Yunxi was woken up by Xiyao on the morning of the next day. Although Yunxi has been busy most of the time since arriving in the Ming Dynasty, especially since he succeeded to the throne, except for the days when he kept filial piety for Zhu Yuanzhang,
, he rarely goes to bed after midnight, so he went to bed so late last night, his biological clock was disrupted, and he couldn't get up in the morning.
In his sleep, Yunxi was dreaming, a dream that was considered a nightmare for him. He dreamed that Zhu Yuanzhang said to him: "It has only been half a year since I handed over the Ming Dynasty to you, and you will change the ancestral system. If that's all."
That's all, but you still want to continue to change the system that I have painstakingly designed. You unscrupulous person, I will depose you from the throne!'
Then Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to be tied up and tortured. Zhu Yuanzhang called Yunwen again and said that he would make Yunwen the emperor's grandson. After Yunwen was tortured, he immediately pretended to be unconscious. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the executioner to shake him awake
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Then Yunxi felt himself being shaken a few times. He opened his eyes and saw Xiyao's helpless expression.
Yunxi immediately sat up, looked around, and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he was on the bed in Kunning Palace, not in the cold and dark interrogation room.
Xiyao didn't know what Yunxi was looking at. When she saw him waking up and standing up, she immediately put some clothes on him and said, "Why don't you put on clothes and sit up again?"
Then he said: "Husband, officials from the Ministry of Rites have arrived at Qianqing Palace. They said they would like to receive the envoys of the vassal state at a certain time. The eunuch on duty came to report the news. Husband, there will be a banquet with civil and military officials in the evening.
Let's meet with the vassal envoys in the morning." As she said this, Xiyao called the maid in to help Yunxi get dressed.
Yunxi listened to Xiyao's words in a daze, but he was still thinking about the scene in his dream. He thought: 'If Grandpa Huang is really alive, he probably won't agree to most of my reforms.
But I firmly believe that most of my reforms are correct. Reforms like Yunwen's in history, not to mention other things, just treating his uncles as thieves to guard against, will probably make Zhu Yuanzhang even more angry.
As for why I dreamed about Yunwen, it was probably because I was thinking about how to seal Yunwen during the banquet in the evening. I thought about it day by day and dreamed about it at night, so I dreamed about it.
At this time, the palace maids came in to help Yunxi get dressed. Yunxi got dressed under their service, then washed up, said goodbye to Xiyao, and headed to Qianqing Palace.
Chen Di, the Minister of Rites, was waiting here, and Yang Ben, the host and guest doctor, was also here. When they saw Yunxi coming in, they hurriedly saluted.
Yunxi said: "No courtesy." Then he said: "Have you already had breakfast today?"
They both shook their heads and said, "Your Majesty, I didn't have breakfast." They stayed up until midnight last night, and then there were people setting off firecrackers everywhere, and the sound of firecrackers was everywhere, and they couldn't sleep this morning.
He also got up late and hurried to the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites without even bothering to eat, and then came to the palace.
Yunxi said: "Since you haven't had breakfast, then come and have it with me." Then he turned to the young eunuch and said: "Go to the imperial dining room and ask them to prepare breakfast for three people and send it to Qianqing Palace."
The young eunuch agreed. Yang Ben was very excited. It was an honor to have breakfast with the emperor! On the other hand, Chen Di was calm because although he had not had breakfast with Yunxi before, he had had lunch together, so
Not very excited.
Yunxi himself didn't take it seriously. He sat on a chair, asked Chen Di and Yang Ben to sit down as well, and started talking.
Yunxi asked: "Which country has sent envoys this year?" He was a little confused now.
Chen Di was stunned: Didn't I report this to you a long time ago? But he still said honestly: "There are envoys from Siam, Champa, and Korea who came to pay tribute and congratulate the Ming Dynasty on the New Year. There is also Srivijaya.
The envoy Shi Jinqing came to our Ming Dynasty to seek justice."
"After discussing with the officials of the Ministry of Rites, I asked Shi Jinqing, the envoy of Sanfoqi, to come and congratulate Your Majesty. I decided to arrange him as the last person. Your Majesty can ask him about his affairs in person and decide how to deal with it."
Yunxi thought for a moment and thought there was no problem, so he said: "Let's do it this way. Just choose the time in the morning."
At this time breakfast came, Yunxi had breakfast with them, and then Chen Di took Yang Ben and left. He went back to work. It was almost Chen time now, and there was not much time to prepare, so he had to hurry up.
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But for Yunxi, he still had a little time. Yunxi thought for a while and took out the tribute records about the vassals sent by the Ministry of Rites a while ago, as well as the envoys who had been to various vassals in Southeast Asia.
I read the notes.
There was nothing in the tribute record, so I flipped through it again to make sure there were no omissions, then put it down and concentrated on reading the notes of envoys who had been on missions to various vassal states in Southeast Asia.
I have to say that the literati at this time could not say that they were "scholars with no use at all". At the very least, if they had learned modern Chinese, if they were to write in modern times, they would be masters.
These notes were written one after another. If Yunxi hadn't known that these were the notes they brought back from their mission, he would probably have read them as martial arts. What he said about "being able to carry a cauldron with strength", "fighting tigers with bare hands", and "walking every day" was nothing.
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Yunxi, who was addicted to martial arts, couldn't help himself. Wang Xi told him that it was time, and then the eunuch changed his clothes.
After changing his clothes, Yunxi sat upright in the main hall, waiting for the envoy to come up.
The first one to come was the North Korean envoy. Since Yunxi changed the surname of the North Korean monarch to Zhu Jilai, although everyone still did not think that North Korea was an internal vassal, they defaulted to him as the first external vassal. When paying tribute from outside vassals, North Korea was ranked first.
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This time the North Korean envoy is Zheng Yi. Zheng Yi is from Haizhou, North Korea. The Zheng family is also a large local family. Although it is not the largest family in the local area, it is okay.
The Zheng family also had a good relationship with Zhu Fangyuan before Zhu Fangyuan's mutiny. This time, when most of the country was silent about Zhu Fangyuan's usurpation of the throne, the Zheng family did not express silence on this, but recognized Zhu Fangyuan's power to know the status of the North Korean Minister of State.
Location. Although there are no substantive measures, it is still pretty good.
Then before the Chinese New Year, the Zheng family was vying to be the envoy to the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Fangyuan had just stabilized the situation in the country at this time, and he did not dare to offend these big families who supported him, so he had no choice but to agree. Even if he was against
The Zheng family knew exactly what their purpose was in sending people to be envoys to the Ming Dynasty, so they had no choice but to admit it.