Although Zhen Qian despised the Japanese people in his heart, especially shameful of their behavior of bending and bowing down, but as far as the matter was concerned, the quality and loyalty of the dozen or so samurai under Fujiwara Shuxiong amazed Zhen Qian, no matter what kind of order Fujiwara Shuxiong ordered, he never saw that one samurai have the slightest complaint, as if it was wrong not to do so.

"Fujiwara-kun's samurai are also elite!"

"That's nature!" Speaking of the arrogance on his face as the samurai Fujiwara Shuxiong, "These are Fujiwara family slaves, selected from childhood and cultivated in various difficult environments, and they are absolutely loyal to the Fujiwara family, even if they die immediately, they will not complain!" ”

"How many such samurai Fujiwara families are there?"

Zhen Qian knew that most of the Japanese warriors were tendons, and he didn't know how they were trained, and he liked to commit suicide by playing seppuku when he had nothing to do, and he still had a smile on his face before he died, not to mention the horror, but also to be complacent, as if he was a real samurai in this way, and they were all a group of brainless fools.

Fujiwara Shuxiong's expression darkened, "Don't hide it from Zhen Lang, there are only three or four hundred such samurai in the Fujiwara family, if there are thousands of people, why can't the Fujiwara family be squeezed and breathless!" ”

Zhen Qian can feel that the status of the Fujiwara family in the Wa Kingdom is very high, but it is also the height of the cold, just experienced the turmoil of the "Fujiwara Hiroji Rebellion", the Fujiwara family is greatly damaged, and the South and North families are very lucky, almost not affected, but in order to avoid the attention of the country, Fujiwara Qinghe led the Tang envoys to the Tang Dynasty, many of which have the taste of avoiding disaster, Fujiwara Shuxiong rarely talks to Zhen Qian face-to-face about the affairs of the Wa Kingdom, and many things Zhen Qian is speculated based on the hearsay of later generations, After all, I don't know much about the history of the Wa Kingdom.

Under the side questioning, Zhen Qian still knew some about the current situation of the Japanese country.

During this period, successive emperors paid attention to farming, built water conservancy, rewarded land reclamation, and greatly developed the social economy, and the Nara Dynasty at this time was influenced by the culture of the Tang Dynasty, and the culture of India and Iran was accepted through the Tang Dynasty, so that the first cultural prosperity of the Japanese Kingdom appeared. At this time, the Japanese society was like a peaceful and prosperous era of national peace and security. However, at this time, the accumulation of disadvantages for future generations was also forming, and the Banda system was difficult to form, the economy of the emperor's full-time state was shaken, and the centralized system was gradually weakened due to internal strife.

Now the Wa Kingdom is under the rule of Empress Xiaoqian, I have the blood of the Fujiwara clan, worship as my cousin Fujiwara Nakama Lu Da Nayan, and the governor of Ziwei Zhongtai: Ziwei Ling Zhongwei General, and the left minister Tachibana Zhu, the right minister Fujiwara Toyosei has a tense relationship, and it is for this reason that Fujiwara Qinghe sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty in order to alleviate the contradictions.

What made Fujiwara the most complacent was the newly established Heijo Jing, which imitated Chang'an, the capital of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and was about six kilometers long from east to west and four kilometers from north to south. Ouchi and Heijo Palace are located in the center of the north side, Suzaku Avenue divides the capital into two sides from north to south, the east side is called Zuojing, the west side is called Youjing, and there are several east-west and north-south roads that divide the city into 84 squares, each square has 16 pings, of which Heijo Palace occupies four squares, and temples, east and west markets, and mausoleums occupy about 10 squares. At the time of its establishment, about 200,000 people had moved in from all over the world, just like in Chang'an.

There was another important reason why the Tang envoys were in a hurry to return to the Japanese state.

In order to rely on the "Three Jewels' Mighty Spirit" and pray for peace in the world and prosperity for the country, Emperor Shomu built Todai-ji Temple and the Great Buddha. In the second year of Tianbao, the construction of Todaiji Temple and the huge bronze Buddha statue began, and in the process of building the Todai Temple and the huge bronze Buddha statue, it took a huge amount of manpower and material resources, mobilized the financial resources of the whole country, and called on the people to voluntarily contribute support. In the eleventh year of Tianbao, the Great Buddha Hall was completed, and in April of the following year, the imperial court presided over the grand opening of the eyes of the Buddha and offered the puja, and sent the Tang envoy to return.

