Chapter 616, Missions of Southeast Asian Countries
"Ms. sir~"
Xu Waner and Li Zhen hurried to Liu Jin's study and found Liu Jin who was busy.
"What's wrong?"
Liu Jin looked at the two of them. Both of them knew that they would never come to disturb him when he was busy with things. Now they came to look for him with anger on their faces, as if something had happened.
.
So Liu Jin put down what he was doing and asked with a smile.
"Ms. sir, aren't you in charge of the tax reform now? Heavy taxes will be levied on gambling houses and brothels. The people in the brothels have already spoken out."
"If we really impose heavy taxes on them next year, they will go around talking bad about you."
Li Zhen pouted angrily. When she heard her maids talking about this, she was almost furious to death.
"Talk bad about me?"
"What bad things can you say about me?"
When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately laughed.
I knew that taxation would offend people, but I didn't expect that some people had already begun to resist fiercely before it even started, and they actually pointed the finger at themselves.
Well, it is good and normal for someone to resist. Then there will be an excuse to ask Emperor Hongzhi to set up a tax police. Without a strong tax collection agency, it is naturally impossible to make everyone pay taxes honestly.
"They said, they said that my husband, you are so licentious that you want to stay with you every day and night..."
Li Zhen said without thinking. When he said the next part, his face suddenly turned red and he couldn't say anything.
"In short, I just say bad things about you, my husband. If you say very bad things, your reputation will be greatly damaged."
"I'm really pissed off. If anyone dares to say anything nonsense, I'll tear down their dirty place."
Li Zhen said angrily.
"Yes, when the time comes I won't call you brother. I will seal off all those dirty places so that they can speak ill of my husband."
Xu Waner was also furious.
Liu Jin is a good man. He never goes to places with fireworks. He is either busy with national affairs or at home with his wife and children every day. In their hearts, Liu Jin is the most perfect and no one is allowed to say bad things about Liu Jin.
, especially regarding this aspect.
The two of them naturally know best whether Liu Jin is flirting with women or whether he is extravagant.
"Haha, what's so scary about rumors?"
"As long as you believe in me, it's enough. Others, I don't care what they think of me."
Liu Jin immediately laughed, thinking it was something.
If he even cares about such nonsense, then he should not be an official in the court. You must know that compared with the lights and shadows of swords and swords in the court, these are nothing at all.
"Ms. sir, you can't say what you say. These rumors are short and gossipy, and three people can become a tiger. If you really let them talk nonsense, it will ruin your husband's reputation in vain. That's not okay."
"What's more, our family is actually so easy to mess with."
"My husband is doing things for the court and for the welfare of the people. If they really dare to say bad things about my husband, I will definitely not let them go."
Xu Waner still said angrily.
"Okay, okay~"
"Don't worry, ma'am. Don't let your anger break your body."
Liu Jin smiled and quickly comforted him.
"By the way, where is the baby?"
Liu Jin quickly changed the subject to the child.
"Nanny is taking it with her."
Li Zhen replied.
"Well, in the next few days, the delegations from Nanyang countries will arrive in Tianjin. How about I take you to Tianjin to see the Nanyang people?"
"What's so good about Nanyang people? But I heard that the football here in Tianjin is very good. Will my husband take us to watch football?"
After hearing Liu Jin's words, Li Zhen thought for a while and said.
"Okay, football is just football. I'm very busy these days. I haven't gone to watch football for a long time."
Liu Jin readily agreed.
"That's great, it's better to be husband-in-law~"
When Li Zhen heard this, she happily kissed Liu Jin.
During this kiss, the maids who followed him immediately covered their eyes with their hands, their faces flushed with embarrassment.
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In the Bohai Sea, several large merchant ships are moving rapidly towards Tianjin Port, followed by dozens of smaller ships, moving forward mightily on the sea.
These large ships, belonging to the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, returned from Nanyang. The ships were filled with goods from Nanyang, including pearls, corals, agates, jade, gems, ivory, jade, precious agarwood, and boxes of agarwood.
Gold, silver, and cane sugar brewed from Nanyang and Ryukyu plantations.
Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, it is the time to buy New Year's goods. These things are very popular in the Beijing-Tianjin area. There are many rich people here, and everything is particularly easy to sell.
The crew members are also eager to return home.
I have been busy at sea for a whole year and have gained a lot. The New Year is coming soon. This is the last trip before the New Year. The next time I go to sea will not be until after the Lantern Festival next year.
Whenever they think of this, the crew members wish they could return to Tianjin Port immediately, return to their homes, and have a good rest.
Now we are in the Bohai Sea, very close to Tianjin Port. Many crew members came to the deck anxiously, looking westward and in the direction of Tianjin Port from time to time.
