On the banks of the Xiongjin River, Siyu City.

Sun Wuji, the Xuanfu envoy of Andong Province and the commander of Andong Zuodu, and the chief guard of Xiongjin County, carefully looked at the golden seal in front of him.

The more I watched, the more excited I became.

"Good stuff!"

"Really good stuff."

Shan Xiongxin, the governor of the right capital, was puzzled and asked, "Isn't it just a seal, what is rare?" ”

"Look at the characters on this, this Chinese character, do you see anything different?"

Uncle Shan Guo is also from a strong local background, and he doesn't know the Yin Seal, but he found a special thing by pointing at him, "The lower right corner of this Chinese character is a fire character, and the right half of the Chinese character of the general seal seal is written in a row, which is a bit peculiar!" ”

"Have you seen it written like this in other places before?" The eldest grandson Wuji asked.

"It doesn't seem to be."

"Hahaha, it's right if you don't, in fact, just by the way this Chinese character is written, you can be sure that this golden seal is absolutely real, not fake." As a descendant of the Northern Wei royal family, although the eldest grandson Wuji is a Xianbei person, his knowledge in this area is much stronger than that of Shan Xiongxin.

The eldest grandson touched the clean gold seal that had been completely cleaned up, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

"Actually, the writing of the fire character in the lower right corner of this Chinese character is rare, but it is not nothing, and it generally only appears on some seals of the Han Dynasty. For example, my family originally collected several Han Dynasty seals, including a Han Xiongnu long seal and a Han Guiyi Bai long seal, and the Chinese characters on it were also engraved like this, and the lower right corner was a fire character.

The fire character in the lower right corner of the Chinese character is deliberately separated, not written consecutively.

As for why this happened, he once asked his father, Changsun Sheng, when he was a child. At that time, his father told him that because Han was the land of fire and virtue, the ancients believed that everything in heaven and earth was composed of five virtues. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, it was water virtue at the beginning, and then it was earth virtue for a while, but in the end it was determined to be fire virtue.

Therefore, when the Han Dynasty carved seals, sometimes the lower right corner of the Chinese character was deliberately written as the word fire and separated to show the virtue of fire.

This is a special way of writing Chinese characters.

"Look at this snake button again, this is also very particular."

"The emperor's jade seal, the king's golden seal, and the courtier's bronze seal."

The printed materials are very particular, and they are all limited by the specification system.

"Han system, given to the crown prince and princes, golden seals, turtle buttons. Although the seal given to the king of the subject country is also a gold seal, but the seal is mostly used in the shape of snakes and camels, this seal is a gold seal snake button, and the seal text is the king of the Han Dynasty, it can be concluded that this is a seal given to the king of the Han Dynasty, which is very precious. I don't know how this seal was left behind and buried on a desert island, and Xu Xiaofeng obtained it, so it can only be said that it is providence. ”

Shan Xiongxin really didn't know that the Han Dynasty gave the gold seal to the king of Wa.

"In this way, the Wa Kingdom has been a vassal of my Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times?"

"Yes, not exactly."

"The Book of the Later Han Dynasty - Emperor Guangwu Benji" and "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty - The Biography of Dongyi" all record that Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty established the second year of the Middle Yuan Dynasty, that is, about 600 years ago, when the Japanese slave country paid tribute to congratulate, so that people called themselves doctors, and Guangwu gave them seals. Therefore, this golden seal is very likely to be the golden seal given by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty back then! ”

"However, the Japanese slave country in Asaka at that time was not the current Japanese country."

"Are there any other Wa kingdoms?"

"In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were many indigenous tribes on the Dongying Islands at that time to the transition to the country, forming many tribal alliances, forming hundreds of large and small countries, among which on the current Zhuzi Island, there was a stronger tribal alliance with strong power, in order to be able to override other tribal kingdoms, so sent an envoy to meet the emperor of the Han Dynasty. At that time, Emperor Guangwu learned about the customs of the Dongying Islands tribe, and praised his respect from afar, awarded him a golden seal, and gave him a name. ”

"The Wa Kingdom, in fact, the name of the country comes from the gift of my Heavenly Empire. However, at that time, this Wa Kingdom was only a strong force on Chikushi Island in the Dongying Islands, and the current Wa Imperial Court was actually the Yamato Department of the countries on Yamato Island that defeated other tribes later, and finally established the Yamato Imperial Court, including the original Wa Kingdom on Chikushi Island, which was given by the Son of Han Heaven, was also incorporated into it. Later, I corresponded with Dongying in the Central Plains, and I still called him by his name. ”

"It turns out that this is not the other!" Shan Xiongxin just figured it out a little.

"But this gold seal is engraved with the seal of the king of Hanweinu!"

"The commission can also be accomplished, and there is also the meaning of appointment, and there was indeed a slave country on Tsukushi Island at that time, with a population of tens of thousands of households."

In "Shuowen Jie Zi", the committee means to follow, and the word is added to indicate the obedient and respectful person. It is recorded in the "Hanshu Geographical Chronicles": "There are Japanese people in the sea of Lelang, divided into more than 100 countries, and they come to offer them when they are old."

During the Cao Wei period of the Three Kingdoms, the Yamatai Kingdom, the largest country on Zhuzi Island, paid tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty in Luoyang five times in nine years, and the Central Plains Dynasty also sent envoys to the Wa Kingdom for the first time to proclaim appeasement.

"In the past few days, I have looked through a lot of historical records, and I have also asked a lot of learned people, and I have found some interesting things. In fact, not only Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty had given a gold seal to the king of Wei, but also sent people to Luoyang through North Korea during the Cao Wei period, offering slaves and maids cloth and other things to Emperor Wei, and was given the title of "King of Wei and Wei" by Emperor Wei, and gold seals, bronze mirrors and other things. At that time, this Wa King was still a female Wa King, and his country's name was originally Yamatai Kingdom. ”

The Yamatai Kingdom is actually the country that sent envoys to Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in the north of Chikushi Island, which is now the area of Natsu. Later, there was a civil strife in the country, and the woman was the king, and by the time of Cao Wei, the queen's name was Himiko, and she was the capital in the land of Yamatai in the north of Chikushi, and her younger brother helped govern the country. ”

It's just that this Yamatai country was later defeated and conquered by Yamato and incorporated into the Yamato country.

However, the Yamato Imperial Court, which unified the Dongying Islands in the Central Plains, was still called the Wa Kingdom.

"When the Wa State sent an envoy to the Central Plains to meet the Son of Heaven, he claimed that his ancestor was the son of Shaokang after Xia, and he was sealed in Huiji. His vulgar hair is tattooed on his face to avoid the harm of the dragon, and then to avoid the war and cross the sea to Yamatai! ”

The more Shan Xiongxin listened, the more mysterious he felt.

"After Xue Yantuo said that they were the Yizheng Jin Tianclan sent to Saibei by the Emperor of the Xia Dynasty, now this widow actually claims to be the son of Shaokang after the Xia Dynasty."

The eldest grandson Wuji said with a smile, "It doesn't matter if it's true or false, it's possible to be true." Even if it's fake, it's not a good thing that they are willing to cling to my Huaxia, so that we can rule here in the future. ”

Shan Xiongxin laughed, "You people, you like to twist and turn, if you want me to say just obey directly." ”

"This cultural identity is also very important, to conquer physically, and where is it better to assimilate from the roots."