The so-called "Ijima" is the name of the military and political chief who ranks first under the queen of the Yamatai Kingdom. www.biquge.info In fact, in a sense, Yizhima is the real lord of the country, and the "king" set up by the imitation of the mainland country is just a high priest, who has a strong influence on the administration and military, but has no actual command.

Or it can be compared to the ****** Republic of Iran in later generations, where the king is the supreme leader and Ijima is the president. When the supreme leader was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the president was little more than a puppet of him, but when Ayatollah Khomeini died and former President Ayatollah Ali Khamenei succeeded him as supreme leader, he half-voluntarily and half-forcibly reduced his power because his prestige was far less than that of Ayatollah Khomeini.

The same is true of the situation of the Yamatai Kingdom, perhaps in the process of alternating the ancient kingdom from divine power to royal power, the king was once high and mighty, but then the domestic **** for a long time, and finally the result of the compromise of all aspects of the forces was the introduction of a little girl Himiko as the queen, and the sacrificial power was gradually overwhelmed by the administrative power. Ijima is self-contained, and has a tendency to evolve from a military and political chief to a real king, and although Himiko is young, he is not willing to be left in power, so the open and secret battles between the two have not stopped for a moment.

Especially on the issue of trade, the two are even more contradictory. Although the Yamatai Kingdom is located in northern Kyushu and gradually has the tendency to unify the countries, it is only a file to pull out generals, and the national strength is not only 108,000 miles away from the Han Dynasty, but even the three Hans in the south of the Korean Peninsula are enough to suppress them. With the differentiation of classes, the aristocracy gathered a large number of agricultural products, and began to pursue higher enjoyment when they were not worried about eating and drinking, and the demand for copper, iron, wire, porcelain and other utensils imported from the mainland increased day by day. It can be said that whoever controls the trade with the mainland will be able to hold power in the Yamatai country and call for wind and rain.

The reason why the Ijima family was able to inherit this important position was because of their close relationship with the merchants of Samhan, and most of the trade with the mainland had to be handled by them. It was impossible for Himiko to ignore this, especially in the recent decades of civil strife in the Han Dynasty, when merchant ships sailing directly to the Wa Kingdom were almost extinct, and Samhan merchants and the Ijima family took the opportunity to raise prices in order to amass wealth and gain power. Himiko made several attempts to communicate directly with the merchants of the three Koreas, but was thwarted, so she hoped to reopen direct trade with the Han dynasty - so as soon as she heard that Han Chinese had entered the country, she immediately sent her party to summon her Mima to summon him.

Of course, Yizhima will not be ignorant of Zhang Lu's arrival, but unfortunately it is a step too slow, and the person has been taken away by the queen. When Ijima heard the news, he hurriedly took a Korean merchant who was trading with him to the palace and asked to see the queen—whether he could draw the Han man to his side or not, he had to cut off his connection with the queen first.

Since Ichima was in person, Himiko was not good but did not see him, so he had to summon him into the house. Zhang Lu looked at the Yizhima coldly, and saw that he was in his forties, short and fat, like a ball of meat, wearing gold and silver, and he was even more extravagant and gorgeous than the queen. Looking at the Korean businessman behind Yizhima, except for the extraordinarily round face and the extraordinarily flat nose, his appearance is almost no different from that of the Chinese, wearing a plain robe and a black turban.

He was looking at the two, and they were looking at him as well. Himiko asked, "I'm entertaining a distinguished guest, what is the important matter of Ijima, and I must ask to see it?" Izuma smiled coldly: "It is for the sake of this 'distinguished guest'." Then he stretched out his hand and pointed at the Han businessman: "Let me introduce it first, this is Tuhan, a big businessman who just crossed the sea from Xu Nava." ”

Sunavar was the predecessor of the Silla kingdom and belonged to a part of the Jinhan - the so-called "Samhan" refers to the three ethnic groups of Mahan, Benhan, and Jinhan at the southern tip of the peninsula. Of course, Zhang Lu didn't know about this, he just knew that this was a businessman from Sanhan.

Xu Nava merchant Tuhan first saluted Queen Himiho. As soon as he got up, Yizhima next to him said again: "Mr. Tuhan has brought a whole seven large ships of goods over to trade with our country, and out of good faith, our country must ensure the safety of his person and property." However, Mr. Tuhan came to me just now, saying that he had escaped a slave from the ship, and hoped that our country could help find it. ”

Himiko frowned slightly: "This kind of thing, there are many people under the command of Ichima, just help find the fugitive slave, why bother me?"

Yizhima winked at Tuhan, Tuhan blinked, and suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhang Lu: "Because this slave pretended to be a Han merchant and has fled into the queen's palace!" The language of Chenhan is the same as that of the Wa kingdom - probably belonging to the same ethnic group, and it is not known whether the Wa people went north to colonize the peninsula, or the Koreans went south to control Kitakyushu - so he can talk directly to the queen.

