Chapter 664: Baekje Civil Strife (3)
Emperor Tenchi was thinking about the original scene when a minister came over:
"Your Majesty the Emperor, Baekje has come as an envoy!"
"Oh! Who is it? β
"It's the younger brother of the King of Baekje, and, I heard that the princess even asked the younger brother of the King of Baekje to write you a letter!"
"Oh! Okay, bring him to me right away. β
"See His Majesty the Emperor!"
"Ahh Hello, Your Royal Highness! It's been a great journey! β
"His Majesty the Emperor is polite, my grandmother's life is coming, even if the little king dies of exhaustion, it should be! What's more! My 'sister-in-law' also told me to send a letter to you personally! Well! That's the letter! His Majesty the Emperor, please take a look! After saying that, the prince of Baekje handed the letter written by the queen of Baekje to Emperor Tenji, and on the way to the kingdom of Wa, the prince of Baekje secretly baked the wax on the envelope to soften, opened the letter and read it, but as a result, he did not know a word. The letter written by the Queen of Baekje to the Emperor is based on the secret symbols of the Wa Kingdom court that have been handed down from the time of Emperor Jimmu. And this secret symbol is only understood by the people of the royal family of the Wa Kingdom. (Emperor Jimmu was the first emperor of the Wa Kingdom, and "God Nippon Iwayu Hikozun" was a Japanese-style nickname, and "Shenmu" was a Chinese-style nickname. At least when the "Records of Ancient Matters" was compiled, there was no Han style nickname. According to the "Sho Nichi Kiri", the name of the ancient emperor below Emperor Jimmu was posthumously given by Tamkai Mifune, the great-grandson of Emperor Hirofumi, in the 6th year of Tenpyo Hoji (762) ~ 8th year of Tenpyo Hoji (764, late Nara period). In addition, the name "Wakamonuma" has the meaning of the five gods, and Kashihara and the Yamato area have been important barns since ancient times, and there are many legends about Iwayohiko here. It is quite possible that these stories are mixed together to form the legendary founding emperor of Jimmu. Another theory was put forward by the Zen master Zhongyan Yuanyue, saying that it was Wu Taibo or his descendants. In addition, some people speculate that Emperor Jimmu was Xu Fu, a priest sent by Qin Shi Huang to find the elixir of life during the Qin Dynasty. However, this speculation is very flawed, and Emperor Jimmu was born in 711 BC and the founding of the country in 660 BC. Xu Fu was written in 219 B.C., 210 B.C. before he went to sea, and the birth of Emperor Jimmu was more than 500 years earlier than Xu Fu in terms of current data. Even if the emperor who lacked deeds in the eighth generation of the history of the Que Shi was removed, the successor Emperor Chongjin ascended the throne more than 100 years later than Xu Fu's book. In archaeological research, it has also been suggested that Jimmu is the false legend that the emperor worships the gods. Of course, without considering the credibility of the story, we can see the story of the Eastern Crusade as a microcosm of the process by which the Yamato regime was pushed eastward from Kyushu to Yamato. After the Meiji era, due to the great rise of imperial power, the chronological research of the deeds of Jimmu gradually became popular: Nako Tongshi proposed that the first 660 years was the year of the founding of the country, and then the anniversary of the founding of the country was extended to the Kien Festival. In addition, in 1889, the Japanese government rebuilt Kashihara Shrine in Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, where he was said to have founded the country. Emperor Tenchi opened the letter and looked at:
"The younger sister heard about the imperial brother's feat in Baekje, and the younger sister was very happy. In addition, the will of the ancestors of the past generations must include the three kingdoms of Baekje, Silla, and Goguryeo, and then, use the land of the Three Kingdoms as a springboard to enter the Central Plains at any time, so as to escape from the places where there are many earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes in the Wa Kingdom, so as to bless the safety of our people and the royal kingdom! Now that there is a civil strife in Goguryeo, Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje is ready to send troops to Silla and Baekje in order to hold on to their own power. In addition, the Baekje royal family is very wary of our Wa Kingdom, and through the years of wooing the Baekje prince, I can be sure that this man has completely surrendered to my pomegranate skirt. The Imperial Brother happened to control Baekje through this person. Overthrow the original Baekje royal family and make it a puppet, and, Brother Huang, don't forget the promise you made to your sister and me. After reading the letter that his sister had written to him, Emperor Tenji put it away, and after receiving it, Emperor Tenji smiled and said to Prince Baekje:
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, what a commendable filial piety, hey! Grandmother's longevity, you actually came in person, welcome! β
"Ahh Your Majesty, your grandmother is also my grandmother, and it is only right that I have come to attend my grandmother's birthday ceremony. Looking at the obscene and humble appearance of the Baekje prince, Emperor Tenji suppressed the disgust and disdain in his heartβthis Baekje prince looked like a drunkard, and it was much easier to deal with than his brother.
