This is where the Song envoys are stationed? I've been to Kanshokaku several times, the best hotel in Kyoto. Specializing in the reception of wealthy merchants and high-ranking samurai from all over the world who come to Kyoto to do business, how did a very bustling and bustling town suddenly become unusually quiet? They heard that the price of the place rose sharply after the Song envoy came to stay, and the residents and landlords did not hesitate to pay the rent in order to get some ink treasures of the Song envoy, and they were too troublesome to offer the so-called antiques and elegant objects in exchange for a little good things flowing out of the hands of the Song envoy.

If it weren't for my eyes, I wouldn't have believed that this was a bustling city with a lot of culture.

When I entered the store, the shopkeeper hurried to the front and whispered hello as soon as I entered the door, reminding me that the Song envoy's group of Chengren were very young, and the famous Zhao Liren was only 25 or 6 years old. Those Song envoys at the level of theoretical grandmasters were waiting for me to show the progress of cultural and ideological progress since the Tang envoys were cut off.

Hearing this, the high-ranking officials and ministers who have accumulated over the years to deal with the signing and questioning of the hexagram are about to come in handy, and I can't help but feel very excited.

Walking to the patio in the backyard and seeing more than a dozen brocade clothes worn by the Song Kingdom, he knew that there were still people in the world who could be famous all over the world at such a young age. It's just that I don't know who among these people is the one who annexed the Tibetan Empire, who wrote countless works, who can be described as a generation of sages, who is rich in tens of thousands of yuan, and who is countless living people.

Each of them is like the sun in the sky, scattering endless light, showing the nobility of the kingdom in every gesture.

Three hours later, the Song envoys left behind all the nobles and literati present and invited us to dine together. Although many ministers could still speak a little Tang dialect with Guanzhong rhyme, almost no one could use it, and the translators of both languages were a few descendants of immigrants from the island of Kyushu and trade officials from Dazaifu. After the guest and host were seated, the Song envoy signaled that the food was served.

There are four plates and a bowl of rice on the small table of the meal, and inside the big plate is a golden saury, and the small plate contains all my favorite dishes, a plate of white tofu, a plate of black soy beans, and a plate of radish. But after eating, I realized that my past few decades had been in vain.

After the pain of all the people forcibly controlling their eating speed (that is, they finished eating), the Song envoy began to explain these delicious cooking methods. The saury is not made into a belly, but is fried in an oil mixture of peanuts, soybeans, and vegetable oil, which is very crispy. The tofu is made from a secret brine, which is very fresh and refreshing. A spice called chili pepper is added to the soy beans, and this salty soy bean is called spiced tempeh. Radish is also a very delicious pickled sour radish, and it turns out that the pointed strip inside is a kind of chili pepper, and the bright yellow color is very eye-catching.

The Song envoy also said that he would invite us to eat better food in the evening, and we were all embarrassed to stay, and these never-before-seen delicacies suddenly grabbed our hearts like those poems and articles from them.

After losing five games in a row, I had to get out of the game. The ministers and literati present were not all elegant people who were proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and they had not been able to win a game against the Song envoy surnamed Wu Mingqi Changle. An afternoon passed in the midst of a discussion of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the customs, humanities, metaphysics, and Buddhism of the Wei and Jin dynasties, during which I personally debated with Li Ji and Li Benhua, the leaders of the Song envoys, about the necessary surnames for full ordination and whether they should be used as criteria for evaluating monks.

In the end, I have to admit the fact that those monks who lend money to collect interest and engage in business are not in line with the original purpose of Buddhism, and are too tainted with karmic karma and are not considered bhikshus.

It's time for dinner, and the kitchen is served with a huge bowl, and everyone has only one sea bowl on the table that can fit into people's heads. In the bowl are slices of sauce-colored meat, with brightly colored shredded radish, ginger, cabbage leaves, and tea eggs (I didn't know the name until later). Peel these apart, and underneath are hair-thin noodles. This delicacy is the ramen that was destined to lead to the fortune of dozens of Kyoto sake and food restaurants, and it is said that this delicacy was invented by a Song envoy named Sun Chang Sun Xingnong.

