Wentang

Chapter 476 Sun Fucai Returns to Beijing

Just when Wang Dahu landed on Xinma Island, Yue Shan met a messenger from Dizhou in the capital.

Looking at the big man with a straight hair, dark and rough skin standing in front of him like a wooden stake, he almost didn't recognize him.

"Why, you don't recognize me?" The big man grinned and showed his white teeth.

"If you don't speak, I really can't recognize you. The changes are too great. It seems that you have lived a fulfilling life in Dizhou in the past two years." Yue Shan shook his head and said with emotion.

Who would have thought that Sun Fu, who was skinny, tender and frail, would become what he is now.Sure enough, the environment can change a person the most.

"It's good if you don't recognize it. This means that I... well, in your words, the transformation is successful." Sun Fucai laughed.

"Very successful, unless you are very familiar with someone, I believe no one will recognize you at a glance." Yue Shan said affirmatively: "Let's go, let's catch up on the old days."

Sun Fucai didn't refuse either, and after chatting with Yue Shan for a long time, they had a meal together before the unfinished chat changed the topic to serious business.

"Liu Dudu sent Wang Dahu to pretend to be a sea bandit to carry out the sabotage mission. It should have arrived by now. Half a year after everything goes well, my Tang army will be able to land on Xinma Island as the suzerain country." Sun Fucai said seriously.

Speaking of the plan to occupy Xinma Island, Yue Shan was severely slapped in the face once.

Li Shimin found an opportunity to tell the group of core ministers about this plan, and naturally he was opposed.But when he said that this island can raise horses, everyone immediately changed their minds and thought that this is the inherent territory of my Tang Dynasty and should be taken back.

Yes, Ezo Island is an inherent territory of the Central Plains Dynasty - this is what the always low-key Yuwen Shiji said.

As early as the Han Dynasty, this place was already the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty, and it was under the jurisdiction of Liaodong County. During the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Ainu people paid tribute to the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties and accepted the canonization of the Southern Dynasties.Later, the Northern Wei Dynasty sent envoys to Ezo Island and Sakhalin Island to ask for whale oil.

In other words, according to the historical relationship, Ezo Island is the territory or vassal state of the Central Plains Dynasty.

To be honest, Yue Shan really didn't know this.He never imagined that Hokkaido in later generations was actually Chinese territory during the Tang Dynasty... This...

He is indeed ignorant. In the original history, Ezo Island and Sakhalin Island have always been Chinese territory.Sakhalin Island is called North Ezo Island, Ezo Island is called South Ezo Island, and even Okinawa is still a vassal state of China.

At this time, the Fuso or Yamato regime was very weak, and its territory was only around the Kyoto area.

It's just a pity that during the hundreds of years from the end of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Fusang gradually invaded these territories, Ezo also became Hokkaido, and Sakhalin Island was invaded by Tsarist Russia.

However, even though Yue Shan was equally happy when he was slapped in the face, he was worried about using any suitable reason to extend Datang's hand to Xinma Island. With this relationship, it will be much simpler.

The most important thing is to eliminate Li Shimin's worries. He was worried about leaving behind an aggressor, cruel and easy to kill, and other notoriety, but now he is not worried.

It doesn't matter if you have to use force to kill all the Ainu people in the end.My Tang Dynasty is the legal heir of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the purpose of attacking the Ainu people is to take back the inherent territory of my Central Plains Dynasty.

In the end, the way everyone discussed was to pretend to be a pirate and go to the island to cause damage, and then the Datang navy landed on the island in the name of protecting the vassal.

And then... It's not easy to clean up tens of thousands of primitive natives.

The occupation plan was handed over to Liu Rengui to implement, which was a test for him.But from the side, it also shows that the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty did not really pay much attention to this overseas enclave.

Again, the inherent old concepts made them subconsciously despise the sea and regard it as a wild land.

In addition, everyone's minds are currently focused on the development of Lingnan, the construction of Shencheng, and the reform of the ruling organization. What's more important is the upcoming war plan against the Turks, so they don't pay much attention to this matter.

That's why such a big task was entrusted to the novice Liu Rengui. In everyone's opinion, he can do the best, and it doesn't matter if he can't.

But Liu Rengui didn't think so, this was his opportunity to perform, so he didn't want to miss it.It took several days of discussion with Yue Shan to finalize the battle plan, and he returned to Dizhou to prepare after the new year.

Brother Wang Dahu grabbed this opportunity because he was a pirate, he performed well after being recruited, and his family members stayed as hostages.

It's just that Xinma Island is more than 2000 kilometers away from Dizhou, and it will take two months to go back and forth smoothly, so it is impossible to see this plan succeed in a short time.

However, Yue Shan was not in a hurry. He proposed that the real reason for occupying Xizo was to let the Tang Navy go out, saying that raising horses was just to find a reason to persuade the Tang monarchs and ministers.

When the navy goes out to see the outside world, and then obtains a lot of wealth from the outside world, no one will object to going out.On the contrary, more people will take the initiative to explore outside.

It's a long way to go, it's better to get Xinma Island right now.

After talking for a while about Liu Rengui's preparations for this plan, Yue Shan nodded in satisfaction.As expected, this apprentice was worthy of Liu Rengui's name, so he couldn't find any faults.

After talking about this matter, Yue Shan turned the topic to Sun Fucai again.

"Did Zheng Ze tell you why he asked you to come back?"

"No, the governor only said to let me go back to Beijing, that the sage and you want to see me. And before I came back, I found several people to teach me viciously for dozens of days." Sun Fucai shook his head and said indescribably.

"Hehe, he was right not to tell you. There is a very important task to entrust to you. If you can complete it, at least your name will go down in history." Yue Shan laughed.

Sun Fucai's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly, "Really, what is it?"

"Come with me." Said Yue Shan led him to his study, and took out a basket-sized sphere from the bookcase.

"This is?" Although he didn't know what it was, Sun Fucai could sense in his heart that it must be an earth-shattering secret, and subconsciously held his breath.

"This is the world we live in." Yue Shan said proudly.

"Hiss...the world we live in? How is it possible, isn't our world flat?" Sun Fucai took a breath, and then retorted subconsciously.

"Hehe, Zhang Heng said that the sky is like a chicken and the earth is like a yellow, although it is not entirely true, but it is infinitely close to the essence." Yue Shan said.

"But... didn't the person standing below fall?" Sun Fucai couldn't help but look at the globe.

"Haha..." Yue Shan laughed happily, finally someone asked this classic question.

When he showed the globe to Li Shimin and Changsun Wugou, they immediately thought of Zhang Heng's words, and they didn't ask questions like "the people below are falling", which disappointed him very much.

Today, I finally heard it from Sun Fucai, which can be regarded as satisfying his little naughty taste.

After laughing, he waved his hand and said, "Why the people living below don't fall is very complicated. It can't be explained clearly in a few words. Let me tell you about your mission first."

(End of this chapter)