"Then why did Da Lang just say that he was going to go to the Wa Kingdom?"

"This is exactly the reason why I went back to the wolf's den this time", Zhen Qian said his worries again, and Wang Qun and Wang Lun don't need to hide or scruple anything, they are equivalent to Zhen Qian's elders, even their own mothers respect them, no matter what Zhen Qian does, he has never suspected anything.

"Are you saying that An Lushan also wants to plot our secret method of winemaking?"

"An Lushan has recruited a lot of private soldiers in private, and An Lushan can't do anything without money, thinking about the profits we get from winemaking, can An Lushan not be blushing?"

The two of them were a little afraid, what kind of person is An Lushan, I am afraid that most Tang people know that the envoy of the Three Towns Jiedu knows how much power he has in his hands just by hearing this name, and Zhen Qian actually provoked this killing god.

"Then Da Lang can take refuge in the Wa Kingdom?"

"An Lushan's power is also limited to the territory of the Tang Dynasty, or the three towns, not to mention that the Wa State will not pay attention to An Lushan and Li Lushan at all, can't it be impossible to send a naval army to the Wa State to arrest him!"

"So Da Lang should indeed go to the Wa Kingdom for a while, but is it safe to go all the way to the Wa Kingdom?" Wang Lun couldn't help but worry about Zhen Qian's safety, in their eyes, the country was not only a wild place, but also a vast ocean with many difficulties and dangers, and the vast sea made people feel a sense of paleness and powerlessness, a fear of the unknown.

The navigation technology of the Tang Dynasty was far less developed than imagined, there were no compasses and spinnakers, navigation completely relied on the stars and the wind and waves, and pinned their lives on the illusory and ethereal sea benevolence, only those pirates and maritime merchants who wanted money and did not want their lives would embark on this road of no return.

"Have you forgotten Zhen Jiu and Zhen Shi?"

"Da Lang had a plan...... already planned!"

Zhen Qian shook his head and said: "This is not my original plan, I originally wanted them to develop at sea for three or four years, and I thought that if the secret of the wolf's den leaked, there would be a way out, but now it seems that the original choice was right!" ”

"Now that Da Lang already has a plan, we don't have to worry, what else do we have to tell before leaving?"

Although I already have a complete plan in my heart, when I think of the bleak future, I really don't know if I can go to the Japanese country, and in this era, even a cold can kill people, let alone cross the ocean?

"Help me select ten young people with strong martial arts, the brain should be flexible, the person should be watery, good at observing words and colors, those with escort experience are preferred, and then see if there are people in the valley who understand the Chinese language, it is best to understand some of the situation of the Wu Kingdom." During the period when I left Datang, in addition to secretly recruiting some skilled craftsmen and people with unique skills, all activities in Datang were dormant, and if there was any trouble, I immediately hid in the nearest shelter, and I also paid attention to the Turkic Absi, who was capricious and was forced to surrender to Datang, and was appointed as the deputy envoy of Shuofang Jiedu, I am afraid that there will be rebellion in the near future. After Zhen Er came back from going to Muwei to listen to the truth this time, he was sent to Shan Yu Duhu Mansion to collect information, if he could win over some small tribes, it would be best to establish good business contacts if he couldn't do it, and you should discuss the rest of the things, if you can't move as much as possible, if you can move as little as possible, everything will be said after I come back. ”

Zhen Qian didn't know that Zhen Er had already stabbed himself in a basket that was not big or small, disrupting the entire northern plan, which is a later story.

Zhen Er also didn't know that he was an important chess piece in Zhen Qian's entire northern plan, the reason why he delayed sending Zhen Er to the northern grasslands was that he was not ready, and secondly, he was also using this time to observe Zhen Er.

Wang Qun naturally had no opinion, and faithfully carried out all Zhen Qian's orders, "Zhen Jiu and Zhen Shi should be notified in advance?" ”

"Zhen Shi doesn't know how the business is doing, so don't inform him yet, I'll contact him then. Inform Zhen Jiu, let him send someone to Yanzhou to contact me, this time to Yangzhou to go through Yanzhou to Chuzhou, and then take a boat to Yangzhou (called Jiangdu or Jiangyang in the Sui and Tang dynasties), depending on the situation, will board the ship in Yangzhou and go to sea, if the plan changes, will be diverted to Dengzhou to go to sea, it's hard to say now, take the map? ”

Wang Qun took out the map and spread it on the desk, Zhen Qian's map of the Tang Dynasty based on the world map of later generations was more accurate, but in order not to attract the attention of others, there were many places that were deliberately smeared.

