The so-called national letter is an important document exchanged or agreed upon between countries, and it is a major historical event recorded in the file. It's much stronger than that Imperial Inland Letter, which is actually just an order to the country, and it can't rise to the diplomatic level.

When Jiang Zhou heard the letter of state with diplomatic privileges on the other side, his eyes were green, and he nodded again and again as if he saw a life-saving straw: "That's right, that's right." This official is the official envoy to Japan, and there is an official appointment from the imperial court, which is the appointment letter of this official. ”

"In addition, the official residence of the fifth rank of the city is the main person who is responsible for the exploration and trade." Jiang Zhou is not stupid, by the way, he threw out the bait of exploration trade, he knows that this exploration trade is a fragrant cake that the major Japanese celebrities are vying for.

"Since he is the envoy of the Ming court, the poor monk should obey the arrangement of the adults." Ceyan Zhou Liang saw Hosokawa Teruyuan hiding on the side and nodded secretly, so he directly agreed to Jiang Zhou's invitation.

In order to catch the last train smoothly this time, Hosokawa Terumoto readjusted his strategy, and took advantage of the relationship between General Yoshiki and the Ouchi family to invite the last envoy to the Ming Dynasty, the head of the five mountains in Kyoto, the main mountain of the Rinzai sect, and the abbot of the tower head of Tenryu Temple. It just so happened that Zhou Liang had a ten-year appointment with a friend in Ningbo, so he readily accepted it, and he remembered that when they parted, the two sides said goodbye. For this reason, he specially wrote "Farewell to Jianglou":

Qingzhang leans down and hugs the waves, and people from afar send guests here?

The willows by the Yangtze River in the west wind are not as good as the leaves are not as much as Lisi.

Of course, this time I went to Ming, Hosokawa Terumoto was the official envoy on paper, but it was this master Cehiko who came forward to coordinate. After a little sum on both sides, it was decided that without further ado, they could set off for Daming, and together with 400 Japanese tribute missions and 600 Chinese refugees, they returned to China by boat from Matsuura.

At the end of January 1556, Hosokawa Terumoto and Jiang Zhou arrived at Dinghai (present-day Zhenhai), and after landing, they traveled day and night, and finally arrived in the capital on the eve of Chinese New Year's Eve, and submitted their credentials.

The Forbidden City, the ancient capital of Chinese civilization, is located in the center of Beijing's central axis. With the three major halls as the center, it covers an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about 150,000 square meters, with more than 70 large and small palaces and more than 9,000 houses. The buildings in the Forbidden City are divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court. The center of the outer dynasty is the Fengtian Palace, the Zhonghe Palace, and the Baohe Palace, collectively referred to as the three major halls, which are the places where the state holds big ceremonies, and the two wings are the Wenhua Hall and the Wuying Palace. The center of the inner court is the Qianqing Palace, the Jiaotai Palace, and the Kunning Palace, collectively referred to as the last three palaces, which are the main palaces where the emperor and empress live, and the two wings are the east and west six palaces. The four corners of the Forbidden City have exquisite corner towers, which are exquisitely built and beautiful. Miyagi is surrounded by a palace wall that is 10 meters high and 3,400 meters long, and there is a moat 52 meters wide outside the wall.

Hosokawa Terumoto put on his official court clothes early this morning, wore a crown at his waist, and held a tooth wat in his hand. Enter from Chengtianmen (Tiananmen) and follow Yudao Street all the way to the north, with a gate on each side of Yudao Street. On the west side is the Shewei Gate, which leads to the Sheji Altar, which is the place where the Ming Emperor sacrificed to the land and the god of grains. On the east side is the temple gate, leading to the Taimiao, which is the family temple of the Ming emperor to worship his ancestors.

Continue to walk past the end gate, the long Yudao Street is flanked by towering city walls, and at the end is the south gate of the Forbidden City, the "Noon Gate". Hosokawa Terumoto deliberately stopped for a moment, in later film and television literature, the often mentioned "decapitation outside the noon gate" refers to this gate. After crossing the noon gate, it is considered to have truly entered the center of the Forbidden City, followed by a winding river running through the left and right, connecting the two banks by the Jinshui Bridge, and at the end is the Fengtian Gate.

