Qian Song

Chapter 473 The No. 1 Beauty in the World (Please vote for me!)

Chapter 473 The most beautiful woman in the world (please vote for me!)

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"Please ask me to destroy Japan?!"

Not only was Li Cun shocked by Fujiwara Shoko's request, but Prince Kizunai and Prince Tongkouchi who came to Li Cun with Fujiwara Shoko were also shocked by Fujiwara Shoko's request.

Prince Kizunai and Prince Tongkouchi looked at Fujiwara Shoko in unison, as if to say: "Aren't we here to ask the officials to rescue the emperor's brother? How come we turned into asking the officials to destroy Japan?"

Since the death of Shoko Fujiwara's patron, her adoptive father, Emperor Shirakawa, and Emperor Toba establishing the Imperial Household Administration, Emperor Toba has copied the old formula of his ancestors, that is, "the emperor alone governs the world", and has lost the protection of Emperor Shirakawa. The emperor held it firmly in his hands and began to favor Fujiwara Tokuko.

In order to further consolidate his own power, Emperor Toba gave his son Prince Tishito, who was born to Fujiwara Tokuko, to Emperor Sutoku as his adopted son, and made him the crown prince three months later.

To be honest, this is also because the eldest daughter of Emperor Sotoku, the eldest daughter of Sekihaku Fujiwara Tadamichi, Fujiwara Seiko, has never given birth.

——It is said that after Seiko Fujiwara had a miscarriage, she was no longer able to have children.

However, Empress Fujiwara Seiko did not have a son for Emperor Sutoku, but Emperor Sutoku's female chamberlain, Hei Sabu, secretly gave birth to the emperor's eldest son, Prince Shigehito.

According to the rules of the Japanese royal family, if the emperor reaches adulthood and his own son is crown prince, it will inevitably pose a threat to the rule of Emperor Toba.

In order to prevent a long-term change, Emperor Toba acted preemptively and forced Emperor Sutoku to abdicate. Prince Taihito, born to Fujiwara Tokuko, ascended the throne as Emperor Konoe.

Since he was succeeded by his half-brother, Emperor Sotoku not only lost the position of emperor, but also lost the power to supervise the young emperor as the father of the emperor. The hope of establishing an imperial government was in vain, and he could only become a powerless emperor. .

Emperor Sutoku was very worried about this matter, so he wrote to his mother Fujiwara Shoko, hoping that Fujiwara Shoko, Prince Kishikouchi and Prince Tongziuchi could persuade Li Cun to send troops to help him regain the power to govern Japan.

In order to persuade Fujiwara Shoko, Prince Kikouchi, and Princess Tsutsukouchi to help him, Emperor Shutoku told Fujiwara Shoko countless times that the sons born to Fujiwara Shoko were currently living miserable lives in Japan.

After Fujiwara Shoko read the letter sent by Emperor Chongtoku with great effort, he immediately took Prince Kizunai and Prince Tongzinai to find Li Cun.

However, even Prince Kizunai and Prince Tongzinai did not expect that when Fujiwara Shoko opened his mouth, he would not borrow troops from Li Cun to help Emperor Chongtoku seize power, but instead: "Ask the officials to send troops to destroy Japan!"

After a moment's reaction, Li Cun asked: "Why did my beloved concubine ask me to send troops to destroy my beloved concubine's homeland?"

Fujiwara Shoko said nicely: "Since I entered the official harem, I have no homeland. There is a saying in my Daqian, if you marry a chicken, follow the chicken, if you marry a dog, follow the dog. If you marry an official, in my heart, There is only one homeland, and that is my Dagan."

After a pause, Fujiwara Shoko continued: "I suggested that the government send troops to destroy Japan for four reasons:

First, the Japanese royal family and nobles are extravagant and lustful, and do their best to deprive and oppress Japanese civilians and slaves, causing the Japanese civilians to suffer unspeakably. The Japanese slaves are in darkness, and I beg Your Majesty to send troops to rescue him. He is in a sea of ​​misery;

On the other hand, Toba and my son are currently at odds with each other, causing the Japanese court to split, which is a good opportunity to destroy Japan;

Thirdly, our army is sweeping across the east, and no country is dissatisfied. Only one country, Japan, is left behind our army. This makes our army like a thorn on the back, unable to look westward with all its strength. How could Japan be so virtuous and dare to mislead me? Doing such a big thing?It would be better to send out troops to destroy them, lest they come from behind in the future.

