Chapter 355: You Are Not Qualified Yet

In the Imperial Central Government Cabinet Prime Minister's Office, Junichiro Yagyu and others were brought here after layers of inspections. The Imperial Cabinet General Tu Xueli and several cabinet ministers met them here.

"Prime Minister Tu, thank you very much for your meeting."

Facing the Prime Minister of the Yanhuang Empire, Junichiro Yagyu did not have the slightest temper. He led everyone to bow deeply to Tu Xueli and others, and the words he used were quite respectful.

This is how the Japanese are. When facing people who are stronger than themselves, they are extremely respectful. They kneel on the ground and want to hug the other's thighs and shout 666. For example, during the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese were impressed by the power of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, so everything in the Tang Dynasty was moved there.

The city where the emperor's palace is located was built and designed according to the Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty at that time. It was almost a smaller version of Chang'an City. Even the official language at that time was Chinese. There was no so-called Japanese at all. The Japanese sword was also designed based on the Tang sword of the Tang Dynasty.

Everyone is proud to be able to speak fluent Tang Dynasty language, and being able to write beautiful Chinese characters is even more admired. If you can also write a few good poems, your tail will be lifted to the sky.

It can be said that at that time, everything in Japan was learned from the Tang Dynasty, and it was copied without any changes, so that even now, Chinese culture is still the mainstream of Japanese culture.

Of course, when facing people weaker than themselves, the Japanese will completely reveal their hideous true face. In modern history, when China was weak, the Japanese naturally pointed their butcher knives at China without hesitation, killing and plundering wantonly, and learning from the West and fully westernizing. All of this well illustrates the national characteristics of Japan, just like a wolf, worshiping the strong and bullying the weak.

With the continuous growth and rise of the Yanhuang Empire in recent years, Japan has once again started to learn from the Yanhuang Empire. In particular, in recent years, the Japanese have occupied the Beichuan Galaxy and have their own galaxy, but the development speed is not satisfactory. They are more eager to learn from the Yanhuang Empire. Otherwise, the Prime Minister Junichiro Yagyu would not have taken the trouble to travel from the Beichuan Galaxy to the capital star of the Empire.

"You're welcome. Please sit down."

Tu Xueli smiled slightly and motioned everyone to sit down. After all, the other party is the prime minister of a country. Even if the Empire is very cold to the Japanese, at least it will not be too neglectful in terms of etiquette. Since ancient times, the two countries have not killed envoys when they are at war, let alone now.

The two sides sat down as host and guest, with smiles on their faces.

"Mr. Prime Minister, this is a small gift we brought this time as a small token of our appreciation to your empire."

Yagyu Junichiro took a rectangular box handed over by his assistant Momohara Tsukasa and presented it very respectfully. This time, Yagyu Junichiro came prepared and brought many gifts, including gifts for the emperor Li Fu and gifts for mutual gifts between countries. Each one is very precious, and the most precious one is the gift given in the name of the country.

"Oh? Your Excellency, Prime Minister, you are really polite."

Tu Xueli took it gently and opened the box. Inside was a scroll of calligraphy and painting. A staff member came over with gloves and slowly unfolded it. It was covered with seals and Chinese characters written in running script. When Tu Xueli saw the rightmost line of words, he couldn't help but shout out.

"Is this Wang Xizhi's Lanting Preface?"

It's no wonder that Tu Xueli called it out. Almost everyone knows the name of Wang Xizhi's Lanting Preface. This Lanting Preface, which is praised as the best running script in ancient and modern times, is the supreme masterpiece that countless calligraphers have admired for thousands of years. In addition, Wang Xizhi's original Lanting Preface is said to have entered Zhaoling with Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, during the Tang Dynasty.

The Lanting Preface that everyone sees now is a copy of Wang Xizhi's original work by calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty. It is not Wang Xizhi's original work. The most precious copy is called "Shenlong Lanting Preface", which is said to be copied by Feng Chengsu, a calligrapher during the period of Emperor Taizong of Tang. Even if these copied versions of Lanting Preface are not authentic, they are still very precious cultural relics.

Tu Xueli looked carefully at the "Lanting Preface". He was also a calligrapher and had a deep understanding of calligraphy. He had read other versions of "Lanting Preface" before. The more he looked, the more his eyes widened, and he looked unbelievable.

"Is this the original work of Wang Xizhi?"

Tu Xueli was a little unbelievable. You know, even the copied version of "Lanting Preface" is already a very precious thing. This original work of Wang Xizhi can no longer be described as a national treasure.

"This is indeed the original work of Wang Xizhi."

Yagyu Junichiro nodded with a smile. In the era when China was weak, I don't know how many national treasures were lost overseas, and a large part of them were lost to the hands of the Japanese.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, that the original Lanting Preface of Wang Xizhi would actually appear in the world one day. This calligraphy is simply the creation of heaven and earth, and the mystery of the sun and the moon!"

Tu Xueli read it carefully from beginning to end, and couldn't help but sigh. He had seen the copied version, but it was still far from Wang Xizhi's original work. It was worthy of being regarded as the best running script in the world.

