After eating a big bowl of "sandwich rice" in Haozhou's Thorn Mansion, Lin Feng insisted on rushing to Shouzhou quickly, but was stopped by Lin Renzhao and others, found an inn, and forced him to rest in bed.

Lin Feng had no choice but to order a few of his subordinates to disperse and inquire about the relevant situation of Guo Ting, the assassin of Haozhou, and to spy on the daily governance and defense of Haozhou City.

In the evening, all kinds of information came back:

Guo Ting said that he is very humble in his daily life, and he is the most filial to his mother;

He insisted on practicing guns every day, and a gun once covered all the masters in Haozhou, and he was never invincible;

He is impartial in his daily handling of political affairs, and the people are very highly evaluated;

Haozhou City's daily defense is extremely strict, and there are inspections for entry and exit; From time to time, the Haozhou Army went to nearby villages and towns to conduct inspections;

The head of Haozhou City should have all defensive measures in place, and regularly replace materials;

At present, there are more than 5,000 official defenders in Haozhou, but Guo Tingshu once organized more than 10,000 soldiers from the four wild townships for intensive training, and the army has great potential.

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Hearing this information, Lin Feng completely relieved himself about this Haozhou, Guo Tingwei such a "second generation official" does have its merits, and he has won the trust of the saints, no wonder people are as lame as 2580,000.

However, Lin Feng's idea of rushing to Shouzhou as soon as possible could not be realized, and his injured ribs were swollen with a large piece, and his breathing hurt as soon as he breathed, so he had to recuperate in the inn depressed.

At the same time, Kang Renjie and others, who were far away in Heianjing, Japan, were also trapped in an inn belonging to Xuanfanliao in Japan's Jibu Province, and there had been no progress in the affairs of the envoy's business, and they were not allowed to go out, which was really depressing.

What Kang Renjie didn't know was that it was because of their sixteen people on a warship that several important ministers had been arguing in the Emperor's Palace for several days.

The quarrelling faction was dominated by the Fujiwara family bigwigs such as the Imperial Minister, Fujiwara Shisuke, and the Great Nayan Fujiwara Motokata, who insisted that the Great Zhou State was the Tang Dynasty, and that if Japan did business with the de facto enemies of the Great Zhou Dynasty in vain, it would inevitably affect the relationship with the Tang Dynasty, and the so-called Tang envoys should be turned away and dismissed.

The Fujiwara family is a family that was founded by Fujiwara Fubi's second son, Fujiwara Bomae, and at first the descendants were divided into four families: the Minami family (from Fujiwara Takechi Maro), the North family (from Fujiwara Bomae), the Kusaka family (from Fujiwara Uai), and the Kyoke family (from Fujiwara Maro). These four families flourished during the Nara period in Japan, and in the current Heian period, only the Hokuya clan continued to prosper and flourished all over the world.

It stands to reason that in the case of the Fujiwara family's unification of the court, the matter should be decided, but the right minister Taira Sadamori, who was born in the army, led a group of military ministers of the Ministry of War, Daisuke of the Ministry of War, and Shaofu of the Ministry of War to sing the opposite tune as usual, saying that since the Southern Tang Dynasty in Middle-earth had Lin Feng, it was invincible and the army was strong, and there must be merits, and it was recommended to make cautious contact with the Southern Tang Dynasty, learn from its strengths to strengthen oneself, and strengthen the military strength of the Japanese court.

At this time, during the Heian period, the 25-year-old Emperor Murakami had only been on the throne for five years, and he was bent on restoring the emperor's authority. However, Emperor Murakami was reminded that Japan had just experienced the famous "Heishomon Rebellion" (935 AD) and the "Fujiwara Juntomo Rebellion" (939 AD), and the imperial court had to rely on the strength of the samurai in the two rebellions.

But the fact in front of Murakami is that the Fujiwara family firmly controls all political events in the court; In the palace, his queen Anko is the daughter of Fujiwara Shisuke, and she also controls everything in the palace, and these helpless realities are piled up, so that Emperor Murakami uncharacteristically agrees with the proposal of Taira Sadamori and others, and has not made a final conclusion on this matter, allowing the two sides to dispute.

The performance of Fujiwara Shisuke, the left minister, was the most intense, and Fujiwara Komatsu, the secretary of the Hirado country, had already reported the fact that Yoshiriichiro was hit hard by the Tang Dynasty envoy and became a wasted person, although Fujiwara Komatsu belongs to the Fujiwara Minami branch, but how come they are all members of our Fujiwara family, and it depends on the owner to beat the dog, right?

