The next day was already the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the palace was completely decorated. As the weather had been kind, there had been no wind or snow these days, and the palace was also decorated extremely festively.
But on days like this, Yunxi had to get up early in the morning and go to Qianqing Palace to discuss things. Yunxi himself actually wanted to rest, but who made the first day of the new year the time to receive envoys from the foreign countries? How did Yunxi treat them? At least before that, a plan must be implemented. And tomorrow is the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, and there is no free time, so we must discuss it today.
When Yunxi came to Qianqing Palace, his trusted ministers Qi Tai, Lian Zining, Chen Xingshan, Chen Di, Bao Zhao, Li Ren, Jingqing and others had already arrived. The next group of people Yunxi planned to train was Jie Jin. , Yang Shiqi, Jian Yi, Huang Huai, Xia Yuanji and others were also standing in the room.
When they saw Yunxi coming in, they all hurriedly saluted and said hello. Yunxi waved his hands and said, "No need to be formal. I want to have a good New Year. You also want to spend more time with your parents and family, so let's discuss it directly."
Yunxi then sat down and said, "Let's discuss it first. Should we confer Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as King of Fuso?"
Lian Zining first said: "Your Majesty, since there is still a so-called emperor in Fuso, he has his own orthodoxy. Although calling himself emperor is a transgression, he can order the king of his country to abolish the title of emperor, but he cannot confer the title of Ashikaga Yoshi. Become the King of Fuso."
Chen Xingshan also said: "Your Majesty, I agree with Brother Lian's opinion. There is a king in Fuso, but Ashikaga Yoshimitsu deceived our Ming Dynasty. Not only can we not crown him King of Fuso, but we must issue an edict to reprimand him."
Yunxi didn't say anything after hearing what they said. Instead, he glanced around and saw that Qi Tai seemed to have different opinions, so he asked: "Qi Qing, do you have any different opinions?"
Qitai said: "Your Majesty, I think what Brother Lian and Brother Chen said is reasonable. However, if Ashikaga Yoshimitsu publicly deposed the king of his country, and then sent someone again to ask me, the Ming Dynasty, to confer him the title of King of Fuso, it should be what to do?"
Jing Qing said: "What else can we do? Of course..." But he suddenly got stuck in the middle of his sentence.
Jingqing originally wanted to say: Of course it is unacceptable. His Majesty has not yet recognized Hu Yiyuan (formerly known as Hu Ji?) of Annan Kingdom as the king. How can he agree to canonize Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as King of Fuso?
But Jingqing immediately remembered that the first thing Yunxi did to the outside world after he succeeded to the throne was to recognize the throne of the Joseon Dynasty, Li Chenggui, Li Bangyuan and his son. Although they changed their family name to Zhu, they also recognized their throne.
So Jing Qing didn't dare to say anything anymore.
Yunxi also understood what Jingqing meant, so he didn't ask further questions.
But Lian Zining said: "Your Majesty, the Fusang incident is different from the Korean incident. The Korean incident was caused by the former Goryeo Kingdom offending our great power, so the late emperor acquiesced to Li Chenggui's self-establishment as the king of Korea."
"But there is nothing similar in Fuso Country, so it's not a good analogy."
Qitai added: "Your Majesty, Fuso Kingdom previously refused to submit to me as a vassal and pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and there were Japanese pirates roaming the sea. Now if Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is willing to submit to vassalage and pay tribute, and is willing to depose his domestic monarch and become the official monarch, then with Korea The things are so similar that they can be compared.”
Lian Zining said: "Otherwise, North Korea is extremely respectful to our country, but what about Fusang? Although in the last years of Hongwu, they also sent envoys to our country, but only two or three times. North Korea has come every year since Hongwu 241. They sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty twice to pay tribute."
"How can I grant them my position as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty so easily?" The two of them were slightly tit for tat.
After hearing what Lian Zining said, Yunxi felt that it made sense: How could the status of the Ming vassal state be easily allowed to leave? That would be too worthless. Yunxi was different from Zhu Di, although he did not send troops to conquer
Fusang's idea, but Yunxi attached great importance to the status of a vassal state.
For Yunxi, if he accepts a country's request to be classified as a vassal state, he has to take responsibility. If other countries dare to attack the vassal state or the vassal states go to war with each other, Ming's verbal persuasion will not work.
Under such circumstances, we must bravely send troops to maintain order. Just like after the United States formed two alliances in the North Atlantic and the Western Pacific after World War II, when its allies were threatened, they actually sent troops to deal with them head-on.
However, the national power of the Ming Dynasty is also limited and cannot be wasted in the hands of these vassal countries; the logic of agricultural countries is different from that of industrial countries, so for vassal countries, in addition to the countries that have been recognized so far, every new vassal country will be allowed to
All countries should think twice before acting.
Yunxi thought for a while and then said: "If Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is willing to depose the king of the country and formally establish himself as king, and is willing to restrain the Japanese pirates, then I can canonize him as King Fuso."
"However," Yunxi continued before Lian Zining was about to speak: "The status of a vassal state cannot be given to Fusang so easily. Fusang must apply again and again. Therefore, Ministry of Rites, I will reject the Fusang envoy this time.
Please, but you must tell Fuso’s envoys my intention in a subtle way.”
To put it simply, the Ming Dynasty wanted both lizi and face. It could not clearly tell the Fusang envoy that we care about face, otherwise there would be no face. Therefore, the Ministry of Rites was responsible for letting the Fusang envoy understand this meaning, but the words could not
It's very clear. Therefore, the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites is very important.
Chen Di also understood this truth, bowed and said: "I understand."
Afterwards, Yunxi began to discuss with them the title of Zhu Mo's new country.
Now that Zhu Mo is going to be the king of Srivijaya, the original name of King Shen is of course inappropriate; and being called King of Srivijaya is neither suitable nor pleasant, so another name has to be chosen.
This issue is not very important. Although everyone actively put forward suggestions, the anger in the discussion about Fuso just now has disappeared.
Li Ren, Qi Tai, Jian Yi, Yang Shiqi and others successively put forward their own suggestions, but Yunxi didn't think they sounded good and they didn't adopt them.
Finally, Jie Jin said: "Your Majesty, I heard that the island where the Three Buddhas Kingdom is located is named Xuwendana, and another one is named Sumatra. It is better to change the name of His Highness King Shen to King Su."
Yunxi felt that this name sounded much better than the names he just mentioned, so he said, "Let's change it to King Su."
Afterwards, they discussed some more issues. After discussing the most urgent issues, Yunxi saw that it was getting late, so he had lunch with them and then returned to the harem.