Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed Wei's Korea and advanced the territory of the Han Dynasty to the Han River Valley, there have been Japanese people who have gone to China through the Korean Peninsula to pay Hajj and tribute, and by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there have been more than 30 countries recorded in historical records. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info I think that Zhang Lu entered the palace as a lang, and the lang official belonged to the bureaucratic reserve, not only responsible for guarding the palace ban, but also had to study the code system under the supervision of the chief, so as to prepare for the release in the future, so as to be an official and an official. Therefore, he has read a lot of historical materials in the inner court, and naturally remembers that there is such a "dog slave country".

At that time, the Japanese archipelago was all a small kingdom of a small vote, and it could even be said that it was just some primitive tribes, and the Yamato Dynasty had not yet completed its unification -- in fact, even whether Yamato had been born or not, there were still different theories in later historians -- most of those strange names, Zhang Lu could not remember most of them, and he only had an impression of the names of four countries, namely: Yamatai Kingdom, Ghost Country, Ghost Slave Country, and Dog Slave Country.

So I remember Yamatai because he played Japanese video games in his previous life, and he knew that it was the name of the oldest kingdom in Japan. As for the last three small countries, they can only be impressed purely because of their strange names.

Chinese officials are relatively small, but whenever these remote and small countries come to pay tribute, they deliberately choose the most humble words for them to transliterate the name of the country. For example, the ghost country can be translated as the country of rose, the country of Ji, and the country of Ji, and the country of dog slaves, which can also be translated as the country of the hook and crossbow, or the country of the foal......

Zhang Lu was surprised, he had only left the small island that claimed to be "1,200 miles east of the Huiji Sea" for only three days, and you said that there was still something to say about sailing to the Ryukyus, so how could you come to Japan? The sea of daring love was compressed in equal proportions? This is particularly unscientific!

If you have doubts in your heart, you don't want to leave so quickly, but want to go deeper. Besides, from the northern part of Japan's island of Kyushu, it stands to reason that there are ships that can sail directly to the Korean Peninsula, and as long as they land on the peninsula, there will be no hindrance to their return to the Central Plains. He remembered that the Dog Slave Kingdom was south of Yamatai, probably at the southern tip of the Japanese island of Kyushu in later generations, while Yamatai was in northern Kyushu, and had relatively close ties with the mainland - otherwise his family would not have traveled thousands of miles to Luoyang to pay tribute, and he would have exclusively obtained the golden seal of the Wa King.

So after leaving that village, he went all the way north, and in just half a month, he crossed Kyushu Island. Of course, with his footsteps, he could see the northern coastline in less than two days, but he went to several villages to inquire about the customs and customs, and basically learned Japanese - old Japanese, of course.

- Although ideas can communicate, it is not as convenient as words, especially since he is not an immortal after all, and he is only facing some mortals.

Then he roughly found out that his straight line to the north alone had passed through the territories of six countries, from the dog slave in the south to the Yamatai in the north. Moreover, he also found that the dog slaves did not seem to belong to the same race as the Yamatai people, the former was short and dark, closer to Southeast Asians, and the latter was relatively tall (in fact, the average was only a little over 1.5 meters), and the complexion was also whiter, closer to the East Asian mainlanders. There are great differences between the two countries, not only in terms of customs and habits, but also in terms of lingua franca.

After entering the Yamatai Kingdom, Zhang Lu suddenly thought of a question - he can't just go back to the mainland like this, I still have something to do!

What is it, that is alchemy.

Zhang Jian taught him a full set of alchemy techniques, hoping that he would be able to refine Nuwa's five-colored stones into five kinds of exotic treasures, so that he could help him fight against Tiangong Liu Lei in the future. However, it is not enough to have raw materials for treasure refining, you must first determine the type of spell it contains, and the function it needs to achieve—for example, if you have a piece of fine iron, you must first plan whether you want to forge it into a ding, or forge it into a sword, or refine it into a knife—and then find a suitable catalyst.

Zhang Lu didn't think about anything else, just thinking about the fire stone could be refined into a fire treasure, mainly because he was following Zhang Jian to learn the fire spell - "Thermonuclear Storm". OF COURSE, THE FIRE STONE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FIRE, BUT IT'S RED AFTER ALL, AND YOU HAVE TO SACRIFICE A BLUE STONE, AND IT TURNS OUT THAT IT SPEWS FLAMES "BIUBIU", AND IT DOESN'T MATCH IT, DOES IT?

So, what kind of catalyst should you look for to refine the treasure? To refine the fire method, of course, you must have fire, but if you light a small candle, even if you refine the treasure, you will not be able to boil a pot of water...... The most powerful thing in the world is, of course, the fire of the sun, but it's a pity that Zhang Lu can't go up - and he directly burned himself in order to refine the treasure, so he won't do this kind of stupid thing. The second class that can be thought of is volcanoes, volcanic magma comes from the mantle or deep in the earth's crust, and can easily reach high temperatures of thousands of degrees, which is rare on the earth in this year. Besides, even if you burn out a thousand pounds of wood, how much heat can you produce? How can it be compared to volcanic magma?

