"Annan's soldiers invaded Guangxi, burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. The reason was actually that the Ming Dynasty did not want to accept its title of vassal and tribute~"
Mornings in the capital are bound to be accompanied by the shouts of newsboys.
Following the newsboy's shout, many people immediately gathered there, and each newspaper was sold out in the blink of an eye.
Reading newspapers has become a part of life for young and old men in Beijing.
If you know how to read and have the conditions, you can naturally buy a newspaper by yourself and read the newspaper while enjoying a leisurely breakfast at home.
If you are illiterate and want to know the content of the newspaper, but don't have much money, that's okay. You can go to a teahouse, which has dedicated newspaper readers.
He is responsible for reading newspapers to you and explaining the contents of the newspapers. For this reason, a new industry of Mr. Newspaper Readers has gradually been born.
Naturally, not just anyone can be a newspaper reader, nor can one do well just by knowing the words and reading. If one wants to be a newspaper reader well, being able to read and write is the most basic requirement.
More often than not, they are required to be able to comment on the current affairs in newspapers, and even comment on them. Only in this way can one be regarded as a qualified newspaper reader.
As for becoming a truly top-notch newspaper reader, the knowledge involved is profound. You must be familiar with ancient and modern times, quote scriptures, poems and songs, know astronomy at the top and geography at the bottom. You know five hundred years before and five hundred years after...
With the rise of a large number of factories and workshops and the rapid development of capitalism, more and more people are commuting to get off work on time. This has also led to the rapid development of the morning tea business in the capital area, with teahouses everywhere.
From top-notch teahouses with exquisite decoration and grandeur, where a breakfast costs several taels of silver, to ordinary teahouses that serve office workers, they are everywhere. Teahouses of all consumption levels are spread throughout the streets and alleys of the capital, in every city.
outside.
Whether a teahouse's business is good or not has a lot to do with the newspaper reader hired by the teahouse. If the newspaper reader hired by the teahouse is good, the teahouse's business will naturally be very prosperous. If the newspaper reader is not good, the teahouse's business will be much slower.
Mr. Newspaper Reader's job is very easy. He just reads the newspaper to everyone in the teahouse every morning and explains the contents of the newspaper. It is difficult to say that it is difficult.
It is not only necessary to arrange the time reasonably, but more importantly, to make comments on the contents of the newspaper that everyone thinks are reasonable. This is the key.
Of course, newspaper readers can not only get a good salary from the teahouse, but the real big deal is the rewards from the listeners. In many cases, the rewards from the listeners far exceed the salary given by the teahouse.
Especially in some mid-to-high-end teahouses, as the newspaper reader said, rich nobles can easily earn several taels of silver every day by just throwing away their banknotes.
Tingyu Pavilion is one of the most famous teahouses in Beijing. Every morning, just after dawn, Tingyu Pavilion is already overcrowded.
Many people get up early and go to Tingyuge just to listen to Mr. Zhou Zhishi, the newspaper reader of Tingyuge, who comments on the daily newspapers.
Zhou Zhishi was originally just a down-and-out scholar. He failed in many exams and failed in the rankings. After passing the Qiu Wei exam a few times, he never took the imperial examination again. Instead, he devoted himself to reading various heretical books and often traveled around.
He traveled all over the country to see the mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty, and even went to Nanyang.
It is said that he is also planning to visit the Golden Continent to see if the Golden Continent is really full of gold. He even wants to form a fleet to sail around the world to see if the living world is really a ball.
In his words, reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. The more roads you travel and the more things you see, the more you will have broader knowledge. Only by being knowledgeable about the past and the present can you truly form your own understanding of everything.
knowledge and insights.
At this time, Tingyu Pavilion had just opened, and the second floor was already full of people. The guests ordered a pot of tea and came for breakfast, holding today's latest tomorrow morning newspaper in their hands.
Tingyuge would leave a middle table for Zhou Zhishi every day, and prepare Zhou Zhishi's favorite Longjing tea and osmanthus cake.
When Zhou Zhizhi drank tea and ate two cakes, he drank tea again to moisten his throat, picked up the newspaper on the table, and began to read slowly.
"Today's headline news is that Annan invaded Guangxi, burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil~"
"There was an emergency report from Guangxi yesterday..."
Zhou Zhishi first read the above content in detail. When he read the newspaper, he did not read it randomly. He was high-spirited and full of emotions, which made everyone present couldn't help but become angry and angry.
"The small country of Annanchor dares to repeatedly offend our Ming Dynasty. It is simply asking for death~"
"The Yelang is arrogant and the wolf is ambitious~"
"You are a white-eyed wolf that cannot be fed enough. I, the Ming Dynasty, don't want it to pay tribute, so you dare to send troops. When my Ming Dynasty's army arrives, I will kill them without leaving any trace."
Everyone present roared loudly and expressed their opinions.
Zhou Zhi heard this and smiled slightly. After everyone finished speaking, he took a sip of tea and continued slowly: "The word Annan comes from the Annan Protectorate during the Tang Dynasty. Annan has been part of China since the Qin Dynasty.
