Shi Fenglai is indeed losing his temper, the dignified cabinet minister, the scholar of the Yinghua Palace, and the former governor of the Ming Dynasty in Kyushu Island, is now confined to this small room, and he can't go to greet His Majesty?

Isn't it just sick! Isn't it just dying? Isn't the old man still dead!

But when Shi Fenglai heard Emperor Chongzhen's voice, the whole person changed his appearance, bowed to Emperor Chongzhen at the door and said, "Your Majesty Lao is worried, and the minister deserves death!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen hurriedly took two steps and helped Shi Fenglai before he smiled and said, "Shi Aiqing's body and bones can get better, and I didn't run this trip in vain." Don't worry about anything else, the most important thing is to recuperate. ”

Shi Fenglai wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and choked up: "Minister, thank Your Majesty for your grace." ”

Shi Fenglai was really moved at this moment.

What Emperor Chongzhen said should not care about other things, he does not mean other things, but don't care about those bullshit unspoken rules, there is no king who has come to visit a seriously ill courtier, the courtier must die, otherwise it is an unspoken rule such as bullying the king.

Emperor Chongzhen was not polite, and after signaling Wang Chengen to mix Shi Fenglai back on the bed to rest, he directly found a chair and sat down, and said with a smile: "I have already seen the recitals of Shi Aiqing and Shen Aiqing. ”

Shi Fenglai and Shen Hao saw that Emperor Chongzhen's expression was still smiling, and most of their hearts that had been hanging were let go.

In the early years, Emperor Chongzhen still liked to be expressionless, and his joy and anger were rarely directly expressed on his face, but with the eastern and western conquests in recent years, and the southern and northern wars, Emperor Chongzhen became more and more dislike to hide his joy and anger.

Now that he is still laughing, it means that even if Emperor Chongzhen is not very happy in his heart, it is estimated that he can reluctantly accept the proposal of the two of them, and he will not make anything big in the Wa Kingdom for the time being.

After pondering for a while, Shi Fenglai pondered and said: "The reason why the minister thinks that it is not appropriate to be in a hurry for the Japanese State is that in addition to the fact that I still need the Japanese people as supervisors, there is actually another layer of plans. ”

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned and said, "What else does Shi Aiqing think?" ”

Shi Fenglai said: "Your Majesty, the current shogunate of the Japanese country, Tokugawa Iemitsu, has studied my Ming etiquette, observed his words, and looked at his color, and everywhere there was a sense of moving closer to my Ming Dynasty.

Perhaps, after more than ten or twenty years, the Wa Kingdom will be annexed like Korea and the Ryukyus.

Taking the Wa Kingdom without blood, for my Ming Dynasty, is it better than going to war with it? ”

Emperor Chongzhen heaved and said, "If I have something to say today, I will tell Shi Aiqing and Shen Aiqing directly."

North Korea can be attached, Ryukyu can be attached, Burma can also be attached, and even Annam can be attached, but the Wa Kingdom cannot be attached! ”

Shi Fenglai was stunned: "The minister is ignorant, don't you know?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen sneered: "North Korea and other places, I have been civilized and educated in the Central Plains for a long time, and I regard myself as Little China everywhere.

Combined with the immigrant Shibian and the prohibition of self-marriage among the tribes, after a few decades, they could no longer distinguish each other, except for the Japanese state.

Shi Aiqing must also know that Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty once canonized the southern Wa King as the Wa Nu King and gave him the seal of the Han Wa Nu King.

However, in the third year of the great cause, the lord of the Wa Kingdom, who had already changed the king to the emperor, recommended the ancient emperor to send Ono Meizi as an envoy, and the letter submitted to the Yang Emperor began with "The Eastern Emperor respects the Emperor Baixi", comparing himself to the son of heaven at sunrise, and during the reign of Tang Gaozong, the other country was renamed Japan to the present.

From sending Sui envoys to sending Tang envoys, and then to the old Song Dynasty, how much did these Japanese slaves learn from my Central Plains? But can his heart be half respectful?

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the former shogunate of the Japanese Kingdom, wanted to attack the Ming Dynasty through North Korea, and the ambition of the wolf son of the other country can be seen from this.

As the so-called non-mine race, their hearts must be different, I don't have the habit of raising tigers, even if this tiger is now a cat - when the cat grows into a tiger, but it will eat people! ”

Shi Fenglai nodded, and then skipped this section, and no longer mentioned the topic of solving the Wa Kingdom without blood.

