My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 424 Japanese people, people of destiny?

In the imperial city hall, Su Chen's angry voice echoed in the hall.

"This is no different from collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country. It is even more disgusting than Qi Baoguo back then. I will never accept the surrender of Fan Li, Xiao Zhiyi, Gu Chongwen and others!"

The civil and military officials below have also seen the delivered letter. The Wu Kingdom's court has been controlled by civil and military officials since ancient times, but it is really shocking to trade an important port to an island country in the East China Sea as a condition.

"It's very similar to what Qin Hui did back then."

Jia Xu, who was at the top of the list, had sorted out the whole story in his mind. As soon as he said these words, the civil and military officials around him, such as Lu Bu, Xiang Yu, Li Jing, Wang Lang and others all tilted their heads.

"That's what I did in the past... I have sincerely repented these days and will not miss him." Qin Hui had a cold sweat on his face and hurriedly came out to explain.

"Get in!"

Su Chen flicked his wide sleeves, and the air trembled, "Wu Changshi, please give my handwriting to Guan Yu and Zhang Liao later, and tell them that I will not accept the surrender of Gu Chongwen, Xiao Zhiyi, Fan Li and others. , anyone caught and identified will be killed on the spot, no one from the three clans will be spared!"

"Yes!"

This was the first time to see the emperor so angry. Wu Zixun's eyelids jumped. After quickly accepting the order, Su Chen waved his sleeves and ended the morning court. He returned to the imperial study room in the middle palace and asked the palace maid Grinding the ink, he picked up the pen and wrote what he just said in the hall. He blew on the ink that was not yet dry and handed it to Wu Zixun who was waiting aside.

"Hurry up and send it over. In addition, ask the embroidery department to sort out the Sunrise Island and send all the contents on it to my study."

After people left, the door closed again. Su Chen sat back in the chair and leaned back. He frowned and tapped the armrests of the chair with his fingertips. Regarding the information sent, he actually called the monkeys on the islands " The Japanese surprised him a little.

Although "Japanese" means short stature, they collectively refer to each other as "Japanese". It was the "Japanese king" given by Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu to people who lived a good life in childhood, so that the people below were called Japanese.

How did you get here and have this title?

I remember that Fang Xuejun once mentioned it, but he never said that the other party had such a general name. They usually called them monkeys on the island to describe them. Looking carefully at the letter written by Gu Chongwen to the Japanese, it seems that this name was adopted in the past year. Just started.

Su Chen frowned even more, and his eyes fell on a Japanese sword placed on the desk. It was seized at sea and sent with the letter. The other party forged swords, and he once had one called "Xue Jian". It had a similar shape, but it was definitely not the one used by the Japanese now.

"And it seems that it has a forging system..." Su Chen took the letter in his hand and looked through it again. When he saw the name Dr. Sakyo 'Date Masamune' mentioned on it, he felt familiar, "Where have you read it? This name."

"His Majesty!"

Outside the study, Zheng He's voice rang outside. He asked Xu Chu to open the door a little and look outside: "Meng Zhaoyi has brought breakfast to His Majesty."

"Let her in."

Su Chen put down the letter and asked the palace maid on the side to clean up the table. After a moment, a girl in palace clothes, Shi Shiran, walked in holding a woman's hair bun. She was holding a wooden plate in both hands, and she was cute. She came over and brought over a bowl of rice porridge and a plate of side dishes. She pulled a strand of hair hanging down to her ear.

"White porridge is actually the most nourishing. In the morning, you should eat something light."

The side dishes were ordinary pickled vegetables with some seasonings, which looked pretty good. The white rice porridge was thick and had a faint aroma.

Before going to court, Su Chen ate something casually. After two hours, he was indeed a little hungry, but he took the chopsticks and didn't rush to eat. Thinking that the Yue Kingdom and the Wu Kingdom had many interactions, he tentatively asked Meng Yuyin about Donghai. Do you have any impression of Sunrise Island?

The girl thought for a moment and nodded slightly.

"Before I was married to Your Majesty, I heard from my father that there are residents of the East China Sea Islands who are short in stature, know little etiquette but not great righteousness, don't remember kindness, are savage and aggressive, and often care about other people's things."

"Where did your father know this?"

"The south of Vietnam is close to the sea and has a port. Sometimes dwarfs from the islands come there to do business. I have seen them in the palace before. They are really short!"

Meng Yuyin thought for a moment and put her hand on her shoulder: "So short!"

Roughly speaking, the girl is about 1.67 meters tall, reaching her shoulders. She must be about 1.4 to 1.5 meters?

Measured in feet, it is estimated to be a little less than half a foot.

"Is it called Japanese?" Su Chen asked, he wanted to confirm it with the girl.

