The court meeting was held in the Fengtian Temple, that is, the Taihe Hall of the later generations, and the folk also called the Jinluan Palace. Under normal circumstances, the Golden Luang Hall is not easy to use. Only the Zhengdan Festival, the Winter Solstice and the Wanshou Festival (the Emperor's birthday), the Emperor's enthronement, wedding, expedition ceremony, and the Shuowang Dynasty (the first and fifteenth day of each month) will be held at the Jinluan Palace.

In normal times, in the early dynasty, the ministers worked very hard. Because, the general early dynasty was not held in the main hall at all, but in Fengtianmen (Taihemen), also known as "Yumen Listening to Politics". The emperor was better, and sat on the dragon chair in the corridor under the door to testify. And the ministers stood in the open space outside the Mukden Gate. If it's spring, summer and autumn, it's fine, but in winter, the cold wind is together, and it's like freezing to death.

It just so happened that June 15 was the Wangwang Dynasty in the Shuowang Dynasty, and the Ming court simply took the opportunity to hold a grand ceremony in the Jinluan Palace to meet Ma Lin, a foreign monarch.

Before stepping onto the Golden Luan Palace, Ma Lin was a little nervous. After all, this battle is a bit big. But Marin secretly cheered himself up:

"Don't be afraid, I'm here to play a costume drama, I'm here to play a costume drama...... Martha flickered, come on......"

Under the guidance of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, Ma Lin, who was holding a court wat in his hand, bowed his head slightly in a serious manner, and carefully stood at a certain distance from the emperor. Then, Marin knelt down in the middle of the main hall, first holding the wat in both hands, and bowed five times. Then, with one hand in his right hand, he let go of his left hand and bowed three times......

While kowtowing, Marin followed the prompts of the Ministry of Rites officials and said loudly:

"Minister, Ma Lin, the lord of the North Sea Kingdom in the land of Taixi, knock to see His Majesty the Emperor! Long live the emperor, long live! After kowtowing, Marin did not immediately raise his head, but continued to lie down, waiting for Zhengde's instructions.

"You are the Equestrian Lord of the Northwest Sea Kingdom of Thailand? Flatten down, raise your head and let me see! On the dragon chair of the Jinluan Palace, Emperor Zhengde, who was only 18 years old, said with great interest.

"Thank you, Lord Longne!" Marin replied according to the routine.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the ministers all knelt and replied. Being exempted from kneeling up and replying by the emperor is indeed a favor according to the feudal etiquette system.

In fact, the reason why Emperor Zhengde made Ma Lin stand up and asked him to look up was just to be curious and see what Ma Lin looked like. If you kneel, how can you see clearly?

When Marin raised his head and chest, everyone was taken aback......

After all, Marin is a big man who is almost 1.8 meters tall. In the ancient Ming Dynasty, this was definitely considered a tall man. Although northerners are tall, there are definitely not many who can reach 1.8 meters in this era, but there are many people above 1.7 meters. And southerners in this era can be considered big men if they are more than 1.7 meters.

Coincidentally, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were mostly southerners. After all, the south has a prosperous culture, and it is easier to produce talented people than the north. Of course, this is not to say that southerners are smarter than northerners. Rather, it is because there are many paddy fields in the south, and the crops are at least twice a year. As a result, southerners generally have better economic conditions and high school enrolment rates. The more people who read, the more talents there are. However, in the north, dry land is cultivated, and it is difficult to achieve two crops a year, and there are often droughts, so it is naturally poorer. Reading is very expensive, and the northerners are poor, so naturally there are fewer people who read, and there are fewer talents. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, the southerners, who were not tall in stature, had an advantage and were the main force of the court's officials. If it weren't for Zhu Yuanzhang's forcible stipulation that Jinshi should be admitted according to the ratio of "six in the south and four in the north", it is estimated that there would be very few northerners who would be officials in the court.

