It turned out that after Emperor Huanmu succeeded to the throne, his son Prince Anden was frail and sickly, and for the sake of national glory, he appointed his younger brother Saori as the "crown prince", and agreed with Sara:

If I die, the throne will be succeeded by my younger brother Hayara, who will return the throne to my son, Prince Anden.

So Prince Sagara was ordered not to marry or have children, and the reward was to be able to taste the taste of being an emperor in your generation.

However, after Fujiwara was assassinated, Emperor Kanmu insisted that the perpetrator was the prince of the spring palace, and the instigator behind the scenes was his younger brother Prince Sara, and behind Sagara, there were great Buddhist temples in Nara.

"For 100 years, Japan's capital has moved more frequently than tsunamis and earthquakes, and each migration has been a feast of blood and intrigue. Emperor Shomu moved the capital to Heijokyo and relied on the four sons of Fujiwara to get rid of the king of Nagaya, and after the rebellion of Fujiwara Hiroji, Emperor Shomu began to move the capital to take refuge - the previous move to Nagaokakyo The bloodiest thing that happened was the assassination of Fujiwara Tanetsugu. Prince Sara was thus deposed as the crown prince and exiled to Awaji. Kukai's face became more and more gloomy, and he felt that this seemed to be a curse that he could not get rid of, and he wondered if this Heiankyo would bring lasting peace and happiness to his country.

"Then Prince Sagara in the end?"

"The prince thought that he had been wronged, and he died of hunger strike in anger." After Kukai said this, he recited the Buddha name of compassion.

Zhang Baogao laughed, and asked after the death of Prince Zaoliang, is the position of Prince Andian as stable as Mount Tai?

Kukai didn't like this Sillaro's contemptuous attitude towards the imperial family, but he still worriedly told Zhang Baogao: "The relationship between Anden and Imakami (Emperor Kanmu) is actually not harmonious, because Anden is weak and sick, and it is said that it is caused by the unjust spirit of Prince Sara, who abandoned Nagaokakyo and moved the capital to Heiankyo, and also has the idea of avoiding the unjust soul." ”

"So behind the Anden, there must be a strong family to support it, just like Fujiwara Four Sons supported Emperor Shomu?" The clever Zhang Baogao has something to say.

Kukai's expression showed that Zhang Baogao's guess was completely correct:

The left middle Ben Fujiwara Nakanari who came to negotiate, and his sister Fujiwara Yakuko were the attendants in the spring palace of Prince Anden. Yaozi's daughter is the concubine of Prince Andian.

At the beginning, around the public case of Fujiwara Tanetsugu's assassination, no one knew what deal Emperor Kanmu had secretly reached with the Fujiwara family, and no one dared to say it.

If the children are willing to sacrifice their father's life in order to ascend to the throne and help the emperor achieve the goal of eliminating the threat to the throne, it is simply terrible in terms of human ethics.

"Hey, Kukai - get out of here, take my boat to Tangtu, in my opinion, this Heiankyo will never be safe, and the turmoil and intrigue around the power are the ghosts that cannot be dispelled." Zhang Baogao stretched his waist and looked at the white waves rolled up by Nambata, the beautiful scenery dyed red by the sunset, and suggested.

Kukai looked at Zhang Baogao with some surprise.

Both are young people.

Zhang Baogao tilted his thumb to his chest, "You go to the mountains of Tangtu to study Buddhism, and I, Zhang Baogao, want to conquer this ocean for the Duke of Wei Guo and become the overlord of the ocean." ”

That night, when the Tang delegation was in the camp next to the Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine, Zhang Xi secretly summoned Kukai and handed him a letter, "This is what Dazai Marshal entrusted me to Prince Iyo, and you have studied with the prince, so I will ask you." ”

The next day, to everyone's surprise, the delegation headed by Zhang Xi and Zhang Baogao presented gifts and documents from Mt. Takadake of Waikoku to King Yamabe (Emperor Kanmu) at Namba Palace, and said that if King Yamabe was disgusted with filth, then out of respect for the landlord, our fleet would retreat on time in three days.

