Regarding the fact that Japan sent a emperor to make a pilgrimage to the pilgrimage in this way, Zhao Huan and a group of ministers who were driving in Qufu did not believe it, and they did not believe that the Japanese emperor was actually a young man who was not a few years older than Zhao Huan. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

I would like to mention here that the Japanese Toba Sohito is also called Emperor Toba, and his name is Sohito. This Toba is not a surname, but an honorific name, and the so-called Emperor family in Japan does not have a surname (or the surname is the word "Emperor").

As for why this Toba Soren became the emperor in his twenties, there is naturally a theory here.

First of all, the political system of Japan at this time belonged to the Heian period, that is, around the tenth year of the reign of Emperor Sadadashi of the Tang Dynasty (794), Emperor Kanmu, who was at the end of the Nara Dynasty, moved the capital from Nara to Heiankyo (present-day Kyoto) in order to weaken the power of powerful nobles and monks, and ended in 1192 when Minamoto Yoritomo established the Kamakura Shogunate and took over power.

Then, in the era of Japan's imperial administration, the reigning emperor was called the emperor, the abdicated emperor was called the emperor, and the monk emperor was called the emperor.

Toba Munehito is the seventy-fourth emperor of Japan, born in the second year of Chongning (1103), is the grandson of Emperor Shirakawa Sadahito, the eldest son of Emperor Horihito, and his mother Fujiwara Iko died shortly after birth, and was raised by his grandfather, Emperor Shirakawa.

Toba was made crown prince seven months after his birth, and after the death of his father, Emperor Horikawa, the five-year-old Toba ascended the throne, and all government affairs were managed by his grandfather, Emperor Shirakawa. In the fifth year of the Permanent Reign (1117), he married the adopted daughter of Emperor Shirakawa, Fujiwara Akiko (Togenmonin) and established it as a middle palace, and gave birth to five boys and two girls in the middle palace. In the fourth year of Anan (1123), under the auspices of Emperor Shirakawa, the Toba Zen throne was given to Emperor Shotoku (8 years old), the eldest son born to the temple of the Emperor, and the real power was still in the hands of Emperor Shirakawa.

To put it simply, this Toba Soren has always been a puppet emperor since he was born, and not long ago, I don't know if it was because his grandfather Shirakawa felt that he was disobedient or for other reasons, so he abolished him.

And generally speaking, the deposed Emperor Taishang should be treated much differently than Zhao Ji, who is now confined in Longde Palace and eats and waits for death every day, but this bird feather suddenly came to Da Song, obviously he is going to do something.

Although Zhao Huan was confused about the origin of this bird feather, since it was confirmed that the body was indeed a Japanese royal family, he also gave courtesy, and directly divided a courtyard in Qufu to live with him, and all the regulations were treated according to the prince, and quickly recruited the officials of Honglu Temple to come to entertain.

However, due to the strong demands of the Japanese side, the Great Song Dynasty also blocked the news to the death, so the fact that Emperor Toba ran to the Great Song Dynasty to make a pilgrimage was still in a state of secrecy.

However, this is not Huang Jie's old acquaintance Zhou Bangyan Zhou Laoshi, it just so happens that he is still the unlucky Honglu Temple Shaoqing, when he was hurriedly ordered by Zhao Huan to Qufu to receive Toba, and had nothing to do with Toba, who is very good at playing shakuhachi (shakuhachi, Chinese Wu land and Japanese traditional musical instruments), Toba had a rhythm, and then chatted about how many islands there are in Japan, and whether the shape is like a worm, Huang Jie's East Wanguo Kanyu Map was taken by Zhou Laoshi to exchange ten thumb-sized pearls with Toba.

Then, Zhou Laoshi was also a kind person, so he also took the time to write a letter to Huang Jie and praised him for bluffing the bird feathers, and by the way, he took two pairs of big pearls to Huang Jie as a thank you gift, which stabbed Huang Jie here.

Huang Jie's first thought when he saw the news was "Song Army stationed in Japan"!

After reading Zhou Bangyan's letter, Huang Jie hurriedly went to the School of International Relations of Longshan Academy to find Zhao Liangsi, who has been teaching in Longshan Academy since Zhao Liangsi came to Huangzhou, because Huang Jie's course on "International Relations and Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs" is the only one who can teach it in the entire Great Song Dynasty.

Naturally, the missionaries who returned one after another in the past few years also handed over to him to sort out all the cultural and historical materials such as the observations and deeds of various countries. When Huang Jie was looking for him, Zhao Liangji also happened to be teaching in the academy, and he was holding a missionary named Lu Daoyi who was talking about the political pattern of the Goryeo Peninsula and Japan.

It's just that Huang Jie came unfortunately, Zhao Liangsi had just finished talking about the pattern of Japan, and was chattering about the Goryeo Dynasty, and listened to him patiently for half an hour, and then he heard the bell ring between classes.

The scholar who had seen Huang Jie waiting outside the window for a long time hurriedly came out to greet him, and he was either called Mr. or Imam. The nominal head of this academy is the master of the plant, and Huang Jie has a lot of experience with the position of "teaching director" in Qimeng, so he also calls himself the patriarch.

In addition, there are a few middle-aged students wearing college uniforms but combing their hair in a bun, and they are respectfully called "Huangzi"!

In ancient times, such as Confucius, Mencius, and Lao Tzu, Huang Jie emerged at the Liyuan Dharma Conference, put forward the theory of mechanics and came up with "zinc", and naturally gained a place in Chinese Taoism, so I don't know when it began, Taoist disciples have been "Huangzi" to honorific titles.

Nowadays, the composition of the students in Longshan Academy is also very complex, some are directly selected from Huangzhou Weili, there are also students from all over the world, and there are Taoist disciples sent by the world's Taoist sects. In the first few years, Huang Jie was still selective, and there were not too many admirers, but now Longshan Academy, which is not large, has become a miscellaneous temple that leads the north of the river and radiates the south of the Yangtze River.

The reason why it is called the temple of miscellaneous studies is because Longshan Academy has all kinds of subjects, such as physics, geography, metallurgy, cooking, and even this "international relations and diplomacy and foreign affairs" can be regarded as a subject, but there are no subjects related to the imperial examination and Confucianism.

To put it bluntly, Huang Jie's Longshan Academy recruits all talents, but it doesn't recruit sour Confucians who read dead books!

However, Huang Jie has not paid much attention to the affairs of Longshan Academy in recent years, after all, being a teacher is not his interest and hobby, and he is still busy dealing with the matter of Jin Jun's southward journey, so it is almost every once in a while to take a turn, and then shake the novelty things he saw in the strange dream, enlighten the students' minds and vision, even if it is a bad deal.

After meeting with the students who had finished the class, Huang Jie also took Zhao Liangji to the teaching room, and after sitting down, he also came to ask: "Professor Zhao, do you know about Japan's national affairs?" ”