Li Yuanxing said yes, and Cui Dunli couldn't help laughing.

"Your Highness, the ministers think that only by strictly abiding by the rules of the Tang Royal Academy is that nothing can be privileged. Naturally, there won't be any accidents, but the subordinates are puzzled? His Royal Highness has sent people to find special people to come back to study among the people of Wajima, so what is the defense of the people of this envoy group for them to study? ”

"The official sent must be extremely loyal people. This king does not work for that god. ”

"Your Highness is wise!" Cui Dunli's sentence is nonsense, he and Li Yuanxing both know it. Even if Li Yuanxing only wanted to be happy for himself, Cui Dunli would not object to this trivial matter.

Li Yuanxing stood up with a smile: "This king sent you an exam question." In winter, you can wear as much as you can; In summer, you can wear as much as you want! ”

After Cui Dunli read it along, a person like him who had read poetry and books immediately understood the fun. also followed Li Yuanxing daxiao.

"Hold on to them first, and wait until there is news from Wajima."

"Yes, the subordinate resigns!"

Trouble, the people on the island did not dare to in Chang'an, and the Gaochang envoy who robbed the people of a cart of vegetables was still locked up in the prison of the Criminal Department, including the main envoy, and the notice at the gate of the Yingbin Garden was still hanging.

When the Wajima envoys were stationed, this notice could scare them into a cold sweat.

At least they hadn't heard of anyone putting the entire legation in prison.

The envoy of the Wajima envoy, Kozo Oshima, did not enter his room but went directly to the Baekje envoy he knew.

When asked about Gaochang, the Baekje envoy smiled coldly: "They deserve to be imprisoned." thought that they Gaochang King had deceived the Tang Qin King's BMW and pearls, and the Datang Society would look down on them, but they didn't know that they were looking for their own death. Since you have come to me, I will only tell you a story. ”

The Baekje envoy told in detail about the beating of Jin Manqing in the street.

Kozo Oshima was already sweating profusely after hearing this!

It's winter, and there is no heating in the Welcome Garden, but the few coal stoves provided make the house not hot enough to sweat.

In a word, he was scared.

Datang is much more ruthless than the former Sui.

"In Chang'an, put away the frame of your nobles, here only the nobles who are approved by His Royal Highness King Qin of the Tang Dynasty are considered nobles. The rest of the people are not as good as the civilians of Chang'an City! "The Baekje envoy gave the most sincere advice.

With a chill. Kozo Oshima was all thinking about what the Baekje envoy had said to him.

When I returned to my residence, I saw an official from the Tang Rites Department standing at the door, looking at the color of the uniform, but he was just an official from the fifth grade. Generally speaking, the reception envoy is at least the level of a four-rank waiter.

At least in the former Sui period.

Meet the Wajima envoys. The official threw the Wajima credentials to the Wajima envoys. This sudden change made Kozo Oshima a little scrambling. But the official's next words left no room for the slightest: "Your country has a lot of momentum, if you want to issue a war letter, you can do it." A small and savage island country also dares to speak out. ”

With that, the official of the Ministry of Rites flicked his sleeves vigorously and turned to leave.

When he went out, the official of the Ministry of Rites regretted it a little and muttered to himself, "It should be thrown in his face." He muttered quietly as he got into the carriage and ordered him to return to the Ministry of Rites immediately.

An envoy who was returning from outside did not know which state it was, and his heart trembled when he heard this.

From the former Sui to the Tang Dynasty Wude, all the way to the Zhenguan period.

But unknowingly, the envoy who had been running in Chang'an for more than ten years felt the strength of Datang at this time. When did the officials of the Ministry of Rites treat the envoys with such a cold face.

Kozo Oshima, the envoy of Wajima, silently put away the national letter, and he was also thinking about what should happen next.

His task is to establish normal diplomatic relations with Datang, and the more important task is to arrange for the people he brings to learn the advanced jishu and knowledge of Datang.

The people of the Central Plains have a good face, and they called themselves the Son of Heaven of the Sunrise Country when they were in the former Sui Dynasty, and they also called the Emperor of the Central Plains the Son of Heaven in the sunset, which has already made the emperor of the former Sui angry, and now the Tang Dynasty seems to be more tough, and directly raised the situation to the height of declaring war, which has to make Oshima Kozo not pay attention to it.

Over the next few days.

Kozo Oshima traveled all over the Tang Dynasty, and the issue of the national letter in the Ministry of Rites was temporarily suppressed, and he had already agreed to it when he was studying. This entrance exam also seems reasonable, but the Tang Royal Academy has already opened, and Wajima students can only wait until May of the following year to take the preliminary examination, re-examine in July, and enter the school on the third day of August.

It seems that the study has been done.

Kozo Oshima went to the household department again, and was told that the affairs of foreign merchants were in charge of the Ministry of Commerce.

When he went to the Ministry of Commerce, he asked about the Trade Covenant.

