Yagyu Jubei's sword was retrieved, and he stood there thinking about how to compete.

Zhao Han glanced out of the door and asked, "Who is on duty today?" All come in! ”

The four emperors guarded and walked into the side hall.

Zhao Han said to one of them: "Zhou Yingkui, you come to compete." Remember, don't kill him. ”

"Yes!" Zhou Yingkui arched his hand.

Zhao Han's two thousand personal guards, except for the ironclad army with full plate armor, have also been on the battlefield. To be selected as the emperor's personal guard, three conditions must be met: first, the origin is innocent; second, to fight bravely; Third, tall and mighty.

Zhou Yingkui was born in a businessman family and liked to dance with knives and sticks since he was a child. After fighting on the battlefield for three years, after being selected as a personal guard, he practiced swordsmanship with a famous teacher.

He saw that Yanagi Shibei had no armor on his body, so he also took off his armor and said, "Fortunately! ”

Liu Sheng Shibei bowed back and said something that Zhou Yingkui couldn't understand.

"Boom!

Zhou Yingkui drew his sword out of the sheath and threw the scabbard to his colleagues.

Yanagi Shibei also slowly drew his sword, bent down and put the scabbard on the ground. Then he raised his sword forward with both hands, stared into his opponent's eyes, and walked slowly with his feet.

Zhou Yingkui also holds a sword with both hands, this is a battlefield broadsword, and the sword body is shorter than the knife.

The sword is short, but the man is long.

The top of the head of the Yanagi Ten Guards was only up to Zhou Yingkui's chest, and this battle seemed very unfair.

Suddenly, Zhou Yingkui took half a step forward and slashed at the opponent's right shoulder with a sword.

Liu Sheng Shibei raised his knife to block, suddenly stepped forward with his left foot to close the distance, and slashed back at Zhou Yingkui's left shoulder. This is the classic trick of Yanagi Xinyinliu, but unfortunately he met the wrong opponent, and Zhou Yingkui's move was strong and heavy, causing Yanagi Shibei's follow-up moves to deform.

Moreover, when Liu Sheng Shibei slashed his left shoulder, Zhou Yingkui did not dodge or dodge, and stabbed the opponent's throat with both hands.

Yanagi Shibei hurriedly staggered to block, taking advantage of the situation to widen the distance.

This kind of competition can't go on, Yanagi Shibei is a master of technical attack, and the knife skills of the two are very advantageous when they go head-to-head. Zhou Yingkui practiced the battle formation swordsmanship, and he usually wore armor, but he was cut to the left shoulder by the opponent just now, he didn't bother to dodge at all, but stabbed the opponent's throat with a sword.

If Yanagi Shibei did not block and dodge, one was injured in the shoulder and the other died on the spot without armor piercing on either side. If both sides are armor-piercing, Zhou Yingkui can kill Liu Sheng's ten guards in an instant at the cost of a small injury.

Lin Luoshan couldn't understand it at all, and he was quite anxious in his heart, afraid that the Yanagi Ten Guards would lose, and he was afraid that the Chinese Emperor's guards would be injured.

"Okay, no need to compare." Zhao Han suddenly called a halt, he could already see what the situation was.

If you continue to fight, you will either be killed or injured.

Liu Sheng Shibei hurriedly picked up the scabbard, bowed to Zhou Yingkui, and then knelt down for Zhao Han. He was already sweating in his vest with fright, and the sword that had just stabbed him in the throat seemed to feel death coming.

Sitting back down, Lin Luoshan asked in a low voice, "Who won?" ”

Yagyu Shibei said, "Tie." ”

"Tie?" Lin Luoshan didn't understand.

Yagyu Jubei said, "This is a battlefield warrior. Keep playing, there are only two results. One is one dead and one is injured, and the other is everyone dies. And his sword is too heavy, unlike Japanese swords. I haven't encountered it before, and it's likely that I won't be able to adapt and suffer. ”

Zhou Yingkui blushed and said, "Your Majesty ......"

"Don't blame yourself, go back to duty." Zhao Han smiled.

Zhou Yingkui bowed back, a little depressed in his heart, only talking about martial arts skills, he had already lost just now. Using a life-swapping style of play to destroy all the opponent's changes is purely unreasonable.

Of course, if he wore a full set of armor, like Yagyu Jubei, he felt that he could fight five at a time.

