Section 39: Claiming to be the Son of Heaven in vain

At sunrise, the Son of Heaven sent a book, and the Son of Heaven was unharmed on the day. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

-- Emperor Tuiko

The book is divided into two ends, and the scene is changed.

When the Great Sui Dynasty, under the leadership of Yang Jian, swept away the Southern Chen and unified China, in 593 AD, the thirteenth year of the opening of the Great Sui Dynasty, the first female emperor of the Wa Kingdom with a strip of water in China, Emperor Tuigu ascended the throne, and his reign of the Wa Emperor lasted for 35 years.

This Tuigu female emperor is not a simple woman, she can be the first female emperor in Japan, and her ability is comparable to Wu Zetian.

In the spring and February of 600 A.D., Silla (the eastern part of present-day Korea) attacked Renna (a small country directly south of present-day Korea and was under Japanese control at the time). Emperor Suiko, with the Sakuto minister as the general and Hokimi as the deputy general, led more than 10,000 troops to cross the sea to attack Silla for Renna. The Japanese army captured the five cities of Silla, and the king of Silla sued for peace and ceded the six cities of Tadora, Sonara, Fuchigi, Veda, Nangara, and Aroro. After Emperor Suigu recalled the troops on the Korean Peninsula, Silla re-attacked Renna.

In the spring and February of 602 A.D., Prince Eime led an army of 25,000 men to attack Silla in order to defeat the Silla general. In the summer and April, the Silla general came to Tsukushi and entered Tundao County, where he gathered ships to transport military rations. In June, the prince fell seriously ill, and the Silla expedition was suspended.

Tuigu is also good at absorbing China's advanced technology and culture for the use of the Japanese state. In 607 AD, three years after the great cause of the Sui Dynasty, Tuigu sent the first batch of Sui envoys since he came to power.

These Japanese envoys came to China for two purposes: first, to obtain the legitimacy of political power from the Chinese emperor; Second, it is necessary to establish friendly relations so that we can learn from China's advanced technology and culture.

In the second year after the envoys came, the Wa Kingdom began to allow foreign students and monks to study in China.

In the summer of the third year of the Great Cause, the first government mission sent by Japan to the Sui Dynasty finally arrived in Luoyang, and the head of the mission was called Ono Meiko.

Ladies and gentlemen, don't think that it is a female emperor and send a female ambassador. This girl is a big man, although she is not tall, but she is a good person, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and she is considered a good-looking person among the Japanese people, so the female emperor chose him as an ambassador.

Of course, Japan was late in civilization, and at that time, the word "girl" did not specifically refer to women, and both men and women could be called girls.

The entire Japanese mission entered Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Sui Dynasty, and their clothes were tied with leather belts, and they wore bar robes, long belts, and the armpits of the blouse were seamed, the hem was open and slit, and the front placket was tied with a long knot hanging from the right side. Ono was a high-ranking official and wore a black and purple ayara, which was decorated with a dangai pattern on the ground. It means a bird's nest and is shaped like a vortex. The accompanying officers wore dark green, dark blue, and light blue ayara, and the civilians in the mission were dressed in yellow and the servants in black.

The whole mission brought 900 dried salted fish and 100 raw mouths as tribute. (Raw mouth is slave)

On the main hall of the Eastern Capital, the envoy Ono called Emperor Yang "the Son of Haixi Bodhisattva, reviving Buddhism", and said that he brought a group of Buddhist monks to learn Buddhism.

He then presented a letter from his monarch to Emperor Yang of Sui, which began with "The Son of Heaven at Sunrise Sends a Letter to the Son of Heaven at Sunrise."

The author of this letter is Prince Meto, who was later the Crown Prince of Shotoku, who was not a simple second generation of emperors, but was very intelligent when he was a child, respected Buddhism, and left behind many anecdotes and legends. In his youth, he also commanded the coalition army to conquer the Monobe clan and finally wiped out the Monobe army. At the age of nineteen, he became the regent of the Wa Kingdom, and together with the minister of the island, Soga Mako, assisted the female emperor of Suiko. The small stable Wen Taowu is not comparable to ordinary politicians. Since 1930, the yen has used the head of the prince of the stables seven times. Of course, such a "dragon and phoenix" in the Japanese are unwilling to bow their heads to the Great Sui and call them junior brothers, your Great Sui is the Son of Heaven in the west of the sunset, so my Da Sui is the Son of Heaven in the east of the sunrise.

