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Originally, Emperor Toba was not supposed to be afraid of the Great Qian Dynasty.

After all, Emperor Toba, who was trapped on the island of Japan and had always thought that he was the eldest in the heavens, the second in the earth, and the third in the earth, could only see Japan that was complacent, and did not know how strong the military strength of the Daqian Dynasty was.

And the ignorant are fearless.

The problem was that in the second half of the 9th century, the coastal areas of Kitakyushu began to be harassed by small groups of pirates from the direction of Goryeo.

The invasion of those small groups of pirates caused damage to the coastal areas of Japan, such as Chikuzen, Chikugo, and Satsuma, and Amami Island was particularly affected.

Following the Goryeo pirates, in the early 11th century, the Daoyi people attacked Japan in a big way.

At that time, a fleet of more than 50 ships raided Tsushima with lightning speed, quickly captured the islands of Tsushima and Iki, killed Iki Morito Tadada, and killed all the inhabitants of the island.

Next, the Daoyi army landed on Itoshima, Chikuzen, Kitakyushu.

Caught off guard, the heads of the neighboring Shima and Hayara prefectures were in a mess, and they didn't even take action to organize defenses, and fled from the manor one after another.

This made the Daoyi army attack these areas without bloodshed.

And every time the Daoyi army captured a place, after plundering supplies, they burned down the houses before swaggering away.

For the captives, the Daoyi army killed the old men and children on the spot, and then transported the able-bodied young men by boat and used them as slaves.

The means are quite ruthless.

"Daoyi" means "foreign domain" in the Korean language.

The Japanese refer to this as "Toi Iriko".

According to the social conditions of the various ethnic groups on the Northeast Asian continent at that time and the geographical conditions around the Tsushima Coast, the so-called Daoyi Iriko was probably an invasion led by hunters who circulated through the Korean Peninsula on the Northeast Asian continent.

It is said that the Daoyi were a branch of the Jurchens scattered throughout northeastern China and the northeastern Korean Peninsula, who traded with the Goryeo Dynasty and began piracy along the east coast of the peninsula in the 11th century.

At that time, the Japanese central magnates, who were only capable of looting peasants and had no ability to resist foreign aggression, were horrified when they heard the news, and had no way to deal with it.

Fortunately, this sword pirate was finally repelled by the Japanese local forces, and Japan was saved.

Later, the Goryeo Navy defeated the Daoyi pirates at sea and sent back 259 Japanese captives who had been captured by the Daoyi people.

From the point of view of time and geography, there is nothing to doubt that this Wanyi pirate must be a branch of the Khitans.

However, among the Khitan people, there are also many Koreans.

It can be seen that the attack on Dazaifu in Japan was a mixed Khitan and Korean army, which was of the same nature as the Mongol army that later invaded Japan.

At that time, Japan's Dazaifu military defense was extremely weak.

This is not just about the relative backwardness of weapons and the anachronism of tactics, but more importantly, the corruption and inefficiency of the Dazaifu bureaucracy itself.

In the face of Daoyi's invasion, Japan's central government seems helpless.

It is no exaggeration to say that if it weren't for the fact that the number of Daoyi people was too small and the military strength was not so strong, Japan might have been captured by the Daoyi pirates.

This incident aroused the fear of the Japanese about the invasion of mainland forces into Japan.

In the sixth year of Kanin, Goryeo invaded, and the goal was to seize the Japanese island of Kyushu.

As a result, the good friends of the writing room repelled it.

This battle once again aroused the fear of the Japanese invasion of Japan by mainland forces.

The Japanese authorities were very nervous about these invasions at the time, and the Yamato Imperial Court asked Dazaifu to collect information on the structure of the ships, equipment, tactics and tactics of the attacking party, and changed its previous attitude of ignoring the outside world.

In order to strengthen the defense of the Kyushu coast, the Yamato Imperial Court set up town guard offices in Iki and Tsushima respectively, and the local wealthy Daizo Nagai served as the Iki Shomo, and the Kyoto nobleman Fujiwara Masanori was sent to Tsushima Island to serve as the Tsushima Shogun, and was responsible for the garrison of Iki and Tsushima respectively.

The group tactics used by the Daoyi people were not only unseen by the Japanese at that time, but they had never even heard of them.

After experiencing the power of the mainland forces, the Japanese hurriedly gathered intelligence and improved the traditional tactics of the Japanese.

Nowadays, although the Japanese army has gradually changed the previous way of fighting on horse, the military system of the regiment based on the athlete system and the selective soldier system under the law system has been completely established, and all the regiments act in unity under the command of the commander, and there will no longer be the primitive fighting of each other and fighting alone.

However, the fear of a mainland invasion of Japan brought about by the invasion of the Goryeo Dynasty by the Toi and Goryeo dynasties was deeply ingrained.

In the eyes of the Japanese authorities, the Central Plains Dynasty, even the Goryeo Dynasty, which was adjacent to the Central Plains Dynasty, was extremely powerful and difficult for Japan to defeat, and if it came to attack Japan, Japan was likely to be destroyed.

