Outside Kyoto City.

In order to welcome the arrival of Li Yuntian, Ashikaga Yoshihito personally led the civil and military officials in the city to greet at the city gate, the scene was grand and grand, attracting many people to come to see the excitement, and the crowds outside the city gate were crowded, and the excitement was extraordinary.

The reason why Ashikaga Yoshihito came out of the city to greet Li Yuntian was because of the etiquette system, Li Yuntian was the prince of the Ming Dynasty and he accepted the title of "King of Japan" of the Ming Dynasty, so he needed to welcome Li Yuntian, the prince from the suzerain.

Second, Ashikaga Yoshihito had already learned that Li Yuntian had brought a large number of goods this time, not like Xingshi had come to ask for guilt, and he also planned to trade 20% of the goods with him, so he naturally had to treat him with courtesy.

Since this is the first time that a high-ranking official has come from the Ming Dynasty, and he is also a dignified prince, and now the Ming army is facing off against Shimazu Mingyun's army in Izumi County, so those powerful people in Kyoto City are very surprised that Li Yuntian dares to come to Kyoto at this time.

Because Li Yuntian's arrival is too unbelievable, there are many rumors about Li Yuntian in Kyoto City, one of the most marketable rumors is that the King of Tadamu who came to Kyoto this time is a stand-in, and the real King Zhongwu will definitely not dare to risk coming to Kyoto City, but hide in Shimizu Castle or Ryukyu Island.

The reason why this rumor is very popular in the market is that Li Yuntian's move is too sudden, it can be said that it has broken the famine in the history of the Ming Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom, and the people who came before were some petty officials of six or seven grades, and second, the Ming army and sailors are at war with the Satsuma Kingdom on the Satsuma Peninsula in Kyushu, Li Yuntian's move is undoubtedly going deep into the tiger's den, and third, no one in Kyoto City has seen Li Yuntian, so it is impossible to confirm the identity of the person who came to Kyoto City.

Ashikaga Yoshihito also had some doubts, in his opinion, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were all commanding and high-minded people, how could a high-ranking official like Li Yuntian be in danger?

However, no matter what the truth of the matter is, the Ming army came to Kyoto under the banner of "King Zhongmu", then even if it was not King Zhongmu himself, once the two sides reached any agreement, the Ming army would carry it out in the name of "King Zhongmu".

Ashikaga Yoshihito is still very relieved of this, he knows that the Ming court advocates etiquette and benevolence, especially when it comes to overseas vassal states, so he will never turn his face and deny those signed contracts.

In other words, Ashikaga Yoshihito values the banner of "King Tadamu", and he doesn't care much about whether King Tadamu himself is here.

"It's coming!" While the crowd outside the city was buzzing and talking, a man pointed to the road in the distance and shouted, only to see a black marching procession appear on the road.

"Playing music!" A retainer standing behind Ashikaga Yoshihito waved at the band next to him, and the musicians began to play festive music.

Li Yuntian rode on a horse, and from a distance, he saw that there was a bright head in the welcoming procession outside the city gate, and the samurai of the Wa Kingdom usually liked to cut the "moon generation" head, that is, the hair on the forehead and the top of the head was shaved, and there was a bun in other places, which can be described as a symbol of the samurai.

Due to the influence of the Tang and Song dynasties, the ancient Japanese men treated their hair in the same way as the Han people in the Tang and Song dynasties, gathering their hair and tying it on the top of their heads, and when they were fighting, they pulled their hair back to the back of their heads, and tied it with a strap at the junction of the head and neck like a horsetail, so that it was easy to wear helmets.

However, after entering the Muromachi Shogunate period, wars became more frequent, and the hair on the head of the soldiers often fell apart for various reasons during the fierce fighting, and the hair on the front of the head would cover the face and block the view, which in turn affected the battle.

For this reason, some samurai shaved off the hair on the front and center of the head, so that even if the hair was scattered during the battle, it would only be scattered on the sides of the head and back, and would not affect the vision.

As the effect of this was obvious, more and more samurai emulated it, and soon shaving hair became a custom among the samurai.

It is worth mentioning that not everyone is able to shave their hair and keep this kind of "moon generation" head, and this kind of oath is limited to the samurai class, which can be described as a symbol of status and status.

"King Zhongwu came from afar, and he worked hard all the way." When Li Yuntian came to the welcoming team and turned over and dismounted, Ashikaga Yoshihito stepped forward and bowed to him with a smile and said.

"It is a great honor for His Royal Highness the King to greet him personally." Hearing this, Li Yuntian smiled and arched his hand to Ashikaga Yoshihito, and returned the salute quietly.

Although he knew that Ashikaga Yoshihito did not use the title of "King of Japan" in the Wa Kingdom, Li Yuntian was a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, so he naturally had to call him according to the title that Ashikaga Yoshihito was canonized by the Great Tomorrow Son.

Ashikaga Yoshihito didn't mind this title, and after a few words of greeting with Li Yuntian, he introduced to Li Yuntian the magnates of Kyoto City around him, mainly the chief officials of the "Two Palaces, Eight Provinces, One Five Guards" and the senior officials of the shogunate.

The Wa Kingdom was a country that practiced the Ritsuryo system, and the central government system under the Ritsuryo system was based on the two officials and eight provinces, and the monarch was under the emperor, and there were gods and goddesses who served as court sacrifices and Taizheng officials who oversaw the state affairs, that is, "two officials".

Among them, the deity officials are responsible for the state's sacrificial activities, the taizheng officials are responsible for the state's political operations, and all government agencies below the eight provinces are under the jurisdiction of the taizheng officials.

