[Chapter 49: The Tributary Envoy, Meiji Japan]
"My emperor is prosperous, thousands of generations; gravel into rocks, covered with moss; Long-term peace and stability, the country is rich and the people are Taitai. ”
The lyrics of "Jun's Generation" are very simple, just a few sentences over and over again. But Masao Moto sang very devotedly. As the leader of the envoys who paid tribute to the Han Empire this time, Ben Zhengxiong had the highest emotions and the most decent clothes--- and the ragged robe could cover his knees. Of course, he is also the tallest among these Japanese envoys, with a height of 1.65 meters!
To the east of the Han Empire, there were three vassal states, namely Luzon, the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the Wa Kingdom. There are two vassal states to the south, Siam and Laos. Of these five vassal states, the Wa states were "very obedient to the Han Dynasty", and the other vassal states only had to pay tribute twice a year, but they had to pay six times. This was caused by Emperor Shengzu of the Han Dynasty's extreme dislike for the Japanese slaves.
In the beginning, this tributary policy did make the Wa state miserable. Because every tribute had to carry the most precious items of the country. Once the procuratorate found that the tribute was not the most precious thing in the country, the Han army stationed in Fusang Prefecture would personally "take it".
Luzon, Ryukyu, Siam, and Laos were glad that their countries did not need six tributes a year. Because six tributes a year means less than a month after the departure of the first batch of envoys, the second batch of envoys must be ready to leave, once there is a delay, the Han army will not care what your reason, with the dust boots directly into the palace, with the sword in his hand to tell the king of the subject country, what is the fear of the empire!
Basically, the Wa Kingdom, which pays six tributes a year, usually doesn't do anything, and the focus of work every year is to prepare tribute for the Han Emperor!
However, in the past hundred years, Luzon and other countries wished that they could get the permission of the Han Empire to pay tribute six times a year, even if not more than six times, but twelve times! Because they found that after escorting the tributes into the territory of the empire, the people of the empire would respect these tributes extraordinarily, and once they broke the empire, the people of the empire would compensate according to the price. And the price of the tribute was determined by the envoys themselves. In this way, the tributary turns into a good opportunity for blackmail in disguise!
Like every time the Wa Kingdom pays tribute, in addition to bringing the precious items of this tribute, it will bring a lot of broken bowls and jars, once the Han people block the way, they will throw these bowls and jars to the ground, and then quote a sky-high price to ask for compensation. After hundreds of years of peace, most of the Han people have some wealth, and they are afraid of getting into trouble, so as long as it is not too outrageous, they will compensate for it. The Japanese people walked all the way and "fell" all the way, and after each tribute, they could not only earn back the money for the tribute, but also have a large surplus. This discovery made the Japanese people very excited, and every time they went to the Han Dynasty to pay tribute, they were scrambling to be the first, and they really couldn't grab this fat gap without any strength.
Masao is a person who has a lot of "strength" in the Japanese country. Because he is "Chinese"! And he is the wife and uncle of the Wa King, and at the age of thirty, he is already the Taichang Siqing of the Wa Cabinet, and there are more than 30 soldiers under his hands! This time, the tribute landed in Bohai County and traveled all the way to Luoyang, and he really made a lot of money by "falling" and raging, which was roughly estimated to be enough for him to run for election in the Wa Kingdom for the next three years.
After Mengjin is the Great Han Gyeonggi, and their tricks can no longer be unscrupulous, so they plan to make another big profit in this inn before entering Gyeonggi. So he deliberately made a loud noise here with his subordinates, wanting to attract the anger of the Han people who wanted to do some good things, and knock on it again.
To do this extortion, you also need to have a strong eye. First of all, the person being knocked must have some money, but no background. If it is a Han person with a background, it is too late for Ben Zhengxiong to stammer, how dare he make more trouble, after all, this is the territory of the Han Dynasty, if he provokes the brave and bloody Han people, it is not impossible to kill them on the spot--- the Japanese slaves do not have the right to give them a fair duel in a war book; Secondly, we must see the right time, if the people who are knocked happen to be idle and have a pain, they will not be able to afford to go to the yamen to fight a lawsuit and delay the time of tribute...... It can be said that for extortion, the Japanese slaves have developed a set of effective and accurate methods.
This Huaiyuan Inn is an excellent object for Masao to choose. First of all, this inn was opened after the last group of tributary envoys left, and the shopkeeper was still a foreigner, so it shouldn't have had time to build up his own power here. Secondly, this shopkeeper has just opened, and he definitely doesn't want to offend customers, if he provokes someone who can't afford to offend, then he can continue to blackmail this shopkeeper.
