Chapter 524: Ming Dynasty's Special Cultural Export
The Ming Dynasty during this period is not the Ming Dynasty influenced by later generations.
The Mongolian and Yuan cavalry ravaged the Eurasian continent. When Zhu Yuanzhang expelled them from the Central Plains and defeated the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the reputation of the Ming Dynasty was already extremely strong throughout the world.
You must know that although the Mongol Yuan was defeated, Timur, the Golden Horde, Oara, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, the Delhi Sultanate, and the remaining Northern Yuan were still the overlords of the entire Eurasian region.
And they can be said to be all Mongolian forces.
The powerful Central Plains dynasty, even during the period of Genghis Khan, was a place that the Mongols could not easily conquer. Neither the arrogant Genghis Khan nor the world-famous Meng Ge could complete their takeover of the Central Plains.
Now, the prestige of Ming Dynasty is no weaker than that of Meng Yuan.
This is also when Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial edict was conveyed to various small countries, almost all of them bowed down and paid homage.
That is to say, Japanese people are more naughty.
But now, the Japanese country has been conquered by the Ming Dynasty. Not only did they cede three major coastal cities, but they also compensated a large amount of military expenses.
What the Mongol and Yuan armies failed to accomplish twice in attacking the Japanese nation was now accomplished by the Ming Dynasty.
This kind of deterrence has already spread to all surrounding countries along with the Beijing News.
It has to be said that in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial newspaper was already the fourth best-selling item after silk, tea, and porcelain.
Originally, they were just some monarchs from neighboring small countries who wanted to take this opportunity to know some news about the Ming Dynasty.
After all, this is the most powerful country, and even Timur, who is currently the most ferocious and powerful in the west, will bow his noble head for it.
Zhu Ying saw this business opportunity and simply ordered more vigorous construction of paper mills and printing plants.
Treat the Capital Newspaper as a piece of cargo and directly transport it secretly and openly to all countries outside the Ming Dynasty.
The so-called secretly is that the merchants who buy and sell this product are raising the price under the guise of Ming Dynasty prohibiting export.
On the surface, as long as they can obtain a quota here in the capital, they can be transported normally without restrictions.
Zhu Ying didn't think much about it at first. He just thought that a piece of white paper could be sold for the same price as silk. There was no doubt that this was a big deal.
Unexpectedly, this turned out to be a strange cultural transfer from the Central Plains.
Because the capital's newspapers were printed in Chinese characters, and since it was done secretly, it was impossible to say that there would be any translation.
This also means that if you want to understand the contents of the capital's newspaper, you must know Chinese characters.
As a result, the value of those who could read Chinese characters outside the Ming Dynasty began to rise.
Not many people cared about it in the past. After all, this territory is far away and rarely accessible.
Things are different now.
In the surrounding small countries outside the Ming Dynasty, as long as you understand Chinese characters, you have a high chance of becoming a guest of a dignitary.
Not to mention anything else, at least when it comes to food, clothing, and safety, I don't have the slightest worry.
The content in the Capital Residence Newspaper is diverse, and there is also a specific short story section, which can be read with gusto even by people who are not very interested in military affairs.
There is also a section about gourmet food, which explains in detail the cooking methods, knife skills, and taste of some expensive dishes.
After all, who doesn’t want to eat for those few bites?
Some powerful people in barren areas, after reading the contents of the Di newspaper, have never thought that such delicacies exist in the world. Just hearing about it is enough to make people salivate.
The wide dissemination of the Capital Palace News also made the dissemination of Han culture more widespread. Especially some descriptions of the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty made people clearly understand that the Capital City of the Ming Dynasty was the most prosperous place in the world.
In the past, I just had this feeling of being in a lake, but now, I know it more clearly.
For example, Annan, or the entire Nanyang area, including Champa, many places were once ruled by the Central Plains Dynasty. Annan itself also speaks Chinese and uses Chinese characters. Apart from the difference in accent from the Ming Dynasty, there are no other differences.
No difference.
However, Youdao has different pronunciation and different customs.
Speaking of which, Annan's accent change is quite normal for Daming.
Within the Ming Dynasty, there was a southern accent and a northern accent. There were great differences in accents over hundreds of miles. This situation would still exist even after the popularization of Mandarin in later generations.
This is why when Zhu Ying asked the envoys of Champa to give up one of the fifteen kingdoms of Champa to Zhu Yunwen as a vassal, Cha Duo did not dare to directly refuse.