Therefore, Emperor Toba was worried about Japan's provocation of the Great Qian Dynasty!

After discussing with several important ministers of the Yamato court, Emperor Toba and his ministers unanimously felt that the bell must be tied to the bell.

Therefore, Emperor Toba sent people to find some high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty and asked them about the situation of the Daqian Dynasty.

After listening to the dignitaries of the Goryeo Dynasty say that the Daqian Dynasty was so powerful that it destroyed several countries and captured all the royal family and clans of the Daqian Dynasty, Emperor Toba couldn't believe it!

- Emperor Toba really can't imagine that the Daqian Dynasty will be so powerful, even the Tang Dynasty, which they let the Japanese worship and still emulate, is not so powerful?

In order to verify whether what these high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty said was true, Emperor Toba asked some merchants of the Daqian Dynasty who lived in Japan to come over.

Some people may ask, did anyone from the Daqian Dynasty still live in Japan?

Indeed there is.

Many maritime merchants of the Daqian Dynasty not only lived in Japan for a long time, but also had shops in Japan, and there was a place similar to a "Chinese town" in Japan.

In fact, this did not start from the Daqian Dynasty, but can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.

As early as the Tang Dynasty, there were Chinese who ran maritime merchants to live and do business in Japan, and they were the first to establish Chinese living areas in Japan.

However, unlike those who have settled in Japan, these Chinese living in Japan will return to China from time to time, or at least keep in touch with China.

Let's put it this way, although Japan in this era pursued a policy of closing itself off from the rest of the world and hoped to make a clear connection with China, in fact, Japan and China still had very close contacts in this era.

Here are a few examples:

In Japan, Chinese Confucianism is admired.

Mahayana Buddhism, which came to Japan from China, has developed very well.

Also, before the introduction of kanji, Japan had only a language, not a written language. After the introduction of kanji, Japan adopted kanji as the official language of its country. It wasn't until more than a hundred years ago that kana began to be produced, and it developed into the current form of katakana mixed with kanji.

- Kana is a phonetic script created by omitting or minimalist cursive parts of Chinese characters. Those that use the block kanji side are called katakana, and the cursive kanji side is called hiragana. Chinese characters are called real names, and abbreviated characters that are omitted are called kana. The pseudonym discards its meaning and takes its sound.

Emperor Toba actually knew very well that there have always been Chinese in Japan, and although Japan has been closed off from China for more than 100 years, in fact, Japan has not been able to dissociate itself from China.

Of course, as the ruler of Japan and the executor of the policy of cutting off China with China, Emperor Toba would certainly not have recognized this before.

That's why Emperor Toba didn't have contact with those Chinese before.

However, nowadays, the international situation has changed abruptly, and one carelessness will ruin Japan's national fortunes.

Emperor Toba also had to meet the Chinese so that he could work out a strategy that would be in Japan's interests and allow Japan to escape the attack of the Daqian Dynasty.

Soon, ten maritime merchants who had just arrived from the Daqian Dynasty were invited to Emperor Toba.

Through careful questioning of the maritime merchants of these ten Great Qian Dynasty, Emperor Toba knew that those high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty were still conservative.

Synthesizing the accounts of the maritime merchants of the Daqian Dynasty and the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty, Emperor Toba sketched out in his mind a powerful dynasty with unprecedented development in politics, military, science and technology, agriculture, people's livelihood, education, and medical care.

Such a dynasty is simply not something that Japan, which is complacent, backward, corrupt, discordant, and troublesome, can contend with.

Emperor Toba hurriedly discussed with the courtiers of the Yamato court how to eliminate the hatred of the Daqian Dynasty and prevent the Daqian Dynasty from giving the Daqian Dynasty an excuse to attack Japan.

Emperor Toba also forced the dignitaries of the Goryeo Dynasty to find a way, and asked his courtiers to threaten them, saying that if they could not think of a way, they would all be arrested and sent to the Daqian Dynasty to appease the anger of the Daqian Emperor.

At the same time, Emperor Toba humbly personally consulted the maritime merchants from the Daqian Dynasty, asking them to save Japan and help Japan think of a way to protect Japan.

What Emperor Toba didn't expect was that the maritime merchants of the Daqian Dynasty and the dignitaries of the Goryeo Dynasty actually came up with an almost identical idea for Emperor Toba.

The maritime merchant of the Daqian Dynasty said: "My Majesty is merry by nature, and I like to collect beauties from all over the world, and the Emperor may as well send one or two princes to envoy me to the Great Qian......

- The female heirs of Japan were the first to be called Himenmei (such as Toyosho into Himemei), and from the twelfth emperor Keikyuki to the throne, until the Nara period, the female heirs were renamed as imperial daughters or Himezen (such as the light lady, Emperor Xiaoken, and Takano Himeson), and then in the Nara period, the male heirs were changed from the original prince to the prince, and the female heirs were correspondingly changed to the inner prince. In other words, Prince Uchi is the title of a princess within three generations of the direct line of the Japanese imperial family.

