Chapter 744 0739 [Japanese Version of Huizong]

Heian Kyo has a standard chessboard layout, with thirty-three streets horizontally and thirty-nine streets vertically.

There is no wall, but there is a gate.

The city gate is quite majestic and solemn, and its name is Luocheng Gate, also called Rashomon Gate.

Countless ghost stories from the Heian era happened right under the gate of Luo City.

Entering Luocheng Gate, there is a wide street leading directly to the moat of the palace.

This street is called "Zhuque Avenue", which is actually modeled after the Zhuque Street in Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty.

There are about 200,000 people in the city, but there is not a single free citizen. They are all royalty, nobles, monks, onmyoji, and their servants for generations.

Hundreds of years ago, several consecutive emperors worked hard to completely abolish slavery in law and created a central army that could intimidate all parties.

Now it has completely regressed. The Central Army is gone, but there are more and more slaves.

The breeze was blowing, the showers were beginning to stop, and the cherry blossoms had all fallen.

From time to time, a few Japanese songs could be heard from the Japanese boats on the lake. Even though the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had arrived in Osaka, Heian Jing was still singing and dancing, and countless nobles were still living in drunken dreams.

A pony carrying the warrior quickly came to Luo City Gate and ran wildly along the Suzaku Road.

This is a northern warrior without a large armor.

He went straight to the palace, knelt down in front of Emperor Toba and said, "Your Majesty, the Tang army is already several miles away!"

Emperor Toba was shocked: "Didn't I ask you to go to Namba to negotiate?"

The warrior replied: "We met halfway. The Tang army detained other people and asked me to come back to report. They..."

Emperor Toba asked, "What do they want?"

The samurai replied: "They want your majesty to bring the emperor, as well as the court officials, the monks and nobles in the city, to greet them grandly outside the gate of Luocheng. They said they were envoys from the Tang Dynasty, and they would come in two days, and they also brought the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. The canonization edict."

Emperor Toba was extremely angry and clenched his fists as if he wanted to fight for his life.

However, he has been suppressed by his grandfather for a long time and has developed a "calm" character. As long as he can still survive, he will not take action.

After struggling for a long time, Emperor Toba said: "Go back and tell the Ming general that I will follow his arrangements."

After the northern warriors left, the dignitaries in the city gradually got the news and came to the palace to meet him.

Ping Zhongsheng had been encouraging Dongshou, but he almost said that he would move the capital.

As long as they move to Jiangdu (Edo), the Taira clan can rely on local forces and unite with the Ojiang clan who have been operating in Jiangdu for many years to firmly control the central power with both civil and military power.

Fujiwara Tadashi and his son are firmly opposed to this, and they will never allow the capital to be moved!

The nobles and monks who came to see Emperor Toba cried and dissuaded him. 90% of people are against moving the capital. Ping'an Capital, which has 200,000 people, is related to the interests of countless powerful people. How can we say that it will be accommodated?

Ping Zhongsheng added: "Your Majesty can retreat temporarily and issue an edict from King Qin on the way, ordering all the soldiers and horses from all over the world to go to Beijing to serve King Qin."

Fujiwara Tadashi was furious and reprimanded: "You are trying to put His Majesty to death. In all the counties and counties in the world, most of the state ministers are remote leaders, and the state affairs are all in the hands of the powerful families. Those local powerful families often defy the government and even drive away the state ministers who are appointed to their posts. Even if they lead the army and serve the king, can they work together? What if the bandits sneak in and hurt His Majesty? Where can His Majesty escape if he is defeated by the Ming army? "

Yuan Weiyi shouted: "Your Majesty, I am willing to lead troops to defend against the enemy. There are 200,000 soldiers in Heianjing, countless warriors and monks, and servants from each family can also be recruited. I heard that the Ming army only came more than 2,000, and we have 50,000 soldiers. , we will definitely win!”

This guy is just here to cause trouble. In fact, he wears the same pants as Fujiwara Tadashi and firmly opposes Emperor Toba leaving Heian Kyo.

Emperor Toba looked at Taira Takaramori: "If we can recruit 50,000 troops, can we really defeat the Ming army?"

Ping Zhongsheng said: "Although many of the aristocratic children in the capital have armor and swords, their armors are flashy, and some of them are even made of paper. The monk soldiers usually show off their power, but they only dare to bully the middle and lower-level nobles in the city, and As for the merchants and civilians outside the city, even if they recruit more soldiers, they will all disperse when the war begins."

Emperor Toba began to complain about his ancestors. Why did he imitate Chang'an City when he didn't want a good mountain city?

Now his palace has only one moat to defend.

The low walls on the inside of the moat are not used to defend against enemies at all, but more like embankments to prevent the moat from overflowing.

After much thought, Emperor Toba made an astonishing decision. He said: "I am just the emperor. Major affairs of the country should be handled by the emperor. If the Ming army comes, you will accompany the emperor to negotiate. I will go to Nara." Worship the Buddha in the temple.”

Everyone was startled and looked at Emperor Toba stupidly.

Like Song Huizong, this man was simply afraid of death. When foreign enemies came, his son would take over.

The entire responsibility for the subsequent land cession and compensation will be borne by the son.

If the Ming army refused to leave or killed the emperor, Emperor Toba would flee to Edo. If the Ming army left, Emperor Toba would return and use the northern samurai to regain power.

There are fixed routines for how to seize power.

It was nothing more than becoming a monk himself and changing from Emperor Toba to Emperor Toba. Then let the eldest son abdicate and become the emperor, and make the second son the emperor.

At that time, this guy will not even live in the palace, but just like his grandfather, he will move to the monastery and continue to control the power.

