Chapter Seventy-Six: Arrival in Hakata

After instructing Li Dan and his son to go to Nagasaki first, Li Dan also led a delegation from Shimonoseki and arrived in Hakata on 1 July.

During the Kyushu Expedition, Hakata suffered a lot of damage as the front line of the battle, and Mitsunari was ordered to serve as the Hakata commissioner, and with the support of the Shimai clan, Kamiya Sozhan and Oga Mune, who were known as the "Hakata Three Heroes", the port of Hakata was finally rebuilt two years later, and the prosperity was even more than before, once surpassing Nagasaki and Sakai to become the most prosperous port in Japan. It is also to show the most prosperous side of Japan to the high-ranking officials of these big countries, in order to achieve some deterrent effect.

Before the ship docked, Hideho's saw that Governor Konishi led a group of retainers to wait at the dock, this kind of card field is not uncommon to see more, and there is no good impression of this businessman, Hideho landed on the shore and ordered the governor to take him to see Yang Fangheng, the president heard the news and quickly ordered Naito Ruan to enter the city first to report to the mission.

After all, he is old, even after so long, Yang Fangheng has not recovered from the bad news of Li Zongcheng's absconding, as soon as he heard that Xiubao was about to come to visit, he hurriedly recruited Shen Weijing, hoping that he would deal with it for him.

Hearing that Yang Fangheng had summoned him, Shen Weijing was not in a hurry, carefully put on his black hat, took steps in all directions, and slowly came to Yang Fangheng's bedroom.

As the saying goes, "people rely on clothes, Buddha relies on gold", and a profiteer who was still obscene and unbearable, put on this dress, and even had a little momentum and majesty.

As soon as he entered the door, Shen Weijing noticed the crimson peacock supplement on the hanger, and when he looked at his cyan white pheasant supplement, the pride that had just risen disappeared instantly, and he reluctantly pulled out a crimson brocade rooster supplement from behind him, and said stupidly: "Hurry up and change this set, don't miss the big thing." ”

According to the record of "History of the Ming Dynasty and Public Opinion", in the third year of Hongwu (1370 AD), officials of the Ministry of Rites proposed that the ancient clothing color was according to the doctrine of the five virtues, Xia Shanghei, Yin Shangbai, Zhou Shangchi, Qin Hei, Han Chi, and Tang Huang. Ming took the law of Zhou, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, and the world was king with fire, and the color should be still red (this is also the reason why Huang Taiji used "Qing" as the country name, the Qing Dynasty practiced water virtue, water overcame fire, and Qing extinguished Ming, but it was not without some mystery). Zhu Yuanzhang approved and stipulated that officials from the first to fourth grades wore crimson robes, officials from the fifth to seventh grades wore blue robes, and officials below the eighth rank wore green robes.

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the princess, the marquis, the uncle, and the concubine, the clothes were embroidered with unicorns and Bai Ze. The civil officials are first-grade cranes, second-grade golden pheasants, third-grade peacocks, fourth-grade cloud geese, fifth-grade white pheasants, sixth-grade herons, seventh-grade emus, eighth-grade yellow orioles, and ninth-grade quails. Miscellaneous training magpies. Feng Xianguan (known as the imperial history in the Qing Dynasty) 獬豸. Military attachés are first- and second-grade lions, third- and fourth-grade tigers and leopards, fifth-grade bears, sixth- and seventh-grade biaos, eighth-grade rhinoceros, and ninth-grade seahorses.

Although Yang Fangheng and Shen Weijing both served as military attachés to Japan, the Ming Dynasty emphasized literature and light military force, and in order to avoid Hideyoshi's anger, they specially prepared civilian uniforms for the two (in fact, Li Zongcheng), which was the popular "military title" at that time, which was also a common practice in the middle and late Ming Dynasty to send foreign vassals.

