The works included in this collection are all historical novels by Mr. Inoue based on mainland China.The mainland mentioned here refers to the Western Regions and many other places located on the edge of Eastern history with China as the core. At the same time, it is also a connecting point that connects Eastern history and Western history through the so-called Silk Road. Then, why did Inoue show such deep concern and interest in the Western Regions? "When I was a student in a college, I began to read travel notes about the Western Regions, and I have been unremitting until now. Now that I have published books about the Western Regions, I don't know whether it is out of interest or hobby, and I have to care about it. So I wrote it secretly. A few novels with the Western Regions as the stage."

The above is a section written in the postscript of "The Western Regions" co-authored by Inoue and Iwamura Shinobi.The travel notes mentioned here may be the notes of Sven Hedin and Stein, and their traces can also be found in the novels of Heding and others.Perhaps it further includes the travel notes of ancient Faxian, Xuanlei, Marco Polo and others. All in all, it can be said that in Mr. Inoue's works about the Western Regions, he entrusted his dream that was conceived since his youth.That dream was a romantic vision.In his youth, Mrs. Inoue changed his ambitions many times, and finally graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Peking University at the age of thirty. This may also be due to the powerful charm of this dream that cannot be reversed arbitrarily!He did not simply regard it as a passing dream of his youth, but made a tenacious effort to make it last, to strengthen and enrich it.Inoue did not become a scholar of the Western Regions, nor did he become an explorer of the Western Regions, but in a sense, it can be considered that writing novels is a process of turning that dream into reality for Inoue.

Although Inoue has written many historical novels, the attitude of each of the works collected here is fundamentally different from that of his works, which often focus on Japan's Sengoku period and other eras.He once said in his postscript: "By the way, here, as my historical novel, apart from short stories, it is the fourth work after . . ." Tears of Congratulations", "Flood" and other works.As for novels such as "The Warring States Scoundrel", Inoue personally excluded them from the category of historical novels. When Inoue wrote it, he called it a factual novel.Of course, the facts mentioned here do not mean the original meaning, but the meaning of writing novels with an attitude of respecting facts.Whether it is good or bad, it is true that it drives the imagination, but at the same time, respect for the "nature" that exists in historical facts also plays a powerful role.This is because the dream that Mr. Inoue cultivated since his youth is a dream that intends to rebuild history.

We can see Inoue's feeling of loneliness from the author's feeling of wanting to talk to the ancients.He turned the feelings that could not be expressed to anyone into a language to speak to the ancients.And in this case, Inoue especially likes to choose people who are driven by unspeakable passion to move in foreign lands.These are solitary people whose true meaning of their activities is buried, unknown to anyone, and unconcerned.The characters appearing in Inoue's works are exactly the self that the author yearned for in his dream, running in the desert. Among the works included here, the earliest is "Painted Hu Zun" published in the April 25th issue of "Shinchao Magazine".In January of that year, the author's "Bullfighting" won the Akutagawa Award. It can be seen from this that Mr. Inoue began to write his dream of yearning for the Western Regions as soon as he emerged.

In the autumn of Showa 21, the Shosoin Gomono Exhibition was held in Nara.At that time, Mr. Inoue went to collect materials as a reporter of the Ministry of Arts and Sciences, and was very moved when he saw the utensils called lacquer jars.It can be imagined that it was a banquet utensil in the Western Regions before BC, but how could it be stored in the treasure house of the ancient Japanese court? It is hard to understand. It was it that enabled Inoue to paint the image of the Silk Road.On its long journey along the deserts of the Western Regions until it was collected by the Yamato court, Inoue used his imagination to conceive four or five stories.The erratic Lob Lake was later written into a magnificent work by the author. The Iranian residents who settled down to build Loulan City on this oasis by the lake moved to Shanshan in order to find new water sources.Inoue contacted a young man in this moving team and described the fate of Urushi Huzun.This utensil experienced the prosperity of the former Han Dynasty and the decline of the later Han Dynasty. Finally, it was brought back to Japan by Saeki Imamoren, an envoy from Tang Dynasty, and stored in the depths of Shosoin in Japan.After 1,200 years, it was not until the 21st year of the Showa era that its black lacquered body was exposed, and it was moved outdoors to bask in the white autumn sunlight.

