"Great official, Yamato is about to arrive, just look at the faintly flickering shore!" An old sailor approached Zhu Zilong, who was standing on the deck of the sea ship, and then saluted and reported.

Zhu Zilong's clone nodded, indicating that he understood. Then you can see the coastline of Japan in the distance!

Japan, a Pacific island country off the east coast of the Asian continent, consists of four large islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and more than 6,800 other small islands, with a land area of more than 370,000 square kilometers, a water area of 3,091 square kilometers, and a territorial sea area of 310,000 square kilometers, with a total area of 377,835 square kilometers and a population of 127,767,944 people, mainly the Yamato people!

The Japanese nation is mainly composed of the Tungusic people of Northeast Asia, the ancient Central Plains, a small number of Wuyue people in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, a small number of Malays, and the Indochinese people of the Indochina Peninsula, and gradually migrated to Japan and evolved from integration.

On the other hand, there is also some Han Chinese ancestry.

According to the literature, the exchanges between the Japanese archipelago and China began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, canonized his country as the Wa State, which was a vassal state of China, so he was also called the Wa Nu and canonized his emperor as the Wa King.

The original meaning of 倭字 is ugly, short, and trivial. From then on, the Chinese in history called Japan "the slave country of the U", and the Japanese were "U people" until the Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasties, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Of course, during this period, China's name for Japan was "Japanese slaves," and although there was contempt, there was no malicious intent. And the Japanese themselves recognize!

In 589 AD, the Sui Dynasty unified China, ending nearly four centuries of division and turmoil in China since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the socio-economic and cultural development was rapid. At that time, Japan was under the regent of Prince Shotoku, and he worked hard to reform the country.

In order to directly absorb China's advanced culture, four Sui envoys were sent to China (600, 607, 608, and 614 AD), which was the beginning of formal exchanges between China and Japan as two unified countries!

After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Japan began to accept Han culture on a large scale, and with the increasing understanding of Chinese culture, the Japanese government organized a large number of Tang missions, sent outstanding figures as envoys, and brought foreign students and monks to China.

Just like the Chinese students of the 21st century who later studied in the United States, the number of them increased year by year, and they were proud to stay in the Tang Dynasty of China.

During this period, the Chinese empress Wu Zetian officially gave the title of Japan.

Since then, the term Japanese has become popular in China, and it is associated with the name of Toei, Fuso, etc., which is also widely seen in historical classics.

The people of the Song Dynasty generally called the Japanese Yamato, and in the Ming Dynasty, they were mostly called Fusang, and in modern times, needless to say, Chinese called them little devils.

During Japan's full-scale war of aggression against China (1937-1945, not including the six-year war of aggression against China between the September 18 Incident in 1931 and July 7, 1937).

More than 1,000 cities in China have been occupied, with direct economic losses of $100 billion and indirect economic losses of $500 billion, totaling $600 billion...... The looting of social wealth has deprived the Chinese people of the most basic living conditions.

Arrogance, short-sightedness, bullying the weak and fearing the hard, are the characteristics of the Japanese nation of Yamato, and they are also the root of its national inferiority. In the eyes of the Chinese, it is as abominable as the devil, and it is appropriate for later generations to call him a devil.

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However, during the Song Dynasty, the relationship between the Japanese and the Song Dynasty was not bad.

Even at the time of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, there are records. "On March 19, 1279, in the Battle of Yashan, Lu Xiufu jumped into the sea with the emperor, and the Southern Song Dynasty perished. The news spread to Toei, from the emperor to the shogun, to the common people. The whole country has always mourned the demise of the Great Song Dynasty. There was a mournful cry in the north and south of Qiujin, and there was no China after the cliff mountain. ”

In addition, during this period, there were quite a lot of Song men marrying Japanese women, and Song women marrying Japanese men. After Zhu Zilong found out recently, he still felt very entangled in his heart.

However, this is the general trend, and it is not something he can interfere with at the moment.

Soon, the entire fleet entered the Japanese port of Nagasaki.

The procession of dozens of large ships, including officials and businessmen, waving banners, attracted countless Japanese onlookers.

At this time, the Japanese era was in the Heian period, which was a Japanese era with only wars and wars, but also the development of Qijiata. On the basis of fully absorbing the culture of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Japanese side developed a Heian culture with Japanese characteristics, and on this basis, the culture of the samurai was formed.

As a result, psychologically, the Japanese no longer had the era of sending Sui envoys to the Tang Dynasty, looking up to the humility of mainland culture, and even the concept of Huayi, regarding themselves as the orthodoxy of Chinese culture, and in turn thinking that Chinese merchants from the mainland were Yi.

In this state of mind, the exchanges between the Great Song Dynasty and the Japanese government were not active, but they were not opposed, but the people-to-people exchanges were very prosperous. The main reason for this is that the Song Dynasty was very weak in foreign wars, but its internal economy was very developed.

There are many professional Japanese who work as cargo workers, as well as Han Chinese porters, and there are also many sailors on board, so these crude things naturally do not need Zhu Zilong's clone and his henchmen to do it.

Basically, Zhu Zilong's doppelganger was a spectator throughout the whole process, inquiring about the transaction process of the merchants of the Song and Japanese countries, and knowing some acquaintances. Mix up the familiar face, and then, take this opportunity to take a walk and have a look.

However, the simplicity of Japan's port cities was even inferior to a larger county town in the Song Dynasty, which really made Zhu Zilong feel appetizing.

But when I think about it, it feels normal.

Among the anime works of later generations, there are many works in which the story takes place in the Heian Dynasty or is based on the Heian Dynasty. For example, "Young Onmyoji", "Yuka Kusako", "In Distant Time and Space", etc., as well as many other girly love comics, depict an elegant and reserved romantic era for us modern people.

However, when you are in the depths, you will find that this is not the case with Yagen. It's not almost a little!

It only took about a day, accompanied by acquaintances, to see through this seemingly prosperous Japanese port city.

I wanted to go out and have a little luck, but the Japanese businessman Yamato Yamada, who was accompanying him there, hurriedly persuaded him, saying that it was dangerous, dangerous. The local accent is too heavy, and it was hard for an acquaintance to explain the meaning of his native Japanese dialect before he understood what was going on.

It turns out that the map of Japan in the Heian period is very different from that of Japan in the 21st century, and in short, it is a big circle. The island of Hokkaido is still home to the indigenous Ezo people, and the Ou region in the northeastern part of Honshu Island (the one on the map from Tokyo upwards) was also ruled by the old indigenous people before the conquest of the Yamato Imperial Court, similar to a colony.

To the southwest, Ryukyu Island is still an ignorant and uncivilized wilderness, and the southern part of Kyushu Island is also infested with wild people, and is only nominally included in the territory. In these places, you can only appreciate the "simple style" of primitive society......

If you are not careful, let alone outsiders, foreigners, even local Japanese, may lose both money and life. Plus there is still a civil war going on in Japan, hehe, hehe, hehe!

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