"It should be An Peiqing who is here!" Emperor Qiming laughed.
"Yes, it must be him!" Prince Nakagashi agreed. Although there were many officials in the Yamato court, the only one who could make Emperor Saimei call him Abe Hirafu was the Shogun of Yue Kingdom, Abe Hirafu.
"He is always like this, with long, fast, and irritable steps. His horse must be covered in sweat, and its buttocks are stained with blood from being whipped. It is really hard to imagine how An Peiqing could have such a beautiful and graceful daughter. !”
"I think the tempers of father and daughter are very similar, but Haruko's fierceness is hidden in her heart and she never shows it on weekdays!"
"Really? So that's it!" Emperor Qi Ming laughed, but the smile soon disappeared from her face: "If that's the case, then I have to ask An Peiqing and his daughter to be patient this time. !”
"Your Majesty! Your Highness!"
Hirafu Ampere walked in the door, his voice was deep and deep, with a strong northern accent. He is tall, with two thick eyebrows so close together that they are almost connected together. His high cheekbones and slightly protruding chin give people a stoic look. Under his gray-black bearskin cloak, there is an old The brown leather coat has been worn soft and smooth, and on the belt around his waist are two steel knives, one long and one short - this is the privilege granted to him by Emperor Saimei.
"No courtesy!" Emperor Qiming pointed to a Jindun in front of him: "I have already heard about your victory over the Sushen people. It is really an amazing martial arts!"
"It's said to be a victory, but in fact it's just a fluke!" Abe Hirafu sat down cross-legged and said solemnly: "The Sushen people's archers are very powerful. We suffered a lot of casualties in the two battles. In the end, we had to attack Ezo The people made concessions in exchange for their aid, and then they defeated the Sushen people."
"Although there were twists and turns on the way, in the end, the Sushen people were forced to surrender and pay tribute. This is victory!" The prince, the eldest brother of Zhong Dynasty, said with a smile: "If it weren't for Yue Guo Shou, no one else would be able to conquer such ferocious barbarians!"
The Ezo people mentioned by Abe Hirafu are the aborigines of Japan's Honshu Island. The Yamato Dynasty, which was centered on immigrants from the Korean Peninsula, continuously launched expeditions, forcing them to migrate to the northeastern area of Honshu Island, and called them scornful They are Ezo people; and Sushen people are an ancient ethnic group in the Northeast, Far East and Hokkaido regions of my country.
The core of the Yamato Dynasty's rule at that time was around the Nara Basin and Osaka Bay on Honshu Island. It attempted to establish a vassal system centered on itself and spread across the Korean Peninsula and the coast of the Sea of Japan. Abe Hirafu's expedition was one of them. .
"Your Highness is ridiculous! When will we cross the sea and send troops?" Abe Hirafu knew that Emperor Saimei was old and his energy was declining. Since he succeeded to the throne for the second time (Emperor Saimei is a female emperor, she has served twice Emperor, the 35th and 37th emperor of Japan.) In fact, the government is in the hands of the prince, the elder brother of the Central Government. This person is also the actual instigator behind the dispatch of troops to the Korean Peninsula, so he went straight to the point and asked the question directly.
"You have just arrived here, so you should rest for two days before we talk!" Prince Zhong, the eldest brother, said with a smile.
Ampere Hirafu knew that the other party seemed to be courteous and courteous, but the city was very deep. If he asked, he would probably offend the other party, so he nodded: "That's fine, I will follow His Highness's instructions." He then moved towards the brocade couch. Emperor Qi Ming bowed before him and stood up to leave.
"In this expedition to Sushen, Anbei Qing's skills have improved again!" Looking at Abe Hirafu's back, Emperor Saimei smiled.
"Yes!" The eldest brother, the prince, nodded and said, "It's not like some people who only think about their own people and manor, but forget about the vastness of the world!"
"Katsugi (the name of Prince Nakadai)!" Emperor Saimei: "Please help me get up, I want to go out for a walk!"
"Yes, mother!" Although the eldest brother, the prince, felt a little strange, he carefully helped his mother get off the brocade couch and walked out of the door.
"This orange grove is so beautiful in autumn! It's a pity that I can never see it again!" Emperor Qiming suddenly said.
"Mother——" The prince, the eldest brother, was about to say a few words of comfort, but Emperor Saimei raised his right hand to stop his son's persuasion: "Katsuro, I know my body very well. If I stay in the capital, maybe I can survive this." It’s winter, but after this bumpy ride, my days should be numbered!”
Although he had had a premonition, when he heard his mother say these words, the prince, the eldest brother, still felt an uncontrollable sadness welling up in his heart. Tears wet his cheeks. He opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.
"Silly boy, everyone is going to die, so what's there to be sad about! What's more, my life is more than ten times more exciting than ordinary people!" Emperor Qi Ming's face showed rare kindness, and she stretched out her hand to wipe her son's face away. Tears: "As the crown prince, you have too many things to prepare for at this time, where do you have time to grieve?"
"Mother, you are right!" The eldest brother, the prince, is also a first-class hero, and he immediately regained his usual composure: "Mother, you must have transferred the Yue Kingdom Shou back at this time to frighten the young people, right?"
Emperor Qi Ming nodded, and she looked around: "I'm a little tired, let's find a place to sit down and talk!"
Prince Zhong, the eldest brother, responded. He found a flat stone, brushed off the dust on it, then took off his coat and folded it and placed it on top. Then he asked his mother to sit down and stood aside. Emperor Qi Ming sat down and suddenly smiled: "Since I took the throne this time, I have really gained a lot of bad reputation for you, but this is all done willingly by me. Do you know why?"
"Because the children are on the right path!" the eldest brother, the prince, replied.
"Not bad!" Emperor Saiming nodded with satisfaction: "I have had two husbands, and I have ascended the throne as emperor twice. What haven't I seen? Hundreds of years ago, Akitsushima (the Japanese's elegant name for ancient Japan) There are hundreds of countries, and Yamato is just one of them. Why can we subdue all the countries and unify the universe? Isn’t it just that we control the waterways with the countries on the mainland? With the waterways, there will be a steady stream of craftsmen of all kinds from the mainland. Scholars and monks who are proficient in civil and military arts have all kinds of exquisite goods. If we in Yamato are this orange tree, then the continental countries are the land where orange trees grow. The orange trees will wither if they leave the land, and Yamato will lose its waterway with the mainland. It will also gradually decline! So you build new ports, dig waterways, build Buddhist temples, build warships, send troops to conquer Ezo and Sushen, and even prepare to send troops to Baekje. No matter what others say that you are wasting people and money, I support you!"
"What mother said is true, but when I want to send troops to Baekje this time, my consideration is not just to open up the waterway to the Tang Dynasty!"
"Oh, what else?"
