- Heiankyo Palace

Jiang De was wearing a purple shirt and a sword around his waist, followed by Niu Gao, Xu Guanzhong and others, and rode a war horse to the palace.

"Lord, Toba's visit this time is not good." Xu Guanzhong said beside him.

"This is natural, tens of thousands of us drove into this Heianjing, he just wanted to sleep peacefully, and he would find a way to let us leave." Jiang De said as he looked around at the streets that were still cleaning up the damaged ones caused by the war.

"I guess he will propose some preferential policies and monetary rewards." Xu Guanzhong said guessingly.

"It doesn't matter... What are those monks doing now? In comparison, I am more attentive to these wild monks. Jiang De asked.

"Because Xiyuan Temple helped Shirakawa, and Shirakawa fled again, the monks and soldiers of Enryakuji Temple killed Xiyuan Temple, and I think they are still receiving the property of Xiyuan Temple."

"Hmph, the Buddha doesn't want any land, and he doesn't want any golden body made of gold." Jiang De said disdainfully: "If you want to say what the Buddha wants the most, it is probably that these wild monks who used his name to deceive and deceive people and accumulate wealth all went to the West Heaven to make amends to him." ”

"My lord, it's not easy to deal with these wild monks. Most of the people in the Wa Kingdom believe in Buddhism. Xu Guanzhong said.

"Believe in Buddhism... That has to be the true Buddha, I remember a monk said, wine and meat through the intestines, the Buddha left in the heart, if the world learns from me, it is like entering the devil's way, I see the Buddha of the Wa country, most of them are demons! Jiang De sentenced most of the temples of the Wa Kingdom to death with one sentence.

"Lord, look, there is the royal palace of the Wa Kingdom in front of you." Xu Guanzhong pointed to the front and said.

"Mr. Xu, do you think I should defeat them in one go or should I let them go?" Jiang De asked.

"Lord, if the line is too tight when fishing, not only will the fish run easily, but the line will break." Xu Guanzhong replied

"It's also... But we don't have much time to waste on the Wa Kingdom, and we can find a way to speed it up! Jiang De snorted and sped up.

The palace arrived in a blink of an eye, and because it was an official visit, Toba and Fujiwara Faithful also took out a full set of teams, and the faces of the ministers of the Japanese kingdom in black official uniforms in the palace were white and white, and Jiang De broke out in a cold sweat when he saw it.

Jiang De broke out in a cold sweat not because of the scary smearing of these ministers of the country, but because Jiang De knew that the white powder on the faces of these ministers was lead powder, and this thing was highly poisonous.

"The air in this palace is filled with the smell of lead powder, this Toba can't be trying to poison me like this, is he?" Jiang De thought nonsense.

"Song Guoping Yin Hou has arrived!" With the sound of the audience, Jiang De dismounted and walked in with a swagger.

"His Royal Highness the Marquis of Pingyin, please untie your weapons first when you meet Your Majesty, and your subordinates are not allowed to enter." A Wa official bowed his head and said in standard Kaifeng accent Chinese.

Jiang De glanced at him because of this person's accent, and without him opening his mouth, Xu Guanzhong next to him said, "My lord is the marquis of Shangguo, even if he sees His Majesty Song in the Song Kingdom, he is not named, and he goes to the palace with his sword, is your king more noble than His Majesty the Song Kingdom?" ”

Of course, Xu Guanzhong is bragging, but no one dares to say that he is talking nonsense.

Xu Guanzhong continued, "The Wa Kingdom is just the Dongying Xia Kingdom, and the same level as Goryeo, the King of Goryeo needs to pay homage first when he sees the Marquis of Pingyin, and now the Marquis of Pingyin has condescended to see the Wa King in person, and if you entangle it again, is it not good to deceive us and other weapons?" ”

As if to cooperate with Xu Guanzhong, Niu Gao and the others pulled out their blades in unison, and then shouted in unison, which frightened the minister to take a few steps back, and then knelt on the ground and said, "Please calm your anger!" .... Adult, please enter. ”

Jiang De glanced at him, and then said as he walked in, "Order Wu Song, lead the troops to guard the gate of the palace, I heard that some thieves have recently tried to murder the king of Wa, don't let their conspiracy succeed!" ”

"Yes!" Wu Song in the back shouted, and the warriors guarding the palace hurriedly wanted to stop them, Jiang De stared at the warrior and said, "If anyone wants to stop it, it must be a ghost in their hearts, and such a person can be arrested." ”

"His Royal Highness the Marquis of Pingyin! This is the Wawang Palace! The minister shouted loudly.

"Do I need you to tell me?" Jiang De shouted back, "Enter the palace!" ”

Toba, who was waiting in the main hall of the palace, fidgeted and looked outside.

