Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 271 The Divine Beast Kirin (Please Subscribe!)
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Li Yan, who was playing a killing game with a group of his women, suddenly got a maid to report: "I heard about the military plane and asked to see me."

Wen Huanzhang is very measured. He came to ask to see him even though he said he would rest for three days. It must be something important.

Li Yan asked a maid to take his place, and then went out to see Huanzhang.

As soon as they met, Wen Huanzhang said excitedly: "Great Governor, the Japanese presented you with two unicorns!"

"Sacred beast unicorn?" Li Yan was stunned!
Wen Huanzhang said: "Yes, Chief Governor, I have already seen it. It is indeed a divine beast unicorn, a living divine animal unicorn, and if the emperor is virtuous, there must be auspiciousness, and the unicorn will come out. Congratulations to the chief inspector, congratulations!" Dudu, the divine beast unicorn descended from the sky to the Great Duty, and the Great Duty is the destiny of the Great Duty!"

Wen Huanzhang, who has always been calm, can say such nasty words, which shows that he must have been greatly stimulated, "Is there really a unicorn?"

With this nonsense question, Li Yan and Wen Huanzhang came to see these two divine beasts, unicorns.

After watching it, Li Yan immediately saw ten thousand mud horses galloping past!

These two so-called mythical unicorns are more than five meters tall, covered with brown-yellow reticular markings of different sizes and shapes, with wide foreheads, pointed snouts, large erect ears, a pair of short horns on top of their heads, and extremely long necks. There is a row of mane on the nape of the neck, short body, tall and strong limbs, slightly longer forelimbs than hindlimbs, broad hooves, short tail with black tufts at the end.

This fucking is clearly a giraffe!
Wen Huanzhang said: "How about it, Commander-in-Chief, is this the divine beast Qilin?"

Li Yan suppressed his anger and said: "Go and call me the person who contributed these two things."

Wen Huanzhang's heart tightened when he heard Li Yan's name for these two "spiritual beast unicorns", and he thought to himself, "Aren't they divine beast unicorns?"

With this guess, Wen Huanzhang hurried to call in the donor who was waiting outside the door!

There were four people who contributed, two of them were short samurai, they looked like typical Japanese samurai, the other was actually a black man, and the last one, although dressed as a Japanese samurai, obviously didn’t have the temperament of a samurai, so he shouldn’t be a samurai. However, he kept his head down, so that Li Yan could not make further judgments.

As soon as the four of them saw Li Yan, they knelt on the ground, um...it would be more accurate to say that they were prostrate on the ground.

Li Yan asked: "Which of you can speak Chinese?"

A samurai replied: "The villain will speak."

Li Yan asked: "Which family are you from?"

There are many aristocratic families in Japan, the most famous being the Fujiwara family. The relatives of his family served as the Sheguan, and controlled the government for a long time in the name of Regent or Guanbai. There are four daughters and three concubines, and a concubine in the east palace. The young emperor always lives in his home. The positions of regent, Guanbai, Taizheng minister, and left and right ministers are dominated by the Fujiwara clan, forming a special political system of Regent.

Bushido: "We are the Sakabe family."

"The Sakabe family?"

Li Yan really didn't know about this family. In other words, Li Yan also knew about the Fujiwara family, because this family was so famous.

Li Yan pointed to the two giraffes behind him with his thumb and said: "You are so brave, you dare to lie to me that two ordinary giraffes on the African savannah are the divine beast Qilin, you dislike my knife Is it bad?"

As soon as Li Yan said this, the warrior who answered turned pale with shock, and immediately chattered to the elderly warrior beside him!
After hearing this, the old samurai stood up abruptly!
Seeing this, Li Yan's guards all drew out their knives, and Ma Ling, Wang Dingliu, Ruan Xiaoqi, and Hu Sanniang even protected Li Yan behind him!
Li Yan pushed Ma Ling and the others away, and just looked at these four people quietly - Li Yan didn't believe that these four people would dare to assassinate him in front of hundreds of guards!

Seeing that Li Yan didn't mean to blame him, the old warrior immediately yelled at the black man.

pity!

The old samurai was playing the piano to the cows, and the blacks couldn't understand what he said at all.

At this time, the person who had never shown his face suddenly spoke a very strange language.

Li Yan was very surprised!

Li Yan was not surprised because this person said such weird words, but Li Yan was surprised because she turned out to be a woman.

As soon as the woman finished speaking, the black man suddenly turned pale with fright, and then repeatedly defended himself.

After only listening for a short while, the woman said in more pure Chinese than the previous warrior: "I am very sorry, because we are ignorant, and presented a fake unicorn beast to you, the governor!"

The woman's voice is very pleasant, and it makes people feel extremely happy after listening to it.

Li Yan pointed to the black man and asked, "What did he just say?"

The woman replied: "He said that there are many giraffes of this kind in the grasslands, but we orientals do call them unicorns."

In fact, the black man really didn't lie.

Until later generations, the Japanese and Koreans called giraffes Kirin.

And the Chinese are not much better off.

According to the records of Ming Dynasty, in the tenth year of Yongle, a small country named Banggela (now Bangladesh) sent people to present the unicorn, the mythical animal in Chinese legend, in order to express its respect to Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty.

All of a sudden, the government and the public are making noise!
Because no one had ever seen this kind of ancient mythical beast, on the day of the beast offering, the whole city of Beijing was very lively, and the people and officials scrambled to watch.

Zhu Di also looked sore in the neck.

After waiting for a long time, Banggela's envoy finally brought Qilin into Beijing.

Everyone was very excited when they saw this divine beast unicorn, it was like a dream.

Zhu Di was even more delighted, and immediately ordered the talented Shen Du to write an "Ode to the Rui Ying Qilin" to record this universal blessing.

Not only that, Zhu Di also ordered the court painter to paint this grand occasion, and this painting is called "Ruiying Qilin Picture".

Later, a painting was handed down, allowing future generations to have the honor to see the appearance of the divine beast unicorn.

However, when people opened the picture scroll, it turned out that the so-called unicorn was actually a giraffe!
The giraffe is produced in remote Africa, and no one has ever seen it in China. In addition, it does have many similarities with the legendary unicorn, so it is actually normal to be regarded as a mythical unicorn.

After finding out the ins and outs of the future, Li Yan said sincerely: "It's not easy for you to get these two giraffes here from far away Africa."

The woman said: "We didn't bring them here, but a few Song people brought them from Pengjialuo and wanted to send them to the Liao Kingdom. Then we..."

This must be a long and tortuous story, but Li Yan is not interested in it, so Li Yan interrupted the woman who wanted to continue, and said: "Stop, you should just say it, you will sacrifice these two giraffes Give it to me, what are you trying to figure out?"—Although these two giraffes are worthless to Li Yan, they are still very valuable in this era, and it can even be said that their value is not inferior to that of real unicorns. The Japanese gave them to Li Yan, how could there be no pictures?
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(End of this chapter)