In private, Fujiwara Shisuke not only instructed the Ministry of Governance to strictly restrain the so-called envoys of the Tang Dynasty, but also vigorously attacked Taira Sadamori's proposal in the court, saying that this practice would set up a great enemy like the Great Zhou for Japan for no reason, which was purely unwise, and this group of people who caused trouble in the court should be expelled from the court.

Ping Zhensheng was also annoyed, and raised his fingers to count down, today's Japan's domestic state department status is transcendent, and the emperor's decree is very indifferent, the root cause is because the emperor's authority is not heavy, the military is not strong, if you reject the Tang Dynasty's weapons trade deal, it is complacent, do not want to forge ahead, and the country of Japan is in danger!

Emperor Murakami listened to the dispute between the two factions with a smile and never expressed his position.

While the Japanese court was arguing over the matter, an inconspicuous note from an inconspicuous figure changed the course of events:

An astronomical student named Abe Qingming (belonging to the Yin and Yang Liao, the title of a student who studied astronomy with a doctor of astronomy), suddenly wrote that he observed the stars day and night, and found that the stars in the south of Middle-earth were extremely bright, and the stars in the north of Middle-earth were enough to compete, and even had signs of overpowering the north, and so on.

Abe Zhongmalu (698 A.D. - 770 A.D.), full name Abe courtier Zhongmalu, also known as courtier Zhongman, a Japanese student who entered the Tang Dynasty in the Nara era of Japan, came to the Tang Dynasty and took the Han name Zhongman, and later changed to Chaoheng and Chao Heng. Abe Zhongmalu later returned to his hometown several times without success, and stayed in the Tang Dynasty for 54 years, and finally died in Chang'an. Abe Zhongmalu was friends with Li Bai and Wang Wei during his lifetime, and left many poems, which were recorded in "All Tang Poems".

When Emperor Murakami deliberately read this letter out at the court meeting, the ministers of civil and military affairs of the whole dynasty were stunned, and even Fujiwara Shisuke played a small drum in his heart.

This era, although the name is peaceful, in fact, it can also be said to be a mediocre, ordinary era, Japan's class antagonism, all kinds of decadent and negative emotions are full of people, coinciding with the time, Kyoto, Japan has suffered major earthquakes, fires, floods and other natural and man-made disasters, people's hearts are panicked, the chaos of ghosts and gods is very loud, all kinds of legends of resentful spirits are all over the world, and the confrontation with these resentful spirits that endanger human beings is the work of the onmyoji.

At that time, the Japanese aristocracy was convinced of the auspicious and evil of the location and date, and every time they went out, they had to pick the day and choose the direction, and whenever there was a disease or disaster, they would blame ghosts and creatures or encounter unclean things such as a hundred ghosts walking at night. As a result, the aristocracy of the time was well aware of the various taboos of Onmyo-do, and strictly followed its etiquette and decrees, even the daily chores such as getting up, washing, and eating (a custom that continued until the Meiji Restoration), and even the Japanese court acted according to this principle.

It is precisely because of this that at that time, Onmyodo also had its own department in Japan, the Onmyo-ryo, which was one of the six sours under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Central Affairs of Japan, responsible for observing astronomy, meteorology, divination, and formulating calendars. In addition to the officials appointed by the imperial court, there were also onmyoji, onmyo, yin-yangsheng, onmyosheng, lisen, astronomy, astronomical doctor, oke, shouchen ding, etc., and they also had a greater or lesser influence on the major and minor policies of the Japanese state.

According to Japanese historical records, Abe Harumi "learned the art of yin and yang calculation from Kamo Tadayuki and his son Baoxian at the beginning, served to know God, understood astronomy, and knew miscellaneous occupations, and was like a god in the strange." In other words, in their eyes, Abe Haruaki is an omnipotent god-man. Of course, Haruaki Abe, who was thirty years old at this time, was still a little person that no one knew.

Emperor Murakami saw that these ministers who had been arguing before became a little afraid, so he made a conclusion: Abe Harumi went to the Southern Tang Dynasty to study on behalf of Japan, and then discussed the matter of interacting with the Southern Tang Dynasty after observation.

Kang Renjie and the others, who had been stuffed in the inn, naturally didn't know what was happening in the Japanese court. Until the morning of May 26, Zhang Jiao, who had a blush on her face, walked in from the front of the inn and said a strange word to Kang Renjie, who was practicing martial arts with a group of brothers shirtless: "A Japanese monk came outside and asked to see us!" ”