"Japan...... The name of Sunrise is a bit too proud. The prince shook his head slightly, looking a little dissatisfied, "Now that my country is thriving, conquering all directions, and the prosperity of martial arts is difficult to compare with all dynasties, this is the real country of the rising sun!" How can they be called by that name! ”

"But they've always called it by its name? What else can it be called if it's not called this......? Zheng Sen asked in a low voice.

"I have read some records that in ancient times their kings sent envoys to make a pilgrimage to the emperors of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and at that time the name of their country was the Wa Kingdom, and there seems to be a record called Fusang Kingdom in ancient books...... Later, when they came to the Tang Dynasty, they changed their name to Japan, because they thought the name was too ugly. The prince said unhurriedly, "At that time, they also fought with the Tang Dynasty, and they were defeated, and then they admired the Tang Dynasty very much, and sent Tang envoys to China many times to learn the culture of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"They're really funny...... Zheng Sen couldn't help laughing, "Others have beaten them, and they still worship others so much." ”

"Isn't that what Yidi is in?" The prince also said with a smile.

Then, quickly, his expression became solemn again.

"The Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty fought with the Japanese in order to defend the Koreans, and in the Yuan Dynasty, in order to conquer Japan, Kublai Khan waved his army against Japan twice, but both failed." As if he was emotional, the crown prince suddenly whispered, "Da Yuan is the dynasty of the Mongols, so leave it alone, so ...... This is the first time that the dynasty of the Han family has taken the initiative to conquer Japan, if ...... If it succeeds, it will be a feat that has not been achieved in previous dynasties, and it can overshadow the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. ”

The crown prince also knows that the change of dynasties in history is an inevitable law, and he has heard his father say that "there is no immortal dynasty in the world", but even if it is destroyed, he also feels that his own Han should make some vigorous undertakings that surpass any previous dynasties when he is alive, so that he can be regarded as sitting in the world in vain. Of course, you can't say anything to Zheng Senming in this way.

"In those dynasties in history, are there any examples of the prince's personal conquest?" Zheng Sen suddenly asked curiously.

"There is something in the dynasty of the Hu people, but there seems to be no in the dynasty of the Han people." After thinking for a while, the prince replied.

In fact, there is, at least the prince remembers the story of Yang Guang sitting in the Sui Dynasty and leading the troops to destroy the Chen Dynasty. Speaking of which, it is quite similar, Yang Guang was only twenty years old at the time, sitting in the rear, and the leader of the troops in front was the famous general Gao Gong.

It's just that, firstly, Yang Guang was the second son of the emperor and the king of Jin at that time, and the crown prince was Yang Yong, who was killed by him later, and secondly, Emperor Yang of Sui's reputation among the people was too bad, so the prince simply skipped it and did not mention this story.

"Doesn't that mean that His Royal Highness is the first Han prince who led the army to conquer Japan?" Zheng Sen looked at the crown prince with wide eyes.

"But that's what I said." The prince nodded pretending to be reserved, and then laughed uncontrollably. "Yes, the past is the first, I can't live up to this luck!"

Laughing, he looked at the gray night sky in the distance. The sea has merged with the night sky, and there is no skyrim in sight, and I am afraid that only tomorrow sunrise will be able to separate them.

Sunrise...... The State of the Rising Sun, who is the State of the Rising Sun?

"The sea crosses the sea to cover the Ming and Tang Dynasties, the tigers of a hundred battles trample on Fusang, and do not teach the island to steal the sun, but our country shines on all nations......" Looking at the scenery in the distance, the prince suddenly blurted out.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, good poetry!" Before Zheng Sen could react, Zhao Song, who was already walking over here, immediately shouted.

"It's just a slip of the tongue...... "The prince smiled sheepishly.

The hustle and bustle of the evening outside the port of Jinzhou, as well as the arrogant words of the prince of the Han Dynasty, did not reach the island country across the sea from the mainland. At this moment, it is still immersed in the rare peace time after the 100-year Warring States period.

After the beginning of spring, it is finally the cherry blossom season.

Although no one says it explicitly, this is the biggest festival of the year for the Japanese, the season of recovery, people take advantage of the spring weather, go around, sweep away the haze of winter, some elegant people, will invite three or five friends to party, while changing songs and drinking, enjoy the blooming cherry blossoms together.

