On October 27, 1573, after a long period of drifting at sea, the vast coastline finally appeared at the end of the view. It started as a small dot, then gradually extended to the sides, like a phoenix with its wings outstretched. The black coastline stretches straight to the intersection of water and sky, and there is no end in sight.

That's Shenzhou.

Yu Qiuping, who was propped up on the side of the boat with his hands, almost poked half of his body out. Looking far away, his eyes did not want to leave his haunting hometown for a moment. It was as if he could see the continent, the towering mountains; See the rivers that turn a thousand times; See the endless thousands of miles of fertile land; See the patchwork of hills and fertile fields; See the majestic Forbidden City; See the majestic Jinluan Palace; See the lingering water towns in the south of the Yangtze River; See the magnificent Great Wall; Seeing the great rivers and mountains, and the kind and hard-working beings on the Shenzhou continent; Seeing his hometown, he has been away for fifteen years, or more than four hundred years.

During the period of struggle in Japan, only in the dead of night will a faint nostalgia well-rise in the bottom of my heart. He didn't think his homesickness would be as strong as the literati depicted it, but when he set out on his journey home, the moon every night was a sweet torture for him. It was only then that he truly understood how deeply his hometown had left in his blood.

He looked wistfully at his hometown, watching the ethereal coastline draw closer, from a black dot to a black line, and then to a blurred black shadow. As the ship drew closer, the faint black shadow gradually took on color and brightened before my eyes. Yu Qiuping saw the beach, the green hills, the green trees, and the huge pier.

At the moment when the boat docked at the pier, Yu Qiuping, who couldn't wait to get off the ship, suddenly didn't dare to go down. It's like a boy who is in love for the first time, dating his beloved girl for the first time, and has been looking forward to it for a long time, but at the corner before meeting, he hesitated and didn't dare to show up. He didn't know how to return to the country he longed for, and he didn't know how to set foot on that land in order to live up to his feelings.

"Ah, Your Highness, what are you doing! Come down! Ye Gu Suizi, who was next to the escalator in the distance, saw Yu Qiuping standing on the deck and did not move, and urged a little anxiously.

"It's coming, it's coming." Yu Qiuping was called by her, and couldn't help but feel a little distracted, and without thinking much about it, he walked briskly. It wasn't until he was dragged down the causeway to the ground by Asahinamatsu Chiyo and Hatani Suiko that he realized that his feet had stepped on the dirt of his homeland.

Yu Qiuping lowered his head, stared at the ground under his feet, and suddenly felt an inexplicable throbbing in his heart.

This is the soil of his hometown, and he has returned. He was 15 years older when he left his hometown at the age of 16 and came back again. Amazingly, his hometown is more than 400 years younger. There were no neighbors he knew, no apartment he grew up in, no school he attended, no beloved family and friends, nothing he knew.

In a sense, this hometown is too foreign to him. However, just standing on this piece of soil, Yu Qiuping felt that he felt that he was down-to-earth and relieved for no reason. Perhaps this land has a wonderful magic for all the descendants of Yan and Huang.

So Yu Qiuping knelt down straight and knelt down on the land of China. He slowly leaned down, lowered his head, and kissed the yellow earth that had nurtured a great civilization for thousands of years. At that moment, he only felt that his whole body was being passed through by electricity, and the emotions stirring in his heart made his body a little numb.

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This land gave birth to one of the oldest civilizations of mankind. It is also this land that has cared for the Chinese civilization along the way, and has experienced many catastrophes, but it can still flourish in the present, and will continue to maintain prosperity in the next few hundred years.

The people of this land are industrious and courteous, intelligent and thrifty. For thousands of years, they have faced the loess and turned their backs to the sky, and with their hard work, they have established this Chinese civilization that is admired by the world. Perhaps they had fought each other, or perhaps they had been invaded by foreign enemies, but this proud people still survived stubbornly, and once again straightened its back in the land of its ancestors.

"Welcome to the greatest nation in the world." Yuqiu straightened up and whispered to the guards standing around, "The country with the longest history and prosperous culture in the world. ”

The beauty of uniforms is called the flower, and the etiquette is called the summer.

"For the past thousand years, the countries on this land have been the most powerful countries in the world."

But if I don't do something about it, this great nation will fall into the abyss of darkness for hundreds of years to come. This weather-beaten nation will also face the disaster of national extinction. Her history and culture will be treated with humiliation, and her people will even resent the civilization that has abandoned them. She paid tens of millions of casualties, countless losses, and 150 years of time to finally regain the pride of the nations when they came to court.

This is a catastrophe for China and a catastrophe for the nation. If I don't do something about it, this will happen in the future. And because of my arrival, Japan will be stronger than it was in the past. This equally proud and motivated nation will never stop expanding. And the target of its expansion is likely to be China. If I don't do something, my nation will face an even greater disaster, and then I will be the sinner of the Chinese nation through the ages.

Yuqiu slowly straightened up from the ground, but her eyes were still deep at the ground under her feet.