As mentioned above, the protagonist of this novel is an artifact, and its tragic fate is the theme.In the next year, Mr. Inoue wrote another article "Jade Bowl Ji" with utensils as the protagonist.A carved vessel called a jade bowl unearthed from the mausoleum of Emperor Ankan is exactly the same as the Shoso-in imperial treasure white glass bowl.Young archaeologists presumed that both belonged to the Si Sushuang Dynasty, assuming that they were transported through the long Silk Road and crossed the sea, and were dedicated to each of Emperor Anxian and Empress.I don't know when, the two lost artifacts were quietly displayed in a room of Zhengcangyuan after a thousand or hundreds of years.That touching encounter is witnessed by "I".

These two works can be said to be sister works, both of which are the crystallization of Mr. Inoue's longing for the Silk Road.The protagonists are not human beings, perhaps in Inoue's heart there is a kind of disgusting shadow, so he often has a more intimate feeling towards these utensils than human beings. Although the fate of this lacquer-hu squatting is described as the fantasy of the archaeologist Ryuhide Toda, the fantasy mentioned by Toda is also Inoue's own fantasy.Toda told the author that in his eyes the huge horn-shaped object seemed to be a breathing creature with its black surface.And said it was actually a meteorite.Said meteorite is of course a metaphor.In Toda's description of the meteorite, it seems to be emphasizing the meaning of explaining where it fell into the human world, a non-filthy extraterrestrial thing.This kind of mood is in the same vein as the "me" in the book "Chengxian Records", when I looked up at the starry sky on Mount Koya, the sadness that passed through my heart for a moment.People keep the little true feelings hidden in their lonely lives just like meteorites falling from the sky.And these are the fundamental motivations for Inoue to write novels to seek history.

"Foreigners" was published in the magazine "Group Elephant" in July of the 29th year of the Showa era.Inoue's dream of going to the Western Regions was officially formed in this work, which is the forerunner of later novels such as "The Flood" and "The Flood".This article is the biography of Ban Chao, a late Han man.Regarding Ban Chao, Inoue wrote a biography in the "Western Regions" mentioned above.Inoue's longing for the Western Regions is firstly manifested as his deep love for Ban Chao who devoted half his life to the Western Regions.Ban Chao is a man who went to the Western Regions with pure emotions, and a man who fulfilled his mission with a strong will.Inoue's own dream, which did not become a reality, was realized in Ban Chao.

Inoue is exploring Ban Chao's 30-year activities in the Western Regions.Ban Chao was over forty-two years old when he entered the Western Regions. For the middle-aged novelist Inoue, people would not think that he was writing about things that had nothing to do with him.Inoue's description of Ban Chao's actions in the Western Regions has many touching scenes.Although the writing is simple and concise, the past must not be ignored.For example, in the process of staying in Dushan, he suddenly received a cold reception. He knew that the Huns' troops were approaching, and attacked their camp at night in the strong wind, causing the enemy to retreat boldly; The feeling of being held back by the people of Yutian and retreating; another example is the loneliness of being trampled on the trust between people due to the betrayal of King Shule, who has shared hardships with each other for many years.These are roughly based on the interjections in the "Biography of Ban Chao" in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", but in this concise narrative, there is a desire to imagine the formation of Inoue's style.At this point, it must be distinguished from Inoue's entertaining works.