But where are the active volcanoes in China? Zhang Lu thought about it, but he still had no clue, and it was only when he returned to Japan that he suddenly reacted -- there is Mt. Fuji!

He remembered that Mt. Fuji had erupted many times throughout its history, and that it was a dormant volcano, if not outright active, and worth exploring. If you can refine the Fire Stone while you can, then you will have a travel goal from now on, and you will have to travel all over the world, including foreign lands, and refine all the remaining four stones into treasures. That thing will decay in the original state, even if it is wrapped in true qi to avoid radiation, it is not a long-term solution after all.

Do you think it's safer to put a lump of uranium ore in a lead box or to make a nuclear bomb at all? Regardless of the explosion factor, the latter is much safer -- how can the outer wall of a nuclear bomb be compared with an ordinary lead container?

However, to get to Mt. Fuji, he had to cross the strait and go from Kyushu to Honshu, and he didn't know how much effort it would take to find it. In those days, there were not many inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago, and there was no unified government, so it was not so easy to travel freely, and it was not always possible to find people to ask for directions. So he wanted to find a guide in the country of Yamatai, which was not far from each other - compared to China - and believed that someone must have been to Honshu.

Of course, it is impossible for ordinary village husbands and women to travel far, so they have to find a big city first. After questioning, Zhang Lu went directly to the capital of Yamatai. It is the capital, in fact, there is no city wall, just a circle of wooden fences and earthen fences more than half a person high, and the defense strength is not as good as Zhangjiawu Fort in Mi County, and the scale is several times larger. Before entering the city, he was suddenly stopped by a man.

The man touched his chest with both hands, bowed slightly, looked at Zhang Lu's feet, and asked softly, "Excuse me, sir, are you from the Han Kingdom?"

Zhang Lu looked at that person, and it seemed that his status was not low. It is said that the dog slaves, whether they are noble or low, officials or people, are dressed much differently, and they have the same broken hair and tattoos, but the rich people dress a little better; the Yamatai people are different, the difference between the noble and the low is very obvious, and the dress of the ordinary people is not much different from that of the dog slaves, but the nobles keep hair, but comb into a mustache -- one woman, on the top of the head, and two men, on both sides of the head -- there are few tattoos on the body, wearing a shirt and pants, and often a string of hook-shaped necklaces are hung around their necks.

The man in front of him was dressed like this, with white clothes and trousers, all woven of fine linen, and very neat, with a pair of bast shoes on his feet, and there was not much mud. The necklace around this man's neck was also white, and it looked like it was made of shells—the average person must not be able to afford it.

So he returned the salute: "Yes, I am from the Han Kingdom, and I don't know who the noble person is......"

The man sneered and said: "I don't dare to call you noble, the villain is called Mima Won Branch, and on the order of the king of my family, I have come to invite Mr. to go to the palace to speak." ”

Zhang Lu knew that his dress was very conspicuous, and he was still wondering, it had been a few days since he entered the Yamatai Kingdom, and he didn't see a literate person come to talk. But think about it again, it is estimated that all the literate people are gathered here in the national capital, and there are basically no in the countryside, and with the administrative level and decision-making speed of these years, even if you hear your news, it will take several days to wait for the upper echelons to react.

He was looking for a Japanese guide to find Mt. Fuji, believing that those who had traveled far away were either rich or expensive, so it was a shortcut to the south to say hello to the royal family first. At the moment, he bowed slightly: "Then Your Excellency Lao will lead the way." ”

Along the way, Zhang Lu carefully observed the living conditions of the Yamatai people in order to judge the scale of their social productive forces and the social stage they were in. It is evident that the conditions in the city were not very different from those in the villages, the houses were also made of wood, with high stilts and thatched tops, and the common people, perhaps also slaves, wore only a poor quality jumper, but the proportion of those with better clothes and trousers was greatly increased. Occasionally, you can see samurai wearing armor and helmets, most of the armor is made of leather or bamboo and wood, with swords at the waist and spears in their hands, but not all of them are bronze, and there are also black iron soldiers.

This must have entered a class society, where production was dominated by rice and fishing and hunting, which was probably at the level of the Xia Dynasty in China - although Zhang Lu did not really see the Xia Dynasty.

Soon, that Mima was supported and took Zhang Lu to a relatively luxurious building in the center of the city. As he continued to talk on the way, he realized that the so-called "Mima was paid" was not this person's name, but his official position, probably some kind of high-ranking political officer. The other party did not reveal his real name and surname, it seems that in the eyes of the Yamatai people, the official name is more noble than the private name, so with the official name, you can completely forget the private name.

- It should belong to a slave aristocracy, where official positions can be hereditary, and unless punished for crimes, they can hold office for life.