But even if Zhu Yuanzhang took special care of it, the results of the northerners in the imperial examination were not ideal. Although forty percent of the Jinshi are northerners, there are very few northern scholars who rank among the top three. Most of the champions, Bangyan, and Tanhua are southerners. Among them, the three provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang Province and Jiangyixi Province have the most people.

Although there are 300 jinshi per subject, only the top-ranked jinshi have a greater chance of staying in the court. As for the bottom of the rankings, most of them were delegated to the local magistrate county. Therefore, the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee are mainly scholars from the south. Of course, the average height is not high.

Emperor Zhengde is more than 1.7 meters tall, which is not short in Daming. However, compared to the 1.8-meter-tall Marin, he is still a lot shorter.

The young Emperor Zhengde looked at Ma Lin curiously and muttered:

"Yellow-haired and blue-eyed, fair-skinned, it's really a typical image of a Tessiphan......"

At this time, there was no noise in the Jinluan Palace. And in order to see clearly, Emperor Zhengde also asked Ma Lin to take a few steps forward. So, Marin heard Emperor Zhengde's words.

A few black lines suddenly appeared on Marin's head - Fan people are fans, why do you bring the word "ghost", it's really rude......

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Then, Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao seemed to remember something and asked curiously:

"Lord Equestria, you are an authentic Tessipani ghost, why do you speak so well in your official words? And, with the northern accent ......"

Ma Lin spoke authentic later Mandarin, but the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty was accented southernally. After all, the first capital of the Ming Dynasty was Nanjing, which belonged to the Jiangnan region.

Later, because the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs with a mouth full of big ballast, the official dialect of the capital moved closer to the northern accent. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, Ma Lin's official dialect was very close to the official dialect spoken by the northerners in the land of Yan and Zhao.

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"This ......" Marin thought for a while and began to "memorize lines"......

These "lines" are all remarks that Marin has thought of a long time ago, and they are pure fiction......

So, Marin held his breath and began to pretend to be ...... No, you're starting to talk......

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister had a teacher, named Albert Einstein, who had traveled all over the world in his early years and came to Guangdong, on the southern coast of the Ming Dynasty. There, he learned from my ancestor Chongxu Daochang, not only learned the skills of the ancestor, but also learned the northern official dialect of the minister's ancestor. Then, he taught it to his ministers...... It is said that the minister's ancestor Chongxu Daochang, whose ancestral home is the land of Yan Zhao in the north of the daimyo, naturally speaks the official dialect of the northern accent......"

"I see......" Emperor Zhengde nodded. Ma Lin's explanation is very reasonable, and Zhu Houzhao is still very young, and he is easy to trust others at this time......

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"So, Lord Ema, you call yourself the Lord of the Beihai Country, how much is the radius of the Beihai Country, how many people are there, and what is the strength?"

Ma Lin held his breath again and continued to perform the Dafa of flickering:

"Back to Your Majesty, the Beihai Kingdom of the minister is about the same size as South Korea of the 'Seven Heroes of the Warring States', which is equivalent to the area of Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty. As for the population, it is less than 2 million...... Also, the Beihai State has more than 60,000 troops......"

"What? With a population of less than 2 million, there are 60,000 troops? This is too reckless, isn't it? The ministers in the court immediately discussed.

The Ming Empire had a population of nearly 100 million, and the army was only about 900,000 in the Zhengde Dynasty. In other words, the number of soldiers in the Ming Empire was only about one percent of the population. In the Beihai Kingdom, the number of troops accounted for more than three percent of the total population. Its proportion is more than three times that of the Ming Dynasty. In the eyes of the literati of the Ming Dynasty, who "valued peace", it was indeed a bit reckless......

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Emperor Zhengde was influenced by his ministers, and he also felt that the size of the Beihai army was too large. In the face of Zhengde's inquiry, Ma Lin, who has good acting skills, complained with a bitter face:

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't want to raise so many troops...... Then, Ma Lin performed a new round of flickering Dafa on the Jinluan Palace......

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