Heiankyo is a standard checkerboard layout, with thirty-three streets horizontally and thirty-nine streets longitudinally.

There are no walls, but there is a gate.

The city gate is quite majestic and solemn, and its name is Luo Chengmen, also called Rashomon.

Countless ghost stories in the Heian period took place under the Rajo Gate.

Entering the Luo City Gate, it is a wide avenue that leads to the moat of the Imperial Palace.

This street, called "Vermilion Bird Road", is actually the Zhuque Street that imitates Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty.

The city had a population of about 200,000, but there was not a single free people, all royalty, nobles, monks, onmyoji, and their generations of slaves.

Hundreds of years ago, successive emperors worked hard to completely abolish slavery in law and create a central army that could deter all sides.

Now it has regressed in an all-round way, the Central Army is gone, and there are more and more slaves.

The breeze is blowing, the showers are stopping, and the cherry blossoms have fallen.

In the middle of the lake, there are a few songs from time to time. Even though the Ming soldiers have been killed in Osaka, Heiankyo is still singing and dancing, and countless nobles are still drunk and dreaming of death.

A pony carrying the samurai came to the Rajo Gate and galloped along the Suzaku Road.

This is a northern samurai, without great armor.

He went straight to the palace, knelt down in front of Emperor Toba and said, "Your Majesty, the Tang army is already miles away!" ”

Emperor Toba was shocked: "Didn't you let you go to Namba to negotiate?" ”

The warrior replied, "When I was halfway there, I met them, and the Tang army detained the others and asked me to come back and report the news." They ......"

Emperor Toba asked, "What do they want?" ”

The samurai replied, "They want Your Majesty to bring the emperor, as well as the officials of the court and court, as well as the monks and nobles of the city, to greet him outside the gate of Luocheng." He said that he was the envoy of the Tang State, and he came in two days, and he also brought the canonization edict of the Tang Emperor. ”

Emperor Toba was extremely angry, and his hands clenched into fists as if he wanted to fight hard.

But he has been suppressed by his grandfather for a long time, and he has developed a "calm" character, and as long as he can still live, he will not do anything.

After struggling for a long time, Emperor Toba said: "You go back and tell the general of the Ming army, just say that I will do it according to his arrangement." ”

After the samurai from the north left, the magnates in the city also got the news one after another, and they came to the palace one after another to meet them.

Ping Zhongsheng has been hunting in the east, and he almost didn't say that he would move the capital.

As long as they moved to Eto (Edo), the Taira clan could rely on local forces and unite with the Oe clan, who had been operating in Gangdu for many years, and firmly control the central power with one article and one martial force.

Fujiwara's loyal father and son are resolutely opposed to this, and they will never allow the capital to be moved!

The nobles and monks who came to meet him cried and dissuaded Emperor Toba in front of him. Ninety percent of them are against moving the capital, and the Heianjing of 200,000 people is related to the interests of countless powerful people.

Ping Zhongsheng also said: "Your Majesty can temporarily retreat, and issue an edict to King Qin halfway, ordering all the soldiers and horses from all over the world to go to King Qin in Beijing." ”

Fujiwara was furious and rebuked: "You want to put Your Majesty to death, most of the counties and countries in the world are remote leaders, and the national affairs are all tied to the hands of the wealthy family." Those local wealthy families often disobey the yang and the yin, and even drive away the state secretary who went to the post. Even if they lead the army and serve the king, can they work together? What if I get in with the bandits and hurt Your Majesty? In the event of defeat by the Ming army, where can Your Majesty flee? ”

Yuan Weiyi shouted: "Your Majesty, I am willing to lead the troops to resist the enemy." Heiankyo had 200,000 men, numerous samurai and monks, and slaves from each family could also be recruited. I heard that the army has only come to more than 2,000, and we will definitely be able to win a big victory if we recruit 50,000 troops! ”

This goods are here to make trouble, in fact, they wear a pair of pants with Fujiwara and resolutely oppose Emperor Toba leaving Heiankyo.

Emperor Toba looked at Ping Zhongsheng: "If you can recruit 50,000 soldiers, can you really defeat the Ming army?" ”

Ping Zhongsheng said: "Although most of the children of the nobles in Beijing have armor and knife wielders, their big armor is flashy, and even some of the big armor is made of paper. The monks and soldiers usually show off their might, but they only dare to bully the middle and lower nobles in the city, as well as those merchants and civilians outside the city. As for the slaves, even if they recruit more soldiers, they will be scattered in a hurry when the battle starts. ”

Emperor Toba began to complain to the ancestors, don't want a good mountain city, why imitate Chang'an City?

Now leading to his royal palace, there is only a moat to defend.

The low wall on the inside of the moat is not used to defend against enemies at all, but more like an embankment to prevent the water from overflowing the moat.

After thinking about it, Emperor Toba made an astonishing decision, he said: "I am just the emperor, and the emperor should be at the disposal of the emperor for the affairs of a country." If the Ming army comes, they will accompany the emperor to negotiate, and I will go to the temple in Nara to worship the Buddha. ”

Everyone was stunned, and they all looked at Emperor Toba stupidly.

This old man, like Song Huizong, is purely afraid of death, and the foreign enemy is coming to let his son take it.

The responsibility for the next land compensation is also borne by the son.

If the Ming army did not leave, or if the emperor was killed, Emperor Toba fled to Edo. If the Ming army left, Emperor Toba would return and use the samurai from the north to regain power.

How to seize power, there is a fixed routine.

It is nothing more than a monk himself, from the Emperor Toba to the Emperor Toba. Then let the eldest son abdicate as the emperor, and set up the second son as the emperor.

When the time comes, this guy won't even live in the palace, and will move to the temple to continue to control the power just like his grandfather.

