“…… It's okay here, go back and tell your master not to be happy, the roots are rotten, and no matter how much fruit you take, it's in vain. ”

Wang Hao didn't come back at all, he stayed in Japan, and the first two pages talked about how he was moisturized in Japan, which is a bit of a state official who doesn't change.

From the third page, it was changed to English, and at first glance, it was the handwriting of Wang Xiong's three children. The content is very rich, and it is full of information about the current state of Japanese society and various policies.

Compared with the gifts in the box and the Japanese people on the dock, Hong Tao preferred to see these things, and after sending the ship away, he hurried back to the study, closed the door and studied it carefully.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it! The situation in Japan is not at all like what is recorded in Chinese historical books, or it is only one-sided in Chinese historical records, and other aspects are not revealed. And Wang Xiong's recorded these things, to a certain extent, lifted the veil of Japan at this time.

Historically, the earliest contact between Japan and China began in 57 AD, and by the way, there is no such date as AD in Chinese history books, nor is there 1089, only the era of the emperors. In order to make it convenient for everyone to see, there is no need to check the year while looking, so we are not so serious.

When was 57 A.D., during the reign of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu of the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty - Emperor Guangwu Benji, in the second year of Jianwu Zhongyuan, there were envoys of the Japanese slave state to pay tribute to congratulate, and Emperor Guangwu gave him a seal.

This seal was later discovered in Shikajima, Hakata Bay, Fukuoka, with a square surface and a side length of about 4 centimeters, a printing pad about 3 centimeters high, a serpentine button attached to the table, and a whole body height of about 5 centimeters, on which the seal was engraved with the words King Hanweinu.

Since then, China and China have been in close contact, and many Japanese kings have been canonized. In the Sui Dynasty, Prince Shotoku of the Japanese Suiko Dynasty sent the first batch of Sui envoys led by Ono Meizi to the Sui Dynasty with a letter of state in order to further learn the advanced political system and technology.

Until 894 AD, Japan sent a total of 12 groups of envoys to the Tang Dynasty, focusing on learning the political, legal and economic system of China during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and using this as a blueprint to start the Dahua reform, promulgating the Dabao Law Decree, and moving towards a unified centralized state.

The above are exchanges at the national level, and most of the records of commercial trade between the two countries can be found in the Tang Dynasty. According to the records of the books in Japanese temples, the princes and ministers of Japan often traded privately with Tang Dynasty merchants during the Yanxi period, first buying all the good goods at a high price, and when the Japanese government came to buy them, the goods were not left.

As a result, the Japanese government promulgated a law called "Similar Clustering Three Generations", prohibiting anyone from trading with the Tang Dynasty maritime merchants without official pricing.

The ban played an important role in Sino-Japanese business exchanges, and it marked the beginning of a period of seclusion in Japan's foreign policy.

In 911 AD, the Japanese government promulgated the sea-crossing system and the age system, restricting the number of times that maritime merchants in the Song Dynasty could go to Japan at least two years, and also prohibiting Japanese merchants, monks, and officials from going abroad at will.

According to these laws, when the ships of the Song Dynasty maritime merchants arrived at Japanese ports, they had to submit documents such as Shen Wen, a catalogue of goods, and drawings of the merchants' appearances, clothes, and outfits issued by the Municipal Shipping Division. After that, they will stay at a hotel or Korokan that is qualified to receive foreign guests, and they will be received by someone from Dazaifu.

In this regard, the Japanese government adopted the doctrine of take-it-or-leave-it, and completely studied the Song Dynasty's system of prohibition, joint purchase, and extraction, which was used to control the selling price and import volume of different types of goods. However, there is also a difference, there is no city department in Japan, but an agency called Dazaifu is in charge of customs entry and exit registration.

When a foreign merchant ship arrived, it was subject to "interrogation" by Dazaifu officials, similar to the customs inspection of later generations, and when the ship arrived, how many people were on board, what their names were, and what goods they were carrying, were clearly recorded.

After the questioning, if there was a large amount of goods, Dazaifu had to report the matter to the Japanese court in Kyoto for a "formation". Roughly speaking, several ministers agreed to give the results to Dazaifu, and finally decided how long these foreign merchant ships would stay in Japanese ports.

