Ji Shiju rode his horse and followed Fang Jun, browsing the prosperous street scene of the Tang Dynasty imperial capital. Hearing the words, he smiled and said: "Aren't you that idiot Inugami? The fierce words of your emperor's national letter made His Majesty the Emperor miserable. After some warnings, His Majesty the Emperor became angry, but also frightened. Although he knew that the Tang Dynasty was now planning to attack Goguryeo, who knew that after Goguryeo was pacified, he would take advantage of the situation and directly attack the main island of Japan? Therefore, he sent me here with fifty women. "
Fang Junqi asked: "There are only fifty women? Nothing else?"
Ji Shiju said with a smile: "What else do you expect? The Japanese country is very poor, otherwise it would not snatch the land of our Ezo people with red eyes. The Emperor looks majestic, but in fact he lives in The palace is just a wooden house, and the silk clothes are only worn when worshiping ancestors... The Japanese country is so poor that it only has people."
Fang Jun suddenly realized that the Japanese country had never been rich in ancient times. Even during the Meiji Restoration, the monarchs and ministers tightened their belts together and laid a solid foundation for the country. Until the Sino-Japanese War, the bet on "national destiny" was won. , the Qing Dynasty paid 200 million taels of silver as compensation, and then it suddenly started to tremble, and it was out of control on the road to enriching the country and strengthening the army...
However, Fang Jun also knew that the Japanese came to pay tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty and specially selected beautiful women as tribute.
"Book of the Later Han Dynasty" records: "In the first year of Yongchu reign of Emperor An, the Japanese king Shuai Sheng and others offered their lives to a hundred and sixty people, and would like to see them." The Japanese country was so poor that it only had 160 beauties, which made the emperor dumbfounded. Later, the tribute paid by the Japanese nation during the Three Kingdoms period became even more bizarre. The Japanese nation was in a state of warlord rule. A queen named Himihu wanted to ask a big man for help, but when she got to the ground, she discovered that the Han Dynasty had been divided into three, so Himihu's envoy came to find her. The State of Wei donated four men and six women to the State of Wei...
Forget it if you give it to a woman, what does it mean to give it to a man?
Emperor Wei was not very masculine, but in view of Himihu's sincerity, he praised the envoy and gave a large number of things in return. Including a total of 200 pieces of various types of fine cloth, eight taels of gold, bronze mirrors, pearls and other practical objects.
The Japanese envoy is going crazy with joy...
Just giving a few beauties as gifts in exchange for so many items must be because the Emperor of the Han Dynasty liked Japanese beauties! In order to please the emperor of the Central Plains, almost all the Japanese tributes were beauties, and they never tired of giving the same tribute in order to get more valuable things from the Central Plains.
However, because the Japanese country had not yet produced writing at that time, and the warlords' fighting later resulted in the destruction of the only documents, these events are almost impossible to find in modern times, so they were not recorded. However, one or two things can be found in Chinese history books. Some Japanese scholars strongly deny the historical fact of paying tribute to beautiful women.
Because they think it would be extremely embarrassing to send beautiful women as tribute...
The two of them were talking and laughing all the way. Ji Shiju and Fang Jun talked about the situation of the Japanese country and the various achievements of the Ezo people who continued to resist the Japanese after receiving secret funding from the Tang Dynasty, and then went straight to the Ministry of War Yamen.
As Japanese envoys, outside Honglu Temple, central government offices such as the Ministry of War would not allow them to enter, even if they stood at the door. Although the officials of the Tang Dynasty had some of the arrogance and hypocrisy of the Celestial Empire, and they absolutely should show the superiority of the ceremonial state of the Central Plains Dynasty in front of the barbarians, they were never like "I, the Qing Dynasty", kneeling in front of "foreign grandfathers" Licking posture, there is an essential difference.
Therefore, Ji Shiju couldn't hide his excitement and curiosity, so he looked around after entering the Yamen.
In his opinion, Li Hu Li Bing Xing Gong was the yamen responsible for specific government affairs in the Tang Empire, covering almost all aspects. The Ministry of Personnel is in charge of officials, the Ministry of Households is in charge of money, the Ministry of Punishment is in charge of criminal investigations, and the Ministry of Industry is in charge of maintenance and construction. So the Ministry of War, as its name suggests, should be the center of the Tang Dynasty's military affairs...
How strong was Datang's military?
When the arrogant Turkic Wolf Cavalry was chased by the military god of the Tang Dynasty and fled to the north, it meant that there was no military strength in the world that could resist the Tang Dynasty. It can be said that as long as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty wanted to destroy anyone, , then who can be destroyed!
The current view of the Tang Dynasty by various countries is that it is a well-deserved superpower. When the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty wanted to conquer the east, except for the sticks of Goguryeo, he thought he could drag millions of Sui troops into the quagmire. There was no one in the world. It is believed that Goguryeo can withstand the invincible military front of the Tang Dynasty.
After all, although the Sui army was very powerful back then, the domestic political situation was turbulent at that time, and there were many factions in the army. Although they had super strength, they were unable to exert their full strength, and their defeat was understandable. However, the current Tang Dynasty is not the Sui Dynasty of the past. His Majesty Li Er is wise and powerful. Although there are some clans and clans that are intertwined with each other, the generals in the army are all fierce generals who follow His Majesty Li Er to bring peace to the world. They obey His Majesty Li Er's advice. How could a mere corner of Goguryeo resist?