Fourth, the officials may not know that although Japan is a small country, it is rich in gold and silver. I occasionally heard that my current gold and silver production is somewhat insufficient. As far as I know, the Japanese court and nobles have as much gold and silver as gold mountains. , it is better to send troops to seize its gold and silver to fill the national treasury. "

The first reason mentioned by Fujiwara Shoko was purely to find a high-sounding excuse for Li Cun to send troops to Japan.

The second reason mentioned by Fujiwara Shoko, in Li Cun's opinion, is just making up the numbers.

Don't look at how much the Japanese later boasted about their country's history. In fact, at this time, the Japanese's combat power was at the bottom of the world.

You know, just over 100 years ago, when the Toi invaded, the Japanese were still like country bumpkins. Not only had they not seen the group warfare methods used by the Toi, they had not even heard of them.

After tasting the power of group warfare, the Japanese hurriedly collected intelligence, and then began to pay attention to group warfare.

However, despite taking it seriously, the Japanese still do not have a long memory and have not completely changed the pattern of war in Japan.

Let's put it this way, Japan's military defense force in Dazaifu was extremely weak at this time.

This is not only caused by the relative backwardness of weapons and outdated tactics, but more importantly, the inefficiency of Dazaifu's bureaucracy itself.

——At this time, the bureaucrats serving as officials in Dazaifu, Japan, mainly consisted of two types of people: local wealthy families and nobles sent from the capital.

These people are experts in messing around and making money.fight?Are you kidding me? Is that what noble nobles like them need to worry about?

Secret agents from the Takeshi, Pro-Army Guards House, and the Military Intelligence Department who had gone to Japan with the maritime merchants had long ago reported back that Japan actually still has a one-horse combat method.

Of course, coexisting with this style of play full of romanticism and personal heroism, Japan's Dazaifu also began to establish a legion military system based on the athlete system and the soldier selection system under the legal system. Each legion acts in unison under the command of the commander. The primitive situation of fighting alone and fighting alone is indeed less than before.

However, at this time, the Japanese's tactics were at most barely reaching the tactics of China's Xia and Shang Dynasties. Not to mention compared with the Ganjun that led the entire world, even compared with the natives on the Prince's Continent, at this time Even the Japanese may not be able to defeat it.

This is really not burying Japan.

In fact, Japan has been closed to the country for too long. It was only 100 years ago that it really fought against the outside army. Then it was closed to the country for more than 100 years. This made the Japanese people have never experienced the baptism of cruel wars outside.

Therefore, the Gan Army can definitely crush Japan's extremely backward army, unless the kamikaze that helped the Japanese "defeat" the Yuan Army in history helps Japan.

but--

With the level of development of the Daqian Dynasty's sea ships and navigation technology, even if the kamikaze could help the Japanese once, it would never be able to help the Japanese a second time.

In other words, it should not be difficult for Li Cun to destroy Japan.

Therefore, the second reason mentioned by Fujiwara Shoko is meaningless, because no matter what the domestic political environment in Japan is, it cannot reverse the huge power gap between the two sides.

but--

The last two reasons mentioned by Fujiwara Shoko are quite different.

A great emperor of later generations once said: If the mirror is not wiped, it will not be clear, and Japan will not be able to survive without fighting.

An American Secretary of State once said: No one can understand the ambition of the Japanese, they are an evil nation.

A president once said: Japan is the most humble and shameless nation in history.

Another president once said: Japan is an insidious, cunning, and cruel nation. This nation is very powerful, and its crazy and bloodthirsty level is similar to Dracula, the vampire in the European Middle Ages. The tube will be bitten off immediately by it, leaving no possibility of survival.

A great thinker once said: The Japanese character is extremely perverted. In the eyes of Europeans, Japan is a bloody, perverted and murderous nation. The Japanese are stubborn, willful, self-willed and ignorant. .

Historically, Li Hongzhang of the Qing Dynasty in my country once said: If this country is not eliminated, it will be a big trouble in the future.

It is not difficult to see from this that if Li Cun does not destroy Japan, Japan may really threaten the back of the Daqian Dynasty in the future.

in fact--

Li Cun's hatred of the Japanese was a memory engraved in his bones. The hatred of country and family passed down from generation to generation made Li Cun and the Japanese sworn in.

Killing Japanese men and playing with Japanese women has always been Li Cun's unchanging sentiment.

Therefore, even if he had nothing else but this irresolvable hatred, Li Cun should have destroyed Japan.

In fact, Li Cun never let go of the destruction of Japan.

