Japan, Hakata Bay.

This crescent-shaped bay located in the northern part of Kyushu Island in Japan has been a window for exchanges between Japan and the East Asian continent since the Asuka era.

At that time, the Japanese Yamato court suffered a crushing defeat in Baicunjiang on the Korean Peninsula. They began to realize the power of the Tang Empire, so they set up a "Tangwu Yamen" called the Dazaifu near Hakata Bay on Kyushu Island. This Yamen is responsible for exchanges with the Tang Empire, and also for preventing possible Tang ship attacks!

But the Tang Dynasty was really busy back then, with too many enemies to teach, and Japan really couldn't stand the number... So until the demise of the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese did not wait for the Tang ship that was coming.

The invaders of the Tang Dynasty did not come, and the Japanese envoys sent by the Dazaifu sent away batch after batch. Later, these people brought the advanced technology, culture and political systems of the Tang Dynasty back to Japan. In that golden era, the Dazaifu was almost the biggest driving force for Japan's development and progress.

However, with the collapse and destruction of the Tang Dynasty, Japan's "Tang Affairs Movement" came to an end... Since the Tang Dynasty was gone, the Tang Dynasty would not attack anymore, and Japan still launched the Mao "Tang Affairs Movement"?

Moreover, the things that were passed down from the Tang Dynasty to Japan were not all good... Especially the separatist vassal states and the collapse of the gentry society that began in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. In the eyes of the emperors and ministers of Japan, it was simply a collapse of rituals and music!

That is absolutely not something you can learn!

Therefore, since the fall of the Tang Dynasty, Japan stopped the "Tang Affairs Movement" and began to close the country. Since then, China and Japan have no official exchanges.

However, while Japan was implementing a closed-door lockdown, it did not close the Daizaifu. Because Japan also needed to conduct foreign exchanges, and when China entered the Song Dynasty, navigation technology and overseas trade developed rapidly. The Japanese court could control official diplomacy, but could not control civil trade.

Moreover, the Japanese nobles also needed to wear the silk of the Song Dynasty - their clothes were particularly fabric- they could not produce them themselves, so of course they had to import them.

In addition, in order to show their elegance and culture, those people also consume a lot of tea, books, pens and ink... Oh, they also like to apply toxic and harmful lead powder to their faces! That is also a good thing that only existed in the Song Dynasty!

In short, the "Song Affairs Movement" cannot be carried out, but the consumer goods of the Song Dynasty are still needed.

Therefore, the Japanese Daizaifu has changed from an institution that promotes the "Tang Affairs Movement" to an institution that manages foreign trade... and their management methods are actually quite distinctive.

The first is of course monopoly. How can you make money without monopoly? It doesn’t matter whether the Dazaifu makes money or not, but the people in charge of the Dazaifu are all the nobles of Heian Kyo, so they have to make money!

The second is to package the normal trade into tribute... Those who come to do business naturally cannot say that they are profiteers, but must say that they are tribute envoys and come to pay tribute to the emperor. The goods they bring are tributes, and the things they take from Japan are given by the emperor.

Because it is a tribute, the business of Hakata is concentratedly placed in the Honglu Pavilion under the jurisdiction of the Dazaifu - the Honglu Pavilion is located on the edge of Hakata Bay, on the west bank of a river called Nakata.

However, with the increasing decline in the authority of the Heian court, the rise of the local samurai class in Kyushu, and the flood of mail-in manors, the smuggling trade in Kyushu also rose... Around 1130 years of the Western calendar, 12 distribution centers for smuggling trade appeared along the coast of Kyushu Island. These places where private merchants gathered were called "Tangfang", "Tangfang", "Tangfang", "Dangfang", "Dangfang", "East Fang", "East Fang", and "East Fang".

The largest smuggling distribution center is Hakata... just opposite the Honglu Pavilion under the jurisdiction of the Dazaifu, and is only separated from the Honglu Pavilion by Hakata's Akisaki Tangfang in Nakagawa.

Around 1130, as many as 1,600 private Song Dynasty merchants opened shops there to do business. Most of the Song Dynasty merchant ships that drove Buda Bay in Budao Bay directly went directly to the wharf of Shiqi Tangfang.

Yes, that's so blatant!

The reason why he is so bold is that the Hakata Shizaki Tangfang on the other side of Nakagawa was built on the land of the Shizaki Shrine. The Shizaki Shrine was sent to the name of Tooba Utsunomi... In fact, it was controlled by the local local lord Shrine family in Kyushu.

Emperor Toofeather is now the most powerful emperor!

The shrine under his protection is of course the representative of the Fujiwara Hokan family. The current Dazai Shin-Kuan Shin-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang-Kuang

So after this senior minister from Uta Genji took office, he was too lazy to go to Honglu and Hakata Bay. He just stayed in the hall of the Dazaifu and was his otaku, playing walnuts with a group of artful kids from the Kyushu local tyrant family, playing walnuts, Chinese poems, and enjoying a few no dramas to see if there are any beautiful "white beats" to hook up with... Although I can't make much money, my life is still very leisurely.

He is already in his sixties. Isn’t it good to live a leisurely life with the cute little white-faced warrior and white pats? Smuggling or something... Let them go!

