Chastity Layman

"This is the most beautiful woman in our country, dedicated to His Excellency Duke Wei."

In Heikangfang, at Qin Lang's residence, the Japanese ambassador Inugami Mita, his deputy Soga Kuramaro, and Monobe Renko sat kneeling on the porch.

A woman with a white gauze covering her entire body stood beside her.

Qin Lang held the teacup and smelled the tea lightly.

Seeing that Qin Lang didn't speak, Su Wo Cangmalu looked at the woman and signaled her eyes, so the woman stepped forward, and just took two steps, but Zhang Chao gave a soft reprimand, and four soldiers from the Qin family stepped forward immediately. , pressed his hand to the handle of the knife.

These four soldiers of the Qin family were all relatives who fought with Qin Lang. There were wolf guards from Turks, silver saddle knights from Khitan, warriors from Dangxiang, and brave Sogdian warriors from Zhaowu in the Western Regions. Hire Zhejie knights, as well as extremely dark-skinned Kunlun slaves from Lingnan who perform long jumping, swinging and stabbing.

The four of them were the most stalwart warriors under Qin Lang's command, but their appearance was indeed too fierce, and they were too tall for the short Japanese. The woman was so frightened that she fell limp on the ground trembling all over.

Seeing this, Zhang Chao said triumphantly, "Don't get close to Duke Wei easily."

Su Wo Cangmalu realized that it was probably because the Tang nobleman was afraid of assassins, so he hurriedly confessed and got up, "We have no other intentions." He helped the frightened woman and lifted the veil from her body.

Qin Lang looked around curiously, there were indeed many beauties in the later generations of Wa Kingdom, and he was enlightened by those teachers when he was young.

"Fuck!"

When Qin Lang saw this Japanese beauty clearly, he still couldn't help blurting out those two words, what kind of beauty is this, let alone short, after all, Yan, thin, ring and fat have their own strengths. But this so-called Japanese beauty can really scare people to death when she raises her head.

His face was so pale that even his neck was white, reaching his shoulders.

This is not a big deal, after all, it is a matter of applying fat and powder. In fact, women in the Tang Dynasty also like to apply it very much.

But the problem is that this Japanese woman is not only applying powder, but also painting a wall, a thick layer, which is too much.

What's even more frightening is that she shaved off her eyebrows, and then drew them in. No, she just clicked her eyebrows, with a dot on one side. Qin Lang was well-informed, but he didn't know what it was called. eyebrow shape.

Women in the Tang Dynasty also liked to trim and thrush their eyebrows. Some women even shaved off their eyebrows, and then they could freely draw various eyebrow shapes, such as willow leaf eyebrows, distant mountains, etc. Today this is tomorrow and that is, but in general It is said that shaving eyebrows and thrushes is just to look better, not to make them more ugly or even terrible.

The four warriors were also discolored by this appearance.

Su Wo Cangmalu thought that Qin Lang was displeased by the panicked appearance of this beauty, so he hurriedly said to her, "Laugh, laugh quickly!"

The Japanese girl forced a smile, showing her teeth.

Qin Lang couldn't help but blurted out another sentence.

Those big black teeth.

It reminded him of a girl from Guizhou who had black teeth when he was 20 years old. But that girl is only a little dark, but this one has a complete mouthful of big black teeth, dark and shiny, comparable to the skin of that Kunlun warrior.

When the Kunlun warrior saw the teeth, he was stunned for a long time, almost thinking that he had encountered a compatriot.

"The teeth are rotten?" Zhang Chao couldn't help asking.

In fact, there are many Japanese women in Chang'an City. Many slave traders sold Japanese women, and after a little training, they became maidservants in noble families. Although they were not as popular as Silla maidservants, they were considered a rare species among slaves. Even in the red light district of Pingkangfang, there are many Japanese women, but I have never seen such black teeth.

As the top aristocrat of the Japanese kingdom, Suga Cangmaro is quite talented and can speak several languages. Japanese, Baekje, Silla, Goguryeo, Datang, and even a little bit of Turkic Champa.

Hearing the question, he quickly replied, "This is called Black Tooth, and it is a representative of identity."

According to what he said, it was the custom of the Japanese country at this time, and noble women were also used to make-up. It is said that this makeup was the makeup method of the noble ladies of the Central Plains brought back by the envoys who sent the Japanese envoys to pay tribute to Cao Wei and got the seal of the king of Wei. But Qin Lang believed that he must have learned wrongly.

At this time, make-up was popular in the noble circles of the Japanese country. Aristocratic men also apply powder to paint their lips, not to mention women, a pale face is the basic, but also eyebrows and black teeth. Eyebrow drawing is naturally to shave off the eyebrows, and then draw them.

As for the black teeth, the teeth are stained black with black water made from tea wine vinegar and iron slurry. The Japanese believe that the blackened teeth are beautiful and noble, and they are not easy to get dirty. I don’t know how they came to this conclusion. .

Anyway, in Japan, if you don't have raised eyebrows and black teeth, it will be difficult for a woman to marry, just like in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was difficult for women to find a partner if they had small feet.

Only those civilians and slave women will not raise their eyebrows.

According to Suwo Cangmalu's words, they respected Qin Lang, so they specially found a noble woman from the Japanese country to present it.

However, Qin Lang was disgusted. This Japanese girl really looked like a geisha she had seen in later generations, but this aesthetic was completely unacceptable. If she woke up in the middle of the night and suddenly saw such a woman beside her while she was half asleep, That's really similar to the evil ghost in the middle of the night, it's completely a Sadako.

