Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 119 Stay in Yangzhou?

The Japanese Inugami Ertianyu may not recognize Sun Xiangfu, but Yangzhou Governor Shi Wushi Xun certainly does, so he has to take back his sword no matter how he pulled it out.

In an attic not far from the pier, Wang Lin, who was playing a fan, saw the warrior Xun and Sun Xiangfu get off the boat together, and said to Wu Yuanqing who was stretching his neck to look at the pier not far from him, "You Father is too timid, today's matter should be left alone."

"Hey, that kid ordered the killing."

Wu Yuanqing's voice of surprise sounded, and Wang Lin looked towards the pier again.

"Hmph, I didn't expect this kid to be a ruthless character, but this move is exactly what I want, come here, hurry up and pass on the letter to Chang'an..."

Sun Xiangfu had no idea that Wang Lin would be looking at this place from a distance, and his eyes would always be aimed at the neck of that dog Ertian Su from time to time.

"Master Wu, why did your country of Tang massacre our samurai from the country of Wa? If you don't give me an explanation, I will definitely return to the country of Wa and tell His Royal Highness Prince Shotoku to send troops to seek justice."

Inugami Ertiansu speaks Chinese very well. It seems that he was an envoy to the Sui Dynasty before, and although he claimed to be an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, he did not hold the official certificate of the Japanese state, nor did he go to Chang'an to pay tribute to the emperor. It's just that they purchased items in Yangzhou, Suzhou and other places to return to China.

"Inugami Ertianyu, you Japanese warriors dare to rob the items that His Majesty the Tang Emperor bestowed on his subjects. This is a capital offense. You should think about how to explain to my Majesty the Tang Emperor!" The warrior Xun did not say anything. Give him a good face.

"A gift from His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty? Impossible, there is no flag representing your Tang court on this ship." Inugami Ertian said, pointing at the Happiness.

"That dog Shangtian, as an envoy, don't you know how to respect the laws of my Tang Dynasty? In my Tang Dynasty, it is illegal to rob people's belongings, let alone robbing the emperor's belongings. Moreover, as their The master is also guilty of the same crime, so I will not only kill them, but also take you down."

In some respects, Sun Xiangfu has always felt that people in this period were really stupid, especially the attitude of the Tang Dynasty towards the Wa Kingdom. Those Wa people swaggered and brought thousands of people to Datang to learn various technologies of Datang , Datang not only taught them for free, but also provided them with delicious food and drink. Even if the ambitions of the Japanese people behind were exposed, after the Battle of Baijiangkou, the defeated Wa country only said a few polite words, and Datang immediately returned It has been fully opened to the Wa Kingdom. For a hundred years, batch after batch of Wa people have studied in the Tang Dynasty and returned to the country to speed up their own development. If this is in later generations, how much intellectual copyright fees the Wa Kingdom will have to pay!

Therefore, at this moment, Sun Xiangfu's angry youth thoughts erupted. He wanted to prevent these things from happening, not to mention regressing the technological and cultural level of this ambitious country, at least preventing them from developing rapidly and continuing to lag behind.

"It's unreasonable. I'm not from Tang Dynasty. Why should I abide by your laws? If you kill my warrior, you are my enemy. I want to fight you."

Hearing that Sun Xiangfu said that he wanted to arrest him, Inugami Ertian was angry, and pulled out his saber again, and beside Sun Xiangfu, a group of guards also pulled out their own sabers with Japanese blood and pointed them at Inugami Ertian.

"Zhengming, after all, he is a Japanese. The matter of diplomatic relations, no matter how big or small, should be decided by His Majesty. I will send a memorial to His Majesty about these warriors, saying that they were killed by guards during the robbery. As for him, you give it to me!"

The samurai Xun is also a person who has led soldiers. He knows the combat power of Sun Xiangfu's guards in iron armor. Da, before he could help himself, he was killed by those civil servants in the court, so he persuaded him with kind words.

"That's right, we are all safe and sound, so why bother to kill again!" Xuanzang also came forward to persuade him at this time.

"Hmph, even if I save face for the two of you today and save your life, if I find out that you are messing around in the Tang Dynasty again, even if the emperor doesn't kill you, I will kill you."

Sun Xiangfu ignored Inugami Ertianyu, turned around and began to check the happiness account.

"Don't worry, my lord, with the three of us waiting, the boat is not damaged." Master Zihui said aside.

Sure enough, Sun Xiangfu checked left and right, and didn't even see a knife mark on the ship's side. He immediately had a new understanding of the martial arts skills of the three monks. The three of them actually blocked thirty or forty Japanese dwarfs. , What level of master must this be!
"I'm sorry for the three masters. Later, I will ask the guards to assign ten people to watch the night on the ship. The three masters can rest in peace."

After thanking the three masters, Sun Xiangfu called Zhao Long to come over and arrange the defense, but the experience of the Wa people reminded him that with the benefit of the happiness, it would take even a month to go back and forth to the Wa country. However, if the Wa country had such a ship, it would be enough to attack the Quartet. Therefore, before the emergence of more advanced shipbuilding technology in the Tang Dynasty, the manufacturing technology of the Happiness was absolutely not allowed to flow to the Wa country.

Not only must the Happiness be guarded, but even the shipbuilding workshop in Chang'an must be guarded well. Therefore, Sun Xiangfu hurriedly returned to the cabin to write letters, read scriptures, and watched the bodies of those Japanese warriors being transported away. Zang came to Sun Xiangfu's cabin.

"My lord has hostility in his chest, can the poor monk recite scriptures to dissolve it?"

"Uh, Master, I only heard that the more powerful a person is in martial arts, the more he needs profound Buddhist teachings to suppress the hostility in his heart. I don't know martial arts at all, so there is no hostility at all. You should find a seat Junmai and Zhao Long go to chant sutras! They killed a lot of people today."