Ichima's plan was to get Tuhan to identify the Han as his fugitive slave and take the opportunity to take him away from Himiko. As for what to do with this Han man after taking it away, I will talk about it when the time comes. If the other party is also a wealthy businessman, I am afraid that it will be inconvenient to offend, then find a way to win him over, so that he will only trade with the Izhima family in the future - the price is easy to say, it must be much more profitable than you go directly to the queen, and what money does the queen have? If it is just an ordinary tourist, then it is not a slave, why not?

Of course, this kind of ghost trick can't hide from Himiko - although the queen is young, she has seen a lot of winds and waves - and immediately scolded sharply: "Hugh has to talk nonsense, this is a noble man from the Han Kingdom, how can it be a fugitive slave?!"

Tuhan said with a smile: "Although the Han Kingdom is powerful, the queen thinks that those who come from the Han Kingdom must be the nobles of Shangbang, but I don't know that in recent years, there have been many Han people who have crossed the sea from Qingzhou, or from the southeast of Liao, and many of them have been sold into slavery." It's not surprising that Han people are slaves. ”

He only had to explain, but Yizhima could do it directly, and immediately shouted: "Come on, bring this fugitive slave back to the pavilion and hand it over to Mr. Tuhan for disposal!" Two warriors immediately rushed in from outside the door and stretched out their hands to take Zhang Lu.

"Stop!" Himiko stopped on the spot, "Yijima, my palace is not yet your samurai's turn to act recklessly!" Although Zhang Lu has already shown that he is not a businessman, which makes Himiko very disappointed, she finally met a Han person, and she wants to chat a few more words, looking for a channel to communicate with Han merchants, how can she let Yijima snatch people away so easily?

Yi Zhima rolled his eyes: "King, if you don't return the fugitive slave to Mr. Tuhan, I am afraid that Mr. Tuhan will be angry and refuse to trade with our country anymore, and even spread unfavorable news to our country among his people, saying that our country does not understand integrity, resulting in a sharp decline in domestic trade." I'm afraid that even you can't afford this responsibility, right?!"

Himiko was frustrated by his rhetorical question—after all, foreign trade was in the hands of the Ijima family, and if he did anything bad and put all the blame on himself, he would probably not even be able to sit on the throne...... Even if you want to save Zhang Lu, you have to find a suitable reason to convince all the nobles. In desperation, he had to turn to Zhang Lu: "Sir, do you have anything to say?"

Zhang Lu never said a word, watching coldly. In fact, from the mention of the fugitive slave by Yizhima, he knew how things would develop, even if he didn't know much about the political situation of Yamatai, but he had heard a lot of stories like the powerful ministers and lords, and even the ********. When the queen asked herself, Zhang Lu smiled slightly-oh, it turns out that you, the king, are false, and you can't protect me at all, so I have to figure out my own way.

In fact, the easiest way is to directly stretch out his hand and kill Ichima, and also eradicate the queen's henchmen. As far as his current path is concerned, even if he walks sideways in this Yamatai capital, it will not be difficult to even spend a little more thought and strength to slaughter a city. It's just that he doesn't want to kill, and second, what about it...... The direct use of force is too lacking in technical content, and it is not something that a civilized person like me should do.

So he smiled calmly and asked Tuhan: "It seems that Mr. recognizes my Han family clothes, so please take a closer look, what kind of clothes am I wearing?"

Tuhan was stunned: "Aren't all Han people dressed like this?"

Zhang Lu laughed "haha": "Mr. Tuhan's knowledge is still too short-sighted, I am not an ordinary Han family clothes, this is a Confucian shirt!" Suddenly, he looked at Tuhan, and the light in his eyes skyrocketed: "How can there be a reason for scholars and people to be slaves?!"

In fact, in the Han Dynasty, there are not a few scholars who are slaves, and Confucian scholars are not hereditary nobles, they are really not so noble, and they are born to be superior. But in those small remote states, it was still a slave society, only the aristocracy could read and write, and the common people were mostly blind, let alone slaves. Of course, it is possible for nobles to be sold into slavery because of defeat or debt, but then you have to take off your noble clothes, and who will allow you to dress the same as before?

That's why Zhang Lu was able to retort nonsense: If I am really a slave, can you let me jump around in the clothes of a scholar?

Tuhan obviously lacked the ability to deal with it, so he was stupid on the spot, but Yizhima's brain turned quickly - "Your clothes were originally stolen!"

"I see, Mr. Tuhan's merchant ship is still prepared with the clothes of the Han family. I don't know who the owner of this shirt is? Is it the Han Ru who was murdered by you, or is it the Han Ru who is accompanied by you on the ship? Why don't you invite me to confront you?"

He ignored the Ichima and pointed the finger at Tuhan. Tuhan was speechless, so he had to cast his eyes for help to Ichima. Yizhima shouted: "There is no need to confront anything, as long as this fugitive slave is taken down and tortured severely, naturally it will be clear where he stole this set of clothes!"