"I have to do something."

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Yu Qiuping didn't come empty-handed this time, he brought a lot of things with him.

The most important of these is the "Future Outline", which he has painstakingly compiled for more than ten years. In the past 10 years or so, he has intermittently recorded all the achievements in history, mathematics, physics and chemistry, astronomy and geography, political system, military science and technology, and other aspects that he can recall in these dozens of books. Along with it, there are training manuals for each branch of the Red Leaf Army and the forging process for muskets and artillery.

In order to prepare for this trip to the Ming Kingdom, he and Imagawa Kaede transcribed it day and night for a long time, and finally finished transcribing his "Future Outline".

Yu Qiuping wants to give back all the wisdom of himself as a traverser to his nation. He hopes that these centuries-old wisdom will help his nation avoid a detour and not step into that humiliating period of modern history. But he really didn't know how to tell the people of today about the precious wisdom of human beings. Anyone will think that Yu Qiuping is a madman. So how does he pass on this knowledge to everyone? Will anyone really believe it?

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However, Yu Qiuping's worries were soon forgotten in the streets and alleys of the Ming Dynasty. Although the dialect spoken by the people of Nanzhili is far from Yu Qiuping's Mandarin, and although there are many differences between the customs of today and those of hundreds of years later, Yu Qiuping still feels cordial for no reason. He stopped in front of each of the vendors, gesturing with his hands instead of words, and buying small things. Sit for a while in each teahouse and restaurant, and order a pot of tea and a cup of wine. Honda Tadashi and others were very surprised, why Yu Qiuping, a Ming person, could not speak Chinese, only Ye Gu Suizi had a smile of "seeing through and not breaking through", which made Yu Qiuping quite embarrassed, and he had to use "different dialects" to prevaricate.

In this way, for half a month, I traveled leisurely from the port all the way to Nanjing. Without a guide, Yu Qiuping, who was smuggled in, was destined to be unable to enter the city of Nanjing. However, just looking at the majestic city wall outside the city has already made Yuqiu and others full of emotion.

"Oh my God... This city is too big! Sen Kolong stared at the majestic city wall of Nanjing, and was reluctant to take his eyes off for a long time, "The Japanese city is compared to him, and the establishment is that the shrimp meets the whale, oh no, the sea dragon is encountered!" ”

"Are those castles in Japan also embarrassed to be called castles?" Asahinamatsu Chiyo's mood of "Chonghua and Flattery" is obviously stronger, and I don't know where to belittle Japan in the past half a month, "Qifu City is a small village compared to this Nanjing City!" Not even one-tenth of the city of Nanjing! ”

"That's not the biggest one." Yu Qiuping heard everyone praise his hometown like this, and his heart was already happy, but he still maintained the reserve of a big man on his lips, "You haven't seen Beijing City." That's really majestic. ”

"Has Your Highness ever been to Beijing City?" Hoko Hatani asked curiously.

"Of course, I lived in Beijing for a long time when I was a child." Yu Qiuping recalled his past with a smile, "Every autumn, my parents will take me to Xiangshan to see the maple leaves!" The entire mountainous area is full of gorgeous autumn leaves, not to mention how beautiful it is! ”

Of course, Yu Qiuping didn't know that in the Ming Dynasty, the Xiangshan area was a royal mausoleum, which was dedicated to burying the princes, princesses and concubines who died early, and it would be open to civilians before there were ghosts.

"Uncle's parents?" Asahinamatsu Chiyo was stunned when she heard this, raised her head and asked Yu Qiuping, "I've never met my uncle's parents, and I haven't heard my uncle mention my parents!" Didn't my uncle's parents come to Japan with my uncle? ”

"Ahh No, I don't. Asahinamatsu Chiyo's words inadvertently poked the scar on the bottom of Yu Qiuping's heart, and the pain in his heart became even more intense on the land of his motherland.

It's been fifteen years since he crossed over, and his parents must have gone crazy looking for him. I wonder if the two of them are okay now? Have you given up on yourself? No, according to their character, they will definitely search every corner of the world, and they will stop when they find that they can no longer take a step.

Mom didn't sleep well in the first place, will she never sleep well again?

Will Dad's gray hair be more, will he quietly wipe his tears every day?

The family's originally happy life is gone. After I left, the tradition of the family going to Xiangshan to see the maple leaves every year is probably broken.

I eat and drink well, have a career and a family, and even laugh a lot. But what about Mom and Dad? Will they still be able to laugh after I'm gone? Have you ever laughed again?

I really don't have a conscience.

Yu Qiuping hung his head wordlessly, and tears began to roll in his eyes again.

When Honda Tadashi and the others saw Yu Qiuping's reaction, they mistakenly thought that Yu Qiuping's parents had passed away. Only Hatani Suiko understands the struggle and pain in Yu Qiuping's heart.

"I miss them." Yu Qiuping wiped his eyes with his hand, and whispered with some difficulty, "If I can go home, I am willing to give up everything." ”