Chapter 87: War and Peace
In April of the first year of Chongzhen, Lin Dan Khan's request for canonization was handed to the Forbidden City, accompanied by the nobles of the Horqin tribe, and there was also a beautiful woman among them.
Borzigit Hailanzhu, the daughter of Horqin Mongolian Zai Sambuhe, a peerless pearl on the grassland, is now nineteen years old, and is Bumu Butai's own sister.
In the original history, Hai Lanzhu married Huang Taiji at the age of twenty-six, and was Huang Taiji's favorite concubine.
But now, due to the emergence of Zhu Youzhen, history has undergone subtle changes.
It is impossible for Hai Lanzhu to wait until she is twenty-six years old to marry Huang Taiji, and not only that, but nineteen-year-old Hai Lanzhu has also become a prisoner.
During the conquest of the Horqin Mongols at the beginning of the year, Hailanzhu was captured by the Mongol cavalry of Lin Dan Khan before he had time to escape.
In order to thank the Ming Dynasty for its timely rescue, Lin Dan Khan saw Hailan Zhuchang's unusual beauty, so he sent it to the capital together with the invitation to seal the table.
On the issue of canonizing Lin Dan Khan as the king of Shunping, the ministers of the court and the central government have discussed it many times.
Regarding the issue of Lin Dan Khan being a vassal and king to the Ming Dynasty, but still calling him Khan internally, there was more than one verbal battle in the court.
In the end, it was Zhu Youzhen who decided that arguing about these false names was useless, and it was enough for Lin Danhan to show a surrendering attitude.
Now is a critical period to win over the Mongol tribes, as long as Lin Dan Khan helps the Ming Dynasty fight the Jurchens, even if he calls the emperor within the tribe, it doesn't matter to us.
Even if Lin Dan Khan called himself the king internally, the Ming Dynasty could not send officials to the tribes to exercise effective rule, whether it was called the king or the Khan, in essence, the Hudun Rabbit Department was Lin Dan Khan's final say.
And the Ming Dynasty had nothing to do about it, who made the Ming Dynasty army weak.
If the Ming army is as strong as Taizu and Chengzu two dynasties, let alone calling him king, he can't call himself grandson, and he will all be thrown into the desert to eat soil.
Above the court, Zhu Youzhen sprayed the ministers for more than an hour, emphasizing the universal truth that weak countries have no diplomacy.
And said to Liu Zongzhou, Li Guopu, Xue Fengxiang and other big trolls: If you really have the ability, you will go to Liaodong, Jizhen, and Hetao as a pawn, wield a knife to take back every inch of land lost by the Ming Dynasty, and put it on the court to fight for this useless false name.
Zhu Youzhen's words made these important ministers of the court blush, and Huang Liji, Sun Chengzong, Shi Fenglai, Xu Guangqi, and others
In addition, Zhu Youzhen also determined the foreign policy of the Ming Dynasty for a period of time in the future, that is, not to seek fame, but only interests, to strengthen national strength, and to deter the surrounding areas.
After more than an hour of Zhu Youzhen's baptism of new international political ideas, the important officials of the imperial court could not help but sigh: Although Your Majesty is only 17 years old, his concept of governing the country is no longer within our reach.
And that's not all, Zhu Youzhen also sent a copy of "War and Peace" written by him to the cabinet ministers and the six ministries and nine secretaries.
Of course, this book is not the famous novel of later generations, but it was originally written by Hans Morgenthau and originally titled "Politics Between Nations: Power Struggles and Peace".
The original book is known as the pioneering work of modern international relations theory, but here it was not only renamed by Zhu Youzhen, but also the content of the book was also tampered with by Zhu Youzhen, adding a lot of his own thoughts on the foreign expansion strategy of the Age of Discovery.
However, among them, the basic ideas in international political relations, such as the definition of interests by power and the morality of the state is not universal morality, have been retained by Zhu Youzhen.
Although in the 21st century, these were very popular and simple ideas, in the early 17th century in the Ming Dynasty, these feudal scholars who read poetry and books were really shocked.
In this era, those who can write books and speak are Confucians, and ordinary scholars and doctors will be ridiculed when they write books.
