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Japan at this time was at the end of the Heian period.

In the impression of many later generations, although Japan's Heian period is not as familiar as Japan's Warring States period when there was smoke and swords, there are also many Japanese manga and anime works that take place in Japan's Heian period or the period based on the Heian period, especially many girl's love manga and anime.

The invincible supernatural power of the great onmyoji Abe Harumi, the god of learning, Sugawara Michi, is really bleak and sad; The soft-spoken amorous nobleman, the shy and beautiful deep resentful woman, the intelligent and cunning poetess, the white beat dancer who sings and dances, the serious and rigid middle-aged monk, the midnight haunted demon and the drunken boy, Tamamomae, and the big tengu......

In these works, the main theme of Japan's Heian period seems to be the romantic love of the wind and snow, and the elegant and flashy aristocratic life.

Therefore, although Japan in this era does not have the pride of men who are golden and iron horses and bloody on the battlefield in the Warring States period of Japan, they are full of feminine delicacy, softness, delicacy and elegance, which seems to be very popular with those female writers.

It seems to look good, just like the Japanese dolls of later generations.

But is that really the case?

Answer...... Not really.

The territory of Japan in this era was very different from that of later generations.

To put it simply, Japan in this era is a big circle.

At this time, the island of Hokkaido was still the world of the indigenous Ezo people.

The Ou region in the northeastern part of Honshu Island (the one on the map from Tokyo upwards) was also a colony of the old natives before the conquest of the Yamato Imperial Court of Japan.

It is only in recent years that the local people have gradually completed ethnic integration and assimilation with the Yamato people.

To the southwest, the island of Ryukyu is still an ignorant and uncivilized wilderness, and the southern part of Kyushu is infested with wild people, and they are only nominally included in the Japanese territory.

In all of these places, they are full of the "simple customs" of primitive society......

Even most of the places under the rule of the Yamato Imperial Court were sparsely populated, slash-and-burn, and infested with wild beasts, and even a slightly decent city could not be found.

The living conditions of the Japanese people in this era are probably not as good as the serfs of the European Middle Ages.

No way.

The birth of Japanese civilization was already in the second century AD.

The Yamato Imperial Court did not take shape until the 6th century, and the Heian period began in the 9th century, which was too late.

Therefore, even if the Central Plains Dynasty in the west vigorously imported the Central Plains culture to Japan, it is really a bit difficult for the Japanese to go from a primitive tribe of slash-and-burn cultivation and blood-drinking to a unified feudal state by rocket.

Imagine what China should have been like during the Xia Dynasty, and in fact, you would not feel that the development of Japanese society in this era was slow.

What's more, although the country has not yet been truly unified, the aristocratic ministers who ruled Japan in this era have already decayed and degenerated.

They let go of the heavy responsibility of opening up the territory and expanding the territory, enriching the country and strengthening the army, and devoted themselves to the mountains and rivers, burned incense and worshiped the Buddha, recited poetry, studied calligraphy, cultivated sentiments, and did some useless things......

What's more, the Japanese ministers and aristocrats of this era also regarded the rest of Japan as "countryside" or even "ghost land", believing that going to those places would be contaminated with bad luck, and they wanted to retreat into the beautiful scenery and Buddhist temples of Kyoto for the rest of their lives.

Occasionally, a few guys left Beijing, most of them either because of exile, because of derogation, or because they fled to escape persecution.

- The people who left and the people who sent them were crying, and some even left suicide notes, and as soon as they arrived at the ground, they looked forward to coming back as soon as possible.

As a result, Japan at this time was a deformed society that was completely disconnected from top to bottom, and the only civilized city was Kyoto, and the rest of the country was a poor area.

In the future of the Kanto Plain, where the prosperous Tokyo is located, in the Japanese concept of this era, it is similar to the great northwest in the impression of later generations of Chinese during the period of reform and opening up.

The first few famous samurai families that rose up in the Kanto Plain were actually the "Production and Construction Corps" sent by the Kyoto ministers to consolidate the frontier.

These poor early samurai had to work hard to defend themselves against the attacks of primitive tribes such as the Soil Spiders and Ezo people, while cultivating land to grow rice.

- The Yamato Imperial Court in Kyoto, Japan, was generally not responsible for the supply of military rations.

As for the ministers who were sent there to serve as state secretaries and other positions, they were basically equivalent to cadres who supported the great northwest in the early days of reform and opening up.

As a result, the wealth, civilization, and art of this era, as well as the so-called "legends of the Heian period," have all been condensed into Kyoto.

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At this time, in the middle of the large torii gate of Heian Jingu, the very center of the small land of Kyoto, Japan, Emperor Toba was having a headache.

Emperor Toba is the eldest grandson of Emperor Shirakawa and the eldest son of Emperor Morihito Horikawa.

At that time, Emperor Toba's grandfather, Emperor Shirakawa, abdicated, but continued to control the state as a monk.

