Chapter 33: The Envoy Group Arrives in Japan
Almighty Cultivation Supreme
What does it mean to be unadaptable, Hu Yuelian soon knew. The day after she arrived in Jeju Island, she began to have diarrhea and soon vomited and diarrhea. The doctor prescribed her some hibiscus, a grain smaller than a mung bean grain. After taking it, the symptoms stopped quickly, but the discomfort persisted. It took a few days to recover.
"This is a step too far." Liu Meng looked at Hu Yuelian, who was no longer swaying when walking, and said with a narrow smile.
Hu Yuelian rolled her eyes and said angrily: "Brother Liu is so strong, I don't think I have to go through this hurdle." ”
"If I hadn't done this, how would I know to only make porridge for you?" Liu Meng smiled bitterly, "We didn't know it at first, but then a few brothers didn't survive it, and we realized that the principal told everyone that eating too hard would cut their intestines." Alas......"
Knowing that this was an experience that was exchanged for her life, Hu Yuelian lost her heart when she got angry. Then I heard Liu Meng continue to sigh: "A Furong is a good medicine, and she has saved the lives of many brothers by relying on this." ”
If Zhao Jiaren heard this, his feelings would probably be very, very complicated. All kinds of controlled drugs are very good drugs in the eyes of doctors, and they have miraculous effects in targeted treatment. Drugs that don't work and have great side effects have long been phased out. But as a Chinese, Zhao Jiaren has a deep hatred for drug use. If it weren't really for the help, he wouldn't have secretly introduced the cultivation and collected the hibiscus to boil the ointment.
Hu Yuelian and Liu Meng didn't have much dependence on drugs, and after mentioning it casually, the two talked about the second test. Liu Meng asked, "Do you know how to use a musket?" ”
"What is a musket?" Hu Yuelian asked puzzled.
Liu Meng saw that the secrecy of the musket was carried out well, so he didn't say more. After the extermination of the Pu family, a lot of letters were copied from the Pu family, all of which were left by the spies sent by the Pu family to Zhao Jiaren's side, and the number of these guys was not large, but some of them had been mixed into intermediate positions. After eradicating this scourge, Liu Meng also felt that confidential matters needed attention. The musket is a core secret, and Hu Yuelian doesn't know that the musket means that this round of secrecy is good.
Zhao Jiaren asked Hu Yuelian to bring the document to inform Liu Meng in code that he had to arm Hu Yuelian's team with muskets. Liu Meng didn't say much, so he took Hu Yuelian and her team to the interior of Jeju Island. Compared with the mountainous terrain of Fujian, Jeju Island is much flatter, and a considerable part of the land may be reclaimed into flat and fertile land.
Hu Yuelian feels that the weather in the north is different from that in the south, the south is still lush in October, and the north is already in golden autumn. Some people who have become accustomed to the local water and soil are cutting reeds and thatching on the hillside, probably in preparation for winter. Others build lighthouses on hillsides.
"How tall are those lighthouses going to be built?" Hu Yuelian looked at the thick stone wall and asked in surprise.
"That's not a lighthouse, that's a windmill." Liu Meng replied.
"Windmills?" Hu Yuelian couldn't understand this.
Just as Liu Meng didn't know that Zhao Jiaren had been to Jeju Island, Liu Meng didn't know why Zhao Jiaren made such a request. It's just that with a lot of experience in building lighthouses, it is still within the reach of the engineering team to build a thicker windmill on Jeju Island, which is not short of stones.
Further on, there is a quarry where the stone is mined. Crossing the quarries that roar from time to time. Finally, when we arrived at the untouched interior, we could see a bare and swarthy round mountain, which is said to be the highest peak on Jeju Island.
The team stopped, and Liu Meng's subordinates opened the portable wooden box and pulled out a slender wooden pole from it. Hu Yuelian and her subordinates looked at these arquebuses in bewilderment, and watched in confusion as Liu Meng's subordinates began to operate the arquebuses. The sound of gunfire was so faint that no one in the quarry noticed it. This is also the reason why Liu Meng wants to lead the team here.
On the first day of November, Hu Yuelian and 30 of her men boarded the ship. At this time, they were already accustomed to the water of Jeju Island, and when they got on the boat, Hu Yuelian smiled: "I don't know if I can get used to the water and soil of the Japanese country." ”
"Take care of yourselves, everyone." Liu Meng said to everyone.
The crowd responded. I have experienced the water and soil on Jeju Island, and everyone has gained a lot of experience. When the ship left the dock, Hu Yuelian looked at the port city and saw that the small city that was originally just excavating the foundation had already appeared as the baseline of the city wall. It seems that the thousands of new arrivals did make a difference. As the boats leave Jeju Island, you can see a lighthouse being built on a reef in the sea and a boat measuring the topography of the sea.
The seemingly desolate and barren Jeju Island has begun to become vibrant, which makes Hu Yuelian feel very happy. The fact that this island belongs to Zhao Jiaren makes Hu Yuelian feel that this island has a greater sense of belonging.
The three-ship flotilla headed northeast and finally arrived at the port of Kobe three days later. Sasuke is a Kobe native who returns to his hometown a few years later and complains, "I really should have built a lighthouse in the Seto Inland Sea." ”
Without a lighthouse, you would have to be cautious when navigating the Seto Inland Sea. If you haven't seen a lighthouse, it's just that you have the refreshing experience of swaggering and speeding on the sea as long as you see a lighthouse on the Fujian Road, Sasuke really complains about his hometown.