"This is the Wa Kingdom, Silla and the Wa Kingdom face each other across the sea, I heard that the relationship between the two countries is a little tense, so the Tang envoy gave up the safer north road, and chose the south road to cross the sea to reach the Tang Dynasty, but the north route is safe but the sea route is the longest, let Zhen Jiuxian stop all activities in the Bohai Sea, and transfer most of the manpower here to ......", Zhen Qian pointed to several small islands on the map and said: "These are five uninhabited islands (the later Five Islands of the Five Islands), there may be some nearby Japanese fishermen on the island, but don't care, Let Zhen Jiu place his stronghold on the five islands, and I will contact Zhen Jiu after I arrive in the Wa Kingdom, and act on all opportunities! ”

PS: The scale of the Tang envoys in the early days was not large, at most two or three boats, and the organization was not very tight. Almost back and forth take the north road, that is, starting from Sanjinpu, sailing along the Korean Peninsula and Liaodong Peninsula, then crossing the mouth of Bohai Bay, landing on the Shandong Peninsula, and then passing through Laizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Bianzhou, Luoyang until Chang'an. This route is the longest and most time-consuming, but also the safest.

Moreover, during this period, the political purpose of the envoys sent by the Japanese state to the Tang Dynasty was far greater than cultural and economic exchanges, and their purpose was mostly to compete for the Korean Peninsula.

During the Sui Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom had a base on the Korean Peninsula, Renna, which was later annexed by the powerful Silla, and the power of the Wa Kingdom was completely driven out of the peninsula. In the early Tang period, Silla's struggle with Baekje intensified, Silla sought support from the Tang Dynasty, and Baekje strengthened ties with Goguryeo. In order to support Silla, the Tang Dynasty made an expedition to Goguryeo. At the same time, the Wa Kingdom also further strengthened its ties with the Baekje and Goguryeo Fronts.

It is said that in 659, the purpose of sending an envoy to the Tang Dynasty was to rescue Baekje and to contain the Tang Dynasty diplomatically. This time, the envoy was almost exiled for collecting military intelligence about Tang's dispatch to Baekje in the Tang Dynasty. Although the matter later subsided, the envoys of the Wa Kingdom remained under house arrest in Chang'an until the Tang destroyed Baekje. In 663, in order to rescue Baekje, the Wa Kingdom fought a large-scale naval battle with the Tang Dynasty on the Korean Peninsula, known as the Battle of the Baekchon River in history. The Wa state was defeated, withdrew its army, and was always worried that the Tang army would take advantage of the victory to attack the mainland. Therefore, it is not difficult to see that the envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty in 665 and the envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty in 669 were intended to mend the rift in the relationship between the Tang and the Japanese. The Battle of the Baicun River was of great significance in the history of Tang and Japanese relations, and as a watershed, the Japanese began to actively import the institutional culture of the Tang Dynasty and quickly moved towards a "legal order state".

With the defeat of the Japanese state on the battlefield of Silla, the route of sending Tang envoys avoided the safer northern route and chose the southern route. At that time, the fleet was expanded to four or five ships, totaling four or five hundred men, and they mostly took the Nandao Road, that is, starting from Hakata, going south along the west coast of Kyushu Island, crossing the East China Sea at an appropriate place, and then landing in the area of the Yangtze River estuary, and then passing through Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Chuzhou, Bianzhou, and Luoyang to Chang'an. In addition to official diplomats such as ambassadors, vice-envoys, judges, and clerks, there are also nearly 30 different job categories, such as the Governor of the Ship (Captain), the Shipmaster (the person in charge of shipbuilding technology), the Translator (the translator), the main god (the person who worships the gods), the physician, the onmyoji, the painter, the Shi Sheng (the clerk), the shooter (the guard), and so on. The mission also consciously placed some Go masters and pipa players to meet the needs of international social interaction. In addition, there are still a large number of international students and scholars accompanying him.

Finally, by the way, on the southern front, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang envoys entered the end of the dispatch period (777~894). At this time, the route was mostly on the southern route, that is, starting from Hakata, anchoring in the present-day Hirado or Goto Islands, waiting for the wind to sail and cross the East China Sea, and the subsequent route was roughly the same as the Minamijima Road. The scale of the organization is no less than before, but in terms of momentum, it is already the end of the crossbow. The Tang Dynasty, which was plagued by internal and external troubles, lost its former glory, its open-door policy began to fade, and its foreign exchanges were hindered to a certain extent. After ingesting a large amount of essence, the Wa Kingdom also urgently needed to stop and digest it, which made the Tang culture begin to transition to the national culture. Later, there was even an ideological tendency that everything that should be learned had been absorbed, so that the Wa Kingdom gradually lost its enthusiasm and sharpness in pursuing Tang culture at this time. It was not until 894 that the monks of the Tang Dynasty reported that the "Tang Dynasty was withering", and Sugawara Michizane suggested that the Tang envoys should be stopped, so that the long history of sending Tang envoys came to an end.