However, after all, Japan and the Daqian Dynasty are separated by a sea. Even if they are conquered, they cannot be connected to the territory of the Daqian Dynasty, especially before the Daqian Dynasty regains Jidi.

Moreover, Japan has always been quite sensible over the years. It pays tribute every year and comes to court every year. Even if it knows that its former queen Fujiwara Shoko came to the Daqian Dynasty and entered Li Cun's harem, it still pretends not to know.

In this way, Li Cuncai did not put Japan first in the order of annexation.

Nowadays, as Fujiwara Shoko said, the gold and silver of the Daqian Dynasty is somewhat insufficient.actually--

That's not true either.

The Daqian Dynasty, which destroyed many countries, now possesses an unprecedented amount of gold and silver, even to the point that the world cannot imagine.

Under such circumstances, the reason why there are still rumors that the Daqian Dynasty is short of gold and silver is mainly because the Daqian Dynasty issued a lot of banknotes.

Nowadays, it was not only Li Cun's initiative, but also the promotion of the Age of Discovery, and good money drove out bad money, so that the banknotes issued by the Daqian Dynasty have, to a certain extent, become the world's currency.

Just imagine how much currency the Daqian Dynasty, the largest dynasty in history, had to use. If this expanded to the whole world, more currency would definitely be used.

This resulted in the Daqian Dynasty being able to print only a large amount of banknotes.

On the other hand, even if the Daqian Dynasty gathered all the gold and silver from all of East Asia and Southeast Asia as reserves, it would not be able to cover so many banknotes.

With the current national strength and reputation of the Daqian Dynasty, it is not impossible to over-issue.

But after all, there is no insurance of adequate reserves.

And Japan has a very famous name - Treasure Island.

As far as Li Cun knows, there is a world-class gold deposit in southern Kyushu, Japan. Its average grade is as high as 33 grams per ton, and the highest grade reaches thousands to tens of thousands of grams per ton. This is located in Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan. Linggao Gold Mine.

In addition, there are also a lot of gold and silver reserves on Japan's Ezo Island (later Hokkaido) - the Konobui mine on it has at least one hundred tons of gold reserves, and the Haobetsu mine on the coast of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk There is also a large placer gold field in Chuanhe River and its tributaries.

Also, there are many gold and silver mines in the Ou region of Japan (the area formed by the combination of Mutsu Province (Oshu) and Dewa Province (Ushu) in Japan's Reiji Kingdom, which later became the Tohoku region of Japan).

In addition, there are also a large number of gold and silver mines in other areas of Japan, such as Sado Gold Mine, Ikuno Silver Mine, Iwami Ginzan, etc., which are all very large gold and silver mines.

It can be said that the name Treasure Island is very suitable for Japan.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Li Cun can conquer Japan and then vigorously mine gold and silver, even if Li Cun conquers the whole world in the future, there will be no shortage of gold and silver. Even Li Cun can abolish the gold and silver bimetallism and implement a stable gold standard or It was the silver standard that popularized paper money, launched a monetary revolution, and made history take a big step forward.

In addition, Li Cun also spent money like water in order to settle his children and develop Siberia and the Far East.

Needless to say about the former, just the settlement expenses that Li Cun gave to his sons, the dowries of his daughters, and the living expenses he usually gave to his children and grandchildren were astronomical figures in the eyes of ordinary people.

But what’s more expensive is the latter.

Li Cun knew that Siberia and the Far East were rich in coal, iron, oil, natural gas, timber and other resource reserves, but others did not.

In the eyes of others, Siberia and the Far East are regions that are more bitter and colder than the Northeast, and they are not willing to go there at all.

There was no other way, so Li Cun could only pay a high salary to hire people to lay railways from Ketun City and Beining City to Siberia and the Far East, explore and mine various resources in the two places, and then sell them back to the hinterland of the Daqian Dynasty.

——Li Cun was afraid that if he didn't do this, after his death, future generations might abandon the remote and bitter cold Siberia and the Far East.

However, Li Cun was lucky. The people he sent to explore Siberia and the Far East discovered many gold mines not long after entering Siberia and the Far East.

Li Cun asked the Propaganda Department to leak the news that the scientific expedition team had discovered gold mines in Siberia and the Far East, and spread the news. Siberia and the Far East were full of gold, and whoever found it belonged to him.

As a result, large numbers of adventurous people traveled to Siberia and the Far East in search of gold.

Some lucky people actually found gold mines in two places, and then they used the gold they found to return home and hire people with high salaries to dig their gold mines.