Although Zhu Youzhen was the emperor, these important officials of the court were also disobedient at first, and they didn't buy it very much, and they thought about what a seventeen-year-old child could think until they finished reading the book.
If it is said that the miracles of the Qianqing Palace, the punishment of the eunuchs, and the pro-conquest of Liaodong made the important ministers of the imperial court respect Zhu Youzhen as the first declaration of the monarch, then Zhu Youzhen, who wrote this book, was respected by them as a great Confucian on the same level as Cheng Zhu.
Especially Xu Guangqi, Yuan Keli, Sun Chengzong, Bi Ziyan and others After reading this book, their eyes changed when they looked at Zhu Youzhen.
It used to be respect, but now it's reverence and worship.
Of course, Li Guopu, Liu Zongzhou, Xue Fengxiang and others were a little unimpressed by the naked principle of the supremacy of interests in the book, but the rigorous argumentative examples and self-justifying and impeccable theories in it still made them look sideways.
Regardless of whether this theoretical idea is correct or not, it is impossible for them to be able to justify themselves and be impeccable.
After canonizing Hudun Rabbit and giving a lesson in international political relations to the important ministers of the imperial court, Zhu Youzhen encountered a new problem.
What to do with these captured Horqin nobles? Presumably, Lin Dan Khan didn't know what to do, so he sent these hot yams to the Ming Dynasty in the name of offering prisoners.
Killing is definitely not killing, now is the time to fight for the Mongol tribes, if they are all killed, it will be tantamount to completely pushing Korqin to the Jurchen side.
As for putting it back, Zhu Youzhen admits that he doesn't have such a broad mind, Zhuge Liang's seven captures of Meng to buy people's hearts, Zhu Youzhen feels that he doesn't have that ability, and it is estimated that Hudun Rabbit is also opposed.
You can't kill it, you can't let it go, so you can only stay.
But leaving them, Zhu Youzhen didn't want them to eat dry rice in vain, and the living signboard of Hanmeng's goodwill had to be erected.
So Zhu Youzhen set up a separate Han-Mongolian goodwill department under the Ministry of Rites, and drove all these princes and nobles of Horqin to work in the Ministry of Rites.
Their task was also very simple, that is, to write letters to the Mongolian tribes to promote the idea of carrying gold in Mongolia and the happy life in the Ming Kingdom.
As for how great the final effect will be, Zhu Youzhen did not report much hope, but Zhu Youzhen still has to resolutely carry out the truth that if we do not occupy the position, the enemy will occupy it.
After dealing with the Horqin nobles, there is still the whereabouts of one person, and Zhu Youzhen made a mistake.
What should Hailanzhu do?
Zhu Youzhen had heard of Hai Lanzhu's beauty in his previous life, but now that he sees it, Zhu Youzhen shouted that his imagination was not enough.
Tall figure, fair skin, big eyes, and key parts are also concave and convex, although Hai Lanzhu is Mongolian, but there is a feeling of mixed race, and it is inherited from the advantages of various ethnic groups.
No wonder this beauty once made Huang Taiji rush back to see her when the Battle of Songshan was at its most intense in history, and it was really charming.
Fortunately, Hai Lanzhu in history died early, otherwise relying on the favor of Huang Taiji, there would definitely be nothing to do with Bumu Butai and Dolgon.
Rao is Zhu Youzhen has seen many natural and artificial beauties in his previous life, and Zhang Yan and Zhou Wanyan are all stunning, but Zhu Youzhen's hormones still want to keep her.
In this era, although it is common for a man to have three wives and four concubines, let alone the king of a country, Zhu Youzhen doesn't want to look too ugly, and out of respect for Queen Zhou Wanyan, he still wants to slow down first.
'Alas, since ancient times, heroes have been sad to pass the beauty pass! ’
Inspector Zhu You sighed and ordered Xu Yingyuan to send him back to the group of Horqin nobles.
And Zhu Youzhen's move naturally won unanimous praise from the foreign court and the inner court, and even Li Guopu, who took Wei Zheng as an example and criticized Zhu Youzhen all day long, praised him for the first time at the court meeting.
But the pain that can be seen and can't be felt, only Zhu Youzhen himself slowly endured.