The best part of this novel is the ending.At the age of seventy-one, he was no longer qualified to be Ban Chao, and returned to Luoyang after 30 years. There he saw that because of his years of hard work, he was walking on the street with a strange appearance. There were shops selling Hu products. , the customs of barbarians on the street are obvious, and the costumes of passers-by are dazzling.Had he toiled for thirty years just to see this result?And he changed the color of his skin and eyes in the yellow desert dust, so that young children called him "Human!" Here he sees his gratuitous efforts ruined in strange and unexpected ways.It was only twenty days before his death that he realized that the career he had devoted his whole life had turned into a shackles. What a cruel fact! Five years after his death, the Han Dynasty abandoned the Western Regions, Close the Yumen Pass.

Inoue was drafted into the Continental War.No!There are many Japanese who are driven senselessly to die.Ban Chao was not driven away, but he voluntarily went to the Western Regions, and he also dedicated his life to say that there is something in common between the two.On the point that everything is in vain, there are as many livelihoods as ants, and they are ruthlessly swallowed up in the face of the blind will of history. This fact may arouse some emotion in Inoue's heart: In the last section, Ban Chao's hard work suddenly became meaningless now, and everything turned upside down, which left a deep impression on Inoue.But he asked himself, is Ban Chao's half life really meaningless?Then he answered "No!" It is beyond human will to distinguish whether human behavior is meaningful or meaningless.In the final analysis, human history is built on the basis of the behavior of countless people.We can constantly hear ghost chirping voices from behind the history. If the authenticity of the living is respected, then the enthusiasm and behavior towards Ban Chao must not be said to be meaningless. "The Tears of the Monk's Congratulations" is not a novel of the Western Regions, but a novel about monks who were sent to study abroad in the Tang Dynasty during the Nara period.According to Mrs. Inoue, the sea crossing route for overseas monks can be said to be an extension of the Silk Road. Xinghe and Xianyun were overseas monks who were sent to the Tang Dynasty on the tenth time in the fourth year of Tianping Shengbao (752).Also appearing in the novel are the then ambassador Fujiwara Kiyokawa, the deputy ambassadors Komaro and Kibi Mabi, and the foreign student Abe Nakamaro who was sent to the Tang Dynasty on the eighth ship (717) and did not return to the Tang Dynasty. .The author portrays them vividly with concise pen and ink.There is also the fact that Xi Niang, the daughter of Qinghe who was born in Tang Dynasty, returned to Japan at the same time as the eleventh Tang ship was dispatched. This is also true in history.In this way, the author describes the fate of two monks with opposite personalities, Xinghe and Xianyun, through accurate historical facts.The proud Xianyun is an outspoken critic of Qinghe, Zhenbei, Nakamaro and others. He gave up his plan to return to Japan, wandered around the mainland, and even thought of setting foot on Tianzhu, the birthplace of Buddha, via the Western Regions. Persuade pedestrians in the back alleys where Hu merchants live, and solicit companions.He is one of the wanderers who are fascinated by something that Inoue carefully described, and it should be said that he is the predecessor of Zhongjie Rong. In contrast, Xinghe is the predecessor of Zhongyexing in a certain sense, and the predecessor of Puzhao in another sense.He is a real monk recorded in "Fusang Lueji" and "Japanese Postscript". He went to Tang Dynasty to study Visciousness and Fahua, and brought back more than 5,000 volumes of sacred religious texts.In the novel, he is described as a monk with profound knowledge who copied scriptures day and night in the Tang Dynasty, but when he returned to China in the 31st year, he was haunted by an ulterior thought. The monks' questions could not be answered at all. Because the 30 years in the Tang Dynasty had left a deep imprint on his heart, thinking that the fate of Zhongmalu, Qinghe, Xianyun and others who had never returned in the end was completely different from his own who had already returned, so he thought I feel that these questions about Zongyi and the like do not touch the core of my thoughts at all.He was thinking of thoughts in a world fundamentally different from the world in which the monks of Todaiji lived.So