"Japanese?"

Meng Yuyin shook her head: "I have never heard my father mention that they have such a title." At this point, she covered her mouth and chuckled: "This title is quite appropriate, how short... Haha!"

It seemed that Su Chen's guess was correct. The term "Japanese" only came out in the past year, at least not when Meng Yuyin got married two years ago.

"By the way, has your father received a reply?"

Su Chen took a sip of the white porridge, turned away the conversation, and asked casually.

"No reply yet."

When Meng Yuyin heard the mention of the Yue Kingdom, she had a simple mind. She leaned on the desk and supported her chin with her delicate little hands. There was a touch of sadness in her eyes: "I don't know what my father thinks. Several brothers have been beaten like that. I heard that there are a few more." All the generals died in the battle...why didn't my father stop him?"

"Is it possible that Emperor Qin is being controlled?"

Su Chen's sudden words startled Meng Yuyin, and she instinctively stretched out her hand to pull Su Chen's sleeves, "Your Majesty, don't say such things to scare me."

"Just a guess!"

Su Chen rubbed her head and said, "Go back to Yingzhao Palace, I still have some things to deal with."

"Yes!" The girl nodded thoughtfully, taking small steps and looking back three times. After leaving the study, Su Chen poured the pickles into the porridge bowl, stirred them evenly, and purred a few times. After finishing his meal, he asked the maid waiting at the side to put away his things, then strode out of the room.

Dian Wei and Xu Chu followed closely behind, heading to the ancestral temple.

The old trees in the courtyard, with lush branches and leaves, are like towering umbrellas, covering the ancestral temple. The breeze blows from a distance, the morning sun shines on the tree cage, and the dappled light sways slightly on the ground with the shade of the trees.

It was rare that Li Shimin did not teach Li Xuanba. He held the book in one hand and walked leisurely under the shade of the trees to read it. Liu Xie came back from nowhere carrying a basket of medicine and mysteriously called Tang Ming Emperor Li Longji to the corner and gave him He was looking at a herb, and the two of them were squatting in the corner, whispering, and snickering from time to time. Not far away, Li Xuanba came over in a hurry, and the strong wind he brought caused the two of them to flutter forward, and the herb fell into the medicine. furnace……

Li Xuanba, who was shouting in a hurry, stopped in front of a dignified and kind old woman. He smiled and watched the old woman grab a handful of coarse rice and sprinkle it on the ground, allowing the nearby birds to fly down and peck at it.

Birds flew around the woman, chirping happily.

Seemingly seeing Su Chen, the old woman smiled gently, turned around and whispered to the side room at the back: "Chongba!"

"I'm coming!"

Before the door was opened, Zhu Yuanzhang poked his head out from the door panel, "Xiuying, what do you want us to do?"

"Immortality is here."

Here, it was not the first time that Su Chen saw the famous Queen Ma. He came up to her and saluted her: "I have seen Queen Ma before." "You are now the emperor and the emperor. If there are outsiders here, don't salute like this. "

Empress Ma smiled and waved her hand. She sprinkled all the brown rice in her hand on the ground, attracting a large number of birds to peck at it. Then she came over to hold Su Chen's hand, as lovingly as a mother treats her son.

Zhu Di, who came out of the ancestral temple after hearing the news, was a little disgusted and muttered: "Is this raising the seniority of immortality?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang slapped him on the back of the head, "Don't make your mother unhappy!"

With a tigerish expression on his face, when he turned to Su Chen, a smile suddenly appeared, and his mouth almost reached the back of his head.

"Is Changsheng here? Come on, come and sit here."

Recently, Zhu Yuanzhang has hidden his imperial clothes, put on ordinary clothes, and stood with Queen Ma, as if they were an ordinary old couple.

When Su Chen sat down under the eaves of the wing, he leaned close to the side and whispered: "We are so happy and living so happily recently, thanks to the gift of Changsheng. If you want a token or something else, as long as we can get it, we can speak as soon as possible. !”

"There is no shortage of civil and military officials now. I just want to ask Ming Taizu and Ming Chengzu some things."

When Su Chen said this, his eyes fell on Zhu Yuanzhang and his son, and he told each other about the Japanese affairs one by one. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he heard this, and Zhu Di also frowned.

"I didn't expect that these Japanese people still exist here! I couldn't deal with them back then... when Hu Weiyong colluded with the Japanese people..."

Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth and stopped here. The son Zhu Di on the side also slapped the eaves pillars, "No, when they came to me, they became even more rampant. They severed the vassal relationship with me, the Ming Dynasty, and asked to continue trade! I refused and actually sent a navy to attack. I was killed by Liu Dong, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. Jiang, defeated the Japanese pirates at Wanghaiwuwei Station, killing 742 people and capturing 857 people. Later, I asked Zheng He to lead a fleet to fight over, and more than 600 Japanese people died. At that time, , I also asked North Korea to be the vanguard in the crusade against the Japanese on Tsushima Island. Before the battle started, these Japanese simply chose to surrender."

