More than a month later

In the Ming court

Emperor Richard received a recital from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying that the Fusang Kingdom sent an envoy to celebrate the prosperity of the Tang Empire, which was enough to set an example for all countries, and the prestige of the great power made the four Yi guests obey, which was enough to be called the kingdom of the Heavenly Empire!

The envoy of the Fuso State was sincere in his words and humble in attitude, and asked for the title of ......

This time

But Richard was stunned, and after a short hesitation, he quickly became ecstatic, and from his heart he expressed a strong sense of superiority and achievement, which was enough to intoxicate people.

At this moment

Richard was able to deeply understand the heyday of the Shenzhou Continent in the past, and the monarchs of the Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties were full of pride and enthusiasm of "under the whole world, it is not the king's land", which was the ultimate satisfaction of the desire for power.

It is no wonder that the emperors of all dynasties and dynasties like to engage in the surrounding small countries and clans, which is the most powerful way to show the ultimate influence of imperial power, and there is a sense of ritual of "the world is in my hands".

You don't see it

The British Empire also liked to do the same, and since the heyday of Queen Victoria's era, Her Majesty has held a grand medal presentation ceremony at Buckingham Palace every spring.

In addition to the British who contributed to the rule of the British Empire and overseas colonization, it also included members and subjects of royal families throughout Europe, as well as dependent peoples in the colonies.

King Leopold I of Belgium was awarded the Order of the Garter, the highest rank, in addition to the French, Dutch, Prussian, and even Spanish royal families, all of which received British orders of varying ranks.

The succession of hundreds of princely kings in the Indian subcontinent all need to be conferred by Her Majesty the Queen of the British Empire in order to have a legitimate name of rule.

This practice is undoubtedly above the royal families of Europe and the princes of the colonial princely states. It can be seen as the European version of the suzerain-vassal model, which is relatively more egalitarian and more acceptable.

The Fusang State sent an envoy to the court to present a congratulatory table, which is a suzerain-vassal relationship with oriental characteristics, which means that the Fusang State will serve the Tang Empire as the upper kingdom of the Heavenly Empire, and be willing to be a vassal status, what kind of glory is this?

The surprise came so suddenly that Richard couldn't suppress the ecstasy in his heart, and he laughed up to the sky, and the sound shook the hall.

"Hahahaha...... Good, good, good, very comforting......"

The significance of the tribute paid by the Fuso Kingdom was very different and significant, far from being comparable to that of a small country like the Ryukyus, although it was unexpected but reasonable.

Think about it, what is there in Fuso today?

Now at the end of the historical reign of the Fuso Shogunate, if nothing changes, a civil war will break out between the reformists and the shogunate guards in the second half of this year.

The outcome of the civil war ended with the secret exit of the shogunate's conservative faction, and the Meiji Emperor officially took office the next year, in 1866, thus opening the curtain of the vigorous "Meiji Restoration", which affected the entire East and Southeast Asia and even the Pacific for more than a hundred years of turmoil.

The "Meiji Restoration" of Fuso was a comprehensive Westernization, which began with the "dissemination of the sword order", and the entire Fuso society tried to integrate into Western culture in terms of education, military politics, living customs, and etiquette, and achieved subversive changes.

From this point alone

The determination of the Fuso State to eliminate the accumulated losses of the previous dynasty was far more thorough and resolute than that of the Qing Dynasty, and the actual effect was also better.

The "Decree on the Removal of Swords" advocated that scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants (then known as the Four Peoples) should not comb their hair in a bun (Tsukidaitou), and samurai should not carry swords (note, shogunate officials must carry swords when wearing ceremonial clothes), and advocated wearing suits to break old habits, and the whole society advocated "civilized civilization".

Nothing has happened today, and the country of Fuso is still the rule of the shogunate, which is rampant and full of corruption, and more than 230 feudal domains across the country are in their own affairs, dividing the whole of Fuso into a plate of scattered sand.

Transportation was extremely inconvenient, the circulation of goods was expensive, and each time a feudal lord passed through his territory, he had to pay a transit tax and other taxes under various names, and the standards were not uniform, depending on the feudal lord's preferences.

As a result, the entire country of Fuso is completely fragmented from the state of small-scale peasant economy, unable to develop commerce and industry at all, let alone the slightest hope of getting rid of poverty and backwardness and becoming rich and powerful.

