Chapter 629, hot discussion
The Ming side moved quickly, and Korea, the Wa Kingdom and Luzon soon signed an agreement with the Ming Dynasty to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and officially became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
The two sides confirmed the bilateral relationship in the form of legal documents, the Ming Dynasty is the suzerain, and the other three countries are all vassal states of our Ming Dynasty.
Based on this relationship, the parties also further set out the responsibilities and obligations between the parties in a detailed treaty.
His Majesty the First Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is the supreme leader of all countries, and the monarchs of all countries can only be called kings, not emperors, and the emperor of the Wa Kingdom must also be changed to the Wa King of the Wa Kingdom, and he must no longer claim to be the emperor.
The kings of all countries are the ministers of my great tomorrow, and they need to be canonized by the great tomorrow son to be orthodox and legal and valid.
Second, the Ming Dynasty and the vassal states concluded political, economic, military, and cultural alliances, politically the relationship between the suzerainty and the vassal states, economically, the vassal states passed the Ming silver dollars and silver tickets, and the Ming merchants could freely travel back and forth between the vassal states, and the merchants of the vassal states could also freely travel back and forth between the Ming and other vassal states.
Militarily, the Ming Dynasty concluded a military alliance with the suzerain, and any country encountered any military threat or military industry, the Ming suzerainty and other vassal states were obliged to send troops to help.
The Ming Dynasty had the power to recruit troops from vassal states to serve the Emperor of Heaven.
In terms of the cultural alliance, the Ming Dynasty and the vassal states must uniformly use Chinese characters, promote the official language of the Ming Dynasty, respect Confucianism and Taoism, change the Han surname, take the Chinese name, and must not learn or use any other language, customs, religion, etc. of foreign civilizations.
At the same time, the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty have the responsibility of promoting Chinese civilization to the world, and those who have learned from all countries can come to the Ming Dynasty to participate in the imperial examination, and can enter the Ming Dynasty as officials.
After the agreement was signed, the Ming Morning Post also announced it immediately.
Suddenly, the entire Beijing-Tianjin area was boiling.
"Okay~ This is what my real vassal state of the Ming Dynasty should look like."
"In the past, those vassal states were just what I wanted to get wool from my Daming, and they were not vassal states at all, they were all a group of people who forgot their righteousness for profit."
"Now when I asked them to sign an agreement, asking them to truly become a vassal state of my Ming Dynasty and learn from my Chinese civilization, none of them agreed."
"How can there be such a good thing in the world, am I really a fool?"
"That's right, especially in the countries of the South Seas, there are hundreds of large and small countries, many countries are very small, only the size of a county, and they dare to call the country, they are really arrogant, sitting in a well and watching the sky."
"I gave them the opportunity to learn from my Chinese civilization, but they didn't want to."
"It's better if you don't want to, after figuring out the relationship between the two sides, it will save you from getting in the way of the situation in the future."
"Did you read the newspaper last time, this Nanyang, it belongs to the tropics, it is summer all year round, and the water and heat are abundant, so the rice planted here can be harvested three times a year, and seven crops in two years."
"The income from growing sugarcane here is better than that of the Ryukyus, and many trading houses are recruiting people to open plantations here in Nanyang, and I heard that some people have only opened plantations this year, and this kind of sugarcane has made a lot of money."
"Really?"
"True or fake?"
"Of course it's true, we are in the capital, if it is Tianjin, you will find that there are many people from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong every day."
"They are dragging their families and preparing to go to Nanyang."
"In order to encourage immigrants in the newly established Nanyang Nanzhou Province, as long as my Ming people are willing to go, one person will be rewarded with ten acres of land, which will drag the family over, and a family must have seven or eight people, adding up to nearly 100 acres."
"And there are a lot of borderless land over there, just reclaim it, open it out and it's your own, tax-free for three years, I heard that it's very simple to grow rice anywhere, just sow the seeds."
"What are the good conditions?"
"Of course, immigration to overseas is very hot now, and there are many people in the Ryukyus who have immigrated there."
"On the Ryukyu Island, more than a dozen castles of all sizes have been built, thousands of plantations, and hundreds of thousands of immigrants have been built."
"It is said that the Nanyang side is richer than the Ryukyus, and there are gold and silver mines on many islands, but the key is that it is not cold all year round, so this is comfortable."
"In the future, my Daming will definitely gradually annex Nanyang, and when the time comes, just rely on Nanyang, and I Daming will no longer have to worry about famine."
"But why did I hear that there are barbarian natives on this side of the Ryukyus, and there are also dark and short natives on the islands of the South Seas, and they often attack my Ming people."
"I am still afraid of the natives, the Son of Heaven is merciful, and he will try his best to appease these natives, and if you don't want to appease, you will have my great tomorrow army to exterminate them."
"And in the Ryukyus and overseas, the government allows my Ming people to have weapons, because the government believes that if my Ming people don't have weapons, they will definitely suffer, and if they have weapons, they will not be bullied."
