At the beginning of September, a sudden news shattered all of Wang Yan's previous illusions.

When he saw Yanagi Yin Yan this time, he looked like a beggar fleeing and was alone. Obviously, something big happened, and he rushed to the Daimyo's Mansion day and night to see Wang Yan.

Wang Yan ordered someone to bring him a cup of tea: "Don't be in a hurry, drink it slowly, and then speak." ”

Yanagi Yin Yan looked very moved, and after drinking all the tea, he said: "Something happened, a ship that departed from Nagasaki on Kyushu Island in August was personally escorted by me and my young lady Mitsuko. Before entering the port of Dengzhou, we encountered pirates, and our ship was captured in the chaotic situation, and Miss Mitsuko was hijacked by pirates, and the rat thrower could not act as a ......"

Wang Yan couldn't help frowning.

Yanagi Yin Yan continued: "I don't want to be a ronin, as a samurai, I should die." However, at that time, Miss Mitsuko motioned for me to come to you alive and listen to your instructions. ”

Next, Wang Yan asked for many details, and Liu Sheng answered truthfully.

The general situation is that very early on, Fujiwara Mitsuko carried the instructions of the Japanese Taizheng Fujiwara Yoritsu and came to the Daimyo Mansion to communicate with Wang Yan in an attempt to solve the problem. But those problems were not something that Wang Yan could do if he wanted to, Wang Yan basically tried his best, but many things did not even have an explanation for the past few months, and at the same time, the loss of silver from Kyushu Island was getting bigger and bigger.

The Koreans had only one request: all the silver from the island would be re-exported from Goryeo Kaegyong, and the value would be calculated according to the earliest previous agreement. The safety of the Japanese silver trading ships was entrusted to the Goryeo navy, and the Goryeo would help "fight piracy".

Under pressure, the Imperial Minister Fujiwara Yoritsu agreed to Goryeo, promising to cut off the silver trade with the Song Kingdom.

Hearing this, Wang Yan was very dissatisfied and wanted to scold Fujiwara Laitong. But I endured it, it was useless to scold, politicians are all so pee-like, even if they are very familiar with each other, there is no concept of friends, let alone never met?

Yanagi Yin Yan continued: "When His Royal Highness Fujiwara made this decision, my young lady was still interested in the Great Song Dynasty, so she and His Royal Highness Fujiwara argued with reason. At last...... Their father and daughter reached a mutual compromise, and His Highness Fujiwara decided to proceed on two fronts. Use a large amount of silver to enter Kaekyo and stabilize the Goryeo people. At the same time, Miss Mitsuko used a small amount of silver to enter Dengzhou, and Mitsuko maintained friendly relations between Japan and the Song Kingdom. We hope to achieve mutual understanding, maintain alliances, and ultimately seek development together. ”

At this point, Liu Sheng Yin Yan observed Wang Yan's face very worriedly, hoping that he would not be angry.

Wang Yan hesitated and said: "Well, I can't understand it, I am also a politician, and I have done some inauthentic things, and I have also knelt down and bowed my head." I understand that she has difficulties, but she still knows that she wants to save face, and she wants to maintain her relationship with me and doesn't want to break her face, you continued. ”

Liu Sheng said sternly: "The rest of the matter should be expected by Xianggong, we carry a shipload of the largest amount of silver, and plan to disguise it as other trade goods into Dengzhou." However, the news seemed to leak out in advance, and the Goryeo pirates were outnumbered, gathered within ten miles of the port of Dengju, almost blocked the route, and demanded that the Japanese ships be boarded and inspected. ”

The Great Demon King Tie Qing patted his face and stood up and said, "Crazy! They dare to blockade the ten-mile sea area of my Great Song Dengzhou? Inspect incoming supplies? Who gave them the guts! Is he the world's policeman? ”

Liu Sheng Yin Yan hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "I don't dare to make a false report on this point, it is true." The Bo Division of Dengzhou City and Wang Gongchen, the Lord of the Song Kingdom, can all testify that there have been piracy activities ten miles outside Dengzhou Port. ”

At this point, Wang Yan slowly sat down again and said: "Damn, the world is a strange news, the Goryeo pirates act as the world's police, and they are investigating smuggling in the territorial waters of my Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Liu Sheng said sternly: "At that time, I was thinking, it is not okay to be uncompromising. It is expected that they have reached a 'covenant' with Goryeo, but they will not be serious about the process, at most they will let them go after looking at the camouflage we cover it. So they had no choice but to let them board the ship to check, who expected that the Koreans were insidious, and the first time they boarded the ship with the help of Miss Photon to negotiate, they held Miss Photon hostage. I threw the rat and the trap did not fight, but they took the whole ship. On the instructions of Miss Mitsuko, I jumped into the sea and escaped into the Daimyo's Mansion to inform you of these things. ”