When Xuanzang heard the words, he felt that what Sun Xiangfu said was reasonable, but he felt that something was wrong. He looked at Sun Xiangfu and said, "Your Excellency seems to hate Japanese people very much."

"The wolves of that generation were ambitious, so we must guard against them early." Sun Xiangfu said while writing.

Xuanzang had seen the whole process of snatching the ship, and he didn't disagree with Sun Xiangfu's statement. He nodded and said, "That generation must be taught by Buddhism."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu believed it. It seemed that Emperor Sui Yang was very keen on this matter. Every time the Japanese sent history to Chang'an, he would not hesitate to engrave and print scriptures at a high price as a gift, making Buddhism the national religion of the Japanese.

Of course, Sun Xiangfu only knew what it was, but he didn't know why. At that time, the Emperor Tuigu and Prince Shotoku of the Wa Kingdom introduced Buddhism and used theocracy to assert the imperial power, which made the local thought of the Wa Kingdom unified, and gradually transformed from slavery to feudalism. Only after decades have they dared to challenge Datang.

Historically, the kings who vigorously supported religion generally had their own political goals. The reason why the former Sui Dynasty rejected Emperor Zhou Wu's policy of destroying Buddhism and revived Buddhism was because it could consolidate their ruling power.

However, extremes lead to opposites. When there are thousands of Buddhist temples and hundreds of thousands of monks and nuns, it will cause great harm to the country. Li Tang saw the harm, but also needed religion to consolidate their dominance. Therefore, he recognized The ancestor of Taoism, Daxing Taoism, suppressed Buddhism.

In the eyes of later generations, these religions may be cancers, but in this period, religions can indeed meet some needs of the rulers.

People often say that feudalism is superstitious, but if it is not superstitious, can it be feudal?The kings need these gods and gods to brag about his status as the son of heaven, so that the ignorant people believe that the king is the son of heaven, blindly follow the king, and religion is only serving these kings and rulers for their own interests.

"Well, since that generation needs to be educated, master, have you ever thought about going to the country of Wa to teach the scriptures and teach the Dharma? I heard that Buddhism is the state religion in the country of Wa. Since they dared to snatch the boat you were on, and shot at the three masters, it can be seen that they did not If you don't respect Buddhism in your heart, you need to be educated severely!"

Xuanzang was taken aback by Sun Xiangfu's words, and thought it was reasonable, but his wish was to go to Tianzhu to seek Mahayana Buddhism, and he shook his head with embarrassment, "When the poor monk obtains Mahayana Buddhism, if you can If you study thoroughly, it will not be too late to go to Japan to teach the scriptures."

"If the master can turn the Japanese country into a Buddhist country, it will be the greatest merit in the world."

Sun Xiangfu said another sentence that made Xuanzang a little inexplicable. At this time, Li Chunfeng ran into the cabin in a hurry.

"Pindao received news that someone colluded with the Wa people to rob our ship."

"Heh, the bloodstains of those Japanese people outside have been cleaned up, and the news from the Taoist priest must have come too late!"

"Ah, the robbery is over so soon?"

Li Chunfeng looked at Xuanzang in disbelief, and was a little frustrated when he got a positive answer. If the information collected by Taoist priests for him is so late, then it is better not to waste time.

"Can the Taoist priest entrust fellow Taoists to help me collect some information about the Japanese people?"

Sun Xiangfu knew the disadvantages of his one-way flying pigeon to pass the letter. Even if he sent a letter to the Taoist temple in Yangzhou to know about it in advance, the Taoist temple collected the news, but it could not be passed on to the people on the boat. Therefore, the information lag is normal. , However, this made Sun Xiangfu even more eager to have a two-way messenger pigeon. After he put forward some ideas of his own, he let the pigeon-raising Taoist slowly experiment. For this, Sun Xiangfu gave a hundred The usual reward, I believe, it will be a matter of time to solve this problem.

"If you don't tell me about this matter, I will do it too. It's just that the Wa people have always been submissive in my Tang Dynasty. This time, someone must have promised a lot of money." Li Chunfeng speculated.

"Hehe, the Taoist priest doesn't know the Japanese people yet. They just need to see this ship, and they don't need anyone to make money, so they will do it."

"Boat? That's right, with this boat, it will be convenient to go back and forth between the Wa Kingdom and the Tang Dynasty." Li Chunfeng thought about it for a while, and then he understood the reason.

"Not only that, this ship is extremely fast at sea and has strong wind resistance. If the Japanese country has a large number of such advanced ships, the seas of the Tang Dynasty are to them what the grasslands outside the pass are to the Turks. Smooth road. At that time, they will be able to enter and leave the southern border of the Tang Dynasty at will, and in the long run, it will become a trouble in my heart of the Tang Dynasty!"

When Sun Xiangfu said this, Li Chunfeng, who was not bad in intelligence, immediately understood that it was really impossible for the Japanese country to get such a ship, otherwise, there would be another wolf in the south of the Tang Dynasty.

"I'm going to tell fellow Taoists that if there are any changes in the Japanese people, we will definitely know in advance." Li Chunfeng definitely supports Li Tang's rule, not because his surname is Li, but because Li Tang gave Taoism the status of state religion Therefore, Taoism is obliged to protect Li Tang's interests.

Xuanzang did not have such a sense of responsibility, but he was smart, and suddenly thought of something, and asked, "These people hijacked the ship while your lord is away, are they trying to keep you in Yangzhou?"

"Stay in Yangzhou? Stay in Yangzhou?..." Sun Xiangfu repeated these four words repeatedly, and suddenly thought of something, a look of fear appeared on his face.

(End of this chapter)