No matter how you count it, he won't lose. So Ben Zhengxiong sat at the table even more unscrupulously, chanting the song "Jun's Generation" loudly, and fought back, like a group of romantic scribes. It's just that the black mustache in his lips makes people look at the diaphragm.
As he was singing, another slave on the side pushed him with his elbow and whispered, "Lord Honda, there seems to be a guest over there who is dissatisfied!" ”
Ben Zhengxiong squinted his eyes and looked at the shopkeeper, a young man in filial piety clothes was looking at him with surprise and anger, and there was a man with triangular eyes next to him, looking at a somewhat gloomy feeling, just a casual glance made Ben Zhengxiong shudder.
"Nakajima, take it when you see it. As long as they're willing to give some money, we'll stop. That triangular-eyed man gave me a bad feeling! Masao looked away and whispered to the man just now.
Nakajima Yuzheng is a samurai who was taken in by Ben Zhengxiong, some physique, although he is not tall, but he is very strong, and he is also a first-class samurai in the Wa Kingdom, and he said a little arrogantly: "Lord Benzheng, I see that the Han people are dressed in Zhou Zheng, with a crown and beads, and they must be the young masters of a rich family who have returned to their hometowns." This kind of person is very good at knocking on the strokes. The Han people regard death as if it were a matter of life, and they certainly don't want us to disturb the peace of the dead......"
Before he had finished speaking, he saw that the young man had come over and said to them, "Who taught you to sing this song?" ”
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All the Japanese slaves stopped their movements and voices at the same time, and looked at Shen Yun in amazement.
Yes, it is indeed stunned. They thought that this young man should be thunderous when he came over, but he asked who taught this song? Haven't you ever encountered this before?
Ben Zhengxiong is also a person who has been to the Han Empire a few times, and he took the lead in standing up, bowing his hand, and the etiquette was Zhou Zheng, and said in a somewhat strange tone: "This son, we are envoys of the Japanese Kingdom, far away from our hometown, and we are suddenly homesick when we come to this prosperous place, so we can't help but sing a song, but it disturbs the son's rest?" ”
As he spoke, Ben Zhengxiong walked over to Shen Yun with a black cup, and said, "Ben Zhengxiong is here to apologize to Childe, since meeting is fate, come, please drink this cup!" He said a standard 90-degree bow, very reverent.
Shen Yun glanced at them in disgust, didn't take the cup and said, "Less close, I just ask, who taught you this song?" ”
Ben Zhengxiong's face was unhappy, he raised his head slightly, and peeked at the triangular-eyed man who made him shudder was standing in front of the counter with a smile, and did not approach, and immediately put his heart down and said: "Oh, this is the song that the little king of the lower country taught the people to sing." Rough and minor, can you still get into the ears of the son? ”
Shen Yun asked, "What is the name of the Uno King?" ”
As soon as these words came out, these Japanese slaves were in an uproar.
Although the Wa Kingdom was contemptuously called the Wa slave by the Han people, in front of the people, the Han people still had to call the Wa people, besides, even if the Wa King was a vassal country, he did not let a Han people ask the truth directly, right?
These Japanese slaves were able to come to the Han Dynasty to pay tribute, so they naturally knew Chinese, and they all jumped up when they understood Shen Yun's words, and looked at Shen Yun with anger on their faces.
Shen Yun glanced at them contemptuously and said, "What? Can't I ask? ”
At this time, that Nakajima Yuzheng suddenly fell to Shen Yun's feet with a package, Shen Yun was startled, and immediately jumped away and shouted, "What are you doing?" ”
Nakajima Yuzheng sneered: "This son, you broke the tribute that my king paid to the emperor of your country, how can this be good?" ”
Shen Yun suddenly sneered: "I broke your tribute? He looked at the parcel wrapped in checkerick cloth on the ground and said, "How much is this tribute worth?" ”
Masao Ben breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he had returned to the familiar blackmail routine, and his heart relaxed a lot, and he pretended to reprimand the rude Nakajima Yuzheng, and said to Shen Yun: "Hehe, this son, this tribute is the most precious tribute carefully selected by my king, worth two thousand gold!" Of course, we have all seen it, and Childe is also an unintentional mistake, so let's do it, since we meet fate, it would be good if Childe compensated 1,800 gold! I'll post the rest ourselves! ”
Ben Zhengxiong had a smile on his face, but he thought hatefully in his heart, damn, I wanted to extort you for one or two hundred gold coins, but you dared to be disrespectful to my king, I have to let you have a lot of blood!