Emperor Shirakawa was in power, not only made his son Emperor Horikawa a puppet, but also forced his thirteen-year-old son to marry his thirty-two-year-old sister (that is, his nephew married his own aunt), staging a realistic version of the Condor Heroes.

Later, Emperor Horikawa grew up disobedient and had many conflicts with Emperor Shirakawa.

So, one day when Emperor Horikawa was twenty-nine years old, Emperor Horikawa died of a sudden illness, which was very suspicious.

Soon after Emperor Toba was born, his mother died.

Both parents died, and Emperor Toba was naturally raised by his grandfather, Emperor Shirakawa.

When Emperor Toba was seven months old, he was made the crown prince.

After the death of Emperor Horikawa, the five-year-old Hoba-Hoji became the new emperor.

At this time, however, all the affairs of Japan were managed by his grandfather, Emperor Shirakawa.

At that time, Emperor Shirakawa had an adopted daughter named Fujiwara Akiko, the daughter of the Fujiwara clan.

When Emperor Shirakawa was a child, he took Fujiwara Akiko to his side and raised him, and pampered him.

By the time Fujiwara Akiko became an adult, rumors about Emperor Shirakawa and his adopted daughter Fujiwara Akiko had already spread to everyone.

Emperor Shirakawa wanted to marry Fujiwara Akiko to Fujiwara Tadamichi, Fujiwara Faithful's sister-in-law, Fujiwara Faithful, because Fujiwara Akiko had a bad reputation, and it was rumored that she had an affair with her adoptive father, Emperor Shirakawa, so she resigned from the marriage.

Emperor Shirakawa was furious, so he married Fujiwara Akiko to Emperor Toba, and established it as a middle palace, prohibiting Fujiwara's faithful daughter Fujiwara Yasuko and others from entering the palace as concubines.

In the years that followed, Emperor Toba and Fujiwara Akiko gave birth to five boys and two girls.

However, it is rumored that Fujiwara Akiko has been at odds with Emperor Shirakawa since he was fifteen years old.

In other words, the five boys and two girls born to Fujiwara Akiko were actually all from Emperor Shirakawa.

This is the story of Emperor Toba, who is famous in Japan, marrying his grandmother, and his wife giving birth to his own uncle, and grandparents cuckolding each other.

There is evidence for this.

Faced with this oversized green hat sent by his grandfather, the young Emperor Toba was indeed a little unbearable.

But under the eaves, he had to bow his head, as a puppet monarch who was in danger, Emperor Toba could only accept it silently.

However, according to historical records, after Fujiwara Akiko and Emperor Toba became married, he often maintained improper contacts with Shirakawa as his granddaughter-in-law, and when Fujiwara Akiko's first son was born, Emperor Toba did not even look at it, and some even heard such a roar from the mouth of Emperor Toba: "This is not my son!" ”

Throughout his life, Emperor Toba did not show any affection for the children born to Fujiwara Akiko.

Crucially, when Emperor Toba was only twenty years old, under the auspices of Emperor Shirakawa, Emperor Toba gave the throne to Emperor Shotoku, the eldest son born to Fujiwara Akiko, and the actual control of Japan was still in the hands of Emperor Shirakawa.

- This Emperor Shotoku is said to have been born to Emperor Shirakawa and Fujiwara Akiko, and he is also the prototype of the Great Tengu, one of the three great yokai in Japanese legend.

Emperor Toba then changed from Emperor Toba to Emperor Toba.

Emperor Shirakawa continued to interfere in the politics of the Yamato Imperial Court.

As a result, in the history of Japan, there was a peculiar phenomenon of the three emperors standing side by side, the emperor, and the emperor.

It wasn't until Emperor Shirakawa survived the death of Emperor Shirakawa, opened a court administration, and lived in the shadow of his grandfather for half his life that Emperor Toba reversed Emperor Shirakawa's policy and finally had the opportunity to reclaim everything that belonged to him.

As a result, the former ministers who had been alienated and abandoned by Emperor Shirakawa were able to return to the court, and groups of nobles in power were suppressed, and Emperor Toba also welcomed Fujiwara Yasuko, the loyal daughter of Fujiwara, who was alienated by Emperor Shirakawa, into the palace to consolidate his own court government.

As for Fujiwara Akiko, who lost the protective umbrella of Emperor Shirakawa, Emperor Toba directly deposed him and stripped him of the inheritance rights of all his sons.

But the matter is not over here, in order to take revenge on the dead Emperor Shirakawa, Emperor Toba also married one of Emperor Shirakawa's favorite concubines during his lifetime, and really returned a green hat to his dead grandfather.

Later, Emperor Toba favored Fujiwara Tokuko (the prototype of Tamamo Mae, one of Japan's three major yokai), and forced Emperor Shotoku to relinquish the throne to Fujiwara's son, Emperor Konoe.

