"Is there any news from Japan?" Zhao Ji remembered that Su Shi and Xue Yi had been going to Japan for three months, and the rebellion on the Japanese side should have been quelled, but not only did they not bring Japanese food, but they didn't even send the news.

"Saint, the situation in Japan is a bit complicated, Xue Yi has sent a military report, Japan is cutting the feudal domain, and Emperor Shirakawa is negotiating with the daimyo. I, the Great Song 10,000 Sea Guards, are now stationed in Naniwa City. Zhang Dian replied.

"Naniwa City? Why not go north? Didn't I tell you that their main task was to control the fishing grounds in Hokkaido? Zhao Ji frowned and said unhappily.

Zhao Ji felt that Su Shi was a little out of order, and the price of grain in the Great Song Dynasty continued to rise, although it was only a price increase, not that there was no grain to sell, but a large amount of imported grain could not be delayed. Zhao Ji has been looking forward to the fish from Hokkaido, Japan, entering the dining table of the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Holy Lord, the general will be outside, and the king's decree will not be affected. Since this matter is handed over to Su Shi, he should let him do it. Naniwa Castle is the city of the foundation of the Japanese daimyo Fujiwara clan, and it is also the most powerful daimyo in Japan, garrisoned in Naniwa Castle, which can suppress the Fujiwara clan and hand over power. This is a soldier who surrenders without a fight. In the name of Su Shi, nothing big will happen. Zhang Dian responded.

"This is Emperor Shirakawa's recital, and with Emperor Shirakawa's plan, Japan's Xining restructuring will be completed in three months at most." The military department Shangshu pushed a notebook to Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji smiled, and Emperor Shirakawa finished treating himself as Zhao Ji's subordinate. Even the message was renamed a notebook instead of a diplomatic credential. In this way, it is as if Japan is a province of the Great Song Dynasty.

"I sent a decree to Emperor Shirakawa to speed up the process of restructuring Japan. If there is any need for him to mention, whether it is human or financial resources, Da Song will give him the greatest support. Zhao Ji confessed.

"Shengshang, Japan's restructuring is a struggle for power, which is completely different from the Great Song Dynasty;;;;;;. The head of the military department began to state the current situation of Japan.

In the first year of Xining, Emperor Gosanjo ascended the throne, and he was the only emperor in Japan who was not directly related to the Fujiwara clan in the 170 years since Emperor Uta began. He has been oppressed by the Fujiwara clan with his biological mother since he was a child, and his position has not been stable for more than 20 years after becoming the crown prince.

Therefore, Emperor Gosanjo did not want to be a puppet of the Fujiwara family anymore, and after ascending the throne, he devoted himself to restoring the emperor's personal government, which had been interrupted for a hundred years, and he reformed the court's etiquette system, reduced court expenses, and confiscated land that had not been granted a title deed by the emperor, so various anti-Fujiwara forces gathered around him. Emperor Gosanjo broke the restrictions of the gate valve and appointed lower-middle- and lower-class nobles to participate in the government, changing the situation of the Fujiwara clan's hegemony.

In the second year of Xining, Emperor Gosanjo set out to rectify the estate, and with the support of middle- and lower-ranking officials, he was ready to impose restrictions on Fujiwara Yoritsu's estate. However, due to the precedent of the regency politics, the emperor was not able to carry out his will at will. The person who actually controlled the government was the regent Sekihaku (equivalent to the prime minister) Fujiwara Yoritsu.

In the fourth year of Xining, Emperor Gosanjo's reforms were thwarted, and he became a monk. His son, Emperor Shirakawa, ascended the throne, and when Emperor Shirakawa saw that the Great Song Dynasty was in full swing, he sent envoys to ask for the support of the Great Song Dynasty. The Japanese envoy met Zhao Ji, who was inspecting the shipyard on Liuqiu Island, but Zhao Ji ignored him because of the emotional problems of later generations. Later, Emperor Shirakawa took out hundreds of millions of yuan in gift lists, and finally got support from the government office.