If it could not smash such feudal shackles and reshape the new world, how could Fuso Kingdom usher in the hope of the "Meiji Restoration"?

Lee perceived;

It's good that Fuso Kingdom maintains the current shogunate rule, and it's good to be poor and backward, anyway, it's not a matter of a day or two to eat bran vegetables, is it difficult to hold on for a few more decades?

Richard was not faced with a multiple-choice question, but a must-answer question.

Accepting the Fusang National Greeting Table is a matter of undoubted importance, and it should be vigorously publicized by the whole society, which is a major event that demonstrates the glory of the empire and enhances the self-confidence and cohesion of the people, and it is worth writing about.

The relationship between the clans and vassals in the Eastern world has a long history, first originating from the Han Dynasty and reaching its peak in the Tang Dynasty, when the Ming and Qing dynasties re-established the noble status of the Celestial Empire.

For example, after the Ming Dynasty fixed the capital of Jinling, the following year, the king of Goryeo sent an envoy to celebrate the founding of the Ming Dynasty and asked for the title.

At his request, Zhu Yuanzhang sent an envoy to hold the golden seal in the third year of Hongwu and named Wang Yuan as the king of Goryeo, thus establishing the suzerain-vassal relationship between the two countries.

"Since the number of contributions, New Year's Day and Holy Day are sent to congratulate, the year is normal."

In the same year, the Ming Dynasty opened a branch to take scholars, and ordered Goryeo and other countries to "practice the scriptures and cultivate the Ming people...... Gong went to Beijing to take the examination, and the number of selections was not limited".

In all dynasties, the etiquette of the relationship between the central imperial dynasty and the surrounding small countries and vassals, and the pilgrimage has become a rule, which not only demonstrates the majesty of the heavenly kingdom, but also takes care of the face of the small country.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, the Fusang Kingdom sent an envoy to congratulate the table, the Lanfang Kingdom in the South Seas heard about this, and also sent an envoy from thousands of miles to the court, this is a sign of the prosperity of my Tang Empire!"

Prime Minister Yoo Hyun-jun and other courtiers heard His Majesty's hearty laughter outside the palace, and hurriedly came to congratulate with a smile on their faces, bringing another exciting piece of good news.

Lan Fangguo sent an envoy to the DPRK?

Richard reacted with only a slight startle, then nodded and laughed; "Hahahaha...... Okay, good, this happy event is coming one after another, it is really a sign of the prosperity of the empire, Zheng Aiqing, you choose a good day in the near future, I should lead the civil and military officials to burn incense and worship the ancestors, and announce to the heavens, it is right. ”

"We're in command." Zheng Yuan, the head of the Royal Secretariat, received the order with a respectful expression.

His Majesty the Emperor was in a good mood, and Liu Xianjun and other important ministers made fun of the happy words, rendering the atmosphere in the hall festive and warm, and several important things were decided after talking and laughing.

It is nothing more than etiquette, hospitality specifications, location, who is in charge and other corresponding matters, these have precedents to follow, but there are some things missing.

The parliament allocated a special amount of money, and it was sufficient to follow the old practice of the former Tang Dynasty.

It's also quite interesting to say, the Tang Empire had only one vassal state before, that is, the Ryukyu Kingdom.

In North America, where Spain or Portugal once ruled over Central or South America, they didn't know what the relationship between the clans was.

They can't be blamed for this, it takes thousands of years for a habit to form.

Nowadays, the Tang Kingdom has neither a ceremonial department dedicated to receiving tribute from the envoys of the vassal states, nor a pavilion for them to live in, nor any relevant reception personnel arrangements, which is almost blank.

At this time, His Majesty the Emperor was in a good mood, and decided the matter between talking and laughing.

In the future, foreign tributary envoys will all be received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will set up a special protocol department, and the parliament will approve a temporary law to purchase a number of secluded mansions in Chang'an City for the daily accommodation of the tributary groups of the vassal envoys.

These residences are collectively called "state guesthouses" and are under the jurisdiction of the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and their daily expenses are basically determined by the administrative affairs appropriation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It's easy to get things done if you have money.

The Tang Empire is so prosperous and rich, is there still a lack of those three melons and two dates?

Based on the face of the imperial family, some relevant halogen books need to be prepared, which is another big expense.

Emperor Richard waved his wealthy hand, and all this expenditure was financed by the imperial house, and the government did not need to bear this cost.