Among the high-gate mansions in Kyoto, the families of the ministers who live in the middle of the house are very fond of holding this kind of cherry blossom viewing party, and almost every family invites or is invited to see the cherry blossoms in full bloom.

Kyoto is Heiankyo, and it has been almost 800 years since the ancient Emperor Kanmu moved his capital here in the 13th year of Enryaku. However, although Kyoto has been designated as the capital of Japan for so long and looks very old, most of the mansions where these ministers lived were newly built, and it is not possible to see much of the old element.

One hundred and eighty years ago, Japan was still ruled by the Muromachi shogunate, but the power of the shogunate had been sidelined and overridden by powerful ministers. At that time, the two most powerful ministers were Hosokawa Katsumoto, the ruler, and Yamana, the shogun, and the other was the shogun, and the two hated each other and planned to fight for the final victory. They each raised a large army, and then fought in Kyoto for a period of ten years, which became known as the Onin War in history, and is also regarded as the beginning of the Warring States period.

But the two of them fought for so long and did not distinguish the winner, but as a result, the originally prosperous Kyoto generation was tossed to the point that the people were exhausted, and everywhere became a ruined white land, and even the residences and mansions of the imperial ministers in Kyoto City were mostly reduced to ashes, and they could only choose to flee.

The Warring States period lasted for more than 100 years, you beat me, I beat you, and in the past 100 years, the chaos reached the extreme, the originally famous Hosokawa family and the Yamana family disappeared one after another, and even the Ashikaga family, the shogun family of the Muromachi shogunate, gradually declined and was no longer respected by anyone.

This period was also the time when the emperor and the ministers lived the most aggrieved time, and they were displaced, panicked and did not know what to do, and suffered a lot. It was not until the end of the Warring States period that Japan finally showed some signs of settling down, and the fragmented territory was slowly assigned to the control of a few powerful warlords, until finally, Oda Nobunaga finally defeated the powerful clans in various places, and initially realized the reunification of Japan, and the chaotic Japan finally settled down.

Although Oda Nobunaga was soon forced to commit suicide due to the Honnoji Rebellion, after an initial brief period of confusion in succession, his general, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, soon took over Oda Nobunaga's political legacy and brought Japan together with greater force than Oda Nobunaga had done before him.

Perhaps because he was born too poor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was very envious of the elegance of the minister, and compared with the warlords before him, including Oda Nobunaga, he had much respect for the court and the minister. On several occasions, he donated large sums of gold and silver wealth to the imperial court, and also ordered the rebuilding of Kyoto to revitalize it.

As a result of his efforts, Kyoto underwent extensive construction, many mansions and temples were rebuilt, and the emperors and ministers were once again used as a place to live—of course, these newly built mansions are not history.

It is precisely for this reason that the ministers have always been very nostalgic for the rule of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and they are full of disgust for the arrogant and undisciplined Tokugawa family, but no one dares to show it publicly.

A long earthen embankment in Kyoto Castle is one of the sites of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Kyoto reconstruction project. This earthen embankment was designed to distinguish the inner and outer castles of Kyoto, and the area inhabited by the emperor and ministers was called "Rakuchu", and the outer part of the embankment was naturally called "Rakuwai", and this earthen embankment that was dozens of miles long was named "Mitoi".

After more than 50 years of washing, the original high-profile earthen embankment has slowly deteriorated due to lack of maintenance, and the grass and wild vines have spread over it, almost turning it into a green wall, and there is no longer much to see what it looked like back then. These embankments were also demolished in sections to include new mansions and temples.

There is such a section of earthen embankment in the Lushan Temple located on the Tongguang Road.

Lushan Temple is a very old temple in Kyoto, at the beginning it was built in the first year of Tianqing almost 700 years ago by the high monk Cihui Master, it was not called this name at that time, 400 years ago, the high monk Jueyu moved the temple to Funaoka Mountain in Kyoto, and in order to echo the Chinese mountain temple, and deliberately changed the name of the temple to Lushan Temple, this name has been handed down.

However, during the Warring States period, Funaoka Mountain, where the temple was located, unfortunately became the battlefield of the battle between the Hosokawa family and the Yamana family, and was burned down in the first war.

It wasn't until Toyotomi Hideyoshi began to rebuild Kyoto that Rozanji Temple was rebuilt, and the address was moved to Tsuhirokoji in Kita-ku, Kyoto.