Shen Yun was amused by Ben Zhengxiong's shameless face, and he leaned back and forth when he laughed, almost like the drummer.
Just when Ben Zhengxiong was inexplicable, Shen Yun suddenly stepped forward with an arrow, snatched the package on the ground with his hand, and spread his hands, and several broken bowls and cans in the package fell to the ground in a hurry.
"Hmph, a few broken crockpots cost me 2,000 gold coins? You ** can't be poor and crazy, right? Shen Yun sneered, kicked the broken crockpots a few more times, and said, "Also, you dog minions are really bold, you actually took these few things to pay tribute to His Majesty the Emperor, hum, isn't it a beggar who begs for you when the Emperor of the Han Dynasty?" ”
"Big, bold!" Ben Zheng's majestic beard was cocked. He didn't expect that someone would break the tribute and dare to snatch it and say such things. Comparing the emperor to a beggar is something that even their Japanese kings dare not say.
"Big fuck fuck!" Shen Yun was really fed up with this Ben Zhengxiong's shameless face, and stepped forward and kicked Ben Zhengxiong in the chest, instantly kicking him into a four-horned toad.
Nakajima Yuzheng was suddenly furious and screamed: "Yaga! He had already rushed towards Shen Yun with other Japanese slaves.
At this moment, a large group of people suddenly rushed out of the backyard, and the first one of them had all his beard and hair, and rushed into the group of Japanese slaves with a big stick in his hand, slashing and sweeping vertically, beating these Japanese slaves to the ground, and then blocking in front of Shen Yun, shouting angrily: "Whoever dares to touch a cold hair of our son, Lao Tzu will kill him today!" ”
It is Shen Wu who is loyal to the Lord!
Following Shen Wu out, there were also the Shen family, as well as Hou Kan, Zhang Ji, Ouyang Fu and others, Shi Qian had already jumped behind the gang of Japanese slaves lightly, with a toothpick in his mouth, and sneered at these Japanese slaves. Even Shi Laosan walked out with the support of Kunlun Nu, holding a silver needle in his hand, and said sharply: "Which one moves my family??? ”
"Shi, Shizi?" Masao Moto, who fell to the ground first, opened his mouth in surprise, but he couldn't say a word.
Nakajima Yuzheng was the first to rush up, but he was knocked to the ground by Shen Yun with a hanging fist, but he didn't hit the stick of the dignified man, but when he heard everyone's name for this young man, he would rather take these sticks himself. He knew very well that the one who could be called the "son of the world" in the Han Empire must be the heir of a hereditary nobleman, no matter which hereditary nobleman it was, it was not something that these would-be slaves could afford to provoke!
If you walk too much at night, you will see hell after all. These Japanese slaves never expected that they would knock on the head of the Hou Shizi of Bohai!
Only then did Gong San come over quietly, stand beside Shen Yun and say, "Shizi, these Japanese slaves are not worthy of your anger, just throw them all into the Yellow River to feed the fish!" By the way, throw all those so-called tributes into it, and send the provincial ones to the palace to make Your Majesty angry! ”
The murderous aura of Mori Han in his plain tone made Nakajima Yuzheng, who fell to the ground, smart, he quickly got up from the ground and said loudly: "My master is Taichang Siqing, the cabinet of the Japanese Cabinet, and he is the first-class envoy of this tribute, you, you can't kill us!" ”
As he spoke, he took out a black official seal from his arms, wanting to prove the identity of himself and others. But before he could hand it out, Ben Zhengxiong had already jumped up and snatched it, and then knelt down in front of Shen Yun with a puff in the midst of everyone's vigilance, and said in horror: "Ben Zhengxiong has seen the prince of Bohai, please forgive the prince!" ”
"Huh?" Shen Yunqi said: "How do you know that I am the prince of Bohai Hou?" ”
Ben Zhengxiong glanced at Shen Wu who was glaring at him in horror, and said: "Ago, a few years ago, the villain went to Bohai County, and it was this master Wu who accompanied the Hou Ye to pass by the villain......
After he said this, Shen Wu also suddenly remembered, turned his head to Shen Yun and said: "Yes, in 996 of the Han Dynasty, when the Japanese state-owned caravan came to Bohai County to trade, there was a dispute with the Roman caravan, and I went to deal with it with the Hou Ye. However, hmph, these Japanese slaves bully the soft and fear the hard, and they have to make inches, which is really hateful! ”
Shen Yun suddenly looked at Ben Zhengxiong with a smile, and the woman who was already trembling in the corner, and said, "Ben Zhengxiong, right?" ”
"Yes, the villain is here!" Masao quickly replied.