The book is the general name of the ancient emperor's travel honor guard, chariot and horse and entourage shield armor equipment, which has the role of clarifying the system, showing the rank and ensuring safety.

The word "halogen" is also known as "lurd", that is, a kind of large shield made of armor, arranged in a certain order, and there is a special book record, the emperor's honor guard needs to strictly follow the order of the shield contained in the book, so it is called "halogen".

The name of "Lu Book" started in the Qin and Han dynasties, initially played the role of a police officer, and later added the honor guard of holding the golden gourd, treasure item, banner and music and dance, which was a set of extremely cumbersome imperial battles, and more than 10,000 people were needed to follow the city when they officially went on patrol.

A full armor of the Royal Janissary cavalry was fully armoured, from helmet to cuirass to leg armor, standard clothes, saddles, leather horse bags, weapons, water bottles, and elaborate armor decorations, plus horses ridden, a complete set worth thousands of dollars.

One cavalry is like this, what about thousands of cavalry?

The Royal Praetorian Guard of the Tang Empire is not without a foundation, the cavalry war horse armor and saddle are ready-made, but some deficiencies must be filled, such as the bright fiery red feathers on the helmet, the beautiful gilded decoration on the breastplate, the golden yellow tassel belt, the velvet horse coat and other things.

All of them add up, and millions of huge sums of money are spent.

Before the Tang Empire, the implementation of the Eastern and Western etiquette blending methods, there was no systematic purchase of "thin", not to mention anything else, the ancient emperors did not have the five chariots when they went out on patrol, everything was simple.

The five chariots are the five kinds of cars that the ancient emperors traveled, which were named after the materials of the ornaments, and were in order of rank: jade chariot, gold chariot, elephant chariot, leather chariot, and wooden chariot. The jade chariot was used for sacrifices; Jinluo is used for concierge; The elephant looked at it with his hand; The leather wheel is used for warfare or to patrol the country; Wooden bridles are used for hunting.

The jade chariot is the car decorated with precious jade when the ancient emperor sacrificed, each one is worth a fortune, and the purchase cost alone will cost more than 100,000 Tang Yuan, also known as the jade chariot, is the head of the five chariots, symbolizing the dignity and high of the imperial power.

These things, the Tang Empire does not have, and all of them need to be purchased.

In the past, it was unnecessary, Western etiquette did not pay attention to these, and it would be good for the Queen of England to have a golden carriage to sit in, and she had no concept of these cumbersome and different names, and she didn't know what the use was?

It's different now.

Some neighboring countries in the East that were deeply influenced by Chinese etiquette came to pay tribute, such as Fuso, Korea, Vietnam, Ryukyu and other countries, and these ancient rituals are very valuable, especially North Korea, Vietnam, these countries are dead dogmas.

If you see that the dignified Tang Empire can't even take out the "thin water" of the emperor's travel, and the etiquette system is incomplete, you don't know how to arrange it in private?

The "halogen" is not necessarily used for the royal ceremonial guard, but it must be had.

"Your Majesty, the envoy sent by Fusang to the Tang Dynasty has arrived, I hope to meet Your Majesty, please give the king's title, I don't know when it is appropriate to summon it, please ask Your Majesty for royal permission."

"Hmm...... Next month, let's have a big court meeting, and call Fusang to send Tang envoys to meet him. ”

"We're in command."

There was always a joyful atmosphere in the hall, and after discussing the government for a while, Prime Minister Liu Xianjun led a group of courtiers to retreat and return to silence.

After the departure of the ministers, Richard still felt excited, and the joy in his chest seemed to surge like a wave, and he walked back and forth in the main hall a few times, and suddenly walked in the direction of the side hall and the imperial study.

Come to the Imperial Study

Standing in front of a large hand-drawn map of the world, more than one person high, Richard looked across the Pacific Ocean to the location of the Fuso Islands in East Asia......

The four large islands of Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Ezoji, as well as many other small islands, are you...... Wait a minute.

Richard suddenly stared at a large island at the top of the Fuso Islands, on which the three big characters "Ezo" were written on it, not the familiar Hokkaido.

At this time, he had a bold idea in his heart, but he did not know much about the relevant historical evolution and needed further confirmation.

"Spread the will of the Federation, immediately sort out the relevant situation in the northern part of the Fuso Islands and report it, and do it quickly!"

"Wechen obeys."

The official on duty immediately surrendered his order, and then left in a hurry.