The Emperor was directly under the jurisdiction of the Emperor of the Imperial Palace, which was responsible for guarding the Imperial Palace, which was the Imperial Palace, the Imperial Palace, and the Imperial Imperial Palace, which were the Imperial Palaces.

Among the eight provinces, the left magistrate has four provinces, namely the Ministry of Central Affairs, the Ministry of Shikibu, the Ministry of Governance, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the four provinces of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Finance, and the Imperial Palace.

The eight provinces have their own subordinate departments, liao or divisions, to share their duties:

The Ministry of Central Affairs has set up Yin and Yang Liao, and the Book Liao; Shibu Province has a university dormitory; The province of governance has Xuanfan Liao and Zhuling Division; The Ministry of Civil Affairs has a master accounting liao and a main tax liao; The Ministry of War has a Terracotta Liao and a Main Ship Division; The Ministry of Penal Affairs has a Prison Division; The Ministry of Finance has a Department of Cleaning and Guarding and a Department of Weaving; Under the palace ministry, there are the main hall liao, the female priest and so on.

In the imperial system of the Wa State, the Taizheng Guan was the highest official of the Wa State, and there were also the Left Minister, the Right Minister, the Minister of the Interior, the Great Nayan, the Middle Nayan, the Participation in the Politics and the Young Nayan, and so on.

It is worth mentioning that the shogunate was not in the imperial system of the Wa Kingdom, and its full name was the "Seiyi Great Shogun's Office", so the shogunate generals all held public offices in the Wa Imperial Court.

Generally speaking, shoguns of the shogunate were awarded official positions above the rank of dainayan, which was their official official position in the political arena of the Japanese state.

However, since the military and political power of our country was in the hands of the shogun, the official positions in the Japanese court were only a symbol of status and status, and if the person holding the official position was not a daimyo who held real power, then it could only be a false position.

For example, Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Mochitoyo, although they were only Zuo Keyosho and Utukyo Kyotyo, because they were the guardian daimyo of the Wa Kingdom, and they had several feudal kingdoms under their command, so their power in the Wa Kingdom was second only to the shogun Ashikaga Yoshihito.

Just like the Ming Dynasty regarded the shogunate as the ruling institution of the Wa State, because the shogunate controlled the court situation of the Wa State, the court system of the Wa State became a chicken-like existence, but it has been used since the establishment of the Wa State, with a history of more than 1,000 years, and it can be regarded as a miracle.

Originally, Li Yuntian was still waiting with great interest for Ashikaga Yoshihito to introduce the emperor who lived in the imperial palace in the capital to him, but to his disappointment, Ashikaga Yoshihito did not mention the emperor at all, presumably to avoid embarrassment.

After all, Ashikaga Yoshihito is the king of Japan under the title of the Great Ming Dynasty and the supreme ruler of the Wa Kingdom, and he coldly told Li Yuntian that the Wa Kingdom and the Emperor, the supreme leader of the Wa Kingdom, I am afraid that it will take a lot of words to explain alone, so I simply don't mention it.

It is enough that Yoshihito has prepared a reception banquet for Li Yuntian in the shogunate, and the two of them talked and laughed and went to the shogunate in a mighty manner surrounded by everyone, attracting thousands of empty alleys in Kyoto City, and the residents of the city gathered on the side of the road to watch the excitement, and pointed to the Ming army sailors brought by Li Yuntian with bright armor and burly figures.

After the reception banquet, Li Yuntian went to the residence prepared for him by Ashikaga Yoshihito on the grounds of tiring travel, which was a very luxurious mansion in Kyoto City, and the yard was planted with cherry blossom trees, and it was a beautiful time.

According to the information that Li Yuntian obtained, this mansion was originally owned by a big businessman in Kyoto City, and later heard that Li Yuntian was going to take the initiative to vacate the place for Li Yuntian to settle down.

Since the accommodation of that house was first-class in Kyoto City, Ashikaga Yoshihito was very satisfied with it, and it became Li Yuntian's residence in Kyoto City.

There were dozens of servants in the house, which were specially prepared for Li Yuntian by the merchant, but Lei Ting definitely couldn't trust them, so she arranged for those servants to do some cleaning chores, and Li Yuntian's food and clothing were taken care of by the people she brought.

To be honest, Li Yuntian really couldn't sleep on the tatami mats of the Japanese Kingdom, and he wasn't used to taking off his shoes and walking on the wooden floor in the room, but he had to settle for a while.

At night, Li Yuntian lay on a recliner in the garden, looking up at the brilliant stars in the night sky.

If you look into it carefully, Li Yuntian's current identity is a little embarrassing, on the one hand, he started a war with Satsuma Peninsula, and captured Lidao County and Izumi County in Satsuma Country, on the other hand, he came to meet Ashikaga Yoshihito with gifts, and received Ashikaga Yoshihito's broadband.

Therefore, no one can say clearly whether Li Yuntian is a friend or an enemy of the Japanese State, and no one wants to think about this matter, and everyone is now more concerned about what they can get from Li Yuntian.

As for Li Yuntian's intention, many of the Japanese magnates in Kyoto can guess, that is, to solve the dispute caused by Satsuma.

At the same time, because Li Yuntian brought a large number of goods, it also aroused a lot of expectations, and the magnates in Kyoto hoped that Li Yuntian would open trade with the Japanese as he did with the Nanyang countries, so that they could make profits from it, knowing that the Ming Dynasty was the most important trade object of the Japanese state.