On February 2, 326, the envoy sent from Hangzhou arrived in Kamakura, where they received great courtesy.

Hojo Sadatoki, who inherited the Kamakura shogunate's 'power' not long ago, is 14 years old this year, and the power of the shogunate is in the hands of the imperial family Heira Yoritsuna and the imperial family Adachi Yasumori.

Zhao Jiaren had already established relations with the Wa State more than ten years ago, and the Wa State did not become more friendly to the Great Song Dynasty because of this, but continued to do normal trade. During these ten years, the degree of respect of the Wa State for the Great Song Dynasty changed in proportion to the distance between the Great Song army and the Wa State. The closer the Great Song Dynasty was to the Wa Kingdom, the more the Wa Kingdom respected the Great Song Dynasty.

The envoy, Major General Hu Yuelian, was dressed in a military uniform, and the gold star flashed on the epaulettes of the major general on his shoulders. During the Hebei Campaign, she was in charge of military work in Sriwijaya. Now that the situation in Sriwijaya has stabilized, Major General Hu returned to the Great Song Dynasty with the Shiban team. As one of the earliest envoys to come to the Wa Kingdom, Major General Hu revisited his hometown and felt some emotion in his heart.

At this time, the status of aristocratic women in the Wa Kingdom was not low. For example, after the assassination of Minamoto Minamoto, the last general of the Kamakura shogunate, Hojo Masako, the wife of Minamoto Yorito, actually took power, and because Hojo Masako became a nun after Minamoto Yorito's death, he was called 'Ni Shogun'.

Major General Hu Yuelian, as a nobleman of the Great Song Dynasty, introduced a woman as an envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, and did not cause a backlash in the Wa Kingdom. On the contrary, it was because of the title of Major General Hu Yuelian that the Japanese people respected her more.

As a courtesy, you should pay a visit to the shogun. The Japanese title of 'shogunate' or 'shogun of the Shogunate' comes from China. As the name suggests, the shogunate refers to the power of the people who are in charge of the military and political power of the country during the state of emergency, and have the right to open the shogunate in order to act cheaply. All military and political personnel appointments were in the hands of the shogunate. It's just that these 'shoguns' in China will soon carry out dynastic changes after they take power, such as Zhao Jiaren, the latest case.

The imperial power of Japan was strong, and the shogun was weak, so it became a situation where the shogunate and the king of the Japanese kingdom coexisted for a long time.

This Kamakura shogunate was different from the Ashikaga shogunate and the Tokugawa shogunate that followed. All the shoguns of the Ashikaga shogunate were surnamed Ashikaga, and the Tokugawa shogunate was also a member of the Tokugawa family who was always in power. The first three generations of the Kamakura shogunate were all under the surname Minamoto, and this is not the case with the later ones. At present, the power in the shogunate fell into the hands of the Hojo family, who were 'in power'. To put it more bluntly, the Kamakura shogunate became the lord of the Wa kingdom, and the Hojo family became the lord of the Kamakura shogunate.

The current Kamakura shogun is Prince Yuyasu, a member of the imperial family. Hu Yuelian met the general first and gave gifts. The general was pleased, and after a few kind words, the meeting ended. The next meeting was also more ceremonial than substantial, and the 14-year-old doll was also a teenager, and neither the Great Song nor the Wa Kingdom thought that it was his turn to actually be in power.

The gift to the young man's 'Ruling Authority' was a full set of katanas, a long sword, a small knife, and a short blade that must be used when seppuku. Fourteen-year-old Hojo Sadashi pulled out his katana with its scabbard, and the usual silver-white light did not appear in front of him. The blades of these katanas are blue-black, and with the faint patterns on the blades, they look a little demonic.

"This is ......" Hojo Sadatoki couldn't help but ask. Not only was the young man very interested in this, but the important ministers around him were also very surprised.

"The knife is very sharp when it is cut, and there is no rust in the blue-black area." Hu Yuelian answered very neatly. She had only heard of the anti-rust 'bluing process', but she didn't know how to do it. Moreover, Hu Yuelian has been the leader of the Shiban team for a long time, and she knows that she can't say much to the Japanese people. Just tell them how to use it.

Katanas, although sharp, require very careful care. Hearing that the blue part of this knife would not rust, all the important ministers were suspicious, and they also felt that the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty had sent a very precious gift.

It can be seen that the young people are very fond of these adult weapons. With the pleasure of both the guests and the host, the meeting ended.

After the meeting with the above leaders, the imperial insider Ping Laigang naturally invited Hu Yuelian to have a meal together. The so-called Imperial Interior is more similar to the head of the house. The person who explained Hu Yuelian could only compare like this, there was no organization like the shogunate in such a perfect system as the Great Song Dynasty, and the Zhao official family especially disliked the inner government, and the Great Song Dynasty could not find a department that could correspond to the Wa State.