The Fujiwara clan controlled the Japanese government from the Tang Dynasty. In the fifth year of the Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty general Su Dingfang conquered Baekje, Japan mobilized reinforcements from all over the country, and the number of troops mobilized reached hundreds of thousands. In the first battle of Baijiangkou, the Tang Dynasty army burned thousands of Japanese warships, and Japan's 20,000 elite sailors were wiped out in one fell swoop. It was this battle that led to the weakening of the Japanese imperial family, and the Fujiwara clan controlled the Japanese government for more than 100 years.

After this war, Japan admired the Tang Dynasty very much, and spent huge sums of money every day to build sea ships and send more Tang envoys. Heiankyo was modeled after Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. To this day, the Japanese are proud to be Song people and proud to have Song blood, which began in the Tang Dynasty.

"How does the government plan to support Japan? If I can't get food from Japan, I don't feel at ease. I will soon have to go south, and the affairs of Japan must be finalized as soon as possible. After pondering for a while, Zhao Ji ordered.

Shen Kuo was the prime minister, and hurriedly replied: "Since the popularization and application of several major inventions of Weichen, the trade between Japan and the Great Song Dynasty has become increasingly prosperous, and a large number of Japanese people have immigrated to the Great Song Dynasty. There are about 1 million Japanese people in the southeastern provinces, and there are more than 100,000 in the capital alone. Japan's population was greatly reduced, and Emperor Shirakawa appeared anxious, begging the Great Song Dynasty to immigrate to replenish the Japanese population. After discussion in the political affairs hall, it was decided to relocate 100,000 households from Dengzhou to Japan. There were 10,000 households arranged for Su Shi to build a city in Hokkaido. Su Shi would have to stay in Japan for at least three years before he could complete the matter. ”

"Three years?" Zhao Ji hoped that it could be done in three months, but when he saw Shen Kuo say that it would take three years, he couldn't help but be surprised. After thinking about it, he continued: "Okay, Japan's affairs will be handled by the arrangements of the political affairs hall. However, I will not set off on the southern expedition until the next batch of Japanese grain arrives in Shangjing. The Japanese, like the grassland people, are all countries that speak with strength, and told Su Shi and Xue Yi to fight a tough battle or two first. The victory of a tough battle is more convincing than benevolence, righteousness and morality, and Su Shi's words. ”

After the 10th century AD, iron farming tools and the use of cattle and horses for farming became widespread among the famous owners of the fields, and the methods of rice production made significant progress. For example, the implementation of soaking and transplanting seedlings before sowing and starting to irrigate the field with water wheels, and also knowing the drying method of weeding in the field and drying by rice racks, etc., have increased rice yield. The 10th-century Japanese dictionary "Wakana Shomyo" lists as many as 70 types of dryland crops (grains, vegetables, and vegetables), which proves that dryland crops also developed and became widespread during this period.

Japan takes rice as the staple food, because almost all the people believe in Buddhism, there is little meat, only the poor people at the bottom will eat meat, vegetarian food is a symbol of status, so it is not impossible to hoard a large amount of rice. In this way, Zhao Ji hoped that Japan could transfer a batch of grain to Beijing to prevent the price of grain from skyrocketing in the Great Song Dynasty.

；；；；；； Heiankyo, Heian Palace, Japan.

In Heiankyo, Suzaku Avenue connects the Ouchiri Suzaku Gate and Rajo Gate, the Higashiri Omiya Nishito-in East Cave and Tokyo Gokuku-chi Main Road, the Nishi-Miyaki Tsuji and Nishikyogoku Main Roads in the east-west direction, and the Dogomon-Naka-Gomon and Nijo-Kujo Main Roads intersect vertically with the Suzaku Taiji. Heiankyo was surrounded by shrines such as Kamo Matsuo Inari, which were believed by the locals, and later became the object of worship of the royal family and aristocracy.

However, due to the two major undertakings of the Huanwu Dynasty to build the capital and conquer the Yi halfway, some places in the capital only repaired the division to complete the construction of Luocheng and other places. Youjing (Chang'an) is a low-lying area dotted with ponds and marshes, presenting a scene of "people are getting thin, almost secluded, people go and have no return, and houses are broken and not repaired". Therefore, most of the people are concentrated in the Gaogang dry area north of Zuojing (Luoyang). During the period of the Imperial Administration, many temples and palaces were built around the Kamogawa River and the Higashi-Shirakawa River, which flows through the east of Sakyo Daiji-road, and Sakyo became more prosperous, so the Japanese always liked to call Kyoto "Luoyang" and "Los Angeles".