it is impossible for him to translate this idea into ordinary language, so it cannot be conveyed to them. In this way, Xinghe locked himself in a room in Xingfu Temple, without any guests, facing the table, and concentrated on picking up the pen for commenting on the scriptures.These people who have come into contact with another world completely different from the common world have to live in this lonely and isolated world because of the unexpressed true feelings hidden in their chests.This world is the theme that Inoue has written since his debut novel. This work can also be said to be a variant of this theme! With the background of a major event in the ancient Japanese cultural history, the famous monk Jianzhenmi came to Japan, it describes the fate of the five Tianping monks who were active in this historical event.It is said that this work has been translated into Chinese, setting off a wave of Jianzhen fever.Guo Moruo and others praised the great cause of Jianzhen, which has not been understood at all until now.At that time, it coincided with the 1200th anniversary of Jianzhen's death, so a grand ceremony was held in Suzhou.A monument to Rongrui, a Japanese monk who accompanied Jianzhen on his way to Japan, was also completed in Duanzhou on the banks of the Guijiang River where he died.Most of these are political intentions of the Chinese side to restore Japan-China friendly relations, but they have indeed played an unexpected practical role. Among the five monks studying abroad, four of them, except Yexing, were sent to the Tang Dynasty for the ninth time in the fifth year of Tianping (733) with the ambassador Taji Hiroshige and the deputy Nakatomi Mingdai. Seven years) It has been more than ten years since famous scholars and monks such as Abe Nakamaro, Kibi Mabi, and Seng Xuanfang entered the Tang Dynasty on the eighth ship.In Luoyang, they diverged from the eighth Tang Seng who decided to return to China.The official historical facts written in literary works like this are only a momentary event, but it should be said that this is a hot moment, which is very touching.Among the four monks studying abroad at that time, none of them left in history the literary talent, knowledge and political ability comparable to that of Nakamaro, Mabi, and Xuanzang.Inoue's vivid description of these unknown characters as the typical life of studying abroad monks at that time is where Inoue's true skill as a writer lies. The deeds of Jianzhen's coming to Japan are clearly recorded in "Continued Japanese Records".There is also a detailed description in the "Tang Monk Dongzheng Biography" written by Otomo Mifune, an outstanding sinologist at that time.When Mr. Inoue was writing this novel, Mr. Ando Sakesei, an expert on Jianzhen, gave him various advices.According to Mr. Ando, ​​it is recorded in "Yanli Monk Records" that only Puzhao was not seasick in the ship sent to Tang Dynasty.The names of Rongrui and Yexing also appear in "Continued Japan Records" as the characters who prompted Jianzhen to go to Japan. However, "Continued Japan Records" Yexing is equivalent to Puzhao in "The Story of the Eastern Expedition" and Inoue's novels .Although Xuanlang's name can also be seen in "The Legend of the Eastern Expedition", he failed to cross the sea on the way home, and it is unknown whether he returned to Japan or not. He is a missing person.Jie Rong is also a real person. He seems to have crossed the Bohai Sea and returned to Japan in the year Jianzhen died.Fragmentary records like this are written vividly in Inoue's novels and become the material for depicting their personal portraits. Among the five, Jie Rong believed that "there must be something in this country, and you will definitely find it in the process of traveling through this vast country." So he went out to become a monk, and the result is unknown.He has an arrogant personality and strange speech, and his lifeless study of classics in Tang Dynasty is not suitable for his character, so he runs around the country as if he is fascinated by something.For him, the vast and boundless land of the Tang Dynasty is more of a mystery than classics.Although his action has disappeared in the vortex of history and brought nothing back to Japan, he is more faithful than anyone else to his will to live and to his doubts about his infatuation.Another thing, because of his very casual sentence, actually contributed to the opportunity for Dao Rui, the lawyer who opened the eyes of the Great Buddha of Todaiji Temple, to travel to Japan.The author also wrote this plot into the book. Xuanlang is a