I really don’t have the confidence to refuse.
Not to mention the current Champa City. Due to the lifting of the Ming Dynasty maritime ban and the opening of sea trade, a large number of Ming Dynasty merchants began to walk in Champa City.
The port of Champa suddenly became extremely prosperous, and almost all of the merchants coming and going in this era were merchants from the Ming Dynasty. There were occasionally some from other small countries, but they did not have the scale and strength of the Ming Dynasty.
When the palace-like building appeared at the port of Champa City, it brought a huge shock to the Champa people's senses.
Zhan people have lived by the sea for a long time, and they are very good at sailing. Naturally, they understand what a scale like the Ming merchants means to the entire ocean.
That dark hole is the shining truth.
The silk, tea, porcelain and newspapers from the Ming Dynasty on board made all the nobles crazy.
Cha Duo naturally understands these things.
Under such circumstances, even Zhu Yuanzhang did not realize that it did not actually require the use of force to cede Champa to a country.
The right way is to hand over the plan.
As long as you have enough information, you can easily get the results you want.
As for the Qunying Chamber of Commerce, Zhu Ying had consciously inquired and collected information about Annan a long time ago. At that time, Zhu Ying wanted to obtain Annan and made many detailed arrangements for the information.
Naturally, we must also understand the general situation of these countries around Annan.
After becoming the grandson of the Ming Dynasty, these arrangements became even more important. Not only did Zhu Ying not give up on training these personnel, but after the Qunying Chamber of Commerce gave up the grassland branch, he even more supported the intelligence personnel in the entire Nanyang area.
Especially in terms of output costs, there is not only a higher increase, but also a greater expansion.
This is why Zhu Ying has been committed to opening up the maritime ban.
Because he is very aware of the huge smuggling trade that exists here.
After becoming a grandson, your mentality will definitely be completely different.
In the past, Zhu Ying had no sense of being a Ming Dynasty person. He should smuggle and bribe.
But now his identity is different. It can be said that the entire Ming Dynasty belongs to his own family. Who would want the things in his family to be secretly sold by outsiders?
As a result, Zhu Ying has now transformed from a smuggler to the person who wants to combat smuggling the most.
Precisely because I have been in this business before, I am very clear about some of the ways in it, so I am naturally more comfortable in attacking.
Naturally, a simple attack was not enough. Zhu Ying's purpose was to control trade, especially taxation, in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
Only in this way can it be said to be the kingly way.
Therefore, the current situation is very unfriendly to Champa.
Not only among the dignitaries, but also the ordinary people who occupy the city are now very dependent on the Ming Dynasty. As a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is on the surface, even if Zhu Ying's request is a bit embarrassing now, whether it is tea.
Most of them were Champa kings, so they had to think carefully about how to face it.
On the surface, the Champa King did not have the courage to quarrel with the Ming Dynasty, and Chaduo knew this very well.
At night, Chaduo sighed helplessly. Finally, when he remembered the words of His Highness Taisun, he could only grit his teeth and write a letter about persuading the king of Champa to surrender the city.
A certificate of credence is a certificate of credence, and a private message is a private message.
Whether it was for himself or for his wife and children, Cha Duo could only do this.
At the same time, a letter also left the capital and was sent to Annan, which is adjacent to Champa.
The situation in Annan, because of Zhu Ying's intervention, has become completely different from the historical trend.
Historically, Zhu Yuanzhang did not pay attention to the internal situation in Annan. In the end, Zhu Di sent more than 200,000 troops and turned Annan into the Ming Dynasty's Jiaozhi Proclamation Envoy.
Although Annan originally belonged to the territory of the Central Plains since the Qin Dynasty, it was not until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period that it became an independent country. However, since then it has been a tributary state to the Central Plains dynasty and has been a vassal state.
When the throne changes, a report will also be made to the Central Plains Dynasty to request canonization.
Historically, in the early years of Jianwen, a coup broke out in Annan. Prime Minister Hu Jiyou deposed the monarch and established himself as king. He changed the name of the country to Dayu, and it was called the Hu Dynasty in history.
But Hu Jiya kept concealing this matter from the Ming Dynasty. Later, when Hu Jiya's son Hu Hancang was in power, he proclaimed himself a minister to Zhu Di, who had just proclaimed himself emperor. He also claimed to be the nephew of the monarch of the Chen Dynasty. He was favored by the ministers and asked for canonization. Zhu Di had just
After seizing the throne, he naturally had no time to investigate, so he consecrated Hu Hancang as King of Annan.