"What is your tribute this time? Don't tell me it's the broken crockpots, or I'd love to see you swimming in the Yellow River!" ”
Ben Zhengxiong was still a little hesitant, but after listening to Shen Yun's last words, he quickly took out a silk silk from his arms and handed it to Shen Yundao: "Yes, it's this." There are also three stunning beauties in my country! ”
"Beautiful?" Shen Yun took the silk silk hand and paused, then looked at the three women covered with black veils, and couldn't help but be curious.
When it comes to Japan, who would ignore AV? Speaking of AV, who doesn't know Ran Muto, Ai Iijima, and Yui Hatano? Speaking of which, what should the Japanese king say about a stunning beauty?
Thinking of the AV movies he had watched in modern times, Shen Yun couldn't help but feel itchy, and he didn't care that these three women were going to be given to the emperor--- in fact, these women estimated that the emperor wouldn't even look at them--- so he walked straight over and ripped off the black veils of the three women......
No way!
Shen Yun took a step back in surprise.
Not because these women are too pretty, on the contrary, but so ugly! Not to mention being short, his skin is still dark, and his eyes are quite big, but his nose is the same as Wangzai's small steamed buns, and his whole face is pasted with cakes......
"It's stunning?" Shen Yunqi's face was flushed, he roared, almost threw aside the silk in his hand, pointed at Ben Zhengxiong and scolded: "Are you all malnourished, underdeveloped, and with mutated limbs, even your eyes are distorted like deep-sea squid, this can also be called stunning?" The fox-smelling caliphate women on the streets of Ruoyang City are better than yours! Fuck, I almost hurt Lao Tzu with a needle eye ......"
The unique scolding words made Hou Kan, Shi Qian and others laugh. The shopkeeper and the cousin tried to hold back, but after holding it for a long time, they almost suffocated their lungs, and in the end they could only nest in the counter and laugh.
Masao laughed awkwardly, but didn't dare to refute. Nakajima Yuzheng's face was flushed, and he was not angry, but when he saw the awe-inspiring Shen Wu and the tall Han people around him, he had no choice but to lower his head, and he had already scolded Shen Yun 108,000 times in his heart.
Shen Yun scolded, and his anger disappeared by a little, and he quickly dodged the three pasted children, and tore open the silk silk to look at it.
This is a return to the stream. It was presented to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty by the King of Wa. The content is that the king of the Wa Kingdom wanted to give the 600 li land in the east of Honshu Island, which was still within the territory of the Wa Kingdom, to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and hoped that the emperor would use the 600 li land as a communication window to send liuguan to manage it. The Wa Kingdom also sent students to study in the Han Empire, and at the same time hoped to lift the border siege and allow the people of the Wa Kingdom to enter the Shikoku, Long Island, Pingtung, and Washui for free trade!
As mentioned earlier, the most severe of the five vassal states of the Han Empire in the southeastern periphery was the Wa State. The empire required them to pay tribute, but the Japanese slaves were not allowed to enter any of the empire's schools, let alone Shikoku, Long Island, Pingtung, and wading. The scale of commerce was also greatly restricted, and the Japanese merchant ships could only trade in one place in Bohai County, and trade was prohibited in other places. This is the edict of Emperor Shengzu of the Han Dynasty, and the empire has followed it for 500 years.
Only Shen Yun understood what the Holy Ancestor Emperor was worried about. But now the king of the Japanese kingdom seems to want to break this situation by retreating into advance.
It doesn't cost a single soldier to open up a territory of 600 miles, which is definitely a temptation that any emperor who has never seen the murderous side of the Japanese slaves can hardly resist!
Shen Yun could even think of the reaction of those courtiers after this recital was handed to the court. The strategic vision of this king of the Japanese kingdom is really scary, and when he connected the song "The Generations of the King", the doubts in Shen Yun's heart were like a rippling lake......
Together, Shen Yun looked at Ben Zhengxiong and asked, "What is your king's name?" ”
Ben Zhengxiong replied respectfully: "The little king of the lower country has no surname, and he is secretive of Mingji!" The song that the prince asked about before was also taught to me by my king. The song is called "Kimi's Generation"! This time, the villain sent an envoy to the Han Dynasty, and my king also hopes to ask His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty for a new country name! ”
"What is the name of the country?"
"Japan!"
Depend on!!!!!
Shen Yun's shock was beyond measure.