weak-willed monk who speaks only discouraging words before arriving in Tangtu.He said that the Japanese could never live a decent life without Japan.But fate made him return to vulgarity as if mocking him, married a Tang Dynasty woman, had children, and finally settled in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, sailing required risking one's life.The overseas monks were all deeply disturbed, thinking that they were going to seek knowledge, not to be buried in the bottom of the sea.The thought of devoting their whole lives to such a foolish thing, not only their own labor, but perhaps in vain, casts a great shadow of nothingness over their minds. Rong Rui did not regard knowledge as a personal thing, so when he brought the classics back to Japan, he decisively decided that the three of them would take the boat separately, and it didn't matter which boat could go back.What about business?Despite the determination to learn, killing a few years finally failed.But he regulated his activities, shutting himself up in his room to devote himself to copying scriptures in order to bring them back to Japan.This is how he considered using more reliable methods to complete his historical mission.Rong Rui, who is focused on action, also gave up his plan to finish his studies, and spent half his life in order to recruit the first preceptor for Japan. On the way back from the voyage, Ye Xing was buried in the seabed together with a large number of scriptures he had copied for decades. This place is very touching.On the other hand, the career of Rongrui who died of illness was completed by his assistant Puzhao.Puzhao did not have the same enthusiasm and perseverance as Rong Rui for inviting Jianzhen, but he was dragged away by Rong Rui's enthusiasm, but in the end it was Shan Ta who accompanied Jianzhen to successfully arrive in Japan.He also brought back some transcribed scriptures. Of course, he didn't spend as much time and enthusiasm on transcribing as Ye Xing.Although ordinary, she is by no means weak-willed. Pu Zhao, who seldom resists fate, succeeds in the end. There is also a monk named Jing Yun who entered the Tang Dynasty to learn the three rounds and Dharma.But he later mocked that he got nothing, and all he brought back to Japan was an empty body.In Jing Yun, the author intends to describe the experiences he cannot pass on to others or the secrets in his heart.He seems to be the loner associated with the protagonist in "The Tears of Monk Xinghe". The author has changed the historical facts of "The Great Monk of Tang Dynasty's Eastern Expedition" to portray the vivid images of Fuzhao and others who were arbitrarily manipulated by the waves of famous events in the history of Japanese culture and thought.Between the lines of the work, it is once again vividly shown that although the ideals of these people were frustrated in their youth, they each bear their own destiny and live tenaciously.Behind it, cast a huge image, that is Jianzhen.These people are all figures who fulfilled their respective missions in order to bring the great image of Jianzhen to the stage and then disappeared in the long river of history. The protagonist is not a concrete person, but the will of history.Inoue here for the first time established the creative attitude of respecting the nature of history to write novels.In the work, the portrait of the famous monk Jianzhen is raised to be an image that symbolizes the will of history that is taller than a real person.In front of his image, the five monks are depicted as insignificant as the ants in the distant view.Only the huge historical steps going forward will make readers deafen their ears, make readers undoubtedly live in history, and meet various characters in history.This is the way of writing historical novels discovered by Mr. Inoue, and it is also the purpose. In the 33rd year of Showa "The Spring and Autumn Period of Literature and Art".In this work, Mr. Inoue entered into the core part of Dream of the Western Regions. This piece is a theme taken from Sven Hedin's "Wandering Lake".He conceived the mummy of a young woman unearthed by Hedin as a beautiful princess who committed suicide in Loulan, an oasis country.The image of this princess is more specific in Inoue's modern novels and later in history, and is depicted as a Uighur royal daughter who fell to the city wall and died. Loulan, a small country with a population of only 14,000 to 14,000, had to be established between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu.Today, the troubles of the weak and small countries squeezed between