Li Zongcheng was originally a second-rank military attaché, and he needed to wear a crimson brocade rooster supplement suit according to his civilian rank, but now that he has absconded for fear of crime, that outfit is useless, and it was originally stored in the warehouse, but who would have thought that it would fall into the hands of Shen Weijing.

Although Yang Fangheng is cowardly, he is not a fool, he knows why Shen Weijing did this, so he decided to excuse himself: "Brother Shen doesn't have to be like this, although the whereabouts of the Zheng Envoy are unknown, but with my current identity, it is enough to deal with it, there is really no need to wear a supplement for the second grade, if this matter reaches the ears of the emperor, I will not be able to cut off even ten heads." ”

"Your Excellency's words are wrong," Shen Wei said in a righteous manner: "You may not know the system of the Wa Kingdom, that Great Nayan was originally basically the same as you, but because he is the nephew of Taira Hideyoshi, he is deeply trusted, so he was awarded the official position of the second one, so that you and his official rank are not equal; If you use this as an excuse to raise a teacher and ask for guilt, then the peace talks will be in vain. ”

After Shen Weijing's flickering, Yang Fangheng was even more timid, if he really angered this royal noble, let alone peace talks, he might not even be able to save his life in the end.

"Since this is the case, then according to Brother Li's words, risk death to change into this supplemental suit," After speaking, Yang Fangheng pointed to his outfit again, and said with a forced smile: "If Brother Li doesn't dislike it, please also change into my set of supplemental clothes, and greet the envoy of the Japanese State as a deputy envoy." ”

"Why do you dislike it, since it is your intention, it is better to be respectful than to obey your fate." Shen Weijing solemnly took off Yang Fangheng's supplemental suit, and cautiously bowed out of the room.

As soon as he got out of the room, this Shen Weijing seemed to be a different person, holding his clothes and jumping happily in the corridor, and he was really happy in his heart: "I am a businessman, and I can wear the top of the three products of the imperial court, this must be unprecedented and unprecedented, and I will return to my hometown in the future, and I must build a Shen ancestral hall in Jiaxing, and I will offer this set of good life to the ancestors, and bless the descendants." "But who would have thought that this storm that spans the three kingdoms would end up in the mouth of the first vegetable market and end up tragically?

Shen Weijing's speed was indeed very fast, and he changed his clothes after dividing five by two, and swaggered to the door of the post house to wait for Xiubao and others to visit. Less than half an hour later, the "royal nobles" from the two arrived at the post house in front of the president and others, Shen Weijing was really a little panicked when he saw this scene, but he didn't expect that the president, who had always been on an equal footing with himself, was now nodding like a little minion, and doing his best to tie up this eighteen-year-old young man.

"This is Lord Yang Fangheng, right?" Xiubao glanced at the complement on Shen Weijing's body and said respectfully.

"Returning to His Royal Highness, the humble position is Shen Weijing, Lord Yang is slightly ill, and he is specially appointed to welcome His Royal Highness here." At this moment, Lord Shen, who was arrogant in front of Yang Fangheng, disappeared, and was replaced by Shen Weijing, a groveling businessman.

"In that case, then please ask Lord Shen to lead the way and take me to visit Lord Yang." Xiubao frowned slightly, thinking that this Shen Weijing was so bold that he dared to wear the supplement of the third grade of the imperial court, and it was estimated that Yang Fangheng had already been subdued.

"Oh, that's not polite," Xiubao said with a slap of his head and bared his teeth, "As an envoy, I should visit the envoy Li Zongcheng first." ”

"Li, Lord Li" Shen Weijing stammered, seeing that Governor Konishi was desperately glancing at him, he really had no choice but to say nonsense: "Lord Li is not accustomed to the water and soil, he just sent people back to the Central Plains not long ago, and now all the affairs of the mission are decided by Lord Yang and his humble position." ”

(That's all for today, I'm sorry, I was too nervous about the exam yesterday, my body collapsed, now I'm going to hang water and take medicine, everyone take care of it, in addition, I want to thank my friends who have been persevering these days, thank you for your support!) )