"You call this respect? Call this beauty?" Qin Lang was annoyed.

Given his status, how many people lined up outside the door to give gifts, there were countless beauties of all kinds, but they couldn't get in, and Qin Lang would only accept the beauties bestowed by the emperor.

"Is Duke Wei dissatisfied?" Suga Kuramaro was puzzled, "This is the most beautiful woman in Japan."

"Japan? When did you call yourself Japan?" Qin Lang sneered twice.

The Central Plains have always been called the Wa Kingdom, or Dongying, and some are called Fusang, Yamatai, etc., but Japan has never appeared in the Central Plains.

It is recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas that there are Japanese people in Lelanghai, which are divided into more than a hundred countries. And another book "Lunheng" said, "In the Zhou Dynasty, the world was peaceful, Yueshang offered white pheasants, and the Japanese paid chancao (shangcao means vanilla). These are the earliest records of the Japanese in China.

Of course, a more detailed record is that during Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, the Japanese Nu Kingdom sent envoys to pay tribute, and Emperor Guangwu also bestowed a seal, the seal of the King of the Han Dynasty, which was later unearthed in Japan.

However, the slave king at that time was actually just one of hundreds of national tribes in Japan, and could not represent the whole of Japan. In the period of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Wei met Yamatai from across the sea, claiming that the queen is Himiko, and there are more than 30 small countries under his control. The approximate location is actually on the Kyushu Island of later generations, and the power is quite strong.

Officials of Wei State were very strange about this Yamatai State at that time, where did it come from? Searching for books and historical materials, after searching for a long time, I found a record of the Wa Kingdom. At that time, I thought, don’t call it Yamatai, you are the Wa Kingdom, so Emperor Wei swiped his pen and gave the Queen’s relative, a gold seal of the King of Wei Wa, and another Give a hundred bronze mirrors.

At this time, a dog slave country who was fighting against Yamatai saw it, and immediately sent envoys to Cao Wei to ask for canonization. This made the officials of Cao Wei feel shocked again, how could there be such a country name.

However, although the Yamatai Kingdom was strong, it was defeated by Wakoku from the Kansai region, and Wakoku gradually unified the islands. By this time, it is said that there have been more than 30 emperors, known as the line of ten thousand generations.

At that time, the Yamatai Kingdom was also defeated and unified by the He Kingdom, and became the local powerful nobles of the He Kingdom. There are also some Yamatai people who have retained the tribes that they occupied when they were strong in the past on the Sanhan Peninsula on the opposite side of the strait. All the territories were later attached to He Guo.

But for the Central Plains, no matter how the dynasties change, anyway, the He Kingdom is treated as the Wa people and the Wa Kingdom in the same way.

By the time of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Heguo was also very powerful, and began to communicate further with the Central Plains. Some Japanese people also read a lot of Chinese books, and suddenly felt that the word Japanese, in the dictionary, meant short and wretched, which clearly had a derogatory meaning. ah.

It was also found that people in the Central Plains said that the word wo represented the state of Wei, and the word Wei removed ghosts and added people, which represented that the state of Wa was a state of Wei.

The Wa Kingdom lives in a corner, but he has always been the only one who has fought against the Three Hans, and even allowed the once powerful Baekje to pay tribute to them, pretending to be the overlord of the Haidong Kingdom, when will he be willing to be a vassal state of the Wei Kingdom?

Too cheap.

The Japanese believed that there should be an equal relationship with the Central Plains, so Prince Shotoku wrote a letter to Yang Guang later, saying that the emperor at the sunrise sent a letter to the emperor at the sunset, and later used the title of the East Emperor to pay tribute to the West Emperor, just because he didn’t want to repeat it. Become a vassal.

Up to this mission, the Japanese are determined not to use the undervalued title of the Wa country, and they do not want to use the titles such as Dongying and Fusang given to them by the people of the Central Plains, but take the meaning of the country of the sunrise and the place where the sun shines. , officially adopted Japan as the country's title in diplomacy.

Internally, Yamato is also used at the same time.

The Japanese are quite short, but they have strong self-esteem.

Qin Lang really didn't want to get used to their arrogance. This is the same as asking the Han envoy in the Han Dynasty, what is the difference between the Han Dynasty and my elder King Yelang?

King Yelang's question left behind the allusion of Yelang's arrogance. Now the little Japanese king dares to call himself the emperor and Japan, which is too presumptuous.

"I heard that the Wa kingdom is now in power in Soga Eizo. The Wa king is just a puppet. The Ezo has recruited 25,000 soldiers and horses to cross the sea to attack Silla? You know, Silla is my Tang Dynasty The vassal state, the king of Silla is the king of Lelang County, Zhu State, who was conferred by our Tang Dynasty. If you dare to use troops against Silla, you are provoking and declaring war on my Tang Dynasty!"

"A mere 25,000 people may be called a heavy army in your country, but do you know that my Tang Dynasty has a million armors, and the world has a population of 50 million people. The year before last, my Tang Dynasty sent 180,000 troops. The Turkic Khanate that controlled 400,000 people in the north was wiped out, and last winter, Zhenxiang personally led the army, and with only 12,000 Tang soldiers, he wiped out the Tuyuhun Kingdom with a population of one million and three thousand miles away."

"Twenty-five thousand people, hey, I can mobilize so many people in any governor's mansion on the border of my Tang Dynasty, and my Tang Dynasty has more than 300 Zhengzhou and more than 1,000 counties. If the Japanese country is so arrogant, my Tang Dynasty At any time, we can send 100,000 troops to cross the sea and conquer the Japanese kingdom!"