At the same time, Emperor Toba also became a monk, and his Dharma name was Soraku, and he became the new emperor of Japan.

- Emperor Shotoku became Emperor Shotoku.

Since then, Emperor Toba, like his grandfather, Emperor Shirakawa, has become the de facto ruler of Japan.

Nowadays, it will certainly not be a trivial matter for Emperor Toba, who is the most powerful person in Japan at this time, to feel a headache.

And so it is.

Not long ago, Emperor Toba received a disturbing news - the Goryeo Dynasty, which was close to Japan, had been attacked by the newly born Central Plains Dynasty, the Daqian Dynasty, and the king and queen of his country, as well as all the royal families and clans, were arrested and placed under house arrest.

Actually-

If that were all there was to it, Emperor Toba wouldn't be so worried.

Be.

Japan was adjacent to the Goryeo Dynasty.

But after all, there is a vast ocean between the two countries.

With the protection of the sea, it stands to reason that Japan should be safe, and it is completely possible to watch the tiger fight from across the sea.

You know, this is how Japan has been for so many years.

However, Emperor Toba is keenly aware that this time the situation may be a little different.

First of all, Emperor Toba felt different that the previous Central Plains Dynasty could not be said to have the ability to expedition to Japan, but it would certainly not be so easy, after all, although the shipbuilding skills of the previous Central Plains Dynasty were also ahead of this era, they were far from reaching the point where the current Daqian Dynasty could come to Japan if they wanted to.

In fact, in the face of the fact that the Great Qian Dynasty had been forcibly opening the Japanese market with smuggling and plundering Japan's gold and silver over the years, Emperor Toba had repeatedly banned it.

A big reason for this was that Emperor Toba did not dare to go too far, so as not to give the Daqian Dynasty an excuse to attack Japan.

Of course, this is also because the Japanese aristocracy, including Emperor Toba himself, really can't do without the porcelain, silk, glass, soap, spices and other luxuries that dazzle the Japanese.

Under the repeated prohibitions, Emperor Toba can only turn a blind eye......

To say that the Daqian Dynasty has the ability to attack Japan, it is nothing, and it would be good if Japan did not provoke the Daqian Dynasty like the Goryeo Dynasty.

However, what really troubled Emperor Toba was that this time Japan really provoked the Great Qian Dynasty.

Here's the thing.

After the Daqian Dynasty attacked the Goryeo Dynasty, it carried out a very brutal purge of the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty, so that the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty not only lost the land and wealth they had accumulated for countless generations, but also slaughtered them themselves (public trial).

As a result, a large number of high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty chose to flee from the Michi.

These high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty would certainly not flee to the Daqian Dynasty, because this would be tantamount to throwing themselves into the net.

The Jin State is not good, because the Daqian Dynasty is attacking the Jin State, and in the eyes of many high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty, the Jin State will have to be captured by the Daqian Dynasty sooner or later, and they will still have to live a life of exile if they flee to the Jin State.

In this way, Japan, which is close at hand, seems to have become the best choice for the high-ranking officials and gentry of the Goryeo Dynasty.

As a result, a large number of high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty fled to Japan.

In this era, Japan was actually closing itself off, that is, not interacting with any country, but living its own life, including its neighbor Goryeo Dynasty.

Of course, since the Goryeo Dynasty and Japan were so close to each other, there was still a lot of contact between the two countries, and it was easier to get to Japan from Goryeo.

If Emperor Toba had known about this in time, he would definitely not have let these high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty, who would have caused trouble, enter Japan.

The problem, however, was that the Japanese government of this era, especially the bureaucracy of Dazaifu, the local administration in Chikuzen Province, Kyushu, Japan, was inefficient and corrupt.

INTERVIEWER The bureaucrats who were in charge of Dazaifu in this era were mainly of two types: the local nobles and the nobles sent from Kyoto, the former represented by the Kikuchi clan and the Sonata clan, and the latter represented by the Fujiwara clan.

The bureaucrats of Dazaifu saw that the people from the Goryeo Dynasty were all wealthy people, each with large bags of gold, silver and jewelry, so they blackmailed them and obtained a large amount of money and benefits before sending them into Japan.

By the time Emperor Toba learned of this, a large number of high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty had already entered Japan and dispersed among the Japanese, and it was difficult to find them again.

The question is, even if it takes great effort to find out these high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty, it must be believed by the Daqian Dynasty, and if the Daqian Dynasty does not believe it, or simply crooks its mouth, it will say that these high-ranking officials, nobles and gentry of the Goryeo Dynasty are not right or there are not enough people, what should we do?

Do they have to send troops to arrest the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty for the Daqian Dynasty again?

It's already a boat.

Today, Japan has taken in a large number of people who wanted to be killed by the Daqian Dynasty.

Isn't this an excuse for the Daqian Dynasty to attack Japan?!

Emperor Toba had a headache and really didn't know how to resolve this trouble......

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