Wang Yan said again: "Did Photon say anything else?" ”

"No, I'm just bringing news to tell you about the situation and the causes and consequences, and it's up to you to decide what to do." Yanagi said sternly: "There is no evidence that Miss Mitsuko was killed now, and the Koreans should have tied Miss Mitsuko as a hostage, so he is not a ronin yet." I hope that Miss Photon will be lucky and natural, and if she is killed, she will apologize for her crimes. ”

Wang Yan said: "This matter is not in a hurry, you settle down in the Daimyo Mansion first." I'll check some issues from my own channels, and some delay is necessary. The Koreans are clearly bullying people, and if they are clear, they are not giving face. But there is still patience, there are many etiquettes and procedures. This is the open-mindedness and style of a responsible major country. I don't dare to say that I will be able to ensure the safety of Miss Mitsuno, but I promise that I will do my best to welcome her home. ”

"Thank you, sir!"

Yanagi is very excited about this, but now he has some warmth in his heart when he encounters a big event, and in Yanagi's impression, he has rarely seen a person in a high position who can think like this.

This incident is not only a shame for the samurai, but also a shame for a country. was first forced to sign an unequal trade treaty, and had to agree to it, and then he actually kidnapped the prime minister's daughter as a hostage like that?

This not only caused a huge shadow on Liu Sheng's psychology, but also made Liu Sheng's envy of the Great Song Dynasty reach its peak.

Yanagi Yinyan believed that the Great Demon King was a great samurai, and the rise of the Great Song Dynasty was not only the rise of technology and industry, but also the rise of science and technology and industry, if you want to say this, the Great Song Dynasty has been unsurpassed fifty years ago, but it has still been humiliated countless times.

If you don't fight that war, from a strategic point of view, the Great Song Dynasty will sooner or later face the current situation in Japan, and will be surrounded step by step and pinching eggs, and more and more unequal treaties will be imposed on the body, until the day of collapse.

However, it was the Qingtang strategy that the Great Demon King crippled the entire border defense force of the Northwest Wolf in one fell swoop, and the troops went to the Great Wall to occupy the important towns of Xiliang Mansion and Xuanhua Mansion in Western Xia. I didn't say it directly, but it threatened most of the vast Shangjing Road of the Liao State, forcing the Liao Shan army stationed in Nanjing not to move.

At the same time, Fujiwara Yoritsu, who had been threatened by the Goryeo Jurchens, the overlord of the East China Sea, began to shift his attention to adapt to the new situation brought about by the rise of the Song Dynasty, that is, to restart the silver trade with the Song Dynasty.

However, any reform, any strategic shift, will always involve a counterattack by traditional vested interest groups. From this there will be struggles, bloodshed and sacrifices. This is a painful process that Japan has to endure.

Before that, the Jurchens, the overlord north of the East China Sea, and Goryeo, the overlord south of the East China Sea and the Bohai Sea, were the two robbers who decided the fate of Japan. If you fall behind, you will be beaten by the sun, and you can't beat it, and it is fortunate that you can hold the island from being attacked by them, burned, killed, and looted, not to mention that there is real hegemonic support behind these two sea hegemons.

So he could only compromise and send a large amount of silver to Kaijing at a value close to iron in exchange for meager supplies. The pigs all know that they can exchange three times more materials for silver sent to the Great Song Dynasty, but they don't dare, this is the same as the gangs in the market who walk around the door of the small shop with knives every day, and the shopkeeper will definitely not dare to collect money from them, the reason is the same.

After the Liao Kingdom of Goryeo took the silver from Japan, they purchased sufficient supplies from the Great Song Dynasty. This simple cycle can even be understood by Liu Sheng Yin Yan, but whether he understands it or not, he can only bear it, because if this cycle is narrowed to the rivers and lakes, the hegemony of the Liao State is the umbrella of the government, the Jurchen Goryeo is the outlaw who dares to kill people and does not have to pay the responsibility of the law, and the Song State is a profiteer who has more than one thing and is better than one less, and he himself is facing the food, drink and Kana of the government. As for Japan, it is the bottom of the food chain, picking up a knife does not mean that you can fight, the Great Demon King has a famous saying, this is not called defense, but death.