Today, on the eighth day of November 1, the fifth year of Oji under the rule of Emperor Tsuto of Japan, it seems nothing special to Yuan Jingxing... When he finished washing up, finished breakfast, and waited in his house to sing, write poems and watch operas with a group of white-faced samurai, the turning point of history has come.

He saw one of his retainers hurriedly entering the yard, and after kneeling down, he reported: "Report to the Lord, the Dazaifu is not a violation of the envoy, please ask for a meeting with the Master Dazai Miyajima Okushi!"

"Oh?" Yuan Jingxing's eyes lit up when he heard this. Why shouldn't he come with Omiyaji?

Needless to say, it must be the smuggling incident of Shizaki Miyako's protection and smuggling... It was arrested!

"Who shouldn't be considered by the prosecution now?" Yuan Jingxing asked, "I'm quite brave."

"The Lord, the current prosecutor is not a violation of the law. "

"Oh..." Gen Jingxing nodded, not remembering this person... But it doesn't matter, as long as someone dares to stab the hornet's nest in Shizaki Miya.

If someone stabs a hornet's nest, he, as a power master, can collect money... Of course, he knows that Ji Qing will not fight the tiger of the Saki Palace because of his patriotism and love for the court. The emperor behind the Saki Palace!

Therefore, the contradiction between Zhong Ping Ji Qing and the Sutra of the Damiya Sizong must be unevenly divided into the spoils... That is why the lawsuit was brought to his own power master.

"Yaoxi!" Yuan Jingxing said with a smile, "Let them wait... and wait until the official has finished watching the Noon Drama, and then go and deal with the dispute between them!"

"Hayi!"

Yuan Jingxing's retainer left, while Yuan Jingxing opened his fan and covered his mouth and was secretly having fun. After having fun for a while, the retainer came back like a flying flew.

"Master, the prosecutor must report to the Dagongshi Department for any urgent matters. Please be sure to summon him immediately!"

"Nani?" Yuan Jing was unhappy after walking, "What is more important than my official appreciating Noh Drama?"

"Master!" The retainer was also surprised and said to the path of the Source Jing, "It was the Tang ship coming!"

"The Tang ship is coming?" Yuan Jingxing was stunned. What's going on?

"No! Is the Tang Dynasty gone? How could there be a Tang ship?" Yuan Jingxing knew about foreign affairs, and he also knew that the Tang Dynasty was gone!

"Master... the Tang Dynasty is gone, the Tang Kingdom is still there!" said the retainer, "It was just a family that changed to be the emperor. It was the new emperor of the Tang Kingdom who sent warships to Japan, hundreds of ships, covering the bays of Hakata!"

"What does this have to do with me?" Yuan Jingxing's old face turned pale, and he could even save money on lead powder today.

"Master, you are the chief magistrate of military power!"

"Brave?" Yuan Jingxing became even more scared when he heard this, "Do you have any soldiers in the Dazaifu?"

"Yes!" the retainer nodded, "The Chumaki Kingdom where the Dazaifu is located has four legions, of which the Imaika regime and the Yuanhe regiment are stationed in the Dazaifu Water City."

"It's really!" Yuan Jingxing's eyes widened, "Who are the generals of these four legions? Where are they? And... Where is the water city of Dazaifu?"

He has been a power division for many years, but he has never seen any legion or water city...

"Master, the earth slope outside the official office of the Dazaifu is the water city... It was built in the Asuka period, and the Imperiala and the Yuanhe period were also the legions of the Asuka period."

"Flying Bird..." Yuan Jingxing had the urge to chop people!

It's all Heian Kyo now, and it's been hundreds of years since the era of Asuka, and there's still a Nara era.

If he were a northern warrior, he would now draw his sword and kill this nonsense retainer.

Unfortunately, he was not a warrior and could not kill people, so he had to ask this retainer to quickly take the case of prosecutors and illegal things as the Zheping Ji Qing and Omiya Shizo Sui Yoshi.

Zhong Ping Jiqing is a samurai... It's not that a samurai cannot do the responsibilities of the escort office! Moreover, the escort office has soldiers, with a total of 500 elite soldiers! It's okay to catch a bandit or a fugitive... At most, it's impossible to catch it, so the bandits and fugitives won't be eliminated.

But this time we came with hundreds of Tang troops...

"The Quanshi, the subordinates have brought 500 elite soldiers!"

"Shipster Quan and the lower officials also brought all 300 guards from Miyaji." The Omiyaji, the Son-Soshi Yui, also raised samurai... Without samurai, no one would look at the manor of the shrine.

"Only 800 people..." Yuan Jingxing asked, "Is it enough?"

"Enough!" Zhong Pingjiqing nodded and said, "Enough protectors, you have escaped!"

Zong Xiang Jingyi also nodded: "Yes, run away quickly!"

"Escape?" Yuan Jingxing was stunned, "Why did he escape?"

These words scared Zhong Ping Ji Qing and Zong Xiang Jingyi. There were hundreds of Tang ships, but why did Tang soldiers have tens of thousands of Tang soldiers? We only have 800 people. Do we still have to resist?

Yuan Jingxing carefully said: "Shouldn't we send envoys to seek peace? Maybe the Tang people had no idea to destroy our country..."
Chapter completed!