Chapter 617: Go to Dengzhou, Warring States Period
"Move...Move...Why is it so difficult for you to do something... Hurry up... If you continue like this, I don't think about growing sweet potatoes next year..."
In the Wude Hall, Li Zhan sat on a rocking chair and urged his younger brothers and sisters.
In the field, the princes and daughters were desperately carrying water, and no one dared to slack off, because just the day before yesterday, Emperor Changsun came to Wude Hall. When Li Tai saw his mother came to Wude Hall, he thought his mother came to help him.
But who knew that after Emperor Changsun came back, not only did he not help Li Tai, but Empress Changsun expressed unswerving support for her eldest son and said that if anyone dared to disobey her eldest son's wishes, it would be equivalent to disobeying herself.
Yes, the queen is not as authoritative as the emperor, but in this harem, the queen's words are just a word, especially the princes, among which Gao Yang is the representative, and Gao Yang is indeed favored by Li Shimin.
However, Gao Yang did not have the doting of Empress Changsun. In this harem, Empress Changsun spoke out, so Empress Changsun said that Li Zhan was the one who could not afford to offend anyone.
It is also because of this that all these princes and princes are now obedient.
"Brother...I really can't do it anymore... Can I let me rest for a while...?"
The person who requested was Li Tai. Li Tai finally bowed his head over the past few days of life. Of course, he couldn't bear to bow his head. Li Zhan's power is too great. Not only Li Shimin supports it, but even Empress Changsun also supports it, so Li Tai must bow his head.
Li Tai is very fat, which means that his physical fitness is not as good as a young prince. He needs to rest for a while. Looking at Li Tai's request, Li Zhan shouted to Tanaka: "Hey... Li Ke, Li Tai is going to rest again. Should he let him rest or not?"
When Li Zhan shouted, Li Ke in front of him immediately responded: "Brother... let Li Tai rest, I will do his work..."
"Oh...!" Li Zhan laughed, then looked at Li Tai and said, "You can rest, your work is done by Li Ke... quickly sit down and watch your fourth brother help you...!"
I don't know why Li Tai always felt so harsh. At this time, he felt that his rest seemed so sinful. When Li Tai turned around and watched Li Ke do his own work alone, he felt really mixed feelings.
At this moment, Li Yan shouted: "Brother... I will do my fifth brother's job..."
"Yo... Brother Ye is good... But if you want to work for your fifth brother, you still have to ask your fourth brother... If he agrees, I don't care. I have said that I only need sweet potato seeds. If you can complete it, you just have to rest and let Li Ke do it alone."
After Li Zhan finished speaking, Li Ke shouted, "I don't need it, I can do it alone!" After that, Li Ke smiled and said to his younger brother Li Yan, "Thank you, Xiao Yan, but you just need to do your own. You are still young..."
After saying this, Li You stood up and said, "I am not young anymore. Fourth brother, let me share a little bit. Fifth brother is heavy, so I, as a younger brother, should share a little bit."
As he said that, Li You snatched Li Ke's shoulder pole carrying water.
"Lao Liu..." Li Ke was slightly stunned.
Li Tai's eyes turned slightly red, and he stubbornly held back his tears, then jumped out of the Tianaka, and said to Li Zhan without looking back: "Brother, I don't need to rest anymore, I can do it myself..."
At this time, Li Zhan smiled slightly and said, "That's great...you can do it yourself..."
Looking at Li Tai's unrestrained appearance, Li Zhan felt very comforted. How can I say that blood is thicker than water. After all, they are still brothers, half-brothers, but they are still brothers.
"I'm here...I'm here...!"
Li Chengqian rushed over as soon as the court was about to go to court. Li Zhanben said that Li Chengqian did not need to come to continue farming because Li Chengqian had to go to court and also needed to handle some official duties in the court.
But what Li Zhan didn't expect was that Li Chengqian used all his time to help even though he knew he would be very tired. Even though his hands and feet were worn out, Li Zhan asked him why he was like this.
At this time, Li Chengqian looked at Li Zhan and said, "Because I want to learn from my elder brother... I want to be a person like my elder brother... I love my younger brother, my younger sister, and my Tang Dynasty."
Li Zhan nodded, and finally, for the first time, Li Zhan was much more satisfied with Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian, who was outside the Wude Hall, ran into the field and took Gao Yang's shoulder pole. Gao Yang looked at Li Chengqian with some grievance. Li Chengqian touched Gao Yang's little head, and then said to his younger brother and sister: "You can slow down, I'll pick up more water."
Both the younger brother and the younger sister looked at Li Chengqian gratefully.
Such a brother-sister relationship is really good. Li Zhan smiled because he knew that everything he did was right.
