In the end, Fujiwara Yutomo wrote a long letter to release the book on the wooden slip.

Zhang Xi also did what he said and left all fifty war horses in Dazaifu as money to buy the road.

In the pine forest north of Dazaifu Castle, a group of Shirasuko who came with the boat sat on the ground and gestured with pine branches, and then whispered. They were observing the size of the camp around Dazaifu, "I'm sorry, I don't even have a thousand people."

This refers to the defense force in the entire Dazaifu.

"That's all, it's the location of the garrison of the Nine Kingdoms and Two Islands... The Duke of Wei's Huaihai Province has 8,000 troops alone."

"The best weapon is the wooden crossbow, and there are no horses. If I were from Silla, I would come here to grab it, and it would be like a wolf entering the flock of sheep."

"Stop talking, the military envoy told me that this trip was not for pirate business. You have some prospects and your eyes are long-term."

Zhang Baogao, who walked out of the Dazai Mansion, waved to the monk Kūkai who was waiting by the Muzha, and asked him to continue walking with him.

Zhang Xi was about to come out half an hour later. He stopped in front of the gate of the Dazaifu, then took out the long wooden slip that Fujiwara Yuto gave him and handed it to a escort next to him, "How about it, isn't this font difficult to imitate, right?"

The attendant had high eyesight and raised the wooden slip and almost all his face was on it, not as if he was looking at the characters, but as if he was smelling the characters. "It seems that the Japanese Chinese characters were also learned by copying Buddhist scriptures. This kind of signature and seal is best to be fake and real."

Yang Xiyuan looked at the monk Kōkai who was heading towards Hakatazu and said to Zhang Xi, "You are really smart in the military. You can understand the connection between the Dazaifu and the Japanese court so quickly. This Japanese monk in distress has become the key."

"That's right, it's the third son of Prince Yamabu. What Prince Yiyu is right?" Zhang Xi was proud.

The key to commerce lies in Prince Yiyu.

Monk Konghai boarded the deck of the Tang ship with awe, looking at the bow and the side of the ship, several copper-cast tubes were discharged. The head was cast into a majestic and ferocious dragon head, with fangs and bloody mouths, facing the waves surging from the distance - he didn't know what the tube was used for, but because he didn't know, Monk Konghai felt even more scared.

On October 13, 17th year of Emperor Kanmu's 17th year, he pioneered six huge Tang family sea ships and twelve flat-bottom sea ships as follow-up fleets from Seto Inland Sea to Nambazu. The Kukai monk on the first ship saw that the small fishing boats in Nambazu were scattered, and some people fell into the sea in a hurry.

Later, Japan called it the "Tang Ship" incident, and one of the songs recorded the situation at that time:

"Nanba Katsu, Otsunosaki, the big ship is coming.

The deserted sea is high, the real oars are thundering, and the thunder is roaring."

"boom!"

When the long tube covered with the glaring dragon head suddenly shot out dazzling lightning and thick smoke, Monk Konghai was caught off guard and was so scared that he sat on the deck. Listening to the rumbling echoes and the laughter of Baishuilang on the Tang ship, his ears almost fell deaf.

A hundred steps ahead of the bow of the ship, a stream of dust rose from a sandbar with pine trees in Nambatsu, and several pine trees were cut off in the waist.

With the roar of the dragon, Sushiyoshi and Namba were shocked, and soon the news of the Tang ship reached Heian Kyoto, Shindu, Japan.

At that time, Emperor Kanmu of Japan had just moved the capital here, but only four years later.

Originally, in order to get rid of the old nobles and the power of the Big Buddha Temple, Emperor Kanmu relied on the power of "naturalized people" (mostly immigrants from the Korean Peninsula), and built Nagaoka Kanmu 80 miles north of the old capital Hiraichou. This city happened to be located at the intersection of Kashigawa, Uji River and Yodogawa. Emperor Kanmu wanted to use Yamazakizu as the key to gather the world's wealth and materials along these three rivers (in this regard, Japan and Tang are similar in this idea).

However, Nagaoka Kyo's construction was not only strongly opposed by the old nobles, but even the palace envoy, Nakanayan and the minister Fujiwara Hoshi, were shot to death by a secret arrow while supervising the worker.

But the fundamental reason why Emperor Kanmu gave up Nagaoka Kyo was the silt in Nambazu, which led to the original plan to use the "Nanbazu-Yamato-Suzuka Pass" to control the West and the East to become increasingly difficult. The new political and economic channel of "Okigawa-Biwa-Orie" began to rise, so Emperor Kanmu set his sights on Katsuno and Atago counties in Yamabe Country, because this place happened to be at the node of the new channel. With the strong help of the Qin clan of the naturalized tribe of the two counties and the descendants of the Baekje royal family, Emperor Kanmu made great contributions to the creation of Xinjing. In the 13th year of Yanli (794), Emperor Kanmu moved the capital to Xinjing and announced to the world:

"This country has mountains and rivers that are surrounded by mountains and rivers, and naturally make a city. If you win, you can make a new name. It is advisable to change the country behind the mountain to a mountain city. The people who come to me praise the romance and say the same words, and call it Ping'anjing."

The regulations of Ping'an Jing are naturally imitated by Chang'an City, which is also a Zhuque Avenue running through the north and south. At the end is the so-called Da Neili Palace City, and the two sides are divided into Zuojing and Youjing. The Taiji Hall is also present in Da Neili, and the Zichen Hall is behind it. At this moment, the agency handling government affairs is in Zichen Hall.

In front of Zichen Hall, there is a tree each, with a plum tree on the left and an orange tree on the right, so it is called "The Plum Blossoms" and "The Plum Blossoms" (later the plum tree withered, and Japanese flower worship also moved from the plum blossoms to the cherry blossoms, so cherry trees were planted instead of the plum tree).

When all the ministers gathered in the Zichen Hall, Emperor Huanwu sat in the imperial tent and spoke: "New Beijing Joy, the land of peace and happiness, and the spring of thousands of years."

All the ministers hurriedly fell down, knowing that the Emperor was worried about the incident of the Tang ship sailing, what would it bring to Japan?

Will the paradise of peace and beauty cease to exist?

The four senators, descendants of the Baekje royal family, were promoted because of their proficiency in Sinology, and suggested that your Majesty temporarily rename the Zichen Hall to Nandian first and remove the Hokage on the roof of the palace. Because the Emperor of the Tang family also had Zichen Hall, he was afraid that the Tang ship would regard our country as an usurpation and used force against our country.

"So, my honorable title is the King of Yamabu?" Emperor Huanwu meant that the diplomatic documents of the Tang ship were also reduced, so I could only call him the King of Yamabu.

"Yes, I just hope that the Tang ship can retreat as soon as possible."

"What if Tang Ship asks for business?"

"It's better to be weak in diplomacy. In addition, our military power is all concentrated in the Ouyu area. Even if we quickly let the general Tamura Masato retreat, it's too late." Masato Sugino's idea was to drag and deceive, and wait for the Tang ship to be satisfied. When he left, he completely strengthened the defenses of Dazaifu and Zhou Fangzun, completely locked the sea routes, and prevented any Tang or Silla ships from coming in.

Behind the curtain of the imperial tent, the emperor asked who should be sent to negotiate with the Tang Ship?

Masato Sugano said that one should have a person who is proficient in Tang territory as the deputy envoy, and then give up the loyal and reliable ministers of his country as the regular envoy, and unify the caliber, so that he can do so.

The Emperor asked Masado Sugino to recommend it.

"The candidate for deputy envoy is naturally the most appropriate person in Qinghai Weiyue."
Chapter completed!