I swore to my ancestor that I would never eat food that was harmful to my body and reduced my lifespan in the future. Song Envoy pointed out the relationship between diet and longevity to everyone present, as long as there are no ingredients that have been verified as poisonous, they can be processed into delicious food through various cooking methods, the more miscellaneous the ingredients eaten, the cleaner the processing, and the fewer the processes, the better, and you have to eat less and more meals to live forever.

In the following ten days, I did not have the opportunity to interject and ask the Song envoys to stay longer, to visit the major places of interest and historical sites in Heiankyo during the day, to taste all kinds of special delicacies of the Great Song Dynasty and the delicious food processed with locally found ingredients, and to discuss and exchange all kinds of knowledge that I had never known before and the strange experiences of the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty. In the evening, gather at the homes of the ministers who have won the games to gather and feast (all kinds of competitions, ten times more fun than Shuanglu, in addition to mahjong, poker, pitcher, chess, new Go, tea fighting, cockfighting, dog fighting, betting on horses, gateball, whoever wins more will go to whomever party. These games are the favorite brain games of the ministers who are deeply lacking in physical strength)

Those low-level ministers and wealthy people who have heard about the method and some of the rules of the game, but are not qualified to join the escort, can only make their own food and game props at home. For a time, the Song envoys quickly swept Heiankyo with all kinds of Shangguo things, and even merchants from as far away as Mikawa came to learn how to make various Shangguo delicacies and customs. The ministers and nobles who had received the method of immortality and countless methods of food and entertainment were very grateful to the Song envoys, and together they bought the entire Daimonji Mountain in the northwest of Heiankyo as a return gift in exchange for gifts from the Song envoys to everyone.

The wealthy Song envoy built a three-storey attic on the edge of a quiet lake in the mountains (the original site shamelessly copied the style of Kinkakuji) and set up various attached buildings nearby, and a month later, the building called the Upper Golden Pavilion became a famous building. The three students of Wu Shenyi will stay in this place for a long time, and use this place as a residence to open a school to teach all kinds of knowledge classics. The annex building at the foot of the mountain is the Changsheng Hospital, which is particularly valued by the minister, no matter what kind of disease, as long as there is still a breath into this courtyard, you can afford to pay for the soup and medicine and the recuperation fee, and it is not the kind of organ aging failure or terminal illness that has reached the advanced stage of seventy or eighty, it can be cured. After the Song envoy's questioning, the ministers were surprised to find that almost all of the ministers and nobles in this book were young people, which made them ask vigorously, where have the old people gone?

The answer is, they all went to the grave. According to the enthusiasm and answers of the ministers who went home to check the genealogy this month, since the relocation of the capital to Heianjing, the ministers have only lived to the age of thirty-two on average. And the average life expectancy of aristocratic women is only twenty-seven years! Of those, about 55 percent died of tuberculosis. Ten percent died of skin cancer, twenty percent died of beriberi, and generally suffered from rickets – according to the concept of the Holy Hand Wang Mi (one of Wu Qi's remaining disciples of Wu Qi Wu Changle), these were mainly caused by overwork and premature aging caused by heavy clothing, toxic substances such as arsenic and lead bloom in cosmetics, and low immunity caused by nutritional disorders.

However, the average life expectancy of the commoners in this book was more than fifty years, and the samurai who ate meat and practiced martial arts could live to nearly seventy years old, even exceeding the level of the Song Dynasty.

In contrast, those ministers who enjoy the best treatment but have a short life will naturally have a huge sense of loss. Therefore, they always like to lament the shortness of life, and say something stupid that 'life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves'. But I didn't think that this was purely the result of my own ignorance.

After knowing this knowledge, the ministers who eagerly returned home sealed or split the various gorgeous twelve heavy clothes they had loved before, and gave all the cosmetics to the Song envoy for free (the corresponding Song envoy's proposal was exchanged for natural plant extracts and incense special products of the Great Song Empire), and queued up to eat and steal teachers at the homes of the relatives and friends of the ministers who had learned various imported delicacies.