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"Young Master...Young Master...It's not good, it's not good..."
Just when the Wude Hall was in full swing, Li Yi rushed in, saying a few words to the young master, and then shouted, "I can't do anything wrong," because Li Yi would only call him his young master when he was panicking. This was his instinctive reaction.
Li Zhan frowned slightly, and looked at Li Yi who was running over and asked, "What happened? I'm so panicked."
"Young Master... something big happened... Someone from the Japanese island...!"
After Li Yi said that, Li Zhan was also surprised: "What... someone from the Japanese island came?"
Half an hour later, Li Zhan quickly returned to Dunhuafang. As for Wude Hall, Li Zhan handed it over to Li Chengqian and Li Ke. Li Zhan believed that they would help him manage it.
After returning to Dunhuafang, Li Zhan met Uncle Zuo, and then led by Uncle Zuo, he came to Li Cheng's home to meet Li Cheng's good brother Zhang Yaozu.
"Are you Zhang Yaozu?" After meeting, Li Zhan looked at Zhang Yaozu in front of him and asked.
"Are you Li Zhan?" Zhang Yaozu also looked at Li Zhan and asked.
"Bold... dare to call your highness the name...!" Old Ying frowned slightly.
"Ah...sorry!" Zhang Yaozu bowed slightly and said, "A stranger Zhang Yaozu paid homage to His Highness the King of Qin."
"No gifts... Tell me about Li Cheng's current situation!" Li Zhan sat down on the chair in the room without hesitation, while Uncle Zuo hurriedly served Li Zhan to sit down.
Zhang Yaozu, who followed the side, hurriedly said: "Lao Li's condition is not very good now. He was trapped in the city where I came. According to our estimates, the small town can last for three months.
However, I could only last for three months. After three months, the food and grass will be cut off and I have to surrender.
At that time, Huan An would be married to the Fubu family by her biological mother."
"But as you said, if Qing'an has my flesh and blood, doesn't it matter?" Li Zhan was a little surprised.
"Not only does it matter, on the contrary, if the Japanese people discovered that Li Yanan's flesh and blood were the blood of the princes of the Tang Dynasty, it might also cause the Japanese to snatch the Japanese wildly."
"Clam..." Zhang Yaozu's words made Li Zhan feel a little confused. There is also the owner who is cuckolding.
"Your Highness does not understand the culture of the Wadao. The people of the Wadao know the inferiority of their race, so they will try their best to reconcile their race. You are the highest noble in the Tang Dynasty, and your bones and blood are of course the best. The people of the Wadao will do everything they can for their next generation."
After Zhang Yaozu finished speaking, Li Zhan sighed slightly and said, "Why did the mother and daughter suddenly turn against each other?"
"It was Mimi Okura's greed, and it was also forced by the environment at that time. Although she was helpless, it was not a reason. Of course, it was meaningless to say this at this time. I just want to know whether you want to save your own wife?" Zhang Yaozu looked at Li Zhan with some sincerity.
Li Zhan said 'um' and said, "Aren't you talking nonsense... That's my wife, but you have to tell me how long is it to prepare now?"
"This...!" Zhang Yaozu was slightly stunned.
That night, Li Zhan returned to the palace and had a deep conversation with Li Shimin in Ganlu Palace. At first, Li Shimin firmly opposed Li Zhan going to the sea to Japan, because Li Shimin knew that the risks at sea were too great.
Even if there is a Zhenguan ship, the danger is very great, and Li Shimin is unwilling to be in danger of his eldest son.
But Li Zhan told Li Shimin that Li Fengan was his wife and was still pregnant with his own children. Li Zhan had no reason not to go. If he ignored his wife and children because of danger, Li Zhan would be considered a thing.
Another thing is that Li Zhan told Li Shimin that there were a large number of gold and silver mines on the Japanese island, and the monetary system of the Tang Dynasty was really bad.
After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, it quickly introduced its own coin minting policy. In July of the fourth year of Wude (621), "the Wuzhu coins were abolished and the Kaiyuan Tongbao coins were sold at eight cents in diameter, weighing two zhu and four chunks, and accumulating ten cents and weighing one liang, and a thousand cents weighing six jin and four liang."
A thousand citations are money for a lifetime, and money for a lifetime is just six kilograms and four liang. It is too heavy. People will carry a bag when shopping and hold money. Because the copper coins are too heavy, you can't pick it up.
In order to meet the consumption of copper coins, a special mechanism for minting coins was set up in the center in the early Tang Dynasty, the Coin Criminal, which was equipped with ten furnaces to continuously mint coins.
