds of brass, and five hundred screens.

These are the local specialties of Japan, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty don't even look down on the screen, saying that the Japanese specialties are "only a knife and a fan". However, there was a lot of silver and brass, which were often used to buy Ming goods, and some Chinese merchant ships simply shipped silver back.

During this period, most of the subsequent fleets from Hangzhou also came to Fukuoka, and only 36 ships went to Nagasaki.

Although Fukuoka was not yet a castle at this time, it was the most developed area for foreign trade from the Yayoi period onwards, and it was the only official seaport in Japan for foreign countries.

Nagasaki is much more nonsense, it belongs to the nest of "Japanese pirates", and the Chinese maritime merchants who dare to land in Nagasaki are not serious.

As for Kyoto, Chinese maritime merchants did not dare to go there for the time being, because the Seto Inland Sea was full of pirates.

These pirates are the prototype of One Piece, and they are not in a position to trade in the oceans, and they lack ocean-going ships to plunder in China. They only dared to run rampant in the Seto Inland Sea, rob merchant ships in Japan, or land and sack the coastal areas of Japan.

The Tsushima family in the southwest corner of Japan, Zhejiang sea ships basically do not go.

Although the Tsushima family quietly engaged in Sino-Japanese trade, they did not take the most convenient shipping routes, but used the Ryukyus as a springboard to directly contact Fujian merchants. This route is the closest in a straight line, but without the help of ocean currents and monsoons, it is longer sailing and more prone to shipwreck.

More than 100 Chinese merchant ships arrived in Japan, which immediately caused a sensation in the "western country" and even spread the news to Kyoto.

With so much cargo, it was difficult for the Ouchi clan and Arima clan (Nagasaki) to eat alone. Osaka merchants were moved by the news and came to trade with the pirates of the Higashi Seto Inland Sea (the pirates of the Higashi Seto Inland Sea preferred offshore trade, and the pirates of the West Seto Inland Sea focused on robbery).

"Lord Angel, Lord Toyooka from Kyoto asks to see you!" The Japanese waiter trotted in with a letter in his hand.

The personal guards brought by Bao Chaoxiang took the greeting post and handed it over.

The content of the worship post is very interesting: Japanese king's heart study believers Fengoka Guiyang worship!

Shigong Wang Yangming's disciple in Japan?

Bao Chaoxiang felt very strange, and immediately smiled: "Please." ”

The original surname of Katsuyo Fengoka was Sanjo, and he was the third son of Sanjo Nishishi, the minister of the Muromachi shogunate. Both father and son studied Confucianism, and Fenggang Guiyang once followed the envoy group to China to pay tribute, and met Wang Yangming, who returned to his hometown and province in Ningbo (at that time, Wang Yangming was thrown to Nanjing by Yang Tinghe, and by the way, he returned to Yuyao from Ningbo by sea ship to visit relatives).

Fenggang Guiyang is one of the pioneers who introduced Wang Yangming's psychology to Japan.

This man was thin and short, less than 1.5 meters tall, and when he entered the house, he respectfully said: "Meet the angel of God!" ”

Bao Chaoxiang suddenly had a heart of intimacy, because the other party spoke Chinese fluently. He asked curiously, "Jun is a disciple of Yang Ming Gong?" ”

Fenggang Guiyang regretted: "I did not formally apprentice, I was fortunate to follow the Zen master of An, and listened to the teachings of Yang Ming Gong in Hangzhou. ”

The Zen master of the nunnery is the nunnery Guiwu.

The Japanese mission to China must have been a monk. An Guiwu has been a chief envoy for decades, and when he met Wang Yangming in Hangzhou, he was already over 80 years old. In the later generations of Japan's Santa Museum, there is still a true work of Wang Yangming, that is, "Sending Japan to make the monk return to the country".

A Confucian scholar in the Zhengde period once said: "Of the more than 500 countries that paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty in foreign countries, the only scholars were Japanese." "This Japanese specifically refers to An Guiwu.

