Fu Tang

Japanese people?

Oh, they can actually be called Japanese now. In the early Tang Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom applied for a name change because the name became derogatory, but the Central Plains people still habitually call them the Wa Kingdom.

Although the Central Plains has experienced wars and has not yet recovered, it is unavoidable to avoid the disdain in the heart when mentioning the Wa Kingdom, which is derived from the pride in the bones.

However, as a time traveler, Li Congjia's feelings towards Japan are very complicated. Now when he heard that Japan was involved in the war in the Southern Zhou Dynasty, Li Congjia couldn't help frowning.

Sensing Li Congjia's anger, Shi Xueting was a little confused for a while. In his opinion, this matter was indeed irritating, but it didn't make Li Congjia even feel murderous, right?

Li Congjia suppressed the churning killing intent in his heart, lowered his eyes and asked, "Who is colluding with the Japanese?"

Shi Xueting handed over the note and said, "Southern Zhou Military Department Shangshu Zuo Yujie."

Li Congjia closed his eyes and calmed down, telling himself that it was more than 1000 years ago, not later generations, so he didn't have to take Japan too seriously, if he really didn't like it, he would fight.

After comforting himself for a long time, Li Congjia opened his eyes and asked: "Japan is not so close to the Southern Zhou Dynasty, and they still interfere in the affairs of the Southern Zhou Dynasty. Hey, which emperor is here in Japan now?"

Li Congjia raised his head and thought for a long time, but before he could figure it out, Shi Xueting said, "It's Emperor Xianping."

Emperor Kenpei?Li Congjia searched his mind for a long time before he realized that this is Emperor Lengquan. However, the name of Lengquan was based on the posthumous title on the palace where he lived after his death, so now he is still Emperor Kenpei.

In the words of Emperor Reizumi, Japan should be in the Heian period now, and this period should be regarded as a period of great change in various senses in Japan.

Li Congjia asked: "Do you know who wrote this? It shouldn't be. Now their royal family and nobles are fighting fiercely for power, and the Fujiwara family and the Genji family are not in harmony with each other. How can they still make a move?" To take care of Nan Zhou?"

Li Congjia looked up after talking to himself, and saw Shi Xueting looking at him like a god, and immediately knew that he seemed to have missed something, but he asked very calmly: "What's wrong?"

Shi Xueting withdrew his gaze and said, "I know a lot."

Li Congjia smiled lightly and said, "When I was the prince, I also met Japanese people. Japanese political struggles have a long history, but I just don't know what's going on now."

Shi Xueting said: "I sent someone to find out, and it's not much different after all."

No, it's not that the difference is not much, but it is not bad at all, and Li Congjia also knows that Japan's hundreds of years of upsurge in learning Chinese culture has passed, and now it has gradually entered the "Era of National Style", that is, during this period of normal Pseudonyms started to appear.

And it was also in this era that Japanese poetry began to form its own style, instead of imitating China, poetry that used all hiragana characters appeared.

Li Congjia always felt that the Heian period in Japan was a bit like the stage of the contending of a hundred schools of thought in the Central Plains, but it was far from the contending of a hundred schools of thought. After all, the ancestors of the Central Plains enlightened themselves, while the Japanese began to have their own style after learning from the Central Plains. One has a foundation and the other has no foundation, of course the difference is huge.

Seeing Li Congjia's rare daze, Shi Xueting felt a little uneasy. He felt that Li Congjia had behaved a little abnormally since he heard the word Japan. Although he tried his best to cover up this abnormality, Shi Xueting could feel his anger. field change.

"Chongguang?" Shi Xueting touched Li Congjia's forehead, worried that he was hit by something.

Li Congjia came back to his senses, took a deep breath and said: "Let them fight first, Japan may have ideas about Nanzhou, but it doesn't matter, let Li Hongji be prepared, if there is a war, there is no need to show mercy to the Japanese, what's the problem?" I resist."

Shi Xueting was a little surprised at Li Congjia's coldness towards Japan, but he didn't say anything, he just gave Chunsheng a wink, Chunsheng immediately understood, and after telling Li Congjia what he had just ordered, he was sure that Li Congjia would not change the order There was no other order, so he retreated to the Privy Council to announce Li Congjia's oral order.

Of course, oral orders cannot be used as evidence, so Li Congjia's secretaries will write his oral orders in writing, and then Li Congjia will stamp them, and then the Privy Council will stamp them, so that they can be sent to Li Hongji.

After receiving such a decree, the Privy Council murmured in their hearts: Where did this Japan offend their emperor?