After a pause, the maritime merchants of the Daqian Dynasty took the initiative to say: "If the Emperor is willing to follow the example of the Asuka Period and the Nara Era to respect the Tang Dynasty as the suzerain, and respect our Daqian as the suzerain, the Emperor's worries should be easily solved." ”

And the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty said: "Emperor Daqian has no daughters, and every time he destroys a country, he will accept the daughters of the royal family and the daughters of the clan into his harem, and the Great Song Dynasty, Daliao and my Goryeo are all like this, if the French Emperor wants to marry the Emperor Daqian, he might as well give up one or two beauties, and use them as the princes, supplemented by some beauties and treasures of my dynasty to go to Daqian to report this matter to the Daqian Emperor, um...... If it is an expedient measure, the emperor can also first pay a table to the big cadres, and wait for the great cadres to turn into decline, and then make calculations. ”

The idea given to Emperor Toba by the maritime merchants of the Daqian Dynasty and the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Goryeo Dynasty made Emperor Toba very excited.

The ministers of the Yamato court also felt that this method was feasible.

Actually-

If there was another choice, the proud and conceited Japanese would not be willing to marry the princess and relatives, and they would also pay tribute to the Daqian Dynasty.

At the beginning, it was precisely because it did not want to live in the shadow of the Central Plains Dynasty that Japan severed its contacts with the Central Plains Dynasty and tried to get rid of the influence of the Central Plains Dynasty on Japan.

But the Daqian Dynasty was so powerful, and Japan really offended the Daqian Dynasty.

The key point is that the Daqian Dynasty has also shown its aggressiveness, which is not easy to get along with.

In order not to bring a catastrophe to Japan.

Even if the Japanese are no longer willing to marry a princess and be a vassal to the Daqian Dynasty, they have no choice but to do so.

But there is one thing.

The high-ranking officials of the Goryeo Dynasty told Emperor Toba that they could send one or two beauties to pretend to be the inner princes of Japan and go to the Daqian Dynasty to make peace.

This incident caused quite a dispute in the Yamato Imperial Court.

Some ministers of the Yamato Imperial Court felt that there were many people who had done this in the past, and it was understandable that they had done the same in Japan.

However, this was opposed by many ministers of the Yamato court.

The reason for these opponents is very simple, that is, if this matter is discovered by the Great Qian Emperor Li Cun, then good things will turn bad, and maybe Li Cun will immediately send a large army to attack Japan.

No, this seems to be a bit tricky, but it is very easy for Emperor Toba to solve.

Emperor Toba stopped the quarrel between the two parties: "I have my own opinions on this matter, so you should retreat." ”

Soon, the ministers of the Yamato court learned that Emperor Toba had ordered the fifteen-year-old Prince Xikounai and the thirteen-year-old Prince Tongkounai, who were born to Fujiwara Akiko, to lead a hundred Japanese beauties to the Daqian Dynasty.

Now everyone understands.

Dare to love, Emperor Toba is using the daughter of Emperor Shirakawa to make peace.

And the good thing about this is that Emperor Toba is still the nominal father of Prince Xizi and Prince Tongzinai, and Li Cun can't find fault with Emperor Toba at all.

Moreover, Emperor Toba can also take this opportunity to get rid of two thorns in the flesh that are in the way of his eyes and make him feel upset.

It can be described as killing many birds with one stone.

High!

It's really high!

All the ministers of the Yamato Imperial Court admired Emperor Toba's move.

Afraid of long nights and dreams, Li Cun sent troops to attack Japan without waiting for them to go to Japan to make peace and call themselves ministers.

The Yamato Imperial Court, which has always been procrastinating and inefficient, made a very rare move this time.

In just a few days, the Yamato Imperial Court prepared ten ships of tribute to the Daqian Dynasty (one of which was filled with Japan's first specialty, that is, gold and silver), and then sent the important minister Fujiwara Minoru to the Daqian Dynasty together with Prince Xizinai and Prince Tongzinai to pay tribute to the Daqian Dynasty.

Before boarding the ship, Prince Kikonai and Prince Tokonai and a hundred Japanese beauties glanced back at their hometown.

All of them knew that if nothing happened, they would never come back in this life.

Are they willing to get out of here?

I definitely don't want to.

But is this due to these weak women?

With a deep nostalgia and deep concern for the future, Prince Xizinai and Prince Tongziai boarded a merchant ship bound for Kyoto of the Daqian Dynasty with a hundred Japanese beauties, and then they stood on the deck to say their final goodbyes to Japan.

It wasn't until Japan completely disappeared from their view that Prince Kikonachi and Prince Tokonachi returned to the cabin and prepared to rest.

But as soon as he entered the cabin, Prince Xiziuchi and Prince Tongziuchi saw a beautiful young woman with a delicate facial contour, with a pronounced jaw curve and soft cheekbones, deep eyes, full lips and natural shape, delicate skin, almost no blemishes, and she looked to be in her twenties, with a natural and elegant temperament and delicate facial features.

Prince Xiziai and Prince Tongziai exclaimed almost at the same time: "Queen Mother!! ”

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