The island country is currently in the Heian period, and since the fall of the monk regime, the Fujiwara clan has reached the point where it has established a regency government in the second half of the 9th century and has monopolized the government.

Speaking of which, the royal family of the island country is very aggrieved, and it seems that it has never held the power of this small country.

In the past 100 years, there have been several civil strife among the people of the island country in order to compete for power, and there have been mixed battles between the emperor of the island country, the emperor, the Fujiwara family, and the emerging two major samurai groups of the Genji and Taira clans.

It was in this situation that Fujiwara Yukiri was ordered by his family to lead a fleet full of gifts across the sea from the island nation.

Li Nan's subordinates have both Shiranui Mai and Hattori Hanzo, who are familiar with the island country, and An Yuyun, who is from Goryeo, so what happened in these two small countries is not a secret.

Now that he knows the current situation of the island country, Li Nan also knows a little about Fujiwara Yukiri's intentions.

Without waiting for Fujiwara Yukiri to speak, Li Nan first asked: "You wait for the country of projectiles, while the king is out, he actually sent Japanese pirates to attack the sea frontier of my Zhennan country, burning, killing and plundering my innocent people, are you guilty of this?" ”

In the face of Li Nan's questioning, Fujiwara Xingli fell to the ground and shouted: "Lord Wang, you are wronged!" ”

"Wronged?" Li Nan pointed at Fujiwara Xingli and shouted: "Then tell me, is this matter true or false?" ”

Fujiwara Yukiri climbed a few steps forward, leaned down in front of the high platform and raised her head and said: "The little woman has also heard about the Japanese Kou, but this matter has nothing to do with my Fujiwara clan, but the local samurai of the island country were instructed by the Hara clan and the Heira clan. ”

"Huh." Li Nan sneered: "Xingli, you are very good at throwing this pot!" ”

"Lord Wang, the little woman is absolutely not lying." Fujiwara Yukiri hurriedly explained: "The situation of the island country, I think the prince knows a little. In recent years, my Fujiwara clan has been repeatedly provoked by local samurai groups such as the Hara clan and the Hei clan, and at present they can only hold on to some relatively prosperous cities, and there are no extra troops to invade overseas. ”

"Oh?" Li Nan nodded and began to think.

In the current situation of the island country, the Fujiwara family now has the image of the sunset, and according to the trend of history, it will eventually be replaced by emerging forces such as the Taira clan and the Hara clan. According to Fujiwara Yukiri, the Fujiwara family is still a little difficult to protect itself, let alone send Japanese pirates to invade elsewhere.

Li Nan raised his hand and said, "Okay, it seems that the rebellion of the Japanese is not about your Fujiwara family, get up and sit down." ”

Seeing Li Nan's attitude improve, Fujiwara Yukiri got up cautiously and sat on the wooden chair on one side.

The two sides drank a few sips of tea, and Li Nan asked casually: "Xingli, weren't you in Tokyo City before, why did you have time to come to my town of Nanguo?" ”

"Huh." Fujiwara Yukiri smiled and said: "King Zhennan is now famous overseas, my father Fujiwara has been loyal to the name of the prince for a long time, since I heard the news that the prince is going to get married, he asked me to come here with a thin gift to congratulate." ”

The envoys who came today came with similar intentions, they all came here to show goodwill when they saw the strength of Zhennan, Li Nan had no interest in Western Xia, Tubo and Goryeo, which were docile and tyrannical like hungry wolves, but he really had some ideas about the island country.

Zhennan was able to defeat the Li Dynasty, the Duan family of Dali, the Zhenla Empire and the Song Kingdom, in addition to the heroes of the generals and the tactics of the strategists, the biggest heroes should be all kinds of firearms.

With the expansion of the territory of Zhennan, the expansion of the army, and the emergence of large-scale wars with other countries, although the Guangyuan Prefecture Arsenal has also expanded several times, it has been unable to increase the output because of the limited quantity of raw materials.

The most important materials for the composition of gunpowder are saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, of which charcoal is the easiest to obtain, while sulfur and saltpeter are relatively rare.

At the current level of refining in Zhennanguo, it is obviously not practical to recover sulfur from crude oil and natural gas, so it can only be obtained from natural sulfur mines.

China has a lot of land, but there are not many places with natural sulfur mines, and the small island country has a large number of sulfur mines.

Thinking of this, Li Nan said with a smile: "In this way, then thank you for your father's kindness." ”

Noticing that Li Nan's mood was good, Fujiwara Yukiri hurriedly said: "Lord Wang, in fact, the little girl has a reluctant invitation here. At present, there are many thieves in our country, and the Japanese invaders are attacking other countries everywhere, bringing boundless hatred to the country. My father and the emperor were anxious about this matter, so my father implored the prince to send an elite celestial master to my island country, and presumably all the thieves would obey it. ”

Li Nan didn't expect that his Zhennan Kingdom would enjoy the treatment of the United States in the future in advance, and it was personally invited by the emperor of the island country and the head of the Fujiwara family who was in power, but the Jin soldiers were about to go south, and Li Nan did not have many soldiers and horses in his hands.

"Xingli, you should know the current situation in the world. The Jin State has destroyed the Liao State, and only one Northern Liao regime is still alive, and it won't survive for long. After Jin annihilated Liao, he would inevitably take advantage of the situation to attack the Song State, and in this kind of troubled times, I also need a large number of soldiers and horses to guard the territory, and it is difficult to send people to your island country to quell the rebellion. ”

The Fujiwara family, whose situation is getting worse and worse, is now in urgent need of strong foreign aid to enter, so Fujiwara Yukiri knelt on the ground and begged: "Lord, the soldiers of Zhennan are strong and strong, and the firearms are extremely sharp, the prince only needs to send thousands of elite soldiers, and my Fujiwara family must be grateful to you!" ”

"Huh?" Hearing Fujiwara Yukiri's plea, Li Nan asked in surprise: "When it comes to quelling the chaos in your island country, is there too few thousands of soldiers and horses?" ”

"Not a lot, no less!" Fujiwara Yukiri explained: "The population of our island country is not large, and thousands of soldiers with full armor are enough to sweep away those chaotic parties. ”

Li Nan really hadn't been to an island country in this era, so at this time he realized that it seemed to be different from what he imagined.

Ignoring Fujiwara Yukiri, who was kneeling on the ground waiting for an answer, Li Nan suddenly said to the place in the main hall where the sun couldn't shine: "Hattori Hanzo, is what she said true?" ”

Hattori Hanzo came from the Warring States period, which was hundreds of years before the Heian period, and he participated in the internal wars of countless island nations, so it was most appropriate to ask him about this.

Hattori Hanzo, who was dressed in a black ninja suit, walked out of the darkness quietly after hearing Li Nan's call.

In Fujiwara's surprised gaze, Hattori Hanzo came to the hall and said, "The island country is sparsely populated, and even in the largest battle, there are no more than 200,000 soldiers involved. As for now, as long as they have enough ammunition, those 3,000 soldiers equipped with the 'Southern Fire Serpent' will be enough. ”

Three thousand soldiers is indeed not much, and the two female commanders who are now responsible for the formation of the Zhennan Navy, Artemisia and Asha, have 10,000 soldiers and more than 100 warships of all kinds under their command.

With 3,000 soldiers to control the fate of the island country, and to obtain a large amount of sulfur and other minerals from energy, this business seems to be beneficial and harmless, so Li Nan thought about it and agreed.