Early in the morning of April 27, Lin Feng, who was asleep, was woken up by Zhao Changsheng: "Lord Lin, Fang Hongtian and Fang Hongdi are back."

Lin Feng woke up suddenly, urgently dressed and went out of the house, and saw the two brothers Fang Hongtian and Fang Hongdi standing in front of the study with a haggard face, and said with a smile: "Two Brother Fang, are we destined to fight each other!" From Chu to Liao, why can't you keep up every time! ”

Fang Hongtian's face turned red, and he stepped forward and said, "Lord Lin, I'm really sorry!" On our return journey from Liao, we encountered the fleet of the Zhou state, and had to take refuge in the open sea, but we encountered a strong wind again, and then drifted all the way to Dongying, and we have been delayed until now before returning. ”

"Drift to Dongying? What a big turn! Lin Feng applauded excitedly, pulled the two into the room, and asked them to carefully tell him what they had seen in Japan.

Fang Hongdi scratched his head and said first: "The two of us used to mainly run the Nanyang Line, and we have never been to Dongying. However, this Japanese slave country feels very strange, both like our China and not like our China, with clothes, food, clothing, and houses all a bit nondescript. By the way, Lord Lin, there are still people there who are reciting your poems! ”

Fang Hongtian glared at his brother fiercely, stopped his talk, and recounted solemnly:

"Lord Lin, when we were returning from Liao, we accidentally ran into a dozen or so Zhou warships near Dengzhou, and they chased after them, so we had to flee eastward. The next day there was a violent storm, and the enemy ship stopped chasing us, and we were held hostage by the wind, and for a time we were also disoriented, and the ship was deprived of fresh water and food, and then we had to follow the guidance of an old boatman and sail to the nearest land, that is, Hirado in Toei. Fang Hongtian started from the beginning, still looking palpitating.

"Nothing happened to anyone on board, right?" Lin Feng asked with concern, seeing Fang Hongtian nodding, Fang continued to ask, "What is Hirado?" ”

"According to the locals, Hirado is the westernmost city in the east, and I heard that the envoys of the Tang Dynasty who came from Japan in the past all set out from Hirado." Fang Hongdi hurriedly replied.

Lin Feng asked, "Then how long have you been there?" ”

"It's been almost a month! At first, we were fortunate to have the Duan Zhengfang who was caught, and there was someone in his family who had business dealings with Japan, and he even knew a few strange Japanese words, so we told the locals that he was from China, and we were warmly welcomed, and we quickly replenished fresh water and food. I wanted to set off directly, but several barbarians came to the ship, all trying to take what we were on the ship. Fang Hongtian said this, grabbed a cup of cold tea on the table and poured it down.

"We raised the name of Lord Lin, claiming that this was the warship of the Tang Dynasty, especially those who came here to contact their court, and the attitude of those barbarians immediately changed, and they invited us to their territory as guests, but we all refused. Later, people kept coming on board to contact us and talk about trade and cooperation with our Datang. Fang Hongtian continued.

"Oh, what's their last name?" Lin Feng was immediately interested.

"Those wild people have weird last names. There are people with the surname Yuan, and there are people with the surname Ping, but the surname Fujiwara is the most arrogant, and as soon as he opens his mouth, he wants to take over all the commodity trade between our Datang and their Japan, where can we call the shots, we have to be sloppy. Fang Hongtian showed a bitter face.

"What's the name of their capital?" Lin Feng asked with interest.

"What is it called Heianjing, I heard that it is exactly the same as our former Tang Chang'an City." Fang Hongdi hurriedly replied.

Oh, Lin Feng nodded suddenly. In ancient times, little Japan was often referred to as an era by the name of the capital, and at this time Japan should have been in the so-called Heian period.