So what if the foreign merchant ships are not satisfied with the results of the match or have opinions? It can also be appealed, which is called "廻but" in Japan.

After receiving the request of the Emperor, Dazaifu immediately reported it to the Imperial Governor, and the relevant departments of the imperial court conducted an audit, and then sent the results back to Dazaifu.

Of course, not everyone who has an opinion can make a request, it must be a big deal. How big is big, Wang Xiong explained in the letter, that is, a major event that will affect the relations between the two countries. In the words of later generations, it should be called a matter that is prone to cause diplomatic disputes.

If all the procedures are legal, after Dazaifu's questioning and decision, it is equivalent to the customs clearance of goods, and the next step is to enter the Japanese domestic market and sell them at the guide price set by Dazaifu, which is called Washi.

However, the Japanese government prohibits private and foreign businessmen from casual contact, so how can they sell goods? If you have seen the Friendship Store and the Center for Diplomatic Missions before the reform and opening up, it is easy to understand how the Japanese government handled this matter at that time.

Dazaifu would place foreign merchants in designated houses, just as it was one of the few hotels in the country that was qualified to receive foreign guests before the reform and opening up.

Foreign merchants could only carry out their trade activities in these hotels, and the goods they carried were first purchased by the Japanese government, and they selected the rest and then purchased by some Japanese merchants who had obtained permission from the government.

According to Dazaifu's regulations, foreign merchants had to sell their goods before the time limit given by the camp, and then board the ship to return home when the recent monsoon came.

In addition to the rules of trade, Wang Xiong also inquired about the main trade routes and ports between the two countries, and the results were also unexpected. Not too much, but a little less pitiful.

According to the regulations of the Japanese government, the two ports of Hakata and Hizen were the main official places for receiving the maritime merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, while the West Sea was the main port for Japanese smuggling of goods to the Great Song Dynasty and the smuggling of goods to Japan by the Song people.

Hong Tao looked at his own chart, and Hakata seemed to be Fukuoka in later generations, and Hizen should be Nagasaki. As for the West Sea, it is not a port name, but a large area of Nagasaki and Saga prefectures.

It's right to think about it, how can you find a fixed port for the government to check and confiscate smuggling at sea, where is it convenient to go ashore in coastal areas, where there are people to pick up, and where is the place of trade.

However, whether it is a foreign trade port designated by Japan or a small fishing port that smugglers like to dock, they all have a very obvious feature: they are all located in the north and west of Kyushu Island, and they are the closest to the Great Song Dynasty.

It cannot be said that no one went to the ports of Shikoku and Honshu, but there is hardly any record of it in the official records of the Song Dynasty and Japan, let alone Hokkaido, which was still the territory of the Ezo people at this time.

What does this mean? It shows that the maritime smuggling gangs in Fujian and Liangzhejiang Road do not have too strong navigation ability at all, and at best they can only go around the west side of Kyushu Island, and they cannot and dare not go to any further places.

Thinking a little further, the official and private trade with Japan in the Northern Song Dynasty was not fully developed at all, and more than three-quarters of Japan had never been there.

It is said that Sino-Japanese trade began in the Sui Dynasty, how could there be only such a few ports and routes after hundreds of years? Could it be that businessmen really stay honest when they arrive in Japan, and return to China directly after selling their goods?

Certainly not, if the merchants had been given a modern sea ship with GPS equipment, they would have turned all the ports of the Japanese archipelago, even the smallest fishing villages.

The sea ships of the Song Dynasty already had a huge amount of material, converted to a displacement of almost six or seven hundred tons, the bottom was like a knife, as many as five masts, it was definitely a sea ship, not an offshore sea ship, and it was fully capable of crossing the East China Sea and reaching Japan safely

So it's not the boat's problem, it's the GPS navigation equipment. In other words, the navigation skills of this era are insufficient, and you can go wherever you want, and you can only obey the destiny of heaven. Who is the Mandate of Heaven? It's not God, it's the wind, the monsoon.

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