Chapter 684: The Mission Enters Beijing
The key to gift-giving depends on the heart, the heart is there, the love is also there, as for whether the heart is robbed or pitted...... Don't worry about these details.
A perfect calligraphy full of blood and tears of the prince of the country, Qin Kan settled the payment with great interest, and easily stamped his own private seal, this pen walked the dragon and snake quite a big character with everyone's atmosphere under Qin Kan's name, left and right, Qin Kan looked at the more he felt that this character was well written, and it should have been written by a big man like himself.
Reluctantly ordered someone to send this painting to Yan Song's mansion, and then sent someone to send back the unlucky Gongsheng who was so frightened that he almost became incontinent, Qin Kan's heart was full of satisfaction.
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The Jingshi is really calm, with more than 50 civil officials in prison, this time the court dispute is also an end, Tianjin Donggang is busy again, the keels of the giant ships are lined up in the East Port, which is called spectacular, but the civil officials of the Beijing division have collectively lost their voices, as the losers of the court battle, the civil officials have acquiesced to the fact that the noble group headed by Qin Kan participated in the shipping, and in the few days after the end of the court meeting, the court and the central government were surprisingly quiet, and no one participated in the impeachment of Tianjin shipbuilding. Obviously, the civil officials had reached this helpless consensus quietly, and they could not stop Qin Kan's will, so they chose to compromise.
After a lot of hard work to achieve this result, Qin Kan naturally would not be polite to the civil officials, and ordered Pegasus to be transmitted to Tianjin, ordering Tianjin Donggang to speed up shipbuilding, and the Tianjin Navy Division trained soldiers diligently, practiced artillery, and acted even if it was a little ostentatious. This was originally the fruit of Qin Kan's victory with his life, and now it was time to taste it.
Two days later, in the early morning. A group of strangely dressed people stepped on the dawn of dawn to come to the Chaoyang Gate of Jingshi, they were not many in number, about nearly a hundred, each of them was wearing a rather strange set of white kimonos, although it was a slightly cold early spring, but under the feet stepped on a pair of clogs, hundreds of people walked between the trampling sounds, everyone held a long sword in their arms, rode to the gate of Jingshi City, did not listen to anyone to greet them. Everyone automatically and consciously dismounted. Standing in front of the city gate, looking up at the towering Jingshi Tower, as if he was shocked by the majestic momentum of this ancient city, he did not move for a long time, as if he was demented.
After a long time. The leader, a Japanese man in his thirties, suddenly rested his sword on the ground. Then kneel in the dust. After a five-body bow, all the Japanese behind him also knelt down, and the sergeant guarding the door was stunned. Before they could ask, the Japanese man at the head exhaled, and his mouth turned out to be a proficient Chinese mouth.
"Prince Chihito, the envoy of His Majesty Emperor Kashiwahara of Japan, the envoy of the Hosokawa clan of the Shogunate of Japan's Muromachi Shogunate, the envoy of the Daiuchi clan of the Japanese Zhou Defense Governor Tie, the envoy of the Ouchi clan, visit His Majesty the Emperor of the Heavenly Khan of the Ming Kingdom, and the retainers of the barbarian vassal wish the Heavenly Khan His Majesty long live, long live, long live!"
After speaking, the Japanese actually kowtowed three times to the city gate, banging, and dust flew in front of the city gate.
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"Grandpa, the Japanese mission has arrived in Beijing, this morning the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Zhang Sheng personally went to Chaoyang Gate to greet him, and was led by Honglu Temple Zhengqing to Honglu Temple Pavilion for temporary residence, Taichang Temple Siyi Pavilion sent three interpreters to accompany him, waiting for the Ministry of Rites officials to arrange a day to meet His Majesty ......"
Ding Shun reported to Qin Kan in detail about the behavior of the Japanese mission, since the last time Qin Kan told Ding Shun with a serious face to face up to Japan, a small country, Ding Shun really paid attention to his mission, and their every move was in Ding Shun's eyes.