During this period, Confucianism was widely spread in the Japanese state, pursuing the idea of "government is to support the people", and the basis of a rich country and the people was placed on the stability of the countryside and the peasants getting rid of poverty. It is believed that the emperor should advocate frugality, then the people's hearts will not be chaotic, and the country can prosper.

Great attention has been paid to the selection and selection of officials at all levels and the merits of their political achievements. The recruitment examination of officials imitated the Tang Dynasty, and it was also six subjects, including Xiucai, Ming Jing, Jinshi, Ming Law, calligraphy, and arithmetic. The students are mainly students from central and local schools. Daxueliao is a central school, and Guoxue is a local school, which is not only an educational institution for cultivating bureaucrats, but also a transmission system for Confucianism in the Wa Kingdom, and the main content of their teaching is Confucian classics. For example, the university has a Ming Jing and Taoism (Confucian discipline), and the textbooks have the "Nine Classics", namely "Zhou Yi", "Shangshu", "Zhou Li", "Rites", "Rites", "Rites", "Mao's Poems", "Spring and Autumn Zuo's Biography", "Filial Piety", and "Analects", these textbooks must use the prescribed annotated versions.

During this period, the Wa Kingdom and the Balhae Kingdom had close contacts and became hostile to the Silla Kingdom, and at the same time, the contradictions between the Balhae Kingdom and the Silla Kingdom were also deepening. In order to contain Silla, the Balhae Kingdom sent envoys to Japan many times.

Although the exchanges between the Wa Kingdom and the Silla Kingdom have not been interrupted, there are constant contradictions and frictions, and the Japanese warships invaded the eastern border of the Silla Kingdom several times, often fighting at sea, and the Japanese envoys sent by the Silla State to the Wa Kingdom were also blocked by Dazaifu, which indirectly led to the inability of the Tang envoys to cross the sea from the North Road to the Tang Dynasty.

Through Fujiwara's casual narration, coupled with the understanding of the Wa Kingdom in later generations, Zhen Qian has a general understanding of the current situation of the Wa Kingdom.

During this period, the imperial power of the Wa Kingdom had not been completely aside, but the political pattern of the Wa State was destined to be the shogunate in the future, and the influence of various families on the government was far-reaching, especially the Fujiwara clan, which caused the dissatisfaction of many families, and the seeds of turmoil/chaos and splitting had been planted during this period, which made Zhen Qian see the opportunity.

In particular, the division of administrative regions under the legal order system also laid the groundwork for the family conflicts in the future.

"Gogi" refers to the five kingdoms within the Gyeonggi region, and the other territories outside Gyeonggi are divided into seven provinces in imitation of the Tang system. The Goki Seven Province system was implemented from the Nara period until the abolition of the feudal prefecture in the early Meiji period, but some of the provincial names are still in use today.

"Gogi" refers to the five reignac states in the Gyeonggi region, also known as "Kinai" or "Goginai". Specifically, it refers to Yamashiro, Yamato, Kawachi, Izumi, and Settsu.

"Seven Roads" refers to the whole land of the Wa Kingdom outside Gyeonggi, because of the imitation of the Tang system, all of them are called "Dao", a total of seven roads: Tokaido, Dongshan Road, Hokuriku Province, Sanyang Road, Sansan Nankai Province, and Saikaido.

The seven provinces are controlled by the big families in the Wa Kingdom, and the smaller families control the large and small "countries", the Dao of the Wa Kingdom is equivalent to the state of the Tang Dynasty, and the country is equivalent to the county of the Tang Dynasty, and the county of the Tang Dynasty is different from the influence of the squires on the state and county, the Dao and the country of the Wa State are similar to the sub-feudal system of the Zhou Dynasty, which is nominally under the jurisdiction of the emperor, but once the country is unstable, it will immediately fall apart.

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