According to normal procedures, in the face of foreign forces, half of them will not back down but will not take the initiative to provoke, especially in countries like Japan, after all, across the sea, as long as they are beaten back, how can there be time to deal with them?

It's just that since Li Congjia said it, they didn't object, it was just Japan.

Li Congjia is very glad that this era is different from the later generations. The later generations will not fight if they can not fight, but in this era, they can fight when they are not happy. It is really... It makes people feel refreshed.

Seeing the order and leaving the Privy Council, Li Congjia immediately felt relieved. He touched his chin and turned to look at Shi Xueting and said, "Choose some people from the Guangming sect and go to Japan to preach."

Shi Xueting:? ? ? ? ? ?

Li Congjia saw that he was a little puzzled, so he said: "Cultural export is still very useful."

The reason why Japan no longer learns from the Central Plains is because the Central Plains is not much stronger than them after the war. They feel that their own culture is enough, so they don’t study, so they start to produce their own literary system.

It’s just that this kind of literary system is still relatively fragile now. Everything is very fragile when it was first born. Although Japan no longer comes to learn, the deep-rooted concept will make them feel that the Central Plains is still strong, just like the future generations even in their own country. Science and technology are already very advanced, but some people still think that Japanese products are better, and this concept is not easy to change.

The Song Dynasty in history did not care much about Japan, so Japan developed vigorously. Unfortunately, Li Congjia would not give him this opportunity. He wanted to continue to assimilate the Japanese as much as possible, and it was best to bring Japan into his pocket. As for the island For Li Congjia, it is no different from a brush. If you can use it, you can keep it, and if you can’t use it, you can throw it away.

For this reason, Li Congjia did not hesitate to let Shi Xueting choose some insignificant things, such as the toilet.

Li Congjia has now discovered that high-tech weapons will only attract the attention of high-level officials, and ordinary people are more concerned about their living standards. Toilets are a good thing. Hey, maybe Japan’s intervention in the Southern Zhou Dynasty this time is for toilets?

Li Congjia felt that his brain was too big, but there was someone next to him who had a bigger brain than him.

Just now Shi Xueting was just surprised why Li Congjia sent people to Japan. Although he still doesn’t understand why Li Congjia cares so much about Japan, what Li Congjia wants to do is what he wants to do. He has always supported Li Congjia unconditionally.

Isn't it just sending some people over?What is that?

Shi Xueting didn't understand what Li Congjia meant by cultural export, but he knew that what Li Congjia wanted to do was to control the Japanese ideologically, and that was no problem at all. He not only wanted to send Guangming Sect, but also Buddhists past!

"Buddhism?" Li Congjia thought for a while and said, "Isn't it suitable? Now that Buddhism in Japan is on the decline, and their native Shintoism is beginning to rise, monks may not be useful in the past."

You know, Shi Xueting took a look at Li Congjia. He was used to Li Congjia's almost omniscient state in some aspects, and he didn't ask, so he just replied: "It is because of the decline of Buddhism that we need to send In the past, how useful would it be if Buddhism flourished? Let people help the Buddhists over there, and maybe they can help our people secretly. After all, the Guangming religion is just a foreign religion with no foundation. Even in the Tang Dynasty, the Guangming religion is now It’s also not comparable to Buddhism, and the acceptance in Japan may not be very high, so it’s imperative to send Buddhists, um, or you can send Buddhists there first, and then send Guangming believers there after someone takes root there.”

Li Congjia blinked and asked, "Do you think the Guangming Cult can stand?"

If the Illuminati Cult can stand firm, then Chang'an, the headquarters of the Illuminati Cult, can completely become a holy city in the eyes of the Illuminati Cultists in Japan!

Shi Xueting said frankly: "It is impossible to be sure about this kind of thing, we can only work hard, but if it is really chaotic over there now, it may not be impossible, not to mention that we brought things with us, only our believers You can use this thing, have an opinion? Don’t use it if you have an opinion.”

Li Congjia gave Shi Xueting a thumbs up in admiration: "I am relieved knowing that you are so shameless."

Shi Xueting raised his eyebrows: "Shameless?"

Li Congjia immediately surrendered while avoiding Shi Xueting's claws and said, "No, no, I mean you are flexible, don't~"

Shi Xueting said with a smile: "Then let you experience my flexibility again."

In the end, it was Taofu who came to rescue Li Congjia. Taofu brought two papers, one of which was a plea, um, written by Li Hongji.

Li Congjia was a little puzzled, what did Li Hongji do to get him to plead guilty?

