But of course the story is not over yet, otherwise how could it show that Prince Shengde is unique!

A few days later, the Prince of Surito suddenly had a dream, which was said to be the dream that the immortal had asked him.

So the next day, Prince Shengde told his followers that the homeless man was not an ordinary person, he must be a god.

Of course, the followers were half-believing and half-doubted, but they still opened the tomb. When they saw that there were indeed no corpses in the tomb, only folded clothes were placed in the coffin village.

Prince Ashido took back his clothes and wore them as usual. Then the story spread, and people said, "Only the saints can know about the gods!"

So Prince Suito received the title of Prince Shengto. Of course, these are all Japanese legends. In Jin Muchen's opinion, this is just a trick to fool the people by Prince Suito. I don't know how many times such tricks have happened in Chinese history, and there are many more mysterious than this.

However, Prince Shengto was smart and studious since childhood, and it was true that he was so smart and eager to learn. However, there were no very good teachers in Japan at that time.

He happened to know the Anbu family, an immigrant who spread Buddhism in Japan. After interacting with this family for a long time, he learned the strength of the country across the sea. He also learned a lot of thoughts and knowledge from this Anbu family, and his relationship became increasingly close.

He not only learned Buddhist theory from Anbu, but also learned from the "Five Classics Doctor" from the mainland through Anbu, and began to learn Confucianism with him, widely absorbing China's advanced ideas and culture.

It is said that Prince Shengde once studied Buddhist scriptures in Iyu Hot Springs by Huici, a Korean monk who came to Japan. He asked many questions, but Huici was just half a bucket of water from North Korea, so he could not answer the questions raised by Prince Shengde.

Prince Shengde could only understand through his own thinking. It is said that there were several times when he thought about the questions that he could not get answers for a long time, and suddenly realized them in his sleep. The next day, he told his understanding to his teacher Huici. Huici thought that his views were very reasonable.

Later, Jin Muchen, who learned about the life of Prince Shengde, confirmed that these historical records were actually descendants of Japan and were just beautifying their ancestors. Prince Shengde must not be as mysterious as the legendary ones, but he is smart and has certain abilities, so it must be true.

This era in which Prince Shengde lived. It can be said that the international situation in eastern Asia was in full swing. At that time, the Sui Dynasty in China had just unified the country and ended the split that had lasted for more than 300 years since the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Silla on the Korean Peninsula also adopted some of China's systems and became stronger quickly. It even sent many people to cross to beat Japan. Japan, which has been in a closed state, faces the problem of how to adapt to this new situation.

At that time, the Japanese court was composed of two major groups: Wubu and Suwo clans. Suwo clan advocated accepting Buddhism to unify Japan's beliefs.

The Mubu family opposed accepting Buddhism and insisted on the original beliefs of each clan and the essence of the struggle between the two factions. In addition to whether to actively absorb the advanced culture of the mainland, it has even reached the point of a struggle for religious belief.

When it came to Emperor Mindat, the 30th Emperor, he did not believe in Buddhism. He supported the Matsu group to burn down the pagodas and temples and seized monks and nuns. It happened that scabies were popular in China, and even the Emperor was infected. Suwo took the opportunity to promote this that this was the Buddha's punishment for them, so the emperor had to agree that Suwo's ​​re-enter the Buddha statue.

In this struggle, the young Prince Shengto stood firmly on the side of Suwo family, so in April 593 AD, Prince Shengto, who was only 20 years old, was appointed by his uncle as the first batch of international students to travel to the mainland.

In fact, this is also the pioneering move of Prince Shengde. He adopted this positive and enlightened attitude. The purpose is to transplant China's advanced scientific and cultural culture.

Later, this form of sending students to China continued for a long time. After Prince Shengde returned from the mainland to take office, he began to comprehensively promote the plan of sending students to China. Although the number was not large, they were all outstanding talents who were proficient in Chinese selected from the descendants of mainland immigrants.

These students studied in China for 20 or 30 years, went through the Sui and Tang dynasties, systematically learned Chinese rules and regulations, and actively spread them after returning to China, making great contributions to the development of Japanese culture and society.