"Someone! Send the prince to the inn at once, and entertain him well! Immediately someone agreed:
"Yes, Your Majesty! Prince please! When the Baekje prince left, Emperor Tenji instructed the guards:
"Someone! General Achiko Mono please! After a while, a sturdy, burly general came to Emperor Tenchi:
"Your Majesty!" Emperor Tenchi looked at Mao Ye Zhizi:
"Mao Ye Zhizi, you haven't married yet, you come to tell me, are you still thinking about her?" Mao Ye raised her head and looked at Emperor Tenchi.
"Your Majesty! I ...... "Emperor Tenchi looked at Kayako Furano:
"General Mao Ye Zhizi, you tell me the truth!" Mao Ye didn't speak, lowered his head, but, judging from Mao Ye's reaction, Emperor Tenchi knew in his heart that Mao Ye had never forgotten the princess, and over the years, whether it was the emperor's marriage or the matchmaker of the people and the government, Mao Ye had no response.
"General Mao Ye, now, how are the soldiers and horses you are responsible for training?" Since the princess left, her face had become gloomy, and then, after making great contributions to the battle to eliminate the Soga clan, Emperor Tenchi asked Gerino:
"Mao Ye child, what kind of reward do you want!"
"Your Majesty the Emperor, I want to be a general! I want to lead the troops! "Emperor Tenchi just thought that Mao Ye was ambitious, and Emperor Tenchi also felt that Mao Ye was a little guard, and it was also a condescending talent. But when Mao Ye Zhizi led the troops, many people muttered in the ears of Emperor Tenchi: In the process of training the troops, Mao Ye Zhizi was cruel in the process, the punishment was severe, and all the soldiers who disobeyed the order and failed to complete the task were tortured and killed, and the best result was to cut off the head. Emperor Tenchi went to the barracks of Childe Mono to inspect and found that during the training of Childe Gerino, he asked the soldiers to hit the hard rock with their bodies and let them climb the fishing nets, and under the fishing nets were all sharp steel needles, once they fell, they were immediately stabbed all over the body covered in blood, and if they were seriously injured, sick, and could not heal, and could not complete the tasks assigned by Childe Gerino, they would be executed immediately. The method of execution was extremely cruel - let the soldiers of the whole battalion hold short blades, cut off the flesh and flesh of the wounded and sick one by one. All the soldiers ate the living man. Even Emperor Tenchi, who had experienced many battlefield battles, couldn't help but feel shocked and frightened when he saw such a scene.
"General Mao Ye, is this too cruel?"
"Your Majesty the Emperor! If you feel that it is not appropriate, please pick out twenty guards and twenty soldiers from the courtier's army, and let them fight each other with their hands! Let's see who wins? However, the minister was afraid that the minister's subordinates would hurt His Majesty's guards, and His Majesty's guards were all the children of the royal family around His Majesty, so when the time came, don't hurt their noble bodies. Before Emperor Tenzhi could speak, the courtiers beside Emperor Tenzhi immediately shouted unconvinced:
"Yaga! You are so presumptuous, Your Majesty the Emperor! Ministers, please fight! "The men of the Wa Kingdom have one thing in common, that is, they can never admit defeat, and they can fight with anyone for the sake of honor. Nothing can provoke yourself. Emperor Tenchi also wanted to know how effective the soldiers under Mono were and agreed to the advice of his courtiers:
"General Mao Ye, you can show off the results of your training!" Mao Ye smiled, Emperor Tenchi picked out twenty relatively thin samurai from Mao Ye's team, and let his courtiers pick out twenty samurai, and the two sides fought alone with their bare hands. The result was a big surprise in the test - the soldiers trained by Mao Ye Zhizi are extremely bloodthirsty, it can be said that none of them are human, all of them are beasts released from the cage, once someone bleeds, then the samurai under Mao Ye Zhizi will be like a shark that smells blood, the attack is more violent, tearing with teeth, and swallowing the torn flesh directly into his stomach. He even drank the blood of the enemy, and the samurai under the command of Mono were very fond of breaking the necks of the emperor's courtiers, and drank the blood in the broken neck cavity, and their faces were hideous one by one. There was still blood at the corners of his mouth. Emperor Tenchi's courtiers were dumbfounded. It is common for Japanese people to fight each other on the battlefield, but it is the first time that many people have seen such cruel torture and killing, and many people can't stand the feeling of nausea, lying on the ground, and vomiting loudly. Only Emperor Tenchi looked at it with excitement in his eyes. Emperor Tenchi asked Hiroshi Mono to gather all his soldiers. When all the soldiers under the command of Mao no were assembled, and they all wore special armor and ghost-like masks, like demons coming out of hell, the emperor's courtiers were terrified, but only Emperor Tenchi felt great excitement. One moment patted the man's shoulder, the other touched the other's back.
"Good! It's just wonderful! Mao Ye child, how many such soldiers are there now! β
"Your Majesty, because Weichen is just a small captain, he commands more than 2,000 samurai, but only 800 can pass."
"It's too little, Mao Ye Child, I order you to train tens of thousands of such samurai as quickly as possible! Moreover, I gave these warriors the name of the Ghost Warriors. Now, some time has passed, and Emperor Tenchi asks about this matter again:
"Your Majesty, there are now more than 10,000 Ghost Shadow Warriors who have passed the training. Enough, though. β