Zhang Luxin said that I will reason with you, and you will play tricks with me -- if you can't spit on your face, you don't know that Ma Wangye has three eyes! Continue to ignore him, and grab Tuhan: "Mr. Tuhan thinks I'm just an ordinary Han person, so he helped Yizhi Ma to frame me, but he can't see the crisis clearly." I didn't come to Yamatai alone, and once I was killed, the news would soon spread back to Han. In these years, Sun Kang, the Taishou Gonggong of Liaodong, was busy attacking Goguryeo, and did not move Sanhan for the time being. ”

Tuhan shrunk his neck: "You...... Do you know Gongsun Taishou?"

Zhang Lu shook his head: "I've never met." ”

"In that case, why did he send troops to attack Samhan for you?"

"It's very simple, because Zai Xia is a close friend of Cao Mengde, the prime minister of the dynasty. Previously, Prime Minister Cao Cheng personally conquered Karasuma in the three counties, and Gongsun Taishou personally beheaded the Yuan brothers and expressed his submission to the prime minister. As long as the prime minister gives an order, Liaodong will send troops from the whole county to attack Sanhan, and Qingzhou and Jizhou may also send sailors to assist in the attack. I wonder if your country will be able to withstand it then?"

His large set of lines was the same as the book of heaven in his ears when he heard Yijima and Himiko, but he just felt that this product seemed to have a lot of origin! Tuhan could understand it completely -- he not only took the southern route to trade with the Japanese land, but also went north many times to trade with the Gongsun clan of Liaodong and the Goguryeo Kingdom, and he knew much more about the general situation of the Han Dynasty than the Japanese people. He knew that although the war in the Han Kingdom had not stopped, it was obvious that Cao Cao had coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and the victory was very obvious, while although the Liaodong Gongsun clan was an inconspicuous small force in the Central Plains, in the eyes of Sanhan, it was not much different from the gods in charge of 100,000 heavenly soldiers!

In the era of Gongsun Kang's father, Gongsun Du's total victory, not only divided Liaodong, claimed to be Pingzhou Mu, and even crossed the sea to attack Qingzhou, and captured several counties in a row, which belonged to the characters who could walk sideways in and around Bohai Bay. However, the main direction of development of the Gongsun clan was to the west, attacking Goguryeo several times, and also breaking into the Korean Peninsula, hoping to control the Raklang and restore the four counties of the former Han Dynasty. Several small kingdoms in Sanhan were once invited by Goguryeo to join the Gongsun clan, but they were killed like dogs by Gongsun soldiers...... In terms of pure force, in fact, the Gongsun clan was able to pacify Goguryeo a few years ago, and then take the peninsula directly - fortunately, the terrain of Goguryeo was dangerous, and the king was accustomed to abandoning the capital to fight guerrillas, so Gongsun and his son were not allowed to succeed easily.

If Gongsun Kang really left Goguryeo alone, turned around and went to fight Sanhan - if it was really Cao Cao's order, then it was very likely - Xu Nafa really lost the fate of the country in a minute...... This does not take into account whether the Qingzhou soldiers and Jizhou soldiers will cross the sea and attack......

Of course, if things were that simple, history would have changed a long time ago. If the Gongsun clan did not destroy Goguryeo, it would be difficult to ensure that the flanks were worry-free, and the grain transportation was smooth, even if Cao Cao whipped with a whip, they would not dare to fight Sanhan directly. The level of navigation in Qinghai, Hebei and other prefectures is more important than the tradition of navigation, and it is also 108,000 miles away from Liaodong, so it is impossible to cross the sea and send troops. It's just that if Tuhan really has this insight, he is not a rich businessman in Sanhan, he can simply go to the Central Plains to be a famous military division who oversees the general trend of the world!

So Tuhan listened to Zhang Lu's words, and withered on the spot, and said in his heart that I was just here to do business, why did I get involved in this matter......? Sure enough, there are similar people, but the villain accidentally saw the difference. But listening to the gentleman's conversation, you can tell whether you are a noble person or a slave, and you can tell it on the spot. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Yizhima again, which means that even if this person's words are only three points true, they may bring us trouble, so it's better not to mess with him.

Yizhima asked Tuhan to help this time, it was ********, coercing the queen, but even the foreigners were cowardly, and if he wanted to do it, he would lack the name of righteousness...... Although the queen's power is weak, after all, there are still many nobles who are inclined to her, and no matter how strong her own power is, it is not to the point of saying a word. The most important thing is that this queen is the result of the balance of forces and compromise of all parties, and if she wants to tear her face directly, she will inevitably be attacked by a group, and the outcome is unpredictable. But let's regress like this, and I am really unwilling, plus it will damage my face and prestige......

He glared at Zhang Lu angrily, his eyes seemed to erupt with fire, and suddenly his brain turned and he thought about it.