Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 726 Jianzhen and Sangluan Posts
Li Daoyuan arrived in Nara and was warmly welcomed by Fusang Kingdom.

Since the northern line was cut off, Datang never sent envoys to Fusang again.

Although Li Daoyuan was only an envoy sent by the Huainan Jiedushi, the small imperial court in Fusang still knew the Tang system very well. Of course, they knew that the Huainan Jiedushi was one of the most powerful dignitaries in the entire Tang Dynasty, and he was also a noble person who could not be offended.

Seeing these short Fusang people pulling him in a strange sedan chair, Li Daoyuan refused decisively. He found a slightly taller horse and rode towards the palace of Nara.

Since the renovation of Dahua, Fusang has carried out a top-to-bottom reform based on the Tang Dynasty, and also learned the architectural style from the Tang Dynasty.

However, in Li Daoyuan's view, later generations call some ancient buildings in Fusang Tang style, and they are still unworthy.

Li Daoyuan has seen the palaces and temples of the Tang Dynasty. The pillars used are huge trees that need to be hugged by two people, and the eaves are so tall and magnificent.

However, Fusang’s buildings imitating the Tang Dynasty only use pillars that are embraced by one person, but they have to support the complicated eaves and roofs, giving people a top-heavy feeling and full of craftsman’s atmosphere, without the integrated style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. .

Although Li Daoyuan doesn't understand architecture, he can still see that while Fusang learned the architectural style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he also removed a lot of the grand parts of the architectural style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. It should be that the island country has too few resources, so it is so petty.

In addition to architecture, clothing is also the focus of Fusang's study of Datang.

And every time Li Daoyuan went to the street, the Japanese people looked at him like a giant, which made Li Daoyuan feel very uncomfortable.

Jian Zhen put his palms together and asked, "May I ask Jiedu envoy if you have anything to say?"

Regardless of whether he really yearns for Datang or not, the Datangization policy supported by King Chunren Wa all takes Datang as the banner.

These Fusang people always learn things crookedly, and now the upper class in Nara wear complicated and cumbersome clothes, and the officials who receive them are wrapped like zongzi.

"It is our country's honor to send envoys from the Tang Dynasty again! We should receive the envoys from the Tang Dynasty with the most solemn etiquette as before!"

Fujiwara Nakamaro, like the Japanese king Junren, is a hard-core pro-Tang faction. He is now the Minister of the Taizheng, that is, the prime minister of the Japanese king. At this time, he is saying impassionedly:

Fujiwara Nakamaro immediately knew something was wrong, and sure enough, King Junren Wa said:

The Japanese king made a final decision, Fujiwara Nakamaro could only sigh and give up, and Li Daoyuan continued to live in the guest house.

But looking at the clothes worn by the officials who received him, Li Daoyuan felt like he was learning to walk in Handan.

The faction of Fujiwara Nakamaro, which King Chunren relied on, and the Daojing faction, which King Taishang Wa stayed in the small court, can be said to be very different from each other. Every discussion in the court of King Wa will be tit-for-tat, and the battle will intensify.

"The envoy Gao Jiedu learned that the old monk had gone east to Fusang before I sailed that day. The envoy did not make things difficult for the remaining monks in Daming Temple, but asked Li to give the old monk a word."

The banner of Datang is very useful in Northeast Asia, and the prosperity of Datang is well known to the world.

"I was ordered by the Jiedu envoy of Huainan, and I have a few words to ask the Great Monk Jianzhen."

Li Daoyuan had no interest in worshiping the Buddha, so he walked directly through the smoky Buddhist hall to the apse of the Buddhist temple.

Jianzhen was appointed by the king of Japan as the great monk, in charge of the precepts of the whole Fusang temple, so he naturally knew the news that the Tang envoy came to Japan.

Although today's Fusang is a monkey island, as the capital of the Wa Kingdom, Nara is still well built.

On weekdays, the politics in the Wa Dynasty Hall reached a balance, but the arrival of Li Daoyuan broke this balance.

The whole of Nara was also modeled after Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty, but the houses in these Japanese countries were built shorter than those of the Tang Dynasty. On the whole, Li Daoyuan, a player with a height of 1.8 meters, felt very cramped.

Li Daoyuan was arranged in the guest house near the palace, and how to receive Li Daoyuan, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, in the Fusang palace aroused fierce debate in the Fusang court.

Li Daoyuan walked into the temple with great strides. Originally, it was the temple of the Fusang royal family, and ordinary people were not allowed to enter.

This question made Chun Ren Wa Wang silent.

After King Chunren Wa came to power, he carried out more radical Tang-oriented reforms. No matter what kind of banner these reforms were under, it was natural that the rights of King Chunren Wa and the Fujiwara family were strengthened.

Sure enough, after a while, an old monk in black robes came out from the apse.

And if it is just treated as an ordinary envoy from a foreign country, will it make the envoy of the Tang Dynasty feel insulted?

There is nothing to see in Nara, and it is much worse than Chang'an City. Only then did Li Daoyuan remember that Monk Jianzhen seemed to be teaching the Dharma in Todai Temple, so he rode his horse towards Todai Temple in the east of Nara City.