Fujiwara looked at him faithfully and said, "Your Majesty, please rest assured. ”

Toba said with a bitter face, "The tiger is on the side, how can I feel at ease?" ”

"Newspaper .... Your Majesty, Lord Guan Bai, it's not good, Song Pingyin Marquis suddenly made a mistake and has already taken control of the palace gate. A guard stumbled in and said.

"What?" Both Toba and Fujiwara stood up in fright, and a group of ministers were in disarray, while some samurai drew their weapons and prepared to fight.

"What the hell is going on?" Fujiwara's loyal brain is still good, and he immediately felt that it was wrong and asked, "After all, the Marquis of Pingyin is the marquis of the Song Kingdom, how could he do such an unknown thing?" ”

"That Pingyin Marquis said that he heard that the thieves were going to attack the palace, so it was so."

"Whew...," Fujiwara said with a long sigh, "there's no need to panic, that Pingyin Hou just wants to put some pressure on us." ”

"Really... Are you sure? Toba asked uncertainly.

"Song Pingyin, Marquis of Yin, come to see you!" At this time, the sound of the audience came in, and Fujiwara faithfully said to everyone, "Don't be rude, get ready!" ”

Everyone hurriedly sat down again, but many of them were trembling slightly.

Jiang De and the others walked in, looked at Toba who was sitting on it and Fujiwara Faithful, who was sitting on the side, and then stood there without saying a word.

Toba couldn't stand this atmosphere a little, and first said, "His Royal Highness the Marquis of Pingyin, I have worked hard from afar, and this time I can win thanks to you, please sit down and say." ”

As he spoke, a waiter brought a few tatami mats.

"We are just so that the people of the Japanese kingdom will suffer less from the war." Jiang De glanced at the tatami mats, knelt down and sat down according to the ancient Han law, Xu Guanzhong and Niu Gao Zhan stood on both sides.

"Your army has come to work hard, and now you want to return to China, the consumption on the road must be not small, we have prepared a thousand taels of gold, five thousand taels of silver for the labor of the army, in addition to the Marquis of Pingyin before the invitation to open business, transmission and other matters, we are all wishful." Fujiwara said faithfully.

Jiang Demu didn't squint, as if he hadn't heard, Xu Guanzhong stepped out and said, "Your Majesty, is the Japanese Kingdom trying to bully us?" A thousand taels of gold, five thousand taels of silver? I'm afraid this is not even enough for us to pay for food and grass this time. ”

Niu Gao snorted cooperatively, his round eyes staring at Toba, and Toba couldn't help but tremble in fright.

"Slip of the tongue... Tongue... It's..."Toba looked at Fujiwara Faithful, and Fujiwara Faithful said, "I'm sorry, I'm a little excited because I saw Lord Pingyinhou, but it's actually five thousand taels of gold and one hundred thousand taels of silver!" ”

Jiang De really didn't expect that the nobles of the Wa Kingdom would be so rich, which was converted into copper coins, and it would have to be 800,000 yuan.

"It's a little less." Xu Guanzhong continued.

"This...."It's not that Fujiwara can't get more, but he is afraid that there is no bottom to it, and he asks, "May I ask how much you think the labor army is appropriate?" ”

"I don't think you can take out any more, so I'll go and get it myself." Jiang De smiled and said, "One month, how about letting me wait to help you collect a month's business tax?" ”

"Business tax? One month? The ministers couldn't help whispering.

"Yes, after a month, no matter how much business tax we receive, we will leave." Jiang De nodded and said.

"So... Is this really an unheard of method? Fujiwara looked at everyone faithfully, "What do you mean?" ”

All the ministers glanced at each other, and they all felt that there was nothing wrong with this method, isn't it that the Song people helped us collect taxes, although there was a month less business tax, but the money was not in their own pockets, and they didn't lose anything at all, so no one had any opinions.

In this way, Jiang De and Toba and Fujiwara faithfully reached an agreement that Jiang De would collect a month's commercial tax in addition to 5,000 taels of gold and 100,000 taels of silver, and the tax rate of commercial tax would not be adjusted, and no matter how much he received, it would belong to Jiang De.

Jiang De left the palace with people, and Toba breathed a sigh of relief and said to Fujiwara Loyalty, "It's worthy of being a person from the kingdom, my previous worries were all wrong, and the people of the kingdom really don't have much thought about our country." ”

Fujiwara's loyal face was not happy at all, he knew more than Toba, with the name of Toba to pacify the rebellious party, the Pingyin army was attacking the city everywhere, many manors were broken by it, and I don't know how many fields in the Gongqing Temple were divided privately, even if the Pingyin army really left, what should these fields and manors do?