the eastern and western worlds are manifested in more direct and newer forms such as aggression and massacres.This was also the worry of all Loulan residents at that time.The Han rulers, claiming to save them from the Xiongnu, ordered them to abandon the beautiful lakeside town and move to a new location, Shanshan, 250 miles away.In the following hundreds of years, for Shanshan people, the word "Loulan" has the meaning of "the capital that will return one day".A young general from Shanshan planned to take back Loulan, which was occupied by the Huns, but he found that Lobu Lake had disappeared, and the streets of Loulan had all been buried in the desert. This mystery was solved in 1900 by the Swedish explorer Hedin.He discovered the ruins of Loulan, and also discovered Lop Nur, the Wandering Lake, which is returning to the old place of Loulan after a cycle of 1,500 years.Then the coffin of a young woman who had been sleeping for nearly two thousand years was discovered. Are these all fiction?The author just described the demise and reappearance of the country called Loulan and the Lobu Lake where the god of the Loulan people, the river dragon, lived.So is it history?But the author's dream entrusted there is too strong, and it is of course the author's romantic technique to conceive the unearthed mummy of a young woman as Princess Loulan who committed suicide.The rise and fall of this small oasis country that only stayed in the history of the East for fifty years left a strong impression on Inoue and made him crystallize it into a set of poems. The dream of longing for the Western Regions that had been aroused made Inoue follow up and write.This work was serialized in "Group Portrait" from January to May in Showa 34. At that time, it was the era of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty. The Xixia Kingdom rose in the north and gradually became stronger to the extent that the Song Dynasty could not reach it. Xixia had entered a period with its own unique characters.The protagonist is Zhao Xingde, who failed the exam. Due to accidental incidents, he aroused a completely different enthusiasm from the previous world where he was only content with learning and books.He entered the Xixia Kingdom, was conscripted into the army, and met a Uighur royal girl there.Until the girl died later, in order to enshrine her, he buried scriptures in the Thousand Buddha Cave.He suffered a tragic fate.At the end of the story, Stein and Pelliot discovered the cave, a major achievement in cultural history. Zhao Xingde is a rare person. He is short in stature, but possesses wisdom and courage. It can be said that he is a common hero that Inoue likes.At the same time, the author also described his superior warrior named Zhu Wangli.Whether it is Zhao Xingde or Zhu Wangli, their fate is also dominated by the Uighur royal daughter.The Uighur royal daughter disappeared as early as the first half of the novel.In fact, in the author's writing, her beauty is just passing through until she falls to the city and dies.But it is this beautiful woman who is at the center of this work, dominating the fate of men. In modern novels such as "Range", Inoue has repeatedly written about the image of a beautiful woman formed in the heart of a man, who controls the fate of a man and leads him to destruction.But the insufficiency of reality, which at that time had to be a problem in the modern novel, succeeds unexpectedly in it.This is because she, like Helen in the novel, is not a novel character, but a narrative poetic character.It is not so much her objective reality as the reality of the living image in the hero's heart. Although this novel is composed of successive war scenes.But among them, the only female surname, Uyghur Queen, supports the whole work.Her chastity, falling off the walls of Ganzhou, drove Zhu Wangli to avenge his demise, and it also drove Zhao Xingde to write scriptures and hide them in the caves of Dunhuang, waiting for Stein and others to find them. In the autumn of Showa 32, when Mrs. Inoue was invited to visit China, he really wanted to go to Dunhuang, but he couldn't make it because it was the cold season.The unrealized Dunhuang dream made Inoue conceive this novel. The origin of the Dunhuang Thousand Buddha Caves is of course Inoue’s fiction. In addition, Yu Chiguang, a villain with strong self-confidence, and Cao Yanhui, who is desperate for survival, serve as the second story. Important characters are also deeply interesting. "Flood" was published in the fourth issue of the magazine "Sound" in Showa 34, and it is a masterpiece