Zhao Han approvingly: "Your Excellency is really superb in martial arts. ”

Yanagi Shibei hurriedly stood up: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the compliment." ”

Zhao Han said to Lin Luoshan again: "I like the gift of General Tokugawa very much, and when you leave Nanjing, you will also bring him a gift back." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward!" Lin Luoshan felt that the establishment of diplomatic relations this time had been stabilized.

The gifts from Tokugawa Iemitsu were a famous sword and a folding fan, and Japan couldn't come up with anything other than this.

As for Zhao Han, just give back a few pieces of porcelain.

Zhao Han said: "Big things are small, the teachings of the sages, I know them, and I hope Japan will keep them in mind." ”

Along with the gifts, there was also a diplomatic letter from the shogunate.

It is nothing more than the rhetoric that big things are big and small things, big countries treat small countries with kindness, and small countries treat big countries with sincerity. Both sides follow the principles of Confucian diplomacy and still have a common language, at least ...... On the surface.

Lin Luoshan explained: "Your Majesty, the pirates who repeatedly attacked the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty actually had nothing to do with the shogunate, they were all ronins who were defeated and expelled. If there are still pirates attacking Chinese merchant ships, please send an envoy to inform them, and the shogunate will do its best to exterminate them. ”

Zhao Han smiled and said, "If I encounter pirates, my navy will be destroyed." ”

Lin Luoshan also said: "After the two countries are friendly, please allow Japan to send an envoy to the Tang Dynasty." ”

"These envoys to the Tang Dynasty will stay at Jinling University to study." Zhao Han agreed.

There must be a fee!

Lin Luoshan said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. ”

The Tokugawa shogunate meant that three ports were opened to Chinese merchants. One in Nagasaki, two in Iwami, and three in Shimonoseki. The first two were both direct lords of the shogunate, and Shimonoseki intended to become a direct domain, which was nothing more than an exchange of benefits with the feudal lord.

However, Chinese merchants could only trade with the shogunate, and trading privately with the daimyo was tantamount to tearing their faces.

Lin Luoshan took the envoy group back to the hotel and went to visit Nanjing City the next day. He wanted to live in Nanjing for a period of time, go to Japan with the canonized envoys of the Ming Dynasty, and take the opportunity to exchange knowledge with the Confucianism in Nanjing.

Toilet paper is useful, and Qian Qianyi is useful again at this time.

He was responsible for accompanying Lin Luoshan to play, and the two hit it off at first sight, and they worked together in many fields such as science, painting, and calligraphy.

When he returned to the hotel in the evening, Lin Luoshan sighed: "It is worthy of being the country of China, and there are indeed well-educated people." ”

Another day, Lin Luoshan went to the bookstore, and he was dizzy when he saw a dazzling array of books.

Subset of Scripture and History, Law and Water Conservancy...... I bought one or two copies of all kinds of books, and finally opened this year's "Datong Collection".

"Three Plains" was printed at the front, Lin Luoshan was shocked when he read it, and said to the bookstore owner: "This and this...... This kind of fallacy and misfortune, how dare you put it on the bookshelf and sell it? ”

The bookstore owner was also frightened, and hurriedly said: "Sir, don't talk nonsense, this is an orthodox book, and His Majesty personally wrote the preface!" There are a few articles in it, which are still His Majesty's imperial pen articles. ”

Lin Luoshan hurriedly looked through it, and his heart was shocked beyond words, he finally understood what kind of emperor Zhao Han was.

This kind of book must not be transmitted to Japan, and if you go back, you will ask the shogunate to ban it!

"Sir, there is Nanban." Yagyu Shibei suddenly reminded.

Lin Luoshan turned around and saw that there were both red-haired ghosts and golden-haired ghosts. He whispered to the bookstore owner, "Are there always people from the West here?" ”

The owner of the bookstore said with a smile: "There are two from the Qintian Academy, who helped revise the new calendar, and His Majesty gave him the rank of bachelor." There is another one that I don't know, and it may be Mr. Fanbang from somewhere. ”

Lin Luoshan asked again: "Is Western religion allowed here?" ”

The owner of the bookstore said, "There is a church in the west of the city, and only preachers are allowed in it." If they were caught preaching outside the church, they had to be expelled overseas, and last year one was expelled and fined fifty taels of silver. ”

"That's fine." Lin Luoshan nodded.

Lin Luoshan didn't want to be in the same room with the Western Barbarians, so he asked his subordinates to leave with the books in their hands.