The deck of the "Red Coral" was also full of people, but these people were Nanyang people wearing strange clothes, not people from the Ming Dynasty.
Du Mingen, Marquis of Taiping, opened up a route to Nanyang. The major commercial banks of the Ming Dynasty frequently traveled to Nanyang, which greatly strengthened the exchanges and connections between the Ming Dynasty and various countries in Nanyang.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty is becoming increasingly powerful. It has directly occupied Manila in Nanyang and renamed it Crescent City. It is also here that provinces, government offices and officials are appointed.
This frightened the countries in Nanyang, so after communicating with each other, the countries in Nanyang also sent a huge mission to Ming Dynasty, preparing to pay tribute to the emperor of Ming Dynasty, and to show Ming Dynasty that they and Ming Dynasty have been friendly for generations.
Neighbors will always be vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, and they will never do anything to harm the Ming Dynasty like the people of Luzon.
Invariably, this time they came to Ming Dynasty to convey their wishes of friendship and peace to Ming Dynasty.
Ming Dynasty is so powerful~
The strength of the Luzon Kingdom is not small, and it is considered to be strong among the Southeast Asian countries.
But the Taiping Marquis of the Ming Dynasty, simply and easily, almost destroyed the Luzon Kingdom. Even the capital, Manila, has now become the Crescent City of the Ming Dynasty.
This strength is so terrifying.
What's more critical is that the Ming Dynasty's strength in the Nanyang region has rapidly expanded. With Crescent City as the center, large and small Ming merchant ships and merchants can now be seen throughout the Nanyang region.
At the same time, Ming merchants were opening up and establishing plantations in many places, especially here in Luzon, where a large number of plantations had sprung up. The Luzon Kingdom dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out.
We can only retreat step by step. Now a large area in the north of Luzon Island has fallen under the jurisdiction of the Crescent City of the Ming Dynasty. It is no longer limited to the original one hundred miles.
There was no way, the Luzon Kingdom was defeated in that battle and was completely frightened.
Du Ming, the Marquis of Taiping, went on a killing spree in Crescent City, killing everyone from the king to ordinary officials in Luzon. Many of the rebellious natives were even more merciless and burned alive to show their appreciation.
The thundering side of Ming Dynasty.
So this time, the Luzon Kingdom also sent a mission, prepared a heavy tribute, and prepared to request the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to clear the territory with the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the entire Luzon would be occupied by the Ming Dynasty.
Luzon, Sulu, Champa, Siam, Annan, Java, etc., a total of more than thirty Southeast Asian countries, large and small, sent envoys, prepared tributes, and took merchant ships of Tianjin Ocean Trading Company to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.
It is nothing new for countries in Southeast Asia to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.
In the past, when Zheng He went to the Western Seas, there were often Nanyang missions coming to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. Even in the Chenghua Dynasty, that is, when Emperor Hongzhi's father Ming Xianzong was Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, there were also Nanyang missions coming to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.
However, from the late Chenghua Dynasty to the present thirteenth year of Hongzhi, which has been almost thirty years, no Nanyang missions came to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.
The main reason for this is that the Ming Dynasty closed the country and implemented a strict maritime ban. Of course, the Ming Dynasty also always wanted to save face.
Envoys from other countries often paid tribute several times in return. With the decline of the Ming Dynasty's national power, the Ming court was no longer able to embarrass itself as before.
I had to give orders to the various countries in Southeast Asia, telling them not to come frequently to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, so gradually no one came to pay tribute.
Now that we have contacts, as a vassal state, we naturally have to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, another very important reason is that as Ming merchants began to spread to various countries in Southeast Asia, the situation in Ming Dynasty was also spread to Southeast Asia.
The changes and development of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the wealth and power of the Ming Dynasty, also attracted the hearts of various countries in Southeast Asia, and they sent missions to visit the Ming Dynasty one after another.
Among them, Godara, the Eastern King of Sulu Kingdom, came in person. Sulu Kingdom's mission was also the largest, with hundreds of people, and there were more than a dozen ships from Sulu Kingdom alone.
However, for the sake of the safety of the mission, all the important members of the mission took the merchant ships of Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, while the ordinary members took the ships of their own countries.
"I heard that Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty was very prosperous, with tall buildings and bright lights. I don't know how it will compare with our Ayutthaya in Siam."
On the deck of the Red Coral, Godara, the Eastern King of Sulu, looked in the direction of Tianjin, but he heard the discussion of officials from the Siamese mission.
At this time, Siam was under the rule of the Ayutthaya Dynasty (Ayutthaya Dynasty). In 1500, it was the most powerful and prosperous period of the Ayutthaya Dynasty, and it was one of the most powerful countries in Indochina.
Therefore, the Siamese people during this period were relatively confident.