Hu Yuelian didn't complain that there was no lighthouse in the country, she just sighed. I felt that my nervous mood was finally relieved. It's not that she is open-minded, when she was in Fujian, she met those unprofessional lighthouse keepers who forgot to light the lamp, and Hu Yuelian would also scold everyone together. However, this is the country of Wa, and when you go to someone else's house, no matter how unhappy you are, it's someone else's business. This is the bare minimum of etiquette. She just ordered: "Change your clothes!" ”
Before the fleet could reach the shore, a number of small boats immediately came up. Hu Yuelian, who was dressed in a red brocade suit and a flying fish suit, asked Sasuke vigilantly, "These boats can't be villains' boats, right?" ”
Sasuke, who was wearing a black flying fish suit, replied with some embarrassment, "These are official ships." ”
"Official ship?" Hu Yuelian looked at these small official ships, and was really surprised in her heart. Since Zhao Jiaren built inland river combat boats, the official boats for water diversion and inspection in Fuzhou and Quanzhou have been the kind of boats with 20 people rowing. This kind of four-person boat is actually an official boat, and there is too much difference between the two sides.
The crowd was 'escorted' by the official ship and landed on the shore, and saw a guy disembarking from the ship with more than 30 people, all of them dressed gorgeously, and their shapes were not only very different from those of Japan, but also from the sailors of the Song Kingdom, which frightened the local port management personnel of Kobe. Generally speaking, the total number of people on the merchant ships of the Song Kingdom in Kobe was often less than thirty, because there were only a few people who disembarked at a time to guard the ships. This guy came down with more than 30 duplex gorgeous Han people, what kind of trouble is he going to make?
After the previous exchange, the local government learned that these people were actually people sent by the cousin of the current emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and they had some kind of official status. Where did those people in the port dare to make their own claims, they immediately sent people to the local guard to report there. It didn't take long for the local guardian and the head of the land to send personnel, wearing Japanese costumes, and the clothes looked more decent.
Sasuke translated what they said to Hu Yuelian, to the effect that the local guardian of Kobe welcomed the envoy of His Royal Highness Zhao Jiaren, the Fujian Governor of the Song Kingdom and the Northeast Governor, and hoped to learn more about the purpose of the trip.
Hu Yuelian stared at Sasuke, who acted as an interpreter, and was very surprised by this guy's introduction to the local yamen of the Wa Kingdom, the team had been trained before coming to the Wa Kingdom, and knew that the Wa Kingdom was still similar to the sub-feudal system of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the feudal lords in various places were similar to those Tusi of the Great Song Dynasty, and they had great independence. The Kamakura shogunate was similar to Cao Cao, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the buildings. I didn't expect Sasuke to put the official position of the Great Song Dynasty into the Japanese system, and it seems that those Japanese people still understand.
There were no formal diplomatic relations between the Song and the Wa states, and all relations were people-to-people exchanges. It can be seen that Zhao Jiaren's official status has had a great impact on the local area of the Japanese State.
What should I say has been prepared for a long time, Yuelian said: "I am waiting here to meet His Royal Highness Kujo, the general of Zhengyi, and deliver the greetings and letters of His Royal Highness Zhao of our country. ”
The officials saw that among the people dressed in black, only Hu Yuelian was dressed in red, and some were women, and she was obviously the leader of everyone. It's completely unclear. After some exchanges, Hu Yuelian's posture was very high, and she didn't say what she wanted to do, that is, she pulled the level up to the level where the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty royal family met with the general of the Japanese kingdom. The local guards don't know what to do.
"I'll go to Kyoto to report now, and I'll ask you to rest in Kobe." The guardian gave such an answer, and it did not appear again. Hu Yuelian and the others returned to the boat to rest first.
Fortunately, with the observation equipment, the fleet used the equipment to measure the latitude and longitude of Kobe every day, and adjusted the angle of the horizontal sundial hand locally. Kobe is a small port area, so I visited the local merchants and looked for a location to set up a trading hall in the area. With the knowledge of astronomy, it was believed that as a long-term trading hall, it was not only convenient for business, but also for conducting various astronomical measurements.
Recently, the iron-smelting department has invited a new master, and the new master is good at training soft steel. The single pendulum law was used to make a table clock. With this timekeeping device that can move evenly, time can be determined more accurately, making astronomical observations more accurate, and the originally thin few pages of data tables have become dozens of pages. The more observation points in each location, the more accurate data can be produced.
On the eighth day, the Wa Kingdom sent again. This one's satin costume is even more ornate, and his hat is decorated with thin boards raised high, and the first glance at the shape reminds everyone of the illustration. This is no longer a local guardian, but a high-ranking official from Heiankyo in the Wa Kingdom.
This meeting was extremely formal, and the guarded house simply could not accommodate such a high-level meeting. Heiankyo high-ranking officials pulled up the curtains, and the curtains were all satin. A formal meeting was held in such a place.
The Wa Kingdom is officially kneeling. Out of reciprocity, Yuelian and they are also embarrassed to be chairs or stools. It's rude to sit cross-legged on the floor. Seeing that the other party's mat was very thin, Yuelian ordered her subordinates to give each other a cotton pad. It can be seen that Japanese officials from Heiankyo are not used to the direct use of gifts. But when they officially knelt down, the expressions on their faces relaxed.
"I wonder what you have to say when you go to the country?" The words of Japan from Heiankyo are very elegant.