It was under the jurisdiction of Shenzhou, but during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Wu Quan separatized Annan and separated from the Southern Han Dynasty. Since then, Annan has existed as a vassal state of our Middle-earth Dynasty for a long time."
"Up to the founding of the Ming Dynasty, during the Yongle period, Annan repeatedly invaded the borders of the Ming Dynasty. King Annan was also arrogant and acted recklessly, and even insisted on calling himself a loner."
"The Ming Dynasty couldn't bear it anymore, so it sent troops to conquer Annan. From the fourth year of Yongle to the seventh year of Yongle, after dozens of battles, we finally won a complete victory. We eliminated the usurping Hu family's regime in Annan and gained fifteen prefectures and forty-one states.
, two hundred and eight counties, and the Chief Envoy Department of Jiaozhi was established."
Zhou Zhishi was talking about the history of Annan, which made everyone present nod their heads, and they immediately understood the historical origin of Annan and the Ming Dynasty.
"By the time of Xuanzong, Annan was too far away from our central territory. The Ming Dynasty withdrew its troops to the north and abolished the Chief Envoy of Jiaozhi. At this point, Annan was no longer under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty."
"Of course, this Annan is actually the Jiaozhi of the Ming Dynasty, and it has been part of our Chinese state since ancient times."
After talking about the history of Annan, Zhou Zhishi also gave a comment.
That is Annan. In fact, it has been the land of China since ancient times. The Ming Dynasty once established the Cochin Chief Envoy here. Later, we gave up because we felt it was too far away.
"I see, this Annan is Jiaozhi, it has been my Ming Dynasty's land since ancient times~"
"Then why is Annan violating our border with the Ming Dynasty now?"
When everyone heard this, they nodded one after another, and then questions popped up in their minds, why did Annan want to offend my Ming Dynasty again?
"Open the map~"
Zhou Zhishi smiled and ordered, and soon the waiter in the teahouse took out a map of the Ming Dynasty and hung it up.
"Everyone, please look at Annan's location~"
"It is located in the south of Guangxi, with the East China Sea in the east, Champa in the south, Nanzhang and Penman in the west, and Yunnan and Guangxi in the Ming Dynasty in the north, separated by hundreds of thousands of mountains in the middle.
"
When Zhou Zhizhi started to introduce the geographical location of Annan, he looked at the map.
"The geographical location of Annan is extremely important. It is located in the Indochina Peninsula and is connected to the Ming Dynasty by land. It is an important channel for the Ming Dynasty to enter the Southeast Asia region from the land."
"When it comes to Annan's military invasion of Longzhou, Guangxi, the reason is because the Ming Dynasty does not accept its title of vassal and tribute."
"This has to mention the new Ming vassal state treaty that our Ming Dynasty issued last year. In the past, as long as they paid tribute to our Ming Dynasty, they could get several times the reward from our Ming Dynasty. Therefore, all the countries around our Ming Dynasty have
Come to court."
"Although this is a manifestation of the great power of our Ming Dynasty, because our Ming Dynasty always pays back several times, it also makes the Southeast Asian countries see the benefits, and pays tribute every year, and the scale becomes larger each time, which also causes our Ming Dynasty
It’s a huge burden.”
"So much so that during the Xuanzong period, orders had to be issued to limit the number and scale of tribute from various countries."
"The countries in Southeast Asia pay tribute to our Ming Dynasty. It is called tribute, but in fact it is mostly for profit. Earlier, I expressed my humble opinion on the issue of tribute."
"Your Majesty and the princes in the court have clearly seen this, and because there are so many merchant ships traveling to and from Southeast Asia, they have specially formulated the Ming Dynasty vassal state agreement for this purpose."
"From now on, those who want to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty must sign this agreement and strictly implement the treaties in the agreement. Only then can they be regarded as a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty. Only then will our Ming Dynasty be willing to accept its title of vassal and pay tribute."
"But last year, only North Korea, Japan and Luzon signed the agreement. These three countries were willing to become vassal states of our Ming Dynasty. Annan did not sign the agreement, so it is not considered a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty."
"It is not a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty, so our Ming Dynasty will not accept its vassalage and tribute. Annan will not be able to get generous rewards from our Ming Dynasty, so he will hold a grudge, so this time he invaded Longzhou, Guangxi Province."
Things."
"In the final analysis, the cause of this matter is very simple. It is simply that we, the Ming Dynasty, are unwilling to harm our own national power for the sake of so-called face."
"From now on, the Nanyang countries will no longer think of profiting from paying tribute. However, this policy has offended the interests of these small Nanyang countries, so not only Annan sent troops to invade Guangxi, Siam, Champa, Balni, Malacca, Java, and Sumatra
Wait for the Nanyang countries to impose additional tariffs on our Ming merchants."
"There are even cases where the state specially organized personnel to attack our Ming Dynasty merchant ships and kill our Ming merchants."
When Zhou Zhishi clearly explained the cause and process of this incident, everyone present immediately understood everything about this incident.
In the final analysis, it is really just two words: profit.