11. Namba Palace Consultation

Shen Weiyue is naturally from Han nationality.

But he is now naturalized in Japan and has been granted an official position by the Emperor.

In addition, the negotiation envoy designated by Emperor Kanmu is the fifth left middle Benjiwara Nakasei.

The location of the negotiation was set in the hexagonal pagoda on the left side of the Suzaku Gate of Namba Palace. Namba Palace, which was once the Emperor's camp for the "Shinkyo", was later abolished for various reasons, leaving a group of buildings that were usually used as a place to receive Guna envoys.

"The gift given by the Duke of Wei to the king of Yamanbe can be displayed directly in this palace, and then forwarded to Heiankyo by himself;

The Tang ships were not allowed to cross Yodotsu, otherwise they would be considered an invasion of Japan;

Tang ships must depart and return to the sea within three days, and there must be no lingering along the way. ”

In the shade curtain under the hexagonal tower, the conditions proposed by Fujiwara Nakasei were translated into Chinese by Kiyokaku Chingkai, who was sitting next to him, which shows that the Japanese side has a very tough attitude.

At this moment, Zhang Xi, the envoy of Gao Yuefang, saw Qinghai Weiyue, so he suddenly questioned him in Chinese, "Are you the former Yuezhou Puyang Mansion, Shen Weiyue?" ”

That Qinghai Weiyue immediately didn't dare to take into account his official status in Japan, and bowed down to Zhang Xi like a subordinate official, prostrate on the ground, and even said that it was exactly.

"Be decent!" Fujiwara Nakasei was very sad and drank loudly at Weiyue.

"How will I be naturalized?" Zhang Xi ignored it and continued to ask Weiyue.

Wei Yue fell to the ground and replied:

Thirty-eight years ago, that is, in the second year of the Tang Dynasty, when Emperor Suzong was still in power, a Japanese Tang ship carrying 99 people sailed through the wind and waves and arrived at the port of the Bohai State first, preparing to go to Tang with the Tang envoy sent by the Bohai Dynasty, with the purpose of welcoming a Tang Dynasty official named "Heqing" back to Japan.

In fact, this person named "Heqing", originally named Fujiwara Qinghe, was the ambassador of the Tang Dynasty last time, and the purpose of entering the Tang Dynasty was to welcome a man named "Chao Heng" back to Japan.

Chao Heng is the famous Abe Zhongmalu, who has lived in the Tang Dynasty for 35 years and served as a high-ranking official in the Tang Dynasty.

Fujiwara Qinghe arrived safely in Chang'an City, and after visiting Emperor Xuanzong, he set sail from Yangzhou with Chao Heng, preparing to go back to Japan, but there was a local monk named Jianzhen in Yangzhou, and he also wanted to take a boat to Japan, Fujiwara Qinghe refused Jianzhen's request, but his deputy envoy Yoshimaro secretly hid Jianzhen on the second ship.

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As a result, of the four ships, only Fujiwara Qinghe and Chao Heng were ridden by the first one that ran into the reef, and then encountered a headwind, and actually drifted to Annan Prefecture, except for Fujiwara Qinghe and Chao Heng, the rest of the crew were all killed by local barbarians - the other three ships, including the second one carrying the monk Jianzhen, all arrived in Japan safely.

In the end, Fujiwara Qinghe and Chao Heng reluctantly returned to Chang'an again, and Qinghe himself simply stayed in Tang as an official, and also took a Han name "Heqing" (as for Chao Heng, he died in Tang and achieved the high position of secretary and supervisor during his lifetime).

However, the Japanese side did not give up Fujiwara Kiyokawa, so in the second year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, Gao Yuandu (he was a descendant of Goguryeo who naturalized Japan) was an envoy, hoping to take Fujiwara Kiyokawa back.

As a result, in the Bohai Kingdom, Gao Yuandu heard that there was a civil strife in the Tang family, so he asked the judge Naito Quancheng to return to Japan with eighty-eight people, while he and the remaining ten people continued to go to the Tang Kingdom, and finally met Emperor Suzong and Fujiwara Kiyokawa.

But at this time, the Tang Dynasty stopped doing it, and said to Gao Yuandu that now there are wars all over the country, and it is very dangerous to let Heqing return to China, so you can't let Heqing go with you.