It was during this period that Japan systematically learned various advanced ideas and technologies from China, thus opening up the first cultural prosperity in Japanese history. Japan's thoughts, languages, architecture, sculpture, art, and music all developed greatly.

Especially those international students sent to China, who returned to China after completing their studies, many of them became the most important backbone force for political changes and great reforms in ancient Japanese history 20 years later.

Although Prince Shengto was later called the crown prince, he actually never became the emperor in his life. Because he was not the eldest son, the throne finally fell on his mediocre brother, who was the emperor.

However, this is also a tragedy to the Emperor of the Gu. Although he was in power, he actually had no real power. Because at the beginning of his throne, he offended Buddhism, which flourished in Japan at that time. In addition, he later contracted scabies, and failed in the political struggle and completely lost his power. Prince Shengto became the regent of Japan at that time.

When Emperor Gu was in power, Japan was still in the era of slavery. Backward production relations restricted the development of productivity, economic poverty, and continued to cause social crises.

After Prince Shengde took power, in order to change this situation, he implemented a series of reforms. In 603, according to the customs of the Chinese official system, he formulated the twelve levels of the crown, that is, divided into twelve levels, and each level of hat has a different color. These twelve different hats are used to distinguish the ranks of nobles and officials.

This was the first important official reform in Japanese history, and it also had a great impact on the subsequent reform of the political system, because the title was awarded according to personal talents and achievements, and could be promoted or deprived, and could not be passed on to descendants. This broke the old tradition of slavery to determine status according to bloodline, laying the foundation for the establishment of the feudal bureaucratic system, and promoting the progress of society.

The next year, he formulated another seventeen constitutions, drawing on the classics and Buddhist thoughts of Chinese Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, etc., and stipulated the basic principles that the people should follow. However, due to the limitations of the times, Prince Shengde did not realize that the fundamental reason for the social crisis was slavery, so he did not make a big fuss about slavery.

In addition, the largest slave owner noble in Japan at that time was Suwomazi, the uncle of Emperor Tuigu and the father-in-law of Prince Shengto. He also held considerable real power in the court.

Prince Shengde's change has violated the interests of Suwomazi, so he has always adopted a negative attitude and publicly opposed it after Prince Shengde's death.

In 622, Prince Shengto died of illness and was only 49 years old. His death caused a great shock in Japanese society. According to historical records at that time, the older princes and ministers seemed to have lost their beloved sons and did not know what they eat. The young man seemed to have lost his loving father, and the crying sounds spread throughout the streets. The man who plowed the fields stopped the plow, and the woman who had the spring rice put down the pestle. Even the sun and the moon lost their glory, and the sky and the earth seemed to have collapsed! In order to commemorate him, his concubine, Orange Girl, embroidered the "Tianshou Kingdom Mancha La Embroidery Statue", which has now become a famous national treasure in Japan.

Many people may feel familiar to this section. Isn’t this the situation when Taizu of our country died? So Jin Muchen felt very doubtful about this historical record. There must be a scene where the Japanese beautify and process it.

Of course, the status of Prince Shengto in Japanese history is absolutely unquestionable. After all, it was his promotion and his attitude towards learning from the advanced cultural and ideological systems of the mainland that promoted the grand occasion of Japan's comprehensive dispatch of international students to China. It was these international students who promoted and completed the transformation of Japan from a slave society like a feudal society.

So if it weren't for his appearance, maybe when the Americans later blasted the country's borders through the black ship incident, Japan was still in a slave society at that time!

It is simply impossible for such a society that is completely out of touch with the international community to complete the Meiji Restoration, directly transition from feudalism to capitalism, and lay the foundation for Japan to become a later world power.

So until now, the Japanese still respect this Prince Shengto. Even in their eyes, this Prince Shengto's status in Japanese history is not inferior to that of Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Taizong of Tang had the same status in Chinese history. Therefore, many Japanese scholars respectfully called this Prince Shengto's "benefactor of Japanese culture."

And the "Biography of Prince Shengto" in front of me is definitely more qualified than anything else to call it the national treasure of Japan.

Even in the eyes of many people in the Japanese archaeology community, the value of this masterpiece is actually no worse than that of the Yaobian Tianmu Bowl.

That bowl is just a piece of porcelain, and this masterpiece paints Japanese history!
Chapter completed!