After pondering for a long time, Shi Fenglai continued: "Since Your Majesty has made up your mind, then dare to ask Your Majesty to summon the Lord of the Wa Kingdom after summoning Tokugawa Iemitsu?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "Yes." After I return to China, Shen Aiqing can preside over the affairs here, and appropriately give some support to the lord of the Japanese State, so as to make the Japanese Kingdom more lively. ”

Shen Hao bowed and responded: "The minister obeys the order." ”

As long as Emperor Chongzhen didn't open the film directly in the Wa Kingdom, then the rest of the things would be much easier.

In addition to supporting Tokugawa Iemitsu, he can also support the lord of the Wa Kingdom, and there are other daimyos.

The lord of the Wa Kingdom would definitely want to take back his rights, even if he was just an in-law with the Tokugawa family.

As for the other daimyos, who wouldn't want to try what it was like to sit on the throne of the Great Shogun Seiyi?

In fact, to put it bluntly, in the entire Ming Dynasty, from top to bottom, all the ministers of civil and military affairs are most worried not about foreign enemies, not natural disasters and man-made disasters, but Emperor Chongzhen's chaos.

This master is so casual, no one can figure out what his old man's next target is - the preparation for Yu Jiannu is used on Annan, there will definitely be problems, who is responsible at that time?

Count Emperor Chongzhen's?

Don't be funny, the emperor can't be wrong, and even if the emperor is wrong, it's the fault of the ministers below, not the fault of the emperor himself.

Count the ministers of civil and military affairs themselves?

When the board is knocked down, whoever hurts knows, and whoever dies hurts......

……

When Emperor Chongzhen saw Tokugawa Iemitsu, his heart was first angry, and then he returned to stability.

Tokugawa Iemitsu is a typical Japanese figure, and it is most appropriate to describe it as short and ugly, especially the braids and the mustache, which are almost similar to the ronin samurai in later film and television dramas.

It was precisely this kind of dress that almost caused the killing intent in Emperor Chongzhen's heart.

Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't feel Emperor Chongzhen's killing intent, because since he entered the lobby, Tokugawa Iemitsu lowered his head the whole time, and he didn't dare to look up at Emperor Chongzhen at all.

I have to admit that those guys in Honglu Temple and Guozijian are really professional in brainwashing.

Tokugawa Iemitsu's etiquette of kneeling is very standard: "Tokugawa Iemitsu, the minister of the lower country, knock to see His Majesty the Emperor of the Kingdom, may Your Majesty live long, long live, long live!" ”

If it weren't for this iconic dress and those five short figures, it would be difficult for Emperor Chongzhen to associate this guy in front of him with impeccable etiquette and official language to the Japanese slaves.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was squinting, once again picked up the skill of the Facial Paralysis Shadow Emperor, and after hiding all the expressions on his face, he said lightly: "Flat, sit down." ”

After Tokugawa Iemitsu leaned down again to thank him, he carefully went to his place and sat down in a kneeling position.

Seeing Tokugawa Iemitsu's performance in his eyes, Emperor Chongzhen, who was secretly laughing in his heart, forcibly suppressed the urge to laugh out loud, and asked expressionlessly: "I have traveled so far, where is the lord of the Wa Kingdom?" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu's heart struck, and he hurriedly leaned over and said: "Your Majesty, the lord of our country is overjoyed when he hears that His Majesty's light has descended, and he has set off from the national capital to come to Kyushu Island to face the saint, and he will come soon." ”

Emperor Chongzhen snorted, and said, "Then why didn't the lord of the Wa Kingdom arrive, but you arrived first?" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has studied under Mr. Shi, although he has not been included in the wall of Mr. Shi's door, but he has always admired Mr. ”

Emperor Chongzhen hummed again and agreed with Tokugawa Iemitsu's statement.

Shen Hao also took the opportunity to arch his hand and said: "Your Majesty, General Tokugawa has long admired my Central Plains culture, and intends to expand the number of envoys sent to the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time change the five-year dynasty to the three-year dynasty, I hope Your Majesty will allow it?" ”

Behind the twelve strings of crowns, Emperor Chongzhen's face was expressionless, which made Tokugawa Iemitsu, who had secretly glanced at him, feel a little bottomless.

After a while, it wasn't until Tokugawa Iemitsu began to feel uneasy in his heart that Emperor Chongzhen said lightly: "Yes." ”

Although it is only one word, but in the ears of Tokugawa Iemitsu, it is nothing less than a heavenly sound.

The issue of the number of envoys sent to the Ming Dynasty was not important to the Ming Dynasty, but it was very important to the whole of Japan.

Just like the envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty, the culture and technology that these people brought back were all kinds of knowledge that could move Japan forward.

At the same time, the quota of the Ming envoy was changed from a tributary of five years to a tributary of three years, which was to give him a little more leverage to win over other big names, and he could also increase his strength by a few points.

