At the beginning of the year, Hanoi Whale, who signed the "Tsushima Lease Agreement" with His Royal Highness King Yan of the Tang State in Chang'an, returned to the Wa Kingdom, and was repeatedly urged by the king and his colleagues in the court to collect the lease fee of a thousand gold to the Wa State every year as stipulated in the agreement. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the first two times he went to Jintian Castle on Tsushima Island to ask for it from the Tang army guards, and he sent Hanoi Whale back on the grounds that the Metropolitan Protectorate had not yet sent the money.

The third time he came, Hanoi Whale stayed in the post house in Jintian City with no more money, until Tang Andong gave money to the Imperial Palace, so as not to be criticized by the king and ridiculed by his colleagues after returning to the Wa Kingdom.

Arriving at Jintian City, Hanoi Whale found that the Tang Army soldiers stationed here had been replaced, and after some inquiry, they learned that the original defenders were transferred to Taiwan Island, and the new one who was transferred here was Honghuwei, and the guard was named Yang Boji.

After finding out the news of the Tang Army's change of defense, Hanoi Whale went to meet the new guard general Yang Boji with a small gift in his apprehensive heart.

Yang Boji knew exactly where the envoy of the Japanese envoy Hanoi Whale came from, and unceremoniously accepted the thin gift from Hanoi Whale, and talked with him with high interest, from the orchid restaurant outside Chang'an City to how unappetizing the women of Tsushima Island were.

After talking for a long time, Hanoi Whale couldn't wait, and asked urgently: "Did His Royal Highness King Yan ship the lease money promised to be paid to Xia Guo in the "Tsushima Lease Agreement"? ”

The contents of the Tsushima Lease Agreement were previously known only to the upper echelons of the Andong Prefecture, but since Yoboji became the commander of Kaneda, he had to deal with relations with the Wa Kingdom, and he was aware of its contents.

Thinking of the annual rent promised by His Royal Highness in the agreement, and the whole country of the country went to such great lengths to ask for it, Yang Boji wanted to laugh.

For an ordinary family in Datang, a daughter is a lot of property, but for a country, a daughter is pitiful. In Liangjing, 1,000 gold is not even enough for a rich family's meal, and I really don't know how poor the Wa Kingdom is, so he is so enthusiastic about the rent of this thousand gold.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Yang Bo replied with a strong smile and ordered his subordinates to bring the money.

Hanoi Whale didn't know why Yang Boji's face was so strange, and stared at the door with questions, the money he had been looking forward to for months was finally coming.

I saw four soldiers carrying two bags of hemp, walking heavily into the hall and stacking them in front of the Hanoi whale.

Yang Boji smiled and waved his hand proudly: "Please take a look, Nuo suspects that the money is less than two catties, and I have prepared a big scale." ”

"Du Wei said with a smile, the kingdom is a state of etiquette, how can he do such a small trick of stealing a small amount of catties and not being able to get on the table."

Although the mouth of the whale in Hanoi said that he didn't care, his eyes looked back and forth between the big name and the two sacks of money.

ordered the entourage to untie the sack and check the money, but when the entourage opened the sack and looked dumbfounded, he turned around and looked at the ambassador Hanoi whale with a bitter face.

The Hanoi whale saw that something was wrong, like a frightened rabbit jumping up from its sitting, pushing away its attendant and looking into the sack, gasping for air. There are all yellow copper coins inside, and the copper coins with round square holes are printed with the four big characters of Kaiyuan Tongbao in the middle, and those who do not argue between gold and brass will take the copper coins away as gold.

The bloody Hanoi whale hurriedly poured a sack of money on the ground, and sure enough, it was all copper coins, not a single penny of gold.

Feeling humiliated, Hanoi Whale angrily questioned Yang Boji: "General, what does this mean?" ”

"Ambassador Hanoi Whale, is there anything wrong with this daughter? That's a big scale specially prepared for you to check whether it is enough. Abeji replied with an innocent face.

