I open a history tutorial class in Daming

Chapter 67 Xu Fu Japan and the Late Qing Dynasty (First Order)
Ying Zheng was confused by the question.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Song Shen began to doubt himself, so he asked hesitantly:
"What year was it when you came to my tutoring class?"

Ying Zheng replied subconsciously:
"The twenty-ninth year of the First Emperor!"

Song Shen breathed a sigh of relief:

"That's right. A year ago, you sent a Taoist priest named Xu Fu to the sea to seek immortals and asked him to take away 3,000 boys and girls, as well as three years of food. Did you remember this? "

What he said was quite specific and detailed. Ying Zheng finally came back to his senses and nodded in agreement.

"Yes, it does happen."

"In the 28th year of the First Emperor, I sent 3,000 boys and girls out to sea. Since Xu Fu knew where the fairy mountain was overseas, he was in charge of this matter."

At this point, Ying Zheng's face froze, and after a while he asked:

"Isn't he coming back?"

Song Shen shook his head:

"No, he did come back after a few years, but he didn't find the immortal or the elixir."

Ying Zheng also breathed a sigh of relief like Song Shen just now.

In his opinion, the worst outcome is that Xu Fu took the three thousand boys and girls and ran away, planned to develop and accumulate strength in some remote place, and then rebelled against him. But now that we know that the Qin Dynasty was followed by the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Wu of Han was named Liu, it means that the Han Dynasty was definitely not created by Xu Fu.

As long as the Qin Empire is not endangered, everything else can be discussed.

But at this moment, Zhu Biao slowly raised his hand and said hesitantly:

"Sir... the Xu Fu you are talking about is not the one mentioned in the Records of the Grand Historian, the Records of the Three Kingdoms, and the Book of the Later Han, right?"

Song Shen looked at him in surprise.

You may be a top student, but your knowledge is so broad that you make me, your teacher, lose face!
He raised his eyebrows and said:

"Yes, since Zhu Biao knows part of it, then you can introduce what Xu Fu did according to historical records."

Zhu Biao took a deep breath.

Although he didn't know why the teacher mentioned Xu Fu, given his extensive knowledge and strong memory, which had been praised by many teachers, and his current position as class monitor, he could not shirk this matter anyway.

He calmed himself down, and with the demeanor he had always shown as the crown prince, he said calmly:
"The Records of the Grand Historian: Biographies of Huainan and Hengshan states: 3,000 men and women were sent to help with the five kinds of grains and various kinds of crafts. Xu Fu found a vast plain and a wide marsh, and stopped there, but the king did not come."

"Taishigong only mentioned a few sentences here, the content is not too much, and the location is not clear. The records of Xu Fu's eastward voyage in the "Records of the Three Kingdoms" and "Book of the Later Han" are more specific. It is stated that Xu Fu went to Tanzhou in the southeast. He made two tours, and he never returned to Daqin the second time."

"But I don't know exactly where this Danzhou is..."

Song Shen coughed and reminded:
"The Ming navy is already pretty good. Do you want to think carefully about who the navy is targeting and where they are from?"

Zhu Biao froze.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting next to him, stood up suddenly, not caring about the classroom rules, and shouted at the top of his voice:

"Are you saying that when Xu Fu sailed east, he went to Japan?!"

In fact, when Wu Zetian was the empress, Wakoku had already been officially recognized by the Tang Dynasty as "Japan". However, from the fact that pirates were called Wokou in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, we can see that the general public is more in favor of the name Wakoku and also called it that in private.

Among all the people present, only Ying Zheng was still confused. People from the Han and Tang dynasties knew about Japan, but they didn't know why Zhu Yuanzhang reacted so strongly.

Zhu Biao tilted his head to look at Zhu Qizhen, and saw that the latter also had a sullen face. Thinking that the Japanese pirates were still raging in those days, he could not help but sigh.

When talking about this country, Song Shen also felt a little annoyed.

He rubbed his eyebrows and pointed at Zhu Yuanzhang and said:
"Calm down and sit down. I know you hate the Japanese pirates, but to be honest, I hate them more than you do."

Zhu Yuanzhang swallowed the anger in his chest again and again, and finally decided to play it safe and wait and see what Song Shen would say.

He put his hands in his pockets, and suddenly remembered the business that Song Shen wanted him to do before -

Send a fleet to Japan.

There is something there that can make "Chen Biao" a marquis and a prime minister.

Zhu Yuanzhang had always been curious and wanted to know what Song Shen was talking about, and now it seems that the answer may be in this class.

He finally calmed down completely and stared at the podium with eagle-like eyes.

On the stage.

Song Shen pondered for a long time before speaking slowly.

"Let me answer Zhu Yuanzhang's question first - yes, according to various documentary materials and archaeological judgments of later generations, Xu Fu went to Japan when he sailed east."

"When he brought those 3,000 boys and girls there, there were already indigenous people on that island. But to digress, although the people there were very short, the people Xu Fu brought with him should have improved their race. Their current height is already improved."

"Next, I will briefly answer the question asked by classmate Ying Zheng." "The northern barbarians in your eyes are the Xiongnu, a nomadic people on the northern grasslands. In the two thousand years after the Qin Dynasty, they continued to covet the Central Plains. During this period, they even directly took over and became emperors several times, disrupting the Central Plains."

"You can ask Liu Che, Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang about the specific process. Of course, Zhu Qizhen, the Wala student, also has a say. He even lived in someone's tent for a whole year."

"However, no one present knows what happened after the Ming Dynasty except me."

Having said that, Song Shen stopped and wiped his face hard with his hand.