"This gift is really precious! The Japanese took it out, and they really wanted to catch the wolf at the cost of the child. I don't know how many treasures of our ancestors fell into their hands, even Wang Xizhi's Lanting Preface is here."

Tu Xueli regained his composure in his mind and thought carefully.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, this gift is really precious!"

Tu Xueli said with a smile on his face.

"Japan and the Yanhuang Empire have always had friendly exchanges and deep friendship. This time I came here uninvited to further promote the friendship between our two countries and hope to achieve normal diplomatic relations between our two countries. We think that only Wang Xizhi's authentic Lanting Preface can express our sincerity in establishing diplomatic relations with the Empire."

Yagyu Junichiro is also thick-skinned. There is no exchange between the two countries at all, but he made it seem like they have a good relationship. He also slowly stated the purpose of coming to the Empire this time, to establish diplomatic relations with the Empire.

He knew that the Empire has always been unwelcome to Japan, or to other countries except China. More than ten years have passed, and the Earth Federation has been divided into several countries. Everyone has expressed the intention to establish diplomatic relations with the Yanhuang Empire more than once or twice.

Except for China on Earth, all other countries have been rejected unceremoniously. It can be seen from one point that the Yanhuang Empire is very xenophobic, so in order to achieve his goal, Yagyu Junichiro also spent a lot of money and took out Wang Xizhi's authentic "Lanting Preface".

Of course, for the Japanese, there are many Chinese national treasures like Wang Xizhi's original copy of Lanting Preface, which were looted from China in the past. Now they are just returned to their original owners. In fact, there is no loss.

After listening to what Yagyu Junichiro said, Tu Xueli thought carefully in his mind. In fact, since Yagyu Junichiro came, he had already guessed their intentions. They just wanted to establish diplomatic relations with the empire and wanted to obtain spacecraft, space battleships, advanced science and technology, etc. from the empire.

However, the policy of not establishing diplomatic relations with these countries has been formulated since Li Fu and Fang Zheng. Even if he is now the prime minister of the empire, he cannot violate it. It's just how to get rid of them. This requires a good reason. After all, you have to look at the face of the gift, not the face of the Buddha, and you can't embarrass people.

"Mr. Prime Minister, I believe you also know that our empire has only established diplomatic relations with China on this side of the earth. This is because our two countries are of the same origin and blood. We have not established diplomatic relations with any party such as the Pan-European Union, the Aberdeen Federation, the Lambert Federation, and your country Japan."

After organizing his words in his mind, Tu Xueli slowly spoke, meaning that your request makes it difficult for me to do it.

"Maybe the Prime Minister is also very curious about why our empire does this."

"Please enlighten me, Mr. Prime Minister."

When Junichiro Yagyu heard this, he immediately put on an appearance of being willing to learn.

"In fact, the reason is very simple. Because our empire is already a relatively powerful civilization, and it is also a relatively powerful civilization in the Orion spiral arm. Therefore, if you want to establish diplomatic relations with our empire, your own strength must be similar to that of our empire."

"Like the civilization that our empire has now officially established diplomatic relations with, the Kalan civilization, you may not know this Kalan civilization yet. It has more than 200 star systems and nearly 300 life planets. Only with such a powerful civilization, our empire will be willing to establish diplomatic relations with the other party."

Tu Xueli smiled and slowly said the Kalan civilization. The meaning of his words was that you are not qualified to establish diplomatic relations with our empire.

"More than 200 star systems? Nearly 300 life planets?"

When Junichiro Yagyu heard this, his eyes widened and his breathing became rapid. In his mind, he kept imagining what a huge civilized country this was, and how it could have such a huge territory.

At the same time, the whole person couldn't help but frown, because he heard the meaning of Tu Xueli's words. The Japanese now occupied a Beichuan star system and their strength was still very weak.

"Mr. Prime Minister, this is a rule we learned only after establishing diplomatic relations with the Kalan Empire. Establishing diplomatic relations in the universe also depends on each other's strength. At the beginning, our empire and the Kalan Empire fought in the Meixi Galaxy (after the Boyle Galaxy was renamed), and defeated the Kalan Empire, which enabled us to establish diplomatic relations with the Kalan Empire."

"Later, we learned from the Kalan Empire the rules of communication between civilizations in the entire Milky Way and the Orion Arm, so it is not easy for our empire to break this rule, and we can only not establish diplomatic relations with the countries of our human civilization."

"Of course, the situation is not immutable. As long as you can occupy more galaxies and show your strength, our empire is also very happy to establish formal diplomatic relations with you."

Tu Xueli explained to Junichiro Yagyu with an apologetic smile on his face, and at the same time, he did not forget to dig a huge pit for the Japanese, or not just the Japanese, but also for several other human countries.

This interstellar universe is not a place for random expansion. Didn't you see that the empire has been dormant for these years and constantly climbing the technology tree? If it continues to expand, it will definitely encounter a powerful civilization. At that time, it will inevitably fight to the death, dragging down the development of the empire.

Now Tu Xueli is just using the hands of aliens to severely punish the Japanese. At that time, as long as they continue to expand outward, they will definitely encounter powerful alien civilizations soon. If they are not beaten half to death, they will be beaten to a pulp.

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