Hanoi Whale hatefully took out the "Tsushima Lease Agreement" signed with King Yan from his arms, flipped to the rent column, pointed to the white and black characters on it, and said loudly: "At the beginning, His Royal Highness King Yan promised a thousand gold, but there is a jade seal covered by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, how can it be two sacks of copper coins?" ”

"Just two sacks of copper coins, otherwise what do you think they are?" Hanoi Whale's questioning tone made Yang Boji unhappy, and shouted loudly: "You have taken out the "Tsushima Lease Agreement" in your hand, and it is written in black and white with the annual rent of a thousand gold. These two sacks of copper coins were taken from the treasury of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate when I came to work. In order to ensure that it is enough to make a catty, in case those little officials take the opportunity to be greedy for a sum of money, I got a big scale to weigh it. Unbelief? A few of you will weigh the Hanoi Whale Ambassador again, whether there are any kilograms. ”

"Whoa."

Several soldiers quickly reloaded the copper coins scattered on the ground into the sacks, and after weighing the bags, they added up to more than 1,000 catties.

Hanoi Whale's face was cloudy, and Yang Boji thought that Hanoi Whale was angry at framing him for being greedy for the rent given to the Wa Kingdom, and said in an extremely unfriendly sarcastic tone: "See, this is more than a catty, and there will be no less of your hard-earned money in the Wa Kingdom." ”

Hearing the hard-earned money in the ears of the Hanoi whale, he almost fainted with anger, and pointed to the words "Tsushima Lease Agreement" with trembling hands, and asked: "Isn't this thousand catties of gold?" ”

"What?" Yang Boji opened his mouth wide and exclaimed: "A broken island that doesn't even have a piece of arable land, and you still want a thousand catties of gold for rent?" His mother's copper coins weigh 1,000 catties, and in my opinion, you have taken advantage of the Japanese country. ”

Yang Bo taunted with disdain and contempt, and the heart of the Hanoi whale fluttered, and his eyes went black and he fainted.

"Hey, don't die in me, dying in my palace caused a diplomatic storm between the two countries, so how can I explain to His Highness?"

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The Japanese envoys who came with anticipation, all carrying two bags of copper coins and unconscious people with dejected faces, were making the Hanoi whale return to the Japanese country on a boat.

On the way, the turbulence of the ship shook the Hanoi whale awake, and he sat up with his exhausted body.

When the attendants on the side saw that the envoy had woken up, they shouted happily out of the ship, and the deputy envoy who heard the news quickly entered the cabin, and asked with a bitter face how to explain to the king after returning home.

At the beginning, Tang Guoyan Wang took out the "Tsushima Lease Agreement" for them to see, and several of them agreed to sign it after carefully reading it without any problem, but they didn't expect that in Tang Guo, gold and gold are two concepts. Dawang Nuo pursued the responsibility, and they couldn't run away without waiting for anyone.

Looking at the two bags of copper coins beside him, Hanoi Whale slapped himself fiercely, but it really frightened everyone.

"What else can you say? I have been in the Tang Kingdom for several years, but I don't know the difference between a thousand catties of gold and a thousand catties of gold. ”

The crowd bowed their heads, and everything was irretrievable.

After returning to Kyoto, Hanochi Whale and his entourage brought back two bags of copper coins for the annual rent of Tsushima Island, and laughed off his big teeth in the Japanese court. Many people ridiculed Hanoi Whale behind his back, this is when he returned to China with the "Tsushima Lease Agreement", he claimed to use the remote Tsushima Island for the Japanese country in exchange for 20% of the annual tax?

The eldest brother of the Wa King, who received the report, kicked the book case in public, deprived the entire embassy of all the people in the Kawachi Whale, and sent Sado Island as a slave.

In view of the fact that the "Tsushima Lease Agreement" had already been recognized by the two countries, and the strength of the Tang State was not something that could be challenged by a small Japanese state, the eldest brother and prince had no choice but to swallow this breath, speed up the reform of the country, and realize the prosperity of the country and the strengthening of the army as soon as possible.