Gao Yue's gifts are very grand, there are Shujiang brocade, Changzhou Shangpin yellow silk, Yangzhou bronze mirror, four riding lion brocade and so on.

Fujiwara Nakanari then transferred the gifts to Heiankyo.

Although Emperor Kanmu was reluctant to trade with the Tang, he was still flattered to receive these gifts, so he ordered the best of them to be enshrined, and the other gifts were distributed among the princes, senators, chamberlains, and monks. In addition, Emperor Kanmu also gave back a large amount of Japanese-made silk kapok to Takatake as a token of gratitude.

Then Emperor Kanmu left as soon as possible with the Tang boat, not to interfere with the quiet life of Heiankyo, and it was best to stay away.

In the Spring Palace, the sick Prince Andian, looking at the mother and son of Fujiwara Yakuko in the East Palace, who were dressed in the brocade of the New Shu River in the courtyard, were happily turning in circles, and praised the splendid beauty of the Tang Kingdom was several times stronger than that in China, and couldn't help but smile rarely.

"Your Highness, the plum blossoms in the courtyard are about to bloom, let the concubine cut a few pieces for His Highness to arrange flowers?" Fujiwara Yakuko smiled and bowed down the stairs and said to Anden.

"It's not the most beautiful time for plum blossoms." As he spoke, Prince Andian suddenly reached out of his hand and pinched Yaozi's wrist.

Yakuko's daughter was not surprised to see this scene of her mother and prince.

"When is the most beautiful moment of plum blossoms?" Although Yaozi is much older than Prince Andian, he has no shameful expression on his face.

"The beauty of plum blossoms lies in the spring night, the dark fragrance that is absent."

This is said to be even more powdery.

Suddenly, there were several coughs on the side of the corridor, which frightened Prince Andian's hand back.

The person who coughed was none other than the master of the spring palace doctor, Fujiwara Rope.

And coincidentally, the rope owner is the husband of Yakuko.

Emperor Huanwu had long known that Yakuko was in the East Palace and had a personal affair with Prince Anden, so he appointed the rope master as the doctor of the Spring Palace, "Take good care of your wife!" ”

But now that he saw his wife openly flirting with the crown prince in broad daylight, the rope lord was so angry that his face turned blue, but he couldn't have a seizure, so he could only cough as a warning.

"It's not fun!" Fujiwara Yakuko was indignant, turned around and left.

At the same time, Heian Zuojing, in Fujiwara Zhongcheng's mansion, Zhongcheng also celebrated with Qinghai Weiyue and his mother's uncles Qin Zhencheng and Qin Ninguo, saying that this time Tang Chuan was willing to retreat, which was a great achievement for us.

"If we trade with the Tang Kingdom, then our family business will not be guaranteed."

It turned out that the Qin family belonged to the ferry system, and later naturalized Japan, they boasted that they were the descendants of the Qin Dynasty, but the authenticity is very suspicious, the probability is that they are Korean refugees, because they know how to make wine, rice planting and papermaking technology, they have to be reused, so they have a strong force in the mountain city, Emperor Huanmu built Heianjing, the Qin family contributed a lot, was highly relied on, and was given the surname of "Ji Inch" (Japan's later famous Weizong, Shimazu, Matsushita, Changzong and other clans are all descendants of the Qin family) - if Japan opens the country to Tang, Then the more advanced technology of the mainland will invade sharply, and it will be difficult for the Qin clan to maintain its "monopoly position".

"This time, Dazai Marshal Fujiwara Yutomo let the Karafune come to Nambatatsu, and it is hard to escape the blame, and after the Karafune retreats immediately, I have to impeach him well." Zhong Cheng said viciously.

Because Fujiwara Yutomo is the maternal grandfather of Prince Iyo, and he is also the head of the Fujiwara Minami family.

Compared with Anden, who was sick and had a tense relationship with his father, Emperor Kanmu, Prince Iyo was the most favored by Emperor Kanmu because of his intelligence and strength.

Therefore, the contradiction surrounding the Tang ship is actually the contradiction between the Fujiwara Shiki family and the Fujiwara Minami family, and it also involves the competition between the princes!