Originally, I thought that one of these two conditions could be achieved, and it was already a fluke, but I didn't expect the Ming Emperor to be so generous and agree to two conditions at one time?

The overjoyed Tokugawa Iemitsu hurriedly leaned over and bowed: "Your Majesty, Heavenly Grace, a little Minggan is five." ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded lightly, but his heart was full of joy.

If you want to say that you can bring back an advanced civilization, you can, after all, the Four Books and Five Classics and the Eight Articles are enough for him to learn.

After all, there are more teaching of the Four Books and Five Classics, as well as the Eight Imperial Examinations, rather than all kinds of technical processes - those technical processes and other things are classified in the Royal Academy, and the mature technology will be applied to the military first, and the base is to slowly spread to the people.

Besides, even if all kinds of skills do not involve the military, even if they are just some civilian technical processes, who can take a step out of the Ming Dynasty to try? Will these envoys have the opportunity to learn?

Is it really true that Jinyiwei eats dry rice?

As for saying that one tributary every five years is changed to one tributary every three years, in fact, there is no more problem.

Emperor Chongzhen, who likes to run to the Imperial Palace to recharge his batteries, had to give a thumbs up to his ancestors after carefully understanding the tributary system-high, it's too high, it's just high Lego!

In later generations, many people thought that the tributary was the loss of the Central Plains court, and the number of enshrined items of the tributary country was obviously disproportionate to the number of gifts from the Celestial Empire, and the economic value of the tributary items was much lower than that of the return items, but in fact?

In fact, the significance of the tributary system itself has never been in the tributary trade itself, but in the circle of state relations constructed through the political and economic behavior of one of the tributaries.

In the tributary system, the core power of the dynasty was not to have the jurisdiction of the vassal states, but to have the right to adjudicate. Contradictions between nations, the dynasty has the right to adjudicate; The legitimacy of the regimes of various countries, the dynasty has the right to adjudicate.

Corresponding to the right of adjudication, in order to maintain authority, the Celestial Empire can enforce those who are dissatisfied with the ruling - the most common method of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the most terrible means, is "no tribute".

Paying tribute is to refuse the other party's tribute, that is, to exclude the tributary system, which is equivalent to the five hooligans of later generations joining forces to kick a small country out of the WTO, and by the way, also kicked out of the United Nations, and the whole world will not play with him.

This kind of punishment is definitely not a joke - the most powerful Chinese dad said that no matter you, there are still a lot of Chinese dad's godsons around him, as long as the Chinese dad shows a little, what do you think these godsons will do?

didn't say it, whoever was punished by the Chinese father will do whom! Kill him, his land, minerals, people, gold and silver, won't it become his own home?

If the Chinese father is angry enough, once the Chinese father sends out the army, who among those godsons will not be excited to "raise the army to meet the king's division"?

Moreover, who holds the pricing power in the tributary system?

It is definitely not in the hands of these godsons, or even in the hands of the sons of the princes of the clan of the Ming Dynasty, but is firmly controlled by the imperial court.

To put it in the simplest way, how much is it worth for North Korea to pay a tribute of ten Dongzhu?

If you look at Korea itself, this thing is probably worth 1,000 taels of silver, but in the tributary system, it may only be worth 500 taels of silver.

And the same pound of tea may only be worth one tael of silver in the Ming Dynasty, but it may become ten taels of silver in the tributary system.

This is the tributary system in which the Central Plains father has the pricing power - because tea and silk are only owned by the Central Plains father, and the amount of silver is how much silver!

Can't you do it if you don't accept it? Okay, if you don't accept it, some people are rushing to pay tribute, so they will exclude you from the tributary system if it's a big deal, and then signal those godsons......

In other words, unless the Central Plains Dynasty got rid of it, the tributary thing is definitely a sure-fire deal.

Of course, the Central Plains Dynasty's ability to remember a small book or cry misery is too strong, so much so that the trade of exchanging a pound of tea for ten Dongzhu is shouting that he has lost his capital and died of it, and by the way, the historian is recorded in the history book, and then it gives people an illusion.

The Central Plains Dynasty is stupid, with a lot of money, come quickly - and then the Central Plains father counted the money at home with a smile and went out to cry poor.

Now Tokugawa Iemitsu, the second fool, actually wants to change the five-year dynasty to the three-year dynasty?

This is a good thing, just the undisciplined goods in the household department, plus the Honglu Temple, where the painting style has been getting more and more deviated, if you don't take away the pants of these dwarf people, Emperor Chongzhen will be considered a white crossing!

PS: This activity to raise the price of chickens has finally come to an end, I just returned home, the update is late, and tomorrow the three more 12,000 words will be compensated!