of short stories. I have heard about "Flood" from Mr. Inoue.I heard from him that the material is the oldest geography book in China, "Shui Jing Zhu".In the book, there are only two or three lines in which there is an allusion that the captain named Suo Li fought the flood and won the victory. The above content occupies several pages of the first half of the novel, and it is indeed the most exciting part.Only this part is written according to historical data.The plot of the Axia woman who was finally swallowed by the flood related to the fate of the protagonist in this story was fabricated by the author.So too, the most imaginative parts are in the style of historians.In other words, the author has created a pedantic style.These are not found in historical works drawn from the Warring States Period in Japan. "Wolf Disaster" was published in the "New Trend" in August, Showa 36.It reminds people of Atsushi Nakajima's famous book "Mountain and Moon".Lu Chenkang, the captain of the northern border, combined with a woman of a different race and turned into a wolf. The male and female wandered in the wilderness together.But it didn't take long for him to regain his wolf heart, and finally caught that friend and ate him.It's a horrible story. It was serialized in "Wenyichunqiu" from October of the 34th year of the Showa era to July of the following year.The novel records the life of Temujin, Genghis Khan.It was conceived based on the "Records of Genghis Khan" translated by Na Ketong and other historical materials.The author uses rich imagination in the novel.Legend has it that the origin of the Mongolian people is the gray wolf that came across the Great Lake.This legend became the source of the pride and enthusiasm of Mongolian men.Regarding the fact that his mother was taken away by Yesugei and she became pregnant and gave birth to himself, Temujin did have doubts that he might not be of Mongolian descent.But Temujin can only rely on himself as a wolf and prove that this is a fact to be the king of Mongolia.The secret of his birth endowed him with a strong will to overcome all sorrow, and it was all the more honed in a world surrounded by enemies and relentless battles. His wife was also snatched by the enemy.When she took it back, she was pregnant with her eldest son, Jochi (the guest's meaning).Jochi and Temujin also had a birth secret. Temujin liked Jochi the most, so he treated him very harshly. When Jochi died before himself, he cried bitterly. The mother and wife were all snatched by the enemy, and they became pregnant with the enemy's species.This planted in his heart an indelible sense of distrust towards women.So he was surprised by Hulan who still insisted on his chastity in death.No matter where he went on an expedition, he always took Hulan with him.On the way to conquer the Kingdom of Jin, he gave the child that Hulan gave birth to him to others without revealing its origin.He fervently hoped that this young child could become a Mongolian wolf by his own strength.The scene was indeed written with great success. His vanquished enemies, Jochi, Kulan, and then himself all died.His life is a continuation of ruthless massacre, destruction and conquest, his life is as refreshing as the wind blowing through the ruthless world.This is because the author here clearly depicts the boiling of living human blood. "Feng Tao" was published in the August 1 and October issues of "Group Portrait" in the 38th year of Zhaohe.It is a work that revolves around Goryeo to study the Yuan Kou war.It is based on works such as "History of Korea" and "History of Yuan Dynasty" as historical materials. Relying on the study of Yuan Kou history from the perspective of Yuan and Goryeo is a matter among experts.In this regard, I don't even have general knowledge, but only vaguely know that accidental national disasters in Japanese history were overcome by relying on kamikaze.Anything deeper than this can be said to be ignorant. The Yuan and Koryo armies came to a corner of the Japanese land, which was actually only one end of the historical changes in the mainland that had gone through decades until then.This end is a major event in the history of our country.If you consider Goryeo as the leader of the Yuan Dynasty, it has a dark history of several decades. In this work, Mrs. Inoue turned the knowledge of our national history upside down, and discovered the "tragedy" of the small country called Goryeo in the "glory" of the national history.The ones I know from my fragmentary common sense are Hojo Tokimune, Nichiren, Kameyama Josei, Takezaki Jicho, Kono