This Heira Yoritsuna was an important minister in the Hojo regime and the husband of the nurse of the current 'ruling power' Hojo Sadatoki. He was a very powerful person from the time of the previous generation of 'ruling power' Hojo Tokimune.

The two sat down, and Hu Yuelian asked the waiter next to her to give gifts. It was twenty pearls, shining brightly in a brocade box, and a building lamp. When Ping Laigang saw these things, he wanted to hide his joy, but the smile on his face still revealed his mood. Hu Yuelian hopes that this guy can really be bought by these gifts, for Da Song, although these gifts are not cheap, they cannot be considered expensive.

Ordering people to put away these gifts, Ping Laigang asked: "I heard that the Great Song Dynasty has occupied Tsushima Island, but I don't know what the Great Song means?" ”

Hu Yuelian had already prepared these contents, and replied very calmly, "Gaoli is a Mongolian slave, and we will drive the Mongols out of Hebei, of course, we will continue to go north to recover the old land of the Han family." In the Tang Dynasty, Sanhan was a little bigger. Now it's just a matter of restoring the land where they rightfully belonged. As for Tsushima Island, it seems that it was also occupied by Koreans. ”

When it comes to Mongolia, the Wa Kingdom has no way to answer. Before the Mongols invaded the Great Song Dynasty in the south, they sent envoys to the Wa Kingdom, asking them to be vassals to the Mongols. Although the Wa Kingdom did not reply, it was also very nervous. Although there was a surrender of Lin'an later, the Great Song Dynasty counterattacked under the leadership of Zhao Jiaren and mastered the shipping rights in the Bohai Sea. From then on, the Mongols never had the opportunity to threaten the Japanese state.

The Wa Kingdom also knew the power of the Mongols, and when they learned the news that the Great Song Dynasty continued to defeat the Mongols, the Wa Kingdom felt that the Great Song Dynasty was a civilized country, but it was a very strong civilized country. If a war broke out between the Wa Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty, the situation would probably not make the Wa State optimistic.

"I wonder if Tsushima can be returned to our country?" Ping Laigang asked tentatively.

"This kind of thing needs to be considered in the long run." Hu Yuelian said lightly. Although she did not receive formal diplomatic training, she often had to face all kinds of entanglements with those Sariwijaya nobles who had surrendered on the surface, and the threat of force alone was not enough, so calmly delaying the problem became a skill that must be mastered.

Ping Laigang is not a fool either, he knows that the Great Song envoy does not want to talk about this issue, and it is an impossible choice to start a war with the Great Song for the sake of Tsushima. So Ping Laigang asked: "I read the general's letter that the Great Song Dynasty wants to set up a new merchant house. Don't you already have a merchant house? ”

"Our ships sometimes have to go to Kamakura to trade, and if there are no merchant houses on the road, we are afraid that if something happens, it will be difficult to rescue." Hu Yuelian told the reason for the Great Song Dynasty.

The capital of the Wa Kingdom was in Kyoto, and the name of the current Kamakura Shogunate, "Kamakura", refers to the place where the Kamakura Shogunate was founded at the end of the 12th century and the samurai regime began. Later, it became the political center of the Wa Kingdom, and in addition to the buildings of the shogunate and the residences of the samurai, many shrines and temples were built.

Originally, the Great Song Dynasty merchant house was located very close to Heiankyo, but now the Great Song Ministry of Rites has announced that it will set up a merchant house on Shikoku Island and near Kamakura. The most important thing is to set up a trading hall on the island of Shikoku. Of course, Hu Yuelian would not say this topic to the important ministers of the Kamakura shogunate. If you do, you will definitely be rejected.

Kamakura is in Tokyo Bay in later generations, and it is already in Seto and overseas. Heira did not feel anything special about this proposal, and now the goods of the Great Song Dynasty were selling extremely well in the Wa Kingdom, and the franchise distribution of these goods was already a very important source of income for the Kamakura shogunate.

For such a thing, of course, Ping Laigang will not speak easily, not to mention the huge profits that Ping Laigang can earn, and this matter itself also involves the interests of many people. It's certainly not a good thing to say yes hastily.

After the two sides sincerely exchanged opinions, it was a normal banquet. The Japanese can't drink well, Hu Yuelian is just a little drunk, and Ping Laigang has already shown a drunken state. And so the banquet ended.

"It's not bad to look at the Wa Kingdom?" Hu Yuelian, who answered the residence, said to Zhao Naruto.

Zhao Naruto was one of the earliest captains of the Shiban team, and he lived with the Great Song Dynasty over the years, and even got the surname of the Zhao official family. After hearing this statement about his homeland, he didn't know what to say. After staying in the Great Song Dynasty for so long, there is no value in commenting on whether the Wa Kingdom is good or not. Not to mention the comparison with cities like Hangzhou, even cities such as Quanzhou and Fuzhou are not comparable to the Kamakura shogunate.