Because of his admiration for Chinese culture, the font used is naturally traditional Chinese characters.

Yang Guangcai looked at the beginning and was furious.

In the tributary system of ancient East Asia, only the emperor of China could be called the "Son of Heaven". Therefore, the Japanese letter referred to the supreme ruler of the country as the "Son of Heaven", which greatly displeased Emperor Yang.

With a "snap", Yang Guang threw the national letter of the Wa Kingdom from the high dragon seat in front of Xiao Ye, who was kneeling below, and said: "Crazy and rebellious, you dare to call the king of a small country the Son of Heaven?" Believe it or not, I gathered a million male soldiers, crossed the sea and destroyed your country? ”

Another advantage why Ono can be an ambassador is that he can read Chinese books and listen to Chinese dialect. As soon as he heard the Son of Heaven of the Celestial Empire say this, he was so frightened that his head was covered with sweat, so he could only quickly kowtow and beg for mercy.

"Your Majesty the Son of Heaven is very angry, I and other small countries do not know the paperwork, please Your Majesty be magnanimous and forgive my country. Those who don't know are not guilty, and Your Majesty must be gracious. ”

"Hmph, send the envoys of the Japanese State to the Lihe Hotel to rest, and the envoys and accept the Japanese students and monks studying abroad will discuss it another day." Yang Guangguang waved his sleeves and retreated.

At that time, there were only more than 700,000 households in the Japanese country, and the population was less than 3 million when it was full, and there were less than 500,000 men between the ages of 11 and 61 in the whole country, and there were only about 100,000 young and middle-aged men between the ages of 18 and 41.

However, at this time, the Sui Dynasty was engaged in a war against Goguryeo, and the main forces of the Sui army were sent to Goguryeo, and the remaining Sui army had to defend various passes, where there would be extra soldiers and horses. Saying that sending millions of troops to the Wa State was just to scare the Japanese envoys.

In the end, Yang Guang decided that he could not lose his identity as a great power, and the gifts he gave back to the Wa Kingdom included: nine brocade horses woven with unicorns, Pixiu and other divine beasts, ten tiger skins, twenty deer skins, fifty white silks, one hundred taels of gold, one hundred bronze mirrors, one hundred catties of pearls and lead pills, and sent thirteen officials, including Wen Linlang and Hongluqing Zhangke Pei Shiqing, to return to the Wa Kingdom with one hundred guards and one hundred servants, and instructed "If there are rude people in the barbarian book, don't hear about it again." At the same time, let Pei Shiqing convey the letter of state to the Wa Kingdom. The main content of the letter of state is to accuse the monarchs and ministers of the Japanese state, and the title of the Son of Heaven must be revoked, otherwise the small country will be destroyed.

The first sentence of the Great Sui State Book is: The Son of Heaven of the Great Sui sent a letter to the King of the Wa. It is clear that he does not recognize the king of your kingdom as the Son of Heaven.

Pei Shiqing received this task, and felt that it was really a chore, I don't know if the king of the Japanese would be furious when he saw this letter of state, and immediately cut himself off? Is it because he has written twice to strongly oppose the expedition to Goguryeo?

But the king's order cannot be violated, knowing that he is going to the Wa Kingdom, it may be that he will not return, Pei Shiqing still followed the Wa State delegation on the road.

Pei Shiqing is not the only one who suffers, Ono is also very painful, although the rewards of the Great Sui Dynasty are quite rich, these gifts are completely dozens of times, or even a hundred times the tribute offered by the Wa State. However, the Great Sui did not recognize the identity of the Son of Heaven of the king of the Japanese Kingdom, and the national letter was full of accusations, and there was a posture that the king of the Japanese Kingdom would send troops to conquer without apologizing. In this case, how should I, the envoy of Sui, explain to His Majesty the Prince and the Empress of the Stables? Along the way, Ono was sad and thinking about a solution.