Qin Kan couldn't help frowning, although in this era, Japan was respectful to the Ming Sect and couldn't find the slightest mistake, but Qin Kan was affected by some tragic history in his previous life, and he couldn't help but feel bad when he heard the word "Japan", this kind of bad feeling almost formed a conditioned reflex, and he couldn't correct his mentality.
"Who are the tripartite envoys?" Qin Kan asked lightly.
Ding Shun had already checked the details of the Japanese mission, and said after hearing the words: "The leader is the second son of the Japanese emperor, Prince Chihito, he is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, the messenger representing the Daimyo of the Hosokawa clan is named Hosokawa Sumimoto, the adopted son of the Daimyo Hosokawa Masamoto, the envoy representing the Daimyo of the Ouchi clan is named Takahiro Ouchi, who is the brother of the Daimyo Ouchi Yoshiko, and the rest are all samurai of the tripartite family, and the Japanese mission is composed of these three people. ”
Qin Kan's brows furrowed even deeper, and he muttered: "The son of the Japanese lord, the adopted son of the Hosokawa clan, and the elder brother of the Ouchi clan, these Japanese are full of sincerity......"
Ding Shun said with a smile: "As the grandfather said, these Japanese have a respectful enough attitude towards the strong country, from the time they entered the Beijing division to the present, no matter who talks to them, they bow vigorously first, and when they meet a higher official position, it is like going to the grave of their father, this morning the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Zhang went out of the city to greet him, and the three messengers heard that it was my Ming Dynasty Rite Department official, and immediately ignored Zhang Sheng's kneeling, and kowtowed nine times in a row, which frightened Zhang Sheng's old face turned green, and knelt down and kowtowed with them without saying a word. Three kneels and nine bows are the etiquette of worshipping the emperor, can Zhang Sheng's old man stand it? ”
Qin Kan was amused and couldn't help but sneer.
Ding Shun sighed: "It's a good morning, Lord Zhang didn't recruit anyone and didn't provoke anyone, for no reason accompanied the Japanese to kowtow nine times in a row, in order to show the magnanimity of my suzerain, he couldn't do it, said a few polite words, and ordered the officials of Honglu Temple to arrange the mission to stop and then brushed their sleeves away, the Japanese nodded and thanked them in a row, they also felt that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were particularly humble and humble, and they kowtowed Lord Zhang also kowtowed, no less than them, and the two groups of people kowtowed to each other like worship, It's hard to think that at the age of seventy years old, Master Zhang kowtowed early in the morning, and when he returned home, he couldn't straighten his waist, so he lay on the bed and shouted, saying that these Japanese were deliberately murdering the important ministers of the Celestial Empire......"
Qin Kan Ha Lu Ha Da Lu laughed, and then his face turned pale, and he muttered: "The Japanese mission has cut off the tributary for a hundred years, this time Yang Dequan fired a few cannons in Nagasaki, Japan, and raised the prestige of my Ming Dynasty, and the majesty is majestic, but if it is said that the Nagasaki War I scared the Japanese emperor and the two most powerful daimyo into soft-footed shrimps, it is not realistic, these three people sent envoys to pay tribute just to follow the trend, most of them are for the trade between the two countries, after all, Japan is barren and has few products, They happened to need all kinds of goods from the Ming Dynasty to meet their domestic needs, and the mission came to Beijing with this idea in mind......"
Ding Shun said with a smile: "Grandpa has been looking forward to opening the sea ban day and night in recent years, and the Japanese mission came to Beijing for this purpose, so doesn't it happen to coincide?" ”
"That's not necessarily, now is the Warring States period of Japan, dozens of daimyo on a small island to fight in a mess, a few days ago they saw how sharp my Daming firearms are at sea, this time they came to Beijing to ask for trade, I am afraid that what they want to buy the most, or my Ming firearms." (To be continued......)