It is reported that the Heian period refers to the historical era with Heiankyo (Kyoto) as the capital, which began in 794 (the 13th year of Enryaku) when Emperor Kanmu moved the capital to Heiankyo, and finally ended in 1185 (the first year of Bunji) when the Kamakura shogunate was established, which lasted nearly 400 years. This era was the last era of ancient Japan, and shortly after the abolition of slavery, the manor system was in vogue throughout Japan, allowing those who cultivated the land to own the land in perpetuity. These people combined into interest groups, annexed manors by force, and gradually became the source of the strength of the samurai everywhere.

"How are they going to trade with us?" Lin Feng asked the question he was most interested in.

"There are four of them in total, and they all want to cooperate exclusively with our Datang. The goods are nothing more than tea, porcelain, silk, salt and other things. Fang Hongtian replied.

"How are they going to change it?" Lin Feng immediately asked.

"They said they had valuable silver, and one of them even said that they wanted to exchange their knives for goods with us, these Japanese slaves, it's really ridiculous!" Fang Hongtian shook his head and said.

Lin Feng was moved, although Japan is a resource-poor country as a whole, but people are in the earthquake-prone zone, and the types of resources are relatively complete, except for a few minerals such as coal, limestone, sulfur, copper, etc., the amount of other minerals is very small, so it is called "the country of metal resources". However, it seems that there was a period of time in the Ming and Qing dynasties when Japan's silver and gold production was imported into China.

Lin Feng took this to heart, and then asked, "They all call their country Japan?" ”

"Yes, after they figured out how we shouted, they resolutely did not allow us to call them Dongying or the Japanese slave country, saying that they were some kind of 'country at the rising sun', and they could only be called Japan." Fang Hongtian said with a disdainful expression.

"Then you observe them, how is the martial arts? What about weapons? Lin Feng smiled and asked what he was most interested in.

Fang Hongtian thought about it for a while, and then replied: "Martial arts, I only occasionally see their team leader appear once, at most it is much worse than our special soldier elite; However, looking at their body shape and pace, the overall strength should not be bad. As for the weapons, they look bright and scary, but I bet they're nowhere near the knives of our special forces! ”

"Is there anything noteworthy about your observation of their lives?" Lin Feng pulled the topic away.

It was still Fang Hongdi who hurriedly replied: "We are bored there, we often go around the neighborhood, and we have been to many people's homes. They mainly eat rice balls, and some people eat raw fish, cut into slices and eaten with something, which is really barbaric! ”

"Don't talk nonsense! Lord Lin, I found that the people there were very respectful to us on the surface, but they didn't seem to look down on us in their bones. Sometimes I thought, if we had a good knife on board, we would have seen them! Fang Hongtian said fiercely.

Lin Feng refilled the tea for them and motioned for them to continue.

Fang Hongtian drank a cup of tea in one go, wiped his mouth, and then said: "Whether these people say barbarism or toughness, they may draw their swords against each other if they say a few wrong words. In 20 days, we witnessed three brawls, all of which were over the dock cargo, and both were killed and injured. ”

Lin Feng asked a few more details, and found that there was nothing to pay attention to, so he praised and appeased them, and asked them to go to Lu Jiang to receive twenty yuan each, and contact the Fang family after they went back, and quickly prepare a batch of overseas goods, ready to set off collectively on May 1.

The two brothers happily took the money and left.

Lin Feng thought about it for a while, called Chen Fei, asked him to pay attention to Kang Renjie, and when he saw it, he came to see him, and he took the list brought by Zhang Yuewen and looked at it.

There are twelve names on the list who are ready to go to Shouzhou with him, in addition to Nie Xiaoying and Yuwen brothers and sisters, there is Ning Yufei who was recruited by himself, Duan Xuan, the sales champion, and several sales experts, what surprised Lin Feng the most was that there was Liao Xianger's name on it.

In an instant, Lin Feng's eyes flashed with a smile that looked like his girlfriend in his previous life, and the resentful look on her face when she saw Liao Xiang last time, and people were a little confused all of a sudden.

At this moment, Duan Rui's voice came from outside the window: "Big brother, Chen Fugui from the Chengbei Coal Yard is anxious to see you!" ”