"The commercial port of Japan is Hakata, and the Namba of the Kinabalu is."

The person who spoke was a chubby little old man, with a fat face like dough, wearing a long double-breasted gown with a Confucian body, shaking a Japanese fan in his hand, walking beside the Heavenly Daoshi Ren Daoxing and Nun Juesin. Behind him were a few servants carrying loads and warriors carrying Taidao swords.

Ren Daoxing and his group had arrived in Japan, first stopped in Hakata, and then took Huang Zhishen's famous post and handwritten letter to visit the rich merchant of Hakata, Xie Guoming from the Southern Song Dynasty. He is now a fat old man who is with Ren Daoxing and Juesinni. This boss Xie is not only a businessman, he is also a warrior... a warrior who knows martial arts!

However, his samurai identity is real. He is a local samurai named Korujima near Hakata. It sounds like a local samurai. In theory, he is a small official responsible for collecting manors and tributes and managing local public security. He seems to be at the bottom of the shogunate bureaucracy. However, at this time, the feudal system in Japan was not mature and it seemed that it could not distinguish between a feudal monarch and a bureaucracy. There was nothing wrong with the hereditary monarch, but the bureaucrats also made hereditary samurai. As a result, the little lord developed over time. Some places with strong financial resources could still raise a few ronin as retainers, and they were also local emperors!

Boss Xie didn't know what path he was going, and he actually became a member of the Kamakura Shogunate. He also raised several samurai and had no place to become an official, and he was actually a thug. He protected Ren Daoxing with a swagger, and Jue Shinni came to Namba together. He also generously booked all Ren Daoxing's expenses in Japan and acted as a tour guide for free.

Boss Xie said: "This Namba Port is located in an inland sea in Japan, surrounded by islands and land, so the wind and waves are not stirring, which is the most ideal place to open ports and build ports. Moreover, Namba is close to Japan's most prosperous Kitani Do, and is only more than 100 miles away from Heian Kyo, the residence of the Emperor. It is also connected by inland rivers, and transportation is very convenient. Since ancient times, it has been a major Japanese foreign trade center. Hei Kiyomori, who once held the power of Japan, once moved the capital from Heian Kyo to Namba. He also spent a huge amount of money to build a port and a commercial port. Although the Hiraichi family later became obsolete and moved the capital back to Heian Kyo. However, this Namba commercial port has been prosperous for a long time!"

Ren Daoxing coughed twice and said, "This city of Nanba looks quite lively, and the style of the houses in the city is somewhat similar to that of Lin'an City."

Xie Guoming smiled and said, "The era when the Taiqing-Sheng-Mayen built Namba City was probably the Shaoxing period here, right? I was just guarding against Lin'an City. This Japanese country has been learning about China since the Tang Dynasty. Most of the houses in Heianjing are Tang-style, while the Namba is imitated by the Song Dynasty."

"Next, they should imitate our Ming Dynasty!" Ren Dao's beard proudly touched his beard, and while speaking, he did not forget to scan the corners of his eyes to nun Juesin.

Juesinni said happily: "Japan has always learned from the strengths of the mainland, and it seems that he has become a small Chinese."

At this time, Japan did not leave Asia and join Europe, and I didn’t know where Europe was! Even if I knew, I was not interested in joining. They were all barbarians!

Of course, the Japanese looked down on barbarians and did not want to be barbarians. So they had to "get rid of barbarians and enter China" since the Tang Dynasty. Now they have begun to feel a little bit like "Little China". Therefore, the Japanese also call the Japanese archipelago as "Shenzhou". The boss of the Kamakura Shogunate called "General of the Conquering the Wild", and the conquering the Wild, and of course they themselves are "Hua".

What a good student in China!

The same "good students" include Goryeo and Annan. After the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, Japan thought it could replace China and become the leader of the East Asian civilized world. Goryeo also thought it was China after defeating the Mongol invasion. As for Goryeo, it regarded itself as China after the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, there were several copycats in East Asia before modern times...

However, in a sense, Japan, Goryeo and Annan are indeed branches of Chinese civilization. However, because the main body of Chinese civilization began to decline from the Song Dynasty, and no longer adhered to the development route of "Xia Junyi People" gradually spreading. These three copycats of China did not integrate into China in the end, and even became China's mortal enemies.

Chen Dexing has now abandoned the unified model of excessive pursuit of centralization since Qin, and naturally he can break through the limits of the centralized empire and extend his expanded tentacles further away.

