Chapter 645: Sending Tang Envoys
I saw that on the official road where people came and went, a group of people with obviously different clothes from the Central Plains were slowly moving forward. They all wore short clothes and were very short, but they were wearing tall pointed hats. They also looked a little similar to those of the Tang people, but they were all black and thin, and they looked like natives in the South China Sea.
"This... are these Japanese?" Li Xiu looked at the strange crowd in front of him and couldn't help but say in surprise. When the bearded guest was building Zidao, he had many Japanese people under him. So Li Xiu had met Japanese people before, but he didn't care at that time, but now he has seen so many Japanese people in Chang'an all at once. This is a bit strange?
"Hey, the prince consort is indeed very knowledgeable and even knows the Japanese?" At this moment, Changsun Wuji, who was riding a horse next to Li Xiu, couldn't help but shout in surprise. Judging from his tone, it seemed that he also recognized these Japanese.
"Oh? Brother Changsun recognizes these Japanese people, too?" Li Xiu couldn't help but say in surprise again when he heard Changsun Wuji's words. He had only seen a few Japanese people beside the bearded guest for so long. Although Hu people gathered in Chang'an, he had never seen Japanese people walking on the streets openly. Li Xiu estimated that the exchange between the Tang Dynasty and the Japanese had not yet begun, so it was a bit strange that Changsun Wuji was able to know the Japanese.
"Haha, I didn't know any Japanese people at first, but I sent news from the southern coast that a group of Japanese people arrived in my Tang Dynasty by boat, hoping to go to Beijing to meet His Majesty. This is also the first time that Japan has sent envoys to my Tang Dynasty. At that time, I had seen the patterns of those Japanese people, so when I saw these people, I recognized their identities." Changsun Wuji smiled and explained that this was already before he went to Dingxiang, but he didn't expect that he happened to meet these Japanese people when he came back this time.
"So that's it. I didn't expect that the Japanese would send an envoy." Li Xiu said thoughtfully when he heard this. If he was not wrong, the group of Japanese people in front of him should be the so-called envoys to send Tang. However, except for a few guys who looked like civil servants, most of them were guards with weapons, and they did not see the kind of international students and study monks recorded in history books.
In fact, what Li Xiu didn't know was that Japan sent personnel to study and exchanges on a large scale mainly after the Battle of the Tang Dynasty and the Japanese. Liu Rengui, the recommended by Li Xiu, defeated the Japanese in this battle, which also made the Japanese finally face up to their mission with the Tang Dynasty, and then sent a large number of people to learn from the Tang Dynasty. Before that, although Japan sent envoys to send Tang Dynasty, it was mainly just an official exchange.
"Hehe, my husband, look at these Japanese people who are short and have very small countries. But these Japanese people are very arrogant. During the former Sui Dynasty, the letter sent by the Japanese envoy actually had the words "The emperor sent a letter from the sun and the emperor was safe." He actually placed the small Japanese king in the same position as the emperor of the Central Plains. This made Yang Guang very angry. However, Yang Guang's attention was all on Goguryeo at that time, and the Japanese country was alone overseas and difficult to attack, so he didn't bother to pay attention to them!" Changsun Wuji smiled and pointed at the Japanese in front of him and said.
"Haha, Yelang is just arrogant. I don't have to take a little care of a mere Japanese country. My uncle, Qiubing, lived on an island next to Japan. There were many Japanese people there. According to him, Japan's strength is not strong, at most it is similar to Silla and Baekje." Li Xiu laughed when he heard this. He had asked the Qiubing, about the situation in Japan before, so he also had some understanding.
"That's true, but the prince-in-law, look at these Japanese people. When they came, the local officials didn't even prepare a horse for them. They actually asked them to hike to Chang'an. It seemed that they had no good feelings for these Japanese people!" Changsun Wuji pointed to the Japanese people in front again and said with a smile.
When Li Xiu heard this, he realized that these Japanese people were not riding horses. Even the Japanese people who were walking in the middle looked like envoys were walking on foot. This made him laugh. It seemed that the Tang people had no good feelings for the arrogant small country of Japan.
The Japanese in front had no horses, but Qin Qiong and others were all cavalry, so they quickly caught up with the Japanese team. When the caravans around saw the army coming, they all dodged one after another. But these Japanese people didn't know whether they were used to being arrogant or did not know the Tang army, but they actually stood on the road and refused to give way.
Although the official road is very wide, there are also many people in the Japanese team, which are blocked tightly at once. Moreover, the Tang army has never given way to give way. Sometimes when two armies meet on the road, they may fight because of the issue of giving way. After all, no one of these Qiu Bas is convinced, unless your fist is harder than his.
It is precisely because of this that the cavalry in front did not slow down at all and rushed up on horseback. As a result, the Japanese were so scared that they hurriedly dodged to both sides. Some people were even knocked down by horses because they could not dodge. This scared many people even more and more, and then they avoided the cavalry's horse hooves.
Seeing these Japanese people in a mess, the cavalry on the horse laughed heartlessly. Although Qin Qiong didn't like the soldiers disturbing the people, he saw that these people were not Tang people and they took the initiative to block their way, so he was too lazy to care. This was very similar to Li Xiu. As long as he was not a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, he would not be taken seriously by him in his heart.
Qin Qiong's cavalry rushed past, leaving behind a group of Japanese people in a mess. These Japanese people didn't dare to scold them at first, until Li Xiu and the others ran away, and then they cursed them in Japanese. Li Xiu and the others couldn't hear them at all. In fact, it was useless even if they heard them, because they didn't understand Japanese language at all.
Meeting the Japanese was just a matter that was too small to be even smaller, and no one took this matter seriously. Except for Li Xiu, he kept thinking about the impact of the Japanese sent to send Tang envoys. According to Changsun Wuji, this was the first time that the Japanese sent to send Tang envoys. Although there were not many people, he thought that the Japanese sent a large number of Tang envoys to send Tang envoys in the future and learned many aspects of knowledge from the Central Plains, which also had a huge impact on Japan. This made him feel very uncomfortable. After all, the two countries in later generations had an irreconcilable hatred. Even if he traveled through time, this hatred would not be easily forgotten.
Li Xiu was thinking about sending the Tang envoy in his mind, and the team was getting closer and closer to Chang'an City. When he was ten miles away from the city gate, he saw a huge team appearing in front of him. It turned out that Li Shimin went out of the city to greet him personally!
Chapter completed!