The Ming army withdrew quickly from Heiankyo and took with them 3,000 slaves.

Heiankyo had a population of 200,000, more than half of whom were slaves.

Including the non-aristocratic samurai in Kyo, the status is also slaves, but they are more used - these Heiankyo low-level samurai, many of whom are descendants of the early Central Army, were divided and appropriated by the magnates as private slaves, and passed down from generation to generation as family children.

It is easy for each family to make up 3,000 slaves, and of course Zhu Xiaozhong is taking them to mine.

The gold and silver mines in the three places, if fully exploited, will require more than 100,000 manpower.

But for the time being, there is no such urgency, and it must be done gradually, otherwise it will be too cumbersome to manage, and the food supply will also be very problematic.

Confirming that the Ming army had left, Emperor Toba immediately returned with the court officials and the samurai from the north, and also sent people to Nara to gather a large number of monks and soldiers to fight.

He issued an edict to the prefectures, declaring Fujiwara's loyal father and son to be a rebel, and he had already taken Emperor Shotoku hostage. He also called on the ministers, monks, and wealthy clans of the region, as well as the local wealthy clans along the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, to enter Beijing to sweep away evil spirits, and those who made meritorious contributions could obtain the status of nobility.

Fujiwara Tadashi was also prepared, he claimed that Taira Tadashi had taken Emperor Toba hostage, while Emperor Chongde and the Manchu Dynasty had won the approval of the Ming Emperor and called on the heroes of the world to kill Tairata Sheng Qingjun.

While sending people to ask the Ming army for help, he secretly contacted Yuan Weiyi.

When he felt that the source was uncontrollable, he co-opted the other clansmen of the Ping clan and the Genji clan, and promised various benefits such as pillars and heirs.

This approach really worked, for example, when Yuan Weiyi first came to power, it was because the third uncle assassinated the family governor, and then blamed his second uncle. The father and son of the second uncle were slaughtered by Yuan Weiyi, and the third uncle was killed by the grandson of the second uncle, and the remnants of the two houses had to obey Yuan Weiyi's orders.

Fujiwara Faithful is now co-opting and provoking, and the grandson of the second uncle immediately responds, claiming to avenge his grandfather and father.

Moreover, after the orphan raised the army, he did not immediately go to fight against Yuan Weiyi, but raided and killed the descendants of the third uncle, and successfully took over the manor under his name and the samurai.

Immediately afterwards, there was also a split on the Taira side, and some of the clansmen turned to Emperor Shotoku and Fujiwara Loyalty.

The armies of both sides fought a decisive battle in the countryside on the border between Heiankyo and Nara, and more than 2,000 monks and soldiers participated in the battle alone.

Because the samurai under the command of Taira Tadamori and Minamoto were defeated in the battle of Iwami Province, the clansmen who stayed behind in their hometown were divided, and they were defeated in the battle for several days.

The local wealthy families who came one after another became the turning power of Emperor Toba.

He gave twenty nobles in one go, although they were only low-level nobles, but they were enough to make the local heroes desperate for this. The wealthy families who did not obtain the status of nobility also obtained local official positions below the national department, which also allowed the powerful to fight for it.

From the beginning of summer to the beginning of autumn, the intensity of the war became greater and greater, and the phenomenon of "fighting on one horse" became less and less.

In order to achieve victory, even the low-ranking samurai of the countryside became daring to swing their swords at the large armored samurai.

Fujiwara loyally looked down on the local tycoons, but after suffering successive losses, he also promised titles and official positions to the powerful people, and successfully won over the powerful forces west of Heiankyo.

In September, the two sides fought again.

Emperor Toba's sudden arrival on the battlefield boosted the morale of the Emperor's army, while the Emperor's army was terrified.

Fujiwara was so frightened that he did not dare to go into battle, ordered the army to stick to the camp, and sent people back to Beijing overnight to bring Emperor Shotoku.

Taira Tadamori led the emperor's army, and Minamoto brought only a small number of samurai, and suddenly made a detour to Namba Kyo.

The Minamoto family had been in business in Osaka for several generations, and he promised benefits to the merchants and the Nenbuddha sect, and in two days he pulled up thousands of troops. Although these thousands of people were all rabble, made up of merchants and monks who believed in the Buddhist sect, it was still very scary to suddenly enter the battle.

