Chapter 451 Meeting the messenger - North Korea, Fusang, Ainu
Yunxi and Gao Xiang discussed for a while and felt that time had not passed very long. However, when he inadvertently turned his head and looked at the clock, it was already almost noon.
Yunxi wanted to keep Gao Xiang for dinner in the palace, but Gao Xiang said: "Your Majesty, I have something to explain to His Highness the King of Qin this afternoon, and I also have to talk to the envoys from Yili Bali and Wala, and I need to prepare a draft, so..."
He didn't finish his words, but his meaning was already obvious. Yunxi didn't pay attention and said with a smile: "In that case, please step aside. I will also go back to have dinner with the queen."
After Yunxi took a nap in the afternoon, he summoned envoys from foreign countries to meet him at noon. After some preparations were made by the Ministry of Rites and the envoys from these foreign countries, they came to Jinshen Hall at the beginning of Shenshi, preparing to receive Yunxi.
The first national envoy to meet Yunxi was North Korea. As the first foreign vassal of the Ming Dynasty, North Korea was definitely not as powerful as Fusang, but unless the envoys from other countries were princes who paid tribute in person, North Korea would generally arrange for them to pay tribute.
In the first place.
In addition, North Korea has sent people to pay tribute every year in recent years. Although the chief and deputy envoys have been changed every time in the past two years, the other accompanying personnel are all old people, and it is not easy for mistakes to be made.
This year's envoys were selected after a fierce competition in North Korea as usual to get Yunxi to agree to their family's request to recognize their ancestors. However, at noon, Yang Ben, the host and guest doctor, and Chen Di, the minister of rites, both asked them to come this year.
There are many countries paying tribute, and there is no time left for you to tell you the details, so they didn't say anything in the end, they just paid their respects and then withdrew.
After that, it was the Fusang Kingdom that paid tribute. Fusang was making the emperor rich, and the deputy envoy Zua came in wearing very distinctive clothes.
Yunxi had never asked the envoys what their clothes looked like before, and was very surprised when he saw their clothes.
'This one is called Fatty. I thought he would wear a samurai uniform to pay tribute. Who knew that with such clothes, he could be a priest of the shrine? Zua's clothes are much more pleasing to the eye, at least they are similar to the clothes of monks in the Ming Dynasty.
'
Yunxi complained in his heart and motioned to the eunuchs around him to let them stand up.
After Feifu stood up, he had a normal question and answer session with Yunxi. Just when Yunxi felt that nothing happened and was about to ask them to leave, Feifu and Zua suddenly knelt down again.
Yunxi's heart thumped, and he understood that this was what the two envoys from Fusang were going to say in person. Yunxi secretly complained to Chen Di and Yang Ben: 'You two didn't give me more instructions.'
However, Yunxi wrongly blamed the two of them. Chen Di and Yang Ben asked each of the envoys from the foreign countries who paid tribute not to talk too much, and they did so many times; but the problem was that not every envoy was obedient.
The two envoys from North Korea were very obedient because the things they requested were their own affairs and they were afraid that they would make Yunxi unhappy by saying too much and not agree to their request. The envoys from other countries came with very important things.
And they only have this chance to meet Yunxi, so they must take advantage of this opportunity to speak out to prevent long nights and dreams.
For example, the two envoys who are kneeling in front of Yunxi now. After kneeling down and kowtowing three more times, Feifu raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, on behalf of our Fusang Kingdom, I request your Majesty to allow our country to be a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and ask your Majesty to grant it a title."
The king of our country is King Fusang."
Although Yunxi was a little unhappy, since they had spoken out the matter on the spot, they could only make a decision on the spot.
Yunxi sneered and said: "You two are trying to deceive the emperor? As far as I know, there is someone in Fuso who is called the emperor, and he is the king of a country. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is just a minister under the emperor. How did he become
The king of Fusang? How can you, Fusang, be such a vassal state of my Ming Dynasty when you bully the king?"
Feitou and Zua looked at each other lightly. Fang Mingqian led the navy to Fuso before, and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu estimated that they might have known about the fact that there was another emperor in the country. At that time, after repeated thinking, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu came to the conclusion
The final result.
Zu'a said: "Your Majesty, in my country, Taimasa-sama Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has deposed the emperor of our country with the support of people from all over the country, and has succeeded to the throne of our country with the support of the people. Therefore, the former Taomasa-sama Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has already
He is the king of our country."
"And because the king of our country calls himself the emperor, it is a transgression. Therefore, the former Taizheng-sama Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has abolished the title of emperor and calls himself King Fuso."
Yun He said falsely: "Oh? Are you telling the truth?"
Fei Fu said: "Your Majesty, an envoy from a small country, how dare you deceive His Majesty the Emperor of the higher country!"
Yunxi pretended to think for a while and then said: "Although your words are conclusive, because you have deceived the Ming Dynasty, I will not accept it for the time being."
"I will send an envoy to follow you back to Fusang to confirm whether it is as you said. In addition, you Fusang must also restrain the wandering warriors in the country and prevent them from going to the sea to become bandits."