The real purpose of the Tang Dynasty was actually to use Heqing as a "hostage" and ask Japan to contribute weapons to supplement the needs of the rebels, especially the horns that could be used to make bows: so Gao Yuandu had to go to Suzhou, where Li Weiyue, the assassin of Suzhou at that time, built an eight-zhang long sea ship for him, and asked Shen Weiyue, the commander of Puyang, to lead nine sailors to escort Gao Yuandu back to Japan.

After Gao Yuandu and Shen Weiyue arrived in Dazaifu, Japan immediately collected 7,800 horns in various provinces and sent them to the Tang State by ship to support the counterinsurgency war of the Tang Dynasty.

But the following year, Wang Xinfu, the envoy of the Bohai Kingdom, came to Japan, and he told the Japanese government:

"Now that the two emperors of Li Tang, Xuanzong and Suzong, have died, and King Guangping (Li Yu) has succeeded to the throne, the grain is barren, and the people are cannibalistic. Although An Lushan, who rebelled against Li Tang, died, Shi Chaoyi of the historian ascended the throne and became Emperor Shengwu, the people were all dependent, Emperor Shengwu's army was extremely strong, and Li Tang's Xiangyang and Dengzhou were captured by him, and now only Suzhou is left in the territory retained by the Li family (???? After that, it will be very difficult to pay tribute. ”

No matter what purpose Wang Xinfu made up this statement, Japan believed it and did not send envoys to Tang for a long time after that.

And Shen Weiyue had no choice but to stay in Japan, and finally became a naturalized official of the five and ate the emperor's money. After another seventeen years, Japan sent Ono Shigen as an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, and when he arrived in Chang'an, he learned that Fujiwara Qinghe had died in Tang soil, leaving only a daughter born to a Tang woman named Xi Niang, so Ono Shigen had to take Xi Niang back to Japan...... (On the way, Ono Shigen and his accompanying Tang envoy Zhao Baoying were killed in a hurricane, but the bride drifted safely to Amakusa County, Hizen Province)

"I don't know what happened to the Tang Kingdom now?" In the end, Qinghai Weiyue was in tears and begged Zhang Xi to tell him about his homeland.

Zhang Xi's tone softened at this time: "The Yan thief has long been flattened, and several of Shi Chaoyi's subordinates have also been obedient to Chang'an, and the imperial court has set up the 'Huaihai Xingzhongshu Province' in Huainan and Huaixi, with Gao Weigong as the prime minister to know the Zhongshu Province, and I will be the Feiyi envoy under his command to control the sailors and seaships; ”

"Jiangdong Xingzhongshu Province? I don't know where the house is? ”

"Shangyuan Jinling."

"Jinling is the place of Xuanxi, how can I manage Yuezhou?" Although Qinghai Weiyue has been away from China for more than 30 years, he is still indignant.

Zhang Xi said that this point will not be talked about for the time being, Gao Weigong sent me to the Japanese country this time, just in the hope of friendly trade with the Japanese country, but this Fujiwara Zhongcheng is unwilling in every way, I don't know what it means?

"Tang and I Silla have also reopened the sea route!" Next to him, Zhang Baogao said to Qinghai Weiyue.

As a result, Qinghai Weiyue suddenly had an uneasy look, and turned to Fujiwara Nakanari who was sitting on the seat and repeated this and this.

Fujiwara Nakanari's anger became even more obvious, and he said: "Quickly put out the gifts of the Patriotic Princess, and then ask you to return to the country, and you must not bring filthy sickness into the Jianli Gate." ”

The so-called "filthy gas" is the smallpox, flu and other diseases that flow into the mainland or the Korean Peninsula, when the Japanese emperor received the envoys from the Balhae Sea and Silla, he allowed the envoys to enter the Jianli Gate in the palace, but it caused plague many times in the capital, and many royal families and ministers were infected with the disease and whined, so the Japanese court was very sensitive to the "filth" and resisted, and now it is also used as an excuse to refuse the Tang ship mission to enter Heianjing.

The first negotiations broke up unhappily, and the two sides had a frank exchange of views, but no constructive results were reached.

Somewhere on a sandbank in Nambatsu, Zhang Baogao deliberately asked Monk Kukai why Fujiwara Nakasei reacted so violently when it came to the restoration of relations between Tang and Silla?