The armies of the two sides were facing each other, and Emperor Shotoku was also present on the battlefield.

Yuan Weiyi led thousands of rabble, waving various banners, and suddenly appeared on the side of the battlefield.

The morale of the Emperor's army plummeted, and the morale of the Emperor's army was greatly boosted.

When the two sides were at war, the local heroes who had taken refuge in Fujiwara's loyalty actually chose to defect one after another.

Fujiwara fled in panic, and the emperor's army collapsed in an instant.

Emperor Chongde shrank in place and trembled, but the samurai who had killed him did not dare to make a move, but knelt in front of the emperor in a circle, which could be regarded as their capture of the emperor.

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Emperor Toba returned to Heiankyo and began a series of aftermath work.

Including Fujiwara's loyal father and son, more than 30 ministers were exiled - after all, they were relatives and nobles, and they could not be killed directly, and exile was already a capital punishment.

The fish celebrities represented by Fujiwara Ienari officially became the descendants of the Fujiwara North family and received the forces left by Fujiwara's loyalty.

The Fujiwara family is a native of the family, serving as a regent, and his sister is married to Emperor Toba.

Emperor Shotoku was not deposed, but abdicated as Emperor Taishang, and his second brother succeeded him.

Emperor Toba, a monk who became the Emperor of France, continued to rule Japan.

Ping Zhongsheng and Yuan Weiyi made great contributions to the suppression of the rebellion and obtained the qualification for internal promotion. The former served as a pre-war, a deacon of Toba-in, and a doctor of Ukyo. The latter served as Mamoru Owari, and concurrently served as the general of the right guard, and concurrently served as the central affairs of Daisuke.

Twenty-eight people were awarded the title of nobleman, and more than 50 were awarded hereditary official positions.

The monks of Nara and Osaka acquired a large amount of land for the monasteries of Heiankyo, and the monks of the various factions of Mt. Hiei were in a state of collapse.

Osaka merchants were granted the privilege of maritime trade, and in addition to the royal family and the royal family, only they could trade directly with the Daming maritime merchants.

From the nobles of the ministers, to the powerful samurai, to the monks and merchants, all classes of power in Japan have ushered in a major reshuffle.

The monks of the Nenbuddha sect, who represent the low-level believers, and the Nara monk, who represents the religious forces of the past, both gained the right to speak in Buddhism. On the one hand, they befriended the ministers, and on the other hand, they combined with the low-ranking nobles and merchants, and Japanese Buddhism developed in the direction of popularization.

The two forces of Haoqiang and Shangjia have since risen and gradually risen.

Then, Emperor Toba, who had already become a monk, ordered that only official documents should be written to King Toba.

Emperor Chongtoku, who was officially canonized as the king of Japan by the Ming Emperor, has now abdicated and can only be called King Chongde in the future.

The second son who has just succeeded to the throne of the emperor, he is called the king of heaven in official documents.

This series of operations is all to curry favor with Daming.

King Toba also officially selected and sent envoys, who were served by meritorious ministers, nobles, monks, wealthy families, and merchants, and took a ship to Kaifeng to meet the Ming Emperor.

He also asked the Ming Emperor to send a new envoy to canonize the king of Japan, on the grounds that the previous king was seriously ill and could not govern.

He even took the initiative to send grain to Zhu Xiaozhong, indicating that he agreed to the previous negotiation conditions, and also took the initiative to promise to compensate an additional 150,000 stone of military rations. It's just that this year there was a big war, and the food compensation needed to be paid in installments.

Out of fear of the Ming army, and also in order to seize the right to speak, King Toba hired Zhejiang maritime merchants as advisers.

The first to reform was the makeup of aristocratic women.

He asked his concubine to coil up her long hair and learn to comb the hair of a Ming woman. A little broad bean eyebrows, also changed to willow leaf thin eyebrows.

Only the black teeth haven't changed, after all, this thing can't be washed white for a while.

However, King Toba ordered that his underage daughters should not be dyed again when they reached the age of dyeing their teeth.

He also personally wrote a letter to the Ming Emperor and the crown prince, expressing his admiration for the Celestial Empire, hoping to marry the Ming noblewoman as a concubine.