Sure enough, as Zhang Lu expected, the king of Yamatai at this time was Queen Himiko, but it is said that she has only been on this throne for two years. By observing words and looking for clues in the other party's words, it seems that the queen's power is not stable, and she is mainly responsible for sacrifices, while the political and military power is mostly in the hands of hereditary nobles.

Approaching the front of the building, presumably the royal palace, Mima stopped and handed Zhang Lu over to the two palace maids. The two ladies did not wear their hair in a bun - presumably unmarried - but wore a beaded string in front of their foreheads, and wore a long, one-piece dress with narrow sleeves and a sleeveless waistcoat. Both of them are not tall, only about 1.5 meters, and their skin is relatively fair, but their appearance is ...... It's kind of miserable.

The palace maids took Zhang Lu into a wooden house, thinking that they could meet Queen Himiko in person--he was very curious about this queen, because it was said that she was a "ghost" to control the people, that is, she could spell--but he did not expect that there was a light veil between the two. Fortunately, it is difficult for Zhang Lu to be difficult here, the real luck is clear, and the thin light veil cannot cover it at all.

So he saw clearly that this Queen Himiko was not very old, at most in her early twenties, dressed similarly to a palace maid, but with wide sleeves, and wore a flower crown, a necklace around her neck, a bracelet on her wrist, and a lot of ornaments on her body. Necklaces and bracelets, in particular, are not made of shells, but are made of jade and glass—these girls are very rich.

But the appearance is not flattering, it is a very continental-style original face, single eyelids, collapsed nose bridge, only the mouth shape can barely be seen. To say that the general aesthetics of the Han Dynasty are actually very similar to those after two thousand years, for women, tall, fair-skinned is the standard, although the pursuit of plump cheeks, at most it is not popular melon seed face and popular goose egg face, Han Dynasty scholars are indifferent to the big cake face after all. This humble is also the color of the skin is closer to the Chinese aesthetic - but it is a little too white, I am afraid that it is because of the lack of sunlight for many years.

Zhang Lu sat down opposite Himihu and bowed his hand slightly, even if it was a salute. Himiko also didn't know what kind of etiquette was in China, and it was estimated that Japan itself did not have a cumbersome etiquette system at this time, so he was not surprised. As soon as she opened her mouth, she asked Zhang Lu: "Mr. is from the Han Kingdom, and I heard from the Koreans that there is a war in the Han Kingdom now, but is it true?"

Hey, this voice is quite good, it's delicate and charming, Zhang Lu can't help but think of the coquettish "Ya Contempt Butterfly" of Japanese women that he used to hear in his previous life...... He smiled and replied to Himiko: "The Han Kingdom is vast and populous, and it is difficult for the emperor to govern such a large territory, and it is normal for there to be a little chaos occasionally." I'm sure it will settle down soon. Of course, this is a lie, but he always felt that he could not lose China's face too much in front of the Japanese.

Himiko nodded, and then asked, "Did you come to our country to do business?"

Zhang Lu shook his head and said, "No, it's just a trip." ”

Looking at Himiko's expression, he seemed to be slightly disappointed. Zhang Lu took the opportunity to ask: "When I first arrived, I don't know the situation in your country, so I would like to ask: Is Yamatai the largest and strongest country in the Japanese land?"

Himiko's eyes lit up: "Exactly, I have more than 20 subject countries, and the entire Northern Wa is under the control of my country." ”

"In that case, why did you stop paying tribute to our Han Dynasty? I heard that in the era of Emperor Guangwu, there were slave countries who sent envoys to Luoyang to pay tribute and were given the golden seal of the 'Han Wei Nu King'.

Himiko sighed softly: "I want to think about it too, but it's a pity...... If you want to go to Han, you have to pass through Handi, but recently there have been frequent disputes between Samhan and Gongsun's family, so the road is cut off. Our envoys will cross the sea into South Korea, and before they leave the port, they will be blocked and returned......"

"Why don't you fly directly to Xuzhou?"

"I don't know where Xuzhou is. If you sail all the way to the west, it is said that you can indeed reach the mainland, and occasionally there are merchants from the Han Kingdom who come from this sea route, but they have secret sea charts, and it is difficult for our country to obtain them. In recent years, probably because of the war, the merchants from the west road have also been cut off, and I hope that after Mr. returns to the Han Kingdom, he can persuade those big merchants to send ships to trade with us as soon as possible. We are in dire need of iron swords and bronze mirrors, and we are willing to exchange grain and jade, and the price is negotiable. ”

Zhang Luxin made it clear, this is the reason why you sent someone to find me. He took the opportunity to make his request: "Before returning to China, I want to go to the east first, and I hope that the king can send a person who knows the way to act as a guide." "Since you have a request for me, then you should not refuse if I make such a small request.

Himihu's eyebrows frowned slightly: "Mr. is going to the East? Do you want to go to the Su country......

Before the words fell, I suddenly heard a noise outside the house, and then a palace maid hurriedly ran in and reported to him: "King, Yizhima is leading the Han people again!"