Due to its quiet location on the outskirts of Kyoto and the large number of cherry blossom trees planted around it, it has become an elegant place in the Kyoto Minister's circle, and every spring, some high-ranking ministers hold banquets here to rest and enjoy the cherry blossoms.

At this time, on a section of the earthen embankment intercepted in the temple, there is a group of people in it, climbing high to enjoy the cherry blossoms.

From here, the white cherry blossoms in and outside the temple are in full bloom, and from a distance, it looks like pink clusters, piled up between heaven and earth, and the cherry blossoms are red in the snow-white, and the goose-yellow stamens are clustered in the five petals, clusters and clusters, like white clouds floating in the blue sky, and like snowballs falling on the trees.

It was already almost dark, and the cool wind in the afternoon stirred and folded between the mountains and the streets, slowly knocking down the petals, and the beautiful petals danced lightly in the air. Under the golden glow, the dancing flowers seem to gather together, some like the fiery clouds of a summer evening, the colors are bright, making people dizzy; Some are like the confused morning fog in early autumn morning, faint and illusory. Crystal and colorful, looming, deducing scenes of vanity in the world.

The Japanese, especially the pretentious and elegant ministers, are particularly fond of mourning, and like to lament the impermanence of life in the cold and desolate scene or the complicated and changing scenery, and this kind of scattered cherry blossoms in the sky, in the fleeting scenery of the moment, is most in line with their mentality and aesthetics, and plucked their heartstrings.

"The cherry blossoms are scattered, reflecting the world; There is a lot of suffering in the past days, and it is difficult to know the cause and effect of sorrow and happiness; This world is turbid, endless absurdity; My heart is troubled, and with whom can I speak! ”

In the midst of this picture-like scene, a young man suddenly raised the wine glass in front of him, and poured it into his mouth as he sang.

When he sang such a song, he immediately received the echo of the people next to him, and the other two young men also sang and sang along, and then poured the wine into their mouths as well.

These young people, they sat in the cherry blossom forest with a low table in the middle, and a lot of wine and snacks were placed on it. Perhaps because they had drunk a lot of wine, their faces were a little red from being slightly drunk, their expressions were sluggish, their speech was not very fluent, and they even shed tears in their excitement, and from all indications, it was like three elegant young ministers and descendants drinking and partying in the afternoon.

However, they are not ordinary young people, and in their capacity, they can be said to be the top people in Kyoto today.

Looking up to the sky and singing for a long time, the tall and thin young man full of sadness is the current left minister and regent of the imperial court, and the two young people who are attached to him next to him, one is the right minister Nijo Kangdao, and the other is the Minister of the Interior, Eagle Si Kyoping.

Ichijo Kaneya, the head of one of the most important branches of the Fujiwara North family (the regent family who can serve as the regent of Sekihaku), is now also the elder of the Fuji clan and the patriarch of the family.

The other two people are also from the Nijo family and the Yingji family, who are also from the Seki family.

In the Middle Ages, Japan imitated the official system of the Tang Dynasty, and set up a set of its own official system - the law order system, under the law order system, the bureaucracy was divided into the god in charge of sacrifice and the Taizheng official in charge of government affairs, and the apex of the Taizheng official was the Taizheng minister, so it was also modeled after the Tang Dynasty The custom is called Xiangguo, the Taizheng minister as the highest level of ministers, the imperial court has rarely been given, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi, no one has taken this position for decades.

Under the Taizheng Minister are the Left Minister and the Right Minister, these two official positions are also called "Left Servant Shooting" and "Right Servant Shooting" according to the customs of the Tang Dynasty, among them, the status of the Left Minister is slightly higher than that of the Right Minister, so in the absence of the Taizheng Minister, the Left Minister is the apex of the entire official system of the imperial court.

Now, Ichijo Kaneya is the minister of the left, that is, the highest official among the ministers, and because of the young age of Emperor Koko, who is still nine years old, he has taken the position of regent. Nijo Yasudo and Takaji Kyohei are the Right Minister and the Interior Minister in the order after him.

The three of them are the apex of the court officials in the current court official system, and they can be called the "three dukes".

The Minister of the Interior who is less than 30 years old, the Right Minister who is not yet 30 years old, and the Left Minister and Regent who is not yet 30 years old are the three highest-ranking courtiers in the Japanese court today.

This does seem ridiculous, three young people in their twenties can become the highest officials, but in reality it is not surprising.