A moment later

The history of Ezo is brief, and it has been placed on the imperial eucalyptus in a dignified manner, waiting for His Majesty to take a look.

"Ezo land" is the name given to the Ainu people of the northern barbarians in the Edo period, and the corresponding places such as Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu are called "Wajinji".

One civilization, one barbarian, two worlds entirely.

The Ayinu people live mainly in the northeastern part of the Fuso Islands, as well as the "Ezo Land", or "Hokkaido" as they later called, and they have a very different culture from Fuso, and live by fishing and hunting.

In the culture of the Ainu. They believe that all living things in the world have souls, worship all living beings, and respect and believe in all living things.

They believed that dead creatures would become gods and worship their ancestors.

In the tribe of the Ainu. Every year, the women of the Ainu have tattoos around their mouths, forewrists, and backs of their hands in the belief that they will be blessed by the gods.

They relied on fishing and hunting for their lives, and the ancient Ainu people made their clothes out of feathers, animal skins, and fish skins, and their food was mainly meat, so they were stronger and more sensitive than the ordinary Fuso, and they were good at making and driving canoes, and had unique wooden frame houses.

7,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Ainu came to Fuso from Southeast Asia, and there is also a theory that the Arabs came from western Asia.

During the last ice age, the first humans from Sakhalin arrived in the Fuso Islands via a huge glacial land bridge. They started the Jomon period, and they are the ancestors of the Ayinu people.

The Ainu people originally inhabited Honshu, but were later expelled all the way to Hokkaido by the Yamato regime. They also tried to expand their territory into Sakhalin, but failed.

From the beginning of the Yamato history, there was a history of conquest and constant invasion of the Ainu people from the north.

Just like the continuous attack on the northern nomads in Chinese history, the grievances between the two sides have lasted for thousands of years.

The earliest legends;

At that time, there was a samurai of Yamato called Kokuzun (the legendary Fuso Takeson, the son of the 12th Emperor Keiyuki) who went out to conquer "Ezo", and when he entered Mutsu Province by sea, attacked Hitakami Province of Togi, and then passed through Hitachi Province (Ibaraki Prefecture), this was the first time that Yamato and Ainu fought each other, and it was a thousand years ago.

With the course of history

The Yamato tribe successively sent envoys to the Sui and Tang dynasties to China to study civilization, so that their political, economic, and social systems developed faster and faster, and gradually surpassed the Ayinu tribe, which was still a tribe for organization and hunting for a living, and its power expanded very rapidly.

Around the Asuka period (7th century).

Ezo inhabited a vast area from the central part of present-day Miyagi Prefecture to the north of Yamagata Prefecture in the Tohoku region and most of Hokkaido, and in peacetime they traded with Wajin, obtaining rice, cloth, ironware, and crafts in exchange for kelp, horses, furs, feathers, and other specialties.

As the Yamato government expanded its territory northward, the Ezo people often fought for defense, rebelled, and attacked the castle fences built by the Japanese, and many records of Ezo raids and the Yamato Imperial court's conquest of the Ezo people are recorded in the history of Fuso.

After thousands of years of feuds and wars, the barbaric Ainu were gradually driven out of Honshu and settled in the cold and resource-poor land of Ezo.

After the Kamakura (1185-1333) and early Muromachi period (1385-1481), the northeastern part of Honshu was almost completely reinstated, and only the island called "Ezo Land" (present-day Hokkaido) was left as the final home of the Ezo people.

After the 15th century, the Wato people began to enter the "Ezo Territory", which is the Toshima Peninsula in present-day southern Hokkaido. At that time, Kazuto established a base called "Hokanan Twelve Pavilions" and people in this place.

At that time, the powerful people who were active in the southern part of the Ezo region were the Oysaki clan, whose ancestors were originally a representative of the Mutsu Ando clan, and they were active in the southern part of Ezo, and their power was initially weak, but they only developed rapidly after the Battle of Hu Yu Ma Yin.

The Battle of Hogama Yin was fought in 1457 on the Toshima Peninsula in present-day Hokkaido, and was the first war between the Yamato and Ayinu tribes in the "Ezo Land".

It is probably located in the city of Hakodate, Hokkaido, where many Yamato villages lived at that time.

At that time, the leader of the Ayinu tribe, Hu Hao Mayin, used the incident of the killing of the Ayinu men to gather the Ayinu people of his own tribe and launch a war to attack the residence of the Yamato tribe, "The Twelve Halls of the South of the Mountains".