The same water as China, located on the edge of the Western Pacific, is the Japanese country, which is the springboard of China's new road, and is naturally the object that Chen Dexing must control. Chen Dexing, who was a senior seaman, naturally knew about ocean currents. So he also knew that the route across the Pacific is not as far away as he imagined. If he could start with Japan, follow the Japanese warm current and the North Pacific warm current. A smooth road can reach the east coast of Canada in later generations, which is about 10,000 kilometers and 5,400 nautical miles. Even under the influence of the North Pacific warm current, the sailing speed is only 5 knots, and a new continent can be discovered in 45 days! Even if it is discounted, according to the average speedometer of 2.5 knots, it will only be a 3-month voyage.

When returning from the New World, you can take advantage of the east wind of the North equatorial warm current and travel westward. With a three or four months voyage, you can also return to the southeastern coast of China. Historically, Spain's large sailing trade was to go to the North equatorial warm current belt.

If a fixed trans-Pacific route can be established with the help of ocean currents, the time to and from both sides of the Pacific will be shortened, and it can be fully developed into an economically valuable route. California, on the other side of the Pacific, has rich gold mines. In the mid-19th century, it was once the largest gold producer in the world, while Mexico was the well-deserved silver empire!

Although compared with the vastness of the American continent in the 13th century, it takes at least hundreds of years to fill the Americas with Chinese people! But not filling it does not mean that you cannot possess it first! Even a career that takes hundreds of years to complete will always begin.

The moment Ren Daoxing set foot on Japan's territory was the beginning of this era of space-time navigation!

Of course, Ren Daoxing himself didn't know at this time. His trip to Japan would eventually lead to an unprecedented geographical discovery.

The carriages and horses walked along the streets to Heianjing, and saw many street markets, villages and temples along the way. However, they did not see any tall city walls.

Ren Daoxing said that if an external enemy came from the sea and went straight to Namba and then rushed towards Heian Kyo, it would be almost unstoppable!

He said with wonder: "I heard that Japan is also very chaotic. Why do you have many markets along the way? There are no city walls, including Namba?"

Xie Guoming smiled and explained: "There are chaos in Japan, but it is all a battle between samurai, and it does not involve civilians. They fight around for the territory. If there are no civilians farming and working, what's the use of this territory?

Therefore, the samurai's mansions looked like a fortress, but civilians rarely lived in the city walls. At most, they were just a wooden fence to protect themselves from bandits. However, their Ping'an Jing had a city wall, and Ping'an Jing was built after a reduction in proportion to Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty. It was divided into two halves by a long street running north and south. One half was called Chang'an and the other half was Luoyang."

"Chang'an Luoyang?" Ren Daoxing sneered, "This name is so powerful! Then is the place we are going to Chang'an or Luoyang?"

"It's Luoyang!" Nun Juexin interrupted, "Ren Dao Envoy, what you are going to is the Northern Six Polo House. The Northern Six Polo Association personally met you when you explore the topic."

It took about 5 hours to walk the four-wheeled carriage brought by Ren Daoxing to Mingdu for more than a hundred miles. The carriage and the horses pulling the carriage were extremely eye-catching. I don’t know how many attention it attracted along the way. At this time, there were almost no carriages in Japan, even the ministers only rode a ox carriage. High-level warriors usually rode horses or sat in sedan chairs.

However, when I saw the Hojo Sanli Banner (carried by Koshini) and the horse-riding guards sent by Namba Fengxing, no one dared to have a bad idea. After all, this place is the most prosperous ground in Japan...

It was about dim when the sky was dark, and the group arrived at a city surrounded by soil that was almost collapsed. The city defense was not considered at all, and there was no one to guard it. The city wall gate was wide open and it was probably not closed at night. Moreover, the city gate was almost as prosperous as the inside and outside, with shops, restaurants, brothels, and many Buddhist temples and shrines. The gods and Buddhas in Japan were prosperous, and there were temples everywhere, and Heian Kyo was even more crowded.

At this time, Japan was only prosperous in Hakata, Namba and Heiankyo. Although there were many samurai mansions and temples far away in Kanto, the business was not prosperous. In the eyes of Heiankyo people, Kanto was just a place where the country samurai samurai lived.

There were already people waiting at the gate of the city. There were warriors wearing three-scale flags. There were about forty or fifty people, surrounded by an old man in his fifties. The old man was not standing, but sitting on a stool, holding a small fan in his hand, and seemed a little anxious. Seeing a huge carriage surprised by four big horses, his eyes almost fell off. In fact, it was just an ordinary Mongolian horse. He worked in Liaodong to pull carts and cultivate land, but when he arrived in Japan, he was more majestic than the North Six Polo Technique riding horses.

"Ren Dao Envoy, this is the question of the Northern Six Polos. Hojo comes from the fifth rank of the left Ma Quantou Shimao, the Heavenly Dao Envoy under the command of the Ming King, Ren Daoxing."
Chapter completed!