This Kozo Oshima was about to go to the Ministry of Rites to inquire again, but the people below came to report: "Oshima-kun, we have no food. When he got off the ship, he had already eaten all the food, but the officials here stated that all the food in Chang'an City could only be purchased by himself, and he had asked the other envoys, and it was this rule. And we don't have the money. ”

"No money?" Hikaru Oshima is blinded.

This is not to blame him, because in the time of the former Sui, as long as they came, all the expenses were all incurred by the royal family of the former Sui. But here it is just controlled, no matter what it eats.

When they came, they brought plenty of gifts, but the only ones they didn't bring were copper coins and silver.

Speaking of gold, it's just some ornaments.

It's really in trouble.

"Oshima-kun, I've already inquired. Now there are three options for us. ”

"Speak up!" Kozo Oshima has lost his coolness.

"The first way is to ask for help from the Tang Qin Palace, there are many small states here that are simply not enough to live in Chang'an, but they have received funding from the Tang Qin Palace, some of this funding has to pay a price, but some are not. However, we have too many people, and the amount of funding is not easy! ”

"Say the second way!" Kozo Oshima urged.

"The second option is to sell some of the gifts we brought. This can be exchanged for some coins, of course, this is not the final solution to the problem, we still bring too many people. ”

Kozo Oshima understood that this was a mistake they had made when they set off. I thought that when I came to Datang, Datang would be responsible for all the expenses, so I brought hundreds of people over. But now it seems that these people have become a huge burden, and just eating and drinking can drag him out.

"The third way is to let these people go out to work and earn money to support themselves!"

"Work, nonsense. Where to put the face of my Yamato country! Kozo Oshima was furious.

His subordinates were not in a hurry at all, and said slowly: "According to what we have heard in the past few days, the Khitans in the northern part of the Central Plains have received the most funding, and they have more than 500 students enrolled for free, but only a dozen of them have really entered the Tang Royal Academy. The rest of the people are studying in the second-class college because of their poor qualifications, and after a year of assessment, they will be re-determined whether they are eligible for admission. ”

Kozo Oshima nodded, this is true, and it is necessary.

The subordinate continued: "The Khitans studying in the second-class college, everyone is working. Now it is known that the third prince of Khitan goes to Lemin Garden every day to work as a helper in the accounting room, responsible for sorting out the small accounts of daily income. The Seven Princesses of Khitan are helping in the Tang Hongwen Pavilion, working as a library to put books! ”

"This ......" Kozo Oshima was a little surprised.

After thinking about it: "First go pick some items that can be exchanged for a large number of coins in Chang'an and sell them, and then inquire in detail about the work, I will apply to meet His Royal Highness the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty and prepare gifts!" ”

"Yes!"

Kozo Oshima wants to see King Qin, but is King Qin so easy to see?

Don't say it's the King of Qin, Cui Changshi of the Qin Palace, he waited for five days and didn't have a chance to see it, the worship posts of the Qin Palace's Mansion were piled up into a small mountain, and there were four small officials who were responsible for sorting out these posts, divided into three, six, nine and so on, and then waited for the senior steward of the Qin Palace's Mansion to select again, and then sent them to Changshi, and then arranged the time.

If you want to see His Royal Highness King Qin directly, there is no special permission, and the exclusion will have to be lined up until three months later.

In the midst of this anxious waiting, Kozo Oshima did not wait for a response from the Qin Palace, but saw a group of men in gorgeous clothes on the streets of Chang'an City, but still wearing their Japanese hairstyles, walking past his carriage.

"Stop!" Kozo Oshima ordered the coachman to stop, but when he looked back, he saw those people entering the Tiance General's Mansion in Chang'an City, and a steward actually opened the small door on the far right next to the main entrance.

The Tang Dynasty Chang'an City Tiance General's Mansion, the main gate has nine gates.

The door in the middle has never been opened except for the Tang Emperor himself. The two doors on the left and right sides are usually open, and the people who can enter and exit are at least officials of the fourth rank or above. The second gate of the green outside, but there are female guests with status entering and exiting, and then there is the fourth gate, and the officials under the fifth rank enter and exit.

There are two outermost paths, and on the left side are for merchants who have the permission of the Admiral Tiance to enter and exit.

On the right side, it is for civilians to enter and exit.

The status is lower, such as just coming to the Tiance General's Mansion to deliver goods, or for other affairs, go to the corner door next to it.

Standing at the door, Hikaru Oshima was stunned for a while.

These people were not the ones he had brought, because they were dressed in silk, and it was not a precious cloth that his men could afford, and the few people who could afford it were all very familiar to him. Who are these people? Is it the merchants of the country, or the subordinates of the other princes of the island?

Yamato Province occupies only a little more than a third of the entire island of Honshu, which occupies the southwest of Honshu Island.

Shikoku, Kyushu, and some smaller countries are still not united.

Who are these people? Kozo Oshima's heart became more and more uneasy. (To be continued......)

PS: Three more, is there anything else?