When he opened it, he found that Li Hongji wrote honestly: The internal strife and disputes in the Southern Zhou Dynasty were endless, and the Japanese country took the opportunity to intervene. The Japanese couldn't bear to ruin it, so I defied the military order and led the army to attack. This was the fault of the minister alone.

This one is an apology, and the other one is an apology-the Huainan Army performed well in the first battle, killing more than a thousand enemies.

Killing a thousand doesn't sound like much, but when you think about it, it's a water battle, and it's not as convenient to cut off the enemy's head as it is on land, so in fact, the Huainan army should have killed more people than this, the best thing But there are dozens of Japanese among them.

There were not many people, but the number of people sent by Japan may not have been many. They worked hard to get to the point where they were trusted by the high-level officials of the Southern Zhou Dynasty. Datang was wiped out in half.

Li Congjia was very happy, how could he be his brother?This tacit understanding is really amazing. After all, Li Congjia's order has just been issued, and it is estimated that he has not yet run out of the scope of Chang'an County at this time!

Li Congjia asked: "Tao Fu, has anyone read these two brochures?"

Tao Fu shook his head: "This notebook was sent to the Privy Council for you to read."

In the Privy Council, Li Congjia was the biggest leader. Unlike the cabinet, which also had a Chief Assistant, the Chief Assistant was qualified to read the papers, and he could also give a direct reply to some irrelevant papers without going through Li Congjia.

Of course, there is a limit to this insignificance. Many people know this. Li Congjia can keep his heart without specially reminding Fan Zhi.

Li Congjia put the two notebooks on the imperial case at ease and said, "Oh, if someone asks, just say that I've been busy these two days and there are too many notebooks, so I haven't read them yet."

Li Congjia made up his mind to procrastinate until Li Hongji had almost received the decree, and after a while, he would take out the merit papers to inspire people's hearts. It would probably take five or six days, which is not difficult.

To put it simply, Li Congjia didn’t want to convict Li Hongji, or Li Hongji’s subordinates. Li Hongji’s words didn’t really matter. There are a lot of taxes on the money closed.

It is not an exaggeration to say that closing the household now is just a symbolic honor to Li Hongji. Of course, if he does not even close the household, then the prince is really miserable, and the emperor will not wait to see him.

So Li Hongji will still take what should be taken, but he doesn't care at all whether Li Congjia will seal the household, so he dared to take the team to fight directly, and dared to write a book to plead guilty, at worst, he would take the merits of the crime, Anyway, if Li Congjia has to use his merits to offset his crimes due to other ministers in the court, he will subsidize him in private.

It won't hurt to follow the emperor's younger brother!

It's just that the officers in the Huainan Army were muttering in their hearts, fearing that His Royal Highness the King of Shu would trap him into the ravine, especially after Zhezi went up, the capital hadn't moved for several days, and these people couldn't sit still , Although guilty, but we have won the battle, even if we are not rewarded, it will tell us that our merits and demerits are worthwhile.

Even Li Hongji wondered why Li Congjia's reaction was so slow this time, but he waited and waited, and finally got a letter from Li Congjia that was almost barbaric. I can't hide the meaning between the lines that I want to beat those bastards hard for me.

After being brothers with Li Congjia for many years, Li Hongji finally understood why Li Congjia had withheld those two papers for so long. By co-authoring, this was to exonerate him?

Li Hongji laughed on the spot, turned around and told the soldiers: Just wait, there will be a reward from the imperial court soon.

However, Li Hongji took the team out again without waiting for the imperial court's reward. He directly occupied almost the south bank of the Yangtze River and successfully took it back to Jiangdu Mansion. He is gearing up to take back Jiangning Mansion as well.

After Li Hongji saw the unrecognizable palace in Jiangdu Mansion, he couldn't help crying on the ground. Compared with Li Congjia who came to recover Jiangdu Jiangning Second Mansion in person for the sake of the world's attention and wanting to go out, Li Hongji Feelings are much more real.

Although Jiangning Mansion has not been taken back, Jiangdu Mansion is already like this, so Jiangning Mansion will only be worse.

After all, no matter which emperor ran to the former emperor's territory, no matter from the perspective of politics or feudal superstition, he would try his best to eliminate the traces of the former emperor's existence. Things like the palace cannot be demolished casually, but they can be changed. ah.

Li Hongji was born and raised here, and spent half of his life here. He has deep feelings for Jiangdu Mansion. Although he has experienced father and son turning against each other and brothers becoming enemies, he has always followed the winner. , so he can miss his childhood to his heart's content, without having to think about it and fall into hatred and cannot extricate himself.