After a while, I wandered around and came to the cloth shop.

Lin Luoshan stroked a piece of silk, and the delicate and smooth touch made him fall in love with it: "Such a fine silk is rare even in Edo, just like a girl's skin." ”

Asked the price again, Lin Luoshan was dumbfounded.

Not because it's too expensive, but because it's too cheap, and the price is only one-fifth of that of Edo.

Lin Luoshan almost took out all his money and used it all to buy silk. Yagyu Shibei also bought one and planned to take it back to Japan to make clothes, this thing is easy to wear, and it can be worn for half a lifetime.

Seeing these Japanese, they looked like they had never seen the world, and the shopkeeper sent them out with a flattering face, and turned around with a disdainful smile.

Although he hated "Datong Ji", Lin Luoshan liked Nanjing, and he had to go out shopping every day, and he almost visited Nanjing in half a month.

"This retirement place is also!"

Lin Luoshan sat in the private room of the restaurant, and ordered the artist to sing a little song, eating delicious food and being a little intoxicated.

Especially the red oil and white chopped chicken, Lin Luoshan was so spicy that his stomach hurt, but he still came to eat it every time. This thing has long been introduced to Japan, and it is called "Karashiko" or "Nanban pepper", and it was used as an ornamental plant in the early days, and at this time it was used as a seasoning and medicine, but they only knew how to grind it into chili noodles.

Yanagi Shibei was in a daze with a full burp, he was so happy these days, he had already gained several pounds, but unfortunately all the money he brought had been spent.

"Where have all the poor in China gone?" Yagyu Jubei suddenly asked a question.

Lin Luoshan was stunned, and then remembered that they hadn't seen the poor all the way.

Of course, the poor people in their impression are the kind of grass people who do not have their clothes, and can only hug each other in the shack in winter to keep warm.

Lin Luoshan couldn't figure it out, so he could only forcibly explain: "If you govern the country with Confucianism and educate all the people, you can rule the world and everyone will be fed and clothed." ”

Lin Luoshan himself doesn't believe this kind of, he is not only a physicist, but also a Japanese politician.

The yellow hair they met in the bookstore before was Peter Mundy, who had communicated with Zhao Han in Guangzhou.

The English merchant, explorer and travel writer was writing at the inn at the moment:

"I left the business to my brother and took a boat to Nanjing, the capital of China. I went to Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Zhenjiang, and except for the emerging Shanghai, the rest of the cities were prosperous and wealthy. Every city can be the capital of a European country......"

"China is like Marco Polo's pen, full of gold and endless wealth."

"You don't see beggars and homeless people here, I asked Chinese officials about it. If there are beggars and vagabonds, they will be sent to the north for reclamation. The emperor would allocate them land, lend them seeds, and rent them ploughing cattle, which would have to be repaid in installments. I heard that the north went through a brutal war, and many people died there. But as long as His Majesty the Emperor insists on immigration, the north will certainly be as prosperous as the south. ”

"There is a miracle in Nanjing, a 270-foot-tall pagoda made entirely of glass. God, I was so frightened that day that I couldn't sleep. ”

"Nanjing's lowest-level citizens can also get rich food through work and labor. All children here are enrolled for free, and even girls as old as 10 years old can read and write. Unbelievable, really unbelievable, China is full of scholars. ”

"The complexion of the people of Nanjing is whiter than that of the people of Guangzhou, which I have seen, perhaps because the sun here is not so hot. Chinese skin is the work of the gods, they are fair and delicate......"

"I learned to use chopsticks. I retract my previous inappropriate remarks and eat with chopsticks, which is not a barbaric act. Many Chinese delicacies must be made with chopsticks, otherwise it will be a very embarrassing thing......"

"Another major discovery is that from Guangzhou to Nanjing, citizens of these cities use glass to decorate their doors and windows. The doors and windows are made of wood into many small lattices, and the beautiful pale green glass is inlaid in these small lattices. Not only does it transmit light and make the interior bright, but it is also so gorgeous. It's too extravagant, even His Majesty the King can't decorate the castle with a lot of glass......"

Peter Mundy's travels in Canton a few years ago had caused a sensation in Britain, and he came to China to do business this time, and he was commissioned by the King of England to bring a private letter from the King of England to the Emperor of China.

"Charles, King of England of the Mandate of Heaven, to His Majesty the Greatest and Invincible Emperor of China......"