"Haha, good fight!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang listened, he finally said a word of appreciation for the son in front of him.

Zhu Di's eyes turned red immediately: "Dad..."

After listening to the words of the father and son, Su Chen also had an idea in his mind. During Zhu Yuanzhang's time, because of the newly unified country, the country was not strong enough to launch an effective attack on the Japanese. In Zhu Di's time, the fleet led by Zheng He once made the Japanese feel scared. .

What it means is just one word for them: hit!

"By the way, who has Qi Jiguang in his hands?"

"Where is Houcong...I can't remember clearly." Zhu Di thought for a while and couldn't make up his mind.

"Zhu Houcong?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was even more confused, "Your son?"

"Sixth generation grandson. Dad's seventh generation grandson."

"How is he?"

"Did you see Emperor Tang Ming over there?" Zhu Di pointed at Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, who was hugging Liu Xie and crying bitterly, "A little more useless than him."

"Why did you have such a pustule!"

"Dad, I was dead for who knows how many years at that time, can you blame me?"

Seeing the father and son starting to quarrel again, Su Chen took the sugar water from Queen Ma. The father and son quickly stopped arguing, looked at each other, each snorted, and turned their faces away.

Here, Su Chen finished drinking the sugar water, stood up and said goodbye, and came to the ancestral temple. All the emperors were there, busy with their own affairs, but Cao Cao and Zhao Kuangyin were nowhere to be seen.

Asked Zhao Kuangyi, who was with Liu Chan, the latter thought for a while and only left one sentence: in the well.

In the well?

Su Chen looked at Zhao Kuangyi who was walking away with confusion. He simply didn't know where they were. He said hello to Li Tiangang who closed his eyes and chanted sutras, and then went to the small courtyard on the side. In the distance, Wu Zetian and Li Zhi were whispering. While talking, when they saw Su Chen coming over, the couple shut their mouths and watched Su Chen go to the woodshed and get a piece of whittled wood.

Just sitting under the eaves, using the prepared tools, chisel and carve.

Carve out the spiritual throne of the famous emperor who cultivated immortals: Zhu Houcong, Shizong of the Ming Dynasty.

He was carving and thinking.

I watched Chen Baoguo's performance of Jiajing back then. He was very domineering and powerful, but I don't know if the real Jiajing is as powerful and scheming as the one shown on TV.

After spending some time, he finally carved the memorial tablet. He found paint from the woodshed, painted it again, and then left it outside to wait for the paint on it to dry.

He had also tried to let Li Tiangang or the eunuchs carve it before, but found that it was useless if it was done by their hands, so he had to do it himself.

Therefore, every spiritual statue in this ancestral temple was carved by Su Chen himself.

"Taoist Priest, that sign outside is of great use to me. Once the paint on it dries, please move it to the altar table for worship. I will come back in a few days."

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang and his son also came here. They informed the emperors about Su Chen's encounter with the Japanese, and things immediately exploded. As soon as Su Chen finished giving orders to Li Tiangang, he was surrounded by the emperors.

"Why didn't Changsheng tell the Japanese when they came here?" Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty came in angrily from the outside. He directly opened Liu Chan who was joining in the fun in front of him, "Back then, I was still worried about the other party's letter of credence. The emperor of the country where the sun rises and the country where the sun sets, makes me angry just thinking about it!"

On the altar table in the distance, Kublai Khan's spirit tablet also spoke: "I beat him twice, but both times ended in vain due to various reasons. Otherwise, that small and tiny land will become part of China in the future."

"Then it's not your fault!"

Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and pouted at him, "If you incorporate it into the territory, it will be a matter of course for our Ming Dynasty to regain its homeland in the future! There will be so many bad things behind it."

Here, Su Chen raised his hand to ask them to stop talking for a while, and then spoke again after being quiet for a while.

"Your Majesty, come here today, I actually have another guess. I think the destined person mentioned before may be in that archipelago."

Later, he told everyone all the possibilities he had guessed in the study.

"The name "Japanese" was given by Emperor Guangwu, and unlike animals and flowers, you can find the same ones here. It is impossible for those islanders to give themselves such a name for nothing, and the costumes of those islanders are so similar to those of the original Japanese. , I heard that there is an emperor in the archipelago, which I have never heard of in more than ten years here."

Su Chen made an affirmative voice.

"So, I conclude that there must be so-called destined people on those islands, just like me..."

(End of this chapter)