"You can even have weapons, aren't you afraid of man-made rebellion?"
"Rebellion?"
"You're going to rebel when you're full?"
"If you don't have enough to eat, you will rebel if you don't have weapons."
"That's right, since ancient times, all dynasties have been like this, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, we Han people even had to share a kitchen knife, the Northern Yuan Dynasty was brutal, and it was eventually overthrown by my Ming Emperor Taizu."
"That's it, it's so simple."
"Overseas, the government also encourages my Ming people to practice martial arts to strengthen their health, and when they encounter foreign people, if they dare to make a move, they must repair them fiercely, so that they know the power of my Ming people."
"Domineering, it should be like this~"
"It's far away, it's far away, let's talk about this vassal country."
"After this, we Ming people can travel freely to and from Korea, the Wa Kingdom and Luzon, which will be much more convenient for doing business."
"But it's not, in the future, I will speak the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, write Chinese characters, and respect Confucianism and Taoism, you can come to my Ming Dynasty to take the imperial examination."
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Through the Daming Morning Post, the matter quickly spread throughout the Beijing-Tianjin area, and at the same time, it also quickly spread to the entire Daming.
The Ming people are talking about it.
Many people of insight were also worried that this tributary issue would drag down the national strength of the Ming Dynasty at first, but now they are also relieved.
It's not my Ming vassal country, you don't have to pretend to come to pay tribute in the future, it's my Ming vassal country, and there are rules for paying tribute at this age, and you can go according to the rules.
Tribute is a trivial matter, and the key is to promote the civilization of China.
Many old Confucians couldn't help but shout after hearing the news that the sage was born, and the Confucian people had been committed to promoting Confucianism and culture to the world outside the Ming Dynasty.
A very important reason why North Korea was able to get close relatives of the Ming Dynasty was because North Korea respected Confucianism and Taoism, and everything was to learn from the Ming Dynasty and learn the civilization of China.
Now, in the future, the Wa Kingdom and Luzon must also be the same as Korea, and this Confucianism and culture can spread quickly.
At present, the envoys of the Korean, Wa, and Luzon kingdoms have recruited Confucian gentlemen and literati to these countries in the Beijing-Tianjin region to preach and receive employment for them, and to spread Confucianism and culture.
The treatment and conditions are quite good, at least a high salary of more than a dozen taels of silver a month, it can be said that it is not only a glorious career that can spread Confucianism and Taoism, but also a very good income, much better than teaching and educating people in Daming.
A large number of Confucius and Lao Xiucai in the Beijing-Tianjin area also moved their families to cross the ocean in order to spread Confucianism and Taoism.
The Ming people were cheering, and the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty were also satisfied.
In particular, North Korea and Luzon have concluded a military alliance, which means that they do not have to worry about being invaded by others in the future, which is crucial.
North Korea's neighbors are only the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will not invade North Korea, as for the Japanese State, it has always been ambitious, and now it is bound, and it cannot invade North Korea in the future, and North Korea is very safe.
On the side of Luzon, he was always worried about being destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, but now he has a guarantee all of a sudden, and he has concluded a military alliance with the Ming Dynasty, so he does not need to worry about the invasion of other countries in the South Seas.
This is tantamount to the sound of heaven for the current Luzon Kingdom, there is no need to worry about destroying the country, and other things are easy to say.
Therefore, in terms of learning Chinese civilization, Luzon is the most active, and many teachers in the Beijing-Tianjin area are hired to go to Nanyang to teach Confucianism to the Luzon people.
The Wa country is also quite satisfied, the strength of the Ming is undoubted, the Wa people will obey the strong, the Ming Dynasty beat the Wa country hard, everything else is easy to say, and I am willing to learn from the Ming side.
The world is very big, and there must be meat to eat with Daming.
I heard that after the New Year, there will be a new round of big moves on the Ming side, one is from west to east, all the way to the west to sweep the past, the other is to have a big move on the South Sea side, and then to occupy Australia and open up the southern hemisphere to the Golden Continent route.
How far can the Ming Dynasty go in the future, how far they can follow the Ming Dynasty, North Korea was rewarded by the Ming Dynasty with an island in the South Seas, and there will definitely be no worries about the land in the future, the world is very big, there is a lot of land, maybe the Japanese country can also go out of a different way.
On the side of Tianjin Port, the envoys from various countries in the South Seas have infinite nostalgia and reluctance, and they are also bringing their own tribute, so they can only choose to go back in the dust.
Although some of them have asked the Ming side to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty many times, the Ming side will not accept anything, it is not a vassal country, what are you pretending to pay tribute.
If you have to accept it, it's not impossible, but it's just a normal exchange between the two countries, and the return gift from Daming is very small, and it's definitely not valuable.
Even if they wanted to sell their tribute in the Beijing-Tianjin area, Daming did not allow it, and it was not so easy to come to Daming to do business.