He didn't really want to mention those years that every Chinese son and daughter couldn't bear to look back on in front of these ancestors.

Before this, he had always regarded these people as students and had no psychological burden. But when he talked about the past hundred years, he suddenly felt that they were also ancestors, especially those who included Zhu Yuanzhang, who drove out the Tartars and restored the Central Plains.

But he was in class now, and he had to finish what he said even if he had to endure it. Moreover, even if he didn't say it now, he couldn't avoid it in class later.

"…The dynasty after the Ming Dynasty was called the Qing Dynasty, which everyone has heard of before."

"They are not Han Chinese. In fact, they are also a nomadic people in the north. To be more precise, they used to be. They were called Yiluo in the Han and Jin dynasties, Wuji in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Heishui Mohe in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and Jurchen later. Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang, you probably know them."

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression was extremely colorful, just like an overturned color palette.

Jurchen, of course he knew!

This ethnic group is divided into three major groups: Jianzhou Jurchens, Haixi Jurchens, and Donghai Jurchens.

At least in his memory, this group of guys already existed during the Yuan Dynasty, and they were obediently lying under the feet of the Mongols. Even though the Mongols had fallen, the Jurchens were still stationed in the Liaodong area, stubbornly guarding both sides of the Songhua River and refusing to let go. It was still a stubborn problem, and Zhu Yuanzhang was still waiting for the time to free up his hands to crush them.

Now he is annoyed by the sight of such a bug-like character. Who the hell could have thought that the Ming Dynasty would eventually capsize in this gutter?

How unreasonable! ! !

Zhu Yuanzhang was already shaking with anger, and when he saw the strange looks from Liu Che and Li Shimin beside him, he became even more furious and wanted to overturn the table.

Liu Che touched his nose, said nothing, and added silently in his heart:
Yiluo was the ancient Sushen country. It was located more than a thousand miles northeast of Fuyu, bordering the sea in the east and the northern Woju in the south. No one knew where its northernmost end was… They liked to raise pigs, eat their meat, and wear their skins…

When he heard the historian talk about the people of this place, he just thought it was a story and only remembered the general outline. He didn't expect to hear the rest of it in this life.

Well, it's hard to evaluate.

This kind of wild boar skin can actually enter the Central Plains?

Zhu Yuanzhang seemed quite imposing, so why are all his descendants like Zhu Qizhen?

The Zhu family might have a conflict with this wild boar skin, which is truly a misfortune for the family.

Li Shimin was even more silent. In the third year of Zhenguan, after Li Jing led his troops to destroy the Turks and captured Jie Li Khan alive, the four barbarians submitted and called him Heavenly Khan. He did remember the Heishui Mohe... Didn't they submit to him? How could they still cause trouble after so many years?

His evaluation was the same as Liu Che's: the Zhu family was truly unfortunate.

On the podium.

Song Shen didn't care what kind of lawsuit these people were fighting. He coughed lightly, drank a sip of water and continued talking.

"The Jurchens, who later changed their name to Manchu, established the Qing Dynasty, which was the last feudal dynasty - don't worry about the reason, don't ask, don't inquire - there were 296 emperors in total, and the dynasty lasted for years. They were smarter than the Mongols, but not as smart as them."

"After all, Genghis Khan and his Golden Family's cavalry once fought all the way to the Danube River and almost took that place into our territory. At its peak, our territory covered more than 45 million square kilometers. However, the humiliating terms signed at the end of the Qing Dynasty ceded almost 3 million square kilometers of land to foreigners."

"You don't know what more than three million square kilometers means, right? Come on, classmate Ying Zheng, when you unified the six kingdoms, the territory of the Qin Dynasty was only 3.5 million square kilometers. I won't talk about the emperors after that. After all, your territory is calculated based on the protectorates and vassal states, not the actual controlled area. I will only talk about the Qin Dynasty, and everyone probably has an idea in mind."

Ying Zheng almost flipped the table - no, he was already flipping the table.

He had conquered the country, so it was natural for subsequent emperors, regardless of whether they were descendants of the Qin Dynasty or not, to expand the territory on this basis.

But, more than three million... That land, which was as big as the world he had conquered with so much difficulty, was just ceded to the barbarians like that?
Ying Zheng only regretted that he had not learned too many swear words in his life. Cowardly was not enough to express his anger.

He gripped the edge of the table tightly with his hands, trying to kick the broken thing away, but unfortunately the table seemed to be grown on the ground, and no matter how hard he tried, it was useless.

After a long silence, Ying Zheng's breathing finally calmed down a bit. He took several deep breaths and spoke in a deep voice:
"We'll talk about this later."

Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand to stop it.

He wanted to hear more about his future enemy so that he could decide whether to drive him away or grind him to ashes, but the Qin Shi Huang's selective gaze stared back at his hand.

Ying Zheng gritted his teeth and asked:

"Sir, are you off topic? Weren't we talking about Xu Fu and the Japanese before? Why did we end up talking about the Qing Dynasty?"

Song Shen shook his head:

"No, I'm not off topic. In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing navy lost to Japan. After that, they signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki, ceded a lot of land, and paid tens of millions of taels of silver. Although there are countless clauses that humiliate the country, from my personal point of view, this one is the most shameful."

"Because even after begging for mercy and paying compensation to them for 30 or 40 years, Japan still completely invaded the Central Plains."

"In that war, our military and civilian casualties were conservatively estimated at 35 million. It can be said that we were just a hair's breadth away from complete national destruction. I'm not kidding you."

(End of this chapter)