Chapter 81: The Competition Between the Japanese Sword and the Tang Sword

Spring returns to the land, and the plants in the south begin to turn a little green, and the same is true for Fangjiazhuang located under Jubao Mountain.

Some time ago, the court was still discussing the emperor's northern tour in February, but it was temporarily suppressed by Zhu Di, and the next thing to prepare was the tribute from Alutai.

Originally, Arutai's preparations for tribute were not very large, but the emperor didn't know what was going on, so he just raised the standard a bit, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites were also a little confused about this.

But soon the officials of the Ministry of Rites had no time to be confused.

Just after the beginning of the first month, news came from Zhejiang: more than 3,000 Japanese pirates invaded and were repelled, and then they were chased by thousands of Chumen, causing countless casualties.

"The seized ordnance has just been delivered. Brother Dehua, my younger brother took a Japanese sword and thought it was very sharp."

After class, Zhu Zhanji took out a Japanese sword to show.

After the Japanese knife chopped off three bamboo poles one after another, Fang Xing gave a dry cough and took out the Tang knife.

"Come on, try it."

Zhu Zhanji was eager to try, and Liu Pu also took over the Tang knife, and the two sides were going to try which knife was more powerful.

"Your Highness, let me come."

Seeing this scene, Jia Quan almost rushed in like shit, begging Zhu Zhanji to keep this opportunity for himself.

Nima! What if the fragments popped out during the knife test and hurt the emperor's grandson?

I don't even have enough heads to cut off!

So it became Jia Quan and Liu Pu who tried the knife. The two sides stood up and then slashed down on each other.

"clang!"

The light of the knife flashed away, and when everyone saw it clearly, they found that the Japanese knife had been broken into more than a dozen pieces, and some of the pieces had splashed to the side.

Fang Xing was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that this is a Tang knife crafted in the age of science and technology, and the material alone would not know how many blocks it would be able to throw out the current Japanese knife.

Jia Quan looked at the remaining handle of the knife in his hand, and couldn't help but give Zhu Zhanji an aggrieved look.

Your Highness, is this what you call a good knife?

And Liu Pu was drooling while holding the Tang knife with a broken edge.

"Brother Dehua, can you give up your love? I am willing to exchange my wealth."

Fang Xing had some headaches, and in the end Liu Pu's stalking made him have to give the knife away.

"Ahem, you don't need your wealth, just stop stealing my wine from now on."

Fang Xing hid a few bottles of wine in the study, but when he went to check a few days ago, he found that one and a half bottles were missing. At that time Fang Xing became angry, thinking that there was an inside thief.

But who ever wanted to ask someone, only to know that Liu Pu had asked Zhu Zhanji together, and the two went in openly under the pretext of looking for information.

Wine thief!

Zhu Zhanji remembered that when he gave the bottle of wine to Grandpa Huang, Grandpa Huang's face was full of surprise, and his heart was full of joy.

As for Liu Pu, it was a bit of a tragedy. Zhu Zhanji 'stealed' a whole bottle, so as a courtier, he could only take the next best thing and 'steal' half a bottle with a wine bag.

As a result, I took this product home and drank it secretly, and the young brother at home smelled the fragrance. I originally wanted to drink a few more meals of half a bottle of wine, but was bored by the young brother.

The consequences were naturally tragic, Liu Pu felt a pain in his liver when he thought of his ears being twisted 360 degrees by his old lady that day.

After dinner, Zhu Zhanji was about to leave, but Fang Xing called him to stop him, and said, "I heard that Wa Kingdom is still paying tribute, so the Ministry of Rites and the local government have complained about it. Is this the case?"

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "Exactly, every time they come to pay tribute with Kanhe, I have to send a lot of food and rewards, even my grandpa is a little impatient."

At this time, the number of people paying tribute from the Wa Kingdom made the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty and the officials received along the way miserable.

"Some say they're here to take advantage."

Fang Xing let out a sigh, and then said: "Don't underestimate the Wa Kingdom, the people in this place are arrogant and unreasonable,

Aggressive and ambitious. Taishun, plan ahead! "

Thinking of the later Wanli Three Marches, Fang Xing felt that the current policy was a bit painful.

"I heard that the amount of silver produced in the Wa country is huge, much more than my Ming's..."

Fang Xing is not good at interfering in government affairs, so he just left a small tail to seduce Zhu Zhanji, who has determined to be a wise king since he was a child.

At present, the Ming Dynasty adopts a policy of confinement towards the Japanese country. As long as the people in power can control those Japanese pirates, they will be sent to Kanhe, and the tribute team of thousands of people will take advantage of it.

Zhu Zhanji was a little moved, and then comforted: "Brother Dehua, don't worry. In the second year of Yongle, the emperor's grandfather asked the Wa country to change to a tribute every ten years. The ship is limited to two, and the mission should not exceed two hundred people. They will not be allowed to occupy the land." Lots of cheap ones."

Fang Xing nodded, and then said disgustedly: "I'd rather feed the pigs, than feed the rice grown on my farm to those Japanese people who are not as good as pigs and dogs!"

Zhu Zhanji didn't expect Fang Xing's attitude towards the Japanese people to be worse than those foreigners on the grassland, so he immediately nodded and said, "Okay, in the future, I will definitely..."

This was the first time Fang Xing heard the news of the Japanese pirates' invasion, which made him a little depressed.

Zhang Shuhui gave Xiaobai a wink when she saw it, Xiaobai shook her head blankly, wondering why Fang Xing was in a bad mood.

So Xiaobai took on the task of amusing Fang Xing, but it was useless for her to act coquettish and cute, and it was useless for her to hug the bell to amuse her.

"Husband, the day after tomorrow is my mother's birthday, shall we go together?"

Zhang Shuhui thought that none of her three elder brothers had seen Fang Xing, so at least she could see two of them this time.

Fang Xing let out a sigh, and said, "You don't have to worry about the gift, I'll take care of it."

Looking for an opportunity, Fang Xing sneaked into the warehouse.

"Gift, gift..."

It is not easy to find a gift suitable for the elderly, especially the elderly is the widow of an important minister of the country and the mother of a general.

After searching for a long time and opening more than ten containers by the way, Fang Xing finally found the right thing.

Fang Xing found a box full of solid handcrafted glass cups packed with good meanings.

This cup looks like a boy holding a birthday peach from the outside, and the picture is still sandwiched in the middle of the cup, so you can't touch it, you can only look at it.

"This is not bad."

Fang Xing took off the shockproof packaging, and wandered around in the warehouse.

The warehouse on Lao Mei's side is very solid. Fang Xing looked at the endless port area and strolled to the customs.

In the customs, some specimens were seized, especially pests. Fang Xing looked at the sluggish moth, and couldn't help but think of the time when he was powdered by the moth when he was a child.

It's just that he didn't notice that the label on the outside of the bottle reads in English: Chilosuppressalis...

There was silence in the space, only the sound of Fang Xing's footsteps, everything seemed to have stopped.

Fang Xing walked to the pier, then looked at the moored boats, and wanted to go up and have a look in his heart.

But thinking about whether there would be any weird things inside, Fang Xing finally gave up on this plan.

Taking a bottle of red wine by hand, Fang Xing disappeared in a flash.