The mantis is acting like a chariot, just overestimating its own capabilities...
What a secret place it is to command millions of people as the center of the world's most powerful army? On the one hand, Ji Shiju was grateful to Fang Jun for not treating him as a Japanese and being able to show him the most core secrets of the Tang Dynasty. On the other hand, Ji Shiju widened his eyes, hoping to learn something, even just a little bit of the operating model. Bringing incredible progress to the extremely backward Ezo people...
But how did he know that the current Ministry of War is just in name only, and what it handles all day long is nothing more than the transportation of grain and grass, the supply of baggage, and the deployment of weapons...
*****
Liu hurriedly arrived at the Ministry of War Yamen. As soon as he entered, he attracted everyone's attention...
"Ouch, what's wrong?"
Guo Fushan asked curiously with his chubby belly looking at the bruises on Liu's eyes.
Cui Dunli, the staff doctor, was walking out of the check-in room holding a small teapot. When he saw this, he smiled and said: "Could it be that I went to Pingkangfang to drink flower wine yesterday, and my sister-in-law showed off her power when I got home? Haha, It is said that the girls from the Liu family in Hedong are all fierce and smart, but I didn’t expect that the wife I married back was also very fierce, haha.”
All the colleagues laughed together, full of ridicule...
Liu's face was red, and he said angrily: "What's the matter? Don't say that I have been slapped on the back of the head these days and have no time to go to Pingkangfang. Even if I went, who in the family would dare to make a noise?"
Cui Dunli asked with a smile: "Then what's the reason for the injury on your face?"
Liu touched his eyes, which were still burning. He was extremely depressed and said in a low voice, "What does it have to do with you? Has the minister of the house ever come to the Yamen?"
Then someone said, "Here you are, leading a Japanese man to the guard room."
Liu Qidao: "How did you bring the Japanese here?"
"He is the Zuo Shilang. If the Master is not there, he will be the leader. Who cares who he brings? Even if the yamen is demolished, it will not care about our affairs."
Liu glanced at this sinister guy and didn't answer.
Every yamen is like a river and lake. No matter how big or small the yamen is, there are always people who look at the heights of other mountains and feel the same dissatisfaction as Liu did at the beginning. It's just that not everyone can be like him and just jumped out and were hit by Fang Jun, suppressing them tightly and not daring to move at all. It wasn't that Fang Jun was targeting him, but that compared to him, those people were not worthy at all. Fang Jun just spent his energy on targeting.
I don’t know whether I should be grateful to be valued by Fang Jun, or should I be sad about why Fang Jun doesn’t distinguish between rewards and punishments, and can’t level a bowl of water. Why was he so cruel to me in the first place, but turned a blind eye to these people?
Liu ignored the sore-teethed man, nodded slightly to Guo Fushan and Cui Dunli, and went straight to Fang Jun's check-in room.
In the duty room, Fang Jun was handling official duties, and Ji Shiju was sitting aside drinking tea, looking around with chattering eyes...
When he heard the sound of footsteps, Fang Jun looked up from the papers and saw Liu with black eyes.
"Hey, what's wrong? Are you being cooked by Mrs. Sister-in-law?" Fang Jun teased.
Liu Wuyu...
Why this sentence again?
Mom, do I look like he is henpecked?
Furthermore, even if I am really afraid of my wife, others can laugh at me, but how can you, Fang Jun, have the qualifications?
Speaking of henpecking, your father is probably the originator of henpecking in the world...
Liu's face looked very ugly. Of course he didn't dare to confront Fang Jun and say, "Your father is afraid of his wife." Wouldn't that be courting death?
But in the end, he couldn't calm down. He pointed at his black eye sockets and the scratches on his cheeks, and said in a low voice: "Did you see it? Here, it was the fist of that boy He Ruoming, and here, it was the fist of that boy Yu Wenjian. It's scratching. If the official hadn't been able to hide quickly, his face would have been stained..."
Fang Jun asked curiously: "Who is Yu Wenjian?"
Liu said depressedly: "Who else could it be? The son of Yu Wenbi, the former Minister of Civil Affairs of the Sui Dynasty... A while ago, His Majesty adjusted the officials of various construction agencies. He Ruoming replaced Wen Shutong as the Military Supervisor, and the current Shaofu Supervisor will It’s Yu Wenjian!!”
Come on, is there anything else Fang Jun doesn’t understand?
One is the Supervisor of the Ordnance Supervisor, and the other is the Superintendent of the Shaofu Supervisor. These two people can use their old fists against Liu Bao regardless of their status, and the former is Liu Zhi's best friend. So there can be no other reason. It must be Liu Zhi. They lost their moral integrity and made these two people furious...
Fang Jun smiled awkwardly, feeling a little embarrassed. After all, he was the one who forced Liu to do this.
The guilty conscience only lasted for a short while. In fact, Fang Jun didn't have much of such a thing as conscience. He immediately asked excitedly: "How are you recruiting talents?"
To be able to make the chief officials of the two highest manufacturing yamen in the Tang Dynasty so angry that they beat them up must have been poaching to the point where they couldn't stand it...
