Zheng He remembered the map of the Wa Island.

A month after Gongsun Kang left Jeju Island and arranged the construction of the island, Zheng He decided to go on an expedition to the island.

He took 500 elite soldiers, did not bring horses, took three sea boats, and arrived on Kyushu Island in one day's work.

Zheng He led his soldiers to camp not far from the coast and rested for the night. The next day, I went to the island to look for people.

Soon they walked outside a village.

I saw a group of guys who were basically about 1.5 meters tall and wearing tattered linen clothes were playing ping-pong outside the village. Some of their heads are shaved off, some of them are shaved off the two sides, leaving the middle; Some shave off the front part of the middle, leaving the two sides and the back part. Just like the head shape of the northern miscellaneous beard of the Han Dynasty. They carried in their hands all sorts of crude and primitive weapons, such as many of them sharpening bamboo into spears. It's like a bunch of peasants with only simple training.

The two sides combined were less than two hundred people, but they fought hard and screamed. Zheng He saw that many of them were holding bamboo spears and wooden swords, and felt more like a group of half-grown children fighting.

There is no chrysanthemum and sword demeanor at all.

Zheng He took 500 brightly armored soldiers with him. When they came to the outside of the village, both sides of the fight stopped and looked at them.

Zheng He understands the language of the Japanese people, and he immediately asked, "Are you playing at home?" ”

"We are in the national war," two older men stepped forward.

Zheng He was speechless, less than 200 people in the national war.

The two old men looked at Zheng He, who was well-armored and well-equipped, and couldn't help but put down their bodies and bent down respectfully. He asked, "Distinguished guests, are you from heaven?" ”

"We came from the Han Dynasty, do you know the Han Dynasty?" Zheng He did not deceive them, nor did he think about creating gods. Creating gods is a means that only the Gongsun family will use, hehe.

"You know, my ancestors once saw the Great Emperor of your country." An old man with gray hair said.

Zheng He had heard Gongsun Kang introduce him to the current situation of Wadao's dealings with the Han Dynasty.

He knows:

During the Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty, there were more than 30 small countries in Japan that had dealings with the Han Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Japanese Japanese slave king sent an envoy to Han, and Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty named his island country as the Han slave state, and named his king the queen of Beiminghu, and awarded the Japanese slave national seal, and gave the "Han Japanese slave king" gold seal. The gold seal engraved with the words "King of the Han Dynasty" was found on Shika Island on the shore of Gen Beach in Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu Prefecture, Japan, more than 1,700 years later, in 1784 (the 49th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty and the 4th year of the Ming Dynasty). In the 21st century, this seal was still displayed in Fukuoka City, a Japanese slave country.

China's copper casting and iron-making technology was also introduced to Japan in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At the beginning of the 20th century, bronze mirrors from the Han and Han dynasties were discovered in Japan.

During the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Japan was in the Yayoi period. They also survived in primitive societies.

The period from around the 3rd century BC to around the 3rd century AD is known as the Yayoi period. The name of this era is derived from the Yayoi-style pottery, which was regarded as a representative feature of this period, and the farming society, centered on rice cultivation, spread rapidly from northern Kyushu to various parts of the Japanese archipelago. At that time, the Japanese archipelago was called the Wa and Wa Kingdom by China.

In the 3rd century B.C., rice cultivation technology and the use of metal tools were transferred from Korea to northern Kyushu. Rice farming technology brought about epoch-making changes in Japanese society, expanding production, creating a hierarchy between the rich and the poor, and turning the rural community towards political blocs. The beliefs, rituals, and customs brought about by farming gradually spread, forming the prototype of Japanese culture.

Just such a Japanese slave country, which did not enter the feudal period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, still belongs to a slave country!

In the "Later Han Shu Wei Biography", it is said,

In the second year of Jianwu Zhongyuan, the Japanese slave country paid tribute to congratulate, so that people called themselves doctors, and the extreme southern boundary of the Japanese country was also, and Guangwu gave the seal ribbon.

In the first year of Emperor Yong, the king of the Japanese Dynasty was promoted to one hundred and sixty people, and he was willing to see him.

It is recorded in the "Biography of Wei Zhiwei" that they came to pay tribute to Wei.

There are four boys, six girls, and two banbu

It really makes people feel that the backwardness and comical of the Japanese slave country in the Han Dynasty at that time could not come up with other decent tributes, so they had to send some people over to pay tribute, maybe it was already something they thought was more valuable and more handy.

However, by the time of the Wei state, the Wa state had also made some progress, "At that time, they not only knew how to weave and seize silk, but also could weave relatively fine fabrics such as zebra cloth and Japanese brocade, which were sent to China as tribute." ”

It's just that Zheng He didn't expect that the Japan he was looking for would be so poor, just like the refugees in the Central Plains and the refugees in later generations. Rob them? What to grab? Wooden knives, bamboo guns, or ragged linen clothes?

When the angel came, the two countries stopped fighting. The white-haired old man invited the angel into the village, and of course he said, "Dear angel, welcome to my kingdom." ”

In the palace made of thatched grass and earth and stones, Zheng He was ceremoniously received by the white-haired king. A bowl of soup made from I don't know what blades of grass boiled, and a plate of fruit that is quite normal.

The white-haired king said, "Can I buy the weapons that the angels have brought?" ”

Zheng He looked at him with interest: "What do you use to buy Ran?" ”

The white-haired king of "Silver" said confidently, "I have a lot".

He called for someone to bring two large wooden boxes, and when he opened them, he saw that they were all rough silver. Although the refining technique is not good, there are many impurities in the silver, but it is definitely silver, Zheng He can see it. In this era, silver was made into vessels. The same weight of silver is more valuable than gold.

He knew what he could loot on Wajima.

He remembered Gongsun Kang's words:

"Japan is poor in mineral resources, and although its mineral resources are relatively complete, the reserves are very small, so some people call it "the country of metal resources".

Of course, shallow or even open-pit gold and silver mines are really good things, after all, in terms of the technical level of this period, the difficulty of mining is more important than the amount of holdings.

In the next two years, I won't need you to run too far. As far as Wajima. I need to conquer them, take them to dig gold and silver, and refine them on the spot. When you are done, you will bring back the gold and silver for me. ”

Then he said, "I can provide you with weapons, and I will help you to expand your kingdom; But I need you to help us mine and give us all the gold and silver that I find. ”

The white-haired king disagreed, he just wanted to trade fairly and didn't want to be a miner for the Han Chinese.

As a result, the two sides broke up unhappily, and Zheng He and his subordinates continued to explore the island.

Zheng He took his subordinates and spent a month traveling all over Kyushu Island. The situation was explored in detail, maps were drawn, and sand tables were made.

Instead of acting recklessly, he set sail back to Jeju Island. A day later, he brought dozens of subordinates who were familiar with the situation to Lelang County to report to Gongsun Kang.