Since the Fujiwara family excluded other courtiers with foreign surnames eight or nine hundred years ago, and monopolized the government, it has become an unwritten rule that the most senior court officials must be held by the descendants of the Fujiwara family. And the Fujiwara family, after thousands of years of reproduction, has also given birth to a large number of descendants.

Although there were many official positions in the imperial court, they were limited after all, and the number of high-level official positions was very small, so after years of evolution, the Fujiwara family was divided into several levels within itself.

Only the highest-ranking branch can become the patriarch of the Fujiwara clan and be given the titles of regent and sekihaku, which is the five regents. And under the five families, there are nine families at the highest level, and they can achieve the position of the left minister at the highest level (but they will have to give way after sitting for a long time), this is Jiuqinghua, and then there are ministers' families, such as the Yulin family, and so on, and there are clear regulations for the highest level of officials, so that the Fujiwara family has achieved internal differentiation.

These young people were all born in the Five Families of the Five Subjects, and naturally they were promoted very quickly in the imperial court system from the beginning, and they climbed to the top all of a sudden.

At the same time, because of the decline of the imperial court, the shogunate has always held the actual power in Japan, so although the official titles of the imperial court and the bloodline of the Fujiwara regents sound good, they are actually not very useful, and no power can be exercised. Therefore, even the people of the Five Families are not interested in these official positions, and they resign after a few years and let the younger generation continue to be officials. Although these young people have become the ministers of the left and right ministers, the actual leader of the ministers is the head of the Kujo family, the Kujo Yuki family, who has also been the left minister and Sekihaku for several years, and he is now almost fifty years old, and he is the oldest of the heads of the five families.

It was for these reasons that these young men were able to climb to the top of the imperial system so quickly—though it didn't really mean much to their ambitions.

They all remember in their hearts how many years ago when the Fujiwara clan was the regent of Sekihaku, and they were all full of unspeakable bitterness compared to the reality that the imperial court can only silently endure humiliation under the shackles of the Edo shogunate.

That's right, since the Minamoto Yoritomo defeated the Heike family more than 500 years ago and established the shogunate, and appointed himself as the shogun to take over the power, the imperial family and the Fujiwara clan, which were originally opposed to each other and even had many conflicts before, fell into a difficult situation of becoming puppets together, not only was they deprived of their political power, but also received extremely severe economic restrictions, and even the emperor himself only owned the land of ten thousand stones under the handouts of the shogunate, and it was only a slightly larger daimyo.

What's more, with the passage of time, the strength of the shogunate became greater and greater, and by the time of the Tokugawa shogunate, the shogunate had basically no scruples, and the Tokugawa shogunate in order to limit the power of the imperial court and the public family, specially promulgated the "Prohibition of China and Public Transport Laws", the first article clearly stipulates that "the affairs of the Son of Heaven are all arts, and the first imperial learning." If you don't learn, you don't know the ancient way, and those who can govern the peace are also there" and "Waka from Emperor Mitsutaka is not endless, although it is a language, our customs are also. Don't discard clouds. The forbidden secret copy of the Imperial Study is to be served. ”

The power of the political time, and the reality that the imperial court can only silently endure humiliation under the shackles of the Edo shogunate, must be full of unspeakable bitterness.

That's right, since the Minamoto Yoritomo defeated the Heike family more than 500 years ago and established the shogunate, and appointed himself as the shogun to take over the power, the imperial family and the Fujiwara clan, which were originally opposed to each other and even had many conflicts before, fell into a difficult situation of becoming puppets together, not only was they deprived of their political power, but also received extremely severe economic restrictions, and even the emperor himself only owned the land of ten thousand stones under the handouts of the shogunate, and it was only a slightly larger daimyo.

What's more, with the passage of time, the strength of the shogunate became greater and greater, and by the time of the Tokugawa shogunate, the shogunate had basically no scruples, and the Tokugawa shogunate in order to limit the power of the imperial court and the public family, specially promulgated the "Prohibition of China and Public Transport Laws", the first article clearly stipulates that "the affairs of the Son of Heaven are all arts, and the first imperial learning." If you don't learn, you don't know the ancient way, and those who can govern the peace are also there" and "Waka from Emperor Mitsutaka is not endless, although it is a language, our customs are also. Don't discard clouds. The forbidden secret copy of the Imperial Study is to be served. ”