Seeing that Zhao Mingren was silent, Hu Yuelian continued to ask, "Do your friends from the navy still move around a lot?" ”

This question is within the scope of Zhao Naruto, "General Hu, I don't move around often, and there are many new recruits in the Shiban team. Many of them are members of the trolls. ”

"That's fine. I don't think the people of the Kamakura shogunate can be trusted. Hu Yuelian made an evaluation. She is a military general, who has fought in many places and exterminated many forces. In Hu Yuelian's view, all existences that can be called forces are a dime a dime before the end of the road. For example, Hu Yuelian's great enemy, Pu Shougeng in Quanzhou, before being exterminated by Zhao Jiaren, the Pu family not only did not have the slightest restraint, but also tried to do something to Zhao Jiaren. This kind of typical cooking without knowing death is a typical representative of many forces.

For example, the same is true of the Three Buddhas exterminated by Hu Yuelian, if they could honestly claim to the Zhao official family back then, they probably would not have been exterminated so early. Before the Great Song Dynasty sent troops to exterminate it, the Sriwijaya was still thinking about how to really defeat the Great Song fleet and fully control the strait again.

Hu Yuelian's views all come from her life experience, and Zhao Naruto can't look at the problem from this height. He had to think about the practical implementation level. This so-called 'water army' is the term used by the Wa Kingdom. In fact, these people were all pirates, and they supported the forces of Minamoto Yoritomo in the Battle of Genpei, so they became a big force.

Of course, in Zhao Mingren's opinion, if these forces were in the Great Song Dynasty, they would probably have been wiped out by the Great Song Dynasty Navy long ago. Those who had the courage to resist hung on the gallows to dry. For those pirates, the Great Song Dynasty was never polite, that is, the strength of the Kamakura shogunate's naval army was too weak, so that these pirates would become bigger. And these pirates will also organize themselves to go and rob other places. This is where the Japanese came from in the first place. Zhao Naruto was a member of the 'Water Army' back then.

The next day, another important minister of the Kamakura shogunate, the imperial family Adachi Yasumori, sent an envoy.

In Hu Yuelian's opinion, it is very questionable whether this messenger is really a messenger. Because now Anda Taisheng has nominally retired and let his son come out as an official. Anda Taisheng's fiefdom was in the north, and he couldn't have known the news so quickly. But this did not make Hu Yuelian dissatisfied with this, and after she sat down with the envoy, she asked, "I wonder if Anda Gong's side is satisfied with the Ash Blowing Method?" ”

As soon as he heard this, the messenger laughed a little and couldn't close his mouth. After Hu Yuelian saw it, she couldn't help but feel funny, and she also felt that the ability of those guys in the Ministry of Rites to grasp people's hearts was not low. Hu Yuelian had only served as an envoy in the Wa Kingdom for a short time before, and her role at that time was to attract the attention of the Wa people as a female swordsman. Later, Hu Yuelian joined the war and was no longer involved in diplomatic matters.

It was only in the last few years that the Great Song Dynasty provided the gray blowing method to the Wa Kingdom, and Hu Yuelian had just learned about it.

The ash blowing method is a method of gold-silver symbiotic separation and silver-lead separation of silver. Lead melting point: 327.46 °C, boiling point: 1749 °C. Silver melting point: 961.78 °C, boiling point: 2162 °C.

There are many silver-lead symbiotic mines in the Wa Kingdom, and the ash blowing method heats the ore with coal to dissolve the silver in the lead, and then the air is introduced into it, so that the lead is oxidized and deposited, and it becomes a tantric monk (ancient medicine, at that time, human life was short, so the severity of lead poisoning is not well understood).

After this first step of processing, a silver-lead alloy is obtained. The silver-lead alloy (crude silver) is put into the furnace, and the molten lead is completely vaporized by continuous blast ventilation, and the rest is the purified silver. For producers, this harsh technique is very harmful to workers.

Hu Yuelian didn't know that Zhao Jiaren of the Great Song Dynasty wanted to greedily seize the silver mines of the Wa State at the beginning, but Zhao Jiaren really couldn't use his troops to invest in the war against the Wa State. And for Zhao Jiaren, he found that the efficiency of exchanging goods for materials from the Wa Kingdom was not bad.

All human beings want to be able to live a better life, and people are not afraid to get this life.

Hu Yuelian didn't know that Zhao Jiaren of the Great Song Dynasty wanted to greedily seize the silver mines of the Wa State at the beginning, but Zhao Jiaren really couldn't use his troops to invest in the war against the Wa State. And for Zhao Jiaren, he found that the efficiency of exchanging goods for materials from the Wa Kingdom was not bad.

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