In view of the strong force displayed by the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese minister was afraid and worshipped. They also sent people to contact the Ming maritime merchants, and learned that the most popular literary method in China was "Ciling", so they asked Wako artists to follow the Ming merchant ships to Zhejiang to learn Chinese Ciling dance opera.

It's purely Mu Qiang, and it has nothing to do with self-reform.

These nobles have long been corrupted, they have no interest in developing the productive forces, and they are only chasing the "advanced" fashion trends.

As long as you learn the lyrics, dances, and dramas of the Ming Dynasty, and then perform them locally, you can claim that this is a fashionable "Ming style", and it will surely win countless praises in Heianjing.

However, with long-term people-to-people exchanges, productivity will definitely develop, which is a subtle process.

After the news of Japan's opening of five treaty ports was transmitted back to the Ming Dynasty, merchants from Zhejiang, Fujian, Huainan, and Shandong were moved.

Before the war between the two sides was over, the first batch of Ming merchant ships had sailed into the Seto Inland Sea to do business with Japanese Haoqiang and merchants.

In the first year, it was only barter, and it is estimated that copper coins will be used next year.

The Ming Dynasty, which had insufficient copper money circulation, opened up trade with Japan, which would inevitably cause more copper coins to be lost.

However, copper ingots can be exchanged from Japan.

The Ming court has issued an order that merchants who bring back precious metals or grain from overseas can receive certain tariff reductions.

Among the first shipments, the most sought after by the Japanese minister, in addition to silk, turned out to be paper.

This stems from the progress of China's papermaking technology, and under the intentional promotion of Zhu Guoxiang and Zhu Ming, Yangzhou bamboo paper technology has already spread throughout Sichuan, and has spread to the southern provinces in the past two years.

The improvement of movable type printing technology for ten years, the rapid prosperity of the printing industry, also led to the development of papermaking technology. Not only the bamboo paper process, but also the leather paper process has broken through, and the cost of Fujian leather paper and Jiangxi leather paper has been reduced.

Cheap and high-quality paper, which was very popular in Heiankyo, severely affected Japan's fragile paper industry.

At a monastery on the outskirts of Heiankyo, the monk King Toba has moved over.

He looked at Shinna's female queen (the younger sister of Fujiwara Ienari), and the more he looked at it, the more beautiful he felt.

This noble lady was only fourteen years old, and had just been dying her teeth, but she had stopped dyeing her teeth and was brushing her teeth with white salt every day. With the coiled Daming woman's bun and the curved willow leaf thin eyebrows, King Toba actually tasted an exotic style.

It's simply stunning!

What's even more rare is that Fujiwara Ienari is also here, and the brother and sister sleep together, and King Toba has been very happy recently.

This was the most harmonious period between the royal family and the public family, and the newly appointed Minister of Regents had long been the pampering of the King in bed. And before they got together, Fujiwara Ienari slept with Toba's grandfather.

How can the court officials and the samurai of the north show their power?

One of the important evaluation criteria is whether you have slept with the emperor or the emperor!

King Toba gave the beauty a thrush in a hurry, and the beauty's brother Fujiwara Ienari suddenly came running.

"Your Majesty, the minister has obtained something good again." Fujiwara said as if offering a treasure.

King Toba asked, "It's imported from the Ming Kingdom again?" ”

Fujiwara Ienari asked the palace people to boil the water and carefully took out a tube of black tea.

Boiling water Fujiwara Ienari personally made tea and said: "This thing is called black tea, which was created by Emperor Daming. It can be brewed and eaten, and it can also be sweetened, so please enjoy it, Your Majesty. ”

The temperature of the tea dropped slightly, and King Toba took a sip and immediately praised it: "This tea is mellow and sweet, and it is worthy of being created by the emperor of the Celestial Empire." In the future, the black tea transported by the merchants of the Ming Kingdom could only be traded with the royal family. If the royal family can't finish drinking, it can be given to the ministers and samurai. ”

Fujiwara Ienari waited on the left side of Toba, and his sister waited on the right side of Toba, and the brother and sister coaxed King Toba around.

Regent, can he live in harmony with those in power?

Fujiwara Ienari has just taken over the Fujiwara Kita family, and he has not yet completed the integration with the fish celebrity, and he now urgently needs Toba's support.

Once the family is integrated, it's time for the Fujiwara family to seize more power.

It's only a matter of time before the two turn their faces.

(End of chapter)