Xia Hongsheng rolled his eyes and said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, these people just rely on this Huang Juan to say that they are sent by the Japanese State to send Tang envoys, do you believe it?" So what if they're a bunch of daring liars? This kind of national book Weichen can write several in the blink of an eye, and the seal on it can be engraved by Weichen himself, what if these people are just cheating to eat and drink? Anyway, no one can go to the Wa Kingdom to verify them, isn't it? I think these people have ill intentions, and they can't distinguish between truth and falsehood, so it's better to lock them all up first! ”

Li Shimin looked at Xia Hongsheng and said, "The mission not only has the lord of the country, but also the seal of the lord of the country, how can it be fake." ”

"It's easy to do the seal of the lord of the country! His Majesty asked Weichen to take a look, and when he turned around, Weichen made one for His Majesty this afternoon. Xia Hongsheng argued.

Li Shimin glanced at Xia Hongsheng a little speechlessly: "His person has things given by Emperor Yang of the former Sui Dynasty, and there will be no fake." ”

"Oops! Your Majesty, must this gift be genuine? Your Majesty asked Wechen to take a look, Wechen ......"

"They still have the letters returned by Emperor Yang of the former Sui Dynasty, and there are still letters from Emperor Yang and the national seal, and there are people in the palace who can identify them, so how can they be fake!" Li Shimin rolled his eyes at Xia Hongsheng and interrupted Xia Hongsheng's words: "I don't want to think that this Tang envoy is true at all!" ”

"Huh? Hasn't the letter of state returned by Emperor Yang of Sui been lost by Sister Ono? Xia Hongsheng laughed and clapped his hands: "Your Majesty, they must be fake!" Take them ...... Uh......"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Li Shimin staring at Xia Hongsheng with a tiger face, his eyes were a little scared, and he asked, "How do you know that Emperor Yang of Sui's national letter has been lost?" Do you still know Ono Girl? ”

Xia Hongsheng suddenly choked, and hurriedly looked at Li Shimin as if flattering, pretending to be stupid.

However, Li Shimin did not intend to let Xia Hongsheng go, and asked again: "Even I don't know about the person of Sister Ono, but I still heard that the Japanese State sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, and I learned that she was originally an envoy sent by the Japanese State to Sui, and was received by Emperor Yang." How do you know? ”

"This ...... Wechen is from the history books! Xia Hongsheng hurriedly said: "Later, I felt that this name sounded very ...... Peculiar? So I inquired, because an old man who had experienced the former Sui heard some rumors about sending Sui envoys from him. ”

Li Shimin was also noncommittal, but he didn't seem to believe it, and said: "I've heard a lot of rumors, let's talk about it." ”

Seeing that he couldn't get past it, he had to scratch his head and say.

Xia Hongsheng is no stranger to sending Sui envoys and Tang envoys.

When Xia Hongsheng was in college, he took an elective course on "The International Influence of Tang and Song Dynasty Literature", but he didn't expect that the lecturer who taught this elective course was a patriotic and angry youth, and he didn't talk much about Tang and Song Dynasty literature, and most of the class time was spent in spraying Japanese ingratitude. Among them, there are a large number of examples of sending Sui envoys and Tang envoys to learn various advanced cultural and economic systems from our university. Xia Hongsheng's choice of topic was to send Tang envoys to analyze the absorption of Tang culture by neighboring countries through the diplomatic method of sending Tang envoys, so as to analyze the influence of Chinese culture on the civilization and formation of their own civilization in neighboring countries.

Because he had collected a lot of information when writing his thesis, Xia Hongsheng knew a lot about sending Tang envoys.

Xia Hongsheng then explained to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, the Wa Kingdom was originally a barbaric and backward barbarian country, and its people were not even as good as the Turks, let alone uneducated. After the former Sui Dynasty, the country was unified, and His Majesty also knew what the grand occasion was during the opening of the emperor's reign. Therefore, at that time, the lord of the Wa State sent four Sui envoys to the former Sui. The people of the Wa Kingdom were not a good thing in the first place, and the reason for sending Sui envoys was not because they wanted to be vassals to the former Sui, nor because of respect. Rather, it serves three purposes. The first purpose is to learn the advanced culture, system, especially technology, and advanced things in all aspects of society in the pre-Sui Dynasty, so as to make a ready-made child, so as to make itself advanced. The second purpose, at that time, Buddhism was introduced to the Wa Kingdom, because the culture of the Wa Kingdom was backward, and it did not have its own ideological system at all, so after Buddhism arrived in the Wa Kingdom, it became a representative of a culture and brought a profound influence to the lords and nobles of the Wa Kingdom. In a sense, he has become the ideological master of his country, so he is also seeking Buddhist scriptures. The third purpose is to ******** factors and grab profits. Of these three purposes, the most important is the first, and the second most important is the third. As for the pursuit of Buddhism, it is just an external pretense. ”

After listening to Xia Hongsheng's words, Li Shimin's eyes suddenly froze, and he said urgently: "What Xia Qing means is that the purpose of this group of people is the same as the purpose of those Sui envoys, all of them are to learn the advanced technology of my Datang?!" ”

After Li Lao Er saw the general technologies in the military aircraft workshop that were "black technology" in Datang, he was particularly sensitive to the secrecy of technology. It's even a little too sensitive. Xia Hongsheng just said so much, but Li Shimin only reacted the fastest and biggest to this. However, Xia Hongsheng is also happy to see that Li Shimin attaches so much importance to the secrecy of advanced technology. This is very good, this is the magic weapon that Datang relies on to lead the world.

"Exactly, Your Majesty!" Xia Hongsheng said to Li Shimin: "If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can send someone to look up the records of the former Sui and find out the information about the Sui envoys, and you will definitely find that after those Sui envoys arrived in Chang'an, they either wanted to enter the country or take the Tang people back to the Wa Kingdom." Your Majesty went to see the Tang people who returned to the Wa Kingdom with the Sui envoys, and most of them were craftsmen except for the monks! ”

"If that's the case, then the matter will have to be considered in the long run." Li Shimin frowned, tapped his knuckles lightly on the table, and said, "By the way, what did Xia Qing say that the third purpose of the Japanese State was to be geopolitical and to seize interests?" Could it be that the little Japanese country still wants to plot against my Tang Dynasty? ”

"The Wa Kingdom is an island country, with a small area, and the Tang Dynasty is separated by the ocean, and it is many times behind the Tang Dynasty, so how dare you plan the Tang Dynasty?" Xia Hongsheng shook his head and said, "The person who plotted it lies in the land of Baekje. Fang Cai Weichen also said that the Wa Kingdom is composed of four islands, and its entire territory does not have to be a big Tang Dynasty. In this way, the country's natural resources are not enough for development. It is bound to seek from the outside. In fact, when Emperor Yang conquered Goryeo, the Wa Kingdom took the opportunity to cross the sea and invade Baekje, and the Sui envoys who sent them that year also collected intelligence from the Sui Dynasty to deal with the Sui Dynasty's actions against the three kingdoms of Goryeo. In order to ensure its interests in Baekje, the Wa Kingdom secretly supported Goryeo against the Former Sui. Emperor Yang's three expeditions to Goryeo were fruitless, and there was also the shadow of the Wa Kingdom. So, Your Majesty, the Wa Kingdom has bad intentions! (To be continued.) )