Later, it was really not possible. There was always a shortage of money. It copied the tradition of using silk as currency during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and implemented the monetary system of "both money and silk"... Money is copper coins, and silk is the general term for silk fabrics, including brocade, embroidery, silk, silk, silk, silk, silk, silk, silk, silk, silk, silk, silk, silk, silk, silk, silk, etc. It is actually a diversified monetary system that combines physical currency and metal currency.
However, this monetary system is still chaotic. The Tang Dynasty lacks gold and silver. If there is gold and silver in the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhan can introduce gold and silver coins, and then use the decimal method. One gold coin is equal to one thousand copper coins, and one silver coin is equal to one hundred copper coins.
In this way, the obstacles to the circulation of copper coins can be greatly reduced, and the monetary system of "both money and silk" can be abolished... and a country's monetary system will be further improved.
Of course, even if it is a mountain of gold and silver, Li Shimin is unwilling to exchange it for his son, but Li Zhan said he would save his wife and children, which forced Li Shimin to let go. Not only Li Shimin, but even Empress Changsun also came forward to express her understanding of her son and encouraged Li Zhan to go out to sea to save his wife and children.
Because this is something a man has to do.
Li Dafu and Yue Niang were reluctant to part with each other, Yang Qiaoer, Ouyang Duoduo's tears, Feng Ming and Tuo Xiaodi's discomfort... In the end, Li Zhan went to Dengzhou, and Li Zhan wanted to take a boat to leave the Tang Dynasty in Dengzhou to go to the Japanese island.
The people who followed Li Zhan to the Japanese Island were the entire Hu Ben Army, with a total of 6,000 people. Some people may ask if the 6,000 people are too small.
In fact, what I want to tell you here is that there are really not many people on the Wa Island. Take the most glorious Warring States Period in the Warring States Period. There are two Warring States Periods around the world. One is the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in which China fought for hegemony for thousands of years, and the other is the Warring States Period in which the Daming of Wa Island fought against each other. Although they are both called the Warring States Period, the gap between the two is too big, resulting in the comparison between the Warring States Period in the Warring States Period in the Chinese Warring States Period, like a fighting between villages, which has no shock and domineering that the Warring States Period names bring to people.
The main reason is that scholars who study the history of the Japanese island believe that the name of the Warring States Period in China sounds domineering, so they also named the Warring States Period of their country's historical wars. Unexpectedly, they made so many jokes in later generations, and the two Warring States Periods were not comparable at all.
The Warring States Period of Wadao was very small, with very few people participating, with very few military personnel and the population of Japan at that time, and there was no scale of confrontation between countries at all. As netizens said, the Warring States Period of Wadao was a battle between villages. The village chief of one village led a few subordinates to fight with another village, becoming the position of pursuing the county magistrate. This is not a belittlement, this is the feeling of the Warring States Period of Wadao in front of China's Warring States Period.
The most famous battles in the Warring States Period of the Wada Island, such as the Battle of Turksama, were a battle with fewer attacks. In this battle, Oda Nobunaga's army was about 5,000 people, Imakawa Yoshimoto's army was between about 25,000 and 45,000, and Oda Nobunaga's surprise attack troops were about 2,000 people.
The Nagashima War was a comprehensive conflict between the Takeda forces and the Oda forces. It should be noted that this battle, Takeda Katsura did not bring all the assets of the Takeda army, but only part of it. Takeda Katsura had a total of 15,000 troops in this battle, Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu coalition forces totaling about 38,000, and it is also said that the Oda coalition forces had a total of 72,000.
Komakiyama's long-term battle was a war between Hashiba Hideyoshi (Toyotomi Hideyoshi) and Tokugawa Ieyasu to fight for the political legacy of Oda Nobunaga. During the war, Hashiba Hideyoshi (Toyotomi Hideyoshi) had seized a considerable part of Oda Nobunaga's legacy. In this battle, Hashiba Hideyoshi's army had almost more than 100,000 people, and Tokugawa Ieyasu also had about 30,000 troops.
What we need to explain here is that the Warring States Period of the Wadao was 1467-1600 or 1615... At this time, the population of the Wadao was about 14 million, while the current Wadao was in the Ashes, which was in 636 AD, which was several hundred years apart.
Zhang Yaozu told Li Zhan that at this time, there were about 3 million people in the Japanese island. At this time, there were three forces in the Japanese island. These three parties were the alliance between the Japanese empress Mi, the Mu family and the Suwo family, and the former queen's mistress named Nakamaru.
The combined forces of these three families are about 70,000. Li Zhan's 6,000 Tiger Ben Army is not only enough, but also with the equipment of Li Zhan's Tiger Ben Army, even if these three families come together, they will be more than enough to kill them all.
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Chapter completed!