Feitou said: "I will obey the holy order." But he immediately said: "Your Majesty, although we cannot temporarily crown Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the former Taizheng of our country, as King of Fuso, but can you first recognize our country as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty?"
"Huh?" Yunxi was a little surprised: Why did they insist on becoming a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty first?
In fact, the reason is very simple. Because Yunxi had previously issued an order that overseas businessmen who wanted to do business in the Shanghai Shipping Department must come from a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise they would not be allowed to enter Hong Kong.
Officials of the Ming Dynasty were not familiar with the various countries in Southeast Asia, and they could not identify the merchants who were not vassal states of the Ming Dynasty and pretended to be other vassal states; but Fusang was different. Fusang was too familiar with the Ming Dynasty, and the characteristics of Fusang were also obvious, so they pretended to be other vassal states.
It is unlikely that the country will be conquered, so the merchants in Fuso are very worried during this time.
Due to the opening of the sea in the Ming Dynasty, Shanghai became the maritime trade center of the entire East. Countless merchants went to Shanghai to do business. While there were more people doing business in Shanghai, there were fewer people doing business in other places. Originally, it was not possible to do business in Shanghai.
The prosperous Fuso commercial port of Nagasaki is not that good. Except for business with Korea and Ryukyu, few merchants come to Nagasaki to do business.
This affected the money in Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's hands. But Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had no choice but to let Fuso businessmen come to Shanghai to do business and make money in order to recover some losses. But then they noticed the Ming Dynasty's move to Shanghai.
Only merchants from vassal states were accepted. That's why Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was so anxious that he asked the envoy to put this matter before recognizing him as the King of Fuso.
Yunxi didn't think of the order he issued at this time, but he remembered one sentence: Don't do what your opponent wants you to do.
So Yunxi immediately said: "If you don't recognize Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as King of Fuso, how can you officially recognize Fuso as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty?"
At this time, Fei Fu used his sharp tongue and began to persuade Yun Xi to change his mind. Not to mention, Fei Fu's eloquence was very good and he was very suitable to be a diplomat or trader.
But no matter what Feifu said, Yunxi refused to agree. Seeing that Yunxi was about to issue an order to expel the guests, Feifu hurriedly stopped talking and told the last mission of his mission.
"Your Majesty, I heard that some people in the Ming Dynasty call our Fusang Kingdom the Eleventh District. I think this is an insult to our country, and I would like to ask your majesty to not allow people in the Ming Dynasty to call our country this way."
Yunxi actually wanted to say: This is not an insult to you. I just said it as a smooth word. But I definitely didn’t mean it. In order to prevent you from saying this word casually when I meet you, I haven’t said it for a while.
I called Fusang after District 11.
Of course, such words cannot be said in a diplomatic setting. Yunxi said: "I understand. I will immediately issue a decree not to allow all officials and citizens of the Ming Dynasty to call Fuso District 11."
Feifu and Zua knelt down to thank them.
But Yunxi looked at their backs and thought to himself: "You may not know that the best way to make something widely spread is to ban it. Soon all literate people in the Ming Dynasty will know that you have another nickname called Fusang."
District 11.'
The envoy from the Fusang Kingdom then withdrew. The person Yunxi wanted to receive later was the envoy from the Ainu people.
A lot of Ainu envoys came because Yunxi had originally ordered both the North Island and the South Island to bring people over, and the tribes at the southernmost tip of the South Island near Honshu Island had to all send people over, so there were a lot of people.
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Yunxi casually said a few words to them, and then said: "Ainu envoy is waiting for my reward."
These people hurriedly knelt down. It was their first time to come to such a prosperous city, or it was their first time to know that there was such a thing as a city in the world, and they were already dazzled. Through observing the city, they also
I know that Ming Dynasty has such a large population, so much wealth and such sophisticated weapons. I know how powerful Ming Dynasty is.
If the capital was close to them, they might even think of grabbing a handful; but they came all the way by boat and knew how far it was from their hometown, so they would never be able to grab it.
So they have completely surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.
Yunxi said: "Add a title to the post, and...the others will be hereditary commanders, and the subordinates will be soldiers of the guard. Each commander can appoint thousands of households, hundreds of households, etc., without the permission of the court..., and each person will be rewarded with silk and satin."
One horse, one hundred stones of grain."
Yunxi adopted the same method for the Ainu people as he did for the Jurchens in the Northeast. He did not recognize it as a separate feudal state, but only appointed commanders and gave some rewards to slowly make the Ainu people familiar with the Ming Dynasty.
Do something else.
But the Ainu people don't think these things are too much. One hundred stones of grain is enough for a hundred people to eat meat for a long time, and there is also a bolt of silk. They tribal leaders have envied the Fuso people's clothes for a long time. This time
There were so many rewards at once, and they were very satisfied.
The Ainu people retired in joy, completely ignoring the contemptuous looks of the Ming guards and eunuchs.