Fujiwara Tadashi's mind was running very fast. After Emperor Toba came to power, although he relied heavily on the Fujiwara clan, he always had reservations. Moreover, he also followed the methods of Emperor Shirakawa to win over other factions of the Fujiwara Kita family.

Even the direct line of Fujiwara no Kita clan was divided by the deceased Shirakawa.

The current situation is that Fujiwara no Tadashi's eldest son is the regent, and the father and son are secretly scheming against each other.

Emperor Toba fled south to Nara with the insigura and the northern samurai.

As soon as these people left, Fujiwara no Tadashi began to connect. Not only did he want to unite the nobles to support the emperor, he also promised the monks many benefits, and then overthrow the eldest son with his second son.

In the disastrous defeat in Iwami Province, Emperor Toba's northern samurai suffered huge losses. Although many large armored samurai were redeemed, the Lang party samurai were detained.

Tadashi had a chance to regain power while Emperor Toba's armed forces were damaged and Emperor Toba abandoned the capital and fled.

Once the coup was successful, Japan at that time would not be ruled by the insigura or the shogunate, but would return to the Nara era - the nobles and monks would join forces to control the country!

Two days later, Zhu Xiaozhong sent a message saying that the Ming envoys had arrived, and ordered the King of Wa to lead the civil and military officials to welcome them out of the city.

Since Emperor Toba had run away, it was Emperor Sutoku and Fujiwara Tadamichi who should lead the way.

As the regent, Fujiwara Tadamichi was busy preparing for this matter.

On the eve of the arrival of the Ming envoys and the army, Fujiwara Tadamichi could not sleep anyway, and was not in the mood to enjoy singing and dancing, so he sat in the study and read by lamplight.

The door was suddenly opened, and Fujiwara Tadamichi was about to scold the servants when he saw several servants rushing over, and his father and brother were standing outside the door.

"What do you want to do?" Fujiwara Tadamichi said in horror.

Fujiwara Tadamichi looked at his son and sighed softly: "Alas, you are sick and need to rest for a year."

Fujiwara Tadamichi hurriedly said: "If father wants the post of Sekkan, just take it. Why do father and son have to turn against each other like this?"

Fujiwara Tadamichi sneered: "It was the Retired Emperor who arranged for you to be Sekkan, and the Retired Emperor did not change it. How can I do it just like that?"

The father and son, one is the inner reviewer and the other is the Sekkan.

The former can preview the court documents before the emperor. The latter is the regent minister, and the regent is a hereditary foreign relative.

The two positions were originally one, but they were separated by the Retired Emperor Shirakawa and let the father and son take up the posts separately. He also kept sowing discord, causing the contradictions between the father and son to increase day by day.

It's really interesting that the Retired Emperor Toba is like Song Huizong, who let his son take the blame when the enemy came.

The father and son of the Fujiwara clan are like Cai Jing and Cai You, who can obviously cooperate, but they fight for power.

The next day, Fujiwara Tadamichi took his second son to the palace to meet Emperor Sutoku. In front of the dignitaries, he claimed that his eldest son was seriously ill and asked to take over the post of regent temporarily.

Emperor Sutoku was not yet an adult, so he agreed without thinking, and Fujiwara no Tadashi became regent again.

Then, he led the emperor, the ministers and monks along the Suzaku Avenue to the outside of Luocheng Gate, waiting for the arrival of the Ming envoy.

Hundreds of people stood there until noon, and finally saw a figure from afar.

The envoy sent to Japan this time was Zhang Jun, the famous prime minister of the founding of the Southern Song Dynasty. When Zhu Ming captured Kaifeng, he was still a judge in Shaanxi. At first, he was unwilling to serve in the new dynasty, and returned to his hometown in Sichuan to rest for a year before becoming an official.

"Knock to the angel of the upper country!"

Fujiwara no Tadashi secretly pulled the emperor's sleeve, indicating that Emperor Sutoku should kneel down and kowtow.

Emperor Sutoku knelt down in a daze, and the royal family, ministers and monks behind him also knelt.

The translator whispered a few words in Zhang Jun's ear, and Zhang Jun frowned and said, "This is the Little King of Japan. Where is the Big King of Japan?"

Fujiwara Tadashi replied, "The former emperor was infected with evil spirits and fell ill. The Heian-kyō monks could not cure him, so he was escorted to Nara to ask the monks to exorcise the evil spirits."

Zhang Jun was stunned, and instantly thought of Song Huizong, and suddenly felt a little bit amused.

The negotiating envoy Oe Yoshitsugu, who was detained by the Ming army, asked in surprise, "Did the Sekkan also go to Nara?"

Fujiwara Tadashi said, "My son has a serious illness and cannot leave his sickbed."

Oe Yoshitsugu became more and more frightened, pointing at Fujiwara Tadashi and said, "You...what do you want to do?"

Fujiwara Tadashi stopped talking, but faced Zhang Jun, "The lower country is a small country, and it has not been influenced by the king for a long time, so it has neglected the Celestial Empire. If the emperor of the Celestial Empire has any instructions, please let the angel tell you."

Zhang Jun repeatedly confirmed with the translator, then carefully pondered this passage, and then asked about Fujiwara Tadashi's identity, and finally looked at Oe Yoshitsugu, who looked terrified.

It seems that there is trouble in the Japanese court.

Since Fujiwara Tadashi is so obedient, there is no need to make trouble. Zhang Jun said: "Detain all the people including Oe Weishun on the charge of offending the angel."

Zhu Xiaozhong didn't understand and asked: "Why?"

Zhang Jun smiled and said: "You will know later."

Seeing that Oe Weishun was still detained, Fujiwara Tadashi was ecstatic and admired the vision of the Ming envoy from the bottom of his heart.

As long as the Ming did not squeeze too hard, Fujiwara Tadashi was willing to agree to all conditions.