Section 368 Reward for the great and small
The Japanese people were uprooted from their homes, and the people were miserable, and Yan Dashao and Tokugawa Iemitsu were deaf to the two of them, and they were staggering in the five-story castle tower of Edo Castle to congratulate the victory of the bilateral regime!
Although the shogunate suffered a lot of losses in the battle with the Satsuma domain, Tokugawa Iemitsu was quite satisfied with this cooperation, and the losses were much less than in the previous wars!
The key is that the results of the war were brilliant, the rebellion was quelled, the shogunate gained prestige, and he who had just completely taken power sat on the throne, and the greater benefit was to weaken Choshu, Hizen, and Tosa, and seriously weaken the Satsuma domain!
Therefore, Tokugawa Iemitsu "Dragon Heart Dayue" warmly invited Yan Dashao to Edo as a guest and entertained him well, and Yan Dashao happily accepted the invitation.
He has institutional constraints, that is, he can't go ashore if it's not the territory of the southeast province, this time he gave face to Tokugawa Iemitsu, and Tokugawa Iemitsu also made an exception to let Yan Dashao lead troops into the city, and 2,000 guards surrounded the castle tower.
In general, the castle tower occupies an important position in the armament of the Japanese kingdom, and it is often built on the commanding heights, and the castle tower itself is built high, and Yan Changwu and Tokugawa Iemitsu drank in the castle tower, and the surrounding scenery was fully appreciated.
The Miyagi castle built by the shogunate is about 5.5 kilometers from east to west and 4 kilometers from north to south, and is surrounded by an inner moat and an outer moat, and the outer moat is about 16 kilometers in circumference. There are two layers of city outline, and the total area of the inner outline is 2.64 million square meters.
The castle is a magnificent building, with 20 prospective buildings, 36 castle gates, and palaces such as Honmaru, Ninomaru, Sannomaru, and Nishinomaru.
Belonging to the classical pavilion, the elegant palace is hidden in the lush shade, looking at the towering pines and cypresses and the spacious and clean lawn, I have to admit that the Japanese culture has a unique place, and it is really enjoyable to enjoy the scenery while drinking here.
Edo Castle in the 17th century was approaching its heyday, and it was about to transform into a city with a population of 1 million in 888 towns!
During the Edo period, nearly 300 daimyo from all over Japan were required to go to Edo every other year to meet the shogun and live in Edo for a year.
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Yan Dashao and Tokugawa Iemitsu ate and drank very happily, Tokugawa Iemitsu knew that Dashao was Dashao, what hadn't you eaten? So he used the best and freshest food in the Wa Kingdom to entertain Yan Changwu: Puffer Fish Feast!
Fugu sashimi, fugu hot pot, fugu porridge, fugu sushi and more!
Although there are psychological preparations (the dishes before the banquet must have been communicated), and there are chefs who cook and Tokugawa Iemitsu to eat first, Yan Dashao is worried in his heart, don't get desperate to eat pufferfish.
In the mouth, it is delicious, and it is indeed a fatal delicacy!
Yan Changwu was not poisoned, and the chef who cooked them a puffer fish feast had been strictly trained, and the toxins had already been removed when cooking.
With such a delicious thing, Yan Changwu almost wanted Tokugawa Iemitsu to transfer the chef to him----- and finally it was the Southeast Prefecture that sent three chefs to study abroad, and since then, the Southeast Prefecture has also become popular to eat puffer fish.
The master was sincere and earnest, and frequently persuaded him to eat, seeing that Yan Changwu was eating heroically, the master nodded again and again, and he talked about the reward for Yan Changwu, one million taels of silver!
"Big brother, you and my brother, it hurts my feelings to talk about money!" Yan Changwu said politely.
Don't want money, it's nothing, before he plundered Choshu, Hizen and Tosa, the country lacked everything, that is, there was a lot of silver, and he had already harvested millions of taels of silver, plus the population of the four feudatories, that was a slave, he didn't have to pay the kind of work, both people and money, it was rare for him to turn around and not be greedy for money.
"Oh, don't you hear about 'Zigong redeeming slaves, Zilu receiving cattle', how can you not be rewarded for doing good deeds!" Tokugawa Iemitsu was dumbfounded when he spoke, and he didn't know what people were saying!
Tokugawa Iemitsu was on the way, but he didn't expect that he, a native of the country, knew this allusion, but Yan Changwu, a Chinese, didn't know!
He had to explain that the so-called 'Zigong redeems slaves, Zilu receives cattle' is a law of the Lu State in the Spring and Autumn Period: if the Lu people see their compatriots in a foreign country suffering misfortune and become slaves, as long as they can redeem these people and help them regain their freedom, they can receive compensation and rewards from the state.
Zigong, a student of Confucius, ransomed the Lu people from foreign countries, but refused compensation from the state. Confucius said: "Ci (Duanmu Ci, i.e. Zigong), you are wrong! Receiving compensation from the state will not damage your character; But if he does not receive compensation, there will be no one in Lu to redeem his compatriots who have been killed. ”
Another student of Confucius, Zilu, rescued a drowning man, who thanked him for sending a cow, and Zilu accepted it. Confucius said happily: "From now on, the people of Lu will definitely have the courage to save those who fall into the water." ”
It means that you must not give kindness without trying to repay it, and the reward given by others will be at ease.
"Then little brother, I might as well be respectful!" Yan Changwu said, but after he returned to the southeast province, he gave Tokugawa Iemitsu a gift of half a million taels of silver, including silk, porcelain, tea, rum, sugar, milk candy, rice, deerskin venison, spices, precious stones, copper (some of which were smelted from bronze statues of the Wa Kingdom) and so on.
After following the local tyrant for a long time, we have also become a local tyrant!
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They just ate and drank, and there were no other programs, and the Wakoku had their own unique culture, such as Kabuki (Japan's most representative classical stage theater) and "No" (which originated in the 14th century and is the oldest type of opera in Japan). The rhythm of the performance is very slow, and he expresses its connotation through the subtle differences in the actors' performances) and "sumo"!
Yan Dashao had seen Kabuki before, but he found that the female characters in it were all played by men, and "Noh" was the same, as well as sumo, which suddenly made him lose his appetite.
But the level of singing and dancing in the Wa Kingdom is really not comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty, and Tokugawa Iemitsu is as ugly as it is to hide it.
However, he also has a big gift for Yan Changwu!
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The drunken Yan Changwu stayed in the Edo Shogunate Palace, and as soon as the morning dawned, the biological clock woke him up, and when he woke up, he felt different, there were people sleeping beside him!
Porcelain dolls!
A porcelain doll is also like a beauty, with a beautiful appearance, snow-white and delicate skin as white porcelain, I am afraid that it will be difficult for flies to gain a foothold on her face!
Yan Changwu then remembered that when he returned to the room last night, there was indeed a beautiful woman waiting for him and waiting for him, and then he took advantage of the wine to have a relationship with her!
The girl's eyelashes trembled, she opened her eyes, her eyes were full of water, everything was vivid, making people feel bright, and Yan Changwu's body reacted!
So he set off a storm and swept the girl!