According to Li Bai's calculation, there seems to be nothing wrong with this account.
But Emperor Shotoku always felt that something was wrong.
If the East China Sea Fleet had not arrived yesterday, it seemed that he would have really been dead.
After thinking about it, I think I should pay for it myself, but when I think about it more carefully, I feel like something is wrong.
"So you are planning to default on your debt now?" Tang Ping looked at Emperor Shotoku and asked.
"I..." Emperor Shotoku wanted to be tougher, but he still didn't. He said a little discouraged:
"I have no money anyway!"
After he finished, he added: "And I owe you this, and I can't replenish it from other places."
"I almost forgot about other places." Tang Ping said: "Let's not talk about anything else. At that time, the Monobe family agreed that you would give me Mount Fuji. Do you recognize it?"
Emperor Shotoku thought about it, Mount Fuji was given to the Mononobe clan by the previous emperor. This time, although the Mononobe clan surrendered because of the overwhelming power of the Queen, it did play a role in the front.
He didn't bother the Mononobe clan, but Mount Fuji should indeed be given to Tang Ping in accordance with the covenant they made at the beginning.
"Okay, I can agree to this!" Anyway, it was a volcano that could erupt at any time, and he couldn't move it away even if it was given to Tang Ping.
And now he didn't believe Tang Ping's nonsense about using the earth fire inside to forge the sword.
"Then, you are honest." Tang Ping praised: "But the East China Sea Fleet has such a huge expense, you won't really let me pay for it, right?"
"We made an agreement, and the brothers will settle the score."
"Of course, you were so generous at first and were willing to pay me 10% more. I, Tang Ping, am not a stingy person. I will give you a 92% discount on all the fees this time."
Emperor Shotoku rolled his eyes at him, let alone 92% off, even 9.20% off, even if he emptied his own inner treasury, it was not enough.
Fuso is not a rich country like the Tang Dynasty. Most of the country is controlled by the nobles.
As emperor, except for some properties he inherited from the previous emperor, it was all left to him by his father, Prince Shotoku.
"I don't have any money anyway."
"If you don't have money, you can use your treasure to pay for it!" Tang Ping said with a smile: "At most, I can give you a higher estimate."
"What kind of treasure is worth so much..." Emperor Shotoku said for a moment, looking at Tang Ping with an expression as if he was looking at a ghost.
Sure enough, what Tang Ping said was what he thought.
"I heard that your emperor's line has been controlling the three artifacts of Fuso. Can you show me?"
The three artifacts of Fuso mentioned by Tang Ping are the Tiancong Yun Sword, the Eight-foot Qiong Magatama and the Eight-tata Mirror.
The status of these three artifacts can be said to be equivalent to our national jade seal.
However, in Tang Pinglai's time, these so-called Three Fuso artifacts had never shown their true colors to others.
I only know that when each emperor succeeds to the throne, he can take over these three artifacts from the previous emperor.
But what do the three artifacts look like? no one knows.
Those pictures on the Internet are all pictures of imitation products.
There is a saying that the three Fuso artifacts have been lost long ago.
What is in the hands of the emperor now is nothing more than an empty box.
After all, this thing was during the Southern and Northern Dynasties of Fuso. Emperor Komatsu of the Northern Dynasty used the inheritance rights of the next emperor to trick Emperor Kameyama of the Southern Dynasty into handing over the three artifacts he kept. The Emperor of the Southern Dynasty abdicated after handing over the three artifacts, and the imperial line was finally replaced by After Emperor Komatsu's son succeeded, the divisions of Japan's Southern and Northern Dynasties were merged into one.
Later, Fuso also experienced the chaotic Warring States Period. Not all emperors were smart and capable, and many of them served as puppets.
It is said that when the Heike family fled Kyoto, they took all three artifacts with them.
When Emperor Go-Toba succeeded to the throne, the ceremony was held without three sacred artifacts. This was the first time for the Japanese imperial family.
At the Battle of Danura, the entire Taira family was wiped out. Taira Kiyomori's wife jumped into the sea with the eight-year-old Emperor Ande and three artifacts in order to prevent the artifacts from falling into the hands of Genji, leaving Emperor Gotoba who was supported by Genji without legality.
So no one knows whether the box was empty in Tang Ping's time, whether it was a fake, or whether the genuine item was still there.
Tang Ping was also extremely curious about this.
"This is... this is my Fuso artifact, how could it..." Emperor Shengtoku was so anxious that he couldn't even speak clearly.
"Then what should we do?" Tang Ping immediately acted like a rogue: "You can't afford such a big sum of money, but I can afford it? I've already said that my brothers will settle the accounts, who do you think I learned from to be so fussy about it? ?”
"I'm telling you, my second uncle and I, the one you call Tian Khan, all learned it from me."
"If you don't give me the money, what will I do if my second uncle asks me to pay the money after I return to China? I can only tell the truth and ask him to come to you to ask for it."
"Gudong! Gudong!"
In the quiet side hall, the sounds of Emperor Shotoku and Sakamoto Qigen swallowing their saliva came from the room.
Let the Khan come to collect debts? Why? Yesterday's scene of the huge ship firing thousands of cannons was still vivid in their minds. Thinking about the possible ways His Majesty Tian Khan could collect debts, the two of them felt their feet weak.
"So, I treat you as a friend. If you won't be able to come out with such a large amount of money for a while, you have to mortgage something, right?" Tang Ping said patiently: "The most I can help you is to deposit your things here. I won’t charge you any interest on this money.”
"When did you pay back the money? I will return the things to you intact. That thing is your Fusang's artifact, but when it comes to our Tang Dynasty, do you ask us Tang Dynasty people to recognize this thing of yours?"
"To put it bluntly, our Tang Dynasty's current stainless steel sword can probably cut your Cong Yun sword in half with one strike."
"And those eight-tatami mirrors are from hundreds of years ago. Can they be compared to the glass mirrors we have today in the Tang Dynasty?"
"That is to say, you regard these things as treasures, so we think we can use these things as collateral, but in fact these things are of no use to us. What we want is money. Let me say this, you should understand Alright?"
Tang Ping crackled and said, Emperor Shotoku understood most of it after going around and around.
"That's it!" Tang Ping habitually patted Emperor Shotoku on the shoulder: "I'll tell you another big secret. In fact, there is a gold mine in Hokkaido no less than Mount Sado. You can find someone to use the pig iron provided by Datang. You can make tools for mining, or you can pay Datang to help you build a mine."
"Then, you can use the gold mines you dig out to pay me back. When the money is enough, I will return your Fuso Three Artifacts to you."
A new gold mine, Emperor Shotoku was finally tempted.
His heart was bleeding when he leased Sado Jinshan and Iwami Ginzan to Datang. He would even be infamous in history.
But if a new gold mine can be discovered for mining, then after repaying the debt, Fuso can also rely on the output of that gold mine to go to Datang to buy their other necessities to develop the country.
"Okay!" Emperor Shotoku gritted his teeth and said, "I'll take you to the Jibe clan!"
The department in charge of "sacrifice" in the Fuso court was called Jibu, and later generations took this as their surname, and the Jibu clan became one of the clans in Japan.
The three artifacts are kept by them.
"Well, Tang Ping doesn't like Fusang as a nation, but Prince Shanbei still has a lot of shining points, and the two of them can be regarded as sharing the same sorrow.
So Tang Ping would help him and cheat him at the same time.
that is it……"
