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And those two people, you never spoke, I never spoke, but the tacit understanding is still there. I saw a stack of unapproved official documents, unfolded by Li Mu'er's hand, and gradually thinned by Zhu Youji's milli lightness.

"Huh?" Li Mu'er's eyes suddenly lit up, put the fold in his hand under the lamp, bent down, and looked carefully, "Warat and Tatar want to come to pay tribute?" ”

"Hmm." Zhu Youzhi responded softly. found that half of her hair fell abruptly between her heads, swaying in front of the candle flame, so her fingertips unconsciously lifted forward, caught her hair and said dissatisfied, "What's wrong?" ”

Dressed like this, her hair is still broken, what is wrong with her?

Li Mu'er put her hair behind her ears, did not answer his words directly, and still asked with a shocked face: "The Mongolian people have always been at odds with our dynasty, and the Warat people have invaded my country and captured my ......."

She didn't say it anymore, because what she wanted to say, she said it in front of others, and said it in front of the royal family, but it was sarcastic, and it was a big rebellion.

had no choice but to change the conversation, "Warat and Tatar are also incompatible, and they come together to pay tribute, will they pinch up?" ”

Zhu Youji's slender fingers were withdrawn, and he looked at her with a pleasant face, and explained: "The two countries are at war, and they have not yet been killed. What's more, it's to pay tribute? It is true that my Ming Dynasty and their Mongols have always been at odds with each other, but this is how things are in the world, there are no eternal allies, and there are no eternal enemies. As for themselves, rest assured, the envoys are all shrewd people who have been chosen by thousands of people, and they will not make unnecessary mistakes in a hurry. ”

Li Mu'er nodded, thinking about herself.

The Tatars and Warats occupied the eastern and western parts of the Mongolian Plateau, respectively, and each occupied some Mongolian tribes.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Warat was powerful, and the Ming Dynasty could not fight for a long time, and what Li Mu'er almost said was the famous "change of civil fort". After the "Tumubao Change", the Taishi also sent an envoy to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty and sent it back to the Emperor Yingzong, which restored the trade and mutual market between the two sides and eased the hostile relations between them.

Subsequently, Taishi also usurped the throne of the Khan with a nobleman with a different surname, and his subordinates were centrifuged, betrayed one after another, and soon were also killed in the internal strife.

During the reign of Zhu Youji, the Warat tribe was scattered and gradually declined, and the internal situation was little known. The Tatar tribes were still in a stage of civil strife in which the nobles with different surnames competed for power and profit, and fought among themselves.

Warat is no longer as strong as before, Tatar is still in the growth period, and the Ming Dynasty is now in a neutral place, and its strength greatly exceeds the two sides.

Li Mu'er is a citizen of the Ming Dynasty at this moment, and her heart is full of pride. She had read the records and heard many ministers arguing, so in her opinion, the "civil engineering change" was just an accidental event caused by the eunuch dictatorship in the imperial court at that time. Since then, the tributary relationship between the Ming and the Mongols has not been affected, and although the Mongol Warat tribe was powerful for a while, it still had to maintain this tributary relationship with the Ming court, and now the Tatar tribe has seized power.

It's just that the Mongols are brave and warlike in their bones and unwilling to surrender. On the one hand, he maintained a tributary relationship with the Ming Dynasty, but on the other hand, he often harassed the Ming Side.

In particular, the newly ascended little prince of Tatar, it is said that in the first year of Hongzhi, when he sent a letter to ask for tribute, he called himself the Great Khan, which shows his arrogance and ambition.

"Not necessarily." Li Mu'er thought of the unkindness of these Mongols, and his heart was uncertain. For some reason, a few more figures flashed in my mind.

"Actually, it's good for them to pinch. As the saying goes......"

Li Mu'er knew what he wanted to say, so he hurriedly said: "The snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman profits!"

"Yes, no matter how much they pinch you, they won't be able to burn you." Zhu Youzhu said and habitually flicked her forehead, "If you are interested, just stay by my side and serve at that time." ”

"That's great!" Li Mu'er nodded in agreement, "They live in the same hall, right?" I'm familiar with the same hall. ”

"Yes, how can you not be familiar with the Huitong Pavilion and lose a tooth there!" The atmosphere was light, and the person relaxed, and Zhu Youji's hand unconsciously touched her cheek.

There was a shallow smile on his face, and the corners of his pale lips were raised to a certain arc, and he would suddenly be enchanted with indescribable clarity.

Li Mu'er used to be used all the time.

The itchy face, the missing tooth has long been felt, and the missing piece of the heart seems to be slowly filling. Li Mu'er's heart moved, looking at the familiar face close at hand, and suddenly didn't know how to respond.

After a while, under Zhu Youji's earnest gaze, Li Mu'er still said disappointedly: "Your Majesty, you don't have to accept Zheng Jinlian for me. From now on, I will still be your female bachelor, and this is my final decision. ”

Zhu Youji's mood was very calm.

After many days of hard work, this answer was finally obtained. Zhu Youzhu was not surprised at all, as if he had seen through her from the beginning.

The smile on the corner of his lips disappeared, and the dull expression reappeared. His hand slipped slightly, grasped her injured five fingers, and said softly, "I understand."

The lights reflected the pen and ink on the case, and also reflected on his face, but the hands held by the two were hidden in the darkness.

…………………………

It was close to Qingming, and the weather in the capital was already extremely warm, and Li Mu'er's hand injury showed no signs of full recovery, but it didn't matter to her. When she was looking forward to Zhu Youzhu taking her to meet the distinguished guest, the distinguished guest appeared in a surprising way.

The imperial court attached special importance to the tributary of the Mongols in the north. As soon as the tributary envoys entered the Ming realm, their clothing, food, housing and transportation were almost all managed by the imperial court.

The Ministry of Rites will send officials to Datong first, and together with the town inspectors and other officials, they will translate and review the envoys one by one, divide a number of envoys, a number of men and women, go to Beijing, and keep a number.

In other words, not all those who come to pay tribute can enter Beijing.

The most recent dynasty should be in the third year of Hongzhi, and it was set that "1,100 Tatars should enter the customs, and 400 should enter the court; 400 people entered the customs and 150 people entered the court", so that the number of people allowed to enter Beijing was 550.

The envoys and their entourages within five hundred and fifty were to be counted and compiled. On the one hand, it is to ensure their diet and daily life, and on the other hand, it is to serve as the basis for reward; The articles brought in and brought in should be distinguished, stamped, and sent to the survey, which is also to reward according to the goods.

As a result, when I entered Beijing and went to the Huitong Pavilion to check, there were fewer people and items in Warat.

The Ministry of Rites will inspect every level and every way, and will not travel to the pool, so according to this situation, it can only be that the Warat side has its own problem - the guard steals himself.

The Warats, however, thought that the Tatar envoys had taken advantage of their unpreparedness to kill people and sell goods.

There are aggressive people on both sides, and they fight in private. (To be continued.) )