All kinds of textiles and export goods of the Great Song Dynasty, which were already selling well, were sold like crazy at once, and all the shops selling Song goods were out of stock, and the wealthy merchants of all kinds of experienced shops were exhausted by their means, and they asked the Song envoy to sell the goods on the eleven ships of the 60,000 material level in front of the Jinshangge.

Wang Neng, the Song envoy in charge of trade, said that he could not buy all the goods on the ship even if he exhausted the gold and silver of Heianjing, and when he showed the manifests and samples, all the nobles and wealthy merchants he saw were stunned. There are hundreds of special drugs for the treatment of all kinds of terminal diseases, hundreds of boxes of stationery supplies (snow-white cooked Xuan, painting and writing are all divine products, machined wolf pen is extremely durable, delicate petrochemical ink, inkstone made of glass and high-grade ceramics and stationery such as pen washing, etc.) made the ministers and nobles crazy. The high-end glassware, porcelain, and enamel ware blinded everyone's eyes, and dozens of spices and spices made the literati and monks present unable to sit still. What shocked the merchants and the high-ranking officials of Dazaifu in charge of trade the most was the 5 million Yuan Yu Tongbao copper coins and the hundreds of books and prescriptions of secret techniques and prescriptions that recorded priceless techniques and experiences.

According to the traditional price, these goods are worth 24 million taels, and the 1,250 tons of high-quality copper coins alone can be exchanged for 4 million taels of silver, and if half is exchanged for gold, it will cost 800,000 taels of gold according to the ratio of gold and silver at 1:5. The dizzying fine textiles and utensils are the top items that can be used as heirlooms, and it is estimated that many people have to break the bank to pay the price that can cause brain bleeding.

Sin sin, it turns out that the Song envoy did not stay in Heianjing for so long for the sake of the longevity of his minister, but also to sell these strange goods! From the emperor to Li Shu, they have basically received great benefits in this month, and it seems that the selfless generosity of the kingdom is all in exchange for those land and trade rights in the future!

Subsequently, in front of the eyes of the high-ranking ministers of the almost Manchu Dynasty, the Song envoys gave these sky-high treasures as gifts to the ministers and the emperor. This kind of gift, which absolutely stopped everyone's breath, made all the Chinese people present without any psychological preparation speechless, and almost a stick of incense for a long time.

The next day, all the nobles and nobles of the six ministers and the literati and monks known to the Song envoys received Yuan Youtongbao copper coins ranging from dozens to thousands of yuan and various goods.

As a translator and advisor who always accompanied me, I was also given thousands of copper coins and a large number of treasures, especially the half-kneeling statue of the seven-armed glass Thousand-armed Kannon, which was immediately enshrined in the middle of the temple's main hall by His Majesty the Emperor. I am going to exchange all the goods I have received for money and raise money to build a special hall for this beautiful statue.

Three days later, my gratitude to those generous and indescribable Song envoys had surpassed that of my mentors and parents. The Song envoys made my premonition of surpassing the ancestor come true. The goods on these ships were not in the form of tributary trade in the form of state gifts in the Great Song Empire, but the personal property of the Song envoys. They prepared these goods and copper coins with the intention of opening up the markets of overseas countries, so giving them all away would not cause them any problems and risks when they returned to China. According to many inquiries, these high-ranking officials in the kingdom are all wealthy figures, and a small boatswain under his command can earn hundreds of dollars a year. It is said that each of them has no less than tens of thousands of people, so each of them must be worth at least more than 10 million.

These possessions have far exceeded my knowledge of the richness of the Great Song Empire, and it seems that the country of Haidong is destined to become a vassal state of the Chinese Empire again. I don't know if Emperor Shirakawa will learn from Emperor Tuigu to send envoys to the Sui Dynasty to send envoys to the Song Dynasty, and once again open the road of official envoys and official exchanges between China and China.