And the reversal of all this began with the Great Demon King sending troops to Qingtang, and this kind of responsible behavior made Japan see the hope of "appealing". It has been a great pain to continue to go deeper until now, but the confrontation has only just begun. It's okay to say that this is a long-term war, but in fact, it can be seen as a lawsuit, and the Great Demon King, as a responsible lawyer, is already studying the case, and has not officially taken over but is ready to intervene......

During this period, Wang Yan asked the official media to continue to publicize the Dengzhou Port incident, hoping to further publicize the truth that "backwardness must be sunny" through the Fujiwara Mitsuko incident, and wanted to promote nationalist thinking.

The big people can be instigated because there is still the government as the bottom line, but in small Japan, for example, the country must not be weak or cowardly, unless there is really a heavenly court and a Jade Emperor in the sky, and you can go up to fight a lawsuit, otherwise it will be sun, and it will be sun.

However, Sima Guang quit, and when Wang Yan was doing such propaganda in Beijing, the special envoy of the Ministry of Rites came to stop it, saying, "It is strictly forbidden to stir up the emotions of the people, and it is strictly forbidden to exaggerate the Dengzhou Port incident." The Goryeo did not infringe on the territorial waters of the Great Song Dynasty and were not official Goryeo acts. This was a Goryeo and Japanese issue, and had nothing to do with the Great Song Dynasty, and the Goryeo Ministry protested. It is also required to take into account the thoughts and feelings of Liao, the largest trading partner and ally."

Damn, it's like it's true, which green onion in Goryeo can protest against the Great Song Rite Department, isn't it just that the propaganda mouth is starting to fear Liao again? Isn't it that the envoy of the Liao State entered Bianjing and asked the Song State Rite Department to publicize it in accordance with the will of the Liao people?

This time, Bianjing was the hardest hit area, and after the Ministry of Rites issued a document, each department destroyed about a million copies of the newspaper that had been printed. The editors-in-chief of both official and private media went to the Ministry of Rites for meetings and new guidance.

Ministry of Rites requests: Do not mention anything about Japan and Goryeo outside the port of Dengju.

In view of the large amount of work, one size fits all, but all sensitive content with the words "Dengzhou Port", no matter what the context is, all are blacked out and harmonious, or recycled and burned.

Sima Guang is amazing. Now the limelight is not ordinarily strong, the last time he used the Fukang splitting incident, Sima Sage didn't want Zhao Zhengang, as if he was not afraid of the powerful and dared to speak the truth, and he was a straight generation of grandmasters.

Who would dare not listen to him? It is said that Fukang's princess title was planted in the hands of Sima Guang and the queen. Therefore, as a media newspaper, the thighs are definitely not as thick as the emperor, and the press power still needs to be reviewed annually in the Ministry of Rites, who dares not to listen?

It is rumored that there is a joke among the people: Wherever there are three words "Dengzhou Port" are blackened with a pen, so the Dengzhou government is crying blind. said that the documents of Dengzhou Customs (City Park Division) into the three divisions, the head of the row was blackened by a cloud of ink, and the people of the three divisions looked at each other, and I don't know where this was the document sent?

Of course, this is just a joke after dinner at the stall literature, but it has already shown whether the eldest patriarch Sima Guang is awesome.

The Great Demon King jumped to his feet and scolded in the Daimyo's Mansion, and instructed the official media of the Daimyo's Mansion not to listen to the guidance of the Ministry of Rites, especially the approval power of the Industrial Newspaper is in the Department of Industry, not in the Ministry of Rites. So they just got up, and the Ministry of Rites and the Department of Industry issued documents to each other accusing each other of "engaging in sports".

It's lively, seeing that the first three rows of each other's dog brains have been knocked out, everyone just eats melons and watches the show.

However, it is a shame, as a responsible dark knight, the Great Demon King does not sleep in the middle of the night, counts money and food, checks progress, engages in propaganda, engages in mobilization, and everything is preparing for the dispatch of troops to Bohai in about fifteen months. But there are all sorts of moths that are holding back. This is to let Liao see the joke, let Goryeo see the joke, and make Japan distrust.

In short, in addition to having black technology and winning the Qingtang War, putting these aside, the current Great Song Dynasty does not look like a responsible big country, but a tease with schizophrenic nerves.

"Dazzled, it was actually this group of mallets that disabled the Western Xia border army and won the Battle of Qingtang, is this luck or blindness?"

This is a sentence that everyone likes to hang on their lips in Bianjing Liaoren Street and Xixia Street. Yes, there is a Liaoren Street in Bianjing, and there is also a Daimyo's Mansion, just like there is a Chinatown in the father's country in later generations......