The fact that the top decision-maker of the Wakoku envoys was not an Oda shovel but an ordinary member of the envoy seems incredible. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But judging from this person's surname and the current political situation in the Wa Kingdom, this matter is not very unacceptable, and even extremely normal.

There are not many people in the Wa Kingdom at this time, and there are not many people who are assigned to any surname, and the same is true of the natural surname Su I.

And in the upper class society of the Wa Kingdom, especially in the imperial court, there is an extremely powerful family surnamed Su I, and the status of this family in the Wa State is analogous to the eldest grandson family of the Tang Dynasty, and even more powerful than the eldest grandson family.

The Soga family is the premier wealthy family of the Wa Kingdom, and has produced ministers from the Kofun period to the Asuka period. The position of minister was the highest official position in the Wa Kingdom, and for a long time he controlled the political situation of the Wa Kingdom and the abolition of the Emperor.

In 539 A.D., Emperor Seonhwa ascended the throne, and Soga Inami, the son of Goryeo, was appointed as a minister, and the Soga family began to step on the highest position of power in the Wa Kingdom for the first time, and after the death of Soga Iname, his son Soga Mako succeeded his father as a minister. Although his name is "Ma Zi", he is a man. At that time, the word "zi" was used in the names of both men and women. Soga Mako's mansion is on the Asuka River, and the island is built through the pond, so it is also called the island minister.

Su Ma Zi is a very capable and ambitious person. He introduced Buddhism from Baekje to the Wa Kingdom for the first time, and this was also his attempt to transform the Wa Kingdom from the institutional point of view.

Su I Mazi also married his three daughters to his nephew Emperor Chongjun, his nephew Prince Shotoku, and his nephew Emperor Shumei as concubines. As a foreign relative, he controls the government and the opposition. Su I Mazi served as minister for more than 50 years, and fought fiercely over whether or not the Wa kingdom accepted Buddhism, and fought fiercely with his political enemies, the Monobe clan, and finally killed the Dalian monobe moriya in 587 AD. In 592 A.D., Soga Mako instructed Tokai Naoka to kill Emperor Chongjun, and afterwards supported his niece Emperor Suiko to ascend the throne, and successive ministers served Emperor Minda, Emperor Yongmei, Emperor Chongjun, and Emperor Suiko.

After the death of Soga Mako, he was succeeded by his son Soga Ezo as minister, and Soga Ezo continued to lean into power, and in 628 A.D., that is, in the second year of Sadakan, Emperor Tuiko died, but the imperial heir was not established, that is, there was no specific heir.

Soga Ezo wanted to decide on his own succession, but the opinions of the ministers were not in agreement, and many people supported Prince Shotoku's son, Yamabei Elder Brother. The eldest brother of the mountain, Wang Chaxue, Su I, Ezo, intended to be the prince of Tamura, and did not dare to compete for the throne again. Only Soga Ezo's uncle, Soga Mahari, insisted on supporting the throne of the eldest brother of the mountain.

So Soga Ezo learned from his father Soga Mazi to play a game of courtiers to abolish the emperor, Soga Ezo was angry at Soga Ma Rishi against his will, and sent troops to kill Soga Marishi, so the opposition disappeared, and the ministers unanimously supported the Tamura Emperor, which was for Emperor Shumei.

As a result, Soga Ezo also set a precedent for the internal murder of the Soga clan.

Now the minister of the Wa State is Su I Ezo, so the ability to be sent to the Tang Dynasty, and the one who can make the Yutian spade so afraid must undoubtedly be the descendants of the Su family, plus this Su I son is so young, it is very likely that he is the son of Su I Ezo, Su I into the deer.

In history, Su I was also a minister like his grandfather and his Lao Tzu, and Su I was violent, authoritarian and terrible. It is also very similar to the character shown by this Su I son.

Just if you simply want to learn the system, culture and other things from the Tang Dynasty, as well as establish diplomatic relations, the people of the Su family don't need to risk the destruction of the ship and the death of the people in person, but as Su My son said, it is for the sake of the Japanese State's claim for the ownership of Silla to be recognized by the Tang Emperor, then it is normal for Su I Ezo to send his son to run such a trip. Because it is obviously not easy to achieve this goal, even if it can be achieved in the end, the price to be paid by the Wa Kingdom will inevitably be very large, so it is obviously not a person of the level of Ota Shovel who can make a decision, and Su Irishika, as the son of Su I Ezo, the next generation of the Su I family, will have no problem making a decision at all.

Speaking of this matter of Silla's tribute to the Japanese state, I have to say that Su I Mazi is indeed very capable, and it is no wonder that people can be in power for decades in the Japanese state.

During the tenure of Soga Mazi, the relationship between the Wa Kingdom and Baekje was so good that the honey blended oil was so good, and even in later generations, many people concluded that the Wa Kingdom was established by the Baekje people and was a member of a nation, which is why the relationship was so good. It is also nonsense to say that the Wa Kingdom was a vassal state of Baekje at this time.

Of course, this is pure nonsense, the establishment of the Wa Kingdom was earlier than Baekje, how can it be that the Baekje people were established, of course, it makes sense to say that the Wa people have the blood of the Baekje people, but if you want to say so, then whether it is the Wa people, the Baekje people, the Silla people, or the Goguryeo people, they still have the blood of the Han people. If you want to say that these countries were established by the Han people in the past, it makes sense, but if you want to say that the people of these countries went out and established other countries, then it is not a little nonsense.

To get back to the point, two or three years before the death of Soga Mazi, he hooked up with Baekje and launched a war against Silla, and Soga Mazi appointed the Sakabe Yuma as a general and sent tens of thousands of troops. This was in 623 A.D.

Of course, the matter is not over here, if it is just like this, there is no need for the people of the Su family to go to the Tang Dynasty for this matter, and when it comes to 625, that is, the second year after Silla officially paid tribute to the Wa Kingdom, Silla turned around and began to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty again.

Compared with the Tang Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom is a small shrimp, and Silla pays tribute to the Wa State and the Tang Dynasty, so whether it is a subject country of the Tang Dynasty or a vassal state of the Wa State, one country cannot be attached to two countries.

If you want to talk about it, the Japanese state is naturally in an absolute disadvantage, but fortunately, at that time, the Tang Dynasty was still unstable, and then after the Xuanwumen change, Li Shimin ascended the throne, and the Turks often did things, and the Tang Dynasty was too busy to take care of this matter, and the Japanese people regarded it as nothing.

But after the Tang Dynasty began to use troops against the Turks last year, and then killed the Turks almost like lightning, the Japanese people began to be afraid.

But although he was very afraid, worried that the Tang Dynasty would be detrimental to the Japanese state, but those interests in Silla made the Japanese people really reluctant to lose them, so they temporarily inserted Su Irilu in the Tang Dynasty mission this time, and asked him to hide his identity and come to the Tang Dynasty to manipulate Ota spade and others behind the scenes to negotiate and negotiate the ownership of Silla.

But I didn't expect to meet Wu Yuanqing, a person who was full of malice towards the Wa Kingdom, and gave them a blow to the head.