Tsutsuyu, etc., but in the novels, Goryeo’s Wonjong, King Chungryeol, and Prime Minister Li Zangyong appeared successively. , General Jin Fangqing, Yuan general Hong Chaqiu, Yuan envoy Zhao Liangbi, princess Guzilu Hayi Missi and other characters.There is a strong will of Yuan Shizu (Kublai Khan) behind them all. Sejo had the will to conquer Japan, which was a great disaster for Goryeo.Because Koryo was the base of Yuan, many soldiers, warships and rations were confiscated, and the country was also ravaged by Yuan soldiers.It was King Sejo's unshakable will to conquer Japan at the expense of Goryeo.As far as Goryeo is concerned, this has been done as the supreme order.So how to minimize the degree of damage has become the goal of the Korean patriots. Prime Minister Li Zang racked his brains to dispel Shizu's intention to conquer Japan, but failed.On the other hand, Yuanzong always believed in Shizu's smiling face and his kindness towards him, and put his hopes on him. In the end, he refused to listen to Li Zangyong's words. He just put on airs and refused to accept a word.For Goryeo, the will of the ancestors was a will that transcended personal history. In this work, Hong Chaqiu, a ruthless man who was originally a Korean, surrendered to Mongolia for three generations, and flogged his motherland as if he were a stateless person.There are also patriots Li Zangyong and Kim Bangkyung who conquered the Yuan Dynasty but struggled to find a way out of Goryeo.There are those like Quanxuelian, who used the special guards in the capital of Koryo as the center of the thorough anti-Yuan struggle.There are Yuanzong who is in a good mood, Prince Cham (later King Zhonglie) who has braided hair and Hufu influenced by Mongolia, and the hysterical princess Guzilu Haymixi who can be his home.There are also activities in the book that seem to symbolize all the characters in Japan today. But above the words and deeds of these characters, the existence of the ancestors as the absolute pressure that cannot be resisted still holds everything.Zhao Liangbi, who was sent to Japan as an envoy, answered Shizu's question and said "don't attack Japan".For Yuanzong and all the Korean people, whether it was praying or chanting Buddha, but in the face of the existence of the ancestors, even this clear voice disappeared and completely disappeared.So all of this is the tragic situation of Goryeo, a small country sandwiched between Yuan and Japan. According to the history of the country, when Yuan Zong was in power, he beheaded Yuan envoys in Longkou. Such a tough attitude planted dangerous seeds for Goryeo.If Shizu's will to attack Japan is absolute, then it is indeed the last prayer for Japan not to resist the majesty of the Yuan Dynasty.Of course, those in power in Japan ignored Koryo's desperate request. When I read this novel, I might as well say that I am reading history.Of course, when Inoue described Yuanzong, King Zhongyeol, Li Zangyong, and Hong Chaqiu, he played a free writer's way and outlined the images of these characters.For example, Hong Chaqiu was by no means a favorite of Inoue. But this novel is far from the novelist's imagination because it must obey the restrictions of being a historian.The protagonists like Zhao Xingde and Temujin never appeared in this story.There are no Uighur princesses and Hulan-style images either.At best, the protagonist is just a country of Goryeo, which is sandwiched between the inescapable will of the ancestors who transcended the individual and Japan's non-frontal resistance. It can be said that the tragic situation experienced by Goryeo itself is the theme. In the national history textbook, I was educated to regard Goryeo as the forerunner and perpetrator of Yuan.And in this chapter, all the tragic scenes are depicted.Are those novels?Or is it history?It is indistinguishable.If the reader can be moved, that is the best.But I was really moved by the historical tragedy described, and I really felt the enthusiasm of the author who would write such a novel. At the beginning of 1224 AD, Genghis Khan announced to the whole army the start of the battle to invade India. This is a huge plan. The Mongolian soldiers will cross the Hindu Kush Mountains and enter India, sweeping through various cities in India, and after the war against India is over, they will return to the Mongolian Plateau via Tibet.Whether it will take months or years to implement this grand plan, whether it is Genghis Khan or other generals, there is no accurate estimate. (Translated by Wang Qingjiang)

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