Let alone... Fujiwara Faithful didn't think that the Heiyin Army would leave so easily, he always felt that something big would happen in this month.

"Master Hou, did we just evacuate?" Wu Song said a little unwillingly.

Jiang De looked at the sky and said, "We are still just guests now, the host let the guests leave, what can the guests do?" ”

"So what are we doing here?" Wu Song tilted his head and said unwillingly.

Jiang De smiled and said, "Da Lang, you have to remember that the real masters of this world are never the ones who sit on the throne, but those who work in the fields. ”

Wu Song was stunned for a moment.

Jiang De continued: "What we have to wait for is when the true master of this Japanese kingdom asks us to stay.... One month, that's enough, pass the order down, block Heiankyo on the periphery, I want to make Toba these powerful people deaf! ”

- Sekihara

In the twelfth century, the Wa Kingdom and later Wa Kingdoms were much smaller, and the island of Hokkaido was still dominated by the indigenous Ezo people, and the later prosperous Tokyo area was just conquered by the Yamato tribe, the main body of the Wa Kingdom, and the original indigenous people were barely integrated with the Yamato people.

It can be said that the Wa Kingdom is a country with an extremely serious disconnect between the upper and lower levels, and the living standard of Heianjing in the Wa Kingdom can basically be compared to the medium-sized cities of the Song Kingdom, while in most other places, the land is vast and sparsely populated, slash-and-burn farming, and wild beasts are infested with such words as the most appropriate description.

Otherwise, there is a historical reason why the Heian period was the era with the most legends of the Japanese monsters.

The Kanto Plain, where Baihe is located at this time, is probably similar to the status of Xinjiang and Tibet in the hearts of later generations of Chinese people, and the Japanese people here are more of the "construction corps" sent here to develop, because there are still indigenous Ezo people in the north, and they have to be self-reliant, because these early samurai regiments are resisting foreign tribes while cultivating land, so the people are fierce and extremely good at fighting.

The intermediate point that distinguishes the Kanto and Kansai is Sekigahara, where the Shirakawa River is located at this time.

In later generations, Sekigahara became famous because of the Battle of Sekigahara, one of the largest wars in the history of the Wa Kingdom.

At this time, there were still hundreds of years before the Battle of Sekigahara, but as a connection between the Kanto and Kansai regions, Seki Castle had already been built here, and it was named Bubakan.

It was here that Shirakawa began to gather reinforcements from Kanto and other places.

Bai He, who had been locked up for two days, finally opened the door, and in addition to Ping Zhengsheng and others, there were also people from the harem such as Zhangzi waiting outside the door.

Shirakawa threw out a pile of letters and said, "Go, gather all your forces here, we're going to get ready to go home." ”

The people waiting outside the gate responded excitedly in unison, as if they had gained some strength, and one letter after another was sent to various parts of the Kanto region.

The gist of these letters is basically the same, saying that Toba and Fujiwara Sekihaku united to rebel against the imperial government and rebelled against the emperor, and now they have summoned the brave and loyal people of the world to gather in Sekigahara, and after the rebels are exterminated, all those who have made meritorious contributions will be rewarded.

The samurai stationed in the Kanto region became active as soon as they received the letter, and they packed up their salutes, picked up their swords and guns, and prepared to make a name for themselves in Sekigahara.

Not only them, but also the monks and soldiers in the temples also began to act, and most of the monks who preached in the Kanto region were those who had lost the internal struggle in the temples in the Kansai region, and they had long been blushing in the eyes of the Kansai region, and in less than half a month, the samurai, monks, and troops sent by the local guards gathered in the Guanyuan had totaled tens of thousands.

"Not enough... That's not enough. Bai He looked at the endless sergeant outside the gate and said, "Food, grass, and ordnance are far from enough, what are these people thinking?" ”

What is a little different from Baihe's imagination is that most of the guards from all over the country are some of the old, weak, sick and disabled, and there is a shortage of money and food, but more of them are samurai groups and monks, this kind of composition makes him very uneasy, which means that in the hearts of the guards everywhere, he is no longer the original high-ranking emperor.

His authority was already in jeopardy.

At the same time that Shirakawa doubted his authority, the reinforcements led by Lu Junyi almost swept away the countries around the Seto Inland Sea, and they were very happy to divide the fields, and every day Jiang De, who was sitting in Heiankyo, was able to intercept dozens of letters asking for help from all over Kansai that wanted to be sent to Fujiwara or Toba, but Jiang De believed that for such a long time, there were always fish that slipped through the net.

The evidence is that the atmosphere in Heiankyo has become more and more strange.