As a result, more and more people went to Siberia and the Far East to hunt for gold. Those who found gold hired people to dig their gold mines.

There are also some people who did not find gold mines, but found coal mines, and then became coal bosses, hiring people to dig coal, or occupying a forest, hiring people to cut wood, and making money by selling wood.

Only then did Siberia and the Far East begin to gain some popularity.

But even so, Li Cun is still the absolute main force in developing Siberia and the Far East.

Li Cun spent a lot of money developing Siberia and the Far East, and it would definitely be difficult to recover the money in a short time.

At this time, Fujiwara Shoko asked Li Cun to destroy Japan, which had a large amount of gold and silver. Can Li Cun not be tempted?

Japan also has good land resources. The areas around Lake Biwa, Nobi Plain, and Ise Province are all areas with large grain production. In addition, Japan has a population of nearly [-] million.

If these two resources are properly utilized, the Daqian Dynasty can obtain all the gold and silver on Japan's treasure island without spending much manpower and financial resources.

Of course, the more important thing is that Li Cun cannot leave the scourge of Japan to his descendants.

In short, Li Cun was persuaded by Fujiwara Shoko and prepared to send troops to destroy Japan.

Fujiwara Shoko didn't know that she could so easily persuade Li Cun to send troops to destroy Japan.

In Fujiwara Shoko's impression, Li Cun had never been interested in an expedition to Japan.

What others don't know is that Fujiwara Shoko was forced to become a monk to save her life because Emperor Toba and Fujiwara Tokuko jointly removed her position as the Queen of Japan. Later, she made a desperate attempt to sneak into the Daqian Dynasty and sneak into Li Cun's harem. , and failed to persuade Li Cun to help her avenge her, and failed to dominate Li Cun's harem. She was played with casually a few times and left aside by Li Cun, and she became depressed and even fell ill.

Now, Fujiwara Shoko has learned from the imperial doctor that if she does not change her mentality, she will not have a few more years to live.

Fujiwara Shoko, who has not had a smooth life these years, is not afraid of death, but she never forgets to seek revenge on Emperor Toba and Fujiwara Tokuko.

Fujiwara Shoko knew that she, even if she included Prince Kizunai and Prince Tongzinai, did not have the charm to let Li Cun help her avenge her or help Emperor Sutoku seize power.

In this case, if Fujiwara Shoko wants Li Cun to help her avenge her hatred, she can only use Japan to seduce Li Cun, who likes to expand territories.

In order to see the misfortune of Emperor Toba and Tokuko Fujiwara before she died, Fujiwara Shoko would not hesitate to let the whole of Japan be buried with her.

It is not difficult to see from this that hatred has completely blinded Fujiwara Shoko. It can also be said that Fujiwara Shoko is a lunatic who does not care about anything for his own selfish desires.

At this time, seeing Li Cun being silent, Fujiwara Shoko added fire without hesitation:

"The officials didn't know that the child was as beautiful as a flower, with a body as gentle as jade and as white as snow. She was proficient in playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting. As soon as she entered Toba's harem, Toba gave her the name 'Tamamo-mae', as a minister. In my humble opinion, although there are many beauties in the palace of the Guan family, none of them can compare with Sheng Zi. Shen Zi can be called the most beautiful woman in the world. The Guan family is the most wealthy emperor and hero in the world. The four seas and the boundless territory, shouldn't we enjoy the most beautiful woman in the world, and let the most beautiful woman in the world be owned by the king of a small country?"

In order to inspire Li Cun to send troops to destroy Japan, Fujiwara Shoko even did not hesitate to crown her love rival Fujiwara Tokuko with the title of "the most beautiful woman in the world".

How could Li Cun fail to see Fujiwara Shoko's little tricks?

To be honest, Li Cun really wanted to destroy Japan, and even thought that Japan had reached the point where it could not be destroyed. In addition, Li Cun was not willing to be like a woman, otherwise Li Cun would have to let Fujiwara Shoko understand what it means to be smart.

Li Cun looked at the morbidly beautiful Fujiwara Shoko and thought to himself: "But I still have to teach this woman some lessons, otherwise she won't have a long memory."

Li Cun took another look at Prince Kikouchi and Prince Tongziuchi behind Fujiwara Shoko. The wonderful scene from a Japanese movie he had seen in his previous life flashed through his mind, and he suddenly had an idea.

However, these things are all the fun of the boudoir, and they are not enough to be explained to outsiders...

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