"Father, Fujiwara Yoritsu has been executed, and the power that has been lost for a hundred years has finally returned to the hands of the imperial family." Emperor Shirakawa looked excited, he had been suppressed by the ministers for a long time, but now he was raising his eyebrows.

"Fujiwara Yoritsu was killed, replaced by a Qingyuan martial arts, what difference does this make? Thirty thousand of the 100,000 guards in Heiankyo were loyal to the Qingyuan military rule, and the father and son of the Yuan Yoshito family were also very ambitious. Now that you are the emperor, there are pros and cons to everything, so you have to calm down and see clearly. Are you brothers with the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty? Cherish this brother! During this time, I have been studying the temperament of the Great Song Emperor, the Great Song Dynasty has no ambitions for Japan, and if Japan wants to get rid of barbarism and backwardness, he will be your greatest support. Emperor Gosanjo, who has already become a monk, said.

Kiyogen Takenori and Minamoto Yoshito, father and son, are known as the three famous generals of the Heian period in Japan. These three men put down the rebellion of Abe Yoritomi, who had seized the Ou Province, and Abe Sadatomo's father and son in the first nine years of Japan's campaign. Ou Province is the Kanto Plain, where Tokyo was later located.

"Yes. Emperor Xining was kind and treated me like a brother. The Great Song Dynasty's education and training system was very effective in preventing military generals from supporting their own troops, and Erchen was imitating the Great Song Dynasty and comprehensively implementing the reform. Emperor Xining's view of Japan also changed, and the Great Song Dynasty Political Affairs Hall supported it again. The father and emperor can rest assured that there is only a big Song Dynasty behind his sons, and Qingyuan Wu will not dare to move for the time being, and when the restructuring is completed, he will not be able to make big waves. Emperor Shirakawa said confidently.

"Fujiwara Yoritsu is killed, and the Fujiwara clan will rebel. Are you ready? The latter three then asked.

"Fujiwara Fruit, the son of Fujiwara Yoritsu, rebelled in Nanisu. Erchen has asked Qingyuan Wu Ze to lead 30,000 guards to quell the rebellion. Naniwa Port has stationed 10,000 Great Song Dynasty Sea Guards, and Fujiwara Guoguo will be defeated. Emperor Shirakawa replied.

The 30,000 Japanese guards led by Qingyuan Takenori and the 5,000 sea guards led by Xue Yi confronted Fujiwara Guoguo's 100,000 guards on the small plain outside Naniwa Castle. Naniwa Castle, which later became Osaka. The plains outside of Osaka are called the Plains in Japan.

Although the strength of the Song-Japanese alliance was small, the weapons and equipment of the Great Song Sea Guard Army made the Fujiwara clan's guards feel unprecedented pressure.

Five hundred and thirteen guns, fifty rocket artillery vehicles, one thousand five hundred rocket artillery, three thousand heavy infantry, five hundred iron cavalry, one thousand war horses, one hundred and fifty carriages, and a full 5,000 coast guards were in formation. The Japanese 30,000 Guards were deployed in front of this formation and on the left and right flanks. In terms of scale, the Song-Japanese coalition army was much larger than the Fujiwara clan's gate guard army of 100,000 people.

Fujiwara Guoguo's 100,000 guards consisted of only 300 knights, and the rest were foot soldiers armed with horizontal swords and longbows on their backs, and there were no catapults, bed crossbows and other ordnance. Set up an attack formation, because the area occupied is not large, it does not seem to be more than 35,000 people of the Song-Japanese coalition army.

The Japanese Guards did not have much advantage over Fujiwara Guoguo's guards, and they were called guards, but many of the soldiers were not armoured, and they looked like a group of samurai.

"Japan's army is like this, it is not as good as the Great Song Dynasty Army, and even inferior to the Great Song Dynasty Township Soldiers before the military reform." Xue Yi laughed.

Qingyuanwu's face was ugly, and Su Shi on the side said: "After Japan's restructuring, it will naturally be as elite as my Great Song Haiwei Army." Commander Xue, you see, the morale of our army is high, and it is time to give the order to attack. ”

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