Fujiwara's loyal brain turned quickly, and after Emperor Toba took power, although he also relied on the Fujiwara clan, he always had reservations. Moreover, he also used the routine of Emperor Shirakawa to win over other streams of the Fujiwara North family.

Even the descendants of the Fujiwara Kita family were divided by the dead Emperor Shirakawa.

The current situation is that Fujiwara's faithful eldest son serves as the regent, so the father and son are secretly intrigued.

Emperor Toba took the court officials and the samurai from the north and fled south to Nara.

As soon as these people walked on the front foot, Fujiwara Tadashi began to connect with the back foot. Not only did he unite the nobles to support the emperor, but he also promised many benefits to the monks, and then worked with his second son to overthrow the eldest son.

In the crushing defeat of Iwami Province, the northern samurai of Emperor Toba suffered huge losses, and although many large armored samurai were redeemed, the samurai of the Lang Party were detained.

Taking advantage of the damage to Emperor Toba's armed forces and the abandonment of the capital by Emperor Toba, Fujiwara had every chance of regaining power.

Once the coup d'état was successful, Japan at that time was neither ruled by the court nor by the shogunate, but returned to the Nara period, where the aristocracy and the monks joined forces to control the country!

Two days later, Zhu Xiaozhong sent a message that the envoys of the Ming Dynasty were coming, and ordered the king of the Japanese to lead the ministers of civil and military affairs out of the city to greet him.

Since Emperor Toba has run away, then Emperor Shotoku and Fujiwara Tadamichi should take the lead.

Fujiwara Tadamichi, who is a regent, is busy preparing for this matter.

On the eve of the arrival of the Ming envoy and the army, Fujiwara Tadamichi couldn't sleep, and he was not in the mood to enjoy the song and dance, so he sat in the study and read at night.

The door was slammed open, and Fujiwara was about to reprimand the servant, when he saw several servants rushing over, while his father and younger brother stood outside the door.

"What do you want to do?" Fujiwara Tadamichi said in horror.

Fujiwara looked at his son faithfully and sighed in a low voice: "Alas, you are sick and need to rest for a year. ”

Fujiwara Tadashi hurriedly said: "If my father wants to take the position of regent, even if he takes it, why should father and son turn against each other like this?" ”

Fujiwara sneered faithfully: "It was arranged by the emperor to let you be the regent, and the emperor didn't change it." How can I just do it? ”

The father and son have an inside view and a camera.

The former allows you to preview the official documents of the imperial court before the emperor. The latter is the regent, and is the regent of a hereditary relative.

The two positions, which were originally one, were split by Emperor Shirakawa and let the father and son hold them separately. has been sowing discord all the time, causing increasing contradictions between father and son.

It's really interesting, Emperor Toba is like Song Huizong, and the enemy is coming to let his son take the pot.

Fujiwara's father and son are like Cai Jing and Cai You, who can obviously cooperate, but they fight inwardly because of the struggle for power.

The next day, Fujiwara Tadashi took his second son to the Imperial Palace to meet Emperor Shotoku. And in front of the powerful, he claimed that his eldest son was seriously ill and asked for the post of temporary regent.

Emperor Shotoku was still a minor, so he agreed in a vague way, and Fujiwara Tadashi returned to regent.

Immediately afterwards, he led the emperor, ministers, and monks along Suzaku Avenue to the gate of Luocheng, waiting for the arrival of the Ming envoy.

Hundreds of people stood there until noon, and finally saw the figure in the distance.

The envoy sent to Japan this time was Zhang Jun, the founding minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. When Zhu Ming broke Kaifeng, he was still in Shaanxi as a general judge, and he was initially reluctant to enter the new dynasty, so he returned to his hometown in Sichuan to rest for a year before becoming an official.

"Knock to the angel of heaven!"

Fujiwara faithfully secretly pulled the sleeve of the emperor's coat and motioned to Emperor Chongde to kneel and bow.

Emperor Chongde knelt down in a daze, and the imperial family, ministers, and monks behind him also knelt.

The translator muttered a few words in Zhang Jun's ear, and Zhang Jun frowned and said, "Where is this the little king and the big king?" ”

Fujiwara replied faithfully: "The emperor was infected with evil spirits, and he couldn't afford to be sick, and Master Heiankyo couldn't cure it, so he was escorted to Nara to ask the mage to exorcise evil spirits." ”

Zhang Jun was stunned for a moment, and instantly thought of Song Huizong, and suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.

The negotiating envoy Oe Weishun, who was detained by the Ming army, asked in surprise: "Did Seki also go to Nara together?" ”

Fujiwara faithfully said, "The dog has a bad illness and can't leave the sickbed. ”

Oe Weishun became more and more frightened, pointed at Fujiwara and said, "You...... What do you want to do? ”

Fujiwara Faithful no longer answered, but faced Zhang Jun: "The small state of the lower country, I have not been a king for a long time, and I have even neglected the Celestial Empire." If His Majesty the Emperor of the Celestial Empire has any instructions, please let the angels advise. ”

Zhang Jun repeatedly confirmed with the translator, then pondered this passage carefully, then asked Fujiwara about the identity of the faithful, and finally looked at Oe's face with a frightened face.

It seems that there is chaos in this Japanese court.

Since Fujiwara is so obedient, there is no need to make extraneous branches, Zhang Jun said: "Detain all the people of Oe Weishun and others, and the crime is to anger the angels." ”

Zhu Xiaozhong didn't understand and asked, "Why?" ”

Zhang Jun smiled and said, "We'll know later." ”

Seeing that Oe Weishun was continued to be detained, Fujiwara was ecstatic and admired the eyesight of the Ming envoy in his heart.

As long as Daming doesn't squeeze too hard, Fujiwara is loyal and willing to agree to all conditions.

(End of chapter)