Today's son of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Shizong Zhu Houxi visited the tribute horses offered by Japan at Fengtianmen, and then gave a set of winter clothes from the following envoys, and led hundreds of officials to enter the Fengtian Hall to receive the congratulations of the Japanese envoys.

Hosokawa Terumoto first waited outside the hall for a while, and after letting the officials of the Ming court enter the hall and stand in shifts, he only heard a scream from the male duck inside: "The official envoy of the Xuan Japan, the first assistant minister of the cabinet, the scholar of the shogunate palace, the envoy of Yamashiro, Settsu, the envoy of the Tanba Festival, the governor of moderation, the secretary of the military department, the military affairs of the forty-four countries of the general Huiyuan, the deputy envoy Tsuhiko Zhouliang, and the deputy envoy Yoshida Zonggui met ~~" A long list of official positions almost choked this eunuch.

Hosokawa Terumoto strode into the main hall with Tsehiko Shura and Yoshida Sokei, knelt down and bowed, and shouted three long live.

After Fu Liping was flat, the hall suddenly whispered noisy, why? Seeing that Hosokawa Terumoto was just a child, they all looked displeased.

"Bold! Is it the Astronomical King who despises me so much for the Ming Dynasty? Sending a naïve child to the audience? A civil official in the left-hand squad stepped out and reprimanded.

Hosokawa Terumoto asked in pure Chinese, "Dare to ask your lordship's surname?" ”

"Humph! This official is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Zhao Yuanzhi is also the prince and the Taibao. Zhao Wenhua said coaxingly.

Hosokawa Huiyuan arched his hand and said slowly: "It turned out to be Zhao Shangshu, I don't know if adults can hear that they are older than Wen Yanbo of the Song Dynasty, and young children have the wisdom of floating balls." Sima Wengong has a plan to break the urn to save the child; Han Kongrong, a four-year-old pear, knows how to be humble and humble; Thirteen Lang is five years old, Tang Liu Yan is seven years old, and he is a straight friend. Han Huangxiang is nine years old; Qin Ganluo, a twelve-year-old prime minister; Wu Zhouyu, learned literature at the age of seven, practiced martial arts at the age of nine, worshiped the governor of the naval army at the age of thirteen, and took charge of the military power of the eighty-one counties of the six counties of Eastern Wu. Although there is the help of Wolong and Phoenix Chicks, Zhou Yu is also the leader among the children. There is a way, there is no ambition not to be old, no ambition to live a hundred years old, although the scale is small, it can press a thousand jun, although the oars are long, they will eventually be submerged by the water, think about the beginning, the Fengfeng clan is nine acres of land, do not get rid of the punishment, the giant waist is ten circumference, it is inevitable that Kunyang will be defeated; In the past, Kong Zhongni once studied under Xiang Lu, thinking how could you be virtuous, and dare to despise the young man in the world? ”

"You! You! Zhao Wenhua, who was choked with a lot of guns, was red-faced and ashamed.

"What a sharp-toothed boy, the old man Yan Weizhong, not only five years old just enlightened, nine years old into the county school, ten years old through the county exam, nineteen years old, twenty-five years old, hehe~~ for the year of the Chou Enke Jinshi. Now there are six out of seventy, and he can be ranked as the first assistant of the cabinet, the secretary of the ministry, the scholar of the palace, the young master and the prince and the prince, the young master, and the scholar of the Huagai Palace. I don't know how can Xiaoyou be in the high position of the first assistant minister of the cabinet and the scholar of the shogunate palace? It was Yan Song, the powerful minister who spoke with one hand covering the sky.

"I am more knowledgeable than yours." Hosokawa Terumoto pierced the sky with a word, and there was an uproar in the hall.

"Hahaha, Xiaoyou really likes to joke, so why don't you learn a thing or two from the old man?" Yan Song looked at Hosokawa Teruyuan playfully.

Hosokawa Terumoto looked at this old man and thought to himself [Look at how I confused you, so that you can enter the ranks of Alzheimer's as soon as possible.] ]