There is no airtight wall in the world. Ministers from the Chen Dynasty kept running to the Ming Dynasty to inform the Ming Dynasty of the matter and request the Ming Dynasty to make decisions for the Chen Dynasty.
Zhu Di finally learned the truth of the matter.
Zhu Di didn't actually want to use troops at first. After all, the fifteen countries not to be conquered in the "Huang Ming Ancestor Instructions" established by Zhu Yuanzhang included Annan.
So at first Zhu Di only sent thousands of people to send Chen Tianping, a descendant of the Chen Dynasty royal family, back to his country to become king.
Unexpectedly, this Ming army was ambushed and eventually the entire army was wiped out. Chen Tianping was directly executed by Ling Chi.
What was done was so great that when the news came, Zhu Di was immediately furious with Long Yan and immediately issued an edict to attack the Hu Dynasty that ruled Annan.
The main reason was that Annan was too disrespectful of face, and Zhu Di, who had just seized the throne, cared about face even more.
According to Zhu Di's idea, when my father was here, you Annan honestly didn't dare to make a fuss. Now that I have ascended the throne, you are going to do this?
Moreover, this kind of coup to seize the throne seems to be imitating Zhu Di.
Zhu Di was originally very taboo about this matter. He had just become emperor and his political power was not yet stable. He urgently needed something to protect his authority, especially for the tributary countries.
Therefore, it is straightforward to send an army of 200,000 troops to Annan.
He even asked Zhu Neng, who had made great contributions during the Jingnan War, to serve as the commander-in-chief, expressing his determination to defeat Annan in one fell swoop.
It was a pity that Zhu Neng contracted an illness and died due to the unsuitable jungle climate. However, even the deputy general Zhang Fu only took five months to completely capture the entire territory of Annan.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was at the absolute pinnacle of the world in terms of force value. Coupled with Zhu Yuanzhang's family background, it was really not a big deal to deal with Annan.
This result is also expected.
Unfortunately, due to governance problems, there were too many uprisings, which also led to the Ming Dynasty losing troops and generals, spending a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and falling into a quagmire.
Therefore, in the second year of Xuande, Zhu Zhanji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, made a decision to withdraw his troops from Annan and abolish the Jiaozhi Chengxuan Administrative Envoy Department.
Unfortunately, Zhu Zhanji was still too young, and this withdrawal meant that the prestige of the Ming Dynasty began to decline throughout the world.
It was from here that the Ming Dynasty really began to decline after Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di, and Zhu Gaochi.
When the lion loses its intimidation, the wolves will have other ideas.
Since then, the Ming Dynasty has never been able to regain the prestige that shocked the world in the early Ming Dynasty.
But of course things are different now.
Zhu Ying would certainly not repeat the same mistakes when he was still alive.
When 50,000 elites arrived in Annan, it meant that the possibility of Hu Ji-sao launching a coup had completely disappeared.
In Kunning Palace.
Annan Anxiu Gong Chen Muyue, or now the concubine of the grandson, came to the main hall happily.
"Your Highness, I heard that Your Highness sent a message to Annan."
Chen Muyue's tone revealed surprise.
Although life in Annan is not that good compared to now, it is her hometown after all, and she has her relatives there.
I grew up there as a child.
Therefore, Chen Muyue will naturally be excited about the news about Annan.
However, due to the lack of information, this letter had been sent out for almost ten days, and it was almost arriving in Annan. Chen Muyue only received the news.
Zhu Ying heard this and said with a smile: "Some time ago, I did have to explain something to Annan because of some things."
Chen Muyue asked with anticipation in her eyes: "Has Your Highness mentioned me to my father?"
These words stopped Zhu Ying.
In fact, although this letter was also written to King Annan, at that time, Zhu Ying naturally did not consider Chen Muyue's matter, so he did not mention it either.
After a slight pause, Zhu Ying, of course, would not answer the question directly, but instead said, "It seems that Mu Yue is homesick."
When Chen Muyue heard this, she couldn't help but recall every detail of her childhood. Her eyes couldn't help but turn red, and then she nodded gently to Zhu Ying.
Seeing this, Zhu Ying suddenly had an idea in her mind.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Since I'm homesick, why not find some time to go back and have a look."
Upon hearing this, Chen Muyue immediately looked at Zhu Ying in disbelief.