But seeing Li Daoyuan's tall stature, the Fuso warrior guarding the temple didn't dare to stop him, so he let him walk into Todai Temple step by step.

Li Daoyuan didn't make things difficult for the old monk, he just smiled and said:

The monk spoke half-baked Japanese, and Li Daoyuan saw that he was not as short as Fusang monk, so he said in Chinese:

And Dao Jing also served as the Minister of the Taizheng. At this time, he was strongly opposed and said:
"The identity of this envoy from the Great Tang Dynasty is unclear. It is only said that he was sent by the Huainan Jiedu envoy. This Huainan Jiedu envoy is just a prince of the Tang Dynasty. How can his envoy receive him with the etiquette of a national envoy?"

Dao Jing naturally strongly opposed the grand reception of Li Daoyuan.

After Xiaoqian Wawang abdicated, he was revered as the Supreme King. Although he was not the Wawang, he still had influence.

But Dao Jing suddenly said, "My lord, how should I receive the envoys from the Tang Dynasty? Should I treat them as envoys as before, or treat them as ordinary envoys from foreign countries?"

After saying this, King Chunren Wa was also silent.

Jianzhen, who was originally straight, bent down immediately after hearing this sentence, and said with shame on his face:

Li Daoyuan said seriously: "The great monk is going to Fusang to teach the Dharma. It is difficult to comment on his merits and demerits, but why did the old monk take my Chinese treasure to Fusang? Shouldn't monks practice the precepts and not be fascinated by foreign things?"

But Li Daoyuan's status is different, he is only the envoy of the Huainan Jiedu Envoy of the Great Tang Dynasty, if he received him as an envoy of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty as before, he would feel that his status was lowered.

"Then please invite the envoy of the Tang Dynasty to stay in the guest house for a while longer."

Now that the Tang Dynasty has sent envoys again, the factions that support the reform of the Tang Dynasty will inevitably increase in strength, and this will suppress the old-fashioned factions such as Taishang Wawang.

The entourage of the guest house followed behind panting, and finally caught up with Li Daoyuan at the gate of Todaiji Temple.

The old monk was very thin, but his eyes were bright, and he had a handsome face. He must have been a good-looking monk when he was young.

Chunren Wawang, who is currently in power in Fusang, got the throne from his niece Xiaoqian Wawang, which also involved political struggles within the Wawang royal family.

Li Daoyuan is not the envoy of the Emperor of Tang Dynasty, so if he wants to bow his head to meet the envoy of a Jiedu envoy of the Tang Dynasty, it seems to be inferior again.

However, the Japanese king didn't dare to restrict Li Daoyuan's actions, and Li Daoyuan didn't want to see the Japanese king who was so troublesome, so he just went sightseeing in Nara.

If it is an envoy sent by the Tang court, all of this is easy to say, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty represents the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and King Chunrenwo can treat the envoy as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

How to receive the envoys of the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese king's court began to debate again.

The young monk was taken aback, and quickly raised his head to look at Li Daoyuan, only to see that he was wearing Tang clothes, and quickly said in Chinese with a Yangzhou accent: "The almsgiver stay here, the poor monk will go and invite the master!"

The result of this is that the faction that lost the interests of the reform has more quickly defected to the side of Taishang Wawang.

When he went to sea, the emperor's sea ban had not been revoked, so he sneaked into Fusang privately, and when he saw Li Daoyuan, he naturally called himself a criminal monk.

The Great Buddha Hall of Todaiji Temple is a huge wooden building.In the Great Buddha Hall, there is a large Buddha statue of Lushana Buddha with a height of more than 15 meters.

As the royal temple of Fusang, Dongda Temple is indeed very large in scale. Li Daoyuan started from Yangzhou and has seen the grandeur of Yangzhou temples, but this Dongda Temple is still not far behind, which shows how much Buddhism is admired in Fusang.

After seeing Li Daoyuan, the old monk immediately bowed down and said: "The guilty monk learns from the truth, and I pay my respects to the Tang envoy."

Seeing Li Daoyuan's figure, a young monk stood up, stopped Li Daoyuan, and said in Japanese:
"The rear is a pure place for Buddhism to practice, please stay here, almsgiver."

Surrounding the royal residence of the Japanese king is the residence of the princes of the Japanese kingdom, and surrounding the residence of the princes are the residences of a group of minor nobles.

Obviously, even if the Japanese king is a Japanese king, he is used to domineering on Fusang Island on weekdays.

"Ashamed, ashamed, go to the backyard and get the "Sangluan Tie" and give it to the envoy!"

The apprentices around him were a little bit reluctant. This post was written by Wang Xizhi himself. The master would take it out every day to copy it. It is Jianzhen's most important treasure.

Now the envoy of the Tang Dynasty asked Jianzhen to take out his most cherished book stickers with just one sentence, and all the disciples glared at Li Daoyuan.

But Jianzhen put his hands together and said: "I'm ashamed, I can't let go of these foreign things, I can't let go of my obsessions, and even my disciples can't let go of their obsessions. Please move to the back hall with me. I will enshrine the "Sangluan Tie" in person. superior."

(End of this chapter)