Enraged, the Ainu rushed to the bottom of Odate Castle and set fire to the houses and a large number of houses under the castle, killing innocent Japanese civilians. and cut off their heads.

News of the war was soon reported to the Hakodate Prefecture, and the head of the Oysaki clan, Yoshishi, immediately ordered the subordinate prefectures to send troops for reinforcements.

On March 17, Yoshigeru sent another envoy to report the news of the barbarian rebellion to the court of Heiankyo.

Subsequently, Yoshiba Jishi mobilized elite troops from the national capital and Iwamatsu Castle to suppress the rebellion in the northern province. However, the barbarian rebel army gathered more and more, and the officers and soldiers lost their fighting spirit due to the disaster, and they were outnumbered.

The barbarians attacked the south of the city, burned down the public and private houses there, and slaughtered the people under the city, and the situation in the northern province became critical.

Mid-April

Oysaki Jifan received a reply from the DPRK and China, and according to the instructions, he ordered the soldiers of Odate to go south to the Nodai camp, which was more than 50 miles away from the city, to garrison the key points, and formed a horn with the southern official army.

Subsequently, Yoshihiro Takezaki sent Takeda Nobuhiro to lead an army to a decisive battle with the Ayinu army, and killed Hu Yu Ma Yin's father and son in the chaos, ending the battle.

……

I watched it for a long time

After Richard covered the book, he rubbed his somewhat dazed head, the history of the Fuso and the Ainu people for more than a thousand years is a chronicle of the same room, full of war and chaos.

Eventually, it was the outnumbered Yamato clan who won the victory and expelled the Ainu from the northeastern part of Honshu Island to live in seclusion in Ezo.

The current Ezo was prompted by the Russian approach to the Fuso Islands in the late 18th century, prompting the Edo shogunate to tighten its control over the northern border.

The measure to strengthen the shogunate's control over the north was that the shogunate directly controlled the Ezo land, which did not belong to any of the foreign daimyos.

In 1799, the Higashi-Ezo land was directly controlled by the shogunate, which began the process of the shogunate's direct control of the Ezo land.

In 1807, in order to prevent the local Ainu people from rebelling again, the shogunate transformed the "Donan Ezo Domain" into a direct jurisdiction and established the so-called "Ezo Shogun" in an attempt to introduce the advanced Yamato Japanese social system and improve the economy of the local Ainnu people.

At the same time, the separation of the living areas of the Yamato and the Ayinu tribe and the reduction of civil conflicts also meant that the Ainnu gradually lived under the social system of the Yamato and were unconsciously assimilated.

The direct control of the shogunate has continued until now, and due to the weakness and corruption of the shogunate, Ezo has been in a state of laissez-faire for most of the time, with no funds and no will to improve the backward appearance of the local area.

Today, the entire Ezo land is basically in a primitive state, with no more than 60,000 people on the island, of which more than 60% are Ainu people, and the rest are Wa people.

What's the matter?

Richard took a sip of the warm teacup, and pondered it in his heart.

The little devil of Fusang is a white-eyed wolf who is not familiar with it, afraid of power but not virtuous, and bowed his head to his ears in the Tang Dynasty, and during the Ming Dynasty, he made a rebellion and wreaked havoc on almost half of the Ming Dynasty.

The best thing to do is to put a cage on this white-eyed wolf.

Now that history has completely changed, after the acquisition of Amami Oshima and the acquisition of the Ryukyu Kingdom, the main channel for the future expansion of Fuso Province to the south has been blocked.

If it can be picked up from Ezo (Hokkaido), it will not only allow mainland immigrants to go to many nearby places, but also firmly limit the space for the development of Fuso to the north, and directly advance the power of the Tang Empire from Zhongtu Island to the west by more than 2,600 kilometers, directly to the edge of the Fuso Islands.

It is only hundreds of kilometers away from the Shenzhou Continent, and hundreds of kilometers northwest can reach Vladivostok Port, if the Royal Navy ironclad fleet is stationed here, it will directly block the Far East Fleet's sea passage that Tsarist Russia hopes to establish, which is of great strategic significance.

As a large island with an area of more than 83,000 square kilometers, not to mention the abundance of Ezo, it is still possible to live for a million people, which is far more important than the Amami Islands.

It seems that there is still a need for some careful planning.

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