After Li Hongji cried, he began to take out the things he had prepared to sacrifice to the sky. After the sacrifice, he was about to boost morale and let everyone strive to take Jiangning mansion quickly.

In fact, not only Li Hongji, but the soldiers are also very anxious. Many of them are not from the south, and have nothing to do with the Southern Tang Dynasty, so they have a general feeling for Jiangning Mansion, but they know that Jiangning Mansion was the former capital of the Tang Dynasty. They have fallen into the enemy's hands for nearly ten years. Although their emperor didn't say anything, they can tell from the King of Shu that the emperor attaches great importance to Jiangning Mansion.

Since they value it, it would be a great achievement if they can win the Jiangning Mansion as soon as possible.

Everyone came out to fight in such cold weather, isn't it for military merit?His grandma's, who said Jiangnan isn't cold?It feels colder than in the north, so hurry up and go home!

What surprised them was that Li Hongji didn't lead his troops to Jiangning Mansion immediately after the mobilization, but chose to stay for a while, because Li Congjia's order came.

After Li Congjia learned that Li Hongji had taken Jiangdu Mansion, he immediately ordered him not to rush to attack Jiangning Mansion, but to take Suzhou, Hangzhou and Yuezhou first.

Li Hongji didn't understand Li Congjia's meaning at first, but after seeing Li Congjia's order, he suddenly realized that Li Congjia asked him to control all the ports of these state capitals!

Li Hongji knew that the purpose of Li Congjia's control of the port was to prevent the Japanese from continuing to land. Anyway, if they encountered one, they would repatriate one, unless they had a document agreeing to the Tang Dynasty. However, this was impossible. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Japan had not sent People came to pay tribute, so it can be said that the two countries have not yet established diplomatic relations, and Li Congjia never gave Japanese documents at all. As for the documents of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, who would recognize them?

Of course, if the Japanese choose to disembark from other coasts instead of ports, there is nothing he can do about it. After all, Li Congjia cannot cover all the people on such a long coastline, but what he can do is to strictly guard his own territory. You must have a guide, and you will be repatriated if you catch it. He doesn't believe that Japan sent people here to experience the life of savages!

Of course, in addition to this, Li Congjia also gave Li Hongji a secret mission, which was to escort Shi Xueting's men to the sea to Japan. After all, with the help of his own people, he could prepare a lot of supplies nearby without anyone noticing.

Li Congjia even gave these monks a batch of funds. He originally thought that they would be very virtuous and would not accept them. After all, this is also considered to spread Buddhist culture. However, these monks accepted them all without blinking an eye. Brothers!

Yes, this time Shi Xueting selected a few people with clearer brains and eloquence among his seniors to go to Japan. May not be able to find.

However, what surprised Li Congjia and Shi Xueting was that Shi Qingsong, who had been reclusive all these years, also came out and said that he would go to Japan to spread Buddhist culture after hearing about this incident.

Li Congjia almost died of fright, before Shi Xueting could speak, he shook his head and said, "Master Qingsong is old, I really can't bear to make you work hard for the Tang Dynasty, you'd better stay in Daxiangguo Temple to enjoy the rest of your life."

After hearing this, Shi Qingsong took a deep look at Li Congjia, bowed and turned to leave after saluting. Li Congjia always felt a little shy when looking at his back.

Perhaps it was because Shi Qingsong knew very well that Li Congjia didn't trust him.

Li Congjia can indeed ignore what Shi Qingsong did back then, sometimes it is not difficult to forgive a person, especially when this person did not cause him too much trouble.

But Li Congjia couldn't trust him completely. What if the old monk had a fit and started to fool Japan into confrontation with Datang when he arrived in Japan?

Li Congjia sent people in the past for peaceful evolution. After all, he wanted to fight a war. It is estimated that there will always be people in the cabinet and the Privy Council who disagree. Apart from cultural invasion first, and then send people to invade it bit by bit, he can't think of other ways for the time being.

After Li Hongji tremblingly sent these monks aboard, he was really relieved. He couldn't guess Li Congjia's intentions, but he didn't want to. The emperor who plays the game of guessing me, if he wants you to know, then you will know.

Li Hongji put this matter aside, turned around and continued to plan how to take down Jiangning Mansion. After all, Jiangning Mansion's defense measures are not comparable to Jiangdu Mansion's. Li Hongji still has resentment towards his father who abandoned the city and fled.

However, his plan was just halfway done, and Zuo Yujie, who had just been promoted to the post of Southern Zhou Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, that is, the prime minister, sent a message: I warn you not to hit me, if you hit me... I... I will dig your ancestral grave !

Li Hongji: I bought a watch last year!