"Sugawara Aiqing thinks that Han Kou in the coastal areas of our country may have the support of the Tang people?" Although Emperor Daigo was young, he was not a fool, and he also heard the meaning of Sugawara Michizane's words.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's very possible." Sugawara Michizane said.

"Nonsense!"

A voice of opposition came from the side, and it was Fujiwara Tokihei, the contemporary head of the Fujiwara family, who spoke.

After Fujiwara Tokihei bowed slightly to Emperor Daigo, he continued, "Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what the right minister said is completely nonsense.

A few years ago, the imperial court intended to send the 19th Tang envoy to Chang'an, and appointed the right minister as the envoy to the Tang Dynasty. At that time, it was the right minister who forced the imperial court to cancel the dispatch of Tang envoys on the grounds of civil strife and weakness of the Tang people.

Since the right minister originally said that the Tang people were in civil strife and had long since declined, why can he now support Han Kou to bring disaster to our coast?

If Han Kou is really a Tang man behind him, then what was the intention of the right minister to prevent the Tang envoy from being sent to the Tang Dynasty?

If that's the case, is it because our country stopped sending Tang envoys that they were very angry, so they supported Han Kou? ”

Fujiwara Tokihei's words can be described as heartbreaking, and he directly pointed the finger at Sugawara Michizane.

Although Emperor Daigo is smart, he is young after all, and he is still a little bad at power struggles.

Hearing Fujiwara Tokihei's words, Emperor Daigo also had doubts in his heart, but when he thought that his father had asked him to trust Sugawara Michizane, he was a little entangled in his heart, whether he should trust Sugawara Michizane or not.

After hesitating for a moment, Emperor Daigo looked at Sugawara Michizane, "Sugawara Aiqing, can you explain?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty!" Sugawara Michizane glanced at Fujiwara Tokihei, although he was annoyed that the other party demolished the stage, but on the surface he still tried to make the emperor believe in himself, "There are many reasons why the Tang envoy was stopped in the first place. His Majesty was young at the time and probably knew very little, and every time he sent a Tang envoy to the Tang people, the court would spend a huge amount of money.

The purpose is to learn the advanced culture of the Tang people, so there are many members of the Tang mission each time, including literati, doctors, musicians, painters and many other elites, so as to learn the advanced culture of the Tang people in an all-round way.

At that time, the Tang people had just ended a major civil strife, and the internal feudal towns, the eunuchs were in power, and the disputes between friends and parties, the Tang people's national power was declining, and the style of writing was gradually declining, while our country was largely imported from everything that could be learned and borrowed.

The cost of sending an envoy to the Tang Dynasty each time is huge, and the journey is arduous, which is more dangerous, and the goods of the Tang people needed by our country can also be imported through trade, and there is no need to continue to send an envoy to Chang'an. ”

"The right minister said so much, but he was actually afraid of death, so he prevented the nineteenth mission from going to Tang." Fujiwara Tokihei scoffed.

"Minister Fujiwara, you are purely vexatious, if Your Majesty needs it, the minister can immediately lead the division to the Tang Kingdom. But now that the Tang people are declining, our country does not need to continue to send missions to the Tang. Fujiwara Tokihei's-for-tat also made Sugawara Michizane very angry.

"Since the right minister said that the Tang people are declining? So how did they support Han Kou as a disaster? Fujiwara Tokihei continued to question.

"It is very likely that Han Kou purchased weapons from the Tang people's feudal towns, and the Tang people are in civil strife, and it is not difficult to purchase weapons." Sugawara Michizane explained.

"Your Majesty, please ask Your Majesty to punish the right minister Sugawara Michizane for the crime of bullying the king." Fujiwara Tokihei suddenly made a big salute, which made Emperor Daigo a little puzzled.

"What is Fujiwara Aiqing? What kind of bullying behavior did Sugawara Aiqing have? Emperor Daigo was puzzled.

Fujiwara Tokihei explained, "Back to Your Majesty, according to the minister's knowledge from the Chinese merchant travelers who returned from the Tang Dynasty, the Tang people are not in civil strife and declining in national strength as the right minister said, but the national strength is stronger.

Therefore, when the right minister prevented the delegation from going to Tang, it was because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he deceived Emperor Yuta, saying that the Tang people's national strength was declining and they did not want to go to Tang, and they were guilty of defrauding the king. ”

"Minister Fujiwara, you are making trouble!" Sugawara Michizane scolded.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has evidence!" Fujiwara Tokihei said.

"What evidence?" Emperor Daigo was also curious.

"This is what the minister got from your country's business travelers, and it is the Tang people's mansion newspaper in the last two years, which tells some recent situations in the Tang Dynasty in the past two years."

Saying that, Fujiwara Tokihei presented several copies of the report to Emperor Daigo, who took it and read it.

Although the newspapers are all kanji, Emperor Daigo has been learning kanji since he was a child, and although he is not very proficient in it, he still has no problem reading the newspaper.

The newspaper is not complete, but there are two things in it that make Emperor Daigo a little puzzled.

"Fujiwara Aiqing, the major event above is nothing more than the destruction of the two countries of Nanzhao and Xizhou Uighurs, but what does this have to do with Sugawara Aiqing's bullying of the king?" Emperor Daigo was a little puzzled.

Western Uighurs, Nanzhao?

Hearing these two words, Sugawara Michizane always felt that he had seen them somewhere, but he had forgotten them a little.

But the newspaper was in the Emperor's possession, and he couldn't take it unless the former agreed.

Fujiwara Tokihei glanced at Sugawara Michizane contemptuously, "Back to Your Majesty!" After receiving this report, the ministers of Nanzhao and Xizhou Uighurs went to look through some records of the Tang people in the palace.

Both countries were large countries with populations of more than a million, with Nanzhao located on the southwestern border of the Tang people and the Xizhou Uighurs located in the Western Regions recorded by the Tang people.

The records of the Uighurs in Xizhou in the books of the courtier's office are very simple, except that they are a branch of the Uighurs, located northwest of the Tang people, and the rest is not detailed.

However, Nanzhao is a country that has defeated the Tang army many times in the past 100 years, but just last year, it was destroyed by the Tang people.

Your Majesty thought about it, if the national strength of the Tang people declined, would they be able to destroy two large countries with a population of millions in two or three years?

You must know that our population is only a few million.

Therefore, Sugawara Michizane stopped the Tang delegation from being sent to Tang for his own selfish interests, which was to bully the king. I also ask Your Majesty to issue an order to punish Sugawara Michizane, and to demonstrate Your Majesty's wisdom and holiness with a righteous discipline. ”

Of course, the direct reason for stopping the sending of Tang missions to Tang was that Sugawara was really opposed to it, but in fact, the Japanese nobles did not have much passion for going to Tang, so they did not strongly oppose it.

The reason why Fujiwara Tokihei caught this was because he wanted to get rid of Sugawara Michizane.

"Sugawara Aiqing, what Fujiwara Aiqing said is true?" Emperor Daigo also began to be suspicious at this time, otherwise he would not have asked this.

"This..."

Sugawara Michizane wanted to refute it, but he wasn't sure if what Fujiwara Tokihei said was true or not, but it was indeed because of the civil strife in the Tang people at that time, so he stopped sending the Tang delegation to the Tang Dynasty.

But Fujiwara Tokihei said that the Tang people destroyed two million-strong countries in a row, and he didn't dare to believe in his own opinion.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know."

In the end, Sugawara Michizane still admitted that he had to understand this matter clearly, whether today's Datang is really different.