An Guiwu is proficient in Zen Buddhism and Cheng Zhu science. He chatted with Wang Yangming and found that Wang Yangming actually combined Zen Buddhism with science, and was immediately shocked, and immediately took Fenggang Guiyang and other disciples to communicate with him every day.

Fenggang Guiyang said: "I heard that the angel is Wang Yangming's disciple again, and the contemptible people immediately rushed from Kyoto, hoping to ask the angel for his questions. ”

Bao Chaoxiang also studied the science of mind, but he was not proficient in it, he smiled and said: "I studied under the Wangmen School of Mind and Physics, specializing in physics. ”

"School of Physics?" Fenggang Guiyang was confused when he heard it.

Bao Chaoxiang could only explain: "The physics school was the first creation of Ruoxugong. The Great Dao follows the Yangming Mind, but pays more attention to the principle of all things, which is taken from Zhu Zi's 'Corresponding to all things with the reason of all'. As long as I can master the principles of all things, I can know the principles of heaven and enter the holy world. ”

Fenggang Guiyang asked, "How does your faction have a conscience?" ”

Bao Chaoxiang smiled and replied: "It's just the unity of qi and reason." The so-called unity of qi and reason is the unity of knowledge and action as Yang Minggong said. Reason is born before heaven and earth, and qi is conceived by reason and evolves all things. If the metaphysics is up, the qi is down, and the qi is straightened out, then all things in heaven and earth will not run against the ......"

Bao Chaoxiang described the purpose of the physics school, and Fenggang Guiyang was stunned on the spot. This seems to be a little different from Yang Minggong's psychology, is it really the same source of knowledge?

Fenggang Guiyang immediately sought advice for a few days, and was impressed by a few simple experiments, and immediately called friends to study together.

Bao Chaoxiang was so energetic that he gathered people to give lectures in the Yamaguchi Pavilion. Like his brother Bao Chaozhen, he is just a talent and fame, and the Four Books and Five Classics are quite solid, so he temporarily put aside mathematics and talked about the Japanese in retreat.

In particular, the clairvoyant mirror in his hand was regarded as a sacred object by Japanese students, and when they heard that it was made by the school of physics, they immediately asked Bao Chaoxiang to explain the relevant optics.

Although there were not many students attending the lectures due to language differences, the erudite name of Bao Chaoxiang spread rapidly.

Whenever these Japanese students asked for formal apprenticeship, Bao Chaoxiang refused: "I am just a pawn in the physics school, and my teacher's talent is ten thousand times better than mine." I've only learned some physical skins, so how can I have the face to open a museum and accept apprentices? ”

Everyone was convinced, and they were even more fascinated by Wang Yuan's own knowledge.

When the ship was repaired by the Fukuoka side, and the goods were sold and loaded onto the ship, the prime minister of the Bao Dynasty had already moved to the Yamaguchi Museum, and several Japanese disciples were willing to follow him to China.

Ouchi Yoshixing is also a civil and military all-rounder, and attaches great importance to his son's cultural education - later, because his son lost the war, he was not interested in fighting from then on, and he favored Wenchen all day long and attacked the generals.

"Lord Angel, my son Yoshitaka is ten years old, and he is very keen on literature and martial arts," Ouchi Yoshixing said to the prime minister of the Bao Dynasty, "I heard that Wang Shilang is both civil and military, I wonder if the dog can worship under Wang Shilang's door?" ”

Bao Chaoxiang said: "I can't call the shots in this matter. ”

Ouchi Yoshixing said with a smile: "Then let the dog go to Hangzhou with the angel and ask Wang Shilang to decide it himself." ”

Ouchi Yoshixing made a good calculation, he wanted to continue to dominate Sino-Japanese trade, and heard that Wang Yuan was the favorite of the great emperor at a young age, so he was eager to take advantage of this relationship. Sending his son to China to apprentice was only incidental, he also had to send a fleet to Hangzhou to trade, and the retainers would have a relationship with Wang Yuan in person.

In mid-November, Bao Chaoxiang led a fleet full of cargo and returned to China. He was also followed by five merchant ships of the Ouchi clan and a ten-year-old boy named Yoshitaka Ouchi.